Chapter 253: Knight of the Inner Palace

These eighty people want to be ugly, and it is difficult for knights who have lost their own mining to get the attention of others. (10,000 volumes, full text hand-typed debut)

Of course, William would not hastily deprive them of their territory and let them go with the flow, which would not only make them become precarious wandering knights, but also reduce the security of the territory.

It will also make William's reputation bad, which will greatly affect the conversion of others or the allegiance of the knight, after all, no one wants to be loyal to a feudal lord who will deprive the knight of his territory and banish him.

What's more, how could William let the elite combat power that had already been in his hands pass in vain, although these eighty people were the eighty people who were eliminated, but the knight was still a knight after all.

The Count of Loire, as one of the best counts in the Kingdom of Tskema, his knightly combat effectiveness is still quite good, and these eighty people are just inferior to those hundred people.

In fact, these eliminated knights will be very easy to canonize any lord with a free territory.

It's just that there are too few lords with free territories here.

His purpose in doing this was to weaken the power of the knightly class and reduce the number of knights in his territory.

At present, he ruled over a city, two castles, two towns, eighteen manors, and nearly five hundred villages.

Of the 500 villages, more than 200 were estates belonging to the knights, and apart from a very small amount of annuities and taxes every year, they were basically out of William's control.

And William is better, at least he can collect some taxes, and the other lords don't get any income except for some annuities.

Therefore, William wanted to weaken the rights of these knights in the same way that he weakened the rights of the nobles.

I have to say that it was really not a wise choice for William to choose this time to carry out this matter, after all, he had just outlawed the rights and interests of the nobles and offended them clearly.

But in just a few days, the rights of these knights were banned, which was equivalent to offending both sides.

According to the right reason, William should give more rights to the knights, or recruit more knights to suppress the nobles.

The relationship between the feudal lord and the vassals is not only the relationship between allegiance and allegiance, but also the relationship between the two and there are many disputes and conflicts of interest.

However, they rarely collide with real fanfare, after all, the feudal monarch has a natural advantage in identity, as long as the feudal monarch has some skills, then it is easy to clean up the vassals who are against him.

Therefore, the vassals generally fight with the vassal in secret, such as William's ban on the rights of the vassals some time ago, which is a kind of struggle.

But in the short term, the nobles will definitely not break out into conflict with William, although if you ask yourself, William has gone too far.

As a lord, without the support and support of the nobles, then you must maintain your own strength, and the loyalty and number of knights have become a standard to measure the strength of the lord.

If it were placed in the ordinary aristocracy, the benefits brought by the repossession of those rights should be used to buy knights or recruit more knights.

And William, in turn, did the opposite, offending both sides.

But William's move, although it seems absurd, is paving the way for future development.

Originally, the knights were born because of the lack of productivity, the nobles could not afford to raise heavy cavalry, and they did not understand the development of the territory very well.

Then the territory can only be divided to the nobles of various classes, and the needs of the knights are also fulfilled by the estate.

But now, the productivity of William's domain can fully afford to feed a sufficient number of heavy cavalry, compared to the current Mendes heavy cavalry, the only possibility that the knights are more experienced in combat, and the heavier cavalry are better at foot combat.

But if William took back those villages, the lands and the people would definitely be able to provide William with more productivity, at least more than in the hands of the knights.

And in this way, he can feed more regular troops and have more powerful combat effectiveness.

However, due to the current mainstream of the mainland, William still can't ban the knights, and even his idea of banning the nobility is even more whimsical.

However, William did make an effort and it worked, and the reason he dared to offend both classes at the same time was because of his wounded regular army.

Neither the Manders infantry nor the Manders heavy cavalry were vegetarians, and although the Manders knights had some rights outlawed by William, they were living better and richer than before.

At the beginning, although they all had a village as a miner, their lives were not very good, and it was not easy to eat better meals.

Although the children are not yellow-faced and thin-skinned, it is all because they are in good health and can become a knight.

Their standard of living was not high, but after William's various reforms, their lives were noticeably better.

All kinds of meat, eggs, and milk can often be eaten, and the family has a lot of property, and his armor is also issued by the earl, so what is there to dislike?

Therefore, they have been violated in their rights, but they have become William's hardcore supporters.

William will also use these methods to win over those knights in the future.

William looked at the eliminated knights who were lost and depressed, and said, "Don't worry, knights, although you have been eliminated with a white background, I will not let you leave!" ”

"You're going to have a lot of choices!" William smiled mysteriously and said, "For example, now, I have a good way to settle you!" ”

"I'm going to send some of my knights to serve as my knights!"

As soon as William's words came out, they did not cause any sensation in the field, but made the knights curious.

William was not very surprised, he had traveled through six years, and he had never heard of the Knight of the Inner Mansion here, obviously there was no Knight of the Inner House on the mainland.

William began to explain to them patiently: "This kind of knight of the inner palace is something that I suddenly thought of. ”

"I'm thinking, although the knights are loyal, after all, they have their own fiefs, and it's not easy to stay with their own feudal lords at any time!"

"Anyway, isn't it just for the knights to get income, I'll just pay my knights a salary and let them serve in the castle!"

"They'll get the best training, the best equipment, the best horses."

"Their wives served as female officers in the castle, and their children were trained in the castle, and the eldest son succeeded him"

"And the second son will be educated and become a low-level official in my territory!"

"This is the Knight of the Inner House, the Knight Family that has served me and my family for generations, the most loyal and trusted group of people I trust!"

William said impassionedly, because he was also very much looking forward to the production of the knights of the Inner House.

"The number of knights in the inner palace is about forty, and they will be produced among all the troops who can ride horses in the territory, including the heavy cavalry!"