Chapter 486: Placing the Norwids
In the course of a month, where did Power go to deal with a lot of things, and having cleared most of the backlog of documents, he turned his attention to the Norvid people.
At the beginning, he spent 300,000 silver coins to buy 300,000 Norweeds, which is equivalent to one silver coin per person, which is simply the price of cabbage.
But there is a reason why it can be bought at this price, and if it is a Loerdian, it is definitely impossible to sell it at this price.
After all, the Norweed and the Lorde are two races, and the culture and customs between them are completely different, and even if they are bought, it will be extremely troublesome to rule.
After all, Norwid is a fierce person, and many times they have to draw their swords when they disagree, and they don't believe in the Holy Father, so it is quite troublesome for the lords of the Holy Sect World to control.
The more than 200,000 Norwedians were temporarily placed in the territory before William became an earl, that is, in the area of Menders, and since William was not there, Vidal did not know what to do with these people, so where they still lived in the same way.
William's goal was to assimilate the Norweeds, so the first thing he did was to arrange for the monks to forcibly convert among them.
William was accompanied by hundreds of soldiers and knights to the outside of the Norwedian settlement, they were still captives after all, and they had the consciousness of being captives, but there was no resistance or escape.
But even so, in order to prevent these Norvidian riots, Vidal also arranged more than 10,000 militia guards here, 300,000 is not a random number, although there are only about 250,000 left all the way here, but this is still a huge number.
William rode up to a Norweed family, whose men had apparently died on the battlefield, and in addition to an old woman and a young woman, there were two teenage girls and a boy of seven or eight years old, who had fortunately survived the previous war.
William dismounted and walked over to them.
"Be careful, William!" Norwin grabbed William's arm and said, "They're dangerous!" ”
William smiled, and then said, "No, they just don't have the citizens of the country, and they will be my people in the future!" ”
With that, William patted Norwin on the shoulder and walked over to the family.
And when they saw William approaching, they were quite vigilant, the two women stood together, and the three children were held in their arms, looking at William vigilantly.
Although they didn't know William's identity, they only had to look at what he was wearing to know that he was a nobleman among the Lordes, and as long as they were Loerdes, they could be called their enemies.
When they returned to Denlenburg, although the soldiers who were like wolves on the battlefield did not commit any crimes against them, they showed no mercy to those who tried to escape, and the family was deeply impressed by the countless casualties caused by a burst of arrows.
William walked nearby, smiled and showed that he had no ill intentions, he said, "I won't hurt you!" ”
"I am the Count of Denlenburg, and I am the master of this place!" William looked at the three children with a smile: "I paid you to buy it, otherwise you may be executed as prisoners of war by other nobles!" ”
Hearing the words of execution, the vigilance in the eyes of the two women became stronger, and they hugged the three children tighter with some nervousness.
"Don't worry, since I bought you, your lives won't be in danger! I want to rule you as my people, and I will treat you the same as the Lordes! I will be your lord from now on, and I will guarantee your safety! ”
"You...... Are you telling the truth? ”
The youngest boy asked in a milky voice.
"Of course! Why else would I pay to buy you back? I want you to be my people and serve me! ”
William looked a little moved, but the two women who still had vigilance on their faces said: "I know, you hate me and the Holy War Army, but you must know that we are also duty, if it wasn't for your King Lagunar who provoked this war, would our Holy Sect World plan this war?" ”
"What's more, King Lagunar used so many Norwid warriors as bait just to kill us, and he never thought that behind every Norwid warrior he used as a victim there was a happy family, and their wives and daughters were looking forward to their husbands and fathers coming home!"
"It's the war, it's the war that Lagunar started that killed your family! I'll let you live a good life in the future! ”
"Each of your families will get a piece of land, and as long as you can remarry a Lorde, you will be able to live a very good life!"
"You should have seen it afterwards, how the residents here live, as long as you want, you can live like this!"
Listening to William's demagogic words, the two women were moved, they relaxed their vigilance, saluted William sadly, and then said, "If that's the case, that's great! ”
The old woman cried and said, "Damn, Lagunar who should be cursed by the god of war!" At the beginning, he said that this was a battle related to the fortunes of the Norweed Kingdom, and said that after victory, they would definitely be sent back, and they would get a lot of loot, and we believed him! ”
However, this was in exchange for his madness! We trusted him so much that he threw our family on the battlefield as victims! ”
"My husband! My eldest son, and my youngest son, who was not married, all died on the battlefield! ”
The old lady cursed Lagunar desperately, and hugged the young lady and cried.
William could only be comforted, and then he went to other families to declare to them that he wished to bring them under his rule.
I have to say that Lagunar gave a divine assist for the gift, if he hadn't used these people's families as sacrifices before, William would have wasted a lot of effort to subdue them.
And now, hearing about William's wishes and assurances, most of them expressed their willingness to accept William's rule.
Of course, William only visited a dozen families, and the rest of the promotion propaganda had to test his own officials and propaganda organizations.
William was planning to marry these young and fertile women to men who were not yet married, or who had some difficulty in marrying, and forbade Norweed to intermarry with each other, after all, for the sake of racial integration.
And those women who can't be distributed can be used as capital to attract some out-of-town refugees, in short, this is a sure deal.