After the army had completely departed, the nobles stepped down and left.

They were clearly divided into two forces, the radical faction of the 'new aristocracy' mixed with some enterprising 'old aristocracy', and the conservative faction composed entirely of the 'old aristocracy'.

At this time, the expressions of the two factions of nobles were very different, and the conservative 'old aristocracy' staggered down the steps, they were frightened, worried, and very worried about William's growing power, and they feared that William would continue to compress their interests and feed the shabby and white-eyed wolves who were called the 'new aristocracy' with their flesh and blood.

The reformers of the 'new aristocracy' were extremely excited, because their power and wealth came from William, and if William had not supported them, the 'old aristocracy' would have united to overthrow them, and they had the strength.

Therefore, the interests of William and the 'new aristocracy' coincided, and the more William's power grew, the more solid their interests became.

With the continuous development of the strength of the 'new aristocracy', they have seriously threatened the interests of the old aristocracy, not only political interests, but also economic interests have been suppressed by the 'new aristocracy', which is quite breathless.

As the saying goes, many people's money is like killing their parents, because of the entanglement of interests, the 'old aristocracy' conservatives and the 'new aristocracy' reformers are already incompatible, they fight each other to the death, and carry out crazy poaching actions against important members and backbones of the other camp.

The struggle between the two sides is in full swing, and there is no room for any nobles who try to be the wall-riding faction between the two, and those nobles who are unwilling to join either side are either targeted or alienated, and their future will be difficult to move forward.

William had always been happy to see this kind of struggle come to fruition, and for William, who was determined to reform and build an ideal country, it was beneficial for him to suppress the conservative 'old aristocracy'.

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The old aristocratic conservatives target the radicals of the new aristocracy, they will not think about doing things all day long, and William can sit quietly on the Diaoyu Tai.

Otherwise, if one side is allowed to overwhelm the other, the victorious faction may go alone like the Japanese militarist forces in the war, and become an uncontrolled monster, or it may point the finger at William, and then he will be embarrassed, so William will also help the weaker side at a critical time, just like William put the Count Richard into the conservative group before.

Looking at the old and new nobles in front of him, the corners of William's mouth pulled a smile, the local emperor of the aristocracy has always been disliked by William, but in the Middle Ages, he had to abide by the rules of the Middle Ages, and ruling a country could not be separated from the support of the aristocracy, so he had no choice but to use the strategy of differentiation and co-optation, and established a reformist faction of the new aristocracy, and fought with the old nobles who were disobedient.

The new nobles are a wolf dog in William's hands, which is specially used to bite the old nobles who are disobedient, but this wolf dog has a hint of disobedience, not that they will oppose William, with their admiration and gratitude to William, they will not rebel.

It's just that judging from some recent events, these 'new aristocrats' have also contracted some problems, such as walking alone is their special inherent skill. Over the years, after the truce between William and Henry I, these 'new aristocratic' radicals jumped up the border dispute between the two sides several times without authorization, and invaded the territory of the Kingdom of France several times, intending to start a war between the two sides.

In order to divert the attention of the radical 'new aristocracy', William deliberately provoked the conquest of Wales and Ireland. She succeeded, and both the 'old nobles' and the new nobles were drawn to this great war of conquest.

As long as they are active in this war, both the old and the new nobles will benefit from it, whether it is the wealth of the war or the title of the domain nobility, as long as they are truly victorious and conquer Ireland and Wales, these things will be at their fingertips.

Count Richard couldn't help but worry when he watched these new nobles get ready to go, in recent years, their 'old aristocratic' conservatives had not produced a few decent new geniuses for several years, and compared to the talents of the 'new aristocracy' reformers, the 'old aristocracy' conservatives seemed to have withered talents.

Even if the 'old aristocracy' in this camp has produced a few incredible geniuses, there is a high chance that these geniuses will be absorbed by the 'new aristocracy' and become a member of the rival camp, and there are countless father-son rebellions during this period.

It was the 'new aristocracy' reformers who were so attractive, not only with William's support, but also with a very attractive program of action and goals that William had compiled for them that had an unusually attractive appeal to aspiring young people in this monotonous and boring era.

What's more, with the 'new aristocracy' reformers have meat to eat, this is also a well-known thing, William's protection of the 'new aristocracy' radicals loyal to him is visible to anyone with a discerning eye, the nobility canonization in recent years has been dominated by the new aristocratic line, and the 'old aristocracy' line only occupies a few positions.

The 'New Aristocracy' radicals are good dogs, but they are in danger of revolting against their masters, so William must put a strong iron chain on it and a collar to keep control firmly in his hands.

Whether it is the 'new aristocracy' or the 'old aristocracy', the royal forces are quietly developing within themselves, and they exist in the form of factions, societies, salons, and hobbies under various names, in order to owe the prestige of William and the Normandy family, and are the most loyal and devout to him.

Not only the royal faction, but also the various factions between the new nobles and the old nobles were the objects of William's support, and he planned that as long as one faction fell, whether it was the new nobles or the old nobles, he could calmly copy the other faction, so that the power of the nobles could be rebalanced.

William's move seems to be playing with fire and self-immolation, and is deliberately provoking party disputes, the disaster of the party in the late Han Dynasty, the Niu Li party dispute in the Tang Dynasty and the Donglin eunuch party dispute in the late Ming Dynasty are all good examples, and it is impossible for William from the Celestial Empire in the 21st century not to understand this truth.

But in order to strengthen the centralized rule, he still had to use it even though he knew that it was a chronic poison, not to mention that he had the confidence to deal with the consequences of all this, because he was confident that he had absolute control over the army.