Hearing Gawain's words, Knight Philip was a little stunned for a while, he didn't quite understand what his lord meant, until Gawain asked him a more specific question: "When the old Cecil Lordship was still there, how big was your fiefdom?" ”

"Two villages and a cantonment to the southwest of the old castle," replied Knight Philip, "...... There is also a mill. ”

Within the system of the Ansu Kingdom, this was a standard fief for poor knights, and after the fall of the Cecil family, the knights loyal to the family basically only had these domains.

Gawain nodded: "You have been following me for a while, you should know that according to the current land distribution system of Cecil Territory, there is no living soil for the traditional landed nobles here, even if the concept of 'fiefdom' is still there, but the privileges of the landed nobles have been greatly compressed." ”

Now that Cecil's territory has passed its initial foothold, as the number of areas to be expanded increases, land distribution has become a matter that the rulers of Cecil's territory must consider. For Gawain, Cecil's pioneering construction is by no means his whole goal, he wants to promote the new order to the whole world after all, but he does not want the new order he has implemented in this world to become a "change of dynasty" without progress, so he really consumes a lot of brain cells when thinking about how to deal with the traditional land aristocracy and related systems.

Initially, he considered reforming in one step - completely erasing the concept of "nobility", completely binding the governance of the realm to the government department, and destroying all the nobles who stood in his way in the process of future territory expansion, but during the trip to Gülen, he was alerted.

If you are too aggressive, you will get big.

Although the situation of Cecil's territory is not the same as that of Glenn ten years ago, although Gawain has promoted education and propaganda to open up the people's wisdom in his territory, and has his own armed army and supporting productive forces, he still has to face up to the fact that outside Cecil's territory, the entire world's almost indestructible old social order is still very strong, and even within Cecil's territory, those officials, soldiers, and civilians who have supported him so much, He also grew up under the influence of the old social system, and the changes he wanted to make were far more intense and profound than those of Gülen Ling ten years ago.

The old social order has long soaked everyone in this era of this world, and his "one step in place" is likely to incur unpredictable consequences.

First of all, it is impossible for qualified and capable civilian managers to emerge out of thin air, and most of the talents used to maintain social order still have to be selected from the old aristocratic system, and secondly, too extreme changes will stimulate the aristocratic system all over the world, unless he can eliminate all the opponents of the world in a short time and replace them with a new system, Sooner or later, the situation of an attack by an external enemy would come—and most likely at a time when Cecil's territory was greatly expanded and the internal was unstable.

The traditional aristocracy may be greedy or slow, but they are not stupid, nor are they wary.

Aware of these hidden dangers, Gawain thought carefully for a long time, and referred to some conditions in the eastern Typhon Empire, and finally made his own policy for future expansion - that is, to keep the nobility, but gradually disintegrate the soil on which they depend.

Gawain will retain the title of "nobility" and some honorary privileges, and will even retain their right to collect tribute from the land in the early stage, but he will take back all the super-standard powers of the feudal nobility, including the privileges of legislating, keeping the army, coinage, and setting their own tax rate, so that the control of the landed aristocracy over the land will be greatly weakened, and at the same time, Gawain also plans to abolish the concept of "fiefdom" and replace it with "territory" in order to cut the relationship between the old "lord" and the land, in the end, He wanted to create a situation where:

A new nobleman who has a de jure "territory" from which he can receive a percentage of the economic development of the territory as his "annuity", but apart from this "dividend", he will no longer retain any control over the land and its population, and he can keep the family castle, the treasury, and various honorary titles, but this is all he can keep.

If he wants to get more profits, or gain more power, then he can choose to compete for a position in the government department, or invest in opening a factory or a commercial bank.

This is not a radical change, but Gawain knows that even this level of change will still greatly irritate the traditional aristocracy, even more so than the Typhon Empire next door, and provoke a stronger backlash - after all, in Typhon, the nobles at least retain the concept of "fiefdom".

But it doesn't matter, as long as their backlash is within the control of Cecil's "truth", then everything is not a problem.

After the pain, they will cooperate.

