Chapter IV Territory
Sure enough, after Empress Margot announced that she would give the Duke of Crystal Fire to Mijas, the nobles had no objection at all, and immediately expressed their support for Her Majesty's decision, and at the same time expressed their admiration for Margette's ability to recruit legendary powerhouses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
As for those middle-level nobles who are really very interested in this territory, although they are very unwilling, they can only choose to accept this result, when the emperor and the four grand dukes reach a consensus, then no one in the knight empire can say no to the decision they made. However, accepting this result does not mean that they will not complain, fortunately, Margot Tri is no longer the righteous idiot of the year, and the aristocracy of the empire has also suffered a blow after nearly four years of war, not to mention that the knight class with the main combat power is less than half, and those nobles with real power have also suffered heavy losses, so there are still a lot of fragmentary territories that the royal family can take out to reward now, which can be used to appease those middle-level nobles who feel lost because they can't become the grand duke in one step.
It is precisely because of the perennial division that the territory of the entire knight empire was already a little administratively chaotic, and in the early days, many nobles' self-made laws were not primogeniture but equal inheritance, so that although the territory of the great nobles would be constantly divided, ensuring the advantages of the royal family, but also affecting the development of the entire empire. This war has caused many nobles who are not strong to eat their old books to lose their fiefs, just enough to integrate, the kind of "the town in my territory belongs to the lord next door" situation is also time to rectify, otherwise it is easy to provoke contradictions between nobles and cause unnecessary internal friction.
"Your Majesty." As one of the four most important and powerful Grand Dukes of the Empire, the aged Grand Duke Barry was a loyal royalist, and he was also the first nobleman to stand up for the little Empress when Margot took the throne, and it was with his help and Faller's support that Margot was able to secure her throne. Now, the gray-haired old man was on one knee, his waist still as straight as when he was young, "With all due respect, Your Excellency Mijas, is it really trustworthy?" At this time, Mijas was already on the way to his territory, there was no banquet, no ball, this kind of noble posture really made the nobles below a little dissatisfied.
It was Mijas who stole the opportunity for their development, and now he is still making a "I am a legendary powerhouse, and I disdain to participate in the dirty circle of the aristocracy." But since you don't care about the tricks of the nobles, why are you here to ask for a reward? So many people are a little indignant at Mijas's behavior of leaving the imperial capital directly, including the old Grand Duke Barry, but unlike others, the old Grand Duke Barry was angry because of Mijas's attitude towards Empress Margette, and at the ceremony of the reward, the old Grand Duke Barry did not see even a trace of respect in Mihas's eyes, but Empress Margot was a little restrained.
"It's all right, Ballyching." Empress Margetri looked at the departing carriage of Mijas and his group in the distance, and said softly, "Do you remember? In the name in which I awarded the reward to His Excellency Mijas. ”
"Kill the king of the fire element, such a great minister will naturally remember." Grand Duke Barry is also very impressed by Mijas's strength, which is also the fundamental reason why he agreed to reward Mijas, a legendary powerhouse, even if he is not respectful, is worthy of the empire to woo, but after this, the empire should also have more measures to ensure that this legend can really contribute to the empire, but Empress Margot almost did not ask for anything! This is where old Barry is not at ease, the legendary strong without restraint is no longer the blessing of the empire, the struggle between the nobles has always been sinister, but there will still be a most basic unspoken rule, but if Mijas does not pay attention to the rules at all, then the whole empire will be chaotic.
"Baliqing, you just remember, but you didn't value this merit!" Empress Margot turned her head. "A seriously injured Earth Elemental King, we dispatched 20 Legends, and it took more than half of them to kill each other. To deal with the Wind Elemental King, in addition to those 20 legends, we also sent tens of thousands of soldiers to surround the battlefield to limit the opponent's mobility, and we killed thousands of soldiers, 2 legends. In order to defeat the Water Elemental King, we have stepped up our efforts and made up a full 30 Legends! But the result? The Heavenly Master of the Tang Kingdom was completely overdrawn and became a waste. As Empress Margot spoke, Archduke Barry also remembered the great price he had paid to defeat the Elemental King's coalition of five clans.
"But Mr. Mijas, now Duke Mijas." Empress Margot then used an exclamatory tone, "One person, just one, defeated the Fire Elemental King!" I wasn't even hurt much after the battle! Margot still remembers Archmage Faller's face when he received Mijas's interpoises, a mixture of incredulity, relief, self-shame, and a little unconscious jealousy, which Margot had never seen on the face of such a proud archmage since she was a child.
