"What happens next?" Gaspatik did not care about the Mercian people, but was simply curious about the king's impromptu convening of the "Council of the Mages".

"I don't know, yesterday it was the Flemish people who served the king, and I haven't seen His Majesty since the canonization ceremony." The Earl of Walsioff replied that he was the grandson of the Earl of Utred of Bebanburg, and that he was also a relative of Gespartick, and that the Earl of Gespartrick had left the Alba court in Perth and was encouraged by Walsiov to go south.

"Presumably a verdict is going to be made against Robert, this time Moka and Robert have relented, but those bastards don't seem to be at ease." Although the Earl of Guspatrick was young, he had served the Scottish royal court, and his eyesight had been honed.

"The illegitimate children in the world are almost the same, their eldest brother Edwin is the king's man, of course they don't want Moka to bow to the king, when the Earl of Mercia dies, the king will definitely let Edwin manage Chester, and then these brothers will not have the comfortable life they have now." Volsiov was dismissive of several of Mercia's illegitimate children, his family tradition was more Viking, and the competition between brothers was more about the field, of course, Walsiov himself did not need to bother with fighting for the inheritance, and his only brother "Osbjorn the Long Axe" died in the war against Macbeth, making him the only remaining heir to the old Count of Northumbria. When he was young, the Godwins took Northumbria in the name of King Edward, and after Hastings, he almost married Judith, the niece of the Duke of Normandy, had it not been for the persuasion of Aldred, Bishop of York. Thankfully, choosing to join Edgar's cause paid him handsomely, and there was no one to compete with him for all of this.

Gerspatrick, Earl of Cumbria, may have been less confident about inheriting his father's and brother's legacy, always fearing that he would not be worthy of the family's reputation, and he did not need to actively fight for anything to be rewarded by the royal family, which made it even more difficult for him to understand the mentality of an illegitimate child.

"How's Perth doing?" Volsiov asked suddenly.

"It is becoming more and more worrying, the sons of King Malcolm are more like Englishmen, and Donald and the other Scottish lords are naturally not at all happy about this, feeling that their traditional rights have been usurped by us outsiders. The king was not in good health, and the whole court smelled of herbs, and I was about to return to Edinburgh when you wrote to me. ”

"I heard that Malcolm took control of Morley?" There was a bit of schadenfreude in Vorsioff's tone, and it was clear that his old feud with the Morais had not yet been resolved.

"It was another disaster, almost all the adult princes: Donald, Duncan, and Edward wanted to get the North, and King Malcolm probably wanted to give Molay to Edward, but he couldn't force the lords to accept it, so now Marsnekta of Inverness is still the titular head of Morai."

"Malcolm will be able to control him?" Volsiov remembered the heroic appearance of the Count of Morais, though that had been ten years ago.

"Molay? He was now a cripple without any offspring, his mother and sister were in the king's hands, you know how much those highlanders valued the blood of the clan, and the rumor at court was that the king intended for his son Edward to marry the lady of Glouoch, only to give up for the time being because the queen was adamantly opposed. "Guspatrick doesn't really understand the queen's reason, Glouohe has always been under her protection, and the two are very good at least on the surface, but who can understand the woman's mind, Margaret probably thinks that the woman is too old, this kind of thing is not a problem for men, if the dowry is the whole of Molay, even if the lady is an old woman, the person who is willing to marry her will be lined up from Perth to Stirling Bridge.

At this time, the king's team appeared at the racecourse, and the two immediately stopped talking.

The crowd had dispersed, and the lords from all over the kingdom had entered the tent-enclosed grounds and sat around the king, and the first topic of the Council of the Magi was the reconfirmation of the division of the East Anglian territory, with Bland, the son of Hereward of Peterborough, inheriting only the family domain, and the guardianship of the East to be held by Baldwin de Boulogne, the newly canonized Earl of Lincoln (Comes-Lindum), and as compensation, Brand would receive the title of Holder in the court when he came of age, It was a Danish title worth half the value of an earl. Just as the Earl of Northumbria had access to the title of High County Governor of Benicia, the Earl of Lincoln also used the title of High County Governor of East Anglia (High-Reeve) and had the right to recommend the Lord of Lincoln to the King. The magistrate was responsible for collecting taxes and gathering militia, and since all the ports of Lincolnshire were part of the Five Ports Alliance, the Governor of Lincolnshire was also responsible for handing over to the court a share of the navy's military expenditure.

