The palace minister was not obtained by Simon, and Hilde happily wanted to ask Simon's maternal relatives.

He was really happy.

Hilde guessed that it was impossible not to set up the palace minister, no monarch would not set up this important position, and if Simon could not get it, it could only be said that Bran thought that no one was worthy of the qualifications or merits.

This is easy to do, and in the next year or two, I will make greater achievements.

He had already established a plan in his mind, and the first step was to wash his bloodline.

He wants to find a nobleman to marry immediately, share the title and increase his worth.

As for who he would marry, he hadn't decided yet, but he was going to look for it right away.

He even asked the high-ranking priests to give him a marriage certificate, and then used his intelligence and commercial influence in Rome to push the power of the Duchy of Milan to the center and south of Italy.

Simon went down, and Bran continued with other details.

Before the Battle of Tongxia, several nobles, such as Hilde, had already been given territory.

If this battle is not specially sealed, it will only be fine-tuned on the original basis.

Hilde was eventually given the title of viscount and deputy head of commerce.

Finally, the first team of the Principality is as follows.

Grand Duke: Howard. Chaman.

Prince: Bran. Chaman, under the jurisdiction of the Earl of Milan.

Mountain Marquis: Bergman (Jana's brother), Jo Tan (who recognizes Bran as his godfather), Siebean (the oldest mountain lord, who leads the exit of the Snow Mountain).

Sixth Uncle:

Haughel, Barça Collar.

Bailey, Pollumber Collar.

Quentch, Torvenberg.

Chimonan, Hesberling.

Desley (Holy Trinity Iris), Venetober collar.

Simon (with the coat of arms of the Black Hawk), with Friuliber collar.

Viscount: Hilde, Ichissu.

Barons: Arnold (Golden Lion), Uller, Allen, Yones (Craftsman Chief).

Knight: Moru.

Iones' contribution was attributed to all the craftsmen, who transported raw materials with the Teutonic soldiers.

In order to expand printing and paper to such a high profit.

And he couldn't get the guns and weapons that Bran wanted this time, and it wasn't a disadvantage to give the baron the title.

The seats of the five ministers and the Teutonic Knights are as follows.

Treasurer Simon, deputy Heard.

Diplomat Dandoro, deputy Bailey.

The head of intelligence, Ichsu, and the deputy, Moru.

Military Governor Ambu, Deputy Ule.

Bishop of the Academy: Duzik, deputy Fernando.

The head of the Teutonic Knights, Desley, and the deputy Arnold.

Admiral General: False, Rear Admiral: Havedan......

The new system of the Principality was the navy.

During the Florentine period, the highest naval rank was Admiral, with the command of brigades, squadrons, and squads.

Bran was restructured and upgraded to the headquarters of the Navy.

There are four ranks: general, colonel, lieutenant, and sergeant, and each rank is divided into upper, middle and lower.

There were also two other positions, Admiral and Marshal, which belonged to the consul general with the title of wartime, which were withdrawn in peacetime.

The current highest naval officer is held by Halfdan.

There were also four naval colonels, all of whom were Brandteuton officers.

Havedan was a Swedish pirate who was invited by Durham to go south with the group, and before the war, Bran promised to give land, and at this time he also stayed as a nobleman of the principality.

He became a little pirate at the age of nine, and has been fighting the sea for twenty years.

Quite intuitive about the sea.

He can repair the hull of the ship, direct the waterway, from the captain to the carpenter, and even the survey, and is a very good foreign marine talent.

Duzik, who served as bishop, voted on his own.

This man was originally a mid-level clergyman of the Holy See, and was later named a local county bishop by Lujo II.

After Chai Subara, he hid in the mountains, and also gathered some believers, and was a priest with a good reputation.

When Bran defeated the giants, he brought more than twenty priests to Florence.

He also brought with him a precious collection of scriptures taken from the Church of Rome to help Bran establish a monastery.

Duzik was about forty years old, and he was quite strong and had a steady personality.

Bran once asked him a question.

"What do you think is a great monarch?"

"Strive to maintain the seven goodnesses and reduce desires, so that the territory can be governed not too badly."

Bran was satisfied with this answer, and it was not comparable to those clergymen who put theocracy in their mouths and let themselves be able to solve everything by praying.

Bishop Fernando used Fernando, and Bran took the risk.

He had to guard against the spread of the Illusion Sect, but at the same time, he had access to the power of the Zealots of knights, priests, and merchants, as well as the various intelligence networks they had built up in Rome over the years.

Fernando, under a pseudonym, did not appear, and was replaced by a visionary priest.

