There are always many places to discuss the provincial system, military, technological, economic, cultural, and religious aspects of ancient Rome for Prime Minister William and Duke Ladolph.

Prime Minister Ladolph was a man of erudition who often came up with refreshing ideas, and William was a man of inquisitiveness, who would gladly go and discuss any questions he had.

Of course, Chancellors William and Ladolph did not lose sight of business - to develop a provincial system suitable for the Norman kingdom.

There are similarities between the Norman Kingdom and the ancient Roman Empire, but there are also great differences, the ancient Roman province system was set up to maintain the rule of the Romans in the newly conquered areas, so as to better serve the expansion, while William set up the province for the above purposes, but what he wanted more was how to use the provincial system to maintain the rule and continuation of the Norman Dynasty, so as to ensure that the Norman family ruled the kingdom unchanged for thousands of years.

In the Norman kingdom, William had already ruled the new territories by canonizing noble vassals in the frontiers and newly conquered regions, and he preferred how to strengthen the control of the vassals and strengthen the centralization of power through the provincial system.

Like the remote region of Ireland, an island nation just across the sea from England proper, William's rule over the region was so weak that he could not rule it directly through the establishment of various government agencies, and could only canonize it to four cronies and nobles.

Such a situation was intolerable for William, who had the idea of "great unification" and the idea of "the coast of the land is not the king's land", and sooner or later William would have to take back the ruling power over the Irish region.

The establishment of the provincial system may have been an opportunity for William, an opportunity to take back the ruling power of the aristocratic vassals in remote areas.

However, in addition to the many noble vassals in the remote areas, the Norman kingdom was more than a mixture of royal and aristocratic vassals, and the lands on both sides of the English Channel and the surrounding area of Paris, France, were all Wilhelm's direct territories.

These territories include the Duchy of Normandy, Brittany, Paris-Valois-Amiens-Wiissant, Champagne, Orleans, Burgundy, Bourges, Poitou, and Aquitaine in France, the eastern, southern, and central counties of Wessex, Somerset, and Dorset, London, Essex, Oxford, Northampton, and southern Mercia in France, the plains of southern Scotland, and the regions of Lothian, Edinburgh, and Gouri, and the Alsace-Lorraine, Verdun, and Luxembourg in Lorraine. Ulych and other places.

It can be said that William's direct domain accounted for more than half of all the territory of the kingdom, and these territories were previously governed by personal officials, stewards, cronies and knights sent by William's court, and everything was decided by William.

However, how could William have put all the jurisdiction of these territories in the hands of the officials of the royal government, and there were still powerful ministers in Chinese history who threatened the throne, but was there no such thing in the countries of Western Europe?

Not to mention the future, not to mention the far, just Pepin of the Carolingian family, the founder of the Farankian Empire, who informed the Franks of the Molovingian dynasty, and he usurped the crown of the Molovingian dynasty during his tenure as prime minister, which is clearly remembered by William, who is familiar with history.

It's not that William doesn't trust his prime minister, Duke Ladolph, Ladolph is William's own uncle, and William naturally trusts him, but there is always a time when Ladolph steps back from the position of prime minister, so is his successor worthy of William's trust, and will he follow Pepin of the Carolingian dynasty to usurp the throne of the Normandy dynasty?

None of these Williams can guarantee it.

Therefore, in order to strengthen the direct power of the Norman Dynasty and limit the power of the prime minister, William decided to follow the practice of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in setting up the inner and outer courts, and divided the original inner and outer courts into two institutions: the inner and outer courts.

The Inner Palace, as the name suggests, is William's private court, a government agency dedicated to managing the royal territories, mines, trading companies and other affairs within the kingdom.

The officials of the Inner House were mainly composed of the following parts: first, William's personal butler and steward, represented by Osborne Steward and Phale Osborne, whose highest official position was the chief of the court; the second is the canonized direct barons and knights of the inner palace in William's direct domain, who are under the command of several direct barons who have been awarded the title of court earl by William; Three were William's immediate officers, including those led by Russell. Morality. The Count of Bagloel and his intelligence services, the magistrates and magistrates of all the places, the magistrates and magistrates of all places, and the magistrates and magistrates of all places.

In general, it was these officials who were responsible for administering William's direct domains, the royal court stewards and stewards administering the lands, estates and estates, the Earl of Russell as his eyes and ears, the magistrates and magistrates of all regions administering the people for him, the chancellors and magistrates for him to denounce lawlessness and maintain justice, and the direct barons' vassals and knights of the inner palace inspected the realms on his behalf to deter unscrupulous people.

The Inner Palace, which consisted of these private officials and cronies and aristocrats, far surpassed the Shaofu of the Qin and Han dynasties, the most powerful imperial institution in Chinese history.

But even so, the area under the jurisdiction of the Inner Government was relatively limited, and it could only administer the territories on both sides of the English Channel and around London, Paris, and Lorraine, and the rest of the territory further afield.

William first divided these territories under the direct jurisdiction of the Inner Government into nine provinces: Normandy, Brittany, Paris-North France, East France, Aquitaine, South of England, London-East England, Central England, and Lorraine.

William did not appoint governors of provinces, but appointed magistrates, magistrates, chancellors, and court barons to inspect various places and serve as inspector general of a province.

In areas where the crown was concentrated, William set up provinces under his direct jurisdiction according to the above system, and those provinces in remote areas were very different from those directly under the central government.

Generally speaking, the area of those provinces that are not directly under the central government is much larger than that of the provinces directly under the central government, and the economic and demographic indicators of those provinces are too different from those directly under the central government, so they are established accordingly.

The non-direct provinces of England are mainly concentrated in the northern part of England, namely Wales, Ireland, North England, South Scotland and North Scotland.

The non-directly governed provinces of France are mainly concentrated in the southern region, including the central French department and the southern French department.

In addition, there are Belgian provinces in the north of Flanders and Lorraine.

In order to avoid the strong opposition of the local nobles, William temporarily appointed the local nobles as the governors of the province, but the rest of the officials were appointed by Paris.