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Marquis Jingyuan.

That was the title bestowed upon Chen Yan by Emperor Xiao Jue of Great Yan.

He was awarded ten thousand taels of Huang gold, a thousand mu of fertile land, and a fief of three thousand households.

He was also relieved of his post as Deputy Governor of the border forces and appointed Governor of the Capital City Imperial Guards, commanding fifty thousand elite infantry and three thousand cavalry.

When Chen Yan left his post with the border forces, he also brought the remnants of the Tiger Leopard Battalion, which had once guarded the frontier, back to the capital.

The main forces of the Great Yan Dynasty could be broadly divided into three groups.

They were the border forces in the northwest, the Imperial Guards in the Capital City, and the Six Camps spread throughout Great Yan.

The Six Camps were the true main force of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Though their weapons and armor were not as fine as those of the Capital City's Imperial Guards, the Six Camps had the advantage of numbers.

Each of the Six Camps had a hundred thousand soldiers, for a total of six hundred thousand.

The reinforcements the Imperial Court had sent to the northwestern frontier some time ago had been drawn from the Six Camps.

Back then, to better control the army, the Great Yan Dynasty's late emperor had abolished the Principal First Rank post of "General" and established a Governor for each of the Six Camps, all holding Subordinate First Rank.

These six Governors answered directly to the emperor himself.

But reality was not so ideal. The current Governors of the Six Camps were all former subordinates of Duke of Qi Jia Wen.

In other words, though the military authority over the Six Camps nominally belonged to the Great