The sixteenth rank Marquis was the Right Marquis of Thorns Forest, Elton Golden Chrysanthemum. Liszt did not like this follower with poor aptitude and character. He had recruited him for the sake of buying a horse's bones. Thus, Elton was previously a Marquis, but he was still a low-ranking Marquis.
The seventeenth rank Marquis was the Marquis of Reed City, Mary Dawn Daybreak. As the leader of the Blood Servants and a pureblood vampire, Mary had always been deeply trusted by Liszt. She was his eyes in the dark, spying on the intelligence of various countries.
The Blood Servants' cultivation system had been improved by A Qi and the Association of Mages, abandoning some of the contents of the magic system and moving closer to the Knight system. Their fighting strength was further weakened, but their lurking ability was greatly improved. Thus, they were formally incorporated into the Burning Corps by Liszt and established the Blood Orders of Chivalry.
Therefore, all the vampires were nobles of the city.
The eighteenth rank Marquis was the Upper Kelp Marquis, Winston Fluorescent Grass. His fief was a quarter of the Kelp Island, which was also the Upper Kelp Domain.
He was one of the Marquis who had migrated from the Grayiron Duchy. After joining the Fire Kingdom, his performance was average.
The Kelp Island was the third largest island of the Fire Kingdom, covering an area of 280,000 square kilometers. It was divided into four domains – Upper Kelp Domain, Lower Kelp Domain, Left Kelp Domain, and Right Kelp Domain.
The nineteenth rank Marquis was the Lower Kelp Domain Marquis, Johnson Fujimoon. He was also a Marquis who had migrated from the Grayiron Duchy, and his performance was also average.
The twentieth rank Marquis was the Left Kelp Domain Marquis, Hilton Basil. His son had married Liszt's sister, Lvera. Thus, he had migrated from the Sapphire Duchy to the Fire Kingdom very early on. Relying on his kinship and outstanding military exploits, he had become the last of the twenty founding Marquis of the Fire Kingdom.
… …
After looking at the list of Marquis, Liszt basically approved of this arrangement.
But after thinking about it, he quickly added: "Father, twenty founding Marquis is too few. Add another one to make a total of twenty-one … Hmm, let Sassumit Saint join us. I will confer him the title of Marquis of the Right Kelp Domain. This is my special reward for him."
Sasumit Saint was Listener Su of the Killing Moon Holy Tribe.
Liszt descended from the sky on his dragon, killed the old Listener, and supported him to take the throne. He showed his excellent character as a traitor of the Moonslayers. He was loyal to Liszt to incorporate the native tribes of the Moonslayers, even resorting to all kinds of violent and bloody methods.
When Liszt asked the ancient sorcerers to join the Knight system, he immediately changed his surname to 'Saint', which meant that he was a follower of a saint. In other words, he was a follower of Liszt.
Such a lackey naturally deserved to be rewarded.
Leewilliam frowned. "Liszt, Sasumit is a life count. As a noble who is not a Knight, according to the Title of Nobility Regulations, he can only be given a life title, and not a hereditary title. Moreover, life nobles can only be conferred up to the rank of earl. "
"I know, father, but I want to make an exception for Sasumit." Liszt wasn't ashamed of being indecisive. On the contrary, he said with a hint of pride, "I hope to use this method to remind the nobles of the kingdom that the Fire Kingdom is different from the other three kingdoms. Here, my authority is above any system."
He glanced at Liszt.
Leewilliam replied, "I'm afraid that this will make most of the nobles dislike you, which will damage your authority … After all, the Knight system has existed for thousands of years."
Liszt smiled faintly. "Father, you don't have to worry. My lifespan has already exceeded the limit of a normal person. I am destined to rule the Fire Kingdom for a long time. Slowly, the nobles will get used to it, and learn to use the new Knight system I created to measure their lives. "
"You found the training method of the Dragon City Lord?" Leewilliam couldn't help but think.
"Not the Dragon City Lord, but close."
Liszt didn't want to say more, so Leewilliam didn't ask anymore. Even though they were father and son, they belonged to different families. Some secrets shouldn't be touched.
He changed the topic and said, "Since you have your considerations, I don't object to making Sasumit a marquis. I hope this move won't affect the boundaries between the nobles of feudal lands, feudal cities, and life nobles."
Other than the eight levels of nobility, there were three different types of nobility in the kingdom.
The first type was a feudal title, in which the nobles had their own territory and enjoyed absolute control over it. They could also recruit their own followers and enfeoff them. The second type was a feudal title, in which the nobles had a city as their territory. The nobles had jurisdiction over the city, and they were under the jurisdiction of the Burning Legion.
