Chapter five hundred and twentieth the cost of promotion
Chapter 523: The cost of promotion to a title
Claude really couldn't think of any solution.
As the saying goes, human nature is selfish. For example, when you see wealth, you want to get it, when you see beauty, you want to possess it, and when you see power, you want to be superior to others. This is the hidden desire in everyone's heart. But people with a clear mind can
Control your desires, work hard step by step, and finally succeed. Some people don't want to work hard, but they want to satisfy their desires. As a result, they go wrong and end up ruined and with nothing...
General Bolognik once suggested that all the people in the autonomous territories who have received titles and granted territories should unite and join the granted territories together and then put them under trusteeship. This would be equivalent to having more overseas autonomous territories in Farea.
An enclave.
But Claude shook his head. This was simply not something that could be done. If a member of an overseas autonomous territory was named an honorary noble, then after he spent 300,000 gold crowns in promotion fees, he would become a kingdom.
As a hereditary nobleman, after being granted a family territory by His Majesty, he could not have the high consciousness to trust the family territory he had obtained.
On the contrary, he is likely to allocate various resources from the overseas autonomous territories to build his family territory, because at that moment, the importance of his family territory has surpassed the identity and status he has in the overseas autonomous territories. That is
The foundation for his family to be passed on to future generations, and there was nothing he cared about more than a piece of hereditary family territory.
Obviously, this plan of granting hereditary feudal territories to nobles is a conspiracy, and conspiracy is often the most difficult to crack. It will make people jump into a trap even though they know it is a trap, and they will still be willing to do so. Just like defeating someone.
Lord is still the same now. He knows very well that this plan will have a great impact on the overseas autonomous territories, but he is powerless. He can restrain himself, but he cannot affect other people's opinions...
In the blink of an eye, more than a month passed, and the plan to grant hereditary feudal territories to nobles caused an uproar in the royal capital. According to reports from the offices of overseas autonomous territories in the royal capital, it was said that Frederick I
His Majesty has agreed to the plan submitted by Prime Minister Blancat. The Noble Parliament passed it unanimously, but the National Assembly is still arguing, but there is not much difference in the number of people who agree and oppose...
There is also news that His Majesty is planning to grant all members of the National Assembly the title of Honorary Baron of the Kingdom. It seems that Frederick I has made up his mind to implement this plan of granting the Kingdom's noble territories. It is simple. If the people
The members of the Parliament have all become honorary barons of the kingdom, so for them, they only need to raise money to pay the promotion fee to become a hereditary baron of the kingdom, and they can also obtain a title from Frederick I.
Hereditary family territory, so they have no reason to oppose this plan.
The following days felt a bit overwhelming and busy for General Claude and Bolognik. Every day, more than ten waves of envoys sent by the nobles of the kingdom came to the Royal City of Polyvisia to visit the two generals. Many of the visitors were
The direct descendants, or brothers and sisters, of the noble heads of the kingdom brought valuable gifts and smiles, and all they asked for was for the Thunder Legion to send a team of troops to escort them around the Nasseri area and protect their personal safety.
In fact, to put it bluntly, these people are standing in front of their families. They want to see the real situation in the Nasseri area and choose a good family territory for their families. Although Claude and General Bolognik were annoyed, they reached out.
Don't slap the smiley face. Besides, the families of these visitors are also very influential in the royal capital, and the conflicts between the overseas autonomous territories and the kingdom's established noble families have not been made explicit. Everyone still maintains the surface politeness.
After these visitors were willing to spend money to hire soldiers from the Thunder Legion to be their temporary escorts, Claude nodded and agreed to their request, sending troops one after another to escort these visitors as they wandered around the Nasseri area.
Compared with General Bolognik, Claude is still more relaxed. At least there will be no elders rushing to the Royal City of Polivisia, nagging him in his ears every day to quickly pick a good place to build the family territory.
As Claude expected, General Bolognik's father, despite his old age and frailty, was nearly seventy years old and escorted by two younger relatives, he took a long-distance carriage from the royal capital to Porivi.
