On February 1, 1392, at six o'clock in the morning, the young Earl of Karon got up early from the bed of his fourth lady.

After finishing the work of grooming and dressing under the service of the gentle maid beside him, and simply eating a piece of fruit cake with black tea, he got into the luxurious carriage and took advantage of the faint morning light to march from his earl's mansion to Longmian Palace, ready to participate in today's court meeting.

After this period of private communication and benefit-sharing, the enlightened forces represented by Earl Cullen and Earl Stewart have succeeded in getting many neutral and even conservative people to accept their plan to repair roads in the imperial capital and surrounding areas.

Many people can get some benefits from the alliance through this plan, but after the alliance has the power to collect highway royalties, there is still a question mark about who will benefit more.

Although the dust has settled on this matter, there is one more thing that needs to be bothered by the two high-ranking members of the alliance, Earl Cullen and Earl Stewart, and that is the problem of the new army.

Archduke Connes Rand proposed that the new army should be nominally trained by the palace guards, but their aim was to leave the new army to be trained by the Alliance, which required a reason that would convince Emperor Plit.

Although Emperor Pulit was cursed and tortured for a long time, this did not affect his intelligence, and even with the help of the royal secret treasure, he could still have the energy to deal with the court meeting once every half a month.

Naturally, it was impossible for Earl Karen to directly move the residence of the palace guard to the Alliance's R&D center, in a vain hope that he would be able to hide from the world.

After internal discussions among several of their alliance leaders, they formulated a relatively possible plan to be implemented at today's court meeting.

After carefully recalling the various countermeasures that had been laid out in advance, Count Cullen got out of the carriage at the stable outside the Sun Palace, and accompanied by his attendants, walked unhurriedly along the smooth marble corridor under his feet towards the Aran Hall, and the officials of the five major departments he met along the way all bowed respectfully to salute him:

"Gui'an! Count Karen!"

"Yes, Gui'an."

Count Karen only bowed slightly at them, occasionally responding to important figures in the Enlightened Sect, and soon arrived in the huge Aram Room, which was large enough to accommodate thousands of people at once.

It was once the most important banquet venue for Queen Marlet, and the enchanted and reinforced hall of 3,000 Arles (about 4,000 square meters) was only flanked by eight giant pillars of the thickness of the three people and nearly 20 meters high, on which the scenes of the eight most important events in the life of the Sun King were engraved.

Above is a huge crystal mural of the Sun King establishing the Kingdom of Sassen made of various colored crystals, and through the special spell mechanism set on the giant pillar, you can provide sufficient lighting for the hall.

Anyone who steps into such a tall and luxurious palace will suddenly rise with a kind of reverence and awe.

In the hall, the palace guards stood brightly armored on either side, and in front of them were court attendants and maids dressed in black and white.

Beyond that, you can see that the hall, which was once full of banquet tables, is now lined with sumptuous chairs, and in front of these chairs are the throne with twelve steps and the golden and red silk curtains.

Earl Stewart had already sat in the seat of the Director of the Treasury at this time, and when he heard Count Cullen entering the Aram Hall surrounded by a crowd of people, he turned back to him and bowed slightly.

After Count Cullen sat down on the soft primitive sofa, soon all the officials of the five major departments were also present.

At about seven o'clock, His Majesty the Emperor of the Sassen Empire, Sassen XVII Pulit Ahlika, surrounded by a group of court maids and attendants, slowly stepped from behind the Sun Palace to the throne of the tall Aran Hall.

It didn't look like Emperor Pulit was tormented by the curse, but Count Karen knew that it was His Majesty's magic power that combined with the magic of his golden knight, the treasures of the Dragon Sleeping Palace, and the potions concocted by the alchemists of the palace that he barely suppressed the curse, and he was able to look like an ordinary person at this time.

Babbitt Louiene, the chief chamberlain of the court, who was dressed in a chamberlain with sewn gold thread, carefully counted the appearance of the five major commissions

After the officials, the court minister, Fosk Knorr, a short and fat minister with a snow-white mustache, went up to the steps, sat down on his position six steps from the throne, and announced in a loud voice:

"The council begins!"

"Well, Minister Fosk, if there is anything going on in the Empire recently, you can explain it to me and the ministers!"

Emperor Pulit leaned back on his throne, raised his right hand, and let his palace minister go down according to the normal court process.

"Your Majesty, during this period of time, the four sides of the empire have been stable, and the Sain people in the east have subdued the strength of the empire, and His Excellency Langfellow Sein, the Grand Duke of the Eastern Territory, has indicated through a message that the war in the east is currently stable, and the Kingdom of Sain has no heart to fight the empire again.

The southern Turks have expanded considerably, and various plantations are delivering tea, cotton, and brown sugar to Hurgana on a daily basis.

The pirates of the Kingdom of Prius in the west have not invaded the territory of the empire, and at present, only the war between the northern border and the six northern countries of the empire is still in a stalemate.

The day before yesterday, Archduke Connes Rand sent a summons asking His Majesty the Emperor to allow the palace guards to train a new army of 1,000 men for the north.

It is said that this new army was proposed by the Dorothea princess, and although they are ordinary people, they seem to be quite a threat to the knights on the battlefield, and can replenish a considerable part of the strength of the north."

"Ordinary people are a threat to knights? Isn't it a powerful crossbow equipped with enchantment?"

"Although the average strength of the palace guards is at the level of the Great Knights, they really know how to train the army? And it's a bunch of ordinary people?"

Hearing the last words of the Fosk Palace Minister, all kinds of small conversations suddenly resounded in the Aran Hall.

This is a normal phenomenon during the Imperial Court meeting, after all, the five major agencies are different from each other, and not everything can be known to the officials at the core of the empire in time, so at this time, it is necessary to leave time for them to communicate.

"Oh? A new weapon that can threaten the knight? I want to think about it...... Dorothea seems to have told me about this kind of thing, like a musket and a cannon, right? Count Karen, you've been getting closer to Dorothea lately, do you know that?"

Raising his hand slightly, the voices from the audience immediately stopped.

When Emperor Pulit heard that the Grand Duke of the North had proposed to let the palace guards build a new army for him to use new weapons to fight the knights on the battlefield, he became a little interested, cheered up a little, and looked at Count Karen, who was sitting at the front of the Commercial Department.

"Your Majesty, I do know this, although the weapon called the musket is also related to magic, but the cost is only comparable to that of the enchanted arrow, which means that a musket only costs a little more than 1 gold lunt.

Such a rifle was capable of firing eight ball-like projectiles in a row in a matter of moments, powerful enough to penetrate the knight's armor and inflict serious injuries on them.

In addition, the weapon called the cannon can fire several heavy projectiles, which is more powerful than the musket, and the cost is only twenty-five gold, which in my opinion is indeed a weapon to change the battlefield.

I think that the princess Dorothea was also worried that the war in the north would endanger His Excellency the Grand Duke, so she had these two weapons developed, which is why the Grand Duke of Connes Rand learned about these two weapons so quickly and asked the palace guards to train the new army to use them."