These two types of nobility were hereditary, and it was clear that the eldest son would inherit it.
The third type was a life nobility. Life nobility did not have a territory, and it couldn't be hereditary. After death, the nobility would be taken back by the kingdom.
Other than honorary life nobility.
Feudal lands, feudal cities, and nobility all had corresponding Knight level restrictions — a Trainee Knight could be made a Lord at most; an Earth Knight could be made a Baron at most; an Elite Earth Knight could be made a Viscount at most; a Sky Knight could be made a Marquis at most; a Domain Knight could be made a Duke at most.
Furthermore.
The Fire Kingdom changed the lowest level of nobility — Lord Knight — to Lord.
Therefore, the eight levels of nobility were — King, Prince/Grand Duke, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, and Lord.
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There were a total of 64 Earls on the list.
There were actually even more Earls and nobles. However, these nobles, because of their original affiliation, after consulting their opinions, continued to follow a few feudal Dukes and Marquis — for example, Deborah Rainflower continued to follow his uncle Di Maria.
The number one of Liszt's direct Earl followers was Stormwind City's Earl Markus Wheel. His former home tutor ultimately chose to join the Burning Legion, and became the leader of the Burning Orders of Chivalry. His strength was only an Elite Earth Knight, and he was promoted to Earl by Liszt.
Stormwind City was located in the Royal Territory, and was a satellite of the Fire Kingdom.
Number two was Long Tail Island's Earl Roland Pine Cone. He was Liszt's uncle, and was also an Elite Earth Knight, promoted to Earl by special permission.
Number three was Spirits City's Earl Gort Mast. This former home tutor did not want to join the Burning Legion. Of course, even if he wanted to join Liszt, he would not be willing. No matter how high his title was, it could not hide that he was only a Trainee Knight — many people secretly criticized his title behind his back.
As for Spirits City, it was located not far from Realgar City, and belonged to the original Realgar Territory.
The administrative division of the Fire Kingdom was divided into five levels: Territory, City, County, Town, and Village. It was basically a copy of China's provinces, cities, counties, towns, and villages.
Cities were also divided into Territory, City, and County Cities according to their administrative divisions. Territory or Territory Cities were used to confer Marquises, City or City Cities were used to confer Earls, and County Cities were used to confer Viscounts. At the level of Town, there was no distinction between City or Fief, and the title of Earl was used to confer Earl.
Below that, there was only the title of Earl and Fief, no title.
Markus's Territory, Stormwind City, was a City Cities, and Gort's Territory, Spirits City, was a separate City. In addition, according to the size of the island, some islands automatically replaced Territory, City, and County as the title of Earl. Roland's Territory, Long Tail Island, was an island the size of a City in the Shell Sea.
"In the Flame Archipelago, apart from the fifth largest island, Red Tree Island, and the ninth largest island, Anchor Island, which have yet to be conferred, the other large and small islands have already been conferred. In the future, when there are new aristocratic enfeoffments, we can only enfeoff to the open sea and the mainland. "Leewilliam sighed with emotion.
When he first found the Flame Archipelago, he thought that it was incomparably vast, even larger than the Sapphire Duchy.
It was enough to establish a duchy here.
However, Liszt directly established a kingdom, and the Flame Archipelago seemed too shabby. Thus, the first batch of aristocratic enfeoffments were basically all over the archipelago.
"Therefore, with Realgar City as the gateway, we will continue to expand to the mainland. Nibbling away at the Eagle Kingdom is the best choice." Liszt put down the list.
He did not look at the list of three ranks of aristocratic enfeoffments: Viscount, Baron, and Lordship.
Just by looking at the number of aristocratic enfeoffments, he found that there were about 366 Viscounts, 1,240 Barons, and over ten thousand Lords. Counting three Dukes, twenty-one Marquises, and sixty-four Earls, this was the entire aristocratic population of the Fire Kingdom.
They all had the same honor — the founding aristocratic population.
"Father, we will hold the founding ceremony according to this list."
Liszt stood up and walked out of the palace side by side with Leewilliam: "In addition, the fiefs can be adjusted appropriately. Young, powerful, but low-ranking aristocrats should be enfeoffed to the mainland as much as possible, so that they can continue to forge ahead and expand their territory. After the chaos of the founding period, a new war will soon be launched! "
The war he was talking about was no longer a small-scale war like the order to expand. Instead, it was a formal declaration of war against the Eagle Kingdom in alliance with the Steel Ridge Kingdom.
"It feels too rushed. Liszt, perhaps we should slow down."
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