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Chapter 411: Intensification


That's it.

The war regarding the Hereford family has come to an end.

The soldiers and what the army should do have basically been completed.

The next step should be the affairs of the government and administrative officials. otbnkotgt At this time of changing dynasties, embezzle as much property as possible from the factories of the factory owners who had deep hatred against William, the real estate of the nobles who were unwilling to cooperate with the Hereford family, and other royal properties, Manors, palaces, villas, and castles were all to be taken over, and then the industrial and commercial parts were merged into the Hereford Conglomerate.

The agricultural part was integrated into the royal estate for unified management.

In addition to those that can be annexed, those that cannot be annexed are not those who have previous contact with William and are ready to join the Hereford family.

They are well-behaved and obedient enough, and at the same time have some power to help Hereford.

The guys whose family stabilized the order in Shilonsk.

In short, many of these guys were lucky to survive, and then joined the Hereford family's system safely.

But this addition was different from what they thought.

Gone are the good days when feudal nobles would swear allegiance and then own everything in the territory to form an independent kingdom.

For businessmen and factory owners, they need to accept stricter management.

Whether it is machines, workers, companies, caravans, or the factory itself needs to be reviewed and then issued a license.

Its industry and machine standards must be consistent with the standards and models of machine parts and steam engines currently used by the Hereford family.

In addition, various taxes are levied based on the size and profitability of their factories, companies and caravans.

For businessmen and factory owners, this model was barely acceptable.

Well, yes it's acceptable.

After all, even in the Trieste Dynasty, merchants and factory owners were not respectable professions.

They have become accustomed to all kinds of reasonable and unreasonable oppression.

It feels like, no matter how dishonest the Hereford family is, their life will not be worse than before.

Of course, a few businessmen and factory owners were still a little hopeful.

Compared to the Trieste dynasty, the new Hereford family seemed more enlightened and paid more attention to the development of industry and commerce.

Or it's not necessarily a given that their lives will be better in the future.

Their hopes are very, very small.

The reason why they are so small is that they don't want to be too sad after their hopes are shattered.

They have seen too many so-called support and so-called enlightened things.

All these lies are just to allow the nobles to exploit them better and either steal or defraud money from them.

Compared with businessmen and factory owners, the noble landowners are even more unhappy.

They can no longer turn their fiefdoms into independent kingdoms like they did in the feudal era.

The Hereford family will implement a series of policies against them.

Including taxes, this is what makes the nobles most unhappy.

William will collect taxes according to their real estate and land production.

At the same time, other officials appointed by the central government will live in their territory.

Including an inspector, a tax collector, a political officer and their civil servants.

At the same time, there are traveling judges and police officers to administer local laws.

These political officials will dilute the administrative and taxation powers in the hands of the nobles, while itinerant judges and police will dilute the judicial and law enforcement powers in the hands of the nobles.

It's no wonder that the nobles are unhappy with these things.

But this is just the beginning.

What William wanted to do was to transfer all the power of these nobles to the central government.

What William wanted was a large centralized empire that fully implemented the county system and broke the feudal system.

Next, he will continue to oppress these nobles, obtain more land from their hands, and continue to expand the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Shilonsk.

Then, he would follow the Han Dynasty's approach to the feudal princes and send court ministers to these princes.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the princes and kings had almost lost all power in their territories, and the central government could appoint ministers just like county governors.

Prime Minister.

What William wanted to achieve was that effect.

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"Of course, there will be other things after this."

William thought: "The postal system and the railway system will be the two major weapons of centralization of the empire.

These systems, which are uniformly appointed and commanded by the central government, will make The possibility of local feudal separatism is reduced to a minimum.

In addition, William also wanted to gradually establish a central bank, a public school education system, and even a unified reserve system.

William will do his best to unite all the Hereford territories into one true nation.

He would never allow any form of division to continue.

In the end, William will re-unify the administrative division of the entire empire.

Build a whole new country.

By that time, what he will have will not be the Kingdom of Russia, the Kingdom of Wende and the Kingdom of Polotsk, three independent countries that do not belong to each other.