......

When the ceremony was over, Bran met with the neighboring princes.

The three Earls of Italy and Brady.

Bran had already met with the three counts twice before, and at the moment it was a pleasantry, and there was nothing important to say.

But when he saw Brady, Bran feigned surprise.

"You are the brave nobleman who once organized soldiers in Zhongyi to repel the Sword Saint of Junbao!"

"Your Highness has won the award, you are the real hero, defending the faith of light."

Bran stepped forward and shook Brady's hand.

Brady was surprised and delighted, he was so famous?

Bran had his eye on the power of his lord, the good man Nehdomon.

Nehdomon was the strongest prince in favor of him at the moment.

Chai Su and himself have to get involved, and they have to win the support of this force.

Brady and Bran are only a year old, and they are both Italian cultures, so the two flattered each other and talked happily.

In the evening, Bran also dined at the same table with Brady, and it was extremely courteous to a knight as a prince.

At the banquet, Bran also asked Arnold to toast with him.

For the warrior who killed the giant, Brady admired it very much.

And at Bran's previous instructions, Arnold also slapped a pre-prepared sycophant.

"In the past, the taverns of Northern Italy said that you fought off 3,000 Greeks with 1,000 infantry, just like Scipio, the Italian hero of the Roman era!"

Each region has several legendary heroes, such as Roland of the Franks and King Arthur of England.

Scipio was a famous Roman general who defeated the hero of North Africa, Hannibal, and gave Rome control of North Africa for many years.

"Compare me to Scipio, you have a ...... of vision"

A large amount of wine poured into his stomach, and Bran also found a beautiful woman to accompany the rampaging bull.

The night was full of joy for the guests and hosts, and the mad bull was finally taken down by two plump women.

Bran didn't rest, he also met with other people, and he was busy until late at night.

In the middle of the night, he sat in his study, listening to Ichsu's report.

The Rus' were now fluent in Italian, and they gave up the fur-steppe dress of the Rus' people, wore short sleeves, and shaved their beard.

He took the dossier and reported to Bran the genealogical chart of Nehdomon, the good man.

"Nehdomon Rujje, the monarch of Pulia, is forty-two years old.

The wife is also from Italy...... Fourteen years ago, he succeeded his brother as an earl and became the master of Puglia, with a population of about 120,000.

Because of his steady character, he adopted relatively gentle ruling methods for the people, and rarely killed people and went to prison, so he was called the Good Earl.

And the knight who came to watch the ceremony this time is full name Brady Lecce.

Known as the mad bull by the nobles because of his appearance, he was a knight with a heavy sword, and his father was the former Count of Puglia and the elder brother of Nehdoru.

I was an illegitimate child, and although my mother was also a nobleman, I was not recognized as a member of Lu Jie, but followed my motherhood.

He visited Byzantium as a young man and returned to the peninsula at the age of nine to inherit his grandfather's title, later Count of Lecce in Central Italy.

A year later, he was overthrown by his vassals and sheltered by his uncle Nehdoru.

Although Lynhedoru helped Brady to take the territory, he did not give it to this nephew, but annexed it to Puglia. ”

After saying that, Ichisu waited for Bran to instruct.

Hilde and the new Navy Commander Havedan are also there.

"What's the weakness?" Bran asked Ichisus.

"It seems that no, Nehdoru has an excellent reputation among his subjects and subjects."

"Didn't you just say that he took his nephew's territory?"

"Your Highness, the Lecce Territory has historically belonged to the Ruje family, and Nehdoro has the right to claim it."

"The territory is the property of the nobles, and no nobles can be indifferent if they are taken away from their territory.

If Brady is not an illegitimate child, then everything in the Ruger family is his.

When I got in touch with him today, I found out that he has an arrogant personality and is a good person's compliment, and you start with him to satisfy his desires, promote his ambitions, and create some trouble. ”

Bran spoke in such general terms at times that it took Ichisu a turn of his mind to understand.

Bran turned his gaze to Hilde, who understood that Bran had allowed him to speak.

"Your Highness, Lord Ichisu, I have heard that Brady's wife is beautiful, and that the heir of Nehdoru is an excellent entertainer.

Or will Brady's wife and Nehdoru's son accidentally sleep in the same bed on a certain day of the month, and then be discovered?"

What Hilde said seems absurd, but in fact, he wants to convey a meaning, that is, people will have weaknesses.

Find a way to magnify my weaknesses and create conflicts.

