January 18th.

A soldier rushed through the door, and without even taking off the oilcloth raincoat that was still dripping, he knelt directly on one knee, took out an oilcloth bag from his arms, and held it up with both hands.

"Report, this is an official document posted by the county town. ”

Luo Ming took the bag of oilcloth, helped him up directly, patted him on the shoulder again, and showed a relieved expression: "You did a good job, now go and rest." Rest assured, I, Luo Ming, never hesitate to reward the loyal and brave. ”

Then a servant came and led the soldier away—not only to give him a reward, but also to change his dry clothes, to eat a hot meal, and to prepare a bed near the fireplace for him to sleep.

After all, the momentum of sleet outside is very strong, and in this case, he still insists on transmitting the information back as soon as possible, which in itself is worthy of praise - and it can also establish Luo Ming's image of loving soldiers like a son and rewarding meritorious service, which will naturally inspire more soldiers to come and go in the wind and rain for him.

If you do this kind of thing only once, it will only be a superficial article and a face-saving project...... But if he continues to do it, even for decades, who dares to say that he is cheating?

However, compared to this official document, the question of a soldier is really a small section.

Luo Ming opened the oilcloth bag, and inside was a linen cloth, which was hastily copied with the official documents posted by the county town.

"The Northwest Counties Nobles Have the Responsibility to Defend the Land and Must Not Escape and Their Reward and Punishment System Edict"

The gist is as follows:

Although demons will drive monsters to bring disaster, the principality was originally founded by force, and most nobles were born from martial arts.

In the face of calamity, the nobles should remember the hard work of their ancestors and their fearless spirit, carry out their duty to defend the land and protect the people, fulfill the obligation to stand up against evil, and not flee the territory without authorization.

If a nobleman is found to have escaped, when others help him recover the lost land, he can legally obtain one-third of the lost land as compensation, and another third will be directly confiscated by the royal family, which is also a punishment for those who flee without permission.

After the turmoil subsides, the titles and qualifications of some nobles will be re-examined according to the changes in the size of the territory.

To sum up, it means that the nobles who flee will lose most of their territories and their titles will be demoted, while the nobles who bravely fight the evil will be able to gain more land, and then the royal family will recognize that their titles may be promoted.

Those big nobles who can resist the policies of the royal family have enough strength in their hands, so they will naturally not flee in the face of a little monster, so they will not harm their interests at all.

This order is a knife that stabs the bodies of those small and medium-sized nobles who are on a vegetarian diet, cutting off their flesh to make those nobles who dare to fight stronger.

Although this may make the local forces bigger to a certain extent, those forces are uneven, some are loyal, and some want to make new local mountains and confrontations with the central government.

But in this order, the royal family can also get a third of the land, which is not a loss.

Those original nobles, on the contrary, it is difficult to grow too much because of this - their family has a big business, and if they want to calm their territory, they must first spend a period of time, and then they can go out to war, otherwise they will go out on the front foot, and the house will be on fire on the back foot, and this is not how to die.

Luo Ming looked at this order and smiled.

Of course, because of this order, my future is much broader-

And for the royal family, it is actually relatively profitable.

In the aftermath of this catastrophe, the nobles who survived, even those who did so, were bound to value armament, and were full of ambition and ambition—except that this ambition was not a rebellious ambition, but an ambition that could not wait for the principality to come up with a similar policy a few more times, and then they could profit from it.

To put it vulgarly, it is "follow the princess and have meat to eat".

Now that the Goddess of Springs is about to be promoted, there will be no shortage of troubles for the Duchy, and there may be a war at any point - so that these ambitious nobles can join the battle as a new force, and at the Princess's order, they will put aside their unnecessary restraints like mercenaries, and scream and fight the enemy.

They are all people who have been killed from the ravages of monsters, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not too bad, maybe they can change the situation of a war, even if they are just used as cannon fodder, they can also cause a lot of consumption to the enemy and preserve the strength of the royal regular army.

And after such a battle, the surviving nobles will be rewarded—in their opinion, the reward comes from the order of the princess, and they will naturally be grateful to the princess who created this opportunity, and even join the royalist party and become one of the hardcores.

If it were a narrow-minded arrogant figure facing this situation, he would sneer three times and then be furious - you, the indigenous royal family, still want to take advantage of the master?

But Luo Ming naturally wouldn't be so stupid.

Except in a few cases, how could the royal family issue a decree that greatly harmed its own interests and fattened the pockets of others?

If you want to profit from the royal decree, it will definitely be a win-win.

Besides, even if he really wants to be hostile to the royal family, Luo Ming will not refuse this kind of opportunity.

Win-win is also divided into big wins and small wins.

The royal family sits on the world, and if there is a little more land and population, the difference is not too big, and it is impossible to change qualitatively, but it is a small winner.

But Luo Ming is now just a knight, and with a little more land and population, he can become a baron, or even a viscount or an earl. That's enough to cause a qualitative change, and that's the big winner.

At that time, a complete industrial chain can be formed in his territory, from mining to smelting to casting, from production to transportation to sales, from birth to education to employment, all of which can be covered in one system.

Improving the process of a link can make all links profitable, and if the virtuous cycle continues, it will roll up like the wheel of history, and whoever stands in the way will be crushed to death.

The strength of primary industry lies not in the subtlety, but in the scale and mass production.

He only has a few dozen elite soldiers under his command, and even if they are all replaced with iron armor, they are not a huge force. In the eyes of outsiders, it's just that he made a windfall and was willing to spend it.

But if he has an earldom, and he has iron ore in his territory, he can mine it, if he has coal in his territory, he can send people to dig it, and if he has a great river in his territory, he can develop his own hydraulic hammer......

Then as long as he is given three years, it is not uncommon to increase the production of iron armor to five hundred pairs per year - looking at the entire principality, it is still a question whether he can produce five hundred pairs of iron armor per year!