Zhao Bufan's new decree was fully supported by the peasants, who had never dared to imagine such a good thing in the past, and whether it was the Illuminati or the True God Cultists, all of them unconditionally supported it, making the implementation of this decree extremely smooth.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Bufan began to formally demarcate the boundaries of the city-state of La Odisei, extending from the Kingdom of Cilicia in the north to the coastal plain of Tripoli in the south, and the coastal plain of Tripoli in the south to the city-state of Laordise, and the mountains of Antioch as the boundary line in the east, temporarily maintaining peace with the Duchy of Antioch.

Rolf then began to set up new castle fortresses on the basis of the original abandoned castles, with Fort Victor on the northern border, Marga Fort on the southern border, and North and South Fort on two important passages in the Antioch Mountains to the east, one north and one south, to defend the Duchy of Antioch.

The city-state of La Odisei was officially named after the region, and Viscount Charles, in order to gain a legitimate position of dominance, wrote letters to the Pope of the Holy See and the Pope of the Orthodox Church of Light, respectively, asking for their formal recognition in exchange for the regular payment of religious offerings.

According to the rules of the Illuminati, religious devotion is a rule that must be followed by any country, otherwise it is illegal, and they will call on many countries to besiege and divide up their lands.

As for the amount contributed, that is one-tenth of the total income.

Today's Laordisse is a small force that is trying to survive in the cracks, and it needs both the legal status of the Holy See of Light and the support of the Orthodox Church, so they can only pay contributions on both sides, so Zhao Bufan set the land rent tax at three-tenths of the total income, keeping one for himself, one on each side, and seven for the peasants themselves.

This tax rate made the peasants of La Odisse happy, in the past, the lords would basically take away six or seven layers of income, and even took eight floors, but now they only took three floors, which was a condition that they never dreamed of.

But this also makes the agricultural income drastically reduced, not to mention the continuous development of supply, even the basic operation is not enough, fortunately, Zhao Bufan did not intend to rely on agriculture from the beginning, years of experience in power made him very clear, with this small area of the plain is difficult to bring huge profits in agriculture, let alone rapid development, the only possibility is to rely on business.

After gaining the support of the majority of the population, he immediately carved out four areas in this fertile coastal plain, one for sheep farming, one for dairy cows, one for horses and one for olive cultivation.

All four areas were managed directly by the Ministry of Finance, with experienced personnel to concentrate on the farm, whose sole responsibility was to increase production and improve quality, and then he opened a cheese processing workshop, a wool weaving workshop and an olive oil manufacturing workshop in the same way.

A large number of laborers and fertile coastal plains provided him with the basic conditions, the windfall profits of the paper mill brought him basic start-up capital, and the emerging Laordisse quickly became full of vitality, and even faintly made Zhao Bufan feel that this was smoother than in the Great Song Dynasty.

Because this was originally an abandoned place, there were no intertwined interest groups, only a few people who simply wanted to live, which provided him with the possibility of realizing a new system, he inadvertently abolished the serfdom that imprisoned the peasants, liberated the labor force, vigorously developed commerce, and brought about cross-generational development, although it still had to be limited to the actual conditions, but this was already a leap.

In less than two years, Laordsee has not only regained its former prosperity, but has even become the most prosperous port in the entire Levant.

It has the largest and most advanced paper mill in the whole continent, and the whole West is proud to use the paper produced by Laoresse, which Zhao Bufan named Song Paper, and high-quality wool fabrics, olive oil and cheese have also become Laorsuite's specialties, which have developed very quickly.

That scene was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger, getting richer and richer, developing completely uncontrollably, the whole of Laordise became rich, and when ordinary people also had money to enjoy luxury goods, huge commercial taxes poured into Zhao Bufan's pocket like flowing water.

Viscount Charles and Rolf tasted the sweetness, and no longer mentioned anything about going to the East to fight, they were more nervous about how to keep their wealth, they and Zhao Bufan were both people who had experienced a lot of hardships, and they knew very well that the wealth of this era needed enough strength to guard.

A large amount of money was invested in the expansion and construction of the Holy Order.

Countless poor people came here to find the future, enthusiastically joined the Holy Knights, so that the Holy Warriors expanded to more than 6,000 people, including more than 2,000 cavalry, more than 4,000 infantry, very powerful, Rolf borrowed from the military system of the ancient Roman Empire, and made certain changes under the advice of Zhao Bufan.

He reorganized these 6,000 people into a division and regiment, with six brigades under his command, including a brigade directly under his command and five standard brigades.

The standard brigade consisted of three detachments, including two infantry detachments and one light cavalry detachment, with an infantry detachment of 350 men and a light cavalry detachment of 300 men.

Each detachment has five squadrons, each with squads under them, and each squad is standard of 10 people.

The five standard brigades, including the officers, totaled exactly 5,000 people, and the rest were all incorporated into the direct brigades.

This kind of mixed arrangement is very different from the Great Song Dynasty, but Zhao Bufan carefully scrutinized it and found that it is indeed very suitable for the combat style here, not only because the weapons are very different, but also because of the combat skills and habits.

