Chapter 377: The Unlucky Governor Looking at the territory of the Roland Empire, among the many provinces, Nulin Province is undoubtedly an extremely special existence.
This special surname also has historical reasons.
More than a hundred years ago, Nulin Province was still the largest province in the northwest, because of its special geographical location, Nulin Province has always been the center of foreign trade between the Roland Empire and the northwest grassland, although at that time there was a Desa Province to the west of Nulin Province, but because the land of Desa Province was barren, the horse bandits were rampant in the territory, and it has been on the border, the economy and public security have collapsed, so even the big chambers of commerce in the Roland Empire are unwilling to go to Desa Province to do business, and chose the slightly inland Nulin Province as a trading place.
And even more because, the Roland Empire also had a Northwest Army in the northwest, which was stationed in Nulin Province.
The role of the Northwest Legion was to deter the steppe aliens and prevent the steppe people from invading.
In order to maintain a large army and military supplies, there are also a large number of business opportunities every year, resulting in a very prosperous business in Nulin Province in the past, whether it is a merchant selling grain, or a merchant who does ordnance and horses, or trading cattle, sheep and livestock with the steppe people, they will trade here.
But with the rise of the Tulip family, the status of Nureen Province suddenly changed.
The province of Dessa, which is closer to the border, was given to the Tulip family as a territory, and the great first Duke Tulip came to the northwest with his team, and since then the face of the northwest has changed.
The original Duke of Tulip was eloquent, and under his management, the original Desar Province, which was closer to the border Tulip family territory, was wiped out by the Tulip family, and then the Tulip family monopolized the trade with the steppe people, and the original Northwest Trading Center Nulin Province was gradually abandoned.
Immediately after, there was a rebellion of the Northwest Legion, which was later extinguished under the auspices of the Tulip family.
What's more, after the rebellion of the Northwest Legion, the top of the empire believed that the Tulip family was already guarding the northwest, and there was no need to rebuild a Northwest Army to empty the national treasury.
Originally due to the sparse land and the barren land, the scarcity of grain production, and the fact that the border trade had been moved to the Tulip family's territory, the province of Nurin became almost the most barren of the many provinces in the entire empire.
But then, some strange changes took place.
Because of the invasion of many alien races, the dwarves, orcs, and elves crossed the frozen forest to the south, invaded the human world of the Roland Empire, entered this continent, and have been stationed in the north since then.
Although Nulin Province has lost its border geographical location for trading with the grasslands, due to the invasion of foreign races, there is an orc kingdom in the north that is more powerful than the steppe people.
The two sides are separated by a Kaspersky Line.
More than a hundred years ago, the first Duke Tulip led the human army to fight bloodily against the aliens, from the east to the west of the empire, along the "Kaspersky Line" across the entire continent, and the orcs fought fiercely for many years.
After the end of the war, the northern part of Nulin Province became a border with the Orc Kingdom.
In recent years, as the peace has gradually lasted for a long time, many chambers of commerce in the Roland Empire, openly and secretly trading with the orc kingdom, often choose Nulin Province, because the sky is high here, the emperor is far away, and it is more convenient to do some unsavory smuggling business and sell some contraband.
Even the central government of the empire had to admit that the data obtained from some special channels showed that the annual smuggling transactions in Nulin Province accounted for one-third of the total smuggling transactions in the entire Roland Empire This statistic is enough to prove one thing: the control of the Imperial Center over the province of Nureen is very weak.
After all, it is a border province, and there is such an unfriendly "neighbor" as the orc kingdom to the north, and the empire will never let such an important place go unchecked.
But the fact is that for more than 100 years, the central political axe of the Roland Empire and the chaos in Nulin Province have been almost deliberately ignored.
Even the garrison stationed here has been repeatedly reduced.
The appointment of local officials to Nureen Province often became a headache for the Imperial Administration.
The reason is simple: tulips This is too close to the Tulip Family, the Tulip Family has been developed in the Roland Empire for more than 100 years, and now it has become a behemoth, and the Emperor is a descendant of the family, and if the first Tulip Duke wanted to be the emperor, he would have done it directly.
Now, from generation to generation, the Tulip family will inevitably still arouse the jealousy of the royal family, and no emperor would want to see the existence of such a behemoth in his country, even if it is his own blood relative.
After generations of trial and error, the Tulip family and the imperial family finally reached an unwritten understanding: in exchange, the Tulip family ceded many other interests and positions.
However, the northwest is the tulip family's sphere of influence This point, even the emperors of the past dynasties would never dare to break it easily Nulin Province, because of its close proximity to the Tulip family's territory, is in a very delicate situation.
Nominally, this is still a province directly under the central government, but in fact, in order to respect the authority of the Tulip family in the northwest, the central government of the empire will never set up a standing heavy army here, which is an incredible thing for a border province next to the orc kingdom It's just that the two sides acquiesced, and handed over the border defense responsibility of Nulin Province to the Tulip family.
In fact, on the border of the Orc Kingdom, several military fortresses on the northwest defense line of the Kaspersky Line have always been guarded by the Tulip family's private army, although they are not the territory of the Tulip family at all, but the territory of Nulin Province.
The central government of the empire almost deliberately allowed the province of Nulin to fend for itself, and both officials and local garrisons were repeatedly reduced, just to avoid causing dissatisfaction and sensitivity among the Tulip family.
Let's put it this way, the province of Nulin has become a buffer zone between the Tulip family and the central power of the empire.
In this way, the position of governor of Nulin Province has become very delicate.
Although the central government of the empire is willing to let this place in Nulin Province become a buffer zone with the Tulip family's power, it will never be willing to let a person from the Tulip faction serve as the governor here, otherwise, Nulin Province will really become the second territory of the Tulip family And the Tulip family is not very willing to send any powerful people from the central government to serve as the governor here, nor does they like the central power to be too strong here.
The result of the compromise between the two sides was that the governor of Nureen Province could not be a die-hard member of the royal family or a member of the pro-Tulip faction.
This is unlucky.
But whoever is chosen to be the governor of Nulin Province is often a grandmother who does not love his uncle and uncle, the royal family will not send their own right-hand man here to suffer crimes, and the Tulip family will not recommend people from their own faction to be the governor here.
Those appointed as governors were often disadvantaged in the imperial officialdom, either marginalized figures or unlucky people who had lost the struggle against the Imperial Sea.
Otherwise, it's a wall grass with no roots.
Moreover, it is said that he is a feudal official, a governor who grasps the military and politics, and can be said to be a prince.
But in fact, no one wants to come here to be a governor.
If you are a governor in another place, and you grasp the military and politics, you are almost equivalent to the emperor of the soil, then how carefree is the son.
But when you run to Nulin Province, you will be affected by the splint between the central empire and the Tulip family.
If you dare to get close to the Tulip family, it will definitely cause the emperor's dissatisfaction, and the emperor will never allow you to get close to the Tulip family and turn Nulin Province into the territory of the Tulip family But if you don't get close to the Tulip family, your border garrisons are all people's private armies, and the northwest trade is also monopolized by the Tulip family, and the financial income depends on the Tulip family's snort As for the smuggling trade with the orcs, the border garrisons are all Tulip private troops, if you dare to be disobedient, people will make some moves for you at any time In the imperial officialdom, there is a saying that I would rather go to the south to be a city guard than to be a governor in Nulin Province Fiolo was such an unlucky one.
The governor of Nulin Province had been in this position for eleven years That's right, eleven years According to the practice of appointing local governors in the empire, few local feudal officials can do it for so many years, in order to prevent the local feudal officials from being too powerful and causing the tail to be big, the Roland Empire also adopted the system of liuguan, generally speaking, the term of office of the governor of a province is mostly about five or six years will be replaced.
