"Your Highness, there are forty-eight meritorious soldiers newly promoted to baron, twenty-six were promoted from baron to viscount, and two were promoted from viscount to earl. The promotion list has been checked and there are no mistakes or omissions. But this time The canonization of the territory has already allowed all the territories in Dremke Province and Winston Province to be canonized, and there will be no extra territories to be canonized in the future. I mean, should some of the canonized territories be transferred to Yungeshandra Province? and Makinohara? There are basically blank spaces... "
What is the saying? Move your mouth at the top, and break your legs at the bottom. Although Lorist always felt that he was very busy, there were so many things waiting for him to make a decision, so many documents waiting for his approval, and so many family officials waiting to report to him. But in the real situation, no matter what it is, Lorist only needs to say a few words to set the tone, and then there will naturally be family officials busy to do things, and after they are done, they will report to Lorist, in exchange for a good job or yes Very good, I am very satisfied and feel flattered.
Just like at the New Year's celebration at the end of the year, the main event of the canonization of new territorial nobles and promotion of titles, Lorist gave full authority to Fatty Shi to be in charge, and then he was busy playing with his wife and children. Fatty Shi summoned a group of family officials who were very busy, and finally got the result after twenty days. Canonization and promotion are important matters. The division of the new territory and the expansion of the territory after the promotion of the title all need to go through rigorous calculations and then coordinate planning. Fatty Shi is desperate to complete this work within 20 days.
Lorist shook his head lightly, and said to Fatty Shi who was holding a large stack of documents and reporting to him: "No need, Yungeshandra Province is now being developed and constructed by Sodkamp, and it will take two or three years It can only be completed. At this time, entrusting the nobles of the territory to Yungeshandela Province will only add chaos to Sedkamp and is not conducive to his overall management. In the next twenty or thirty years, I plan to treat Yungeshandra Province as a family The directly-administered territory is managed, so the newly-promoted nobles of the territory will not be canonized there.
As for Makinohara Province, it was Governor Hickerd who wrote a letter asking me not to confer the nobility of the territory there. Governor Hickerd said that the role of Muyeyuan Province is first to prevent the invasion of the family territory by the grass barbarian cavalry, second is to have a strategic geographical advantage for the Fesabrun family, and the third is to provide for the transaction between our Norton family and the grass barbarian tribe Forming an open market is conducive to our family's acceptance and assimilation of the grassland tribes in the surrounding area.
Because of this, Governor Hickerd believes that if the newly promoted nobles of the territory can be canonized to Muyeyuan Province, it will cause great harm to the rule of our family. Because none of us can guarantee that those newly-promoted territorial nobles will use smuggling to collude with those savage tribes, lure wolves into the house, and privately harm the interests of the family. In view of the interests of the landed nobles, it is impossible for us to effectively supervise this.
Therefore, Governor Hickerd believes that a strategic jurisdiction like Muyeyuan Province should also be directly managed by the family. Only in this way can a timely response be made in case of any change, without unnecessary time delays and delays due to the involvement of the nobles in the territory. I think what he said is very reasonable, so that the canonized nobles of the new territory and the promotion of the title to expand the territory are limited to the provinces of Dremke and Winston. "
Fatty Shi put a large stack of documents in his hand on the desk: "But Your Highness, the territories of these two provinces have already been canonized, so what should the family do if they can be canonized and promoted to the title?"
Lorist took a bottle of blackcurrant cider and two crystal-clear glass goblets, poured the dark red wine into it, and then used a silver clip to fill it with a half-thawed square of ice I chose two relatively complete ice cubes from a large glass water basin, and put them into the glass: "Have a glass, the blackcurrant fruit wine that was newly released in our family territory last year, it tastes very refreshing with ice cubes, come and taste it Try it."
"Not bad." Fatty Shi took a sip and praised, but he was very puzzled: "It's October now, where did you get the ice cubes?"
The nobles of the Galintia continent have the custom of digging ice caves to store ice cubes. Usually, they dig a deep cellar and stick bluestone slabs to the walls. After cleaning, they direct their servants to choose clean ice cubes from the water source of the river in winter. Store and seal it well, and take it out in summer to escape the heat or make cold drinks to quench your thirst. But the ice is not durable to store, basically it will melt into water before the summer. It's October now, and it's autumn, so Fatty Shi wondered where Lorist got this square ice cube from.
