Ye Zhen had not made the requests Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long had expected, which had greatly displeased Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long.
However, there had not been the slightest discount in the rewards granted to the Zhenhai Army.
To be fair, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long was no great visionary emperor, but he could at least be considered a barely competent ruler who preserved what he had inherited.
At a time like this, when they were resisting the Devil Race's invading army, if he docked the rewards of meritorious soldiers, he would truly be asking to become the ruler of a fallen nation.
Moreover, this round of rewards mainly consisted of noble titles and some wealth, with basically no new fiefs.
The reason was that, amid the war against the Devil Race's invasion, regardless of the outcome, those who earned vast military merit would spring up like bamboo shoots after rain.
Under such circumstances, Luoyi would naturally tighten its grants of fiefs. First, they feared failing to rein things in from the start and letting rewards overflow everywhere; second, they feared rewarding too lavishly and leaving nothing left to bestow in the future.
Thus, when Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long's Imperial Decree of reward reached the Zhenhai Army's encampment on Dragon Roaming Plain the next day, it was largely no different from what Ye Zhen had anticipated—proper and measured.
"Bearing the primordial above, governing the myriad realms below, the Destined Holy Lord decreed: Zhenhai Army Marshal Ye Zhen has repeatedly rendered great merit in the war against the devils... He is hereby granted the title Duke of North Sea Prefecture..."
Just as the minor official from the Military Merit Office had said, Ye Zhen might lose his title of Duke of North Sea Commandery. The title Ye Zhen received now was Duke of