Urban Sims

The main responsibility of the palace guard is to protect the personal safety of the main royal members living in the palace. Similar to the Ouchi Guard, only the knights who are most trusted by the royal family and have the most powerful martial arts have this honor of guarding the royal members. Only then did I have this opportunity to meet His Majesty the King, His Royal Highness the Queen and those noble princes and princesses.

In addition, the knights of the palace guard also serve as a guard of honor for state guests, greeting foreign guests, and on diplomatic occasions, they perform horseback shooting and swordsmanship performances to show the martial spirit of the Kingdom of Voorhees. They also hold martial arts competitions at some grand festivals. Those who achieve higher rankings will also be cordially received by the king, who will be assigned a title, territory, and a banner of honor and a medal.

Some who are particularly valued by the king will go directly to the Kingdom Knights and be assigned a position of captain or above.

It can be said that this kind of martial arts competition is the same as the imperial examination in ancient dynasties and the modern college entrance examination in Zhou Ming's world. The higher the ranking, the richer the rewards. When signing up, everyone rushes to be the first, even if in the martial arts competition, unfortunately, Even casualties and disabilities could not stop the wave of registrations.

Zhou Ming is not too interested in this kind of martial arts competition, because no matter how generous the rewards are in the small Voorhees Kingdom, if this kind of competition is held every year, there are not many rewards that can be obtained, maybe just The top three will be rewarded with the title of baron and a fief in an unknown corner (the fief may even be in a neighboring country). The next three will only be rewarded with honorary rewards such as the Royal Eagle Banner and the Order of Outstanding Knights. There are too few real rewards.

For example, in the previous game, the royal eagle flag that Edward carried to the Glenland was obtained by finishing seventh in the annual knightly competition. Not only did he feel extremely honored, so did Baron Connor. He boasted about this matter in front of other nobles for several years.

Glory is life, and for nobles, it is more than just words.

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"Edward, why don't you go to the knight's tournament? All the knights of the palace guard have signed up to participate. Why are you standing here alone?"

Standing in front of Zhou Ming, who was on duty, was a girl wearing a palace dress, with a light blue bow tied on her slightly swollen chest, slender arms, wearing a pair of plain white gauze, with a delicate face and skin as smooth as gel. , pouting her cherry lips, with her hands on her thin waist. Although she was a head shorter than Zhou Ming, her proud words carried an overbearing nobility.

"I'm not interested in this kind of competition, it's boring."

Zhou Ming shook his head and found that Princess Elena, who was only 13 years old, was playing tricks on him more and more recently, especially after he told her some stories such as "The Frog Prince" and "Snow White" in order to coax her to stop messing around. , instead, she got entangled with this little loli. Sometimes she asked him to imitate the croaking of a frog, and sometimes she asked him to play the role of a prince. He, who was originally just a guard responsible for guarding the door, has almost become her full-time nanny.

"Humph, not interested... I think you are timid, right? You are a coward, and you still say that there is a prince who can save Snow White in this world. There is a ghost prince! There is a timid frog. Little frog, give it to me. Call twice! Just like last time, call twice, hee hee hee hee..."

Elena, an eccentric girl, made a grimace and croaked like a frog twice, laughing so hard.

"Little Frog, I'm going to tell Sister Linda and Your Highness Mother about your cowardice, saying that you don't dare to participate in the knight competition!"

Elena, who loved teasing this knight, held up the hem of her skirt, turned around and ran, with a string of laughter like silver bells, towards the deep palace.

"Come back!"

Hearing this voice, Princess Elena stopped.

"I'll sign up now and show you the first place!"

Zhou Ming's face turned blue with anger. It was undeniable that this girl looked very cute, but the evil heart behind her cute appearance was not cute at all.

On that day, on the last day of the registration deadline, Zhou Ming signed his name on the registration form and became the youngest one among the 364 knights who registered to participate.

Being young does not mean that he is weak. As early as 14 years old, he was able to defeat three strong adult knights one against three. Now he is almost 17, and his various physical functions are close to the peak. He will be eliminated in the knockout round. In the game, he chops melons and vegetables all the way, and usually knocks the opponent to the ground in no more than thirty rounds.

The final scene.

Zhou Ming has been fighting a powerful opponent for more than a hundred rounds. Because of his lack of strength and competition experience, Zhou Ming has not found any obvious loopholes in his opponent. Instead, because of his thin body, he has exposed himself to those watching the game. The audience feels slightly at a disadvantage.

"Edward, well done!"

"Edward, come on!"

"Edward, if I win, I will marry you!"

At this time, Zhou Ming staggered and almost fell off his horse when he heard a clear and sweet voice coming from the VIP auditorium.