Bran was pleased with Hilde's words, but he had recently heard a rumor that Hilde had secretly taken Never's wife out of the convent and replaced her with a woman who had just died, pretending that Nefer's wife was sick and dead.

And the former duke's woman was already pregnant with Hilde.

With Ichisu nodding back, Bran asked Heard to report.

But before he could speak, Bran said, "Someone told me that Never's wife is dead?"

"Ahh Your Highness, it just happened, and you know it. ”

"It's a pity, it's a beauty, I thought later, why don't you find a nobleman who is not married, and marry him, for example, you are good."

The corners of Bran's mouth were slightly raised, but Hilde was smiling dryly, and his scalp was tingling.

Later, seeing that Bran no longer spoke, he said, "Your Highness, Uri has urged us to hand over the princess of Alain. ”

Hield looked at Bran's face out of the corner of his eye.

Bran has always been indifferent to women, but after winning the giant, the situation is a little delicate, Bran keeps delaying the handover, and he can't grasp Bran's meaning now.

"You tell them to send a boat out in a few days and take the sea route."

Hearing this answer, Hilde still didn't believe it, and he vaguely felt that Bran wanted to make something out.

But among all the important ministers, only the dead Carol can ask whenever he wants, and he doesn't dare.

After Hilde retired, Hafdan was left.

Bran came to him because after today's conferment of titles, he heard Hafdan mention the name of a man - Frederick!

For nearly two years, he couldn't find Ossea scattered in Bavaria at all.

After winning the Giant, Bran became famous in all countries, but he didn't expect that there was still no news of Otasia.

Something happened to them?

This terrible thought has been weighing on Bran's mind for a long time.

But today he heard it!

"Your Highness, you asked me today, Fiterley, although the name is the same, I don't know that it is the same person as you are talking about?"

"Can't be wrong, I have a hunch, you tell everything you have encountered."

Both speak German.

Having lived in Swabia and Bavaria, Brande is already able to communicate.

When he returned to the peninsula, he enlisted a clergy professor and learned the language.

He has been able to communicate with lords from Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and German-speaking cultures.

"Yes, in the western part of Denmark, they clashed with the original Vikings because of the establishment of the Netherlands Seven Provinces Alliance and the conversion to the Illuminati.

I used to serve as a local Danish lord, and one day I came across an independent army from Bavaria, which was nearly two years ago, and it was a small group of about 30 people. ”

Hearing this, Bran calculated, and the time was right.

At the beginning, Freitik brought some centaurs to rob Otasia with him, and the centaurs were similar.

"During one battle, I came across this army, and I was slashed by one of them.

When I heard the name of the chieftain they mention, the man's name was Frederick......"

Hafdan paints a picture of the situation.

"And then?"

"In a certain naval battle, the man named Frederick was seriously wounded, but it was not me who took action, they were wounded by our Viking hero, the Blood Axe."

Blood axe?

Bran remembered the time he had gotten Roland's sword in the valley and heard the Viking name.

"Not only the one named Frederick, but many of the foreign aid employed by the Netherlands suffered many casualties, and many of them fled at that time, and they all boarded ships to escape the pursuit in the north."

Hearing this, Bran was a little excited, if he really reached the northern border, he must have spread his martial name there one day.

As soon as Havedan went down, Bran wrote two letters to Leary in England and to Durham in Ireland, asking them to help him inquire about a group of people.

If it weren't for the fact that Scotland had no connections, Bran would have written a third letter.

"Osseya, I promised you that I would take care of you." Bran let out a long sigh.

On the second day of the award, the ministers entered the large room in the imperial hall to discuss.

This is the first meeting of the National Council.

The ministers gathered around the lord's long table.

Grand Duke Howard is in the first place, and Bran is in second place.

The knight sat on a chair and listened.

The vassals above the baron gathered around the long table.

The nobility law of the Duchy of Milan allowed women to hold court positions.

So Agatha was present as secretary.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that another noble family (Arnoga Agatha) was about to rise up and be reused by Bran.

The fact that a woman held the position was not a traumatic blow to Bran, which was borrowed from the Duchy of Austria.

Bran absorbed the laws of the princes in various places, and chose what was beneficial to him, and wrote it into the law of the principality.

There was no reason for a monarch or other vassals, and when Bran and his grandfather appeared, everyone had been waiting for ten minutes.

After the two highnesses appeared, Simon stood up to greet him.

"Your Highness."

They sat down after Bran had sat down.

"Today is the first meeting of the principality, we have to set a few national policy guidelines, you can speak freely." Howard recalls what he said at each of the founding councils twenty years ago, and he said it from memory.

