In this way, after the hound fully expressed his attitude, the discussion of the people present became much quieter. At the same time www.biquge.info he secretly cursed - who was holding this party, why didn't he have long eyes and let this mad dog in?

Yes, that's it. Although it is okay to say that it is a state affair, the current discussion of Swabian and Hereford's marriage contract still exists only in the shadows. Those guys were either the landlords who went bankrupt because of William's land reforms, when the price of grain dropped dramatically. Or because of William's policy of large-scale industrial development, small merchants who could not open small workshops.

There is also because of William's political reforms, the establishment of administrative order, legal order. They were deprived of "the right to whip serfs at will", and at the same time lost the opportunity to become officials because of the entry of scholars everywhere, various crash courses, and even professional administrative officials of universities.

Because of William's military reforms, military academies were established in various places, and knights and petty nobles who had lost their military privileges.

All in all, it is the vested interests whose interests have suffered seriously because of William's series of reform measures. Mainly small landowners, small merchants, and small nobles.

Originally, these scumbags had almost no say in the Russian political sequence - the guys who knew that something was wrong had long since made a change. Or take out the land as shares, make collective farms, or take out workers and workshops as shares, and join William's machine factory. Or send their children to public academies and military academies.

Like this, someone who understands things, accepts William's rule, and can help a guy who is willing to cooperate. It's not bad to mix in Russia. Although all the privileges of the past are gone. But in its place, there is a better future, and more importantly, a better way to make money and a better life.

But that's all that's it.

In the lands controlled by the Hereford family, the power of these traditional nobles is very small - in the end, there is only one reason, and that is the centaurs.

The Second Great Frontier War severely weakened the Great Frontier and the other nobles except for the Hereford family. Either their heads were cut off by the centaurs, or they were frightened and sold their property and fled to other lands.

And the nobles who were beheaded by the centaurs mostly went to the Hereford family. The vast majority of those who sold their property to other countries also sold their property to the Hereford family.

It was during the Second Great Frontier War that the power of the Hereford family grew like a snowball. This growth is not reflected in the realm of the state, but in the family. Yes, family. A large amount of real estate became an asset to the Hereford family. Eventually, after the Hereford family successfully annexed Novgorod and Holmgard, establishing Russia. The property and estate on the public books did not even have half of the "royal property" of the Hereford family.

On this basis, William formulated two more measures. The first was the monopoly system, which included grain, salt, cloth, pottery, copper, and iron as royal goods. At the same time, the royal consortium was created, which was also known as the Hereford Consolidated Company. Almost monopolized all industry on the territory of Russia.

The large amount of property occupied was the cornerstone of the Hereford family's rule, and the monopoly of industry and commerce greatly strengthened the Heritford family's rule.

While some guys were still struggling with the power to legislate, the judiciary, and the executive, William looked through the phenomenon to see the essence and grasped the focus and root cause of all problems.

That is, the economy.

That is, the means of production.

Control of the economy, control of the means of production, is a natural and well-deserved ruling class and ruler. It's like everything the Hereford family did in Russia.

The Hereford family can be said to be the most powerful, powerful, authoritative and powerful of the rulers of all human nations. On the other hand, it greatly suppressed the rest of the would-be ruling class – the traditional landlord class aristocracy, and the new industrial and commercial aristocracy.

They had given William a lot of trouble before. But in the end, these troubles became their own problems. William easily used economic sanctions, or administrative means, to make them stunned. In the end, those guys either surrendered and knelt and licked, or rebelled with one heart.

Needless to say, the former was easily suppressed with an iron fist. Hereford's new army is currently recognized as the strongest army in the world. It's not too easy to suppress a group of serfs who don't even have muskets or something.

And so, after realizing that they were no match for William in any way, these guys finally despaired...... Until now, Kalman IV had given them another great opportunity.

Since they could not play William, they would not gain anything from this insidious, capricious, greedy, vicious, and powerful monarch...... that

Then it's better to change the monarch.