Lorist laughed: "Do you still remember the gunpowder laboratory? During the experiment, Professor Bob found that saltpeter has the effect of cooling and freezing, so he used this feature to make ice cubes for himself to cool off. Didn't I go to Did you go to the gunpowder laboratory, and just picked up some saltpeter and came back to make ice cubes."
Fatty Shi was a little resentful: "You are so leisurely, we are so busy here, you still have time to wander around, and even bring back the saltpeter to make ice cubes. Hey, it doesn't mean that the share of saltpeter in the family's gunpowder production is very tight Is it alright to waste these saltpetres?"
"It can be recycled. As long as the water is evaporated, saltpeter crystals can be obtained." Lorist said, "I'm also curious. This time, two valleys were opened up in the Blade's Edge Mountains as salt fields. Professor Bob believes that within two years The production of gunpowder can be doubled, which is enough to meet the training and reserves of our family fleet and artillery battalion."
Fatty Shi drank the blackcurrant fruit wine in the glass in one gulp, poured himself another glass, picked two larger ice cubes and threw them into the glass: "Okay, let's talk about the topic just now, Your Highness, in the next few years What should we do if there are new promotions in our family? Dremke Province and Winston Province have been canonized full, and the family finally had to take out Yungeshandra Province and Muyeyuan Province. Since Muyeyuan Province is related to the family The strategic focus, then the only one that can be canonized is Yungeshandra Province.
My opinion is, if this is the case, why can't we take advantage of this opportunity of canonization and promotion to transfer and canonize a group of territorial nobles to Yungeshandela province in advance? The family has invested huge sums of money in overall development and construction in Yungeshandra Province, and will continue to invest a large amount of money in the next few years. My personal idea is to confer or transfer the undeveloped swamps and jungle areas to these territorial nobles, forcing them to invest in the development and construction according to the family's plan, so as to reduce the burden on the family... "
Fatty Shi is kind. The family has invested a huge sum of 5 million goldford in three years to develop the barren Yungeshandra Province, and will continue to invest the same amount of development funds in the next three years. For the Norton family, the development plan in Yungeshandra Province can be regarded as a world-changing change. The hills and jungles were leveled, embankments were built to block Bailu Lake, and the swamps were turned into fertile fields. Nearly 200,000 young and strong captive laborers were already in I fought there for two or three years.
Fatty Shi believes that those territories that have not yet been affected can be confiscated to new territorial nobles or transferred to the nobles who have been promoted to the title. The family can provide appropriate subsidy funds to help them develop and construct the territory according to the planned development plan, so that It can reduce the burden of family development, and at the same time, it can also cultivate the spirit of the family vassal lord to work hard and be brave in pioneering, instead of enjoying the benefits in the wealthy Dremke and Winston provinces.
Lorist pondered for a while, and finally shook his head and rejected Fatty Shi's proposal. Human beings don't worry about being few but only being uneven. How did you say that old saying in your previous life? Maybe Fatty Shi thinks too much about human nature, he can be impartial, and he can even take the lead in transferring his territory to Yungeshandra Province, but what will happen to the other newly conferred and promoted territorial nobles? think
Obviously Dremke Province and Winston Province have rich and redundant territories that can be confiscated, but they are arranged in the barren Yungeshandra Province. Why can others enjoy the blessings in those two rich provinces? Did the family look down on them and send them here to suffer? I'm afraid that in this way, the nobles who were entrusted by the family to Yungeshandela Province will feel resentful, and it will be a waste of the family's canonization and promotion to strengthen their loyalty.
"It's decided like this this time. Let's arrange it in Dremke Province and Winston Province." Lorist said, "His Majesty the King will ascend the throne in August next year and change the kingdom to the Empire. In the next few years It should be unlikely that there will be another war in the kingdom. Whether it is internal or external, everyone has fought enough. The three-year bloody battle with the Commercial Alliance on the Mana Hill Plain has severely damaged most of the nobles in the kingdom, even the best A nobleman who wants to start a war with his neighbors must think carefully about whether he still has the capital to fight a territorial battle.
