Chapter 57: The Sword Pointing East (17)
After roughly calculating the distance between the territories, it was decided to move the capital from New Nijmegen to Gothenburg in Sweden.
The cost of moving the capital requires a lot of money, in addition to building a central political system, it also costs a lot of money, the expected United Kingdom war reparations cannot be paid, the new territory may promise a half-year tax exemption promise, the original territory due to the initial mobilization of the tax reduced, Randy at the moment quite stretched overstretched.
Fiscal......
Fiscal......
Fiscal......
Fiscal......
Randy couldn't think of any other way to make money.
At present, the agricultural tax is not high or low, and if it is raised again, the peasants will not be able to bear it.
The business tax was once as high as 70 percent, but now that the war has stopped, it has been reduced slightly, but it is still as high as 65 percent.
In addition, the poll tax ......
The Öresund aqueduct tax, which is not actually very good for the economy, still exists, and if you want to make money through crooked ways, you will inevitably have done some too much.
Originally, after pitting a lot of nobles, Randy still thought that he could make a windfall, but in the end, except for a few more fields, the actual income of gold and silver treasures was not much, and it seemed that the European nobles were all poor eggs.
Randy finally plans to stop for a few months and wait for this month's tax revenue, but now that the mobilization has been disbanded, economic production will gradually recover.
The matter of replenishing and expanding the army was put aside for the time being, and Randy began to work on another task, which was to establish a central government.
In the end, Randy's central government was indeed established, but he had killed people in Eastern Europe for so long, and all the points he had gained were exhausted.
The functions and powers of the central government are as follows: [Supreme Head of State - Holy Emperor Randy]!
Perennial Conquest (+20 prestige, +20 legitimacy)
Royal Queen (+10 prestige, +10 legitimacy)
Norman Iron Crown (+10 prestige, +10 legitimacy)
King's Banner (Red and Black, Morale +1, Legitimacy +5)
Ruby Article Ring (legitimacy +5)
In addition, the head of government of the Norman Kingdom, commonly known as the Prime Minister in the West, the Prime Minister in the East, and the Prime Minister, Randy, decided to divide it into three parts.
The nominal supreme is naturally the Archbishop of the State, who is in charge of the Ecclesiastical Power of the State, as well as the power to appoint the abbots of the monasteries of the State. This man must be one of his own, that is, Peter the Captain of the Field Order! However, this appointment, Randy does not count, it still has to be approved by the Vatican Pope, Randy has already sent someone to the Papal States to dredge, I believe that he will get the news in a while.
This is followed by the administration!
Executive power is something that Randy wants to keep the most.
However, Randy can usually handle it when he is at home, but it will be a little troublesome if he goes out to lead troops to fight, but Randy still insists that there is no head of government in charge of administration.
It's not that Randy didn't set up this official, but he changed the name, just like the cabinet scholar of the Ming Dynasty and the minister of military aircraft of the Qing Dynasty.
However, Randy was even more ruthless, and he didn't even give such a nice name, and just created a royal consul and did it hastily.
But even so, Randy was not satisfied, and while lowering his ranks, he further increased the number of royal consuls to three, and at the same time assigned each royal consul two deputies, three royal consuls and six executive deputies, together to form the royal consul.
They are used as Randy's royal tools, and the human flesh stamp exists, and when Randy is there, he calls them like coolies, and when Randy is away, he lets them vote together to solve the matter, and the consul has one vote and one administrator has half a vote.
However, when it came to redeeming, there was a small problem here.
When Randy asked Enides to exchange the dot rolls he had worked so hard to accumulate, he didn't change enough sentences.
"Huh!?"
Randy was surprised that he had calculated it before.
An administrative expert......
A water expert......
An agricultural expert......
A business expert......
A financial expert......
An education expert......
A diplomatic expert......
A great philosopher......
A big politician......
A big businessman......
The first six are royal administrators, and the last three are royal consuls.
"Just short of a big businessman's money!" Enides replied lightly.
"How could it be...... That'......"
"Host, I suggest that Aurora be made the Grand Merchant."
"Aurora? She? Why? ”
"Host, look at Aurora's properties and see why I suggested this."
