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However, hundreds of years have passed, and between the royal family and the aristocratic family, the royal family has the upper hand in general, except for the Saxons, including Asturias, the royal family's dominance is steadily rising.

And the suppressed lords are of course unwilling, under this continuous suppression, the royal family has gradually reached into their territory to make money, although they can't do what they want, only in a small name.

But secretly they all think that the royal family is cutting their flesh and sucking their blood.

The new territory not only increases the total income, but also allows the lord to use a royal decree or tax to prevent the income from the territory being not included in the original place, and to keep the income of the territory in his own hands as much as possible.

This is why all the kingdoms, not only the royal family, but also the powerful noble families are very interested in dimensional warfare.

In Keos, the expansion of new territories has been very difficult, good lands have either been divided, or have to be begged for by the orcs, such as the city of freedom, which was originally a wilderness, after decades of prosperity, also caused strife, to decide the ownership in the form of war.

Therefore, unless it is a big war that is decided, in Kaos, the changes in the national territory must be prepared to be exaggerated with a lot of blood.

On the one hand, the kingdoms are actively engaged in the plane war, and the church's holy war has brought them a lot of opportunities, in addition, powerful families, especially those who have the protection of legendary powerhouses, their legendary powerhouses go to the void to explore the void for the opportunity of their own evolution, for the prosperity of their families, and find new planes that can be touched.

Internally, the nobles also tried their best to increase their income, and the uncontrolled expropriation in the territory was to kill chickens and take eggs, which would cause civil uprisings, although with the strength of the nobles, these civil uprisings were not taken into account, and they could be suppressed lightly, but each civil uprising represented that the original batch of chickens that could lay eggs was to be slaughtered by themselves, and they could only eat chicken once, and they could not continue to lay eggs.

So the aristocracy looked outward, to obscure areas, such as setting up checkpoints on the roads between the two territories and charging pedestrians and merchants.

The passage from St. Quentin to the Free City passes through the territory of Duke Aldrich, and he has set up two checkpoints on the Great 6 Highway in his territory, one from the place where the Free City adjoins his domain, and the other from the road where his territory is about to enter the territory of St. Quentin.

Three days later, Claude's phrase "what a thing that doesn't have long eyes" was repeated again, and Wang Qinian could imagine that Duke Aldrich was furious after learning that both levels had been destroyed.

Aldridge can also be said to have played a kick in the battle of Liberty City this time, but he gained nothing, and he also lost Pierrot's team.

Among the several dukes of Asturias, Aldrich, although he is a duke, is the weakest one, only a little stronger than the average count, and not as powerful as the other dukes, so deep that the royal family is afraid of one or two.

Aldrich's ancestors were not the great nobles that Asturias had formed during the founding of the kingdom with the king from the beginning, but the small principalities that Asturias had seized as they expanded north and west.

Under the threat of the Asturian army, the ancestor of Duke Aldrich wisely chose to submit to obedience instead of desperately resisting, and at that time there was also a strict threat from the orcs, Edward's ancestors also did not want to spend their strength, so they accepted the oath of allegiance from the Aldrich family, gave the status of duke, and continued to contain the orcs as a force.

When the threat of the orcs began to wane, Duke Aldrich wisely expressed his willingness to contain the other archdukes for the royal family, so that the position could be retained.

This time, even if Duke Aldrich was angry when he found out about the level incident, he was helpless. Claude's Yang Flame Legion is one of the six legions of the kingdom, not to mention that there is also a Marquis of Regina in the team, who is deeply trusted by Edward.

In fact, if this team played the flag of the royal family, Aldrich's people would not have been able to come forward to collect fees, but Regina was an old-fashioned person, and when he went to Liberty City, he represented the royal family, and he naturally used the flag with the royal coat of arms, but after the Liberty City was finished, he refused to use it again, and there would be an incident of reconnaissance soldiers being intercepted and charged.

This was just a small wave on the way from Wang Qinian and Agatha to St. Quentin with Regina, and Wang Qinian was also happy to see Aldrich eat a little more deflated, saving him the idea of always wanting to fight the Free City.

"I've heard that many of the governance measures in the Free City have been implemented by you?" After entering the city of Saint-Quentine, Regina suddenly summoned Wang Qinian and asked.

"No, I just came up with some ideas inside, and it's the Lord of the City and Mage Chris who really make the decisions. Wang Qinian was stunned for a moment and immediately replied.