The combat skills here pursue the ultimate strength and speed, the moves are simple and crude, easy to achieve quickly, but the weakness is also obvious, more dependent on cooperation, and at the same time, due to the economy, culture, customs, terrain and other comprehensive reasons, they do not need a large number of regular troops, so as to take the elite army policy to the extreme.

Therefore, it will be more advantageous to greatly strengthen the combat capability of small groups, and the mixed formation will allow them to learn from each other's strong points and complement their weaknesses in some areas, and they will naturally have more combat effectiveness.

This division of 6,000 men was the main battle force of La Audise.

In addition, Viscount Charles also recruited and bestowed fifty-eight holy knights, plus each of these knights had at least two servants, and even five at large, so they formed a heavy cavalry force of more than two hundred people, and the combat effectiveness was terrifying.

Zhao Bufan even believed that this knight team could crush thousands or even tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops, and he once thought about whether the Great Song Dynasty should also take the elite route and gather all the strong people, but after considering the long national border of the Great Song Dynasty, he dispelled the idea.

At noon that day, Zhao Bufan had nothing to do, scrubbing his five BMWs alone in the stable behind the city hall, but Rolf suddenly strode over, and the heavy chain mail made him walk very quietly, and it came to Zhao Bufan's ears from afar.

"Rolf, aren't you supposed to be torturing those poor holy warriors at this time?"

"Hey!" Rolf sighed, looked at Zhao Bufan, who was still combing his horse's mane, and said helplessly: "The unlucky Charlie is unlucky again!"

Zhao Bufan frowned slightly, gently put the horse brush into the bucket, picked up a towel and wiped his hands, and turned around in surprise.

"What? what unforgivable stupid mistake did the great Viscount Charlie make?"

Rolf shook his head: "No, it's not for this reason, he's just abandoned, like a clown." ”

"Abandoned? Who abandoned him, as far as I know, he doesn't have a mistress!"

"But he had a wife. ”

Zhao Bufan understood a little, and his face gradually sank: "His wife divorced him?"

Rolf nodded: "Yes, and it is a unilateral dissolution of marriage, the specific time should be less than a month after you left the Republic of Venice, it has been a long time since then, Charlie sent someone back to the Republic of Venice a few days ago to pick up his wife and children, hoping that they would come over and enjoy the happiness, who knows that his wife has remarried to another nobleman, and refuses him to take back his children." ”

"Isn't the Church of Light forbidding divorce?" Zhao Bufan asked strangely.

Rolf explained: "It is generally forbidden, but there are exceptions, such as the loss of sexual ability of one party, or the common ancestor within seven generations, or bigamy, in short, there are many reasons, as long as the Holy See approves the divorce, ordinary people may not be able to, but the aristocracy can operate in secret, for example, Charlie's father-in-law bribed the personnel of the church to prove that Charlie's wife had a legal husband before marrying him, so Charlie's marriage to his wife was invalid." ”

Zhao Bufan sneered: "This is really a good reason!"

Rolf said helplessly: "It is indeed ridiculous, but this is the truth, the hapless Charles is now the laughing stock of the nobles of the Republic of Venice, his wife is also married to a member of the Venetian parliament, there is a perfect political marriage, poor is our Charles, he is so poor that he only has money left with us." ”

"Luckily he had these two left, otherwise he would have jumped straight into the sea. Zhao Bufan sighed and quickly took a step: "Where is Charlie?"

"His mansion!"

"Let's take a look!"

............

When he came to Charlie's mansion, Zhao Bufan saw Charlie's servants gathering in the corridor and sighed, obviously feeling sorry for their kind master.

Zhao Bufan's eyes swept over, but he didn't see the figure of Viscount Charlie, so he couldn't help asking, "Where is your master?"

"The master is hiding in the bedroom, and we are not allowed to enter!" replied the servant.

Zhao Bufan nodded, took Rolf directly through the rich corridor, came to Charlie's bedroom door and knocked.

"Charlie, maybe we should go for a walk and see our prosperous territory, what do you think?"

In the middle of the night, there was no sound in it.

Zhao Bufan turned his head and glanced at Rolf, didn't care so much, raised his leg and kicked the door open.

The heavy wooden door collapsed in an instant, and Viscount Charles was seen slumped on the edge of the bed, his face haggard, still holding a bottle of spirits in his hand, and the cashmere carpet beside him was full of stinky vomit, and empty bottles were scattered all over the floor.

This made Zhao Bufan's face even heavier: "Great Charlie, how can I understand your greatness now." ”

Viscount Charlie looked at him blankly, took another sip of wine, and wept, "The God of Light has completely abandoned me, and even though I have tried so hard, he has abandoned me!"

Zhao Bufan was silent for a moment.

Then he took a deep breath and said lightly: "The God of Light has given you more, La Odisse can already start to build a fleet, as long as we continue to develop and seek expansion, maybe in the future you can go to Venice with a huge fleet and tell everyone how the God of Light favors you, how great you can be with your own hands, instead of being a cowardly drunkard here." ”

When the words fell, Zhao Bufan turned around and left.

"The Holy Knights don't need a cowardly Grand Master, but a great Viscount Charlie!"