Urban Sims

Chapter 52
The main duty of the palace guards is to protect the personal safety of the main royal family members living in the palace. Similar to Ouchi guards, only the knights who are most trusted by the royal family and have the strongest martial arts have this honor, guarding the royal family members. Only this opportunity to meet His Majesty the King, His Highness the Queen, and those princes and princesses who are so precious.

In addition, the knights of the palace guards also serve as guards of honor to welcome foreign guests. On diplomatic occasions, they perform riding and archery and swordsmanship performances to show the martial spirit of the Kingdom of Voris. They also hold martial arts competitions in some grand festivals. Those who have won higher rankings will also be received by the king cordially, entrusted with titles and territories, and awarded flags of glory and medals.

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

It can be said that this kind of martial arts competition is the same as Zhou Ming's world, the imperial examinations of ancient dynasties and the modern college entrance examination. The higher the ranking, the richer the rewards. Casualties and disabilities can't stop this wave of registration.

Zhou Ming is not very interested in this kind of martial arts competition, because no matter how rich the rewards are in a small Vooris Kingdom, this kind of competition is held every year, and there are not many rewards that can be taken. The top three will be rewarded with the title of baron, and a fief that will be remote to that corner (the fief may even be in a neighboring country), and the last few will only receive some honorary awards such as the Royal Eagle Banner and the Order of Outstanding Knights. There are too few real rewards.

For example, in the last game, Edward carried the royal eagle flag led by Gran. He won it with a good result of No. 7 in the annual knightly competition. Take this matter and brag about it in front of other nobles for several years.

Glory is life, for nobles, it is not just talk.

……

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

Standing in front of Zhou Ming, who was on guard duty, was a girl in a palace dress with a light blue bow tied on her slightly protruding chest, slender arms, wearing a pair of plain white gauze covers, her delicate face, and her skin as creamy , pouting a small cherry mouth, with his hands crossed on his slender waist, although he is a head shorter than Zhou Ming, in his proud words, there is an overbearing nobility.

"I'm not interested in this kind of game, it's not interesting."

Zhou Ming shook his head, and found that this 13-year-old Princess Elena has been teasing herself more and more recently, especially after he told her some stories like "The Frog Prince" and "Snow White" in order to coax her to stop messing around. , but was entangled by this little loli, sometimes let him learn how to cry like a frog, and sometimes let him play the role of a prince. He was originally just a guard in charge of guarding the gate, and he was almost becoming her full-time nanny.

"Hmph, not interested... I think you are cowardly? You coward, you also said that there is a prince who saves Snow White in this world, and there is a ghost prince! There is a cowardly frog, little frog, give me Call twice! Just like last time, croak twice, hee hee hee..."

The eccentric Elena put on a grimace, and croaked like a frog, laughing and trembling.

"Little Frog, I want to tell Sister Linda and Her Majesty Mother about your cowardice, and tell you that you dare not participate in the knight competition!"

Elena, who loves to tease this knight, held up the corner of her skirt, turned around and ran, with a string of laughter like silver bells, and ran towards the deep palace.

"Bring me back!"

Hearing this voice, Princess Elena stopped.

"I'm going to sign up now and show you No.1!"

Zhou Ming's face turned blue with anger. It is undeniable that this girl looks very cute, but the black heart under this cute appearance is not cute at all.

On the same day, on the last day of the registration deadline, Zhou Ming signed his name on the registration form and became the youngest among the 364 knights who registered for the competition.

Young age does not mean weak strength. As early as 14 years old, he was able to defeat three strong and strong adult knights with one against three. Now he is almost 17 years old, and his physical functions are close to the peak. In the process of chopping melons and vegetables all the way, it usually doesn't take more than [-] rounds to knock down the opponent in front of him to the ground.

The final scene.

Zhou Ming has fought back and forth with a powerful opponent for more than a hundred rounds. Because of his lack of strength and experience, Zhou Ming has not found any obvious loopholes in his opponent. The audience, a feeling of being slightly underwhelmed.

"Edward, well done!"

