The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

The founding ceremony lasted almost a whole day.

From soldiers to officers, from surrendered generals to old nobles, all were rewarded.

The only thing is that Xu Lai held a very conservative and cautious attitude towards the granting of titles.

Xu Lai himself didn't know how long his kingdom could last.

However, for every year of maintenance, these people need to be supported for one year.

Accumulated over the years, it is a terrifying expense, especially after the proliferation of titles.

It would be difficult for Xu Lai to seize the titles of those old nobles who had surrendered to him and contributed their cities and all their rights.

Then, the only thing Xu Lai could do was to control the issuance of titles as much as possible.

Therefore, many of our ancestors’ practices are very reasonable.

In ancient China, there was a saying that only those with military merit could be granted the title of nobility, and Xu Lai also planned to continue this practice.

The old men who followed him, such as Laci, the elder and younger Aboka brothers, and even Aaron, had never actually been on the battlefield.

Even the newcomers have received rewards, but these old people are not given any rewards. This is totally unjustifiable and disheartening.

So, taking advantage of the early days of the founding of the country, Xu Lai simply adjusted the positions of all these elderly people.

The first one was Su Ya, who served as the city lord for Xu Lai. She was directly promoted from the deputy city lord of Qingfeng City to the prime minister of the country, in charge of all administrative affairs of the entire Eagle Kingdom.

As the queen of the Eagle Kingdom, Suya is truly second to none.

But the queen is not a position. Although some people may listen to what she says, it is not so legitimate after all.

The prime minister is different. Although his status is not as high as that of the queen, he is the de facto second in command. In fact, the power of a prime minister can even exceed that of the king.

After Su Ya became prime minister, the position of Qingfeng City Lord no longer needed to be retained.

After Suya came Lacy Graham, but Lacy himself was unwilling to leave Qingfeng City or change to other important positions.

Therefore, Razi was only promoted from his previous position as Speaker of Parliament to Speaker of the National Assembly, which was still a sinecure.

Congress may play a big role in other countries, but when all countries are first established, it is basically just a decoration.

Any first-generation king or emperor would not hand over his power to Congress and add constraints.

Of course, some things that are not too important but involve a wide range of issues and that Xu Lai is too lazy to deal with can also be thrown to Congress.

Such as holidays, salaries and benefits of civil servants at all levels, and etiquette standards for various occasions.

It is important and troublesome at the same time, so it is only right to hand it over to Congress.

Moreover, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Member of Parliament, even though the positions are not important, are extremely high-level positions.

This is a very high-level, yet not very important position, and is just the right place to assign those with seniority whom Xu Lai doesn't want to reuse.

After the Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament, there are ministers of various ministries.

The most important military and defense minister were appointed by Xu Lai to Lena Memphis.

The second was the Minister of Finance, who was appointed by Xu Lai to Yu Lan.

The third position was Minister of Foreign Affairs, which was appointed by Xu Lai to Wei Yihong.

The fourth-ranked Home Secretary, who is also the Prime Minister's deputy, is Jimmy Martell.

After being promoted to prime minister and minister, their original positions were more or less retained.

Lena still serves as the commander of the Qingfeng Legion, and Wei Yihong's position as Minister of Commerce is handed over to Big Aboka.

Jimmy's previous position as the mayor of Conaston City was still retained, but the position of commander of the Knight's Wind Legion was given to Tahan.

After establishing the Eagle Kingdom and becoming its king, Xu Lai also obtained a privilege.

That is, he can appoint generals and commanders, that is, heroes, in the name of the king.

It is unacceptable that a king of a country cannot appoint generals and commanders.

However, the appointment of this general and commander-in-chief is also conditional.

This condition comes from the national strength. A strong country will appoint more generals and commanders.

The evaluation criteria for a country's national strength basically come from its population.

For every one to two million people, one general is allowed to be promoted, and for every ten million people, one hero is allowed to be promoted.

After the Eagle Kingdom added the more than one million believers, the total population should be around 500 million, more or less, there is no detailed statistics.

Anyway, Xu Lai got a total of 3 general positions, but not even half a hero position.

Just like when the Supreme King promoted Archangel Gilad, Xu Lai's three general positions can also be granted to any citizen of the Eagle Kingdom.