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Of course, there are exceptions, such as Fritz, the governor of the East China Sea.
But that was because Fritz was shrewd and capable, recognized as a capable minister, and was deeply trusted by His Majesty the former Emperor March, plus he had made outstanding achievements in the East China Sea, and was a figure who turned the tide, so he worked in the East China Sea for more than ten years.
But this Governor of Nulin Province, His Excellency Fiolo, is not the same at all.
In fact, Fiolo himself was a native of Nurein, having served as a magistrate in Nurein for three years at the age of thirty, and then transferred to Mulan City, the capital of Nurein, as a sheriff for five years Later, when the former governor of Nulin Province stepped down, it was not actually a normal resignation, but the former governor did not survive until he died, did not survive until he changed places, and died of illness in office.
After the position of the governor of Nulin Province was vacated, the central government of the empire also had a headache, and no one wanted to sit in this unfortunate position, and as a result, the officials who were waiting for the release of the central government office of the empire at that time showed their talents to pull the relationship through the back door, and even some people simply called themselves sick, and they would never be sent to Nulin Province to be the governor.
The Central Government Affairs Bureau was worried for a long time, and finally patted his head: None of you want to go, okay, then promote one from the local sub-level officials As a result, the position of Governor fell to Lord Fiolo.
He was promoted from the sheriff of Mulan Cheng to the acting governor, and after two years of service, the position of acting governor was corrected to the official governor, and he has remained until today.
Counting his tenure as a low-ranking local official in Nureim, plus his tenure as Governor, the hapless Lord Fiolo had been in Nureim for nearly twenty years without moving This is also a strange thing in the officialdom of the entire Roland Empire If the people of Nulin Province were to be asked to evaluate the Governor who had ruled them for eleven years, then the most important characteristic of this Governor was that he had no characteristics In fact, the most important thing about the rule of His Excellency Governor Fiolo is that he never cares about anything I can't control the fact that there are bandits in the local area, so I sent an official letter to the Tulip family private army on the border to ask them to help eradicate it The central government has asked for a tax, and I don't care about it, you can ask the tulip family to assist in transportation I can't control the Tulip family's request to replenish the military supplies to the private army on the border, so you can find the central political axe to report it Over time, I don't know which yin guy actually spread such a joke: our Governor is a bit like the goddess who is worshipped in the church temple Everyone knows that he exists, but for so many years, I haven't seen him do a single thing.
The only way the governor could make his presence visible to everyone was for him to speak a few words on the road at the annual spring ploughing meeting, and to sign and seal the documents every year when the taxes were paid.
In addition, this governor spends most of his time hiding in the governor's palace in Mulan City.
For this Governor of Fiolo, his greatest wish in life is that the bigwigs who can survive until the hope of leaving office before his death can one day suddenly show compassion and transfer himself from the ghost place of the northwest to a random place in the south for a few days before he dies.
But the problem is that it is estimated that it will be difficult for Governor Fiolo to fulfill his wish, because it seems that both the central government and the Tulip family feel that this Governor Fiolo is really doing too well.
Since he came to power, it can be said that there has been no offense against the Tulip family or the central government of the empire, and there has been no more turmoil and contradictions.
Where to find such a person who is willing to be splinted?
Since honest people are easy to bully, then just bully him to the end But even if Governor Fiolo doesn't care about everything, with the idea that more things are better than less, and after more than ten years of fighting, he will always encounter a few troubles.
For example, today, the first person in the military and political power of Nulin Province, who is known as the "Seal Governor", "Goddess Governor" and "Sleeve Governor", has encountered a big trouble.
Two formal application documents with strict specifications were placed in front of him.
These are the two official documents of the application submitted through legal procedures and channels sent below.
The contents of the two applications are as follows: The first one, the purchase of land.
The applicant requested the purchase of 6,000 acres of land around a small town in the north-west of Nurim province near the border This article made Governor Fiolo can't help but rub his teeth, more than a hundred years ago, when Du Wei was in power, in order to curb land annexation, he once issued an order, within the empire, any land sale, more than 1,000 acres, must be approved by the governor of the provincial level.
