Chapter 543: Dividing Administrative Regions

After William returned to the territory, he immediately planned the newly acquired territory, after all, such a large territory, it is not a matter of letting it go like this.

This time, William officially divided the territory administratively, which was previously small, and it was not so urgent in this regard.

Now that the territory has doubled, it is certainly no longer possible to govern in the same way as before.

William divided the captured Chekel steppe into two counties and redefined the administrative boundaries of the counties of Denlenburg and Issamdenburg.

And the two Chekels were named Claurenshire and Thatchershire, which were named after these two people with a strong Lorde culture, in order to weaken the Chekel atmosphere here.

He was afraid that these two places would be independent in the future, even if William had assimilated the tree for a hundred years in his previous life, wouldn't many places be independent, and the pig's brain would beat the dog's brain?

He wanted to erase the traces of the Chekel nation in every way, and to make them admit from the bottom of their hearts that they were a Loerdian.

William sent 50,000 orcs in his territory to build various facilities here, especially roads and fortresses, and to give priority to construction.

He planned to build a towering and majestic fortress in the center of each of the two counties, and even if it was not for defense, the deterrent effect was important.

In addition to this, there were easy to pass stone roads, and there were many forts dotted around, which William intended to build.

He wants to learn from the Celestial Empire in his previous life and use his main ethnic group to assimilate these new peoples, William doesn't believe it, will the two-to-one population ratio still be unstable?

In this way, two extra counties were divided, and this area must have been William's direct domain.

Not to mention that William's strength can deter vassals, this time they really didn't make much effort, and being able to give them some spoils can make them satisfied.

Of course, if they also exert a lot of force, then even if William is strong, then they will fight for their "legitimate" rights.

I definitely want to get a piece of this pie and get a new territory for myself.

This is also a feature of the feudal system of this era.

However, these two newly divided counties are indeed very important places for William, cattle, sheep, war horses, light cavalry, and high-quality iron ore are all produced here, and it is the best way to control it in William's hands.

William has also trained a lot of reserve officials over the years, most of them are the second sons of knights, especially the children of knights in the inner palace, and they have received the education of high-level bureaucrats.

His vassals also gave their children to William, and the eldest son was trained in knighthood and some etiquette, as well as arithmetic and simple economics.

As for the second son, he was educated as an official like the children of the knights.

With their presence, it is possible to make the inhabitants of these two counties live in peace and contentment without the assistance of any nobles, and it is firmly in the hands of William.

Of course, William was also mixed with water among these officials, and the soldiers who died in battle, or the sons of the column commanders and brigade commanders, could also receive these educations.

Although William's vassals did not pose any threat to him, it was always a hidden danger, and if his descendants were weak, or if the nobility was too inflated during his lifetime, he also had a force to fight with.

The so-called power needs to be balanced, William's class is aristocracy, he represents the interests of all nobles, but he hopes that another interest group will emerge.

It is these groups of officers, although the nobles are military chiefs in the first place, but they have developed different identities because of this.

Officers do not hold any titles, they are inherently ostracized by the nobility, and since they are all part of William's army, their loyalty is far greater than that of vassals.

Of course, this is just an experiment, and William is still strong, and no vassal can turn out the palm of his hand.

Now, if nothing else, William was able to centralize power in at least these two counties, and no vassal could interfere with any of his decisions.

In fact, it is indeed difficult to rely on the population of more than one million people in the territory to call these Chekers, there were more than 300,000 Norvids in the territory, and they have just been settled, and now they have to come to receive a group of immigrants, and they have to take away the residents in the territory, so that they are mixed, and even the Lorddians may no longer be the main ethnic group.

This problem can only be solved most effectively after seizing the throne of the Kingdom of Tskema and obtaining the three million citizens of the kingdom.

Otherwise, any other policies and methods are nonsense, and many times it still depends on one's own hard power.

The speed of the construction of 50,000 orcs was very fast, and in only half a month, the stone road with the same number of stone pavements as the two armies of Denglenburg and Issamdenburg was repaired, and ten kilometers were built from Denglenburg to the east.

The entire project only needs to extend 400 kilometers to the east, and at this rate, it will only take more than a year or two years to complete, not to mention that William can transport a large number of orcs from the colony of Mainek every month, and this construction period may be advanced.

The first settlers had already set out, numbering about 10,000 people, including some Norweeds in addition to the Lorddians.

William promised that when they went to Clauren and Thatchershire, each of them would be given twenty acres of land, and forty acres of arable land if the families of the servicemen went.

This is several times the amount of arable land that is now five acres per civilian and ten acres per military dependent, although the Lourdes are far less enthusiastic about land than the Celestial Empire in William's previous life, but as an agricultural people, they still crave land.

Of course, William did not create any tax exemption or tax reduction class, which could easily lead to tax evasion.

It is still thirty percent of the agricultural tax, which is much more than the ten taxes and one in William's previous life, but compared to the other countries and territories in the Holy Religion world, which often pay six or seven percent of the taxes plus the church's tithes, the life of William's people is still very happy.

Meat, milk and eggs are available almost every day, and there are still some leftover copper coins at home, which can be used to go to the tavern for recreation, which is much better than the serfs in other places.

However, their status was still serf, unlike other territories, there was not a single yeoman farmer or freeman in William's territory, all of them were his serfs.

Including themselves, they were William's property, and his possessions, William not only brainwashed them loyally, but also made this idea more deeply rooted.

They were even happy and proud that they were the serfs of the Earl, which was not false, the limitations of the times made them uninformed, and William had to say that the policy of fooling the people was really useful, no wonder so many emperors had to use the policy of fooling the people.

In this way, one village after another was established, and they appointed the village officials to be William's man, and they began to measure a large amount of land and began to divide the land.