Randy opened the system interface with a suspicious face and called up Aurora's attributes, only to find that Aurora actually has five attributes at the same time: general, princess, assassin, diplomat, affairs officer, and so on.
"Wait! If I'm not mistaken...... Twenty Star !! Randy rubbed his eyes and looked at them again.
"Twenty stars!"
For the first time, Randy saw the birth of a character with full attributes, just for the terrifying attribute bonuses such as +25% in the national business tax and +50% in the national business increase, even if Aurora didn't want to do it in the end, Randy would cry and beg her to do it.
After the completion of the structure of the Royal Consulate, the administrative capacity of the central government was greatly improved, the people's satisfaction, law and order rate, and administrative efficiency were greatly improved, and the entire Norman kingdom presented a thriving scene.
And all of the above is just Randy's delusion, and the actual effect will take a while to see.
Finally, it is also the most inconspicuous link of the entire central government......
Rule of law!
This link, which Randy attaches great importance to,
Although the entire European continent so far, with the exception of Byzantium, there is not even a single written law.
April......
Randy looked at Enides' financial statements with a smile on his face.
The total tax revenue in the country is more than 380,000 gold coins, which is more than half of the previous income of 250,000 gold coins per month.
Of course, a wise and great emperor is the most important thing!
With ample revenue, Randy began to make a big move to continue reforming the military.
The first is the hussar problem that Randy most wanted to solve, which has finally been solved.
In such a chaotic situation in Eastern Europe, there were many small steppe tribes who wanted to join the relatively stable Livonia and Prussia regions, so Randy divided enough pastures for these small tribes to take refuge, and asked to hire some of their people as soldiers.
At first, the nomads of the small tribe were reluctant, thinking that Randy would forcibly recruit them like the Poles, but Randy was very friendly to these guys, directly arranging weapons according to the specifications of the regular army, and paying military salaries, which opened the eyes of this group of guys who were more than turtles.
With such a type, more steppe tribes were adopted by Randy.
For these tribes, Randy adopted a very lenient management policy, giving them large pastures for grazing for free, and only requiring a part of the livestock skins to be handed over every year as a tribute, such a negligible amount made all the tribes overjoyed, and the only thing they had to do was to hand over 1/3 of the tribesmen to Randy as soldiers, these nomads who were collectively known as hussars, if nothing else, would serve in Randy's army for two years, and at the same time teach their skills in handling horses to knights and tomahawk cavalry, and then retire, The other third of the Buraku were replaced.
With such a rotation, after six years, these tribesmen will all be able to serve under Randy once, and psychologically they will naturally get very close to Randy and the Norman kingdom, and then slowly, little by little, it will be much easier to strengthen the control of these tribes and completely integrate these tribes into the social system of the kingdom.
Randy is such a wishful thinking, but I don't know if it will succeed, but maybe it's possible, after all, Randy is very rare for these light cavalry, and Randy's own prestige and personal charm are enough.
After joining the Norman legions, these tribesmen were quickly broken up and organized into twenty brigades, each with a hundred hussars and a centurion, and the centurion was chosen by each team itself.
Of course, nomads will not use Greek-style democracy to incite voters with speeches, let alone American-style campaigns, and use false rumors to discredit their opponents, and the only option is to run by force.
On April 11, 1102 A.D., twenty nomadic warriors with blue noses and swollen faces came to Randy with a hippie smile and reported
During this time, in order to train these tribesmen well, Randy settled in the military camp again, but then again, if you don't live in the barracks, there is no place to live, and the large royal palace in Gothburg will take a few months to be built, Randy can't wait to come here with a large army, the original military camp and fortress in Gothburg are not enough to live in, and those places feel very dirty, Randy hasn't slept with rats and cockroaches for a long time, so naturally he can only live in tents.
The addition of these hussar classes gives Randy two new classes to recruit,
"Eastern European Hussars": Recruited from various nomadic tribes in the Eastern European steppes, it is an extremely elite light cavalry, equipped with a powerful compound bow, a sophisticated saber, a kite-shaped shield, and leather soft armor.
