"Your Majesty, isn't this way of dealing with... Too much? ”

Calvo was embarrassed, he was also a nobleman, and he was terrified to see the fief of a nobleman canceled.

"What do you think?"

Constantine did not answer, but kicked the question to the cabinet.

"The senators of the Senate have been in contact with us many times, most of them are vaguely opposed, and a few of them have clearly expressed their attitudes,"

As the government's No. 2 man, Chavez has been harassed these days.

Hearing that this was the accepted result of the Senate, Constantine was also a little surprised, could it be that in the eyes of these people, rebellion could also be forgiven?

"Did the Senate give the number of nobles who participated in the rebellion?"

Realizing that something was wrong, Constantine immediately asked.

Calvo and Chavez glanced at each other, Chavez glanced at him, and motioned for Calvo to explain the situation,

In desperation, Calvo stood up and pleaded guilty before stating the findings of the Senate.

"According to the captives captured by His Majesty Laszlo, plus the verification of the Senate and the Cabinet, it can be known..."

Calvo hesitated, as if to give Constantine time to react,

"There are about 3,000 rebellious nobles, of which there are about 1,000 fiefdom nobles, the largest fiefdom nobles like Laina, Sadio, Mina and others have been executed, and most of the other smaller fiefdom nobles and non-fiefdom nobles have not been disposed of and are currently imprisoned in Constantinople."

Three thousand? Constantine was directly shocked, this must still be verified, and there must be more people who did not end up in person, and the scope of this blow is a bit too wide.

Constantine rubbed his head and felt very tricky,

"How many provinces are involved?"

"Except for Albania, which has fewer provinces, it is found everywhere, especially in the province of Moria, but in Bulgaria and Thrace it is less."

Calvo explained to Constantine,

"There must be something wrong with this group of people who have traveled to Fort Hadrian instead of choosing to raise troops on the spot at Moria."

"Hmm..."

Constantine pondered for a while, he actually knew the specific things, Apollo's spies were already everywhere in the country, and this group of people had no vigilance, any old nobleman could get their plan.

"What does the Senate mean?"

Now that everything has been done, all it takes to think about is how to deal with this group of people, and there is no benefit in pursuing the past.

"What the senators mean is that the rebellious nobles should be judged and deprived of their noble status, their noble domains... Relatives who should have been inherited to them in order cannot be cancelled. ”

To put it bluntly, it is to change the nobles, the people are different, but the titles and fiefs are not moved, so that the country cannot get anything from the counterinsurgency, and the subsequent resettlement of the people will cost money, which is a pure loss-making business.

"You also think this is a reasonable request?"

Constantine held back his anger, and the royal power and the local nobility clashed, and if Constantine retreated this time, it would only make the nobles press forward step by step, complacent, and disdain the orders of the central government.

"We discussed it privately,"

Calvo lowered his head,

"The aristocracy affected this time is wide-ranging, and there are also foreign forces in it, and if we retaliate on a large scale, we are worried that it will cause national turmoil."

"Therefore, we believe that those who are repentant should be pardoned as appropriate, and those who resist can be punished with capital punishment."

Constantine was very irritable, a large part of this group of rebellious nobles were actually not the traditional nobles of Byzantium, many of them were canonized by the Ottoman Sultan during the Ottoman period, and they did not go with the Sultan after he withdrew to Anatolia, but stayed, because this group of people controlled the land and population of the place, no matter how the master changed, they could live freely, no way, Constantine could only identify with their aristocratic status.

After thinking for a while, Constantine was ruthless in his heart, this group of people is a white-eyed wolf that cannot be raised, and they must be ruthless.

"No, I don't agree with the Senate's proposal, all the nobles involved in the rebellion must take away their titles, confiscate their fiefs, and confiscate their property, this matter is not negotiable,"

Constantine stared at Calvo,

"All confiscated fiefs, part of which is given to soldiers and officers who have made meritorious contributions in the process of counterinsurgency, starting from one hectare (that is, fifteen acres), is increased as appropriate, with an upper limit of ten hectares, but no knighthood, and those who are knighted by officers will have their fiefs reduced, and those who renounce their titles can increase the amount of land they have obtained."

