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Chapter 377 [Unlucky Governor]

Looking at the territory of the Roland Empire, among the many provinces, the province of Nulin is undoubtedly a very special existence.

There are also historical reasons for this peculiarity.

More than a hundred years ago, Nulin Province was still the largest province in the northwest, because of its special geographical location, Nulin Province has always been the center of foreign trade between the Roland Empire and the northwest grassland, although at that time there was a Desa Province to the west of Nulin Province, but because the land of Desa Province was barren, the horse bandits were rampant in the territory, and it has been on the border, the economy and public security have collapsed, so even the big chambers of commerce in the Roland Empire are unwilling to go to Desa Province to do business, and chose the slightly inland Nulin Province as a trading place.

And even more because, the Roland Empire also had a Northwest Army in the northwest, which was stationed in Nulin Province. The role of the Northwest Legion was to deter the steppe aliens and prevent the steppe people from invading. In order to maintain a large army and military supplies, there are also a large number of business opportunities every year, resulting in a very prosperous business in Nulin Province in the past, whether it is a merchant selling grain, or a merchant who does ordnance and horses, or trading cattle, sheep and livestock with the steppe people, they will trade here.

But with the rise of the Tulip family, the status of Nureen Province suddenly changed.

The province of Dessa, which is closer to the border, was given to the Tulip family as a territory, and the great first Duke Tulip came to the northwest with his team, and since then the face of the northwest has changed.

The first Duke of Tulip was eloquent, and under his management, closer to the border Tulip family territory (the original Desar Province), the horse bandits in the territory were wiped out by the Tulip family, and then the Tulip family monopolized the trade with the steppe people, and the original Northwest Trading Center Nulin Province was gradually abandoned.

Immediately afterward, there was a rebellion in the Northwest Army. The rebellion was later extinguished under the auspices of the Tulip family.

What's more, after the rebellion of the Northwest Legion was destroyed, the top of the empire believed that the Tulip family was already guarding the northwest, and there was no need to rebuild a Northwest Army to empty the national treasury.

Originally, due to the vast land and sparse population, coupled with the barren land, food production was scarce. Coupled with the fact that the border trade had been moved to the Tulip family's territory, the province of Nurin had become almost the most barren of the entire empire.

But then, some strange changes took place.

Because of the invasion of many foreign races, the dwarves, orcs, and elves crossed the frozen forest and went south, invaded the human world of the Roland Empire, entered this continent, and have been stationed in the north since then. However, the province of Nulin once again became the "frontier" of the empire.

Although Nulin Province has lost its border geographical location for trading with the grasslands, due to the invasion of foreign races, there is an orc kingdom in the north that is more powerful than the steppe people.

The two sides are separated by a Kaspersky Line.

More than 100 years ago, the first Duke Tulip led the human army to fight against the aliens. From the east to the west of the empire, along the "Kaspersky Line", which traverses the entire continent, and the orcs have been fighting for many years, the result of the war. It has caused a deformed local economy and a large amount of military supply, but it has stimulated the development of the local economy. After the end of the war. The northern edge of the province of Nulin has become a border with the orc kingdom.

In recent years, as the days of peace have gradually become long, many chambers of commerce in the Roland Empire, openly and secretly trading with the orc kingdom, often choose Nulin Province, because the sky is high here, and the emperor is far away, and it is more convenient to do some unsightly smuggling business and sell some contraband.

Even the central government of the empire has to admit that the figures obtained from some special channels show that the annual smuggling transactions in Nulin Province account for one-third of the total smuggling transactions in the entire Roland Empire!!

This number is enough to prove one thing: the central control of the Imperial Center over the province of Nulin is very weak.

After all, it is a border province, and there is such an unfriendly "neighbor" as the orc kingdom to the north, and the empire will never let such an important place go unchecked.

But the fact is that for more than 100 years, the central government of the Roland Empire and the chaos in Nulin Province have almost deliberately turned a blind eye. Even the garrison stationed here has been repeatedly reduced.

The appointment of local officials to Nureen Province often became a headache for the Imperial Administration.

The reason is simple: tulips!

