September, September, the 1100th year of the Roland Empire.

In the coup at the beginning of the year, he suffered a heavy blow, from the once highly anticipated generation of talented warriors to the disabled who lost an arm and were considered to have lost his future.

Panin Garonin, a name that was once known among the imperial aristocratic class, has now been away from everyone's sight for nine months, and has returned to everyone's sight!

The imperial emperor Shilo issued an imperial order and personally named Panin Garonin as the lieutenant general of the empire!

This young man, who was less than 30 years old, stood in the center of the imperial capital again in a shining posture like a comet landing!

Lieutenant General! Even if the entire military of the Roland Empire has a military rank of this level, it is enough to be regarded as one of the giants!

The subsequent series of orders were issued, which was even more shocking!

The military headquarters issued an appointment order signed by the emperor, appointing the newly promoted lieutenant general of the empire as the deputy commander of the Thunder Whip and the commander of the Third Division. At the same time, the order was to transform the Nulin province in the northwest of the empire into a temporary military exercise area, and to carry out a half-year military exercise training with the Fourth Division of the Third Division of the Empire Thunder Whip Legion. Panin Garonin's official position also had a suffix: the general commander of the temporary military exercise area!

In other words, as long as the two divisions of Thunder Whip stay in the northwest for one day, they all have to obey Panin's command.

And in the end, the most shocking news came!

Panin Garonin, the best heir to the younger generation of the Garonin family, this star of hope for the Garonin family, was named... Duke by His Majesty the New Emperor!

This is definitely an extremely rare event!

The current patriarch of the Garonin family is still there, Panin's father. The current Earl of Garonin is a general of the former Royal City Guards. After the coup, he entered the Imperial Army and served as Aker's deputy, which was equivalent to officially entering the core team of the new emperor Hilo.

At this time, Shilo suddenly enthroned Panin as Duke. And his title was higher than his father!

This is almost equivalent to telling the world clearly that Panin has been independent from the Garonin family and has formed a unique line!

Because Panin has already obtained the title of duke, the Garonin family must select other young people from within to inherit their own Count.

This kind of thing is extremely rare even if you look at the thousand-year history of the Roland Empire.

The only example that can be compared is...

More than 140 years ago, the first Duke of Tulip, who was like a god coming!

The first Duke of Tulip was the eldest son of the Luolin family. He was the first to be the heir to the rank of Count of the Luolin family. As a result, he was crowned as the duke because of a coup and then established his own business. He created the most legendary Tulip family in the history of the empire...

And now, will it be a legendary reenactment?

...

As a feudal empire, the Roland Empire had a very strict and complex system for all canonized nobles, especially hereditary nobles.

According to convention, even the emperor's title must be reviewed through a noble council composed of some upper-class traditional aristocrats. The content of this review includes a series of complex work such as the verification of Panin's life experience, family, family genealogy, bloodline, and family bloodline. It will take a long time to verify the genealogy of the nobles and family badges. Although everyone knows that once the emperor orders the title, these tasks are actually just a formality. After all, the so-called noble council does not actually have much practical power, but it is just more symbolic.

But after all, this is a tradition. Since it is a tradition, everyone has always adhered to these things very much.

Even more than a hundred years ago, the first Duke of Tulip was suddenly named Duke, and it went through such a series of steps, although it had been simplified at that time.

However, what everyone did not expect was that this new emperor, Hilo, was more anxious than the regent who was named Duke of Tulip more than a hundred years ago!

After the imperial order to be crowned with titles was issued, Hilo temporarily convened aristocratic parliament that night - this was a parliament held at the time of the parliament, which was an exception.

And then something even more shocking happened!

Under Hilo's strong request, almost all of the review steps for Panin were omitted. The family genealogy was completed in just one day - in fact, afterwards, the members of the noble council said privately: There was no certification at all, we just got an edict issued by His Majesty, and then everyone signed their names directly.

At this time, everyone suddenly remembered something: on the night of the coup, Hilo, who was just the usurper, once promised Panin, who supported him to usurp the throne in front of everyone: If I don’t die, I will make you the Duke, and I will never let you down in my lifetime!

At that time, everyone thought that this usurper would be defeated, and they just laughed in their hearts that he imitated and clumsyly imitated the legend of the great pair of monarchs and ministers more than a hundred years ago.

And now it seems that it is obvious that the new emperor is going to fulfill his vow!

The Duke of Panin was sent to the residence of the Garonin family along with the review documents of the noble parliament.

And what was sent together were a series of items symbolizing the etiquette of the Duke of the Empire: scepters, enfeoffments, and dresses...

The next morning, all the members of the noble council in the imperial capital, the patriarchs of thirteen families, were summoned to the palace to meet and attended a simple and serious enthronement ceremony.

Shilo, who was wearing the emperor's dress, walked to Panin in full view of everyone. Panin knelt on one knee. Shilo, with one rose and the other, gently patted the sword on Panin's shoulder, and then handed the rose in his hand to Panin's hand.

Then, Hilo announced in public that a new duke of the Roland Empire was born.

