Chapter 260

José glanced out of the carriage, and when he had crossed the bridge, he came to a large mansion and saw that the red carpet had been rolled out of the door. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There were two rows of servants standing on both sides of the carpet, all of them looking respectful, standing with their heads bowed and their hands down, which was very similar to the first time they entered Su Ya's mansion.

At this time, Joseph noticed that on the vast square outside the mansion, there were many carriages parked at this time, and there were nearly twenty or thirty at a rough count, and it seemed that the Norman Duke had invited many people to the dinner tonight. However, with his status, I am afraid that many people in the empire hope to tie up the big tree of the Norman family!

After all, since the accession of Montevideo IV, the Norman Duke has been in the limelight.

As early as in the past, when Mondevideo IV had not yet ascended the throne, the Norman family had always been a loyal follower behind him, although the power of the Norman family was not as huge as it is now, but after all, it was also one of the several big families in the imperial capital, plus the Norman family has been operating in the south of the empire, and even flourishing in the East China Sea, it also played a big role in the rise to power of Mondevideo IV.

Especially the current patriarch of the Norman family, that is, Perry's son, the Norman duke. This guy is one of the representatives of the young and strong faction of the military department, and he is also the most important senior official of the military department of His Majesty, who was promoted to deputy minister of the military department before the age of forty, and is also a well-known guy in the aristocratic circle.

Decker Norman, the real name of Duke Norman, is said to have joined the Imperial Army when he was young, which was an important way for many noble children to gild.

But this guy is an exception!

Generally speaking, ordinary children of nobles join the army, mostly to hang a false position or a mixed official position in the army, and will not really go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, at most, they go out to order a mao during the usual exercises. After three or five years of mixing, it is logical to go to the military department to get a resume of serving in the army, and then after inheriting the title, add an additional position as an imperial officer, at least it will not insult the martial arts of the family ancestors.

The Bright Empire has been founded for hundreds of years, and most of the aristocratic forces that now have heads and faces are ancestral military and martial families. For example, Lao Tzu is an imperial marquis, and he also has the rank of imperial lieutenant general, so after his son inherits the title, he can't have no military position at all, so he will be looked down upon by those aristocratic families, and will even be regarded as insulting the demeanor of the family's martial arts family.

But for hundreds of years, although those inherited aristocratic families still hold important positions in the army, they have in fact been completely aristocratic. Young nobles can spend a few years in the army by virtue of their connections, and then inherit the family's military titles, and even hold an important position in the military department. But such aristocratic lords who have never participated in the army at all, or who have spent a few days in the army outside of the army, how do they know how to fight?!

Therefore, although the Bright Empire seems to be huge and powerful, in terms of army construction and management, it is far inferior to the beginning of the empire.

It was in this situation that Norman entered the army, but instead of choosing a regular unit under the Central Army, he went directly to the Central Fortress, starting as a non-commissioned officer!

This practice is undoubtedly very unusual! Because most of the children of those nobles who join the army will choose the regular troops under the Central Army, which are the guards corps subordinate to the imperial capital, and even the nature can be said to be similar to the ordinary soldiers in the security station. Although the Central Army is also good, if there is a combat mission, it also needs to be withdrawn, and the Central Army, as a central regular army, is also quite strict in management, and ordinary nobles will not choose it.

As for the central fortress that Norman chose, it was just in time for the outbreak of the war in the northwest, and if he joined the central army, he really had to be transferred to the front line to fight! But the young Norman chose this legion, and soon, his army was really transferred, and it was transferred to the northwest, becoming an army under the command of Duke Ellios, the commander of the Northwest War at that time!

Unexpectedly, this down-to-earth young man was extremely active in the war, and was soon promoted from an ordinary non-commissioned officer to the position of commander! At this time, this young knight from a noble background was even more appreciated by Duke Ellios.

At that time, Duke Elliot, as a radical faction among the generals of the military department, was very dissatisfied with the current situation of the aristocratic army of the Bright Empire. But the appearance of a hard-working aristocratic general like Norman naturally made him very appreciative and satisfied, so Norman, who was only twenty-four years old at the time, was directly promoted by him to the deputy commander of a legion, that is, he almost reached the power of a general!

Norman naturally did not disappoint Duke Ellios in the subsequent battles, and even was wounded several times because of heroic battles, until the war in the northwest was calmed down, Duke Ellios personally repaid a group of generals under his command!

The name Decker Norman was at the top of the military merit list! And Norman was trusted by Duke Elliot and became one of his cronies! At that time, Duke Ellios was crowned Marshal of the Reich after the Northwest War, and was even appointed Minister of War in the army, so a group of new young generals like Norman were quickly put to good use.

Later, Duke Ellios married his youngest daughter to the Normans, and the Norman family became the largest family in the empire and began to rank among the first-class families in the imperial capital.

In the ensuing power struggle, Duke Ellios died, and the throne changed three times in just twenty years, and the Norman family was in the center of imperial power, but finally able to gain a foothold in this turbulent sea, and to the trust and appreciation of the new emperor, until now it has become a first-class wealthy family in the empire, and this Norman Duke is all in the calculation.

In the past, just listening to Su Ya talk about the history of this Norman duke's fortune made Jose feel that this person was extremely not simple. Born into a famous family, having entered the army, experiencing the war in the northwest, and finally even the Ellios family that supported him was weak, he was able to quickly gain the trust of Mondevideo IV, and was almost unaffected.

In the end, it became an aristocratic force that the emperor came to suppress the Ellios family, and if you think about it carefully, this cold-faced man's old man is not simple......

At this moment, the carriage had stopped, and Gould got out of the carriage first, because he was a servant warrior of Joseph, so he did not leave, but stood aside.

José quickly got out of the car, and was greeted by two servants at once, and the coachman of the House of Ellios quickly took the invitation, and the two servants looked more and more respectful when they saw it.

The two servants quickly said a few words to a middle-aged man who looked like a steward on the side, and the fellow immediately greeted him, and greeted Joseph from a distance:

"Mr. Chaux, we meet again!"