The Kingdom of Sunset City has seven provinces, three of which are controlled by several dukes of the royal family of Quinn, who have been separated from each other during the reign of King Quinn XIII, while the remaining four have been loyal to the royal family of Quinn.

The three seemingly incompatible provinces are not considered for the time being, and the remaining four need to be determined whether they are loyal to Mars as soon as possible, after all, Mars will have to fully implement the reform decree next, and after the reform is successful, Mars can only consider the matter of building a fortress base.

With Sunset City's current economic situation, it is simply impossible to afford to build a base, so the first problem to solve is to make the whole territory completely surrender to him, and then boost the economy.

On this day, Mars convened his ministers to discuss the matter.

When Mars saw that there were only more than a dozen courtiers in the main hall, he couldn't help frowning slightly, most of the courtiers were imprisoned in the dungeon because of the eldest prince Muse and Queen Bella, and there was no trial yet, which led to the only ministers who could participate in the kingdom's deliberations were only more than a dozen courtiers who had always remained neutral.

Goss, the former Prime Minister, Sarn, the Minister of Commerce, Sherwood, the Minister of Justice, and Edgar, the Minister of Finance, were the only four remaining ministers of King Quinn XIII before his death.

Mars is not prepared to replace them for the time being, after all, although these ministers are conservative in their thinking, they are definitely knowledgeable, and he will not replace these people when no better talents appear.

Moreover, in Mars's plan, he also had to squeeze the value of these people, who were all in high positions when Quinn XIII, but had no achievements, which made him very unhappy.

Mars did not sit on the Iron Throne, but came to the ministers and said, "Now that the royal capital is in ruins, do you have any good advice, please speak up, I, Mars, am not a stingy person!"

Prime Minister Goss closed his eyes and was silent, the Minister of Commerce was drenched in a cold sweat, and the Minister of Justice seemed a little dazed.

The Minister of Finance, Edgar, paused slightly, clenched his fists, and said: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, now that the treasury is empty, plus the pension of the knights who died in battle, I am afraid that the treasury will not be able to sustain next month." ”

Mars smiled slightly, glanced at the Prime Minister, and then at the Minister of Commerce, and said: "The Minister of Finance does not need to panic, I have my own way to deal with the affairs of the treasury, the pension of the casualties and knights will be doubled, and the salaries of officials will be paid as usual." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your support!" said the Chancellor's face, who was so heartbroken for the treasury.

Of course, the Minister of Finance knows where the money comes from, because the seized aristocratic assets have not yet entered the treasury, once those wealth enters the treasury, Mo said that the pension of the knights who died in battle is doubled, that is, it is no problem to increase ten times and a hundred times, of course, the royal capital was almost divided into two because of that terrifying knife, countless houses were damaged, and nearly 100,000 civilians were killed and injured afterwards, so there are many places that need money.

Of course, no one said anything about that knife, and they couldn't say it.

At this time, the Minister of Justice saluted and said, "Your Majesty, how should the prisoners in the dungeon be judged?"

Mars paused slightly, for those tens of thousands of nobles, Mars had a little headache, there is no doubt that these people have a certain amount of knowledge, in the case of the general literacy rate in the human kingdom, these people are undoubtedly a good labor force, he wants to follow the Holy City system, these people will be of some use.

But these people are absolutely resentful of themselves, but then he thinks again, what about resentment, what can they do to themselves with their little strength?

Thinking of this, Marston smiled and said, "Chancellor of the Justice, a jury will be set up at once, and those who have committed the most heinous crimes may be sentenced to public punishment, and others will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.

As soon as the imperial prime minister heard this, he immediately opened his eyes and said, "Your Majesty is merciful, but Your Majesty, most of these people have just been bribed, and they are also knowledgeable......"

Mars immediately interrupted the former Prime Minister, he knew what the old guy was going to say, "I know, so, the specific punishment, I will discuss with the Minister of Justice, and then make it public!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" the former Prime Minister sensed Mars's anger and immediately relented.

Mars looked at the former Prime Minister and said, "There are many vacancies in the Privy Council departments now, and I hope you will take on heavy responsibilities for the time being!"

"We should share your Majesty's worries!"

The former prime minister and others immediately saluted.

Mars nodded and said, "Of course, you won't be tired for too long, I have a draft here, it is a little idea of mine, you can take a look." ”

Immediately, Mars took a piece of straw paper from Audrey's hand and handed it to the former prime minister, and now Audrey has become Mars's attendant, although Audrey is unwilling in her heart, but she does not refuse.

"You four ministers can take a look together!" Mars reminded.

The Minister of Commerce and the others looked at each other, but when they approached the Imperial Prime Minister, they saw a few large characters written on the papyrus paper, "New Official Selection System".

In this draft, Mars borrowed from the Quds City's system of selecting officials, scoring them through a number of similarly specialized examinations and interviews.

Among them, the examination is for commoners, merchants, nobles, etc. throughout the Sunset City Kingdom who have not committed adultery, and this part is fifty points.

The interview is face-to-face between the examiner and the examinee, the examiner asks questions, the examinee answers, and finally marks the examinee, which is 50 points.

Only those who score well in the final score will be selected as officials, of course, some special positions require additional professional tests to be competent.

The more the former prime minister Goss looked at it, the more shocked he became, this draft was simply a subversion of the traditional selection of officials in the kingdom, and even made the nobles have no superiority, and let the lowly commoners and merchants participate in the governance.

What is Mars going to do? Gos was drenching in a cold sweat, he knew that maybe this was the first fire that Mars burned when he became the new king, but this fire was too big, so he was not afraid of provoking the fire?

However, Goss suddenly thought that there were now less than three hundred nobles in the entire Sunset City Kingdom, most of them were dilapidated nobles, and there were few who had the strength to compete with Mars, and those few had already sworn allegiance to Mars.

Thinking of this, Goss felt cold, Mars's reform, it turned out to be from the selection of officials, this move can not only get the support of the majority of businessmen, but also buy the hearts of the people, although the people's hearts are nothing, but most of the soldiers in the army are from civilians, sometimes it will have an unexpected effect.

He underestimated the young king!

As for the Minister of Commerce's heart, he spent every day in trembling, because the economy of the Sunset City Kingdom was on the verge of collapse, although it was caused by the stupidity of Quinn XIII's governance, but there were also great reasons for him, so he immediately agreed completely with this draft.