William looked at the report documents handed to him by Vidal and Tuss, and couldn't help but be very satisfied.

His edict restricting merchants was achieved in just one month, the merchants' strength was successfully curbed, and the workers became aware of what their employers were.

I also understood that only the Earl was the one who would really protect them and think about them.

But then, another report from Tus made William slightly unhappy.

Those merchants were really not vegetarians, they even united with some foreign businessmen, and reached Charlemagne, who was in the army.

They even hoped that Charlemagne's influence on William would make him change his mind.

Unfortunately, although they reacted quickly, they clearly chose the wrong way, and Charlemagne, although extremely brilliant, almost obeyed his father's words.

This is not to say that he is a cowardly person who has no opinions, but William is indeed right in many things, and many times Charlemagne is indeed very assertive, but he knows what is right.

To William's relief, Charlemagne had apparently realized the disadvantages of the merchants, and although he did not drive them away directly, he had already revealed a clear meaning that he would never disobey his father.

Now Charlemagne is serving in the Terlenburg infantry, and he doesn't need to worry about the Knights, because many of his friends will enter the Knights, and his control over the Knights will not be weak in the future.

Only the Denlenburg infantry, and it is true that the second sons of some knights would join the Denlenburg infantry as officers, but that was only a minority after all.

He had to stay in the army for a while and gain the respect of everyone in the army, so that he could ensure the security of his position and that he would be able to succeed William in the future.

He was training a group of recruits at this time, and as the heir to the Earl, it was obviously inappropriate to go to the lowest level to be a small soldier, and some people even directly proposed that Charlemagne be a high-ranking officer.

However, William knew that it was obviously not feasible to be promoted so suddenly, and it would not be possible to achieve the purpose of making Charlemagne enhance the prestige of the army.

In fact, Charlemagne's desire to establish prestige in the army is very simple, after all, his contributions in the previous holy wars have made him famous in the entire holy world, and many people in the Denlenburg infantry have good intentions towards him and have a feeling of admiration.

As long as he can show his affection and dependence on the army, and establish certain relationships here, he will be able to control the entire Denlenburg army.

In addition, he also has some friends in the army who are nobles and knights' second sons, and when the time comes, William will promote these people and the low-level officers who have established relationships with Charlemagne as much as possible according to their abilities, so that Charlemagne can establish prestige.

"Hold on! You must have had this training after you became a militia, and your instructors are all battle-hardened soldiers on the battlefield, and they must have given you how to stand in a military posture and how to maintain the array! ”

Charlemagne, while standing in a military position, shouted to the ten soldiers around him, that when he came to the army, he had been assigned to a newly established squad to serve as officers, and at this time the army was expanding, so he needed to train these soldiers with him.

It turned out that a large part of the veterans of the Denglunburg infantry went to serve as team officers, and the original team officers were recruited and promoted to rank commanders on the basis of merit, and the higher brigade commanders were served by the original column commanders.

And Zhen, a military cao who can command 1,200 people, needs to be carefully selected from among the brigade commanders, and the best among them will go through a period of special training, and then after a period of investigation, they can really take up the post of military cao.

As for the division, which has reached a sequence of 3,600 people, it is no longer possible for these people to serve as the division, after all, even if they have a lot of command experience, they need a period of training and further study.

And the division commander, a senior officer who currently has only three in the whole army, asked William to carefully investigate.

He now has several candidates, the first of which is Barlow, the former deputy commander of the Third Army of the Rodland Empire, who claims to be a criminal soldier.

That's a position that can command more than 10,000 people, even if he is only a deputy, but how can he be in such a position without any real ability.

After many years of hearing and seeing, he must be familiar with the whole process of commanding an army, so William intends to promote him, although he has not been loyal to him for a long time, there may be some rumors, but William still intends to promote him.

The second is his brother-in-law Lolitsa, whom William chose for many reasons.

If the position of division commander was made purely for the sake of the combat effectiveness of the troops, then he Lolitsa had more other factors.

First, Lolitsa's loyalty can be fully guaranteed, his eldest son and second son were all educated by William, coupled with his strong strength, the army that can be deployed in peacetime has reached more than 2,000 people, which is not far from more than 3,000 people in a division.

Second, as Wella's younger brother, that is, Charlemagne's uncle, he was assigned to the Denlenburg infantry as a division commander, which also meant to pave the way for Charlemagne, and he must have been a supporter of Charlemagne in the military at that time.

Thirdly, it is not reasonable to send vassal vassals with territories and armies to serve in their own troops.

However, a closer look reveals that there were only four landed nobles serving in William's army, namely Norwen and Urimu, as well as the heavy infantry commander Banstersk, and the deputy commander of the Iron Cross Knights, Delsys.

Among the dead men, Norwen and Urimu were extremely close to William, and Bansztesk and Delseth were both courtiers who had followed William in his northern and southern wars more than ten years ago, and only recently obtained fiefs.

These four people have a good relationship with William, and if you add a brother-in-law of William, the brother of the lord's wife, and the uncle of the heir to the title, Lolisa, it will undoubtedly create an impression on his other vassals, releasing a kind of fiefdom nobles who can serve in my territory are the vassals with whom I have the best relationship.

This will also have some centralizing effects, although it may not be too obvious, but some of them are still there.

At this moment, the positions of the two division commanders have been selected, but there is still a position that is undecided.

As for the corps commander, for the time being, William himself will be in charge, and even the division commander is enough for a vacant unit where to choose a corps commander.

If there is really no candidate, then William will have to take on the position of division commander himself.

As for the newly acquired mountain village, although he also has a lot of research on the art of war, but speaking of which, it is more appropriate for him to train the power in the shadows, William still hopes to be more secure, and it is better to have more of this kind of power for assassins and intelligence gathering to balance each other.