"Bang!"

When Duke Paris's head, like a piece of garbage, was still on the floor of the palace chamber by Earl Hill.

"Hah!"

All the noble ministers were startled at the sight of the heads rolling on the floor, including King Jaime.

Then came great joy.

King Jaime said angrily: "This traitor! The royal family is not kind to him, he actually raised troops to rebel, and died well, hmph, he deserves such an end!"

King Jaime also announced: take back the title and domain of the Duke of Paris, chop up his body and feed it to the dogs, arrest the other members of the Paris family, and convict them all, and not let any of them go!

The aristocratic ministers also celebrated.

"The kingdom gave the Paris family 300,000 troops in the hope that they would guard the eastern mirror and resist the Suoliu Kingdom, but they were better and did not do a good job of guarding the border, but turned around and beat the king. ”

"Paris, this bastard, besieged the royal capital for three months, the pharmacy production plant was completely destroyed by him, the workers robbed half of it, and we lost at least tens of millions!"

The potion factory was set up outside the city, and after the rebels besieged the city, the potion production plant was devastated, and it would take at least a few months to repair the factory.

"It's not just the loss of money, but a lot of people from various families have also died, not including the royal capital defense army, various families, at least more than 10,000 excellent family warriors have been killed in battle, and some of the earl's sons and grandsons have died in battle, these excellent nobles, it's a pity to die!"

Hearing this, a nobleman immediately knelt down and pleaded: "Your Majesty, the loss of each family is so great, please Your Majesty give each family a certain amount of compensation, Duke Paris and the hundreds of nobles who follow him, the royal family can take back all their territory and compensate every meritorious family!"

Rumble~

Hearing this, more nobles immediately stood up and paid tribute to their families, hoping to get a certain reward and compensation.

No sooner had this rebellion ended, and the court was in charge of the fruits of victory.

King James's head immediately grew larger.

After the death of Duke Paris, the henchmen behind him were cleared, and at least hundreds of territories were vacated.

These lands, not only the nobles on the side of the royal family are greedy, but the royal family itself is also tempted, ready to eat a bite, it is best to swallow it all.

But after the rhythm was picked up by a nobleman, King James felt an unusual headache in the face of a large number of "begging for reward".

Zhou Ming did not get involved in these discussions.

He only said two good words for Count Hill, hoping that the king would forgive Count Hill's sins, allow him to make meritorious deeds, lead the remaining surrendered rebels, and immediately return to the border to garrison to prevent the kingdom of Soliu from stirring.

King Jaime nodded in agreement, and Lord Hill breathed a sigh of relief and knelt down in thanks.

After that, Zhou Ming stood aside and watched the various nobles compete for merit in front of the king.

But he noticed that there was a man who had been very quiet, and he looked at the human head on the floor and did not speak for a long time.

He was Duke Rudolph.

In fact, Duke Rudolph had a good relationship with the Paris family, and he was also an old acquaintance with the Duke of Paris, and they had a warm relationship with each other.

Unexpectedly, as one of the dukes of the "Three Pillars of the Kingdom", the fate of Duke Paris was so tragic, not to mention that his head fell off, and his body had to be chopped up and fed to the dogs.

To be honest, Rudolph, who lived to be more than seventy years old, has not seen many such scenes.

I was deeply touched by this.

Because Rudolph, who is also a duke, is assuming in his heart: if he is in the position of Duke Paris, and then raises troops to rebel, once he fails, will he end up like Duke Paris, whose head is cut off and thrown around like garbage?

Seeing Duke Rudolph's expression, Zhou Ming spoke in his ear:

"Isn't this a normal thing? Since ancient times, there is nothing surprising about the king becoming a king and defeating a villain, the winner takes all, and the loser dies?"

Listening to this understatement, Rudolph snorted coldly: "Hmph, if you were in my position, you wouldn't have said it so lightly." ”

"So duke, you're in the right position, aren't you? If the royal family wins, the interests of the Rudolph family will not be harmed, and if the rebels win, the Rudolph family, with their huge wealth, will still be useful, and they don't have to worry about the demise of the family, but they ......"

Zhou Ming asked curiously: "I didn't find a son of the Rudolph family in Duke Paris's barracks, Duke, you didn't bet on Duke Paris's head?"

"It's not your style. ”

"Humph!"

Duke Rudolph snorted coldly again: "Duke Paris is brave and conceited, but his talent is less than one-tenth of his father's, except for the powerful conspiracy methods, I conclude that he will not be able to achieve great things!"

Zhou Ming nodded, Duke Rudolph has always been known for "seeing people accurately", and he has basically not made mistakes in his comments on others.

But......

Zhou Ming said: "If the royal family does not have a potion production plant, if there are no nobles to support the royal family, and Paris launches a rebellion, what choice will the Duke make?"

