The Knight's Journey to the Empire

On June 4877, 6 in the Knight Continent calendar, the enthronement ceremony held by Baron Soran of the White Bear Territory arrived as scheduled.

This celebration has two purposes:

The first was to celebrate the breakthrough in the knight's professional training level achieved by Baron Soran and his squire knights.

Second, Baron Soran wanted to confer the titles of lord and knight on his squire knights.

To this end, Baron Soran specially invited several noble families to come and testify, such as the Viscount Miparis family and Knight Gorgos Canaday.

There were also several noble families, wealthy businessmen, and celebrities whom Soran had met at Miss Vivian's coming-of-age ball, and whom he seemed to have a good relationship with.

Overall, there were not many guests invited to the dance party, only about twenty or thirty people!

Although these guests at the conference were stepping into the White Bear Territory for the first time today, they were all shocked by the unique changes in the White Bear Territory without exception!

First of all, the roads.

There is no need to say much about the roads in their own territory, as they themselves know what they are like.

As for the Ganise County Highway, it was only slightly better than the roads in their territory.

But White Bear Territory’s path is very different!

Especially the section from County Avenue to Flanders Town, named Barrett's Avenue of Prosperity, except for the section that is currently undergoing the second phase of construction, the rest of the road is flat, neat and unobstructed.

Even when the nobles' carriages were driving on it, there was not much bumpiness!

And then there is the sanitation of the town of Flanders!

Due to the existence of the first lord's ban in White Bear Territory, as well as the construction and use of sanitary facilities such as public toilets, sewers, and manure pits, the sanitary environment in White Bear Territory has undergone tremendous changes.

Take the town of Flanders as an example, this is the strictest one!

The feces, urine, sewage, mud, garbage, stinking puddles, etc. that were everywhere on the road, the stench, flies and mosquitoes that were flying everywhere, have now disappeared without a trace.

The streets are clean and tidy, the roads are flat and smooth, and the people live and work in peace and contentment!

Today, the environment of Flanders Town can really be described as green mountains and clear waters, singing birds and blooming flowers, which is colorful and beautiful.

There are also the people of the White Bear Territory, although they are still a little thin.

But on their faces, the guests saw bright smiles, enthusiasm, and eyes full of hope and vitality!

The guests at the meeting couldn't help but compare it to the towns or villages in their own territories that were full of stench and sewage.

This immediately made these outsiders feel refreshed!

Finally, here is the number of people who have broken through their career levels during this knight training.

This is too many breakthroughs!

There were five of them at once! And two of them broke through to the level of Brave Knight!

This is in an ordinary barony!

So they had to be shocked!

But the information about Xue Minghua is top secret in White Bear Territory, and Sauron has warned everyone not to leak it!

And considering the loyalty of Sauron's men to him, these nobles obviously cannot find out any information!

However, in order to prevent them from making random guesses, Sauron also wanted to add some credibility to the "big backer" he created for himself.

So Sauron attributed this breakthrough to Marquis Saladin in the West!

He claimed that Marquis Saladin had recently sent him a batch of special potions made by the White Knights.

And these people in his territory were able to make successful breakthroughs one after another because they used special potions!

They couldn't cross the entire Kingdom of Midburg and go to the west to ask the great noble Marquis Saladin for details!

But what Soran didn't expect was that his statement was unanimously agreed by the guests at the meeting, so much so that their attitude towards Soran became much warmer later!

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The climax of the celebration was when Sauron conferred titles on his squire knights.

First came Wolfe Cook and Adam Elric, both of whom were knighted by Soren.

Then, Soran conferred the title of knight on all those who had broken through to the level of entry-level knights.

Of course, these two titles cannot be inherited!

But if their descendants want to inherit, they can apply to Baron Sauron or the heir to Baron Sauron's title, and then obtain the consent of the feudal lord before they can inherit!

This method of inheritance is somewhat similar to the inheritance of knighthood, but there are some subtle differences.

The title of knight is a title similar to that of lord.

But a person with a knight title generally has a higher social status than a person with a lord title.

Because the title of knight is usually conferred by a great nobleman on someone who manages an area or guards a city within his own direct territory.

A person with the title of knight is actually equivalent to a retainer of a great noble.

They are vassals of the great nobles, not vassals with a certain degree of independence!

And this type of people usually hold real power!

Just like Soren's father, Sir Jose Lipton!

He possesses the real power of the city lord in Connacht!

But if Soren's brother, Carlo Lipton, wants to inherit his knighthood, he also needs the consent of its lord, Count Lopez.

However, in general, if the knight did not make any major mistakes during his tenure, the nobles as lords would agree to his descendants inheriting the throne.

But the titles of Lord and Knight are different!

Generally speaking, after two or three generations, the relationship between the vassal and the feudal lord gradually fades. If there is nothing good to pay tribute to by then, the feudal lord is unlikely to agree to his inheritance.

Moreover, there is a hard condition for inheriting the title of knight, which is that one must break through to the entry-level knight professional level.

However, speaking from this perspective, the person who can inherit the title of knight must be much less worthy than the person who inherits the title of lord!

Because to inherit the title of lord, as long as the tribute is sufficient, then that person is enough!

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Strictly speaking, although Woolf and others had the titles of lord and knight, they were not true aristocrats.

However, after they obtained this title, it was equivalent to entering the reserve team of the nobility!

This is actually equivalent to raising the starting point of their struggle to a higher level!

It is also because of this title that they have escaped from the class of commoners and entered the class of "gentry".

The composition of the "gentry" class is very complex. It includes people with titles of lord and knight, landlords who own manor land in the countryside, wealthy businessmen with great wealth, administrators who hold certain power, and so on!

In short, it mainly refers to the type of people who can directly communicate or connect with the real hereditary aristocracy, and they can all be attributed to the special class of "gentry".

The only time true hereditary aristocrats would not treat the "gentry" class the same way they treat commoners is when they are faced with them.

[This chapter is a bit confusing. The author mainly wanted to make up for the fact that the protagonist's father was the city lord but had a lower title and status! ]

[There is also the class of "gentry". Readers can understand it as a class that exists between the upper aristocracy and the lower common people. It plays a role in connecting the upper and lower levels and transmitting information up and down, similar to a middleman! ]