Chapter 638 Princess Fiefdom

The agreement reached between Sean and King Laurie was relatively friendly and broad, and a series of trade agreements were signed. In terms of the overall situation, I dare not say that nothing will remain the same, at least the impact is not as great as imagined.

After all, there is a difference between King Laurie and Princess Sophilia, especially after Sean married Princess Sophilia, some things should be paid more attention to.

In order to avoid suspicion, Sean took the initiative to abolish some non-essential and relatively sensitive institutions of the Eternal Night Army in the capital of Vallesta, and some industries also allowed King Laurie to invest in large-scale shares.

For example, the Flying Eagle transmission system of Dawn Tavern was sold directly to King Laurie at cost price.

As for whether some things have taken the opportunity to turn from the bright to the dark, only Xiao En knows.

In the short term, doing so will damage the interests of the Eternal Night Army Leader. Not only will the newly established influence in the capital Valesta shrink, but even the trade volume will be affected.

But in the long run, there are still benefits.

Since some sensitive things have been eliminated, even if the relationship between the two parties deteriorates in the future, it will not be easy for King Laurie to find fault with it, even if it is to tear his face and attack the leader of the Yongye army with all his strength. , and their impact is relatively limited.

Sean is not optimistic about the situation in the royal capital of Valesta. It is just the eve of the storm, and for a long time to come, this place will be the center of the storm for the entire Byron Alliance.

Although the new Pope St. George of the Holy See of St. Ether was interrupted by Princess Sophielia's high-handed means, the missionary road to the All-Union was interrupted.

Pope St. George and Saint Enid, who bewitched King Laurie, were driven back to St. Andy.

But King Laurie was deeply poisoned, and Princess Sophilia tried her best, but not only failed to change his mind, but made the relationship between the two parties even worse.

Without special circumstances, King Laurie basically does not meet Princess Sophie Leah now.

Once Princess Sophilia leaves the royal capital, she knows with her ass that the Holy See headed by Pope St. George will definitely launch a new round of counterattacks.

As the saying goes, only Shuzhi can find a way to help.

When the tree grows crooked unknowingly, the effect of external force is negligible.

The fact that she was pregnant before marriage made it impossible for Princess Sophilia to delay the marriage. Once she got married, she would no longer be a member of the Lancelot royal family. At that time, she would not be able to easily interfere with Lancelot. special royal affairs.

In addition to external reasons, there are also problems within the royal family.

When the royalist faction has the foreign enemy of the princess faction, they can still share the same hatred.

When they expel the Princess faction, they will inevitably fall into an internal struggle for power.

This is not only a painful period of power change, but also a manifestation of King Laurie's lack of internal control.

The change of power is not a simple matter of enthronement ceremony, handing over a symbolic sword of courage.

It also involves a series of things.

Prince Laurie, no, if King Laurie is smart enough, he should not be so anxious to become a princess. Instead, he will re-employ Princess Sophilia, who has been resigned from the post of regent, as his first prime minister. Next, spend ten or eight years to stabilize your own political power, and then it will not be too late to consider the issue of de-princessing.

Although he was of noble birth, he was too young after all.

The temperament has not yet been fully formed, and the wrist has not been sharpened.

That's right.

When Princess Sophilia was forced to take the position of regent, it was true that King Laurie was not even the same age as King Laurie, but the two grew up in different environments.

Princess Sophie Liya grew up in a bloody fortress like a military camp, so she was naturally more mature than her peers.

Most importantly, Grand Duke Cedric stood behind her at that time. Isn't her Iron Rose Knights the best proof?

They are all composed of descendants of the direct knights of Broken Blood Castle. No one can tell how much of Princess Sophilia's many decisions in her early years belonged to the will of Grand Duke Cedric. Everyone is just opening one eye and closing one. only eye.

King Laurie wanted to run when he had just learned to walk.

When the time comes, it is inevitable to stumble.

King Laurie did not show any intention of hiring Princess Sophie Liya as his prime minister.

Princess Sophie Liya, who has been so angry with birds recently, has no intention of posting on her own initiative.

After marrying Xiao En, she packed up her rituals and influence, and prepared to fully withdraw to her princess fiefdom.

Princess Sophilia is using this method to express her anger.

She has worked so hard for the royal family of Lancelot for so many years, and she has received this kind of reward. It is false to say that she is not angry or annoyed at all.

In the next period of time, the running-in with Xiao En and the Yong Ye army leader will take up most of Sophie Liya's energy.

Having cooperated with the Yongye Army Leader for such a long period of time, Princess Sophilia felt that her understanding of the Yongye Army Leader was still at the superficial level.