It is very, very, very important that he will have a great independent and unified empire.

William would never allow his country, like the Austro-Hungarian Empire before it, to fall apart because of its inability to transform a feudal family empire into a modern nation-state.

William never wanted to see this.

Fortunately for the Habsburgs, the lands under the control of the Herefords had enough major ethnic groups.

The number of Goths is sufficient.

As the second largest ethnic group, the Slavis and other nomadic barbarians are suppressed by the huge number of Goths.

There is a Juche nation, which is the best news for William Of course, even the same Goths are different.

Just like the world where William originally lived, in the dark medieval morale, the Germanic barbarians occupied almost all of Europe.

The British Anglos, Saxony was the Germanic barbarians, the Franks who occupied France, the Germanic barbarians, and the Goths who occupied Spain and Italy. , is a Germanic barbarian.

The Danes and Varangians in Northern Europe were Germanic barbarians.

The Norse who went to the Russian region and conquered the Slavs were still Germanic barbarians.

These Germanic barbarians from various tribes conquered almost the entire European continent by conquering the east and west, and fighting in the north and south.

But after hundreds of years, these Germanic barbarians no longer recognized themselves as Germanic barbarians.

They either integrated with the local conquered indigenous people, or evolved other cultures on their own.

All in all, it became an independent nation.

After a few hundred years, no one will recognize anyone as a family member.

If there is any conflict of interest, it is still the brains of human beings and the brains of dogs.

William's situation is pretty good.

Nowadays, Wende, Polotsk and Russia, these lands together have a unified name, which is the Great Border Area.

These people can be collectively called border people.

Although there are various divisions among these border residents, small circles are divided within circles, and small circles are divided into small circles within small circles.

But William felt that these were no big deal.

I can handle it myself.

"Of course, all this will take time.

William said to himself: He can't act too hastily.

Sometimes, in order to take two steps forward, he even has to take one step back.

He has to make little detours, and he needs to be consistent with the nobles under his rule.

After all, the current situation is too bad, and William wants to maintain the stability of the Hereford Empire.

But fortunately, William is very young.

Well, yes, William is very young.

William had enough time to survive.

As long as William doesn't die, he will have plenty of time to regulate the entire region in the next few decades.

"That's pretty much it."

After the intense and busy work, William thought about the future for a while, and felt that the future was quite bright, and that he had a smooth road ahead.

Then, he turned around and looked next to him, and saw His aunt Freya stood beside him and looked at him with a smile.

For a moment, William felt a little weird and a little inconsistent, but after thinking about it again, it seemed that there was no problem.

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The entire Kingdom of Wende had just been pacified, and there were quite a lot of things that needed to be done.

Even King Otto, who was not very proficient in government affairs, was busy. very.

Elise and Chalumi, who were supposed to be in this position next to William, each had their own things to do and didn't have much time.

So "So I still feel it's very inconsistent."

William thought in his heart, and at the same time tried his best to expel those weird thoughts from his mind.

Although I said it, forget it and I didn't say anything.

After all, aside from these inconsistencies, Duchess Freya's work ability and efficiency are still worthy of praise.

It only took a little getting used to, and I was able to keep up with William's pace.

He helped William a lot, so since the other party didn't even say anything, it didn't matter, just throw all this sense of disobedience into outer space.

That's it.

That is to say, when the Hereford family suspended their military affairs and began to shrink their positions and deal with internal affairs, the war atmosphere within the empire intensified.

After more than a month of confrontation, Prince Henry of Franconia finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to fight with Karl.

King Mann IV held the battle mainly because his back path showed vague signs of instability.

The Franconian army was not as large as Kalman IV's army.

Therefore, when Prince Henry went on an expedition, he wanted to bring all the palace guards with him.

This resulted in an extremely empty territory in Franconia.

Under this circumstance, the Duke of Berne behind Franconia finally made a decision.

A total of more than 3,000 Berne mountain infantrymen crossed the mountains and ridges from the west and rushed towards Franconia.

He was about to be killed. 160420oshow7: