"Silence. Sima Haotian snorted. Everyone quickly shut up.

"I know you are very confused, but I can clearly tell your lordship, you heard it right, Long Feitian will be the Duke of the Empire in the future, this is a decision I have made with my ministers, no matter who it is in the future, as long as he has made corresponding contributions to the Empire, he may be made a duke. Sima Haotian said majestically.

Although hearing his words, the faces of the Zhao and Wu families were not very good-looking, but they did not express any meaning, they were completely acquiesced, as for the Yun family and the Dongfang family, their people had a smile on their faces, looking very happy.

For them, although the empire has one more duke and one more competitor in the future, Long Feitian has a good relationship with the two of them, which will be very beneficial for them to suppress the Zhao and Wu families.

In addition, the strength of the Long family is too weak now, and there is no duke title, which will not have any impact on them.

Seeing the expressions of the four major families, the eyes of everyone present lit up, and they all knew that this matter was indeed not a decision made by Sima Haotian alone, but agreed to by the four major families.

In this way, it means that they may also become dukes in the future, and when they think of this, everyone has an inexplicable excitement in their hearts.

Although there is a difference between the earl and the duke, the treatment of the two in the empire is completely different, first of all, there are many counts in the empire, while there are only four dukes, the rarer it is, the more precious it is, and the status is much higher.

Secondly, the earl's fief was only one city, while the duke's fief was a county, and the interests represented by the two were very different.

With a turn of his eyes, Sima Haotian looked at Long Feitian again, and said majestically: "Feng Long Feitian is the Duke of the Empire, and he is titled the Duke of the Protector ......."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed greatly, this time not only the Zhao and Wu families, but even the Dongfang family and the Yun family also changed their faces, protecting the country, its representative is unique, representing the protection of the country, not to mention Long Feitian, even the four major families did not get this title, so in the future, Long Feitian will not be ranked before the four major families?

Their hearts were shaken, even if Wu Dehui and Zhao Haiye wanted to stand up and oppose it, they could reluctantly agree to Feng Long Feitian as a duke, but they couldn't agree to be crowned as a protector of the country and ride on their heads.

And as a result of the previous discussion, Long Feitian is not the protector of the country.

However, before they could move, Jian Wen laughed and said, "Your Majesty is wise, on behalf of the Imperial Academy, I absolutely support it, and I believe that there will be more talents who will be loyal to the empire in the future." ”

With a pang in his heart, Dongfang Qingyuan glanced at the other three elders next to him, and suddenly understood the reason, it must be that Jian Wen asked Sima Haotian to seal Long Feitian as the protector of the country, even if they didn't ask for it, it must have something to do with them.

Thinking of this, Dongfang Qingyuan stood up and said to Sima Haotian: "Your Majesty is wise. ”

Dongfang Qingyuan's actions undoubtedly approved of what Sima Haotian did, and seeing this, Yun Feijian also hurriedly stood up and said to Sima Haotian: "Your Majesty is wise. ”

There were two families who chose to support it, and Sima Haotian also had the support of the Imperial Academy, although the Wu and Zhao families were extremely angry in their hearts, they did not oppose it again, and of course they did not express their approval.

And they were directly ignored by Sima Haotian, and continued: "However, since the Protector is too young, it is the time to cultivate and improve his strength, and he has no time to take care of the trivial matters of the fief, so the fief will wait for the Protector's strength to improve before rewarding him." ”

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Long Feitian smiled even more bitterly, although he, the protector of the country, listened to the majesty, in fact, he was just a showman.

However, he still respectfully thanked Sima Haotian, with the title of Protector, his family will be foolproof in the future.

After all, the Lord Protector represents the face of the empire.

After Long Feitian's reward, the next thing was Dongfang Quan and others, Dongfang Quan, Gongsun Chi and the two officers who did not come, all of them were named earls, the viscount also awarded nearly ten people, and the remaining barons were even more than twenty people.

After the knighthood, it is the time for the new nobles to establish their authority, that is, to meet the challenges of all parties, originally Long Feitian thought that the Zhao and Wu families would definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, but unexpectedly, they did not send even one disciple to challenge Long Feitian at all.

Even those disciples who wanted to challenge were stopped by them, and in the end, Long Feitian only accepted a few challengers arranged by the empire, and in order not to disgrace the title of Protector, he used his strength to do his best, and all of them challenged and stepped down with one blow.

Especially the last challenger, Long Feitian used the Dragon King to incarnate in order to deter all parties, but fortunately, the challenger immediately admitted defeat and ran away when he saw that it was not good, otherwise he would definitely be bombarded into slag by Long Feitian.

But even so, the entire challenge platform was also bombarded into a big hole by Long Feitian, so that Dongfang Quan and others behind him could no longer accept the challenge.

This blow really shocked all parties, and everyone was shocked, but also secretly sighed that Long Feitian, the protector of the country, really had two hits, and it was not deceived by the embroidery legs.

As for Long Feitian's prestige, Sima Haotian also nodded with satisfaction, Long Feitian, the protector of the country, was sealed by him, if something went wrong, he would be the first to be embarrassed.

Because Long Feitian destroyed the challenge platform, Sima Haotian had to change places for the challenger to challenge Dongfang Quan and others, but after experiencing Long Feitian's might, the challenge of others was just a passing motion.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, there was a knock on the door, Long Feitian jumped up from the bed, opened the door, and a young man with a smile on his face appeared in front of him.

"Meet the Lord Protector. Wei Lin saluted respectfully to Long Feitian.

"When did you come?" Long Feitian was stunned for a moment and asked.

"I arrived yesterday, and you all entered the palace by then, and when I came back, I was afraid of disturbing you, so I waited until today. Welling laughed, "Come in and talk about it." Long Feitian turned around and entered the room, and after Wei Lin came in, Long Feitian asked, "Are you okay at home?"

"Everything was fine. Wei Lin replied: "Before, Zhao Dayong, the head of the Zhao family, went to Gaoyang City and threatened to destroy the Long family, but he was stopped outside the city by Lord Bao Yi, and finally hit him hard. ”

After a pause, he continued, "Lord Bao Yi is now a four-star Martial Emperor. ”

"That's fine. Long Feitian nodded, puzzled, "You didn't come here just to tell me this, did you?"

"Of course not. Wei Lin said with a smile: "Now that our intelligence network has been completely rolled out, only the imperial capital and the Four Great Cities remain, Gaoyang City is too far away from here, and it is not convenient for me to command here, which will affect its development, so I plan to live in the imperial capital temporarily." ”

"That's fine. Long Feitian nodded.