As the regent and acting as the king, William naturally had to do something to make the princes and nobles happy.

According to William's experience, the reform of the central institutions easily touched the fragile nerves of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, and easily triggered the confrontation between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons, but the reform of local affairs did not have to worry about this, especially when the actual area of the reform was within William's territory, naturally no one would object, and even some troublemakers secretly had a little bit of a joke in mind.

The royal power of medieval Europe was generally weak, as exemplified by the fact that the Normans, who were pirates, were able to take over West Francia in 911.

In the middle of the 11th century, when the Normans conquered England, in France "there were many small states and monarchs that were almost unfamiliar with each other, and that were independent of each other," and "all national and political unity had disappeared from our land."

After settling in Normandy, they began to enter agriculture and establish a feudal system modeled on the Frankish kingdom, and the Duke of Normandy began to divide the secular nobles and knights, converted to Christianity and established churches, and the appendage of the feudal system - local secession also occurred in Normandy from time to time.

It was only when William was in charge of the Duchy of Normandy that he relied on his outstanding political skills to firmly control Normandy in his own hands, and after more than a hundred years of development, Normandy became one of the most mature feudal regions in Western Europe.

Normandy had already established a rudimentary system of administration, with William's court council (curia) in the center and William's direct viscount (vicomte) and local officials at the local level. The viscount had become a public official and not just a land custodian of William, who was responsible for commanding William's soldiers to guard the castle, collecting taxes from William's domain, and ensuring justice and peace in the jurisdiction.

William's court council system was the same as that of the Capetian dynasty in France, consisting of a number of dukes' cronies, nobles, archbishops, and viscounts.

Because the system of court councils was originally established, it had not yet formed a fixed system, there was no fixed place of office and regular convening, and the members did not have clear positions and titles, and the affairs dealt with included adjudicating conflicts between lords, jurisdictional disputes between nobles and churches, the possession of land by monasteries, the relocation of sacred bones, and even the sending of troops to England against the Godwins.

Obviously, the judicial function of the Council was very prominent, and although professional judges did not yet appear at this time, it was usually handled by high priests or viscounts, who were relatively more familiar with the law, and the officials and nobles of the Council often made rounds of William's domain.

Strong royal power, a mature administrative and judicial system, these advanced systems were the supreme magic weapon of William's victory over the enemy, and in the face of the weak Capetian dynasty, the Normans who worked together could always win the battle.

Speaking of which, William's military talent is still weaker than his political talent, he needs many generals to assist him when commanding the army, relying more on hardware advantages such as equipment, discipline training and soldier quality, and in terms of command art, William believes that he is far inferior to ancient and modern famous generals.

However, in terms of governance, he still has great self-confidence, since he ruled the Duchy of Normandy, he has developed a rebellious, scattered and chaotic, and many separatist forces into a Norman kingdom with political harmony and strong royal power, which can indeed boast of himself. If it weren't for the sudden Black Death, which slowed down the development of the Norman Kingdom, the Norman Kingdom would have been able to completely digest the territory it had occupied two years ago in the latest two years.

With the help of Archbishop Stigander, William found a wealth of documentary material about the political and local institutions of England, and under the guidance of the knowledgeable Father Stigander, William gradually understood the local political ecology of England.

The place was governed by the magistrate of the county, and the magistrate was originally appointed by the king to manage the county, mostly held by the king's cronies and nobles, and was the head of a county, and the prime minister of military, administrative, judicial and other affairs, which was not a hereditary position, but in the 11th century it had evolved into a local magistrate who was enough to compete with the king - earl, and his number began to decrease, and his sphere of influence was no longer limited to one county.

Among the many square counts, the former Duke of Wessex, Godwin and the Duke of Mercia, Leo Frick. Hewesey, Duke of Northumbria, Sword. The Northumbria trio are among them.

These three counts are deadly dukes, and their ruling positions include more than one county, that is, counties, especially the Godwin family and the Duke of Mercia, and the ruling area of the two even covers several dukedoms.

The counts of the territory are often the most powerful lords in the county, so they have great influence, such as Mercia and Northumbria in the north, and the count's local influence is almost equal to that of the royal power.

Therefore, in order to divide the power of the nobility, the king appointed the county governor, who was initially responsible for the security of the county and presided over the county court. Therefore, the county magistrate became the representative of the local royal power and had great power. In order to worry that the power of the county magistrate was too great, the king even stipulated that the term of office of the county magistrate was only one year! And if the king dies, the county magistrate must step down automatically.

The magistrate was the "reeve" sent by the king to deal with the affairs of the county, he was not granted estates like the uncle, and was initially only responsible for the administration of the crown and the king's judicial income and taxes in the county, presiding over the county court was his main function, and on the eve of William's army marching into England, the county magistrate became the main governor of the county.

"The political system of the Kingdom of England does have merit, that is, the royal power is too weak, and the noble princes interfere with the succession of the throne through the so-called Council of the Wise, which is absolutely not allowed in the Norman kingdom and France.

It seems that the current king of England has not yet moved away from the role of leader of military and tribal alliances in ancient Rome, and has not become a divine king with God-granted royal authority.

Not only at the central level, but also at the local level. Militarily speaking, Sein's system is somewhat anachronistic, judging from the results of the Battle of Hastings alone, Sein, who owns several times the estate estates of the knights, is far inferior to the same number of Norman knights in terms of combat power, so it seems that it is imperative to reform the military. ”

There were three types of Norman knights: nobles who received fiefs as knights, ordinary knights who received fiefs for subsistence and military obligations, and knights who did not have fiefs and depended on their lords.

For those ordinary knights who received fiefs for their subsistence and military obligations, their small fiefs were still in the entire production and farming system of the estate, and the knights were only entitled to the rent of the fief, and did not need to work for their own livelihood.

The Last Judgment gives a more detailed account of the state of land held by English knights at the end of the 11th century. In the Book of the Last Judgment, it is mentioned that the knights possessed land for an average of about one and a half haldes, or one hundred and eighty acres, and produced about 30 shillings to two pounds per year.

The Norman knights only owned about one-third of the territory of the Sein, but the powerful combat power they burst out was indeed several times the size of the English Sein, and in comparison, the Norman knights had a very strong cost performance.

In addition, the canonization of Norman knights to replace the Anglo-Saxon Thein throughout the counties of England can better consolidate the influence of the Normans in the kingdom of England, and gradually control the entire kingdom through grassroots infiltration.