Claude really couldn't think of any solution.
As the saying goes, human nature is selfish. For example, when you see wealth, you want to get it, when you see beauty, you want to possess it, and when you see beauty, you want to have power and make yourself superior to others. This is the desire hidden in everyone's heart. It's just that people with a clear mind can restrain their desires, work hard step by step, and finally achieve success. And some people don't want to work hard, but they want to satisfy their own desires, so they end up taking the wrong path, and in the end they are ruined and have nothing...
General Bolognik once suggested that all the people in the Dominion who have received titles and conferred territories should unite and join the conferred territories together and then put them under trusteeship. This would be equivalent to giving the Overseas Dominion an extra piece of land on the Farea continent. enclave.
But Claude shook his head, this was simply not something that could be done. If a member of an overseas autonomous territory is ennobled as an honorary noble, then after he spends 300,000 gold crowns to become a hereditary noble of the kingdom, and is granted a family territory by His Majesty, he cannot be that kind. Gao's consciousness put the family territory he had acquired into trust.
On the contrary, he is likely to allocate various resources from the overseas autonomous territories to build his family territory, because at that moment, the importance of his family territory has surpassed his identity and status in the overseas autonomous territories. That is The foundation of his family's inheritance to future generations, and there was nothing more important to him than a hereditary family territory.
Obviously, this plan to grant hereditary feudal territories to nobles is a conspiracy, and conspiracy is often the most difficult to crack. It will make people jump into a pit even though they know it is a pit, and still do so willingly. Just like Claude now, he knew very well that this plan would have a great impact on the overseas autonomous territories, but he was powerless. He can control himself, but he can't influence other people's opinions...
More than a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the plan to grant hereditary feudal territories to the nobles caused an uproar in the royal capital. According to the report sent by the Falcon Message from the overseas dominion's office in the royal capital, it is said that His Majesty Frederick I has agreed to the plan submitted by Prime Minister Blancart. The Noble Parliament passed unanimously, but the National Assembly was still arguing, but there was not much difference in the number of people who agreed and opposed...
There is also news that His Majesty is planning to grant the title of Honorary Baron of the Kingdom to all members of the National Assembly. It seems that Frederick I has made up his mind to implement this plan of granting the kingdom's noble territories. It's very simple. If the members of the National Assembly all become honorary barons of the kingdom, then for them, they only need to raise money to pay the promotion fee to make themselves hereditary barons of the kingdom. They can also get the same benefits from Frederick I. Obtaining a hereditary family territory with a title, so that they have no reason to oppose this plan.
The following days felt a bit overwhelming and busy for General Claude and Bolognik. Every day, more than ten waves of envoys sent by the nobles of the kingdom came to the Royal City of Polyvisia to visit the two generals. Many of the visitors were the direct descendants of the noble heads of the kingdom, or brothers and sisters. They brought valuable gifts and smiles, and all they asked for was for the Thunder Legion to send a team to escort them around the Nasseri area and protect their bodies. Safety.
In fact, to put it bluntly, these people are standing in front of their families. They want to see the real situation in the Nasseri area and choose a good family territory for their families. Although Claude and General Bolognik were extremely annoyed, they did not reach out to hit the smiling man. Besides, the families of these visitors are also very influential in the royal capital, and the conflicts between the overseas autonomous territories and the kingdom's established noble families have not been made explicit, and everyone still maintains a superficial courtesy.
After these visitors were willing to spend money to hire soldiers from the Thunder Legion to be their temporary escorts, Claude nodded and agreed to their request, sending troops one after another to escort these visitors as they wandered around the Nasseri area. Compared with General Bolognik, Claude is still more relaxed. At least there will be no elders rushing to the Royal City of Polivisia, nagging him in his ears every day to quickly pick a good place to build the family territory.