This place is too close and too close to the Tulip Family! The Tulip Family has developed in the Roland Empire for more than 100 years, and has now become a behemoth! Even the emperor is a descendant of other families, and if the first Duke Tulip wanted to be the emperor, he would have done so. Now, from generation to generation, the Tulip family will inevitably still cause the jealousy of the royal family, and no emperor will want to see such a behemoth in his country, even if it is his own blood relative.

After generations of trial and error, the Tulip family and the imperial family finally reached an unwritten understanding: in exchange, the Tulip family ceded many other interests and positions.

However, the northwest is the tulip family's sphere of influence!

This point, even the emperors of previous dynasties would never dare to break it lightly!

Nulin Province, because of its close proximity to the Tulip family's territory, is in a very delicate situation.

Nominally, this is still a province directly under the central government, but in fact, in order to respect the authority of the Tulip family in the northwest, the central government of the empire will never set up a standing heavy army here, which is an incredible thing for a border province next to the orc kingdom!

It's just that the two sides acquiesced, and handed over the border defense responsibility of Nulin Province to the Tulip family. In fact, on the border of the Orc Kingdom, several military fortresses on the northwest defense line of the Kaspersky Line have always been guarded by the Tulip family's private army, although they are not the territory of the Tulip family at all, but the territory of Nulin Province.

The central government of the empire almost deliberately allowed the province of Nulin to fend for itself, and both officials and local garrisons were repeatedly reduced, just to avoid causing dissatisfaction and sensitivity among the Tulip family.

Let's put it this way, the province of Nulin has become a buffer zone between the Tulip family and the central power of the empire.

So. The position of governor of Nulin Province has become very delicate.

Although the central government of the empire is willing to let this place in Nulin Province become a buffer zone with the Tulip family's forces, it will never be willing to let a person from the Tulip faction serve as the governor here, otherwise, wouldn't Nulin Province really become the second territory of the Tulip family?!

And the Tulip family is not very willing to send any powerful people from the central government to serve as the governor here, nor does they like the central power to be too strong here.

The result of the compromise between the two sides was that the governor of Nureen Province could not be a die-hard member of the royal family or a member of the pro-Tulip faction.

This is unlucky.

But whoever is elected to be the governor of Nulin Province is often a grandmother who does not love his uncle and does not love him, and the royal family will not send his own capable generals here to suffer crimes. The Tulip family would also not recommend someone from their own faction to be the governor here.

Those appointed as governors were often disadvantaged in the imperial officialdom, either marginalized figures or unlucky people who had lost the struggle against the Imperial Sea.

Otherwise, it's a wall grass with no roots.

Moreover, it is said that he is a feudal official, a governor who grasps the military and politics, and can be said to be a prince. But in fact, no one wants to come here to be a governor.

If he is a governor in another place, he will be almost equal to the emperor of the soil if he grasps the military and politics. What a free day it was. But when you run to Nulin Province, you will be affected by the splint between the central empire and the Tulip family.

Do you dare to get close to the Tulip Family? It will definitely cause the emperor's dissatisfaction, and the emperor will never allow you to get close to the Tulip family and turn Nulin Province into the territory of the Tulip family!

But you don't get close to the tulip family. Your border garrisons are all people's private army, and the northwest trade is also monopolized by the Tulip family, and the financial income depends on the Tulip family's snort. People will make some movement for you at any time!

In the imperial officialdom, there is such a saying: I would rather go to the south to be a city guard than to go to Nulin Province to be a governor!

......

Fiolo was such an unlucky one.

This governor of Nulin Province has been sitting in this governor's position for eleven years!

That's right. It's eleven years!!

According to the Empire's practice of appointing local governors, very few local feudal officials have been able to do so many years! In order to prevent the local feudal officials from being too powerful and causing the tail to be too big, the Roland Empire also adopted the system of liuguan, and generally speaking, the term of office of the governor of a province is mostly changed after about five or six years.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Fritz, the governor of the East China Sea. But that was because Fritz was shrewd and capable, recognized as a capable minister, and was deeply trusted by the former Emperor Marsch, plus he had outstanding political achievements in the East China Sea, and was a figure who turned the tide, so he worked in the East China Sea for more than ten years.

