Chapter 562: Discussion of Territorial Canonization

"Your Highness, there are forty-eight meritorious soldiers newly promoted to barons, twenty-six from barons to viscounts, and two from viscounts to counts. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info roster has been checked and there are no errors or omissions. However, this territorial canonization has already made all the territories of Dramke Province and Winston Province canonized, and there will be no extra territories to canonize in the future. I mean, is it possible to transfer some of the canonized territories to the provinces of Yungeshandra and Makinobara? It's basically blank ......."

There is a saying that the mouth is moved at the top, and the leg is broken at the bottom. Although Lorist always felt that he was very busy and busy, there were so many things waiting for him to make decisions, so many documents waiting to be reviewed by him, and so many family officials waiting to report to him. But the real situation, no matter what it is, as long as Lorist sets the tone in a few words, then there are naturally family officials who are busy doing things, and then report to Lorist after they are done, and I can get a sentence that I did a good job or is very good, and I am very satisfied and feel flattered.

Just like the highlight of the canonization of new territorial nobles and the promotion of titles at the New Year's celebration at the end of the year, Lorist handed over full authority to Shi Fatzi, and then he was busy playing with his wife and children. Shi Fatzi gathered a group of family officials and was busy in the dark, and finally got the result after twenty days. Canonization and promotion is a major event, the division of new territories, and the expansion of territories after the promotion of titles, all need to be coordinated and planned after rigorous calculations, and Shi Fatzi can complete this work in twenty days.

Lorist shook his head slightly, and said to Shi Fatzi, who was holding a large stack of documents and reporting to him: "No need, Yungeshandra Province is now developed and built by Sedekamp, and it will take two or three years to complete. In the next twenty or thirty years, I intend to administer the province of Yungeshandra as a direct domain of the family, so I will not canonize the new territorial nobles there.

As for the province of Makinogahara, it was Governor Hickd who wrote to me asking me not to canonize the nobles of the realm there. Governor Hicked said that the role of the province of Makino is to prevent the invasion of the family territory by the barbarian cavalry, second, to have a strategic geographical advantage over the Fisabrun family, and thirdly, to form an open market for our Norton family's trade with the barbarian tribes, which is conducive to our family's acceptance and assimilation of the grass barbarian tribes in the surrounding area.

Because of this, Governor Hicked thought that if the new nobles of the realm were canonized in Makinogahara Province, it would cause great harm to our family's rule. Because none of us can guarantee that those newly promoted territorial nobles will not forget their interests and use smuggling to collude with those barbarian tribes, lure wolves into the house, and privately damage the interests of the family. Given the interests of the nobility of the realm, it is impossible for us to effectively regulate this.

Therefore, Governor Hicked believed that a strategically important territory such as the Makinoha Province should also be administered directly by the family. In this way, we can respond in a timely manner in case of an accident, without unnecessary delays and delays due to the involvement of the domain nobles. I think he has a point, which is why the canonization of new realm nobles and the promotion of titles to expand the realm are limited to the provinces of Dramke and Winston. ”

Shi Fatzi put the large stack of documents he was holding on the desk: "But Your Highness, the territories of these two provinces have been canonized, so what should the family do if they are canonized and promoted to the title in the future?"

Lorist took a bottle of blackcurrant fruit wine, took two crystal clear glass goblets, poured the black and red wine into it, and then used a silver clip to select two relatively complete ice cubes from a glass basin filled with half melted square ice cubes next to him, and sandwiched them into the glass: "Have a glass, the new blackcurrant fruit wine in our family territory last year, with the ice cubes tastes very refreshing, you can try it." ”

"Not bad. Shi Fatzi took a sip of praise and praised, but he was puzzled: "It's October, where did you get the ice?"

The nobles of the Gelinthia continent have the custom of digging ice caves to store ice, generally digging a deep cellar with bluestone slabs against the wall, cleaning it up, and then ordering people to choose clean ice cubes from the river water source in winter and seal it, and take it out in summer to escape the heat or make cold drinks to quench thirst. However, the ice does not last long, and it melts into water before the summer is over. It's October, and it's autumn, so Fat St. wonders where Lorist got this square pot of ice.

