Chapter 580: National Integration

By noon, all the nobles gathered in the agreed open field with their respective prey, ready to enjoy a delicious lunch in the wilderness.

The servants were cooking their delicacies, and William and his nobles were showing off their catch.

Because there are many red deer, fallow deer and wild boars in the hunting area, the hunting area is more than 900 hectares, and the game is very rich, so almost every nobleman has at least two red deer or two wild boars, and there are almost no nobles who return empty-handed.

The most striking was William's side, who was lucky enough to catch a white deer and two huge wild boars.

"Ladies and gentlemen, God bless, I will share this white deer with you, and everyone can get a piece of white venison for lunch this time!" William carried the white deer and said loudly.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live!" Everyone cheered, and it was a great honor to be able to taste the rare white venison.

William then ordered his servants to peel off the fur of the white deer, keep the deer's head, and cook the rest.

Lunch was hearty, with Spanish ham, delicious wine, queen bread, and the finale, white venison stewed in Burgundy wine.

The hunt continued until 4 p.m., and William and the nobles returned to the castle to have dinner together to celebrate the day's harvest.

These deer and wild boars are usually made by artisans and visited in a prominent place on their respective castle estates as one of their meritorious deeds, some full-body specimens, some pointed-toe specimens, with some ornamentation, which looks very artistic.

William could have rested well after the hunt, but news from England forced him to attend to his official duties by candlelight.

"Lord Ladolph, Godwinson's ghosts have reappeared, and they are really haunted." William said with emotion.

"Yes, remember the last time Tostig caused trouble in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex in eastern England. A few years after Godwinson was crowned, England rebelled at the instigation of Godwinson. Prime Minister Radoff nodded, agreeing with William's words, quite emotional.

"Harold, Gilles, Leofwin, and Tostig have all been awarded, and old Godwin is gone. Godwinson and Alfga. It is certainly no coincidence that Godwinson, one west and one east invaded England. William frowned, touched his chin and said.

"Swain and Alfga's Godwinsen must have the support of Denmark and Norway, and their fleets are mostly Viking longships, and the soldiers who landed are also large Vikings, and we should put out the rebellion at once, and not give the enemy a chance." Radolph suggested.

"Then send the Duke of Richard with the Fourth Army to cooperate with the Civilian Army of England and the Channel Fleet and the North Sea Fleet to completely annihilate them!" William nodded slightly, pointed to Somerset and London, and said:

"We have just moved our capital from London to Paris, and there is another riot in England, Lord Ladolph, how do you say we can solve it once and for all?"

After a moment's thought, Ladolph replied, "I, the Normans, are Norse, who have settled in Normandy, France, and speak French, and are alien to English-speaking English, so we have to build forts in England to suppress rebellions.

If you want to truly bring England under Norman rule, you may be able to accept the Anglo-Saxon culture and become one with the English people. ”

William frowned when he heard this, and immediately refused: "It is impossible to accept the culture and language of the vanquished, not to mention that it is only those Anglo-Saxon nobles who resist, and those ordinary commoners are just blind obedience, as long as the Anglo-Saxon noble families are completely driven out of England, and then the Normans take their place, I believe that England will completely belong to my Normans." ”

"Your Majesty, expel all the Anglo-Saxons, I'm afraid it will make England all over the place." Prime Minister Adolf Ladolph, who has always taken stability maintenance as the criterion, heard this and immediately persuaded him.

"The Anglo-Saxons of England were foreign conquerors, driving out the native Celts and establishing seven kingdoms of the Great and Small Saxons.

Further on, there were the Romans, who also easily conquered England across the sea.

Therefore, there are no native people in England in the first place, and now this group of troublesome Anglo-Saxons are just descendants of the previous generation of English conquerors, and there will not be many Englands, and we only need to expel those Anglo-Saxon nobles with energy, at most a few thousand people, and it will not take much effort.

Then I will open a French school in England, and I will make French the only language and script in England, and at the same time get rid of bad habits, so that my children can learn some of the cultural traditions of my Normans, and in the next ten years of hard work, the next generation of English people will become a part of my Normans completely. ”

Prime Minister Ladolph's methods were still too gentle, and the expulsion of Swan Alfgar from the Godwin family was only a palliative treatment, and there would definitely be another rebellion in the next few years.

In this way, England will always be a Norman colony, not a core of the homeland.

In order to change this, it was necessary to completely transform the culture of the English people from Anglo-Saxon to Norman.

What's more, it's not harder than not, as William said, England has changed hands several times, from the Celts, the Romans, to the Anglo-Saxons, and if the Anglo-Saxons can successfully take England completely, then why can't the Normans succeed?

"Your Majesty, please think carefully, once it is implemented, it will inevitably be a river of blood, not just the expulsion of more than a thousand Anglo-Saxon nobles, it will be bloodshed." The old Daofu still tried to persuade him.

"Since Prime Minister Ladolph is reluctant to do so, I will ask the Duke of Richard to carry them out, and I believe they will be more than willing to do so." Since Prime Minister Ladolph was unwilling, and William did not force it, there were nobles who were willing to act as their executioners.

Even though 2,000 Norman noble knights suppressed the rebellion, William was unwilling to show mercy to England, which was prone to rebellion, and was determined to completely eradicate the Anglo-Saxon nobles with two ambitions.

Of course, because the people of the Middle Ages did not pay attention to national culture at this time, it would be much easier to integrate the nation, so William did not need to kill on a large scale, but only drove all the Anglo-Saxon nobles with cultural heritage out of England, and those ordinary people and serfs who could not read a single word did not need to be taken to heart, and more French schools were built to promote Norman culture.