William deliberately left Andrew, the commander of the Guards. Lieutenant Baron Dalton, on the one hand, William is inseparable from the help of the commander-in-chief, with William's eleven years old, it is difficult for him to directly command the army except for the Guards, on the other hand, William also considers that the Barony of Bessin, where Andrew's Vice-Baron's domain is located, is not far from the capital of Caeng, and he can easily lead the army to suppress the rebellion of the capital of Caon and Barony Besin while helping William deal with military affairs.

With the young, experienced and trustworthy Baron Andrew helping William with military affairs, William was able to handle all the affairs of the county of Mortan with ease.

When William was in Caen, he first sent a letter to Baron Adolphus and Steward Osborne, asking them to send some political officials to help William with government affairs and to set up the administrative framework of his county of Moldan at the county, regional, county and town levels, so that William could better control Moldan.

In addition to training officials in the Knight Academy, William also recruited talented nobles from all over Western Europe and recruited them for use.

Of course, in addition to these methods at present, the appointment of local noble officials in Evler and Mortan is also a very important method, although the appointment of local noble officials may have such and such hidden dangers, but when William's career is on the rise, they do not dare to cause trouble for William.

The county of Mortan, which is almost twice the size of Evreux, has six baronies, including the capital of Caen, the male of Afranche, Cotentin, Besin, Tierry, and Plessis, as well as a parish, a vast plain cultivated land and a large number of estates, which allowed Mortan to mobilize at least 800 knights in its heyday.

Although William eliminated more than 400 knights in this battle, the number of knights who survived due to neutrality and immobility was still as high as 300, and their position was suspicious, and there were still many knights and nobles who sympathized with the rebels, which showed that William's work was not easy.

In order to grasp the power of the knightly nobility of Mortan more quickly, William issued an edict to all the knights of Mortan, ordering them to come to Caen to swear allegiance to William, including the knights under Baron Tyson of Tiri.

After receiving this order from William, Baron Tyson was very resistant, in his opinion, this was William cutting meat with a soft knife, and he absolutely could not accept it.

Hearing the news of Baron Tayson's disobedience, William immediately asked Andrew to lead his troops to arrest Baron Tayson in the barracks and deprive him of his noble title and domain, and what awaits him will be a dark dungeon.

William did not punish the knights who had belonged to Baron Tyson, because William needed these well-trained and well-educated knights, who were already rare talents in the dark Middle Ages when the populace was generally illiterate, and they were necessary for William to revive Normandy.

After accepting the allegiance of the knights of the Barony of Tiri, William issued an edict to all the knights and nobles, ordering them to owe allegiance only to William himself, and any allegiance to other nobles was illegal, and William had the right to deprive them of their estates and knightly titles if they were violated.

The arm couldn't twist the thigh, and under William's strong request, most of the knights still accepted it obediently, after all, their previous lords had been captured by William, and even if they were loyal to other nobles, they had no valid loyalty.

Of course, there were also some people who did not know the times and came forward to openly refuse, but this was a minority after all, and the thirty or so scattered rebel knights were quickly suppressed easily by William's newly canonized nobles and knights.

After mastering all the aristocratic powers, William launched a campaign against more than a dozen cities in the county of Mortan.

Although these cities sent mayors and councillors to swear allegiance after William defeated Earl Kaye's rebels, and gave them the keys to the gates, guaranteeing that the annual feudal tax would not be reduced, William, who had a strong desire to control them, could not allow these autonomous and semi-autonomous cities to exist.

If William accepted their allegiance, then he would not be able to meddle in the internal affairs of these cities, and could only collect a pitiful feudal tax that was less than the huge city taxes, and William could not even levy the city's troops to fight.

More importantly, these isolated cities in the feudal power will give birth to terrible man-eating monsters - capitalism, it is this devil that has guillotined countless enlightened feudal monarchs, and it is also the source of countless evils in modern history, such as the black slave trade, sheep cannibalism, the Opium War, and British child labor.

In response to William's demand for a full takeover of the city, these mayors and councillors were of course unwilling to accept William's "unreasonable demands" and immediately chose to resist.

However, they were too proud of the power in their hands, and the militia of less than a thousand men in each city was no match for William's fully armed elite, and their power was so scattered that they were only a loose alliance with each other, and there was no one of great prestige to unite them.

William didn't give them a chance to gather soldiers, fifteen terrifying counterweight trebuchets were spread out in a row, and under the bombardment of dozens of stone shells, the weak city walls could not last more than a few minutes before William could easily overcome them, and a few cowardly town militias were completely unable to resist the swarming elite Praetorian Guard soldiers.

As the walls were blasted open and cities were occupied, the cities that had survived the attack obediently offered their knees to William, declaring their willingness to accept William's arrangement.

Due to the temporary lack of officials, William had to put these cities under military control, sending a large number of soldiers to garrison these towns to maintain his rule.

Although this slowed down William's military campaign and gave the fleeing Earl of Kay a respite, William did not regret it, because William looted more than 50,000 pounds of silver in these cities and confiscated countless rebels' real estate, shops and other assets, which was not a small supplement to William's huge military spending.

Having quelled the rebellion in the cities of the county of Mortan, I pointed the finger at the strength of the local church.

Of course, when dealing with church affairs, William could not be as simple and rude as he was with those towns, and he had to be cautious, so William pressed his restless heart and waited patiently for William's court priest, Bishop Hamelin, to come to Mortan to handle church affairs for him.

William believed that Bishop Hamelin understood his intentions and helped William divide and disintegrate the local church power, bringing the parish and monastery of Mortan under William's control.