"The royal family did not want any of the land confiscated by this rebellion, but all of it was sent out, and when the army was finished, it was rented to the people, and the cabinet issued a decree in my name that whoever had cultivated the land for five years would automatically belong to the peasants, and the leased land would be taxed seven times out of ten, and the land of the common people would be taxed five times out of ten."

Don't think that this tax rate is very high, Europe did not pay taxes before, because all the output is owned by the lord, which is normal, those who allow you to produce your own use are very small, and it is a big luck to encounter this kind of lord, but generally speaking, the territory is not very large, and the lord exploits the most ruthlessly, and all the output must be collected by the lord's house, and the big lord may sometimes not take care of it, and the people below are better.

Needless to say now, the royal family is the biggest lord, isn't it normal to collect some taxes?

"It's... Your Majesty, what if someone stands in the way? ”

Calvo was cautious, and everyone knew that he was talking about those who might inherit titles and fiefdoms, as well as the Senate.

"Let Laszlo lead the army to deal with it, but whoever dares to resist will be arrested and sent to prison, don't they want land? Let them go to the prison and farm! ”

Constantine said murderously, in order to maintain stability, I also let you go, but now I still want Constantine to retreat, don't think about it, they don't have this capital anymore.

"Chavez, how much money and land are you expected to get after this raid?"

"There are about more than 1 million hectares of land, and the cash and various belongings are worth about 3 million ducats, so there will not be a big difference."

After thinking about it, Chavez gave an approximate figure.

Of course, compared to the Far East, the population density of Europe is not very large, so the per capita land possession is large, and the aristocracy is notoriously conservative, gold and silver are piled up in the castle, so European novels always say how mysterious and rich the aristocratic castle is, after all, this is the accumulation of generations.

"Cultural relics and the like are put in Hagia Sophia, gold and silver and other property are sold, and the funds obtained are invested in the development of the country."

Speaking of this, Constantine seemed to suddenly remember something,

"Oh... By the way, now that the country is stable, we have to vigorously develop the economy, and if you have any ideas, you can say them now. ”

The support of the state must not be fully blossomed, they all choose a key point, and then use policy support, such as Britain in the industrial revolution focused on the textile industry and shipbuilding, the colony of Great Britain continued to transport raw materials is also the reason for the rapid development of these two industries.

"Your Majesty has made the textile machine with high efficiency, and the textile industry can support it, but due to raw material reasons, I am afraid that we will not be able to promote it on a large scale, and the existing looms are enough."

Chavez had been keeping an eye on this matter, so when Constantine asked, he answered him fluently.

"The shipbuilding industry can also develop, but our shipbuilding industry has no advantage compared with the Venetians, and the profit of the planting industry is too low, unless it grows cash crops, but the scale is too small to support a country."

Spices and silk to the East is better, as well as dyes, etc., these things in Europe seem to be unadaptable, no one has been able to grow and produce on a large scale, can only be purchased from the East, the output is small, the market is wide, so it is very popular with Europeans.

Historically, the opening of new routes is for the spices and other things in the East, as well as overseas gold, this is the driving force of Europeans, Europeans are obsessed with spices to the point that people dare not imagine, very crazy, spices are more expensive than gold, silk is more expensive than gold, and some rare dyes are the same, which is why the Byzantine royal family likes to use the purple robe as a symbol of the royal family, because purple dye is so rare, only a purple robe, can reflect the dignity of its owner.

Originally, Byzantium was located on such a traffic artery, and it could make a lot of money just by collecting tolls, which is why the previous monarchs did not think about what industries to focus on, because it was too easy to make money, and they could eat enough just by collecting rent, who would want to work?

But not now, Constantine was keenly aware that there would be a long Cold War between the Balkans and Anatolia, and it would be impossible to lie down and eat as before, so he wanted to focus on supporting a certain industry, mainly to make money.

"In my opinion, we have more advantages in the textile industry, in the whole of Europe, our textile technology has always been second to none, and now we have established friendly relations with Muscovy, we can import raw materials from the steppes, we do the processing industry, plus some domestic supplements, the money we get every year will not be less."

Calvo is very interested in the textile industry, and what he said is also very reasonable, it is also a good choice to spin with wool, and in the country you can make silk from silk, and there are also good profits,

In fact, the Roman Empire learned the textile skills of the East very early, and Constantinople has always had workshops for the production of silk, but the output is small, and people are not willing to grow cash crops, but prefer to grow grain, after all, mulberry trees can not be eaten.