Shaodianmi's carriage was still parked at the entrance of the palace, but others followed the secret passage to the backyard of Taishuyuan on the side of the palace, and walked into the wing where they usually handle official business.?
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Half an hour later, an order came out of the wing that made the nobles of Cao Kingdom tremble with fear.
The Funiu Mountain assassination caused a small shock in Shaodian Kingdom. In the peaceful Xiaxi Town, Ding Kui celebrated the most exciting birthday.
His birthday in June of the year 4867 was particularly lively, and there were many more people celebrating him.
Not to mention the old men of the old marquis who came to Xiaxi Town to serve as Ding Kui's retainers and bodyguards, even the nobles of Pingzhong County also sent people. If not for the lack of time, the nobles of other counties in Zhongwangzhou would have sent people.
Come here to celebrate Ding Kui.
The first person to come was Lu Ying. She was Lu Ji's daughter and had been Ding Kui's playmate since she was a child. Because there was only one child from a noble family in the town, Lu Ying had been following Ding Kui since she became wise.
The eight-year-old girl no longer staggered, but ran over jumping up and down, holding Ding Kui's hand and asking him to tell him a story.
She was very envious when she heard that Ding Kui had taken a long trip.
Senior sister Lin Bi also arrived very early. Laowu Town and Xiaxi Town are not far apart. As a senior sister, it makes sense to come early to congratulate her junior brother.
"Happy birthday, junior brother. Father asked me to bring you a gift so that you can go to Laowu Town to play when you have time." After saying this, Lin Bi asked his entourage to hand the gift to Ding Cai.
Although Ding Cai's little idea of letting Li Zili work for him went bankrupt, because of his performance in Funiu Mountain, he became Ding Kui's retainer and his status was upgraded to Ding Kui's personal follower.
"Thank you, Senior Sister Lin. There are many people today. Come and sit where I am. By the way, have you seen Senior Brother and Senior Sister Zheng Yun?" Ding Kui led Lin Bi to his yard and asked about the senior brothers and sisters who had disappeared recently.
them.
Not long after Jiang Nan and Ding Kun made a big fuss in Zhucheng, several knight apprentices trained with Lu Ji in Xiaxi Town were all called back by their families, including Feng Liang, the senior brother who had been following Lu Ji for a long time.
Ding Kui's recent training has been personally guided by Lu Ji, and he practices alone in Heifan Village. Today is the first time he saw Lin Bi who was called home.
When the incident occurred in Kengzhu City, many people gathered around to watch, including many businessmen from surrounding cities. The incident spread quickly in Pingzhong County.
When the king expressed his attitude towards this matter, several families responded quickly.
The Feng family in Lianhe City recalled Feng Liang, the Ouyang family in Xinyu City recalled Ouyang Chong, the Zheng family in Xiushui City recalled Zheng Yun, the Xu family in Huling City recalled Xu Bin, the Cai family in Kengzhu City recalled Cai Gang, Laowu
The Zhenlin family recalled Lin Bi.
These families may have different attitudes toward Ding Kui, but they all invariably told their children: Don't provoke Ding Kui easily, don't make enemies if you can be friends, and don't do anything to hurt Ding Kui even if you can't play together.
, after all, he is an official.
Strictly speaking, the children of nobles are not considered true nobles. Only those who inherit the title are recognized by the law of the country.
Ding Kui's right guard of the Internal Security Department was a real official. If there was a conflict between civilians and officials, the first person to be beaten would definitely be civilians.
The Lin family in Laowu Town thought much more simply, and wanted to have a good relationship with Ding Kui as much as possible.
The Marquis of Protector's troops can take a detour after eating well, and then go to the Lin family's territory. If anything happens, it's quite convenient to come over to support them if something happens.
"Brothers and sisters will probably not be back for a few days. This time my family asked me to go back. They checked my training progress and let me rest for a few days. We are neighbors, so we can come here today." Lin Bi I also secretly guessed the purpose of the others being called back, but it was not convenient to explain it in front of Ding Kui.
"It's a pity. It would be great if Senior Brother and Senior Sister Zheng could come. There are a lot of delicious and fun things today." Ding Kui had a regretful expression on his face.
Ding Kui knew it all, but pretended not to know anything on the surface.
"By the way, let me introduce to you, this is Lu Ying, you should be familiar with it; this is Xiaoxiao, the food she cooks is delicious; this is Dachuan, from the capital, he knows a lot; and this is Brother Qian , he is a very powerful magician, but it’s a pity that he can’t fly yet.” Ding Kui took Lin Bi and introduced everyone in his yard to her one by one.
When Qian You was introduced, the magician was so impressed by Ding Kui that he said "It's a pity that he can't fly yet" which made him extremely embarrassed.
He was able to become a robed mage at the age of twenty, and Qianyou was considered a genius disciple of his master.
Being able to fly is the sign of a magician. Soaring into the sky is an intermediate magic. A robed mage who can only release low-level magic does not have enough magic power.
Since the morning, people have been sending gifts to Ding Kui. There are people from the Lei family in Black Earth City, people from the Teng family in Pingzhong County, people from the Zheng family in Xiushui City, people from the Feng family in Lianhe City, and people from the Chunyu family in Bajiao City. There are those from the Bai family in Tiedan City and so on.
As for the baron families who are the lords of a town, they are too numerous to count.
Among them, the one with the greatest distance and the most generous gifts was from Grandpa Jiang’s family, who sent another carload of gifts from all the way.