Anyway, peace finally came to the Kingdom of Antinac, oh, maybe it should be called the Cresson Empire. If the knights of our family want to use their military exploits in the war to become lords and obtain titles, I'm afraid they will be disappointed. It is impossible to have a big battle against the business alliance in the future. Our family's armed forces also need a good rest, and the ambitious little guys can only vent their energy in daily training and wild hunting.
Perhaps the knights of our family can only endure the same number of years as the civil servants of the family to obtain titles and opportunities for promotion. Therefore, in the next few years, it is impossible for our family to hold large-scale canonization and promotion ceremonies like this year . Now that our Norton family controls five provinces of the kingdom, it is impossible for His Majesty the King to give our family the jurisdiction over a certain province. He wishes to take back all four provinces under our family's jurisdiction.
Therefore, I decided that the future development direction of our family is to go north. You see, after we defeated the invasion of the 100,000 mountain barbarian tribes, this large area outside the border of the family territory has actually been included in our family's power In terms of scope, Liangshan Town has become the central town of this area, and mercenaries from our family's territory are active everywhere in this area, and the forces of the mountain barbarians have retreated to the depths of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range. In addition, our family's armed forces have to pass through this area when they go hunting in the barbaric plains. After many raids, this area has become a relatively safe area. Many mercenaries are complaining that it is difficult to find monsters and mountains in this area. Barbarian tribe.
My idea is to include this area under the rule of the family, and develop and build this area as a province. Because it is the territory opened up by our family, His Majesty the King has no right to interfere. In addition to this region, there is also the Barbarian Plain in the north, which is a boundless land where we can set our sights. Therefore, I am not worried about the lack of canonized territories at all. In a few years, after the province is established in this area, the family can canonize all the new vassal lords there. "
Fatty Shi suddenly realized: "It turns out that His Royal Highness has such an idea. No wonder you summoned Papa Barek a few days ago and asked him to organize an exploration team to investigate the distribution of mineral resources in this area. You also asked Terman to bring a knight The battalion personally escorted it. I wonder why His Highness makes such a fuss. I understand, and I don't have any doubts about His Highness's arrangement."
Lorist nodded, and poured another glass of black currant fruit wine for himself and Fatty Shi: "When you return to Angry Bear City, I will bring you a case of black currant fruit wine. The secret brewing, the business alliance perished and annexed the Principality of Mobit, and divided up those brewing technicians. The brewing technician of this blackcurrant fruit wine was unwilling to become a brewing slave of those chambers of commerce, and fled with his family to our Northland, and opened this brewing workshop The first batch of production was just over a thousand bottles, and it took two years to brew it successfully, and it has been fully contracted by our family, and there are no outsiders to buy it.”
Fatty Shi was very happy: "Thank you, Your Highness, but one box is too small, at least three boxes. You know I like to drink fruit wine. This black currant is sweet and sour, with a refreshing fragrance and a pure taste. It is very suitable for quenching thirst. You only have a dozen bottles in a box, how can I enjoy myself to my heart's content."
Lorist laughed and scolded: "This bottle is only four gold coins. You bastard is used to robbing my wine collection. Go and talk to the Bowery housekeeper yourself."
Bowery is the eldest son of Boris Steward. Boris Steward and his whole family defected from the Kenmes family to seek refuge with Lorist, and then went to the Haneyabad Islands to serve as the governor for ten years. The Norton family canonized as Viscount of the Domain. Because of his old age, he resigned and returned to the territory to enjoy the blessings. Before leaving, he handed over his eldest son to Lorist. Due to his family background, Bowery was an extremely qualified housekeeper, and Lorist used it very smoothly and satisfactorily.
"Okay, thank you again, Your Highness. I'll go say hello to Butler Bowery later, and ask him to prepare a few more boxes for me." Fatty Shi said, "Your Highness, I'm going back to Raging Bear City tomorrow. What else can I order?"
Lorist thought for a while and said, "Basically, there is nothing to say. I can rest assured that you will be in charge of holding the New Year's celebration. Director Speer and Director Kedan will cooperate with your instructions. You all have your own ideas about how to hold the New Year's celebration." I won’t talk too much about my experience. Sylvia and I will return to Rage Bear City at the end of November, and everything there will be left to you.”
Fatty Shi drank the fruit wine in the glass in one gulp and stood up: "Okay, Your Highness, then I will take my leave first, and see you in Nuxiong City."
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