The Imperial Council was convened again more than half a year after the emperor left the imperial capital, and the ministers gathered were all important members such as the think tank and chief consul of the imperial supreme staff. Ｘ

Due to the needs of foreign wars, Alexios did not stay in Constantinople for a long time.

In order to secure the throne, the Imperial Supreme divided powers, and a cabinet consisting of the Queen Regent Mary, the Consul Condos Defanos, and the Patriarch Basil dominated the administrative center of the Empire.

But this cabinet is a conservative bureaucracy, which is completely inconsistent with Alexios's concept of the great heart of imperial change.

The implication of this meeting is to adjust the original policy.

Alexioste deliberately set up roundtable talks, giving the greatest respect to the cabinet officials and quietly changing the vices inherited from the Justinian era.

The kiss was appropriate for captives who surrendered, but it was a great humiliation for the courtiers of the empire itself, and it was now possible to dispense with this ritual every time the imperial generals and the imperial council.

"My Majesty!"

"Shouldn't your summons serve no purpose this time?"

The consul Condos Defanos was a veteran of the previous dynasty, and Alexios had the utmost respect for the loyal imperial bureaucrat.

"There's nothing to hide, my intention in summoning you here is very simple, that is, to make a change to the land policy of the empire's military districts, which should by the way vacate some seats that can be left for the future new stars of the empire."

Condos de Phanos immediately changed color, if the emperor's early policy adjustment only changed the names of some administrative institutions of the empire, this change means that the core interests of the rentier class are really touched.

"Your Majesty, how much force do you plan to launch, is it a one-time or long-term one-time one?"

During their long years, the imperial consuls witnessed various changes in current affairs, and too many reforms were failed in the face of opposition, and even directly ruined the family.

Over time, every country will give birth to a large number of vested interests, who stand at the top of the state and exploit the fruits of the labor of the people at the bottom, and the emperor collectively refers to these people as the rentier class.

"The empire has not punished these magnates for so long that everyone has forgotten who the empire's Civil Law Encyclopedia is designed to protect!"

The consuls were very intrigued about the affairs underneath, and the generals of the military districts effectively controlled the economic development of the military districts by virtue of their military and administrative powers.

With the expansion of **, these people gradually departed from the original intention of establishing military districts to defend the territorial integrity of the empire.

The generals used their power to issue military estates to take possession of the high-quality land in their jurisdiction.

Moreover, through military labor and other means, the peasants and soldiers in the area under their jurisdiction were forced to surrender their own land in order to expand their industries.

With the passage of time, successive emperors have supported their cronies among the nobles and entrusted them with important tasks, and the implementation of military districts has expanded the base of the imperial peasants and soldiers while also fattening these large military aristocrats.

The Vorkas, the Ducasses, and even the royal Komnenos all benefited from such actions to the detriment of public and private interests, and eventually even began to covet the emperor's throne.

The descendants of these nobles combined with the power of the family through the feudal estates obtained by their fathers, alternated the power of the imperial inheritance, and then slowly grew up.

"The royal family's property has been leased to ordinary peasants at a low price, and 20,000 imperial citizens have been resettled, which can be regarded as the Atonement of the Komnenos for the empire."

"But what about the nobles?"

"The big landowners descended on those unfortunate villages like plague and gangrene, devouring the land, eroding the very fabric of the empire, and driving the small peasants to the brink of death!"

In the face of the emperor's condemnation, the imperial consul had already smiled helplessly, he had seen such things too much, so that he had long been numb.

The enthusiasm of his time in politics has also vanished, and now the only thought is to stabilize the situation in the empire and make a smooth transition during his lifetime.

Isn't this the norm in the Empire!

Every dynasty will inevitably experience the rise and fall, the slow concentration of land, and then the concentrated outbreak of contradictions, and the replacement of the royal family.

The only difference is that, unlike the old Eastern Central Empire, Byzantium did not overthrow the old dynasty after the concentration of land, but the new great aristocratic landlords replaced the old royal family and then distributed the land.

This is the original sin that every Roman royal family can't wash away!

"Your Majesty, you are so eager!"

"This is something that successive emperors wanted to do but did not succeed!"

"Then let it go?"

"Let those poor peasants become aristocratic pronities (serfs)?"

"Condos de Phanos!"

"You are the consul of the empire, the consul of all Roman citizens, not the consul of the nobility!"

"You should be clear about my determination to reorganize the military region, the decay of the military region is the work of the nobility and the church, and you don't know what the reduction of the national army means?"

"Why could the previous Supreme Emperor Alexios I only drive foreign mercenaries to fight on the battlefield?"

"Why is the emperor's combat power deteriorating?"

"It's not because these mercenaries are not subjects of the empire, they just covet the high bounties given by the empire, and once the empire's finances are short, these people will not hesitate to mutiny!"

"Why don't I dare to put the Second Legion in the Imperial Capital?"

"It's not that I'm afraid that they will mutiny and ravage Gyeonggi when the time comes!"

"Don't you know where it all came from?"

"If this continues, the empire will soon run out of troops, and finally even to the point where there are no troops available!"

In fact, the emperor did not say another reason, that is, during the Palaioleg Dynasty, with the loss of the achievements of the former Laskalis Dynasty in renovating the military area, the imperial military system deteriorated, and finally reached the point where it could only rely on foreign mercenaries.

Note that they are not foreign mercenaries, but foreign mercenaries, who do not settle directly in the Empire as in the past when the Roswarajangi Corps were located, but temporarily serve as guards for the defense of the Empire for a high bounty.

To do so was to hand over the wealth of the country to foreigners, and the end result was that the state was burdened with heavy military expenditures and the Roman people were miserable under heavy pressure.

"We must tax the nobility and the church heavily, and the more land we have, the more taxes we have to pay!"

"And the Empire will appoint new officials to visit and trace down the details of the land transactions of the past fifty years, and any transactions that do not conform to the Roman Civil Code must be corrected!"

Condos Defanos trembled and held his forehead with his hand: "You know what? ”

"Who was the last emperor to do this?"

Alexios looked directly at the Imperial Archon and replied slowly, "The founder of this dynasty, Isaac, was deposed!" ”

The Emperor's retainer struggled to widen his tarnished eyes, and he tried to read every expression on Alexios' face.

"I think my butcher's knife should be a little harder than their neck!"

"Emperor Justinian can send Mercenaries of Isuria to kill tens of thousands of people in the imperial capital mercilessly in the arena for his throne!"

"Emperor Basil can blind the prisoners of war in order to defeat Bulgaria, and make Bulgaria regret being an enemy of the Empire, I think my sword should be no slower than theirs!" r