Chapter 311 Reward

In the blink of an eye, more than a month later, early winter has arrived.

Simon negotiated a deal with the orc warchief Gutlidan, exchanging food for 20,000 kobold miners.

In addition, they also held a friendly battle under the North Cold Castle.

The orcs consumed the surplus pig-headed and other miscellaneous races, and Simon's new recruits were tempered by seeing blood.

Both parties are satisfied with the deal.

Simon learned that in the northern wilderness, the orcs had unified into three forces after a series of battles.

Although there are fewer attacks on each other at present, they are still eyeing each other and want to unify the orc tribe.

In fact, it is a unified strong orc tribe, and most of the other orcs are in a dependent position. Of course, there are exceptions.

Gutlidan is the leader of one of the powerful orc forces. His strength is in the middle, neither strong nor weak.

They often fight against the weakest orc alliance tribe against the strongest Bloodfang tribe.

After Simon knew this, he decided to provide limited support to Gutlidan. At the moment, it was undoubtedly more beneficial to let the orcs fight among themselves than to go out to conquer.

Marquis Val might not have wanted to do this before, but his population was small and food was insufficient, so he couldn't do this.

Seeing that Morningstar City had stabilized, he asked Legion Commander Spint to continue to garrison Morningstar City and maintain his rule over the surrounding areas.

Simon led his army back to Brave City.

Now there is only one free rear guard corps left in the field army. As a mobile unit, it is stationed in the military camp outside the city and will no longer be used.

Not long after returning, Simon summoned the ministers and held a meeting.

“Now that Western Cedi is basically pacified, officials need to be dispatched everywhere to manage local areas.

Yongyi Academy has taught a lot of talents in recent years, and they come in handy at this time.

In this matter, the Minister of State, Mader, the Minister of Military Affairs, Moiko, and the Minister of Supervision, Mai Lan, are responsible for selecting the candidates, compiling the list, and handing it over to me for the final decision. "

Simon's face was calm and he announced unhurriedly.

"Yes! Sir!" The three people whose names were called stood up and saluted to take orders.

"In addition, Minister of Ceremony Wall will take stock of the current population on the West Side for half a year."

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, Wall stood up, bowed his head, and responded respectfully.

"Yaman! Several military castles need to be built in these locations. You are responsible for it..."

Simon arranged many tasks in an orderly manner.

These people are all loyal ministers who have been certified by the panel, so he doesn't have to worry too much.

Otherwise, just trying to figure out people's hearts and balancing power will consume a lot of energy on his part.

Later in the meeting, Simon ordered: "Tully, send a letter to Eagle City and ask the Bavaria royal family to make me the Grand Duke of West Cedi."

"Yes! Your Excellency! Congratulations to the Earl for being promoted to the title of nobility again!" The Foreign Minister immediately stood up and congratulated.

"Congratulations, Lord Earl!" Others followed suit.

"Well, let's discuss the issue of rewards and punishments next. The soldiers who made meritorious service in this battle must receive reasonable rewards.

I plan to create another title system. This title also has a fief, but it does not participate in the management of the territory and only enjoys taxation.

And except for limited escorts, private armies are not allowed to be recruited and trained.

Of course, the previous knighthood system will still be used. "

Simon smiled slightly and seemed to be in a good mood.

The ministers looked at each other in confusion after hearing this, and took a while to digest the information.

After a while, Mader observed the words for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is beneficial. It can effectively curb the lord's rebellion and concentrate his strength...

However, in this case, I am afraid that the officials sent to the local areas will not develop their territories carefully, and the noble children from other areas will not come here to serve..."

"This is also simple. I drafted an official ranking and promotion conditions. After grassroots officials have made achievements, they can be promoted, and if they make mistakes, they will be demoted...

If you break the law, you will also go to jail. "

Simon took out a parchment and handed it to Mader from the guard.

He looked at it for a while and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, this method is wonderful!"

When Simon heard this, he smiled slightly and was noncommittal. This was nothing more than the ups and downs of officialdom in the feudal dynasty.

Although it is not as fast as enfeoffment to develop territories, it will not be too desolate. Officials in various places still have to make some political achievements if they want to be promoted.

In addition, he also introduced a system of lifelong responsibility for officials' performance, which can, to a certain extent, curb the behavior of chaotic governance.

“You go back to discuss these new policies first, and then we’ll have a meeting to discuss them in detail in a few days.

Let's disperse first. "Finally, Simon announced.

"Yes!" All the ministers stood up, saluted, and exited the Lord's Hall.

This meeting lasted until the afternoon, towards evening.

Simon went to play with his lovers for a while, and in the evening had dinner with Winnie, her children, mother Bara, and sister Gurney.

Time flies, and days pass in the blink of an eye.

Minister of State Mader and others prepared a draft and handed it over to Simon for review.

He made some deletions, revisions and revisions, and convened ministers to discuss it before finalizing it.

“Okay, this is how this policy will be implemented, and the Minister of State is responsible for implementing it.

The list of officials shall be implemented accordingly. Simon agreed.

The newly established aristocratic system is called the feudal title. From lowest to highest, it is the third-class baron, the second-class baron, the first-class baron, the third-class viscount...

By analogy, up to the first-class marquis, the title can be inherited by descendants, but each time the title is inherited, the title will be reduced by one level.

Among them, the third-class baron has a settlement of 100 households, while the first-class marquis has a settlement of 10,000 households.

And the castles that can be built are also limited in size. The third-class baron cannot have more than three acres of land, the second-class four acres, and so on.

They can only enjoy the taxes of the people in the fiefdom, and have no right to manage administration and military affairs, but have the right of supervision.

In addition, according to the different titles, a certain number of guards can be raised. The third-class baron has 20 people, and the first-class marquis has 800 people.

As for the official system, it is more complicated and will not be elaborated here.

The original system of enfeoffment still exists, but there are too few people who can be rewarded. Simon will not easily divide the enfeoffment again.

Those who have been rewarded before are just like that, just like Sarit, Alei, Reed and others, enfeoffment knights, enfeoffment barons, what should be done.

Sommier and others are pending, Simon has not figured out how to deal with them, and there are not many such historical problems.

A total of three barons survived, all of whom are the second sons of nobles from Beifeng.

They have not run away yet, and they are all masters who want land but not life.

A month later, it was deep winter.

Simon gathered the meritorious men at the training ground in Yongyi City and held a bonfire banquet.

At the banquet, their rewards were announced. Most of the legion commanders were conferred the title of third-class viscount. Afterwards, hundreds of nobles of various sizes were born according to their merits.

Before, they were either civilians or slaves. Now they have changed their class. They are all very excited.

If they were the second sons of nobles, they would not be satisfied if they did not get the actual title.

But Simon's men were basically transformed from mud legs. They did not have this mentality at all and were very satisfied.

The West Seti is a completely virgin land. After driving away the nobles entrenched here, there is almost no local snake power.

He was completely allowed to flatten and round it, and reform it as he pleased, and many new policies could be smoothly implemented.