Chapter 22: Rewards for Merit and Deeds (Part 2)
Alice first held a reward ceremony and rewarded the soldiers who made great contributions last night. Sure enough, Weiner became the captain.
Then, after encouraging the soldiers to recover their territory, they led 5,000 cavalry and generals above the division commander, and Cons who followed silently and marched towards the royal city.
The remaining army did not carry out the action to recover the territory. Instead, after obtaining information, only 5,000 people were left to defend. The remaining army of nearly 50,000 people, led by the remaining deputy division commander, ran towards the royal city without stopping, hoping to help the princess obtain the throne.
This information is that Emperor Black Rock Kingdom passed away.
"What? My father passed away?" Enno asked again in shock.
Because night fell, his army was stationed a hundred miles away from the border camp.
"Yes, Your Highness." The shadow responded affirmatively. He had just returned from the country and brought this amazing news.
"The imperial capital did not notify me of such a big matter!" Ennuo slapped the back of the chair with a fierce incident.
"No, Your Highness, the imperial capital sent an envoy to every general and prince outside to inform this matter."
"What's going on? I didn't receive a notice."
The shadow said lightly: "The envoy of His Highness the Crown Prince is a flying eagle, the envoy of generals from all over the country is a fast horse, but the envoy of His Highness is a retired minister in a carriage. Your envoy may still be thousands of miles away now."
"No wonder the other legions not only retreated when they were dead but instead retreated. So that's it... Humph! This must be a good idea from the third brother."
Ennuo immediately shouted outside the tent: "Change the destination! Return to the country immediately!" The personal soldiers outside the tent responded and went to prepare immediately.
"Your Highness, will you bring so many people back to the imperial capital..." Shadow asked implicitly.
"Hmph! If I don't bring so many people there, I'm afraid I'll be killed as soon as I enter the city! Keep exploring the information and go down."
"Yes." The shadow disappeared immediately.
A dim shadow outside the tent ran quickly into the field, and the guards did not notice it.
That shadow was the shadow who left Ennuo's camp. He was an intelligence officer engaged in secret work, not Ennuo's subordinate, and only a hired relationship with Ennuo.
Now he was speeding in the field and sighing in his mind: "Oh, it seems that there is no family affection between the brothers of the royal family." Soon, he disappeared into the night.
In the team back to the capital, no one spoke to him at all, as if everyone was isolating him. This may be because the generals' attitudes influenced the soldiers.
It is natural for the generals to show this. Suddenly, someone they are not familiar with will come to compete for credit from them, and they will definitely get a big reward. How can such a person be given a good face?
Although the princess deliberately ignored Cons, she would unconsciously inspect the team every day and naturally look at Cons. When she saw Cons, she would return to the camp. If she didn't see it, she would continue to patrol.
The generals could only hide their jealousy towards Cons in their hearts for the unintentional concern for the princess.
If the princess hadn't shown attention to Cons, those bad-hearted generals would have killed Cons long ago and still went to the ravine to feed the beasts.
Although everyone ignored him, the soldiers in charge of the meal still included Cons' portion for each meal. So, Cons, who knew that they were unpopular, would eat when they had food, sleep when they had sleep, and would usually train their bodies on the side.
In this atmosphere, Cons followed the team for more than 20 days and finally arrived at King Qihong.
Along the way, the team was warmly welcomed by the people, one was that the princess won the battle, and the other was to see the princess's stunning appearance. Although the people's ideas were very simple, they woke up the garrison waiting around the capital.
A heir to the throne who defeated the invaders and was widely loved by the people is more likely to ascend the throne than a queen who stayed in the city and was unknown among the people?
So the army rushed to swear allegiance to Alice, fearing that it would not be enough.
Seeing this situation, Alice also understood the benefits of taking advantage of the situation. If she did not win a battle, but came back like this, she would probably have to have a civil war before she could return to the capital, right?