"Edward, come on!"

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

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

As soon as the opponent's eyes lit up, he immediately seized this opportunity and knocked down the long sword in his hand with a single blow. Everyone on the scene exclaimed, even covering his eyes and not daring to see him being cut off from the horse, but he let go. When the stirrups were opened, a ichthyosaur turned over and got under the horse's belly inconceivably. When everyone thought he was about to fall off the horse and get out of the saddle, amidst the exclamation, a kick of lightning kicked out and kicked heavily on the opponent's horse's belly. At the softest point, the opponent's war horse neighed and lost his balance instantly.

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 guy won!"

"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 danced and laughed and danced, without the ladylike manners that a princess should have. In the end, the queen coughed a few times to stop the youngest daughter's disrespect in front of everyone.

When he learned that the champion of this knight contest was the son of an ordinary baron from the Earl of Rhodes in the eastern part of the kingdom, and he was only 17 years old, the old king was very surprised and had a headache. What reward should he give him? ?The Knights of the Kingdom were already full, and it was hard to convince the crowd to let this 17-year-old boy be a captain. After much deliberation, he was awarded the title of baron, and he was given the title of Baron in the east of the Earl of Ross, at the foot of the Ural Snow Mountain, He circled a plateau territory with an average altitude of more than 8000 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 pursed his lips secretly, still knelt on one knee, put his hand on his chest, and after making a declaration that he wished to be loyal to His Majesty the King for generations, he accepted the reward with a face of gratitude, and begged His Majesty 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 also very satisfied with him. After the knight's contest ended, Zhou Ming, who was originally on duty in the outer courtyard of the palace, was transferred to the inner guard of the palace.

Having worked as a palace guard for a period of time, Zhou Ming has come into contact with many things in the upper echelon of the kingdom, such as the king's courtiers and courtiers. When discussing state affairs in the political hall, Zhou Ming listened outside the hall and gained a lot of valuable experience. Valuable information sometimes enters the palace, dragging out some officials who offended the king or failed in the party struggle... He often listened to the wonderful "performances" of the superiors inside, and Zhou Ming secretly sighed: The struggle of the upper class in a small country is still like this, if there is no 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 bodyguard, and these things in the court and rivers and lakes have nothing to do with him. He is just a knife in someone else's hand. The person who holds the knife lets him catch whoever he wants. It doesn't matter whether the arrested guy is a loyal minister who is dedicated to serving the country, or a treacherous minister who is doing harm to the country and the people, as long as he finishes his posts, 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, luxurious and elegant boudoir, Zhou Ming closed his eyes, not daring to look directly at the plump woman in front of her who was half exposed in the tulle, for fear that her soul would be taken away by this woman when he opened his eyes. Do something outrageous.

This woman is the old king's favorite concubine, named Diana, from a country in the south. More than ten years ago, when the old king accepted this woman as his concubine, he set a record of ignoring state affairs for three months. If the courtiers outside the court hadn't knelt for three days and three nights and dragged the old king back, I'm afraid that the little kingdom of Voris would have been destroyed by this woman.

Zhou Ming didn't know when this woman came after him. It seemed that two months ago, the envoy sent by the Savage Kingdom brought a warrior named Abbas over to provoke him in the court, killing her in succession. After the death of ten knights with strong martial arts skills, the envoy of the Savage Kingdom told the old king that none of the small Vooris Kingdom could fight, but there were hundreds of warriors like Abbas in the Savage Kingdom. , I advise the old king to be honest and give 10 talents of food to the Savage Kingdom, otherwise the two countries will go to war...

In the silence of the scene, it was still Zhou Ming who took the initiative to ask for a fight. After a while of flashing and turning, in just over 1000 rounds, Abbas, a savage who was over [-] meters tall, had an amazing weight, and was full of muscles, was knocked to the ground. , and then told the emissary of the Savage Kingdom that there are more than [-] unknown people like him in the Kingdom of Voris.

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 yell loudly and let that useless old thing Herbert clean you up! That old thing won't 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
　　


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