Lorist laughed: "Remember the gunpowder laboratory? Professor Bob found that saltpeter has the effect of cooling and icing, so he used this feature to make ice cubes for himself to cool the heat." Didn't I go to the gunpowder lab the other day, and I got some saltpeter and came back to make ice. ”

Shi Fatzi was a little stupid: "You are really leisurely, we are so busy here, you still have the leisure to wander around, and you also get saltpeter back to make ice cubes." Hey, didn't you say that the family's share of saltpeter to make gunpowder is very tight, and it's okay if these saltpeters are wasted?"

"It can be recycled, as long as the water is evaporated, you can also get saltpeter crystals. "I'm also curious," said Lorlist, "and this time I have opened up two more valleys in the Blade Mountains as salt fields. Professor Bob believes that the production of gunpowder can be tripled in two years, which is enough to meet the training and reserves of our family fleet and artillery battalion. ”

Shi Fatzi drained the blackcurrant fruit wine in the wine glass in one gulp, then poured another glass himself, picked two large ice cubes and threw them into the wine glass: "Okay, let's talk about the topic just now, Your Highness, what should we do if there are any promoters in our family in the next few years? The provinces of Demke and Winston have been canonized, and the family finally has to take out the provinces of Yungeshandra and Makinohara to be canonized. Since Makinohara Province is related to the strategic focus of the family, the only one who can be canonized is Yunge Shandra Province.

My opinion is, in this case, why can't we take advantage of this good opportunity of canonization and promotion to transfer and canonize a group of territorial nobles to Yungeshandra Province in advance? The family has invested a huge amount of money in the overall development and construction of Yungeshandra Province, and will continue to invest a large amount of money in the next few years. My personal idea is to canonize or transfer the undeveloped swamps and jungle areas to these territorial nobles, and force them to invest their own funds to develop and build according to the family's plan, so as to reduce the burden on the family......"

Shi Fatzi is kind, the family has invested a huge amount of five million gold fords in three years to develop the barren province of Yungeshandra, and will continue to invest the same amount of development funds in the next three years. For the Norton family, the development plan in Yungeshandra province was a game changer, leveling hills and jungles, damming Egret Lake, and turning swamps into fertile fields, where nearly 200,000 young captives had been fighting for two or three years.

Shi Fatzi believes that those territories that have not yet been affected can be canonized to new territorial nobles or transferred to territorial nobles who have been promoted to the title, and the family can give appropriate subsidy funds to help them develop and build the territory according to the planned development plan, which can reduce the burden of family development, and at the same time cultivate the spirit of hard work and pioneering spirit of the vassal lords of the family, rather than sitting back and enjoying the success in the rich provinces of Dramke and Winston.

Lorist pondered for a while, and finally shook his head and rejected Fat Shi's proposal. People, don't suffer from widowhood, only suffer from inequality, what did the old saying in the previous life say? Shi Fatzi may think about human nature too well, he can be selfless, and he can even take the lead in transferring his territory to Yunge Shandra Province, but what will the other newly canonized territorial nobles and promoted territorial nobles think in their hearts?

Obviously, the provinces of Lemke and Winston have rich and redundant territories that can be canonized, but they are arranged to be in the barren province of Yungeshandra, why can others enjoy happiness in those two rich provinces, is it because the family looks down on them and sends them here to suffer? I am afraid that in this way, the nobles of the territory that the family canonized to Yungeshandra Province will be resentful, and instead waste the good intentions of the family canonization and promotion of them to strengthen their loyalty.

"This time it's decided, it's all in the province of Dramke and the province of Winston. Lorist said, "His Majesty the King will ascend the throne in August next year, and the kingdom will be transformed into an empire." In the next few years, it should be unlikely that there will be another war in the kingdom, whether it is internal or external, everyone has fought enough, and the three-year bloody battle with the business alliance in the Falcan Hill Plain has greatly damaged most of the nobles in the kingdom, even the most warlike nobles want to start a war with their neighbors, and they must think carefully about whether he still has the capital to fight a territory war.