When Alice entered the royal city, she knew she had won.
Because the stepmother, as well as ministers and generals who supported the queen, all went out of the city to greet her personally, which also showed that they recognized their status.
My throne is real. Next, it depends on how to appease these people and distribute benefits to those who support me.
It has been in the city for more than ten days, and Cons is still in his suite.
Except for three meals, no one met him. He was informed that he was in a remote place in the palace and could not take a step out of the door without orders.
Now he feels no difference from being in jail.
He was idle and had to stay in the room to practice martial arts, otherwise what else could he do?
"Cons, Your Highness the Princess summoned him." In the past ten days, the first guard appeared in front of Cons.
Judging from this title, it seems that the princess has not yet ascended the throne of queen.
"Yes." Conslo sorted out his clothes and went out with the guards.
This was his first time walking out after entering the capital, but he didn't care much about the beautiful and elegant buildings around him, and just bowed his head and followed the guards.
Soon, I came to a huge building, and on the wide and towering stairs, four fully armed guards stood on each side of the left and right. A huge gate opened its mouth and looked at Cons under the stairs. Looking at this momentum, you don’t have to think about it, this is the royal palace hall of the royal city.
"Cons's visit!" A shout came out of the hall, and the guards leading the way waved their hands to Cons and retreated on their own.
Cons had no choice but to sigh helplessly, step forward, cross the towering stairs, and come to the gate.
An official waiting at the gate hurriedly leaned over and whispered: "Kneel down after entering and report his name." He also said some court rules.
This official may have made a special arrangement for him, a person who does not understand etiquette.
"Cons see His Highness the Princess." Cons went in and knelt down on one knee.
"No gift, get up." The princess's voice came from afar. To the extent of blur, the distance between Cons and the princess should be quite far apart.
"Your Highness Princess Xie." Cons slowly got up, then slowly raised his head. He did exactly as the official's instructions.
At this time, Cons discovered that the hall was nearly a thousand square meters, and a red carpet was spread from the door to the throne at the end. The princess was wearing white clothes and sat upright on the throne made of gold, emitting an indescribable nobility and elegance.
On the big chair under the princess' left hand was a young and beautiful woman. Cons immediately knew who she was. From the crown she wore on her head, she knew that she was the queen.
On the lower right side of the princess, there was a woman wearing a light blue shrine costume, and her entire head was blocked by an equally light blue veil.
As for who this person is, Cons doesn't know.
The carpet was full of generals and ministers. The Gula and his son whom Cons knew were there, and even Vina, who had just become the captain and stayed at the border, was in the queue.
These people looked at themselves intentionally or unintentionally, and a complex look appeared in the eyes of Wiener looking at Cons.
The queen and the ministers looked at Cons with interest. They knew that the young man in front of him made great contributions to saving Alice. In order to reward him, Alice and the generals discussed several times. They should have rewarded him very early, only because the generals rejected this soldier without aristocratic blood and received the reward until now.
The queen was a little gloating and glanced at Alice who was high above her and thought, "What do you do! Should you offend the generals? Or reward the meritorious ministers? Don't think that this position is easy to sit on!"
Although Alice noticed the queen's eyes, she knew the queen's thoughts, smiled faintly and said to Kons: "Kons, you have made countless contributions when you were stationed on the border, and I have not fallen into the traitor's hand because of your rescue. Your contributions deserve the reward.
"This palace decided to appoint you as a first-class knight, appoint you as the commander of the major general division, command 10,000 troops, appoint you as a jazz nobleman, and reward you with 5,000 gold coins!"
As Alice said, a commotion came from the hall immediately. The civil and military ministers were shocked by this unprecedented reward. Not to mention the richness of gold coins, just the title of the major general, even if the officers fought bravely for the rest of their lives, they would not be able to get it.
If the first-class knights don’t say that those above the division commander have this status, but the title of a noble is too much.