The purpose of the West Asian Royal City is also to select a family territory. General Bolognik's wife and children all live in Fulanhu City in the overseas autonomous territory, but his relatives, parents, brothers and sisters still run farms on the outskirts of the royal capital.
After learning that General Bolognik would be granted a family territory, his parents, who had always been reluctant to get involved with him, couldn't sit still. They came all the way here just to let General Bolognik choose a family territory as soon as possible.
Territory. His father, this old man who disgusted Claude, lectured General Bolognik in front of the two of them, saying that General Bolognik would continue to live in the overseas autonomous territories in the future. This family territory could allow his brothers to help
He takes care of it.
In the end, Claude came forward and told the old man bluntly, stop dreaming. As a member of the senior generals of the overseas dominions, General Bolonik's family territory will be entrusted to the overseas dominions for their jurisdiction. This is the responsibility of the dominion parliament.
Decision. As for where to choose the family territory, the Dominion Council also has unified arrangements, and it is not his own decision. If General Bolonik disagrees, then he will leave the Dominion Executive Committee and manage his family territory on his own.
From now on, the overseas dominions will have nothing to do with him...
Although General Bolognik's father was very angry that the Overseas Dominion Council actually interfered with his family's territory, he was not confused. He knew that General Bolognik relied on the overseas Dominion to achieve his current status, and also gave their family a
The farm brought a lot of benefits. So he did not fall out. He just took a sum of money from General Bolognik and brought some precious gifts before he took a carriage back to the capital with a gloomy face.
General Bolognik finally breathed a sigh of relief and expressed his gratitude to Claude for his generous rescue. Every family has its own difficulties. He knew very well that his parents did not like his second son, and even tried to clear up the relationship with him.
A newspaper was published in the royal capital stating that he was severing blood ties and scolding him as a traitor to the kingdom. Of course, General Bolognik also understood that his parents did this to save their family farm and did not want to be implicated by what he did in the Dominion.
relatives.
After the Overseas Dominion Military Region sent troops back to support the kingdom, and the Rock Army won a great victory in Ambriz County, his parents changed their story and claimed that he was the pride of their family. At the same time, they sent his eldest brother to report that the family farm had been robbed by the alliance army.
, asked him to provide some support to the family, and took a lot of money from him.
Now, because of him, his parents and brother took advantage of the difficult situation of their neighbors to buy land around the farm at low prices in preparation for expanding the family farm. Many of the neighbors who were forced to sell land to them were angry and dare not speak out. His parents and
The brother's reputation in that area was very poor, but it was limited to his current identity and status. Even local officials were unwilling to offend his parents and brothers. All these situations were reported to General Bolognik by spies from the Royal Capital Office.
General Bolognik knew very well that if he let his parents intervene after he obtained the family territory, his parents would soon force him to turn this hereditary territory belonging to him into the territory of the entire family, and then return it to the entire family.
I will try to get him to get a title for his brother's son, so that the most precious eldest grandson in the eyes of his parents can obtain the inheritance rights of the family territory...
Don't think that such a thing will never happen. For the sake of the inheritance of the family territory, there are even weirder and more shameless things happening in the families of the territorial nobles. If General Bolognik's wife and children had stayed in the overseas autonomous territory, they should be fine.
But if General Bolognik's wife and children want to return to live in the family territory after his parents and brothers take over the management of his hereditary territory, then there will be a lot of "accidents" waiting for their arrival.
General Bolognik couldn't believe the character of his parents and brother, otherwise he wouldn't have been sent to the Royal Military Academy by his parents when he was only twelve years old. It was a free school with food and accommodation included, and he didn't return until a month later.
When he grew up, he had to report to the Wang** Team, which was equivalent to selling him to the Wang** Team. Unlike other poor students who had difficult family situations, his parents didn't have money, they just didn't like him. When he was a child,
The Bologna is really dull.