So, although the whole thing has not been skimmed yet. But on the territory of Russia, the frustrated little aristocrats have already begun to revel. Although this kind of carnival is secret, it is not visible, and it is difficult to even reveal the rumors......

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Of course, everything that is currently happening in the Old World, William knows nothing. He is still in Ritjord, looking for the Great Dwarven Engineer who may or may not appear.

Along the way, William and his entourage opened the way with spirits, bought off a large number of dwarven middle and low-level officials, and also got to know a lot of dwarven engineers and inventors through the introduction of these guys.

To be honest, there are quite a few of these people, and they are all very good people. You can't find it with a lantern. His skill level has surpassed that of the few dwarven engineers William currently has. However, they still couldn't meet William's requirements, that is, to be able to design and build more advanced differential machines.

William was disappointed...... But with the spirit that there is no fish, and shrimp is good. He still sent out invitations to these guys, and the spirits plus the commission opened the way. The dwarves also seemed pleased with the act of "risking their lives to come to Rytjord in person." So he signed a contract with William for a period of 10 to 50 years.

William was slightly comforted by this. Even if he didn't find the legendary dwarven engineer in the end, he wouldn't have made a trip in vain. It's always rewarding, isn't it?

But it's still very unpleasant.

Yes, it's unpleasant.

Seeing that time passed day by day, and the legendary dwarven engineer could still not be found, William was very anxious. It looks like spring is about to begin. When the time comes, whether the dwarven engineer can find it or not, he will have to go back to Russia. The situation on the continent is so turbulent today that God knows when war will break out. It's absolutely not okay not to go back at this time.

That's it, that's it. William's heart was very depressed, so, although he knew that it was not good. But he still decided to drink to drown his sorrows and have a good time. It was here in Ritjord that he also met some of the dwarven fox friends. These bastards are not very good at other things, but they are strong at drinking.

So William called them over and told them to drink. Sure enough, the bastards happily agreed. Then the banquet was quickly put on the table, and a group of people pushed their glasses and changed their glasses, and soon entered the state. And then there's all kinds of bragging, all kinds of mess. The dwarven friends could see that William was in a bad mood and knew why he was in a hurry. So they comforted him one by one. kept promising to take him to find whoever he was going to next, that master would definitely be able to solve William's solution or something.

Speaking of which, humans are different from dwarves, and human fox friends are also very different from dwarves. Although these dwarves are also incompetent, they are more idle. However, their ability and credibility are much higher than those of human fox friends. Invite them to drink and then do things, and it will definitely not be a loss to William.

In fact, during this period of time, they also worked hard to contact William. It's just that dwarven geniuses are really hard to come by. If you can't meet it, it can only be said that William is unlucky.

Knowing that the fault is not with these dwarves. At the same time, there was something to rely on these people next, and William reluctantly smiled. Then forget about the unpleasantness for a while, and eat and drink happily with these dwarven drinking friends. And then brag casually...... After a while, William grabbed something. It's just that the alcohol is on the head for a while, and the reaction speed is insufficient, so I didn't catch it at the first time.

"Wait a minute, what did you just say?!" William grabbed the arm of the dwarf who had just been talking nonsense, and asked him intently.

Seeing William looking at himself very seriously, the dwarf was a little nervous, thinking that he had done something wrong, which made his friend and benefactor unhappy.

"No, no, no, I mean, you mentioned an old dwarf engineer just now?"

“...... Yes...... The dwarf was also a little confused, and he didn't react when William asked him this.

"No, I mean—" William said earnestly. But the more he did this, the more the dwarf just now couldn't react......

Just when he was anxious and wanted to get angry, next to him, a dwarf finally reacted:

"yes, that guy did mention an engineer - but he's not a master, he's an old bastard who doesn't do his job. Don't think about him, William, he can't help you. Leave him alone, let's move on to the bar. Hahaha......"