You should know that new nobles are very difficult to appear. Although they are the lowest-level jazz titles without fiefs, they are also nobles after all. Now that most division commanders are not nobles, if Cons gets this title, they will be taller than the civilian division commander they are in.
Can this convince those division commanders who have fought bloody battles for many years and have made countless contributions but have not received titles?
So as soon as Alice finished speaking, Gula, who was ranked first in the military officer, immediately stood up and bowed and said, "Your Highness, Cons has made great contributions to rescue the lord. This is well known to everyone. I also agree to reward Cons. However... Cons's contribution to the border has already rewarded him and has also been enfeoffed. I think..."
Although Gula spoke implicitly, everyone knew what he meant, saying that Cons could not receive such a high reward, at most he would reward the reward for saving the Lord.
Some jealous generals were also busy speaking out their thoughts, but they were simply dissatisfied with Cons' ability to obtain such a high status.
Because of his low position and no right to speak, Weiner had to look silently at Cons, who was lowering his head, but his eyes showed a look of jealousy.
This expression made the civil servants on the other side not speak, and an official with the same status as Viagra see it.
Alice smiled at the gloating queen, which made the queen stunned. She didn't know how Alice had the ability to control these jealous generals.
Alice stretched out her hand, and the generals stopped talking immediately, retreated back to their original position and stood with their eyes looking at Alice.
Alice smiled and waved her hand to the officials beside her and said, "Please take a look, generals."
"Yes." The official walked towards Gula with a wooden plate with a thick book on it.
Gula looked at the book in confusion and looked at Alice who was smiling. At this time, Alice smiled and said, "This is the military merit notebook of the unit of the Ninth Army Corps of the Frontier Army. It records the merits of all the soldiers of the Cons corps. General Gula, please pick it up and read it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gula had already picked it up and opened it. He looked for the book and saw Cons' name. His face was stunned for a moment. His eyes swept to the numbers below, and he suddenly raised his head, looking at Cons standing in the distance with an unbelievable look.
Then he withdrew his gaze and turned on the second page. At this time, his brows jumped because he discovered Cons' name again. The same double-digit number of killing enemies was below. Gula frowned.
However, when he turned to the third page, his face turned green immediately.
He also glanced at the number below the name and continued to turn on the next page.
Everyone suddenly felt that Gula was very strange. From the second page, every time he turned the page, he seemed to want to see something. When he turned the next page, his eyebrows raised, but it seemed that he was disappointed.
Because as the number of pages increased, his face became greener and greener. After turning the last page, he closed the notebook with a pale face and put it back on the plate held by the official.
At this time, the officials immediately took a look at the next general. After a while, the generals all looked uneasy, but they were not as ugly as Gula.
Although the civil servants and other brigade leaders and team leaders were curious, they had no orders to read them, so they had to look at the book in confusion.
After reading the generals, Alice and other generals said, "The generals have read it. I believe you have also found that there is a name on each page. You can probably estimate the number of enemies he killed, right?"
Gula had a blue face and came out to bow and said, "Forgive me, I am ignorant. In just three years on the border, Cons killed more than a thousand enemies. The credits he made were indeed able to bear the heavy responsibility. I took back my ignorant advice just now." After saying that, he lowered his head and retreated back to his original position.
At this time, everyone knew why the generals looked so ugly, so they all looked at Cons, who was looking down with his head down in shock.
This person actually killed thousands of enemies? It's unbelievable. Many brigade commanders and team leaders present have been in the army for many years, but they have not had such a high number of enemies.
The ministers who had originally had opinions obediently kept silent. In their eyes, the halo of a noble jazz appeared on Cons' head.
When the queen saw the generals' angry expressions, she smiled because she knew that Alice had offended the generals. However, when she looked at Alice, she found that she was also looking at her and smiled that was hard to understand.
I thought Alice would announce Cons' appointment soon, but Alice said something that everyone thought was unnecessary.
Chapter completed!