Chapter 638 Relationship of Interests

While dealing with the issue of the old lords, Chen Jian certainly did not forget the emerging new aristocratic class in the alliance, which was mostly composed of Chen Jian's die-hard supporters, most of whom had followed Chen Jian since the Hammondale or Evermont periods, and they were the group of people who contributed the most to the alliance today.

Now, with the growing alliance and the growth of the alliance, their status is naturally rising, and what they have obtained is naturally the largest piece of the benefit cake that Chen Jian is sharing.

Taking Pete as an example, the income of this half-elf who first followed Jian Chen can now be divided into two parts.

The first is the regular income brought to him by Pete's military rank, after the implementation of the military rank system in the Union Army, the young half-elf has also become a major general, and with the high welfare benefits of the Alliance Army, the salary that the major general rank can obtain is enough to make many former Negan lords and current Alliance farmers red.

And almost all of the new aristocratic class of the alliance are high-ranking members of the army, even technical personnel like Hesfa and Dominic can be regarded as technical officers of the alliance army, and all of them have a lot of salaries.

The second income is because of the benefits that come with Pete's title of nobility.

Like the old Negan lords, the League's nobles were given a wide variety of land for their families to run, which meant that the new nobles of the Alliance could enjoy the benefits of the rank system, and they could earn an astonishing income from running farms just like the old Negan lords.

And with the higher the rank, the higher the noble title, of course, will also increase accordingly, and the more land can be allocated, these two incomes will naturally increase, plus Chen Jian's additional reward when he has outstanding merits, it can be said that even the net income of a Negan lord like Jedt in his heyday may not be comparable to that of an alliance marshal today.

Because of this system, the new aristocratic class of the alliance has been firmly tied to the chariot of the alliance by Chen Jian with a rope called interest and another called faith.

And another effect of this system is enough to make more people crazy about it, and become firm supporters of the alliance because of their interests, because in the alliance, as long as there are military merits, it is not impossible to promote the rank, and even if there is no military rank, as long as there is a special outstanding contribution in some aspects, you can also be named a noble, and get all the benefits that the alliance nobles can get.

Driven by interests, there will naturally be motivation, coupled with the concept of the alliance that has been constantly advocated, the reorganization of the alliance army is a smooth mess, and all the Negan soldiers are looking forward to becoming a member of the alliance army, which makes the alliance army have to raise the threshold of incorporation again and again, and now, only the best young people and experienced veterans can join the alliance army, and the quality of the alliance army soldiers has been quite improved, and the morale is even more vigorous.

Negan's magicians have benefited a lot from this, basically, no matter what the strength of the magicians, the alliance army will not refuse to come, the alliance's magic industry is too short of manpower, and Chen Jian attaches great importance to the exhibition of magic, because whether magic is strong or not is also an important indicator of the overall strength of the country in this world.

In Jian Chen's opinion, with the current open atmosphere of the alliance's magic world, plus ideology, and his own support, it would be strange if the alliance's magic level could not go up.

And among the people, under the influence of this aristocratic system, the schools opened by the alliance in various places have also become the objects of popular people, everyone is scrambling to send their children into the school, let them learn all kinds of knowledge, everyone looks forward to their descendants can have a future, in a certain field has a first-class specialty, and then be named a nobleman, so as to get ahead, from the humble sparrow into a phoenix sought after by thousands of people.

Through all this, Chen Jian successfully won the support of all interests in all aspects of the alliance, and his rule was more and more consolidated, and the new system he implemented began to slowly take root in the hearts of the people along with the concept of racial equality, and the word lord is slowly being forgotten.

After the rule was consolidated, Chen Jian began to focus on the people's livelihood again.

In Chen Jian's view, the so-called rule, in the final analysis, is to let the people under his rule have a good life, and when the people live a good life, people are determined, and the situation will naturally not be chaotic.

Therefore, Chen Jian did not forget to vigorously develop the agriculture and commerce of the alliance.

As far as the current situation of the world in which the continent of Erathia is concerned, it is still in a state of agrarian economy combining agriculture and pastoralism, and commercial activities are still in a relatively primitive state, and industry is basically non-existent.

In this case, the development of agriculture is not a big problem, and a series of related policies implemented by the alliance have also greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of farmers, and now agriculture in all parts of the alliance is in a state of growth.

Therefore, Chen Jian puts his focus on business, because he knows very well what it means for a country to reach business.