Of course, if it can be given, it can be taken back, and once the generals are citizens of the Eagle Country again, they will lose the qualifications to become generals regardless of whether Xu Lai takes it back or not.

Xu Lai gave the positions of these three generals to Tahan, Yan Feng and Jian Yuan.

Before deciding on Jimmy's position, Xu Lai took the initiative to communicate with Jimmy.

The lord of Conaston City cannot run around outside all the time, and the Knight Wind Legion is not an exclusive legion of Conaston City.

Obviously, these two positions are not so compatible and are not a position that can be held concurrently.

The communication between Xu Lai and Jimmy was to let him choose which position he was willing to give up.

After learning that he would be promoted to one of the ministers, and the Minister of the Interior, Jimmy gave up his position as the leader of the Knight's Wind Legion.

Although this position meant losing military power, Jimmy had no intention of rebelling anyway, so what was the point of holding military power in his hands?

Moreover, in terms of real power, the lord of Conaston City is much more powerful than the commander of the Knight's Wind Legion.

As for whether there is a conflict between the City Lord and the Interior Minister, this does not have much impact. The two office locations can be reached instantly by taking a teleportation array.

In other words, his son Jillon's qualifications were not enough, so Jillon was appointed by Xu Lai as the lord of Martell City, which was a disguised way of leaving the city of Martell to the Martell family.

If he does a good job in the future, Jilong will directly inherit his father's position and become the lord of Conaston City.

After the nobility switched to the fiefdom system, the mayor of a city had complete control over it.

But the position of city lord is not inheritable like a noble title.

Xu Lai not only retained his father's position as city lord, but also arranged a city lord position for his son. He had done the most for the father and son.

Jimmy and Jilong had nothing to say about this and chose to accept it with pleasure.

Knight's Spirit, as the name suggests, Xu Lai intends to build this legion into a pure cavalry legion.

However, at that time, there were neither sufficient cavalry nor so many generals who could be appointed at once.

As for the Qingfeng Legion, Xu Lai wanted to build it into an all-round legion that could attack or defend.

On the contrary, the cavalry of the Qingfeng Legion is too powerful, and the Knight's Wind doesn't even have a chance to play.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Jimmy. Jimmy’s own combat effectiveness is not bad, and he has command ability. The only difference between him and the high-end cavalry corps is that he is not a hero.

After adjusting the commanders of both sides, Xu Lai also wanted to make some big moves for the two legions. He wanted to transfer the infantry and archers in the Knight's Wind to the Qingfeng Legion.

The Qingfeng Legion is not completely abandoning cavalry. It will still retain reconnaissance knights, some heavy knights and archers led by Yan Feng.

Yan Feng took over Tahan's position and served as the leader of the Knights of the Qingfeng Legion.

At the same time, the brave knights of the headquarters led by Tahan, the great knights led by Naru, the knights and the recruited knights led by Joseph will all be transferred to the Knight's Wind.

After expansion and large-scale trade, the number of these knights has exceeded 15000. Together with the 5000 knights retained by Chivalry, the full strength can reach almost knights.

Of course, Xu Lai was still not satisfied with this number.

However, he has now unified the entire grassland, and the knight quotas from major cities on the grassland will be continuously transferred to Qingfeng City.

In addition, Xu Lai also traded a large number of knights with those large caravans in Hard Stone City.

Although the levels of these knights are not high, after being traded back, they can be directly upgraded to knights in the knight training camp, and then upgraded to great knights in the hall.

Adding up the number of these knights, the organization of Chivalry should be able to break through to about 2.

At this rate, in half a year, this team of pure knights will be able to expand to about 5.

Xu Lai's expectation for the Knight's Spirit is at least 100,000 cavalry.

At the same time, after the troops that have integrated the spirit of chivalry receive recruits from major cities, the size of the Qingfeng Legion will also expand to more than 15.

Including the logistics troops, even if we don't accumulate more, we can still have more than 20 main combat troops.

Of course, some of them are new recruits.

New recruits cannot be upgraded quickly by consuming resources through various hero buildings like recruited soldiers.

However, Xu Lai has already thought of a training ground for the new recruits of the Qingfeng Corps.

Moreover, Xu Lai could not accept a main force of just over 20 troops.