As Claude expected, General Bolognik's father, despite his age and frailty, was nearly seventy years old and escorted by two younger relatives, he took a long-distance carriage from the royal capital to Porivi. The purpose of West Asia King City is also to choose a family territory. General Bolonik's wife and children all live in Lanhu City, the capital of the overseas autonomous territory, but his relatives, parents, brothers and sisters still run farms on the outskirts of the royal capital.
After learning that General Bolognik would be granted a family territory, his parents, who had always been reluctant to get involved with him, couldn't sit still. They came all the way here just to let General Bolognik choose a family territory as soon as possible. territory. His father, this old man who disgusted Claude, lectured General Bolognik in front of the two of them, saying that General Bolognik would continue to live in the overseas autonomous territories in the future, and that this family territory could allow his brothers to help him fight. reason.
In the end, Claude came forward and told the old man bluntly, stop dreaming. As a member of the senior generals of the overseas dominions, General Bolonik's family territory will be entrusted to the overseas dominions for their jurisdiction. This is the responsibility of the dominion parliament. Decide. As for where to choose the family territory, the Dominion Council also has unified arrangements, and it is not his own decision. If General Bolognik disagrees, then he will leave the executive committee of the Dominion and manage his family territory on his own. In the future, the overseas Dominion will have nothing to do with him...
Although General Bolonik's father was very angry that the Overseas Dominion Council actually interfered with his family's territory, he was not confused. He knew that General Bolonik relied on the Overseas Dominion to achieve his current status, and it also gave them to their family. The farm has brought a lot of benefits. So he didn't fall out, he just took a sum of money from General Bolognik and brought some precious gifts before he took a carriage back to the capital with a gloomy face.
General Bolognik finally breathed a sigh of relief and expressed his gratitude to Claude for his heroic rescue. Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. He knew very well that his parents did not like his second son. In order to clear up the relationship with him, they even published a newspaper in the royal capital to sever blood ties with him and cursed him as a member of the kingdom. Rebellious. Of course, General Bolognik also understood that his parents did this to preserve their family farm and did not want to implicate their relatives by what he did in the Dominion.
After the Overseas Dominion Military Region sent troops back to support the Kingdom, and the Rock Legion won a great victory in Ambriz County, his parents changed their story and claimed that he was the pride of their family. At the same time, they sent his eldest brother to report that the family farm had been robbed by the alliance army. , asked him to provide some support to the family, and took a lot of money from him.
Now, because of him, his parents and brother took advantage of the difficult situation of their neighbors to buy land around the farm at low prices in preparation for expanding the family farm. Many of the neighbors who were forced to sell their land were too angry to speak out. The reputation of his parents and brothers was very poor in that area, but it was limited to his current identity and status. Even local officials were unwilling to offend his parents and brothers. Brother, these situations were reported to General Bolognik by the spies from the Royal Capital Office.
General Bolognik knew very well that if he let his parents intervene after he obtained the family territory, his parents would soon force him to turn this hereditary territory belonging to him into the territory of the entire family, and then return it to the entire family. I will try to get him to get a title for his brother's son, so that the most precious eldest grandson in the eyes of his parents can obtain the inheritance rights of the family territory...
Don't think that something like this won't happen. For the sake of inheriting the family territory, even weirder and more shameless things happen in the homes of those territorial nobles. If General Bolognik's wife and children had stayed in the overseas dominions, they would have been fine. But if General Bolognik's wife and children want to return to live in the family territory after his parents and brothers take over the management of his hereditary territory, then there will be a lot of "accidents" waiting for their arrival.
General Bolognik couldn't believe the character of his parents and brother, otherwise he wouldn't have been sent to the Royal Military Academy by his parents when he was only twelve years old. It was a free school with food and accommodation included, and he didn't return until a month later. Home once. When he grows up, he has to report to the Kingdom Army, which is equivalent to selling him to the Kingdom Army. Unlike other poor students whose family background is difficult, his parents are not rich, but they just don't like him. Bolonik was really dull when he was a child.