The more important issue was introduced by the punishment of Robert Mallett, who was the most controversial of the Norman lord's many charges, since according to Anglo-Saxon tradition, woodland had always been a public property belonging to all the people of England, but the Franks and Normans preferred to enclose woodland as a privileged property of the nobility according to Roman law. When William, Duke of Normandy, ascended the throne, he enclosed almost all the woodlands south of Leicester into the royal forest, and set up royal prey guards to supervise the deer and wild boars in all royal woodlands, which led to the displacement of a large number of English people, and the conquered Anglo-Saxons once satirized the Norman king with songs:

"Whoever kills a stag doe will be blinded. He protects the stag and the boar and loves him like a father! He also issued an edict to let the hare run freely, and made a law for this! ”

Edgar was born into a family of squires and enjoyed the privileges of woodland hunting, but in this day and age, he does not allow himself to look exactly like the bloody conqueror: "If we treat the people with evil, we will suffer in purgatory after death!" ”

The king's first words set the tone for the discussion, and the English lords still remembered the Norman invasion seventeen years earlier, so that no one dared to openly oppose it. Next, King Edgar steered the conversation to a more sensitive aspect: land use systems.

At this time, when eighty percent of the kingdom of England was uncultivated, and forests, wilderness, mountains, and marshes covered the counties, and the English had the right to hunt, graze, or collect acorns on these lands under traditional law.

The rotation and fallow of public and private strips of land originally began in the Midland and has spread to the northern counties, even to the vast countryside between the Tyne and Tees. In recent years, with the popularization of heavy ploughing and the introduction of Flemish ploughing horses, some large plough teams have gradually appeared in various country estates, and the ancient Keric class is now seriously divided, some are actually tenant farmers, some are yeoman farmers or semi-tenant farmers, and some are simply fishermen or merchants, as for those coastal fishermen in the old Danfa district, in addition to joining the whaling team, they have even begun to join the navy and privateer as a profession, before Count Rodrigo went south, some whaling ships began to engage in amateur sea raiding, Nowadays, the purchase of privateer rights is becoming more and more popular. In any case, the change of status and cooperative management of Kerr has become an inevitable trend, and Edgar proposed that each county should investigate the distribution of territorial industries, and that public land and private strip fields during the fallow period will enjoy the freedom of public grazing, and that the mountain woodlands will have royal forest rangers, and that permanent rights such as felling and hunting will be opened according to the season of the year.

In order to encourage pasture cultivation and horse and sheep breeding, Edgar implemented a tax reduction on wool exports, and in the future, tariffs will be adjusted according to the development of the local textile industry. Derby racing will be established as a long-term national race, and the prosperity of the horse betting industry will help to increase the enthusiasm of the people to breed horses, and the local lords will be an important force in improving the breed of horses in England.

Such a grand plan made Count Guspatrick excited, his greatest hobby was collecting famous horses and falcons, as for the management of real estate, the development of the northern heath is not a big deal, after all, farming is not a noble occupation, at his age, naturally not willing to improve irrigation, build a mill, leave a reputation as a "windmill knight".

Count Mercia was different, his estate was much larger than the other lords of the kingdom, and the improvement of the land and the multi-garden system meant an increase in population and income, unlike the Norman cousin Robert, who was not interested in hunting and more interested in increasing his wealth and strength.

Of course, nearly half of the land in the entire kingdom belongs to the king himself, and these lands are easier to develop, and there is no need to clear the swamps like the land of the Earl of Lincoln, not to mention, the king has established the right of way and mining rights as the royal patent, and the royal family appoints the local Sein agent to run it, which means that the royal family of England can rely on the income of its own territory alone to equal the total income of all the lords in the country!

Robert Mallett began to tremble, if the country continued like this, the future of any nobleman would depend on London, did this mean that Westminster would have a tyrant who would kill and take away like the Roman emperor?

"If the whole of the Council of the Wise does not control the estates of the royal family, it is only a staff body." The Norman knights realized this, the so-called traditional right to elect the king, in the face of absolute power, is just an empty word, the Duke of Normandy has proven this, the absolute freedom of the monarch, is this the future?

Edgar hadn't thought about such a question, after all, in his previous life, the country was in the hands of the descendants of the Protestant Church and the wool merchants, who did not even have a noble status, and the landed gentlemen may have a prominent Norman name, but the wealth was in the hands of the Whigs, and he came from a time when the Prime Minister of the British Empire was the son of a slave trader!

What Edgar did not realize was that the Hippodrome Council would gradually become a symbol of the strengthening of royal power in England, and that the decree intended to reaffirm Saxon tradition would become an edict to strengthen royal power, and within a hundred years, chroniclers would no longer regard the council as the "Witangemot" of antiquity, but would use the Latin term "Curia-Regis" across the Channel.