The opponent's eyes lit up, and he immediately seized this opportunity, knocking the long sword out of his hand with one strike. When everyone on the scene screamed in surprise, and even covered their eyes, not daring to look at the tragic scene of him being chopped off his horse, he relaxed. Opening the stirrups, he turned over like a fish and miraculously got under the horse's belly. Just when everyone thought he was about to fall off the horse, another exclamation came as he kicked out with a lightning kick, hitting the opponent's horse's belly hard. At the softest point, the opponent's horse neighed and instantly lost its balance.

Seizing this opportunity, Zhou Ming sprang out from under the horse's belly, and hit the opponent's Adam's apple with a heavy punch. The opponent screamed and fell off the horse.

"The little man wins!"

"My God, this knight is too young, he actually defeated all his opponents and won the first place!"

"Win, Edward has won! My Frog Prince has won!"

Elena was dancing, laughing and dancing, without the ladylike manners that a princess should have. In the end, the queen coughed a few times to stop the youngest daughter from acting inappropriately in front of everyone.

When he learned that the champion of this knight competition was the son of an ordinary baron from the earldom of Rhodes in the east of the kingdom, and that he was only 17 years old, the old king was very surprised and a little troubled. What should he reward? ? The Knights of the Kingdom were already full, and it was difficult to convince the crowd to let this 17-year-old boy become a captain. After much deliberation, he was given a baron title and placed at the east of the Earl of Rhodes, at the foot of the Ural Snow Mountains. He encloses a plateau territory with an average altitude of more than 8,000 meters as his baronial fiefdom.

"This old man king is really stingy. You can reward me with a princess? Just send me a baron title..."

Zhou Ming curled his lips secretly, but still knelt down on one knee with his hand on his chest. After making a declaration that he would be loyal to His Majesty the King from generation to generation, he accepted the reward with gratitude and begged His Majesty the King to give him another royal eagle flag. And an outstanding knight medal, he wanted to take it back to his hometown and show it to his father.

The old king readily agreed, and the queen was very satisfied with him. After the knights' competition, Zhou Ming, who was originally on duty in the outer courtyard of the palace, was transferred to the inner guard of the palace.

After working as a palace guard for a period of time, Zhou Ming came into contact with many things in the upper echelons of the kingdom, such as the king's ministers and courtiers. When they discussed national affairs in the government hall, he stayed outside the hall and listened, and gained many valuable insights. Valuable information would sometimes enter the palace and drag out some officials who had offended the king or failed in the party struggle... Often listening to the wonderful "performances" of the superiors inside, Zhou Ming secretly sighed: The struggle among the upper echelons of a small country is like this, if not With good institutional constraints, a big country is afraid that the chaos will be even more messy.

Of course, Zhou Ming is just a small guard. These matters in the court have nothing to do with him. He is just a knife in the hands of others. He will catch whoever the person holding the knife tells him to catch. Regardless of whether the captured guy is a loyal minister who serves the country or a traitor who brings disaster to the country and the people, as long as he completes his post, he will be able to return to his hometown in another year.

but……

Heaven failed as people wished, Zhou Ming's thoughts and plans were quickly broken by a woman in the deep palace.

"Your Highness, this kind of thing is really not allowed, please respect yourself!"

In a luxurious and elegant boudoir, Zhou Ming closed his eyes, not daring to look directly at the plump and charming woman in front of him with half exposed gauze. He was afraid that as soon as he opened his eyes, his soul would be seduced by this woman. Do something treacherous and unethical.

This woman is one of the old king's favorite concubines, named Diana, from a country in the south. More than ten years ago, when the old king first accepted this woman as his concubine, he set a record of ignoring state affairs for three months. If the courtiers outside the palace had not knelt for three days and three nights to pull the old king back, I am afraid that the small Kingdom of Voris would have been destroyed in the hands of this woman.

Zhou Ming didn't know when this woman set her sights on him. It seemed that two months ago, an envoy from the Savage Kingdom brought a warrior named Abbas over, provoking and killing people in the palace. After the death of ten powerful knights, the envoy from the Savage Kingdom told the old king that no one in the small Warris Kingdom could fight, but in the Savage Kingdom, there were hundreds of warriors like Abbas. , I advise the old king to be honest and give 100,000 talents of food to the Savage Kingdom, otherwise the two countries will go to war...

In the silence of the scene, it was Zhou Ming who took the initiative to challenge. After a flash of movement, in just over twenty rounds, Abbas, a savage who was over 2.5 meters tall, weighed astonishingly, and had all the muscles all over his body, was stabbed to the ground. , and then told the envoy of the Savage Kingdom that there were more than a thousand unknown people like him in the Voorhees Kingdom. He advised the Savage Kingdom to just eat dirt and stop provoking...

It should be this competition, so that Princess Diana, who was also watching on the sidelines, had a terrifying golden light in her eyes...

"Little guy, as long as you walk out of this room, I will shout loudly and ask that useless old thing Herbert to deal with you! That old thing will not let you go easily~"

This voice stopped Zhou Ming who wanted to leave.

Women are troublesome, and I don’t know how to write very much. The next chapter will return to the topic, please recommend a ticket