"It doesn't seem quite like what I'm hearing. Regina narrowed his eyes, because Wang Qinian was recuperating from his injury, and he had spent some more time in Freedom City, and these hours were not wasted.

The Freedom City's canopy exhibition in recent years allowed Modo to adjust its intelligence level from C-level to B-level, which fully shows that the Franklin Territory Exhibition is valuable, in the eyes of Asturias, maybe it was not listed as B-level because this place was remote and too close to the orcs, but now it is different, it is already part of the territory of Asturias.

It is not only the territory of his own country, but also has an amazing exhibition, how to calculate the value in the end, but the reason for its rapid development is first worthy of Regina's attention, and it was a bit of a mistake not to collect a lot of information in the process of his exhibition, but fortunately, the time that Reginardo stayed gave him the opportunity to feel it directly.

This surprised Regina, because some of the new things that appeared in St. Conry City now originally appeared first from the Free City, such as the Shadow Animation, such as the bank, as well as the bill of exchange, the fixed bulk goods exchange, and the merchants here are also extraordinarily energetic, the merchants bring the whole city to life, around the needs of the merchants, not only commercial trade, the Free City also has its own handicrafts, and the Shadow Animation has built a chain of service industries.

The only thing that is still conspicuously lacking is agriculture, and it is not easy, even dangerous, to carve out fertile land in the wilderness, where beasts and orcs are mortal dangers.

But Wang Qinian actually had a plan, he thought a lot about the exhibition of the Free City, and he had proposed some measures to Franklin before, such as recruiting Boai rabbits, promising them to serve the Free City for a certain time, granting them the status of free people, and using them to serve the agriculture of the Free City.

However, due to Wang Qinian's departure this time, many of the plans and exhibitions he envisioned have not yet begun to be realized, although he has recorded the general idea and implementation steps before leaving, and handed them over to Franklin and Chris, but it is difficult to say whether it will succeed.

Wang Qinian's importance to the Free City is now obvious, if it weren't for this time to go to St. Quentin with Agatha, Franklin would not let him leave, even so, before Wang Qinian left, Franklin also announced a startling decision, he transferred the Franklin Bank, which had just survived the crisis, to his daughter Agatha, and then announced that he would follow the shareholding system of Solomon & Co., and give 20% of the Franklin Bank's interests to Wang Qinian in the name of Agatha, and also specified all the powers of the Franklin Bank in St. Quentin City to Wang Qinian。

This is unexpected, but not surprising, it may be that Franklin wants to repay, and at the same time, it is also the expectation of Wang Qinian, who needs him to continue to do his best to protect Agatha in St. Quentine.

As for the first step in the follow-up development that Wang Qinian gave him, let Franklin gradually withdraw the city lord's mansion from direct trading with the orcs, until the trade share was completely ceded to the merchants, and the tax was collected from the profiteering merchants in the form of taxes, and slowly expanded to all merchant transactions, whether Franklin would completely obey or not, only time could be waited.

"Maybe in a month, I'll need a good building, for example, about how to increase the royal family's income, and I've heard a very high opinion of you from the Free City. Regina said slowly, but his gaze was shrewd and sharp.

"It turns out that the rumors that the Lord will take over from Lord Egbert when he returns are true. Claude was surprised.

Regina nodded slightly, "Your Majesty has indeed made such a decision. ”

After speaking, he continued to look at Wang Qinian with slightly expectant eyes.

Wang Qinian restrained the surprise in his heart, and the succession that Reginer said was referring to the position of Minister of Finance of Asturias, which was different from Regina's current position as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Edward's government opened the Privy Council, and the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs officially appeared in the Privy Council, and the previous foreign affairs were decided by the king + sent by the envoys, and there was no fixed Prime Minister, although since the emergence of the Privy Council, the court and nobles have accepted and recognized the formal establishment of the Foreign Secretary, but from the seniority and power in his hands, the Foreign Secretary is not as good as the Chancellor, this position has been established since the establishment of the Terran State, and has been continuously strengthened with the establishment of the Finance Department.

The current Chancellor of the Exchequer Egbert lost power and Regina took over, which is undoubtedly a big matter in the power structure of Asturias, but it has little impact on Wang Qinian, just how to deal with Regina in front of him.

Wang Qinian thought for a while, and then considered the words and said: "If you want to increase the income of the royal family, the most direct thing is to expand the territory. ”

Regina was stunned for a moment, and then let out a faint oh, but his eyes couldn't help but reveal disappointment.