Looking at the children of various noble families who are wandering around the Nasseri area, as well as the royal capital that has been in chaos because of this matter, you will know how much this plan to grant hereditary family territories to nobles has stirred up much excitement in the Kingdom of Ovelas of waves. Even General Bolognik's old father wanted to have a hand in it. It can be imagined that obtaining the hereditary family territory is simply what people want. This plan will definitely be approved by the National Assembly and implemented smoothly.
The plan of Frederick I and Prime Minister Marquis Blancart was very successful. At least His Majesty finally had a sharp weapon in his hands to deal with the power of the kingdom's established aristocratic families. No noble in the kingdom will offend His Majesty now, because the power to grant family territory is in his hands. If you want to obtain a satisfactory family territory, you must obtain His Majesty's personal permission...
What is ridiculous is that Sterling IX fought a civil war for six years before abolishing the hereditary territories of the kingdom's nobles. He hoped that future generations would own the entire kingdom, rather than not leaving the Ibinist Plain with decrees. As a result, the British master who revived the kingdom did not expect that without the hereditary family territory, the old noble families would shift their energy to monopolizing the kingdom's commercial interests.
In the past hundred years, the power of these old aristocratic families has developed into an economic giant that makes the kingdom unstoppable. Even all the kingdom's military industry is in their hands. This is probably a blessing. Without the family territory, the noble families of various kingdoms have less disputes. Most of them are more polite when competing for the position of the head of the family. Some noble children who do not want to be the head of the family even give up the right to inherit the head of the family in exchange for A sum of money and a happy life...
Now Frederick I's plan to grant the kingdom's noble families territories is a clever move, which will allow him to easily gain the power to govern. At the same time, it also allowed the established aristocratic families to relax their constraints on the royal court, and was able to raise huge amounts of funds from the nobles of these kingdoms to solve the kingdom's financial crisis, and at the same time add trouble to the overseas autonomous territories. This plan has to be admired. There are many discerning people like Claude, but they have to jump in even though they know there is a trap.
Sometimes Claude feels that it is all his fault. If only the alliance troops were driven out of the kingdom, why bother to recover some new occupied territories, destroy the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnus, and even let him now Falling into a dilemma. Of course, this was just what he was thinking in his mind. He knew very well that there would be trouble in the future if he didn't kill the snake.
If we really just push the Alliance army out of the Kingdom, then the two legions of the Overseas Dominion Military Region will always stay at the Kingdom's border and entangle the Alliance army. No one can bear the price of fighting a bad war like that for several years. It would be much easier to knock all the enemies to death with one stick like this. Only in this way can the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion frighten the enemies inside and outside.
The noble children and envoys from various families wandered around the Nasseri area for two months. After everyone knew what they were doing, they came to the Royal City of Polyvisia again and thanked General Claude and Bolognik for sending them. After expressing their feelings for the troops to protect them, they all embarked on their journey back to the royal capital. At this time, Viscount Don Bajiro came once again as a special envoy of the royal court. This time his purpose was to promote military positions and award awards to all the meritorious soldiers in the overseas autonomous military regions.
To Claude's surprise, this time Frederick I and Wang Ting were very generous in promoting and awarding the soldiers of the two legions. Generals Claude and Bolognik were both promoted to marshals of the kingdom, General Albert, General Bechklin, General Skerry were promoted to admiral of the kingdom, Belklin, Murield, and Diavid of the Thunder Legion , the four major generals of the kingdom in McJack and the four major generals of the kingdom in the Rock Legion were all promoted to lieutenant generals of the kingdom. In addition, twenty-two colonels from the two legions were also promoted to major generals of the kingdom this time.
Mr. Veblen's son, Colonel Derivic, is also among those promoted to major general, which can be regarded as fulfilling his childhood dream of being a general. Claude and Marshal Bolognik could only look at each other and smile bitterly, it was like generals wholesale. After this promotion, military region organizational reform will have to be carried out. Otherwise, one general and one regiment in the two legions of the overseas autonomous military regions will not be able to accommodate so many generals, unless a local garrison regiment is also assigned a kingdom major general to lead...