To be more precise, the development speed of Yong Ye's army leader far exceeded her imagination.

Her understanding is always in a state of backwardness, and she doesn't know what kind of surprises are waiting for her now as the leader of the Yongye army.

Thinking of this, Princess Sophilia was a little excited and eager to try.

Sean and Princess Sophielia took the Princess ship together and went upstream along the Jacob River.

First, go to the fiefdom of Princess Sophilia.

Although the second wedding was not held here, it was a change of carriage and a tour around the main cities.

The main purpose is to announce the good news of Princess Sophilia's marriage to the citizens, and at the same time introduce Earl Sean, the hostess, to the officials and nobles in various cities.

This is a common method used by the Lords and nobles of the entire Byron Union. Whether it is a replacement of a new ruler or a big wedding, some lords will even send their trusted ministers every once in a while, or personally inspect their territories.

King Laurie, who has just ascended the throne, is also preparing to visit the territory directly under the royal family.

To do this, on the one hand, let the people below know their new ruler as soon as possible.

On the other hand, it also allows the rulers to have a more intuitive understanding and cognition of the territories and cities they rule.

This refers to those more diligent rulers. Some lords have visited their own territories only a handful of times throughout their lives. As for the operating conditions of their territories, one can imagine.

Of course, the frequency of running in his own territory does not mean that his territory is well managed.

Some people who like extravagance not only try their best to be extravagant all the way, but also eat, drink, play and entertain guests without restraint, which greatly increases the financial burden of the local area. Some territories were originally well developed. Let them run a full fiscal deficit.

Whether the method is useful or not depends on whose hands it is.

After ten years of continuous rectification, Princess Sophilia's fiefdom has been marked with a strong personal label.

Here is no longer a simple enfeoffment of lords, but a strong city-state flavor.

The highest decision makers of the city are no longer those hereditary lords and nobles, but the mayor who is specially hired, and the municipal system centered on him.

Every municipal system affects more than just a city, and even the surrounding affiliated villages and towns are more or less affected by the relevant policies formulated by it.

For example, if there is a large mine near a city, then most of the municipal system is resource-based, centered around mining this mine.

If a city is suitable for large-scale grape planting, then most of the surrounding areas of the city are mainly planting grapes and making wine.

If it is suitable for large-scale cultivation of grain, they will go all out to develop grain.

This relatively professional development model is inseparable from the increasingly convenient transportation conditions in recent years.

They dare to develop this way only if the goods can be transported, otherwise they can only let the surplus crops rot in the ground.

The Yongye army leader is the main buyer of the crops produced by Princess Sophilia's fiefdom in recent years, and they have eaten one-third of them.

This situation may continue for a long time to come.

Although the leader of the Yongye army now owns the Dunao Plain, it will not happen overnight if he wants to turn this place into a granary.

What's more, they now added a big food consumer.

So far, there are already 30,000 Kentana barbarians who have been successively sent to the northern fortress for transformation.

It's not that the Yong Ye army leader doesn't want to speed up the transformation, but that they consume too much food.

The consumption of 30,000 Kentana barbarians can already keep up with the hundreds of thousands of Andes.

The traffic in the northern fortress has always been a big problem. Fortunately, the herds on the Colt grassland outside the fortress have grown in size, which can relieve part of the pressure.

The number of Kentana barbarians in the east of the Andes Mountains is increasing rapidly, and the propaganda team composed of ancestral soldiers sent by the leader of the Yongye Army is very powerful. The savages of Tana, who did not suspect him at all, began to move south on a large scale.

Every day, no less than a hundred Kentana barbarians enter the eastern range of the Andes Mountains.

Army Leader Yong Ye is now in happiness and pain.

A natural warrior race like the Kentana barbarians, after being transformed by means of faith, is uncompromisingly loyal, and they naturally hope that the more the better.

But with their influx, the pressure on their logistics is increasing.

The leader of the Eternal Night Army now has more than 130,000 registered Kentana barbarians.

According to the current situation, it is not difficult to break through 200,000, which is basically the same as the number of Kentana barbarians initially estimated by the Yong Ye army leader.

The savages of Kentana have a rough temperament and do not have the patience for intensive cultivation. For them, becoming a farmer living in a small place is more difficult than hunting giant whales with bare hands.

It is also a wasteful thing.

Before the Yongye Army Commander did not have enough pastures to accommodate them, their food supplies mainly had to rely on the Yongye Army Commander.

No matter how hypnotized Xiao En said, the future that the leader of Yong Ye advocated is how beautiful.

Feeding their stomachs is the basic premise.

If there is no way to guarantee this point, the Kentana barbarians gathered together are a super powder keg, which will blow up the leader of the Yong Ye Army.

