After completing the first step of reasoning with Christopher, Augustus immediately began to implement his adjustment of Alfred's power structure, which is an urgent matter, especially now that Alfred is in the initial stage of rapid development, a good and positive power system can undoubtedly prolong the life of this development process the most; , but the secret negative sabotage is not too much trouble for these cunning nobles, so what Augustus has to do is to make his servants accept his adjustment as much as possible, instead of blindly wielding a stick to force them to accept. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Which attitude should be shown in which situation was not difficult for Augustus to grasp.

The meeting took place in the drawing room of Alfred Castle.

In addition to choosing this relatively soft occasion is an attitude of Augustus, more importantly, Augustus, who has been exposed to psychology in his previous life, knows that the more family-like and private environment it is, the more it can eliminate the vigilance brought by human nature, and at the same time, the communication between each other can often achieve the greatest possible good results - it can be seen that Augustus has put a lot of thought into this meeting.

It was like a dinner party than a meeting, and the long dining table was filled with sumptuous food, and although he was informed that the servants were coming to talk about the meeting, Augustus at the table did not mention anything related to work, and there was no shortage of crimson wine, and he instructed the maids to ensure that each adult's cup was at least 1/ 3 And then he thanked his servants for working together with him through such a series of difficult situations, and his words were sincere and detailed, and even completely subverted the tough image he had created at the last meeting, and confused the Alfred servants present, was this still the young count who decisively sent Bastov to the gallows in the first place?

Of course, no matter how humble Augustus was, the servants who had seen his iron hand would only be superficially polite, and no one would think that the young count, who always had a warm smile, was really a very gentle and talkative person, and they were just sipping delicious wine while racking their brains to figure out what this meeting was about, and it didn't look like the Earl was just a gathering.

The pre-meeting dinner ended quickly in a fairly cordial atmosphere.

When the maid had cleaned up the food scraps on the table, Augustus had ordered the wine to be kept, and then smiled and said to his servants, "Let's start the meeting."

When the topic came, Alfred's servants subconsciously straightened their sitting postures.

Augustus motioned to the old Vernon beside him with his eyes to send a copy of the meeting outline he had sorted out to each of the adults present, and then said with a smile: "This is a solution to some of Alfred's problems recently, and I have come up with a solution to it, and I want you to refer to it, in terms of age and experience, you are all my elders, and I sincerely hope to be able to listen to your opinions." ”

Opinion?

Will he speak one second and be pushed to the gallows outside the castle the next?

Alfred's servants playfully joked and buried their heads in the Chinese documents, without reading the content, they basically made up their minds that they would not give any so-called opinions, the count could do whatever he wanted, anyway, Alfred was his Alfred after all, and then he could lead Alfred to complete the great reversal almost miraculously, and the young earl would not push Alfred into the fire pit if he had no experience.

With this unburdened mentality, the town lords of Alfred casually flipped through the Chinese pieces.

Soon, however, the sound of visibly rapid breathing suddenly sounded chaotically.

Then it was clearly visible that several lords had subconsciously clenched their fists.

Eventually, the atmosphere in the living room was inevitably tense, and even the candles on the long dining table began to flicker violently.

Interestingly, however, no matter how angry and suppressed they were, none of them dared to give the advice that Augustus wanted, and what was even more terrible was that the servants did not dare to raise their heads while trying to prevent the uncontrollable anger on their faces from being detected by their young earl.

Augustus didn't seem to notice the sudden change in the atmosphere, he still wore a gentle smile, and said: "Don't worry, if there are different opinions, you should have a general understanding of me, then you should know that I am indeed asking for your opinions, otherwise once I decide, I think this meeting will lose its meaning." ”

That being said, the problem is that he was really impressed by the fate of Baron Bastov in Saiyan City, coupled with the young earl's strong wrist and strong enough power to intimidate each of them, who would dare to take the lead and carry his head to see if the young earl was sincere or tentative?

The atmosphere grew more and more dreary, tense and suffocating.

Augustus was in such an environment, smiling and waiting.