If you look at the children of various noble families who are wandering around the Nasseri area, as well as the royal capital that is in chaos because of this matter, you will know how much this plan to grant hereditary family territories to the nobles has stirred up much excitement in the Kingdom of Ovelas
Even General Bolognik's old father wanted to have a hand in it. It can be imagined that obtaining the hereditary family territory is simply what people want. This plan will definitely be approved by the National Assembly and be implemented smoothly.
The plan of Frederick I and the Marquis of Blanchard was very successful. At least His Majesty finally had a sharp weapon in his hands to deal with the power of the Kingdom's established noble families. No nobles in the Kingdom will offend Your Majesty now, because the feudal family is
The power of the territory is in his hands. If you want to obtain a satisfactory family territory, you must obtain His Majesty's personal permission...
What is ridiculous is that Stirling IX had to fight a civil war for six years before abolishing the hereditary territories of the kingdom's nobles. He hoped that future generations would own the entire kingdom, rather than not leaving the Ibinist Plain. As a result, the British master who revived the kingdom
Unexpectedly, the loss of hereditary family territory would allow those established noble families to shift their energy to monopolizing the kingdom's commercial interests.
In the past hundred years, the power of these old aristocratic families has grown and become an economic giant that makes the kingdom unstoppable. Even all the military industry of the kingdom is in their hands. This is probably a blessing and a curse. Without the family territory, the noble families of various kingdoms have fewer families.
They have solved many disputes, and most of them are relatively polite when competing for the position of the head of the family. Some noble children who do not want to be the head of the family even give up the right to inherit the head of the family in exchange for a sum of money and live freely...
Now Frederick I's plan to grant the kingdom's aristocratic families territories is a clever move, which will allow him to easily obtain the power to govern. At the same time, it will also allow the old aristocratic families to relax their constraints on the royal court, and can also
These nobles of the kingdom have raised huge amounts of money to solve the kingdom's financial crisis, and at the same time, they can also add trouble to the overseas autonomous territories. This plan has to be admired by people. There are many discerning people like Claude, but they know that there are
I have to jump into the pit.
Sometimes Claude feels that it is all his fault. If only the alliance troops were driven out of the kingdom, why bother to recover some new occupied territories, destroy the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnus, and even let him now
He fell into a dilemma. Of course, this was just what he was thinking in his mind. He knew very well that if he didn't kill the snake, there would be trouble later.
If we really just push the Alliance army out of the Kingdom, then the two legions of the Overseas Dominion Military Region will always stay at the border of the Kingdom and entangle the Alliance army. No one can bear the price of fighting a bad war for several years. It would be better to
It is much easier to knock all the enemies to death with one stick like this. Only in this way can the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion frighten the enemies inside and outside.
The noble children and envoys from various families wandered around the Nasseri area for two months. After everyone knew what they were doing, they came to the Royal City of Polyvisia again and thanked General Claude and Bolognik for sending them.
After expressing their feelings of protecting the troops, they all embarked on their journey back to the royal capital. At this time, Viscount Don Bajiro came again as a special envoy of the royal court. This time his purpose was to promote all the meritorious officers in the overseas autonomous military regions.
Military awards and awards.
To Claude's surprise, this time Frederick I and Wang Ting were very generous in promoting and awarding the soldiers of the two legions. Both Claude and General Bolognik were promoted to Marshal of the Kingdom, and General Albert.
, General Bechklin and General Skerry were promoted to Kingdom Generals, the four Kingdom Major Generals of the Thunder Legion, Belklin, Murray Ed, Diavid, and McJack, and the four Kingdom Major Generals of the Rock Legion were all promoted to Kingdom Major Generals.
Kingdom Lieutenant General. In addition, twenty-two colonels from the two legions were also promoted to Kingdom Major General this time.
Mr. Veblen's son, Colonel Derivic, was also promoted to major general, which fulfilled his childhood dream of being a general. Claude and Marshal Bolognik could only look at each other and smile bitterly. They were simply generals.
A large number of people. After this promotion, the military region organization reform will have to be carried out. Otherwise, the two legions of the overseas autonomous military regions, one general and one regiment, will not be able to accommodate so many generals, unless a local garrison regiment also arranges for a kingdom major general to lead...