But this Governor of Nulin Province, His Excellency Fiolo, is not the same at all.

In fact, Fiolo himself was a native of Nulin Province, and when he was thirty years old, he served as a magistrate in Nulin Province for three years, and later transferred to Mulan City, the capital of Nulin Province, as a sheriff for five years!

Later, when the former governor of Nulin Province stepped down, it was not actually a normal resignation, but the former governor did not survive until he died, did not survive until he changed places, and died of illness in office.

After the position of the governor of Nulin Province was vacated, the central government of the empire also had a headache, and no one wanted to sit in this unfortunate position, and as a result, the officials who were waiting for the release of the central government office of the empire at that time showed their talents to pull the relationship through the back door, and even some people simply called themselves sick, and they would never be sent to Nulin Province to be the governor.

The Central Government Affairs Bureau was worried for a long time, and finally patted its head: None of you want to go, right? Okay! Then promote one of the local sub-officials!

As a result, the position of Governor fell to Lord Fiolo.

He was promoted from the sheriff of Mulan Cheng to the acting governor, and after two years of service, the position of acting governor was corrected to the official governor, and he has remained until today.

Counting the tenure of the local low-ranking official in the province of Nurein, plus the tenure of the governor, this hapless Lord Fiolo has been in the province of Nulin for nearly twenty years without moving places!

This is also a wonder in the officialdom of the entire Roland Empire!

If the people of Nulin Province were to be asked to evaluate the Governor who had ruled them for eleven years, then the most important characteristic of this Governor would be ...... No features!

In fact. The most important thing about the reign of His Excellency Governor Fiolo is that he never cares about anything!

I can't control this matter, so I sent an official letter to the Tulip family private army on the border to ask them to help exterminate it!

The central government requires a tax, I don't care about this, you ask the tulip family to assist in transportation!!

The Tulip family asks for a replenishment of military supplies for the private army on the border? I can't control this matter, you go to the central government to report it!!

Over time, I don't know which yin guy actually spread such a joke: Our Governor is a bit like the goddess who is enshrined in the church temple Everyone knows that he exists, but for so many years, I haven't seen him do a single thing.

The only way the governor could give everyone a sense of being in the air was to say a few words on the road at the annual spring ploughing. And when he pays the fiscal taxes every year, he will come forward to sign and seal the text.

In addition, the governor spends most of his time hiding in the governor's palace in Mulan City.

For this Governor of Fiolo, his greatest wish in life is to be able to survive until he dies and hope that the bigwigs who hope that the imperial capital can one day suddenly show compassion and transfer himself out of the ghost place in the northwest before he dies, and transfer him to a random place in the south to live a few days of leisure.

But the problem is that the wish of the Governor Fiolo is estimated to be difficult to fulfill, because it seems that both the central empire and the Tulip family. I think this Governor of Fiolo is really doing a good job. Since he came to power, it can be said that he has not committed any offences against the Tulip family or the central part of the empire, and there has been no more turmoil and contradictions, and this Governor of Fiolo is simply an excellent bag. If you don't fight back, you don't scold back, you are obedient and don't cause trouble, and you can rest assured that you can use it.

Where can I find such a person who is willing to be splinted?

Since honest people are easy to bully...... Then just bully him to the end!

......

But even though Governor Fiolo didn't care about anything, he thought that more was better than less. After more than ten years of fighting, there will always be a few troubles.

For example, today...... The first person with military and political power in Nulin Province, who was known as the "Sealed Governor", "Goddess Governor" and "Sleeve Governor", encountered a big trouble.

Two formal applications with rigorous specifications. It was right in front of him.

These are the two official documents sent below through the legal procedures and channels of the application.

The contents of the two applications are as follows:

The first one, the purchase of land. The applicant requested the purchase of ...... around a small town in the north-west of Nurim province near the border Six thousand acres of land!

