In order to appease the uneasy mood of the nobles, Roland specially arranged a sumptuous banquet.
In the center of the hall is a long table covered with white cloth. The nobles who come sit face each other, and in the middle are all kinds of dishes, wine and flowers.
After two glasses of red wine, the atmosphere has eased a lot. In addition, all the big nobles have fallen, and Honeysuckle and Elk are on Roland's side again. The rest of the small nobles will not jump out and sing naysayers at this time. The intention to take the initiative to take refuge. In this situation, Roland knew it was time to bring his new order to the table.
After drinking and eating, he distributed the small book that he had prepared in advance to the nobles.
It was his carefully prepared "propaganda booklet".
"His Royal Highness... what is this," sure enough, a noble soon asked in surprise, "Why are the paintings on it so realistic?"
"Yeah, it's just like the real thing."
"It doesn't look like it was painted...no paint can express such finesse."
After all, they are nobles in the big city. It can be seen that these people have a certain appreciation for painting. Roland smiled and said, "They are indeed painted by the painter, but if there is any difference, it is this. The painter is a witch, and the paint she paints is omnipresent magic."
These words made everyone stiff, and the book in their hands was not put, nor was it left.
"The power of the local church has disappeared, what are you worried about?" The prince raised his brows, "Witches are no different from us. I have verified this many times."
"Cough... cough," Pei Luo almost choked, "His Royal Highness is right."
"It's not bad it's the fourth prince, haha...ha," the other nobles also laughed awkwardly.
Uh, it seems that he said something rather ambiguous. Roland pretended to be nonchalant and changed the subject. After serving as the prince for more than a year, he found himself at a level of calmness... or the thickness of his face has grown by leaps and bounds, "The pictures are just to make the content It’s more vivid, and the story told above is the point.”
Everyone continued to flip through a few pages, and the little girl Aurelian of the Elk family quickly raised her head, "Is this the family history of a noble?"
"Aurelion!" Ren lowered his voice and reminded, "Call Your Highness!"
"That's right, he used to be a Western noble," Roland made a no-brainer gesture, "Some of you should still remember him."
"His Royal Highness... I know him," a knight said. "Tikku Pine, he is my neighbor, and our territories were once stuck together."
"I've seen him too," another recalled. "It seems to be a baron whose father was a vassal of Joey Cole. Since Lord Joey left the Westlands, his domain has declined."
"Viscount Tigu is currently in Border Town," said Roland with a smile, "and this picture book records how I met him... and what happened afterward. As you can see, he is a man who lives under the new system. The noble is currently busy practicing muskets. It is estimated that when the evil moon is over, he will take his daughter and attendants to the Hidden Forest to enjoy hunting. As far as I know, since he sold the east of the fortress Territory, after Anxin settled in Border Town, he couldn’t help but be promoted to one rank, and his family property has increased several times.”
Fear stems from the unknown, as does resistance to institutional change, because they don't know how the change will affect them. Roland asked Soraya to depict Tigu Pine's small town life in the form of comics, as an example of his own propaganda, precisely to reduce the resistance and fear of the nobles. Compared with those boring written biographies, the expressive power of comics is obviously more vivid and vivid.
"You should all know the news that I am about to build a city in the Western Region. In fact, I have been brewing this plan for a long time. At that time, Border Town, Changsong Fortress and the long and narrow land between the two places will become a whole." Roland continued, " Some people will ask how the two towns are so far apart, how can they be integrated. First of all, the overall meaning is administrative, that is to say, the new city will implement the same law and the same policy, which is what I want to take back Reasons for the right to subordinate the nobility and the right to make laws.”
"Your Highness, then our territory..." someone asked.
"It still belongs to you," he interrupted, "I said that taking back these powers does not mean that you will lose any enfeoffment. The essence is to hand over your territory to others to form your own lower-level nobles and grow in this way. With your own strength, you can defend against the enemy together, or work together to gain profits. Under the new system, the task of defending against foreign enemies will be completed by a professional army. As long as you act according to the rules, you will earn far more benefits than before. After all, It's better to make the cake bigger than to divide up the little cake."
Seeing the silence of the crowd, Roland smiled and said, "You have never been to Border Town, so it is normal to not know how big the cake can be. In fact, the town's financial revenue in the second half of the year has reached as much as 30,000 golden dragons. If not The Moon of Demons is coming early, and this number is likely to increase by about 10,000."
The nobles all took a breath, "Three... thirty thousand?"
Roland has already learned from Peiro the financial situation of the fortress over the years. The annual income of the city hall is only this amount, not to mention these little nobles. One hundred golden dragons are a huge sum of money for them.
"And as managers of all walks of life here in the future, you will naturally be able to get rich rewards from it." He raised his mouth, "Returning to the construction of the city, apart from the administrative unity, geographically, the two towns will gradually gradually Move closer. For example, it took me only one day to arrive at Changge Fortress from Border Town. When the construction of Kingdom Avenue is completed, the land walking time will also be shortened to one day. Not to mention faster transport."
"What is a bicycle?" Aurelion asked curiously.
"A human-powered riding tool that runs very fast on flat ground," the prince said with a smile. "I dare say five years... No, within three years, we will be able to have breakfast in the fortress, and then go to work in Border Town." Due to the use of a straight line throughout the entire Kingdom Avenue, the distance between the two places was shortened to 60 kilometers, and it took half an hour to replace it with a rail locomotive or a car.
However, most of the nobles didn't put their minds on this, the knight who claimed to be a neighbor with Tiko Pine asked cautiously, "Your Highness, what you said just now, did you want to hand over the fort to us? management?"
"It's neither," Roland smiled slightly. "As I said before, after the city is built, the two places will be a whole in an administrative sense, and the fortress will be transformed into an area of the city under the jurisdiction of the central city hall. But for now Said, a day's journey is still too far, so I will set up a lower-level city hall in Changge District, which will be divided into many lower-level departments according to the current model of Border Town, and you will work in these departments and be responsible for handling the affairs here. Specific issues."
"Subordinate... department?" The nobles had puzzled looks on their faces.
"Managing an area is a very complicated job. Although it can bring you great rewards, it is not so easy to do your job well," Roland nodded. "So when the order here is restored. , you all have to follow me to Border Town to experience first-hand how a fully functional city hall works. There is one more course you need to learn about management.” (.)