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Finally, Sir Leo of Lorain, who was born in Alfred's military order and had not had time to taint too many noble roots, bravely raised his head, and the young knight who had sacrificed an arm for Alfred put down his hand and Chinese and plucked up his courage to say: " My lord, I can understand that you want to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the commoners to cultivate the soil, but it seems inappropriate for the land to become the private property of the commoners after it is distributed to the commoners, after all, the commoners can only be civilians, and everything they have can only belong to their lords. Speaking of this, Sir Leo paused slightly, first glanced at the ill-intentioned encouragement of the other lords around him, and then greeted Augustus's undisguised appreciation, and continued: "Then about your tax plan, the land is given to the commoners, and the taxes can only be collected by Alfred, and the lords of the towns have no right to collect any taxes, which is basically depriving the lords of important financial resources, and you can't let the lords cultivate the soil like the commoners, right?"

Let's get to the point.

Augustus smiled heartily, it didn't matter whether Leo was on the matter or out of his own interests, Augustus didn't mind at all, he nodded to Leo, and didn't explain, but looked around at the servants on both sides of the table and asked, "Who else has anything to add?"

Not surprisingly, no one spoke, and with the fool Leo, the budding bird, it was enough.

Augustus automatically ignored the careful thinking of his servants and said with a smile: " Well, let's start with the first point, Sir Leo is right, the land is indeed distributed to the common people to mobilize the enthusiasm of the common people to reclaim the soil, as we all know, there are a large number of civilians in Alfred's territory at present, if the civilians are not quickly converted into productive forces, it will also be a great burden for Alfred, I think no one will object to this, so I think that only by completely handing over the land to the civilians and making them realize that it is their private property, they will do their best to cultivate it. After a pause, he continued: "Of course, I know that if you are suddenly asked to give up the land in your hands and give it to the commoners for nothing, you will definitely have opinions, but you might as well think about it, how can you enslave those despicable untouchables to work willingly without giving them a little sweetness?"

At this time, if he wanted to convince these so-called nobles, Augustus knew very well that he could only persuade from the perspective of the interests of the aristocracy, otherwise everything would be impossible.

"Then there is the tax, the reason why the taxes of all towns under Alfred's territory are collected by Alfred is also due to the problem of distribution, because if the towns are allowed to decide the tax rate on their own, I think each town will definitely have its own plans according to its own situation, which will cause for example, the tax rate in Greentown is low, and civilians will pour into Greentown, while the adjacent Saiyan City has a high tax rate, it will be more barren, and eventually cause contradictions, presumably you don't want to see infighting happen. ”

No one will deny this, and selfish aristocrats will always seek to maximize profits, and it is difficult to find their own problems.

But if you want them to give up their interests just because of this, it is obviously impossible.

Perhaps seeing that Leo's bird did not end well, but was affirmed by the Earl, and soon an old nobleman of Alfred took the initiative to speak, it was Baron Llorente of the city of Zaya, this old nobleman of Alfred first got up cautiously, saluted Augustus briefly, and then said: "My lord, we will not deny what you said, but I have a proposal, Alfred sets the tax rate, and the towns strictly abide by it, and the taxes are still collected by the towns themselves, is this okay?" After all, we are your servants, but we have the absolute right to decide our respective territories according to tradition. ”

Augustus was still smiling, as if he was going to carry the moderate course to the end.

He said: "Baron, there is nothing wrong with your consideration on the surface, but in fact, if you think about it, how big is the area of your city of Saye, and what about Dehe City? If the tax rate is the same, the tax you can collect will definitely not be as good as the tax of Dehe City, right?

Baron Llorente was slightly stunned, and the other town lords were obviously aware of the problem.

But if they continued this line of thought, would they have to divide the territory of the lords again? This did not seem realistic, so they had to wait for Augustus to continue.