Chen Jian's major road repair in Negan was based on military and political considerations, so that he could quickly mobilize a large number of troops between various places and consolidate his rule, and secondly, to lay a foundation for business.

However, the business activities limited to Negan's local area were obviously not satisfactory to Chen Jian, and with a lot of economic knowledge, he had already set his sights on the entire Erathia continent and the wider ocean.

After the First Fleet defeated the Navy of the Kingdom of Bracada and the Imperial Navy of Erathia in succession, establishing the Alliance's supremacy in the southern seas of the continent, he finally began his long-planned plan.

So on the bustling shipping route in the southern seas, the First Fleet went into action.

Then, on a sunny morning, all the merchant fleets sailing back and forth on that route were horrified, the First Fleet's warship cluster reappeared on the fairway, and this time, this fleet, which was always elusive at sea, did not show its face and disappear as far away from the edge of the route as before, but sent flying troops to intercept the passing merchant ships.

Looking at the majestic warships of the First Fleet, and then looking at the black dragons flying in the sky, no merchant ship dared to ignore the other party's seemingly polite request to stop the ship, lowered its sails and lowered the anchor, and then waited for the other party's further action with trepidation.

Bergson, a merchant with a shiny bald head, has been trading at sea for many years, and is a fairly senior maritime merchant, like other Enlos maritime merchants, he carries local specialties from the continent of Enlos, such as the famous Enlos wine, and many other things that are only produced by Enlos, most of which are not so valuable in Enlos, and then transported thousands of miles by sea to the continent of Erathia, and sold to local merchants for countless times the price. He then bought many local specialties from the continent of Erathia that were not available on the continent of Enlos and shipped them back to Enlos to sell them at a high price.

This comes and goes, the profits are naturally quite amazing, but even if there are such huge benefits, then naturally there are great risks, it is needless to say that the sea ships are extremely dangerous, and those pirates of all walks of life who are rampant on the sea have made many speculators who want to make a lot of money on the sea become their souls.

Of course, there are also many people who have actually made a lot of gold from the sea trade, and Bergson is one of them, and now his sea caravan has nine large merchant ships, which is quite a large sea caravan in this world.

Bergson's ability to get to where he is today has a lot to do with his adventurous spirit and extraordinary vision, as early as the beginning of his career, he already realized what the biggest threat to the merchant fleet at sea is, so he has been trying to build a good relationship with the Rigner pirates for a long time, instead of thinking about how to strengthen the escort of merchant ships - as long as there is money in this world, everything is negotiable, of course, provided that you are willing to contribute and can afford enough money - after spending a lot of gold, Bergson, who managed to establish a friendly relationship with a pirate leader, not only gained the right to sail safely in the waters controlled by the Rigner pirates, but was even able to make some deals with the Rigner pirates from time to time and profit from them.

Then in these years, Bergson's business at sea has been doing smoothly, the size of the merchant fleet has become larger and larger, and the relationship with the pirates has naturally become better and better, and he has also gained a certain reputation among the maritime merchants, and the investments he spent on pirates in the early years have long been earned back with interest.

It stands to reason that after making so much money in the maritime trade, Bergson should have retired to enjoy the blessings at home and handed over the merchant fleet to others, but Bergson was an idle man, and his body was very strong, so he still personally led the merchant fleet back and forth at sea from time to time.

This time, Bergson took the fleet out of the Enlos continent and came to the Elasia continent all the way, but like other merchant fleets, his merchant fleet was intercepted by the alliance's First Fleet in the southern waters of the continent.

Bergson has been at sea for many years, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, and even the vicious Ragner pirates are not afraid, so he naturally does not panic, because although the current situation is unclear, he is not too nervous, and he will not be at a loss like most businessmen, because he understands very well that the other party just wants money, and it is a big deal to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster.

What's more, since the other party appeared at sea, he has not been unfavorable to the passing merchant ships, and his style of behavior is much better than that of the Ragna pirates and the fleet of the Kingdom of Bracada and the Imperial fleet of Erathia who come to the merchant fleet from time to time to blackmail.

So although he was quite frightened on the surface, in fact, he was very calm in his heart, and even he had the heart to wonder if there was some mystery about the strange shape of the alliance navy warships parked not far away.

Then he noticed that from above a certain battleship, a group of harpies and some poisonous manticores flew in the direction of his merchant fleet.