Black Iron Crown

"Then, Earl Rainer, please prepare to be appointed!"

After speaking, the queen stood up with the little emperor, knelt down and said to the little emperor, "Follow me to read the next words!"

"Reiner Merland, Earl of the North, my dear kinsman, on the battlefield of fighting the rebellion for me, you quelled the rebellion with invincible resources, and you will be rewarded for your heart! Now I canonize You are the Grand Duke of the North!"

"The huge territory in the north will be your feudal country. You will have independent judicial power, military power, and the right to collect taxes on that land. All the northerners will be your subjects. You will have the right to For all their rights, you will not need to pay me an annuity from today, because your rights come from the kings of the Moland family."

"But you are still my vassal. You have no other responsibilities except military service. You need to be loyal to me. When I need it, the point of my long sword is the direction of your charge. Can you do this? arrive?"

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, my loyalty will always belong to Morland Zhengshuo!" Reiner looked at the little emperor solemnly, then lowered his head and said.

However, after Reiner's words came out, the Queen's heart was instantly agitated.

A palpitation left her almost powerless.

"How could it be? Did he know?" The Queen's eyes were fixed on Reiner in front of her, feeling terrified.

"No...probably not, this group of people from the royal family are arrogant and foolhardy, if he really knew about this, he would definitely not be so calm!

Seeing Reiner's calm look, the queen comforted herself in her heart, and gradually calmed down.

"Well, now I canonize you as Grand Duke of the North, and now you can call yourself Grand Duke!" After the little emperor finished speaking, he slapped the long sword on Leiner's shoulder three times with great effort, completing The conferment ceremony was held.

"Whoa, Grand Duke of the Northern Territory!" A rising nobleman smiled slyly. He was the new nobleman who inquired about the news with the courtiers at that time.

After being entrusted, these vassals talked a lot. Although he didn't get any substantial benefits like territory, the title of a certain Grand Duke and the right to establish an independent country are still envied by everyone.

This inevitably made these greedy upstarts complain.

"I don't think he should even be given the title of Earl of the North,

On the counter-insurgency battlefield, we are the ones who deal with the most. What else can the royal family do besides charging head-on? On the contrary, it will drag us down! "

"Yeah, if they hadn't held back, I'm afraid we would have been looting the rich South by now!"

The royal lords couldn't bear it any longer when they heard the mockery of the upstarts around them.

Although their words were more aimed at Leiner, in the final analysis, Leiner is also a royal family. They can say whatever they want internally, but they absolutely cannot say it to outsiders.

"Shut up your dog mouths! When you open your mouths, I can smell a strong stench!"

"Earl Rainer has received the reward he deserves, where is it your turn to point fingers here?"

"Hey, what does it have to do with you whether we laugh or not, the virtue of being beaten by the rebels on the battlefield is now arrogant to us?"

After being crowned, the little emperor picked up the injured golden crown handed over to him by the servant beside him, and slowly put it on the top of Leiner's head.

"My brother...you are now the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory!" The little emperor looked at Reiner and said in a childish voice.

Reiner nodded slightly, then stood up from the ground, looked back at the lords on both sides who were arguing again, and shouted: "Enough!"

The gold content of a grand duke is still very important, and in addition to the fact that Leiner is already extremely powerful at this time, no one dares to ignore his words.

Reiner paced slowly, his aura becoming more majestic.

Walking in front of the upstarts, Reiner pointed at them directly and said, "Shut your mouths now! The descendants of Merland are not something you can talk about casually!"

"Without me defeating the enemy on the battlefield, would you still be able to stand here and speak? Is it necessary for me to say it without leaving any side for you to be satisfied?"

"I won't tell you what kind of virtue you were beaten by the rebels on the battlefield. You can do it yourself, but if anyone makes me hear the outrageous words, I will definitely call him good-looking!"

After speaking, Reiner turned his head to look at the Queen, smiled coldly, and said, "Honorable Your Majesty, we, the descendants of Merland, are very satisfied with today's reward, and now we are going back to our respective territories to recover our strength." , if there is nothing else, please don’t bother us!”

"Am I right? Everyone in Merland?" Reiner looked at the queen and asked the royal lords behind him without looking back.

"That's right! We need to go back to recover!" Many lords stood up excitedly.

After the death of Grand Duke Mabula, the lords of the royal family were almost without a leader. No wonder they were suppressed by the upstarts.

Now, someone is finally willing to stand up and represent the interests of the entire royal family. Reiner is strong enough, has the title of grand duke, and is a descendant of Merlande with good roots.

Therefore, even though some people didn't deal well with him before, they spared no effort to support Leiner at this time.

With the support of the lords of the royal family, in the eyes of the queen, Reiner was as inviolable as a god. She had only experienced this feeling from the dead old emperor.

"Okay... okay..." The queen was completely frightened, even years of controlling power still couldn't change the fact that she was a weak woman.

Count Redmara stood up.

He frowned and looked at Leiner: "Grand Duke Leiner, what do you mean? Do you want to rebel against the rule of His Majesty the Emperor? Don't forget that you were just conferred the title of Grand Duke by His Majesty!"

"How could I mean this? After all, this empire is the empire of our descendants of Merland. We will not watch this tall building collapse, but you know what you have done. If the noble blood is still to be destroyed If the muddy blood is trampled under my feet, I will be angry!"

Reiner glanced at Grand Duke Mabula with disdain, and said in a low voice, but the words contained incomparable power.

After finishing speaking, Reiner turned his head and left the meeting hall, and the rest of the royal lords also followed in Reiner's footsteps and left the hall as if they had found their backbone.

"Well said, Earl Rainer! From now on, we will follow your example!"

These royal lords said with a smile that finally after Grand Duke Mabula, another person will stand up to represent the royal family.

Reiner said with a smile: "Everyone, sooner or later there will be a battle between us and those bumpkins! Now let's go back to the territory and recover as soon as possible. At that time, I will take everyone to strengthen myself and take back our dead grandson of Moland. The status in the imperial capital!"

"Be patient for now! Our strength loss is too great now! We just need to bear with it!"

Surrounded by everyone, Reiner said this.

Early morning on September 30th, twenty-five years of the empire.

Today is Lena's departure day.

He was about to return to the background where he had been away for half a year, and he would go back together with the Grand Duke's crown on his head.