Augustus really had his plan, he smiled: "Actually, in the final analysis, the biggest reason why you are unwilling to implement this regulation can only be because Alfred has seized your tax rights and caused you losses, so it is unacceptable, right?" Seeing that his servants did not dare to admit it, Augustus said again: " This is true, and I also admit that Alfred has taken advantage of you, so in order to compensate, I will share the Imperial Route that Alfred currently owns with you to make up for the loss caused by the tax revenue, and you can consider whether it is feasible. ”

Owned Imperial Lines?

That's smuggling?

The town lords, who were not stupid and smart enough, quickly showed greedy eyes, of course they knew that after the Cathar Knights were stationed in the wasteland, Alfred basically controlled the smuggling routes, and the benefits obtained could not be compared to the barren land?

However, before they could express their position, Augustus quickly smiled again: "Okay, this problem is here first, I will give you time to think about it seriously, and if there is no problem, let's carry it out like this." ”

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"Proceed to the next topic. ”

"The lords of each town are no longer allowed to have private knights, except for the standard guards of about 50 people, all knights are unified into the Alfred Purple Irises Knights, and Alfred sends knights to station and patrol the towns in the territory. ”

There is no doubt that this proposal can only meet with greater criticism.

One is that Augustus's attitude today is really mild, and the other is that the recent excavation of the Nile has indeed had a lot of merits, and Baron Marshall of Greentown took the lead in vehemently opposing, his meaning is very clear, the tax is handed over to Alfred, if even the knights are handed over to Alfred, then what rights do these lords have? Augustus did not frown at this, still smiling, and first asked his servants, why do you need the Knights? Isn't it to defend Alfred? In that case, why not let Alfred control all the knights?

Marshall said honestly that it was to defend Alfred, but at the same time it was necessary to protect his own safety and interests.

Augustus didn't hurry and asked, "Could it be that after the Knights were unified and controlled by Alfred, Alfred would not care whether his servants lived or died?"

Baron Marshall, who was not good at fighting in this kind of obscure conspiracy, was speechless for a while, but Baron Llorente's expression on the side was quickly complicated, and he seemed to vaguely perceive that whether it was seizing their right to rule their respective territories or confiscating their armed forces, it showed that the young Earl seemed to be hollowing them out and creating a warm environment for the despicable untouchables, but the question was why did the Earl do this? He couldn't figure it out, but he knew very well that, in the final analysis, Augustus was still a conspiracy meeting for his own interests.

Of course, it was normal for him to not be able to figure it out, and it would surprise Augustus if he could figure it out.

In fact, it is likely that even Augustus himself did not realize that these things that he decided based on the memory and experience brought by him in his previous life were basically trying to transform the most deep-rooted slavery in the world into feudalism, and it was also transitioning these servants of theirs from the status of slave owners to his status as employers, which was undoubtedly an advanced change, and it was also likely to bring about an earthquake of considerable scale, so to speak, if it were not for the fact that this change was limited to Alfred's territory, and if it were not for the first meeting Augustus's domineering methods that really impressed these nobles, Augustus's decisions would have been absolutely impossible。

To use the simplest analogy, take Marshall as an example, in the past, Marshall was Augustus's servant, and Marshall himself had his own servants, Augustus theoretically had no right to directly control Marshall's servants, but now, Augustus is simply demolishing Marshall's rule and trying to directly control everything in his territory.

In other words, he simply overthrew Alfred's previous pyramid power system and reconstructed his own power structure.

This seems to be a bit far away, but in the end, Augustus, who knows very well that cheap and childish blood can't change the world at all, doesn't think that far, he just tries to create the best environment for Alfred to develop according to his ideas.

Next.

Seeing that the lords of the towns could not hold back and were about to fiercely oppose his proposal again, Augustus said indifferently, you should think about it first, so he put this issue on hold for the time being and moved on to the next one.

So the nobles, who were suppressed in their anger, finally realized that their lord was ostensibly consulting with them, but in reality, where did they have the right to change Augustus's decision?

Mild?

Democracy?

It's all a lie, it's all a mask of hypocrisy put on by this liar, and the greatest essence of this young man who has an extremely strong desire to control can only be a dictatorship that cannot be opposed.

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