Anyway, peace has finally come to the kingdom of Andinac, oh, maybe the Krisson Empire. If the knights of our clan want to use their exploits in war to become lords and obtain knighthoods, I am afraid that they will be disappointed. There will not be such a big battle as a business alliance in the future. Our family forces also need to recuperate, and the ambitious little ones can only vent their energy in daily training and wilderness hunting.

Perhaps the knights of our family will only have to survive the same number of years as the civil officials of the family to obtain knighthoods and promotions, so it is unlikely that our family will hold large-scale canonization and promotion ceremonies in the next few years as we did this year. Now that our Norton family holds the territory of the five provinces of the kingdom, it is impossible for His Majesty the King to give our family jurisdiction over a certain province, and he is eager to take back all four provinces of our family.

Therefore, I have decided that the future development direction of our family is to the north, you see, after we defeated the invasion of the army of 100,000 mountain barbarian tribes, this large area outside the boundaries of the family territory has actually been included in our family's sphere of influence, and the town of Liangshan has become the central town of this area, and this area is full of mercenaries from our family territory, and the mountain barbarian tribe forces have retreated to the depths of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range. In addition, our family's armed forces have to pass through this area to hunt in the barbarian plains, and this area has become a relatively safe area after many sweeps, and many mercenaries are complaining that it is difficult to find demonic beasts and mountain barbarian tribes in this area.

My idea is to include this area under the family's rule, and to develop and build this area as a province, because it is the territory of our family, so His Majesty has no right to interfere. In addition to this area, there is the Savage Plains in the north, which is a boundless land to which we can look our gaze. Therefore, I am not worried about the lack of canonized territories at all, and in a few years, after this region is established as a province, the family can canonize all the new vassal lords there. ”

Shi Fatzi suddenly realized: "It turns out that His Highness fought with such an idea, no wonder some time ago you summoned Daddy Balek and asked him to organize an exploration team to investigate the distribution of mineral resources in this area, and also asked Telman to personally escort him with a knight battalion." I wonder why His Highness is making such a fuss. I see, I have no doubts about His Highness's arrangement. ”

Lorist nodded, and poured himself and Shi Fat a glass of blackcurrant fruit wine: "When you go back to Angry Bear City, you will bring back a case of blackcurrant fruit wine, this is the secret brewing of the Principality of Murbit in the south-central part of the country, which was famous for producing fruit wine, and the business alliance destroyed and annexed the Principality of Murbit, and divided up those winemaking technicians." Not willing to become a slave to the Chamber of Commerce, the blackcurrant brewing technician fled to our Northland and opened the brewery. The first batch produced more than 1,000 bottles, and it took two years to brew successfully, and it has been fully packaged by our family, and there is no outside to buy. ”

Shi Fatzi was very happy: "Thank you, Your Highness, but one box is too little, at least three boxes." You know that I like to drink fruit wine, this kind of blackcurrant is sweet and sour, fragrant and refreshing, and the wine taste is pure, which is very suitable for drinking to quench my thirst. ”

Lorist scolded with a smile: "This bottle is only four gold coins, you bastard is used to robbing my wine collection, go and talk to Bowery Butler yourself." ”

Bauvery is the eldest son of the Butler Boris, who took the whole family from the Kenmath family to join Lorist, and then went to the Haneyabada Islands as the governor for ten years, and was canonized as a viscount of the territory by the Norton family after returning. Because of his advanced age, he resigned and returned to the territory to enjoy his blessings, and when he left, he gave his eldest son to Lorlist. Because of his family history, Bowery is an extremely qualified housekeeper, and Lorist is very comfortable and satisfied.

"Okay, thank you again, Your Highness. I'll go and say hello to Bowery Butler and ask him to prepare a few more boxes for me. Shi Fatzi said: "Your Highness, I will return to Angry Bear City tomorrow, what else do you have to order?"

Lorist thought for a moment and said, "There is basically nothing to say, I am relieved that the New Year's celebration will be held by you, and Director Speer and Director Codan will cooperate with your instructions." You all have experience in how to hold a New Year's celebration, so I won't talk much. Celivia and I will be back in Bear City at the end of November, and everything there will be up to you. ”

Shi Fatzi took a sip of the fruit wine in the cup and stood up: "Okay, Your Highness, then I will take my leave first, and we will see you in Angry Bear City." ”

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