The princess fief that has already established a good trade relationship is the confidence of the Yongye army leader in this regard.

Especially after Sean and Princess Sophilia got married, the relationship became closer.

Although there is still a long way to go to merge into one, at least there is no need to worry about the other party stumbling from behind.

The officials of the municipal system in Princess Sophilia's fief are mainly from nobles and nobles, and there are very few who are really from low-level civilians.

This is determined by the level of education.

In the Byron League, the lords and nobles created far more than monopoly of power and wealth, but also monopoly of knowledge.

Many times, common people want to study, not only because of whether their families can afford it, but also because of whether they have access to it.

In the eyes of many lords and aristocrats, it is an incredible thing to carry out mass education like the leader of the Yongye army.

Even if the unprecedented Scholars Conference was successfully held in Brothers Port of the Yongye Army, many of the scholars who went to participate in the Scholars Conference returned with full rewards, bringing back a lot of practical knowledge for the lord they are loyal to.

There are many lords who are loyal to themselves with great enthusiasm, and promote the universal education of the Yongye Army Leader. They think that this is the sudden emergence of the Yongye Army Leader. In just a dozen years, they have the strength to catch up with a military leader where the roots lie.

However, judging from the information fed back by the Eagle Eyes of the Yong Ye Army Commander, after these suggestions were handed over to the noble lords, most of them fell to nothing and were suppressed without restriction.

Those noble lords are not completely unaware of the benefits contained in it, but they have their own calculations and worries.

In their traditional concept, if ordinary citizens possess too much knowledge, it is likely to become a source of turmoil and affect the stability of their rule.

In their eyes, the stability of family rule is far above the development speed of the territory.

Xiao En had to sigh that selfishness was the stumbling block to the development of the territory.

They give away the technologies that shape a better life for nothing, and people are still afraid of them like snakes and scorpions.

Fortunately, most scholars are smart people with a scholarly persistence.

There is no way to get the support of noble lords and promote it on a large scale.

They secretly solicited sponsors to conduct experiments, especially some new farming techniques. When the results of the experiments came out, some profit-greedy farmers would naturally follow suit.

Princess Sophilia's fief was heavily influenced by the Yong Ye army leader.

Not only farming techniques such as grafting, breeding, deep burial and fertilization can be seen on a large scale here.

Even the popularization of education has reached a certain scale, and many civilian intellectuals are pouring out to break the monopoly position of the nobility in the administrative system.

The situation of the princess' fiefdom is far more complicated than that of Yong Ye's army leader.

Compared with the emerging power of the Yongye Army Commander, the ruling class in the princess fief is deeply rooted.

Realizing that his monopoly rule was being shaken, he instinctively suppressed it.

As for the emerging civilian intelligentsia, it is obviously not so easy to admit defeat. After being suppressed for so many years, they finally saw the hope of turning around. Naturally, they struggled to resist and struggle.

Princess Sophilia is playing a balance in the middle, neither one-sidedly on the side of the emerging civilian intelligentsia, nor allowing the old nobles to use despicable means of competition.

The benefits of doing so are obvious.

The emerging civilian intellectual class lacks a deep foundation and must stand unswervingly on the side of Princess Sophilia, because once they lose the protection of the other party, their foundation is not stable, and they are easily uprooted by the old nobles.

The old aristocrats now have checks and balances, and they dare not challenge Princess Sophie Liya, because their role is no longer irreplaceable.

Once they are about to make a mistake, the emerging civilian intelligentsia is very willing to replace them.

In order to keep his status and interests, he can only change his laziness in the past and stick to his position conscientiously.

Under such circumstances, the power erupted by the old aristocrats cannot be underestimated. After all, they have been passed down for so many years, and elite education still has its merits.

Sean and Princess Sophilia spent more than three months wandering around the princess' fief.

Xiao En has a general understanding of the situation of the princess' fief, and he knows it well.

That's all.

In a short time, Sean is not going to intervene in the matters related to the princess fief.

Princess Sophie Liya will not go to the leader of the Yongye army to directly take charge of the power now.

Both of them are rational and almost ruthless people. Before they talked about marriage, how could they not have discussed the governance of the two territories after they got married.

Compared with ordinary territories, their issue is more sensitive.

After all, two very different administrative systems are involved.

Xiao En believes that the reform of the princess fief is not thorough, and there is still huge room for improvement.

Princess Sophie Liya also has no way to fully understand and agree. Some administrative ideas of the Yongye army are too radical in her eyes.

But the princess fief has the difficulty of the princess fief.

The Yongye Army leader has internal conflicts in the Yongye Army leader.