There is no way. The Hell Camp’s military force is too strong, and now it controls the entire Western Empire.

After all the cities in the Western Empire are converted into Hell Cities, the replenishment speed of the Hell Camp will become even more exaggerated.

Therefore, Xu Lai was not actually planning to wait for the enemy to attack, but was planning to take the initiative to attack.

It’s just that the country has just been established, and the war on the grassland has never stopped. It is reasonable and necessary to recuperate for a period of time.

Regardless of other things, it takes time to stockpile food.

In these wars, except for the civil war when more people died, the losses on the grassland were not serious because of the Angel Legion.

After Aaron, Urdola was appointed as the head of the logistics department.

Abubakar Jr. was appointed Minister of Agriculture.

Luo Mingru was appointed Minister of Transport.

Nuofa was appointed as the Minister of the Magic Department and still served as Xu Lai's magic consultant, but no longer as a full-time employee.

Xu Lai needs more spell consultants, and the Spell Department also needs more senior mages.

In the previous empire, the Department of Magic was mainly responsible for building magic towers in major cities, arranging corresponding magic protection arrays, teleportation arrays, etc.

During wartime, the Ministry of Spells may also be assigned a group of combat mages to participate in the battle along with the various legions.

But in addition to this, Xu Lai also wanted to use the power of magic to see if he could better promote the development of productivity.

It is said that science and technology are the primary productive forces. There are not many people in this world studying science, and most people are studying magic.

Xu Lai naturally also had to adapt to local conditions and apply magic more to productivity, which required a large number of mages who did not spend their energy on combat spells.

Most of the old people who followed Xu Lai were promoted, and many of them have been promoted to the ministerial level.

Of course, in addition to those old people, there were others who were promoted.

For example, Lin Qiu from Conaston Castle was promoted by Xu Lai to the position of Organization Minister because of his outstanding performance.

Other nobles also occupied some high-ranking positions to a greater or lesser extent, such as Kanal as the Minister of Civil Affairs and Maoshan as the Minister of Culture.

After high-ranking officials such as ministers and heads of departments, there is no need to announce the remaining positions, and there is even less need for Xu Lai to announce them personally.

The last thing Xu Lai announced was his personal matter.

But he is now the king of the Eagle Kingdom and has no so-called private affairs at all, so he took this opportunity to make it public.

What Xu Lai announced was his marriage news.

After all, the queen has already made her debut, but she hasn't even had a wedding yet.

This is called "unjust name and unreasonable words".

According to today's schedule, after the founding ceremony during the day, there will be national celebrations in the evening.

Xu Lai had just finished building the imperial palace and didn't want to be extravagant, so he took advantage of the evening celebration to hold his wedding at the same time.

The founding of a country and the grand wedding were both legitimate and a double blessing.

Su Ya became Xu Lai's queen, and Xu Lai had no intention of favoring her over the other.

In front of the citizens of the entire city and envoys from various major forces, he announced his marriage partner.

Queen Suya, Princess Yu Lan, Elvy, Gisele and Anna.

In addition to them, Xu Lai also has a special person, Archbishop Elena from the temple.

The reason why Elena is special is that Suya and the others were all recruited soldiers.

Although they have their own personalities and thoughts, Xu Lai has been affectionate with them quite a few times and has never taken any measures.

However, they never showed any signs of pregnancy. Not only them, Xu Lai also asked Fang Yang privately and found that he and Xiangfang were the same.

It is obvious that their bodies were not born naturally, and there may be some problems in nurturing life.

Xu Lai and the archbishops of the temple were helpless in dealing with this problem and had no solution.

Xu Lai actually didn't care much about whether he had children or not.

He is not very old now, and with such a strong physique, he is destined to live for another one or two hundred years.

But he may not care, but the kingdom cannot be without an heir.

The temple then simply proposed the idea of ​​a marriage, but the person they proposed to marry was Knight Commander Lina.

However, Xu Lai rejected the proposal. At that time, Lina was still fighting in the wilderness, but the people in the rear had already decided on her marriage.

Xu Lai thought this was a great disrespect to Lina.

What's more, Xu Lai has no interest in Lina, but he and Elena have feelings for each other.

The temple does not care who marries Xu Lai, as long as the person is from the temple. (End of this chapter)