"That's another story. ”

Although reluctant, Duke Rudolph had to admit in his heart: if it were not for the insertion of the character of Zhou Ming, the rebellion launched by Duke Paris, the camp he was on might be completely different from what he is now.

And after this rebellion, the royal family, which has been cleared of a strong force, will inevitably increase in power.

The royal power will be strengthened.

For the remaining two dukes, the strength will be significantly weakened.

Once the royal family digests the land and interests of the Paris family, this kingdom, the will of the king, the nobles will will be difficult to disobey.

This is what Duke Rudolph does not want to see, but what is happening.

Although the Rudolph family is the richest, they have less than 5,000 private soldiers, and the Duke of Hansen has an elite 10,000-strong knight regiment, which is acceptable in the field, but it is far weaker than the border army of the Duke of Paris.

Therefore, after this rebellion is put down, the superstructure and future development trend of the Kingdom of Adud will undergo earth-shaking changes.

……

Two months later.

After countless discussions and quarrels.

Regarding the distribution of the fruits of victory, the royal family and the nobles finally reached an agreement.

Approximately 25% of the kingdom's land area, a total of 122 fiefdoms, were distributed as follows:

The royal family was given 22 superior fiefs for the distribution of royal descendants and meritorious royal personnel.

The 60 nobles who made greater meritorious contributions were each given a medium fief to commend their meritorious deeds.

There are also more than 40 nobles with minor merits, who did not receive fiefs, but each received a reward of 5 to 200,000 gold coins, as well as more kingdoms of magic potion sales agents.

The last remaining 40 fiefdoms, because the climate, environment, and soil are more suitable for planting medicinal materials, are classified into the "medicinal herb planting area", unified under the management of the pharmaceutical production plant, in these "medicinal herb planting area", every meritorious nobleman, can apply for a piece of land for free to plant medicinal materials, as long as the medicinal properties are up to standard, the pharmaceutical production plant is all underwritten, do not worry about making money.

Of course, ordinary merchants and civilians can also apply for planting the land in the "medicinal herb cultivation area", but they need to pay a certain fee.

In the end, all these expenses are turned over to the state treasury and used for public utilities.

For example, the formation of the New Kingdom Legion and the creation of an elite army of 100,000 people.

For example, the enrollment of the Brno School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has been expanded, allowing a large number of gifted civilians to enroll, and the tuition fees have been greatly reduced, increasing the magical power of the kingdom.

There are also public utilities such as road and bridge repairs.

It takes a lot of money.

With so many expenditure items, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to keep sticking money into it by himself.

Including the royal family and various nobles, they all need to share some.

Whoever shares more and has the opportunity to make money in the future has priority.

So King Jaime said on the spot: "In the future, twenty percent of the proceeds of the potion production plant will go directly to the treasury." ”

Other nobles were stunned, and they also received tax quotas, some received an annual tax quota of 10,000 gold coins, some received a 5,000 gold coin quota, and some received 3,000 or 1,000 gold coins...... In addition to the king, the nobles contributed about 500,000 gold in taxes.

500,000 gold coins can probably support the kingdom's financial expenses for a month.

And at that scene, Zhou Ming felt very funny, when receiving the tax amount, these nobles seemed to have suffered a big loss one by one, and their faces were like constipation.

However, when the words "glorious tax payment" were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not only aristocrats but also some businessmen who wanted to be taxpayers and "big taxpayers" were involved, and the amount of tax they received was surprising.

Even some civilians with more assets are vying to be "taxpayers" with voting rights.

Taxpayers have become a sign of status and status.

Of course, that's all a few years later.

……

Other than that.

In the process of disintegrating the rebels, Zhou Ming, who made great contributions and distributed the fruits of victory, came up with a lot of plans that satisfied everyone, what should be his reward, in a court meeting, King James and the nobles and ministers discussed for two or three hours.

In the end, there was a consensus of opinion.

The rewards that belong to Zhou Ming are three in total:

1. Promoted to the rank of viscount, from viscount to earl...... Zhou Ming became the youngest earl of the Adud Kingdom, and he was the earl of the field, and Zhou Ming took all the large "black swamp" land in the south of the kingdom.

2. Reward 500,000 gold coins and a number of treasures...... This is actually not worth mentioning, with Zhou Ming's current net worth, this is simply a drop in the bucket.

3. Pardon the Leylin family.

The last point is the real drama, because of Zhou Ming, for more than 300 years, the Lei Lin family, which has been up and down, is actually going to rise again.

And the speed of getting up is quite fast, because up to now, the Lei Lin family has only been exiled for more than two years.

After the pardon edict was issued, everyone was paying close attention to what kind of changes the return of the Lei Lin family would bring to the upper echelons of the kingdom?