Simon sat on the right side of the long table and Desley sat on the left.

The three marquis did not come, and Bran was reluctant to share secrets with them until they were fully incorporated into themselves.

The nobles who were present were all on the battlefield and were quite credible.

Bran took a look, and now there are quite a few factions under his command.

Even Hield himself brought two knights to attend, and he was in a league of his own.

Desley and Simon glanced at each other, and the former saw that the latter had not planned to speak first.

"Your Highness, according to your instructions last month, we have mobilized two thousand men to the northwest of the peninsula to begin the formation in the land closest to the Franks."

Northern Italy occupies the Alps and is isolated from several countries, but the Franks still have a very small land strip to navigate.

This overland route runs east from Provence in the south and into the Lombardy region of northern Italy.

However, as soon as he returned to Hong Kong, Bran sent an additional 500 men to the station.

According to intelligence, the Franks fought for several years to support Scotland's northern war, without much profit.

The loss of many ships has made the ships tight, and if the ships are transferred from the southern French waters, the entire southern coastline will be very weak.

The Franks were also a land power, and they loved to engage in land warfare.

Bran had always been afraid that the Frankish battle flag would suddenly appear on this land route.

During this time, two thousand troops were added one after another, and only then did I feel a little at ease.

"Well done, now our main enemy is the Franks, and our secondary enemy is Africa. The movements of these two countries must be kept abreast at all times. As for Byzantium, it's our third order.

On the Aegean side, if there is a way to take some benefits, if it doesn't work, let Blackbeard fight for it as our agent. ”

Speaking of which, Bran glanced at the Navy.

The style of naval clothing is not uniform in various countries.

Influenced by the memories of his past life, Bran gave himself a white suit for the navy.

Hearing Blackbeard's name, Hafdan immediately stood up and greeted the crowd, then sat down to speak.

This is Howard's etiquette, if there are other noble officials above themselves present at the state council, the lower aristocratic officials must get up first.

"The Aegean Sea is different from the Mediterranean Sea currents, and I would like to ask Your Highness, what sea do we prioritize? In this way, it will be possible to produce ships in the corresponding sea area. ”

"Bird Language." Ambu didn't understand at all, and laughed inwardly.

The world of light is fragmented, there are German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin, Slavic, etc.

Hafdan spoke German, and Bran deliberately assigned two priests to interpret Hafdan on the sidelines so that he could translate Hafdan immediately.

The Navy Headquarters is still only in the initial stage, and the number of naval troops is only about 3,000 after the change in the fjord.

But the army can still pull up tens of thousands.

Therefore, Ambu, who was the first person in the army, looked down on the Viking barbarians who had a competitive relationship at all.

Bran thought for a moment, "The Mediterranean first, I have received an invitation from the people of the Three Rivers, and the Aegean side will use agents and allies to help us conquer power."

Produce the Lega ships in the Mediterranean first, and you will speed up the heavy warships that I brought back from the Purple Chamber, as well as the captured shipwrights, and learn the secrets of Greek fire and the technical essence of heavy warships.

Someday, I'm going to have a Milanese ship with the Black Eagle and the White Dragon, and if I sail out, the pirates will flee when they see us. ”

Halfdan was exactly what Bran thought.

Once, when he was in the North Sea, he heard that Aschu Clay had designated a bounty for the Seven Sea Pirates.

At one time, I felt that the Seven Sea Pirates were particularly majestic, and they had reached the peak of the naval army.

But after becoming a regular soldier and participating in the battle in the fjord, he realized that pirates are just fish in the sea.

The navy, with the state as the main force, has tens of thousands of sailors in battle, and hundreds of warships pass through in the open.

The regular navy is the one who rules the sea.

"Your Highness, rest assured, whatever Seven Martial Seas are, they will be attached to our Navy Headquarters in the future."

At this time, Halfdan said this, more of a self-expectation as an admiral.

But I didn't think that one day, the navies of all countries learned the white clothing of the naval headquarters and implemented the four-rank and twelve-rank official system of the navy.

The Navy Headquarters later increased in strength with Bran.

The strength even surpassed the army, strong enough to launch a war in the far seas, standing at the apex of the three seas.

The Seven Martial Seas are all combined, and they are a great existence that cannot be resisted.

At that time, the pirates who were not rewarded by the Navy Headquarters were all local thieves who could not be put on the table.

It's always good for subordinates to be ambitious, Bran nodded.

"Okay, take a break from the navy for two years, and try to develop your strength in these two years, and when the Duchy needs you, I hope it will surprise me. ”