Under the desperate protection of the knights of the Inner Palace, Arold finally returned to Mecklenburg without danger, Arold gasped and turned to look, he didn't know who came to assassinate him? However, it is not surprising that Arold killed Count Lautz, a member of the Hermann family of the Duchy of Mason, although Count Lauzitz is a bad guy in the eyes of the Wendell family, but for the people of the Herman family, Arold is undoubtedly an enemy, if not an enemy from the Duchy of Mason, it may be a Slav who came to take revenge, who let Arold conquer their land, and there is also a possibility that some nobleman in the territory of Mecklenburg wants to replace him, in short, this is a dangerous time.

"Lord Count, the Assassins are a group of Slavs who have been killed by me and the knights, and several others have escaped." Moments later, Ser Ron and several of the pursuing knights of the Inner House rode back to the castle, reporting Arrod of the Assassins' whereabouts.

"Slavs? has sneaked into our territory from the border, and ordered the border patrolmen to step up their patrols. "Arold didn't expect that he had built a border guard tower on the border, and the patrol people arranged for him could not stop the Slavs from infiltrating into his territory, all because of the sparse population of his territory.

"Yes, we'll let someone do it." Sir Ron agreed, and many roads were difficult to walk in the winter, and perhaps the Slavs had entered through paths unknown to them.

"Lord Earl, tomorrow is the day of the Lord's Judge, please don't move around anymore." Brother Elvet was holding a bunch of texts at this time, and he said to Arold that the so-called lord judgment day refers to the day when the lord accepts the lawsuit of the lord and makes a judgment within a specific period of a month, and the lord in the Middle Ages was a combination of military, political and judicial power.

"Understood. I won't be going anywhere else in a while. "It is also one of the duties of the lord to accept the lawsuits of the lords, but Arold is always in the midst of war, or in preparation for war, so there are many civil lawsuits accumulated in Mecklenburg, and a long delay will cause the lords to complain.

"Excellent, Lord Earl." Brother Elvet breathed a sigh of relief, though sometimes Arold handed over criminal cases such as theft and murder to him. But it always seems that the name is not right, and the Elvet friars have to take care of the internal affairs of the whole of Mecklenburg, which seems to be very busy.

"When spring comes, we should set up a court, and if there is a lawsuit in the future, we will leave it to the court." Arold took the wine handed by his personal attendant, took a sip and said, at this time the heating copper pipe next to the castle began to work, the temperature in the hall gradually warmed up, Arold took off his fur.

"Court?" Brother Elvet asked curiously. It's not that there are no courts in this era, it's just that because of the lack of traffic information, what happens in some developed areas may not be known to all parts of Europa.

"That's right, it's to build an authority that I have given me carte blanche to adjudicate on all litigation cases, and the people who make the decisions are called judges, and their rights come from me." Arold sat comfortably on a wooden chair covered with a bearskin, and her feet rested on the ottoman. The valet helped him take off his muddy boots, and another valet held an iron plate with fruit and food and wine in his hands.

"That's a good idea. But if the lord's right to rule is God-given, can it be transferred to someone else? Brother Elvet said, somewhat confused.

"There's nothing wrong with it, it's like renting a tool, and the ownership is still in my own hands." Arrod shrugged his shoulders and said, he was convinced that his territory would grow bigger and bigger in the future, and that he would have to decide everything himself. Then it will definitely be like falling into a quagmire and unable to get out, according to the common practice of the great nobles of Europa, their territory is subdivided into other nobles, but Arold's soul comes from a centralized state, and he knows the disadvantages of this kind of repartition, even if sometimes he has to cater to the trend out of necessity. But Arold still wants to control the main land.

"You are the lord of this land, of course you have the final say." Brother Elvet sometimes couldn't understand Arrod's thoughts, but he was only Arrod's courtier, and he just had to do what Arrod commanded.

Early the next morning, when he learned that Arold was about to accept the lawsuit, many people rushed to Mecklenburg from far away, most of them peasants and nobles, which seemed to be a strange phenomenon, and Arold stood at the window of the tower and watched, for a long time he was preoccupied with the war, and was indeed somewhat negligent in his internal affairs.

"Why are all peasants and nobles here?" Arold asked Brother Elvet standing beside him, according to Arrod's knowledge, there are four classes in the territory, the first class is the clergy of the clergy, but Arold's Mecklenburgshire clergy have little power, mainly the St. Jom Friars, they stay quietly in their parish, according to Arold's regulations to pay a very small amount of materials as taxes, this is also a common practice in all Europa territories, Arold can not change lightly.

The second layer of the aristocracy led by Arrod, because Arold required the nobles of Mecklenburg to pay the war service tax, so most of the Mecklenburg nobles were not close to Arold, but Mecklenburg was the newly conquered territory of Arold, so the aristocratic power of immigrants was not very strong.

The third level was the town of Wismar and other townspeople, who provided commerce and handicrafts for Mecklenburg, and provided Arold with rich taxes, and Arrod's early efforts to help the town won the favor of the citizens, but Arold was strange that these citizens did not have lawsuits to adjudicate.

The fourth layer is the peasants at the bottom, who are scattered in large numbers among the densely populated villages of Mecklenburg, and are the main source of soldiers and taxes, and of course the Arrod Tong Guò Baojia Law allows these peasants to be organized and mobilized at any time when the war comes, but they are not very effective in the Mason Civil War.

"Your Excellency the Earl, the monks have the sacred Bible as their law, they have their own adjudication bodies, and the townspeople are mostly in their respective guilds, and if they have a general dispute, they will be decided by the guild leader in the guild, and only if something serious happens will it be submitted to you." Brother Elvet respectfully explained to Arrod.

"I see, okay, it's not too early, let's go down and accept the people's lawsuits." After Arrode nodded, he tidied up the fur on his body and put on his shiny earl's tiara, which Arold does not wear on weekdays, even if it is copper gold-plated, it is heavy.

"Honorable rightful ruler of Mecklenburg and the islands of Sealand, Arrod. Mistress Wendell arrived. When Arold reached the middle of the hall, there were forty or fifty people gathered at the entrance of the hall, and the attendants announced to them in a loud voice that many of them had not seen Arold himself.

"Dengdenden." Arold walked a few steps to the lord's throne in his hall, and he glanced at the people in the hall before sitting down.

"So young, is this really our Earl?" There was a commotion among the people at the gate, some of them from the border area of Mecklenburg, among them the Slavic people, who could not help but wonder when they looked at the golden beard of Arold's chin and the unspoken face of the young man.

"What are you waiting for? This is your sovereign, the great and wise Count of Mecklenburg. Brother Elvet's brows furrowed, and he loudly scolded those who hesitated, as the palace minister, Brother Elvet often appeared in people's field of vision, and suddenly those people were relieved of their doubts and hurriedly took a few steps forward, bowed to Arold, and then came to Arold in a line one after another, and made a lawsuit request to the monarch of Mecklenburg. (To be continued......)