It has been more than half a year since the establishment of the Kingdom of Lorik, and many nobles without fiefs have entered William's court, after all, William cannot completely rely on the officials he has cultivated to hold high-level positions.

After all, many of these officials are not descendants of nobles, and many are the children of veterans, or the second sons of knights, or the second sons of some aristocratic families.

After all, their identities were not enough, so William inspected some of the landless nobles, and those who had enough ability were accepted by William as courtiers, handling some things, and holding relatively high-level positions.

This was already the limit of what William could do, and he wanted to use the official class cultivated by the eldest son of the veteran and the second son of the knight to balance the power of the nobles.

But only now did he realize that things were far from simple, and that the officials, although they also played a role as a counterweight to the nobles, did not almost sweep the nobles close to the garbage heap as William imagined.

The aristocracy still had great power, they had money in their hands, and officials without nobility could not compete with the landless nobles with titles.

The landless aristocracy, with less than a tenth of the number of officials, occupied one-half of the high-ranking positions in Wilwill's court.

But I have to say that their abilities are not bad, although they may be slightly different from the officials they have cultivated since childhood, but the status of the nobility makes them invincible.

William's court was thriving, but factions still inevitably appeared, and Jia Yu was not canonized as a nobleman by William, because he was a civil official from the Yun Dynasty and did not attach much importance to titles.

Because in the Yun Dynasty, only military merits can usually be awarded knighthoods, and the words of civil officials are to the extreme, that is, a baron or viscount, with a university scholar or a certain doctor's idle post to return to his hometown.

Now he was in the prime of life, and the age of less than forty made him ambitious, so he did not attach much importance to the title, and he was in charge of the agricultural and partly building functions of the kingdom of Lorik.

He couldn't handle so many things alone, so he had many people under him to help him with them.

There are more than 100 officials under him alone, Jia Yu's methods are good, although some people disobeyed him at first, thinking that he did not have a noble status, but soon he subdued everyone with clever means.

Vidal is also a faction, he is in charge of commerce and commercial construction, and he is in charge of business-related matters, of course, if you want to enact commercial laws, you still have to negotiate with Kenos, and the premise is to get William's consent.

He has more officials than Jia Yu, after all, agriculture does not need so many people to manage, but business is different, he needs more people to assist him in management, this is another faction.

He was in charge of the judicial system, law enforcement agencies, and sentencing courts in Kenos, and he was William's Minister of Justice.

In addition to these three very important functional departments, there is also a tax department, don't look at the Minister of Commerce and the Minister of Agriculture seem so strong, but no matter how well they build, when the money is collected in the end, it is still collected by this tax department.

Such an important department was, of course, held by William's cronies, who personally sent his cousin, the second son of the younger brother of Archduke Wallace, to the post.

His name was Langdeen. Wallace, canonized as a viscount by William, went to take charge of the affairs of the tax department, his ability William has examined, as the son of William's uncle, his ability is also very good, plus the functions of the tax department are not particularly complicated, but it is just to collect taxes, so he is still quite idle.

In addition to him, Canoen has also established his own team in the kingdom to handle diplomatic affairs for William, and now the Kingdom of Lorik has standing embassies in neighboring countries, and also has embassies in the Rodland Empire, the Kingdom of Astra, and the Kingdom of Carmellot.

The number of tax collectors is very large, and the number of tax collectors in the vast territory of the Kingdom of Lorik has reached almost 8,000.

Every village had tax collectors, and commercial towns and commercial cities had a large number of tax collectors, and the taxes of the kingdom of Lorik were all collected by them.

However, the collected taxes do not go into the treasury, in fact, the Kingdom of Lorik does not have a treasury, and many countries in the Holy Religion world do not have a treasury.

Because the king is essentially the largest nobleman in a country, the taxes collected are basically into the king's private treasury, and only those countries where the royal power is not strong, the nobles and the king govern together, will there be a state treasury.

Such state power was usually very decentralized, and the king's rights were divided among the nobles, and the dignified king did not even have the right to prohibit the nobles from fighting privately.

For example, William, the nobles of the Kingdom of Lorik absolutely forbade private wars, and if there is a dispute between two nobles, they can ask William for a ruling, but there is absolutely no war.

William wanted absolute stability in the country, and war was absolutely forbidden.

At this time, the royal capital of Denlenburg had about a hundred thousand inhabitants, and there were many officials and nobles, and although there were occasional struggles between those factions, they were all restrained within the limits of control.

Because several people knew very well that William hated these things, they didn't dare to make a big deal out of it.

Although the collection of taxes was in charge of William's relatives, William was quite cautious when it came to spending money, and he took everything into his own hands.

Even if there is no signature from William, small expenditures must at least be approved by Queen Wella, while large expenditures require William's personal permission.

William kept the army and the money bag firmly in his own hands, and the feudal era, no, the basis of the rule of any era was these two points.

The supreme commander of the army is William, so there is no official position such as military minister, but as long as there are no major incidents, the general affairs of the army are handled by Norwen and Hurim.

Generally, William would inspect the army once a week to do something to continue to strengthen his influence in the army, and the military judges in the army were also promoting William all the time, telling the soldiers that their treatment and benefits were given by His Majesty in the past, and that it was His Majesty the King who was loyal to him, not their commander.

Therefore, William's control of the army can almost be said to be deep-rooted, and no one can compare to William even in the entire Holy Religion world.

While William was dealing with this domestic matter, Tus suddenly entered William's room.

This person who followed William's civilian family as a servant from the beginning can be said to be loyal to William, and after becoming the leader of William's intelligence organization, he also worked diligently for William.

Tus walked in and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, I have something to report to you!" ”

William bowed slightly, motioning for him to continue.

Tus said: "Your Majesty, my people have a vicious incident of corruption and extortion at a tax gate on the border! ”