Buying 6,000 acres of land in one go is not a small amount.
But what puzzled Fiolo was that the land in Nulin Province was barren and the grain production was low, so the land here had never been valuable, and few people cared about it, and a large amount of land was idle or even abandoned.
The man was full of food and bought 6,000 acres of land in one go Fiolo had looked at the map, that hellish place, there was only sand and stones in the land, and there were no people with any minerals for hundreds of miles around.
What does this buyer want to do?
Well, with the idea that more is better than less, Fiolo still waved his pen and approved.
Anyway, as long as the other party gives money, a copper plate is a lot, he can buy it if he wants to, and with this income, it can be regarded as a small supplement to the finances that are full of holes.
As for what the other party bought these wastelands to do with me, even if he bought them to dig holes and play, he will go with him.
But when he saw the second application, the governor finally couldn't sit still Because, this second application document is impressive "Founding a New Religion" Governor Fiolo only felt his hand holding the pen tremble Although the laws of the Empire no longer restrict religious beliefs, the Temple of Light Church is no longer regarded as the only religion in the Empire, and in principle, the Roland people are allowed to practice other religions.
Even the Empire once issued decrees allowing other religions to spread their teachings But there are really people who start a new religion in this ghost place in the northwest Damn it Although Fiolo had been abandoned in the province of Nulin for twenty years, he still had at least a certain sense of politics Although the Temple of Light is not as big as it used to be, it is still rare to find such a big deal about the creation of a new religion anywhere in the empire, and it is a very sensitive political event As a local governor, if such an application is approved, although it is in accordance with national law, the inevitable result is to offend the Temple of Light Church Although, since the Empire issued a decree allowing new religions to spread their teachings, over the years, there have been a number of new religions, although none of them have become the climate.
But this kind of thing happened in Nulin Province, and it was really unprecedented "Where did you come from, bastard, to cause me such trouble," Governor Fiolo couldn't help but have a headache.
According to the imperial decree, it is not good to veto this kind of application without a valid reason, and the laws of the empire, allowing the establishment of new religions and suppressing the Temple of Light, this is a national policy, as the governor of the empire, this kind of thing is not good to run counter to the national policy.
Both the Imperial Center and the Tulip House have the same attitude on this point.
But this is still a trouble for Fiolo, he has had enough of the splint on both sides, and he doesn't want to offend a behemoth like the Temple of Light and become a splint on three sides "Hmph, what kind of strange religion is this Wushuang Martial Saint Sect: save thousands of girls, promote social righteousness, maintain world peace, and build a harmonious society together, what the mess is this" Fiolo suddenly burst into flames when he saw this, and threw the pen in his hand to the ground But as soon as he stood up, he suddenly found that something was exposed under the application document.
This is the tip of a golden ticket The real golden ticket issued by the Tulip Chamber of Commerce is full of 10,000 gold coins The gold signboard of the Tulip Chamber of Commerce is redeemed at the sight of the ticket, and the ticket is not recognized This thing was sandwiched in the application document and sent to his desk, no need to ask, this was sent by his subordinate officials, and he was sandwiched in it.
Fiolo immediately judged that the applicant had already "done" all his officials.
In other words, his subordinate officials have already passed this matter and more or less shared the benefits.
If he refuted this ridiculous application, he would be happy, but wouldn't he have cut off the financial resources of many people under him Cutting off people's financial means is equivalent to killing their parents I have worked in this Nulin Province for more than ten years, and the only thing I can rely on is that I still have a group of men to get off work.
But if you are in this kind of profit-sharing benefit, if you are The governor of Fiolo cursed harshly, bent down to pick up the pen, and signed his name heavily on the paper. "10,000 gold coins, Mary, the woman said she wanted to buy a new necklace, and she quarreled with me for more than ten days, but this time it was just right."
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