The contents of the announcement were also announced: The new duke was hereditary system, and his fiefs were divided into Rhine County in the central and northern regions of the empire.

The content of this announcement made everyone present sigh in their hearts.

Fortunately, the new emperor, Hilo, is not as crazy as the regent more than a hundred years ago.

The Regent directly assigned a province in the northwest to the Tulip Family! Although the land in the northwest is barren and the population is sparse, it is a whole province after all!!

Looking around, there are so many wealthy nobles in the empire, and there are not only one Tulip family who ranks as the Duke, but no one can own a whole province of land as a territory.

The county is second to the provincial level in the administrative division of the empire, with the land of a county, which is about two to three cities. It is also a relatively loose but not universal administrative rank.

In other words, in some provinces, where the population is larger, in order to increase provincial efficiency, several cities within the province will form a county-level administrative region.

However, in some sparsely populated provinces, such as the Northwest region, there is no such division of provinces and regions.

The "Rhine County" granted to Panin has two cities and several towns and villages in the county, with a total population of no more than 100,000.

This is a relatively appropriate level and will not be too abrupt.

Of course, on the other hand, it is because the empire is founded for thousands of years, and the aristocratic class has become very large. After all, the land administrative regions directly under the empire are limited. Later emperors will become more cautious when rewarding nobles and territories.

After all, land is a non-renewable resource. If the nobles have more titles, the emperor will have less direct jurisdiction.

According to convention, this new young duke with a qualification portal also needs to give his upcoming new family a resounding surname to pass on his descendants.

The surname Garonin can naturally not be used anymore and can be retained as an intermediate name - this is the same as the Tulips family.

At the enthronement ceremony, Panin was taciturn and just picked up his pen and signed his name on the enthronement document. Then he stayed for a moment in the blank space of the family's clan name. He seemed to have just thought about it casually. Then he wrote down a word:

Rhine.

Panin Garonin Rhine.

In the future, this will be Panin's new full name.

And the empire will also give birth to a new family: the Rhine family.

At the same time, a new "Duke of Rhine" will also appear.

...

No one questioned whether Hilo's urgent enthronement process was in line with tradition. In fact, everyone knew what happened in the Northwest.

Obviously, the Emperor chose Panin as the candidate to go to the northwest to resist the Tulip family.

He was given the title of Duke and the series of prominent official positions. It was also to forcibly improve his status as quickly as possible so that he could have the confidence to go to the northwest and fight against the noble Duke of Tulip.

Because everyone knew this fact very well, even after the ceremony of the enfeoffment, Panin simply greeted the nobles and hurried back home, no one raised any objections.

No one would even think that it would be a shame for the newly-recommended duke to not even hold a decent dinner.

Everyone knows that Panin has an important mission - he must rush to the northwest Nourin province as soon as possible.

There, there were two divisions of Thunder Whip, an army of 50,000 people waiting for his command!

So, naturally, no one would come to the door bored to congratulate the new duke.

...

There is only one exception.

...

Panin looked at the special "visitor" in front of him in a side hall of his house, and his expression was a little complicated.

Ross touched his shiny forehead, his face feeling a little bitter, looking at the gorgeously dressed friend in front of him. Because time was tight, Panin, who had just returned to the mansion, didn't even have time to change out of the dress at the ceremony.

"You...really go to the northwest?" Ross smiled bitterly.

Panin squinted his eyes and looked at his friend carefully - in fact, Ross could be regarded as Panin's only real friend in the imperial capital.

Panin's eyes finally fell on Rose's lap.

The Earl of Villa was still covered with plaster on his legs, and a pair of crutches were placed beside the chair beside him.

"Your legs are not healed yet?" Panin's face was calm.

Ross snorted, looked down at his legs, and shook his head: "How dare I be good!"

This answer is a bit subtle, but the two of them naturally had a tacit understanding. Panning just sighed softly after hearing this: "Actually, you should know that although your actions seem smart, the emperor cannot force them to use them... but in fact, you have offended him. For a minister who would rather break his legs than come out to assist the emperor... the emperor would only think that this minister had a different intention."

Ross curled his lips: "I think. If I come out to be an official and assist the emperor, I will only be afraid that I will die faster. My Villa family will be not far from collapse and disbandment."

"...Does it hurt?" Panning suddenly had a strange smile on his lips.

Ross grabbed his hair hatefully and said annoyedly: "Nonsense! What are you saying? Break a leg. Just try it..."

Speaking of this, Ross suddenly closed his mouth, glanced at Panin's empty right arm sleeve, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry...I...I didn't mean it."

"Nothing." Panning looked calm: "My arm was broken when I fought against the holy master, so I am not ashamed of it."

Sighing, Panin walked into Ross and said in a deep voice: "I still want to persuade you... You have avoided it now, but what about the future? Your legs will always be healed one day! After your legs are healed, what reason do you have to refuse the enlistment of His Majesty the Emperor? Do you break your legs again? Don't forget that His Majesty the Emperor is your and my peers. If nothing unexpected happens, he will have at least decades of reign. You can't play with self-harm methods for your whole life."