Of course, most of these are Gawain's plans, although many people in the territory have guessed the fact that the ancestor is planning to pick up a rolling pin and beat the child, but after all, Gawain has not yet said it, but for those intelligent people - such as Philip Knight, he can at least see from the current system of the territory what the position of the landed aristocracy is in the "Cecil Order".

"Frankly, I had a period of time when you first announced the land distribution system, formed the government office, and transformed the various lordship powers into the daily work of the government department...... Resistance, "Philip is a sincere person, even in the face of his idol or even spiritual role model in the past twenty years, he did not hide the thoughts he had, "At that time, I also discussed with the Byron knights, discussing when you will remember to talk to us about the fiefdom......"

Gawain looked at the knight in front of him with a smile who would definitely tell the truth: "So what now?" ”

"Your wisdom has made this land prosperous," said Philip from the bottom of his heart, "I never imagined that a piece of land could become so rich in such a short period of time – not by farming and tenants, but by factories and commerce, and if it were not for the abolition of the old system that bound the people to the land, and if it were not for the formation of an efficient government office, neither the factories nor commerce would have worked." ”

"Then do you still miss your fiefdom?" Gawain continued.

"A true nobleman, he obtains the title not to rule anyone, to obtain any benefits, but to protect his subjects, to make the people safe, to make the land prosperous, and all his privileges exist to better fulfill this obligation—this is what you said in the 4th year of Ansu, and I have engraved it on my shield," Philip said with a serious face, "So, if your new order can make the people safe, let the land prosper, and do better than the old system of privileges, Then there is no need to reserve those privileges. ”

"Very well," Gawain nodded in satisfaction, "It would be nice if everyone could have the same level of consciousness as you......

Then he paused, and commanded, "I want you to go and gather all the knights of Kant's order—the time has come for them to swear allegiance." ”

It had always been Philip Knight who was in charge of liaising with Kant and Cecil, so he was the perfect person to do it.

The young Mr. Knight bowed his head: "I will definitely complete my mission." ”

After Philip leaves, Amber and Gawain are the only ones left in the study.

Miss Half-Elf circled Gawain twice—strictly speaking, around the entire desk—and her actions made Gawain can't help but speak, "What are you going around?" ”

"I think you're going to do something big," Amber looked at Gawain with a serious face, "but I don't know what you're going to do." ”

"Yes, it's quite surprising that you can see that I'm going to make trouble," Gawain looked at the half-elf who usually didn't know anything about territory, decrees, traditional nobles, and the like, rather surprised, "How do you see that?" ”

As a result, as soon as Amber opened her mouth, Gawain wanted to slap her on the wall: "What I'm best at in my life is to make trouble, and I can't see the temperament of the same kind?" ”

"You...... Forget it, I didn't expect you to see it. ”

"Don't say that, I can still see a little bit of an approximation," Amber said with a glare, "I know how many privileges you took back after changing 'fiefdom' to 'territory', and how you brought those privileges under the control of the government department - before there were only two knights in the territory besides you, Rebecca, a lady and Byron Philip, and I was curious at that time, who you did in advance, and now I can see who you will not be able to say in the future, But now the old knights of Kant will definitely be cut first...... Aren't you afraid that those knights will fight back? ”

"The knights were 'half' landed nobles, they held far fewer privileges than real lords, they had no power to legislate, mint coins, etc., and after obeying Cecil's new law, they simply turned their previous rent income into annuity income, and lost their de jure right to rule over the fiefdom, but they could get more benefits from the new social order...... Those with a little wisdom and foresight will know what to choose. ”

"Oh my God, you are asking them to have wisdom and foresight, two things that the nobility lacks most!" Amber said in a very scowling and exaggerated tone, "What if they didn't?" ”

"That's great, the annuity saved is enough for me to open several steel foundries in the Kant area."

Looking at the heartfelt smile on Gawain's face, Amber suddenly remembered the "negotiation method" mentioned by the other party earlier.

She suddenly felt a little cold......

"But I think it's more likely that they'll see the situation clearly," Gawain said with a laugh, "again, they don't have much of the privilege to lose, so their resistance won't be as strong, at least not to the point of risking their lives to resist - and once they've seen the power of the Cecil order after that, they'll know how right they have come." ”

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