Chapter 944: Rewarding According to Merit (Part 2)

Faced with the mud and rotten eggs thrown by the civilians, some captives chose to remain silent and expressionless.

While others chose to cry even louder.

Undoubtedly, those who chose to remain silent and expressionless were mostly senior generals and senior civil servants.

And those who chose to cry even louder were basically the nobles.

When had those nobles who lived a life of luxury ever been humiliated like this?

Therefore, these nobles who could not bear this humiliation cried louder and louder.

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The periphery of the White Field was already filled with the military flags and national flags of the Britannia Empire, and soldiers responsible for public security.

These soldiers were all wearing heroic and exquisite armor, holding ceremonial axes and guns, facing the outside of the White Field, monitoring the civilians surrounding the periphery of the White Field, and not allowing any irrelevant personnel to enter the White Field.

Although they were holding ceremonial axes and guns in their hands, it did not mean that these axes and guns were useless except for looking good.

These ceremonial axes and guns still retained a certain degree of lethality.

If there are suspicious people approaching the White Field, the soldiers guarding the periphery of the White Field can kill them with their ceremonial axes and guns at any time.

In order to hold this award ceremony, the tower at the north end of the White Field was renovated and became taller and more magnificent.

Ilsa has been waiting on this tower for a long time.

Today's award ceremony is quite grand, so Ilsa also wore a grand dress that can match such an occasion today.

Wearing a crown symbolizing imperial power.

Holding the imperial sword symbolizing the highest military power in the country in her arms.

Wearing a grand dress that she will hardly have the opportunity to wear all year round.

Even her face is lightly made up.

It's not just Ilsa on the White Field tower. Many big names are quietly waiting for the arrival of the triumphal army on this tower.

For example: Issel, Albert and Gale.

Issel had not been stationed on the Rhine Front recently, but just stayed in the imperial capital, so Issel, who happened to be in Pendragon, naturally had to attend this award ceremony.

Although Albert was stationed on the southern front, he was also called back.

Since the two offensives of "Spring Awakening" and "Summer Wind" three years ago, the Rolin Empire has become a good baby, and has completely lost the courage and confidence to fight against the Britannia Empire.

So in the past three years, the southern front has been safe and peaceful, and no major events have happened.

Anyway, there is no possibility of any emergency on the southern front now, so the central government called Albert back from the southern front and asked Albert to come to the imperial capital to participate in this grand award ceremony.

After Ilsa ascended the throne as the new emperor, Gale had been living a secluded life in the Baiyang Palace for various reasons such as avoiding suspicion, and had been reading in his room.

Gale is a member of the royal family, and a direct royal family. Even the emperor Ilsa came to attend the award ceremony, so there is no reason for Gale, a direct royal family, not to attend.

Gozewen, who was seriously ill in bed, actually wanted to attend this rare grand award ceremony,

but because of his physical condition, he was really unable to do so, so he had to give up and continue to lie in bed to rest and recuperate.

In addition to Issel, Albert, Gale and others, the people standing on the balcony included the other important officials who did not go out of the city to welcome the triumphal troops and the guards responsible for protecting everyone on the balcony.

The triumphal army, the honor guards following it, and the prisoner convoys following it slowly entered the white field.

After the triumphal army entered the white field, the award ceremony officially began.

The award ceremony of the Britannia Empire has its own set of complex rules and procedures.

The current award ceremony of the Britannia Empire is inherited from the Suyinglan Empire a thousand years ago.

The award ceremony during the Suyinglan Empire was relatively simple.

But with the inheritance of thousands of years, the award ceremony has become more and more complicated.

To this day, the procedures and regulations of the award ceremony of the Britannia Empire have become so complicated that it makes people's scalps numb.

It is so complicated that there are specific regulations on what people should say.

However, it is not without benefits to make it so complicated.

Because the more complicated the procedures and regulations are, the more solemn and grand the ceremony can appear.

After the award ceremony began, the people on the balcony consciously separated on both sides of Ilsa according to their status.

The first activity of the award ceremony is to deal with the prisoners of war.

This is also a convention stipulated in the award ceremony. If important personnel are captured in the battle, these precious prisoners of war must also be brought to the venue of the award ceremony, and His Majesty the Emperor will personally announce how to deal with these precious high-level prisoners of war.

The prisoner carts were pushed forward.

Before and after these prisoner carts full of prisoners of war were pushed, Ilsa also took two steps forward to get closer to the edge of the balcony, and then announced the treatment of these prisoners of war in a loud voice.

There are also rules for what Elsa, as the emperor, should say.

Elsa had to give a long and awkward opening speech before she could get to the point and announce the treatment of these prisoners of war.

Listening to this extremely awkward opening speech, Su Cheng couldn't help but frown slightly, thinking to himself:

-- In order to be able to recite this opening speech proficiently, Elsa must have spent a lot of time.

As Su Cheng guessed, in order to be able to recite this long and extremely difficult opening speech skillfully, Ilsa practiced so hard that her tongue was almost tied.

It took Ilsa 5 days to successfully memorize these difficult opening speeches.

After reciting these difficult opening speeches aloud, Ilsa finally got to the point and began to announce how to deal with these prisoners of war.

All those nobles were imprisoned in the prison of the imperial capital to exchange ransoms with the Holy Xilan Empire.

It is common for nobles to intermarry with each other.

Therefore, these nobles who were captured by the Britannia Empire must have many noble relatives in the Holy Xilan Empire.

Some of the captured nobles are also related by blood to the royal family of the Holy Xilan Empire.

In order to protect their relatives and the face of being nobles, there must be many nobles who are willing to pay a large ransom to the Britannia Empire to redeem their unfortunate relatives who have become prisoners.

Anyway, these nobles are basically useless people who have no other use except eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. There is no risk of letting the tiger go back to the mountain if they are returned to the Holy Xilan Empire.

While releasing a group of useless people to the Holy Xilan Empire, they can also exchange for a large amount of ransom. Why not do it?

As for those senior generals, senior quartermasters, and senior civil servants, they will not be returned to the Holy Xilan Empire. No matter how much ransom the Holy Xilan Empire is willing to pay, Ilsa and others do not want to return these senior talents to the Holy Xilan Empire.

These senior generals, senior quartermasters, and senior civil servants are all treated as ordinary captives and taken to do free labor.