"What do you want to say?" Ross frowned deeply and stared at Panin.

"Go to the northwest with me!" Panning's tone was very firm and straightforward, and the words said also shocked Ross! He said: "You are my friend, I know your ability very well! Your ability is not just those jealous and jogging dogs, beautiful wine and beautiful women... I know how capable you are! Ross! Go to the northwest with me! You will only continue to anger His Majesty the Emperor, go to the northwest with me, I will..."

Rose suddenly sneered a few times.

He struggled to stand up, then jumped to the side with one foot, grabbed the crutch, leaned on it, and limped to the window. He looked out the window without looking back, and sneered: "Go to the northwest with you... to have fun with the Tulips family? My friend, you are so nice to me! You don't forget to drag me when you go into the water! You jump into the pit and find someone to cushion yourself?"

He turned his head and his face was a little meaningful: "I am here to congratulate you on Duke Rong Ren... But do you want to recruit me to accompany you to the northwest to jump into the quagmire?"

"Are you so unwilling to be enemies with the Tulips?" Panin shook his head.

"Are you so willing to work hard for that guy Shilo?" Ross did not give in at all.

Panin stared into Rose's eyes: "You must think I'm Shilo's dog in your heart. Do you?"

"...I haven't said that." Ross shook his head.

"It's okay, I don't need to explain what I think to others."

Panin looked at Ross, his eyes showing disappointment bit by bit.

He walked to Rose, stood side by side with him, and looked out the window together.

"My friend... haven't you discovered that this world, the empire where we are, is actually changing little by little? The Tulips are indeed great, but as a normal country, a healthy administrative system, it is impossible for a huge force like the Tulips family to threaten the central government at any time. Even if its current existence is kind to the empire, no one can guarantee that it will continue to be kind... If, I mean, if, if, in the future, a certain generation of Tulip Dukes are an evil ambitious man? Then..."

"But what you said hasn't happened now!" Rose breathed: "So I really can't stand on the side of Hilo and help him and the Tulips family to be enemies. But I really don't understand... My friend, you have already jumped out of this circle! You have faded out of everyone's vision for nine months! Why do you still have to come back? I know... you took the initiative to go into the palace and recommended to Hilo!"

Ross looked at Panning seriously, looked at his friend, and whispered: "Others may say that you are greedy for power, but I know you! You guy... what kind of wealth and authority are not worth much in your heart! But I really don't understand why you jumped out this time! Northwest... Northwest..."

Ross said here and spitted hard: "That's a pit! A big pit that will kill people!!"

Panin didn't speak.

Ross' tone became anxious: "Do you know... how powerful the Tulip family is! Do you really think you can deal with that legendary family with the Thunder Whip of the two divisions? Do you know how many skills that have not been taken out in that family have never taken out!"

"I know." Panin nodded calmly.

"Do you know... the northwest is now a powder keg! According to my judgment, the character of Ken from the civil war broke out is more than 50%! And once the civil war breaks out, you, the supreme commander on the front line... will be destined to be famous for historic books! People from later generations don't care about other reasons. They will only record in history books that this civil war is really in your hands! You will become the number one candidate to take the blame!"

"I know." Panin still had a calm smile.

"See, hell! You can actually laugh!!"

Ross punched Panning in annoyed manner and shouted: "Then are you still going to do this kind of thing? Are you really that loyal to Hilo!!!"

At this time, Panning finally smiled on her face.

He looked at his friend with a very serious look.

After a long time, Panin said slowly in an unprecedentedly serious tone:

"I know everything you said... I know, too, that there are great potential for those things to happen. Of course, I know, once the civil war breaks out, I may be destined to leave a stigma in the history books... I know, I know everything."

"and you……"

"Because if I don't go...it's very likely that His Majesty the Emperor will send Aker."

Panin's words suddenly made Ross stunned!

He stared at Panin with an incredible look.

Panin's eyes flashed with strange light.

"Everyone knows Aker's ambition... He married his daughter to His Majesty the Emperor, and did not hesitate to regret his recent marriage. Even now Governor Fritz is still under house arrest...Aker, as the leader of the Rollin family's Middle Ages, is willing to take such a great risk to gamble with Hilo and usurp the throne... His purpose has always been clear, he just wants to let the Rollin family overtake the Tulip family in his hands!"

Speaking of this, Panin lowered his voice and smiled bitterly: "My friend, as you said, if I go to the Northwest, the possibility of a civil war breaking out might be 50%... But have you ever thought about it? If there is no suitable person and Aker goes to the Northwest... Then the possibility of a civil war breaking out is... 100%!"

Ross was really stunned now!

"Maybe...you will find it ridiculous to say the following words from my mouth. After all, I am a co-conspirator of a usurper. But..."

Although Panin's expression was as cold as ever, his tone was sincere at least at this moment:

"Aker and I are different! In order to make the Rollin family beat the Tulip family, Aker will definitely do anything! But I... at least I will worry about the interests of this country!"

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