This article made Governor Fiolo can't help but rub his teeth, more than a hundred years ago, when Du Wei was in power, in order to curb land annexation, he once issued an order, within the empire, any land sale, more than 1,000 acres, must be approved by the governor of the provincial level.

Buying 6,000 acres of land in one go is not a small amount. But what puzzled Fiolo was that the land in Nulin Province was barren and the grain production was low, so the land here has always been worthless, and few people cared about it...... A large amount of land is idle or even abandoned. This man was full of food and bought 6,000 acres of land in one go?

Fiolo had looked at the map, that hellish place, there was only sand and stones in the land, and there were no people with any minerals for hundreds of miles around.

What does this buyer want to do?

Well, with the idea that more is better than less, Fiolo still waved his pen and approved. Anyway, as long as the other party gives money, a copper plate is a lot, he can buy it if he wants to, and with this income, it can be regarded as a small supplement to the finances that are full of holes.

As for what the other party bought these wastelands for...... It's my business, even if he buys it to dig a hole and play with it, he will go with him.

But when he saw the second application document, the governor finally couldn't sit still!

Because, this second application document is impressive......

"Start a new religion?!"

Governor Fiolo only felt that his hand holding the pen was shaking!!

Although the laws of the Empire no longer restrict religious beliefs, the Temple of Light Church is no longer regarded as the only religion in the Empire, and in principle, the Roland people are allowed to practice other religions.

Even the Empire has issued decrees that allow other religions to spread their teachings......

But...... Someone really started a new religion in this ghost place in the northwest?!

Damn it!!

Although Fiolo has been abandoned in Nulin Province for twenty years, at least he still has a sense of smell!

Although the Temple of Light is not as good as it used to be, it is still rare to find such a big fanfare for the establishment of a new religion in the empire!

As a local governor, if such an application is approved, although it is in accordance with national law, the inevitable result is: offend the Church of the Temple of Light!!

Although, since the Empire issued a decree allowing new religions to spread their teachings, over the years, there have been a number of new religions, although none of them have become the climate.

But this kind of thing happened in Nulin Province, and it was really unprecedented!!

"Where did you come from, bastard, to cause me such trouble!!" Governor Fiolo couldn't help but have a headache.

According to the imperial decree, it is not good to veto this kind of application without a valid reason, and the laws of the empire, allowing the establishment of new religions and suppressing the Temple of Light, this is a national policy, as the governor of the empire, this kind of thing is not good to run counter to the national policy. Both the Imperial Center and the Tulip House have the same attitude on this point.

Can...... This was still a problem for Fiolo! He was fed up with the splint on both sides, but he didn't want to offend a behemoth like the Temple of Light and become a splint on the three sides!

"Hmph...... What kind of strange name is this? Doctrine: Save thousands of young girls, promote social righteousness, maintain world peace, and build a harmonious society? What the is this nonsense!!

Fiolo suddenly lit up when he saw this, and threw the pen in his hand to the ground!

But as soon as he stood up, he suddenly found that something was exposed under the application document.

This is the tip of a golden ticket......

The golden ticket issued by the genuine Tulip Family Chamber of Commerce is full of 10,000 gold coins...... The gold signboard of the Tulip Home Chamber of Commerce, redeem the ticket at the sight, and recognize the ticket without recognizing the person!

This thing was sandwiched in the application document and sent to his desk...... Needless to say, when it was sent by his own officials, he was caught in it.

Fiolo immediately judged that the applicant had already "done" all his officials. In other words, his subordinate officials have already understood this matter, and they have more or less shared the benefits.

If you refute this ridiculous application...... I am happy, but I have not cut off the financial means of many people under him?

Cutting off people's wealth is equivalent to killing parents!

I have worked in this Nulin Province for more than ten years, living like stepping on a tightrope, and the only thing I can rely on is that I still have a group of men who get off work. But if you are in this kind of profit-sharing benefit, if you are ......

The governor of Fiolo cursed harshly, bent down to pick up the pen, and heavily signed his name on the text.

"Ten thousand gold coins...... Mary, the woman said she wanted to buy a new necklace, and she quarreled with me for more than ten days, but this is just the right ......time" (to be continued)