The Knight's Journey to the Empire

The Kingdom of Midburg is a typical slave state with a history of more than 300 years. In this country, the slave-owning aristocracy occupies an absolute dominant position.

Among these nobles, the most powerful is the royal family - the Glauber family.

But in addition to the royal family, the hereditary nobles of the Kingdom of Midburg also include one duke, three marquises, and seven earls.

The Kingdom of Midburg is divided into fourteen county-level administrative districts.

Among them, the royal Glauber family only occupied one county in the middle, one county in the east and one county in the south.

The difference is that the central county, namely the Central County, is located in the country's most fertile, flattest, and best soil and water "golden granary" - the Tandang Plain, and the area of ​​the Central County alone is equivalent to the total area of ​​the four eastern counties.

In other words, the hereditary territory of the royal Graubel family alone occupied three-eighths of the country's total land area.

Of the remaining five-eighths of the country, more than eighty percent was controlled by these eleven great nobles.

The three western counties of the Kingdom of Midburg are Saladin, Lothian, and Cologne.

Among them, Saladin County is located in the westernmost part of the kingdom, bordering the neighboring Principality of Golia.

The ruler of this Saladin County is the Saladin Marquis family, one of the three marquises.

That’s right, even the county name was given the family’s surname.

This represented the complete control of the Saladin family over the County of Saladin, which was recognized by the royal family.

At least it is acknowledged on the surface.

In the northeast of the Knight Continent, there are a total of four national-level forces.

They are the Kingdom of Essex, the Kingdom of Midburg, the Principality of Glia and the Free City-State of Ancordina.

Among them, the Kingdom of Essex has the strongest comprehensive national strength. It is located in the south, and its eastern part is close to the sea. In the northeast of the Kingdom of Essex, there is a large spindle-shaped peninsula protruding into the ocean. This is the Free City-State of Ancordina, and the entire spindle-shaped peninsula belongs to it. To the north of the Kingdom of Essex are the Principality of Glia and the Kingdom of Midburg. The difference is that the Principality of Glia is a landlocked country, and the Kingdom of Midburg is a coastal country.

However, more than four hundred years ago, the territories of these four national powers all belonged to one empire, the Essex Empire.

The last emperor of the Essex Empire was extremely licentious and cruel.

In the court, he listened to the slander of the harem and villains, unjustly killed loyal and upright ministers, and arbitrarily rewarded insidious and powerful officials; at the same time, for the sake of pleasure, he built large-scale projects, imposed many harsh taxes on the people, levied heavy taxes, and oppressed the people.

Eventually, he was deserted by his friends and relatives, and gradually went to destruction amid the outrage of the whole country.

In this war that destroyed the Essex Empire, dragons and snakes emerged from the land, heroes emerged, and it lasted for nearly a hundred years.

But in the end, only four forces benefited, namely the third prince of the Essex Empire, the military minister of the Essex Empire, a duke of the Essex Empire and a leader of a peasant uprising.

Among them, the third prince of the Essex Empire defeated other competitors with the support of his mother's family of the Marquis, and thus established the Kingdom of Essex on the ruins of the empire with the status of a bastard, thus continuing the history of the Essex Empire.

The Minister of War refers to the then Minister of War of the Essex Empire - Frederick Glauber. He led the Glauber family at that time to fight wars in the east and the west and established the Kingdom of Midburg.

A duke refers to a hereditary duke of the Essex Empire, who established the Principality of Goliath with the strength of his family.

The last leader of the peasant uprising referred to the leading figure of the peasant uprising movement at that time. The peasant uprising led by him severely damaged the foundation of the Essex Empire, and eventually reached the absolute strength of a legendary knight with the professional level of a knight. Under the siege of various forces, he forcibly established a national force, namely the Free City-State of Ancortina.

On the original map of the Essex Empire, the Kingdom of Essex occupied half and considered itself to be the orthodox one.

The Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Goliath each held two-tenths, but refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Essex on the grounds that the founder of the Kingdom of Essex was not the eldest son.

The last Free City-State of Ancortina occupied a peninsula, only about one-tenth of the area.

The Free City of Ancortina and the Kingdom of Essex were hostile to each other, and there was no official diplomatic or trade exchanges between the two sides.

Although the other two countries did not make any positive alliance statements, they had a lot of secret exchanges.

Now as time goes by, the Kingdom of Essex is becoming increasingly powerful and wants to restore its former imperial glory. Therefore, it has revealed its ambitions towards the other three countries both openly and covertly.

The other three countries would certainly not let it happen easily, so they secretly formed an offensive and defensive alliance to hinder its development.

But now, it seems that there is a problem with the offensive and defensive mutual assistance alliance among the three countries, and it is facing the crisis of collapse.

Moreover, this crisis does not seem to be so easy to resolve.