Military promotions are normal. After all, this time the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion contributed to the destruction of the country and unified the entire eastern part of the continent for the kingdom. No reward can be exaggerated. However, regarding the monetary rewards for the two legionaries, Viscount Don Bagiró regretted that he would have to wait for another two or three months. By then, the royal court would have paid the money, and he hoped that everyone would be more patient.
Finally, Frederick I granted knighthoods to meritorious soldiers. Claude was originally a hereditary baron, but this time he was granted the title of hereditary earl. General Bolognik was originally the third Viscount, but this time he was granted the title of hereditary Viscount, which is only one rank lower than Claude. General Skerry, General Albert, and General Beachlin were originally third barons, but this time they were all granted hereditary barons. It seemed that His Majesty was too embarrassed to let the five giants of the Dominion Military Region pay for the promotion fees, so he simply gave him the title of hereditary baron.
Claude found it very funny. This time, the title conferred by Frederick I was a bit like sitting in rows to share fruits. Even General Skerry, who had never set foot in the kingdom, was also responsible for raising logistics and military supplies to ensure that the frontline troops had sufficient food, grass and ammunition. In the name of meritorious service, he received a hereditary title. In addition to the five giants of the Dominion Military Region, nineteen senior officers from the two regiments who were originally awarded honorary barons, such as Belklin, McJack and others, were also promoted from honorary baron to third baron, and there were forty-seven more Soldiers who have made meritorious service are awarded honorary titles, ranging from honorary baron to honorary earl according to military merit...
Then Viscount Don Bagero told Claude and others that since His Majesty bestowed upon all members of the National Assembly the title of honorary baron, for the sake of fairness, he also bestowed upon the members of the Overseas Dominion Assembly the title of Kingdom Honor. To the title of baron, those who had previously received the honorary title were automatically promoted to one level this time. For example, Sir Bennett and Mr. Veblen, who were originally honorary barons, were promoted to honorary viscounts this time...
Well, it seems that His Majesty is not willing to let go of even a member of the overseas autonomous territories. He knows that they have money, so he gives everyone a chance to obtain the family territory. Claude didn't need to think about it to know how grateful and welcoming the overseas dominion councilors would be to Frederic I's decision. They would definitely dig out their wealth and be promoted to a hereditary title, thereby obtaining a hereditary family territory. It can be said that the wealth accumulated by these congressmen through decades of hard work in the overseas autonomous territories will soon become His Majesty's possession.
"How are the fees for title promotion calculated?" General Bolognik asked on behalf of the newly promoted nobles of the kingdom who were concerned about this issue.
"That's it." Viscount Don Bargello was already prepared. He waved to his secretary and took out a document from the briefcase he carried: "If it is an honorary title, then start with the honorary baronet. It is necessary to pay 10,000 gold crowns to be promoted to an honorary viscount, and then to be promoted from an honorary viscount to an honorary earl is to pay a promotion fee of 20,000 gold crowns. And to be promoted from an honorary earl to an honorary marquis requires 30,000 gold crowns, and then to be promoted to an honorary duke. A promotion fee of 40,000 gold crowns is required. The final promotion from honorary duke to third baron requires a payment of 50,000 gold crowns.
In other words, a promotion fee of 150,000 gold crowns is required to be promoted from honorary baron to third baron. If the third baron wanted to be promoted to the third viscount, he would also need to pay a promotion fee of 10,000 gold crowns. From there, he would also need to pay 150,000 gold crowns to be promoted to a hereditary baron. Then from an honorary baron to a hereditary baron, a total of 300,000 gold crowns are needed to obtain a hereditary family territory granted by His Majesty... "
Claude wanted to scold his mother. If these members of the overseas autonomous territories wanted to obtain a hereditary family territory, then the promotion fee would have to be paid. There were a total of 112 members of the overseas dominions, and Frederick I could easily plunder a huge amount of nearly 30 million gold crowns from their pockets...