"Eastern European Rangers": Race (complex), equipped with a compound bow, ten light arrows in a single pot, five cone-headed arrows, leather soft armor, swords, shields, riding excellent war horses from Poland, Hungary, and Rus, numbering 100, high morale, low training, and low discipline.
It seems that this Ranger is the two thousand light cavalry that Randy has now, although these guys have good combat effectiveness, but the discipline and training are very low, and it is easy to charge on the battlefield, the defensive ability of this group of hussars is not as good as the heavy cavalry of the tin can, so the casualties are very fast, and if it really starts a battle and suffers heavy losses, Randy will also feel heartache.
So this group of improved Eastern European hussars, the elite own modern cavalry, from the Middle Ages to the time before the cavalry completely withdrew from history, the most active in European history, whether it is skeleton hussars, or Polish hussars, or the Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia, is the final evolution of cavalry, the ultimate dream class.
In terms of attributes, whether it is attack or defense, it is much stronger than the Eastern European hussars, and the most important thing is that the training is extremely high, and the discipline is high, which makes Randy's heart beat faster for a while, and he is in a trance, but in the end, Randy finds himself happy in vain.
The profile of this class is quite nice, but it can't be recruited.
"Daddy!" Randy grumbled.
Improving the Eastern European hussars requires two pieces of equipment, which are simply not up to the mark with the current level of technology in the Norman Kingdom.
One is the legendary light cuirass, which is a large steel plate that protects the front of the body, and the back is hollow and tied with a belt to resemble a back.
And Randy's current armor forging level is still some distance away from the early plate armor, let alone this kind of pit daddy plate armor.
In addition to this, this cavalry also needs to improve the handcuffs, which is a kind of musket in the middle and late stages, but now Randy can't even make *, where can I find any handguns!?
Therefore, this elite, equipped with a light cavalry spear, extremely chargeable, and even a modified hussar of quasi-heavy cavalry, Randy could not recruit at all.
However, Randy is a big-hearted person, and he will never be ambitious, let alone train hussars with high intensity because of his inner depression.
So Randy recruited a group of professional hussars to make up the number of each team, and the other hussars did not have any suspicions, but regarded them as new tribesmen, although their tribe had never heard of it, but it was not impossible, after all, the whole of Eastern Europe was so big.
Randy added 2,000 professional hussars under his command, these elite light cavalry that could shoot into the charge from a distance, made up for the lack of mobility of Randy's army, and then the Livonian garrison was recruited, in addition to the usual 3500 professional Viking warriors and 1500 crossbowmen, Randy recruited 500 professional hussars to fill the lack of mobility of the garrison, and similarly, the garrison Anderson Division stationed in Scandinavia, and the Even Division stationed in Prussia, also added 500 professional hussars each.
But that's not enough!
In Randy's plan, this is only 5,500 men, and at least two more garrison corps with strong combat effectiveness need to be added to meet the defense requirements of the Norman kingdom, one of which is the English garrison corps, which focuses on defending the Scottish division in the north and suppressing the English separatist forces.
The other was the Normandy garrison, which was dedicated to the French headquarters.
In late April, the Navy, which transported the conscripted troops, returned to ......
As May approaches, and the estimated 400,000 in tax revenue is about to be credited, Randy is full of ambition to build a network of urban roads in Prussia and Livonia, when very bad news arrives.
Actually no country responded to Randy's call to sit down and have a good talk.
The Kingdom of Hungary, the Duchy of Lithuania, the Republic of Novgorod, the Duchy of Moscow, and the Eastern Roman Empire all tore up Randy's letters and sent troops to attack Poland like a group of piranhas that smelled blood.
Even Saxony, which was fighting with the alliance of the southern princes, was not to be outdone, and Feng IV gritted his teeth and drew seven or eight thousand miscellaneous troops from the front line to invade Poland, obviously wanting a piece of the pie.
These rulers weren't even in the mood to reply to Randy's letter, and directly took his words as air, completely ignoring Randy.
"These bastards!"
Although he had already been mentally prepared, Randy still didn't expect that these neighbors would do such a terrible job, making themselves look like a clown, and the angry Randy almost vomited blood, and Randy's inexplicable self-esteem exploded instantly, pulling out a command knife and slashing at the desk, swearing to God that he would make those damn bastards pay.
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