“…… If you look at it this way, it is true that we should make a little concession on our side. "Old Archduke Barry, after careful consideration, has to agree with Empress Margotley's approach, for a person whose strength is obviously out of the ordinary, restraint is just a joke." Your Majesty is really getting more and more mature, so the old minister can rest assured. "Watching the innocent little girl grow into a generation of wise monarchs, even with the experience of the old Grand Duke of Barry, I can't help but feel a little emotional.
"Grand Duke!" Empress Margot was also reluctant to recall her past naivety.
"Hahaha, the old minister retired." Grand Duke Barry left the palace laughing, his worries were gone, people like Mijas would not accept the reward if they didn't want to help the empire, and the Grand Duke decided to give 100% trust to this legendary powerhouse.
"The mob of about 5,000 people in total ......" far away in the county of Hurt, far away in the corner of the empire, Dracula took the report handed by the butler and pondered, as a small country earl, although the long history has allowed the Woods family to accumulate a lot of wealth, but 200 private soldiers is the limit, after all, the "lot" in the eyes of the earl cannot be compared with the wealth in the eyes of the real nobles.
While the mob usually doesn't have much equipment, and the nobles' privateers are at least 5 class levels and well-equipped, the sheer difference in numbers is enough to demoralize those who have only dealt with scattered elemental creatures. If it weren't for the original Earl of Woods deliberately avoiding the main force of elemental creatures to preserve their own strength, those mobs would not have lost their homes and fallen into the grass, so it is understandable that they would want to take revenge on Earl Woods.
"Really, a bunch of crumbs!" Count Dracula disdainfully said that this was both a disdain for the cowardice of Earl Woods in the Great War, and a contempt for the unscrupulousness of the mob. As a true nobleman, Count Dracula himself had the tragic experience of having his wife and daughter killed while going out to fight, so he didn't have the slightest affection for this mob. But now he doesn't want to reveal his identity, so it is obviously unrealistic to use his 200 private soldiers to deal with the mob of 5,000 people, even if he recruits the young men in the territory as auxiliaries, in the current situation of a large population reduction, he can only get together nearly a thousand people at most, how to get this first pot of gold for his political career, Count Dracula has to be cautious.
On the other side, after a period of trekking, Mijas also came to his own territory, the Dukedom of Crystal Fire!
"It seems that this place is still quite rich~" Mijas opened the curtain of the carriage and inspected his territory, although the war had just ended, but because the temperature and environment of the Dukedom of Crystal Fire were very suitable for farming, there was no such mob in other territories, after all, the home could be built again, but people still had to eat if they lived. The main reason why people cannot survive in the war is that the arable land has been destroyed, and when they cannot grow food, people will naturally seek other ways out, and this way out, in most cases, will be reduced to gangsters.
"That's why this place is regarded by everyone as a piece of fragrant bait." Cain was also very satisfied with the situation here, food is not only the top priority of his own development, in this era of troubled times, food can also be used to trade with other nobles, a barren territory is not capable of helping the lord to stand in the middle of the stage of noble struggle, although Cain is very sure that no matter what, he can climb to a position that he hopes to stand on, but such a good start is naturally gratifying.
"I just don't know how many armed forces are left here." Havina knew that Mijas and herself had just arrived, and there were not enough people, so they definitely needed those knights and lords who had no territory to help them manage the entire territory, but even the entire family of Duke Crystal Fire was wiped out by the attack of elemental creatures, and I don't know how many knights in this territory can be left.
"Let's take it one step at a time, I suddenly have some interest in developing a territory!" Mijas looked at the ordinary peasants who still adhered to the law of life such as sunrise and sunset, and thought of the mages who lived in the magic capital of the north as colorful as in modern society, and an unprecedented impulse arose in his heart, and he wanted to try what he could change this world of polarized productivity into!
When all the smart people in a society choose to study how to make smart people live more comfortably, then there will be no development in the lives of the people at the bottom. Any innovation of the mages is based on a foundation called "magic", and their abilities are so powerful that they can do everything themselves, without the help of low-end labor. In a high-end magic experiment, the materials are often the natural treasures that can only be obtained by high-level professionals, and the tools are often exclusive tools specially created for the mages themselves, and probably only the food that sustains the appetite needs to be obtained by the farmers.
Of course, Mijas doesn't want to climb any technology tree, it's too unrealistic to want to make another set of science by himself in a world where matter is not necessarily made up of atoms, what Mijas wants to do is just give all the "unqualified" people a chance to climb up.