Ding Kui was too young, so the person who greeted the various envoys was the butler Ding Kun, who was quite busy. Fortunately, Quan Sihai was a well-known figure and could help greet some of the people, otherwise even splitting Ding Kun in half wouldn't be enough.
In the past six months, the number of people who have come to Xiaxi Town to serve as the personal guards of the Marquis's family has reached the Marquis' full complement of 400 people.
Today, except for a few people who didn't come back from Funiu Mountain, everyone arrived at the Ding family's old house.
They set up hundreds of meters of flowing mats on the street in front of Ding Mansion. As long as you say a lucky word, you can eat from morning to night. Unless you go home by yourself, no one will chase you away.
After meeting Ding Kui, the envoys delivering gifts from nobles and nobles exchanged greetings with each other in the front yard of Ding's house. The familiar ones sat together and chatted with each other; the unfamiliar ones raised their wine glasses and looked for people to talk to. If you can't squeeze in the family members, you can still find other people with whom you can build relationships.
Being able to have a banquet at the Protector's house is a rare experience for most of these gift envoys. If they go to the houses of other marquises and fail to take a sip of tea, they will be kicked away.
In the evening, the appearance of Ding Kui and his butler brought the atmosphere of the banquet to its highest peak. They first went to the running table in front of the door, and gave a wrapped silver coin as a thank-you gift to the people in the town who came to participate one by one.
Then Ding Kui walked into the front yard of the old house and wrapped a gold coin as a thank you gift for each messenger who came to deliver gifts. One gold coin was equivalent to the annual income of ordinary people.
All the people who came were subordinates of various nobles. After all, it was a child's birthday. If there were no relatives, the adults would not come in person.
Just like Lin Bi's father, Lin Xiu, who wanted to come but couldn't save face, Lu Ji, the latest nobleman who also served as a master, just sent Lu Ying here.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the people who come to the Ding family are basically local nobles from Zhongwangzhou. None of the big bosses from the capital who had a good relationship with Ding Dao in the past came, except for the Jiang family.
Not to mention the people below, the commanders of the other four departments of the General Command, namely the Military Command Department, the Military Law Department, the Logistics Department, and the Equipment Department, all had close contacts with the Ding family in the past.
After Ding Dao's incident, these old colleagues all kept silent. So far, none of the four families have sent anyone to the Ding family. On the surface, it seems that they have drawn a clear line with the Ding family.
This time, there seemed to be quite a few people taking advantage of Ding Kui's birthday to get close to the Protector, but only the Jiang family was truly powerful, and the remaining nine of the ten Shaodian Dukes ignored them.
The noisy night passed quickly, and Xiaxi Town returned to its former peace.
Ding Kui still went to Heifanling Mountain early in the morning for training, but he was accompanied by his bodyguards.
The Lord Protector has ten guards. His guards are Lao Qiantou, Ding Cai, Qian You, Jiang Shunchuan and six people selected from the defectors. The configuration is quite luxurious, including one magician, three archers, three A warrior and three knights.
Lao Qiantou is the mid-term sunset archer, Jiang Shunchuan is the late-stage elite archer, and there is a late-stage listening to the wind archer; Ding Cai is the early-stage shield-breaking knight, and the other two are both mid-term shield-breaking knights; the steward also selected three With the powerful late-stage warriors and the unique magician Qianyou, Ding Kui's bodyguard team can rival the chief officers of the various ministries in the court.
Among the four hundred people staying at the manor in Xiaxi Town, there were fifty archers, one hundred and fifty knights, and two hundred warriors.
In fact, there were extra defectors, and they were arranged to go to Funiu Mountain, leaving only enough people to form four squadrons.
After discussions between Ding Kui, the housekeeper, Lao Qiantou, and Quan Sihai, the first squadron of the Guards was led by the late Tingfeng Archer Xing Hui as the squadron leader, leading forty-nine archers and fifty shield-breaking knights.
The second squadron was led by Tian Li, a warrior who was trapped in the battle in the later period, and led ninety-nine warriors.
The third squadron is led by late-stage trap warrior Mo Jun, who leads ninety-nine warriors.
The fourth squadron is led by the late shield-breaking knight Zhong Zhong, who leads ninety-nine knights.
The commander-in-chief of the Guards is Quan Sihai.
After the guards were arranged, Ding Kui also named the manor "Loyalty and Faithfulness Garden", praising that all those who come here are loyal and trustworthy people.
All the Ding family's personal guards were killed in the battle that year, and now the Protectorate Marquis's personal guards have been officially reorganized.
In the Shaodian Kingdom, a baron can have one hundred personal guards, a viscount can have two hundred personal guards, an earl can have three hundred personal guards, a marquis can have four hundred, a duke can have five hundred personal guards, and a prince can have Eight hundred personal guards.
As for the king, there are no restrictions, but he has a thousand guards in name. The emperors of the two northern empires, the Guyuan Empire and the Tongbei Empire, have a nominal guard of 2,000.
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Zhe Sheng, wearing a coarse cloth, riding an old bald-tailed donkey, followed a large caravan into Shuanglong City.
After entering the city, Zhe Sheng threw the donkey into the mule and horse barn where he helped people take care of the animals, and wandered on the street by himself.
Zhe Sheng, the most powerful general under Shaodian Mi, was walking around the streets of Shuanglong City, buying some snacks for a while and picking at the grocery stalls for a while. It was a very pleasant stroll.