...
Military promotions are normal. After all, this time the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion contributed to the destruction of the country and unified the entire eastern part of the continent for the kingdom. No reward is too high. It is just a monetary reward for the soldiers of the two legions. Tang
Viscount Bagillo was very sorry and said that he would need to wait for another two or three months, then Wang Ting would have money, and he hoped that everyone would be more patient.
Finally, Frederick I granted titles to meritorious soldiers. Claude was originally a hereditary baron, and this time he was granted the title of hereditary earl. General Bolognik was originally the third viscount, but this time he was granted the title of hereditary viscount.
One rank lower than Claude. General Skerry, General Albert and General Beechline were originally third barons, but this time they were all granted hereditary barons. It seems that His Majesty is too embarrassed to let the Dominion Military District
The Big Five paid for the promotion fees and simply granted him the title of hereditary baron.
Claude found it very funny. This time, the title given to Frederic I was a bit like sitting in rows to share fruits. Even General Skerry, who had never set foot in the kingdom, was also responsible for raising logistics and military supplies to ensure that the frontline troops had sufficient food, grass and ammunition.
In the name of meritorious service in supply, they received hereditary knighthoods. In addition to the five giants of the Dominion Military Region, nineteen senior officers of the two regiments who originally received honorary barons, such as Belklin, McJack and others, also had their titles promoted from honorary baron to third generation.
Baron, in addition forty-seven meritorious soldiers were awarded honorary titles, ranging from honorary baron to honorary earl according to military merit...
Then Viscount Don Bagero told Claude and others that since His Majesty bestowed upon all members of the National Assembly the title of honorary baronet, for the sake of fairness, he also bestowed upon the members of the Overseas Dominion Assembly the title of Kingdom Honor.
The title of baron is automatically promoted to one level for those who have previously received the honorary title. For example, Sir Bennett and Mr. Veblen, who were originally honorary barons, were promoted to honorary viscount this time...
Well, it seems that His Majesty is not willing to let go of even a single member of the Overseas Dominion. He knows that they have money, so he gives everyone a chance to obtain the family territory. Claude doesn't need to think about it, but he knows that the members of the Overseas Dominion will treat Frank
No matter how welcoming and grateful King Ridley I is to this decision, he will definitely dig out his family wealth and be promoted to a hereditary title, thus gaining a hereditary family territory. It can be said that the wealth accumulated by these MPs in the overseas autonomous territories after decades of hard work will soon become
It has become His Majesty's bag.
"How are the fees for promotion to that title calculated?" General Bolognik asked on behalf of the newly promoted nobles of the kingdom who were concerned about this issue.
"That's it." Viscount Don Bargello was already prepared. He waved to his secretary and took out a document from the briefcase he carried: "If it is an honorary title, then start with honorary baron.
It is necessary to pay 10,000 gold crowns to be promoted to honorary viscount, and then to be promoted from honorary viscount to honorary earl, it is necessary to pay a promotion fee of 20,000 gold crowns. And to be promoted from honorary earl to honorary marquis requires 30,000 gold crowns, and then to be promoted to honorary duke.
A promotion fee of 40,000 gold crowns is required. The final promotion from honorary duke to third baron requires a payment of 50,000 gold crowns.
In other words, to be promoted from honorary baron to third baron, a total promotion fee of 150,000 gold crowns is required. If the third baron wants to be promoted to third viscount, he also needs to pay a promotion fee of 10,000 gold crowns, and then pay this fee.
To advance, you also need to pay 150,000 gold crowns to be promoted to a hereditary baron. Then from honorary baron to hereditary baron, you need to spend a total of 300,000 gold crowns in promotion fees to obtain a hereditary family territory granted by His Majesty...
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Claude wanted to scold his mother. If these members of the Overseas Dominion wanted to obtain a hereditary family territory, then the promotion fee would have to be paid. There were a total of 112 members of the Overseas Dominion, and Frederic I could easily
A huge amount of nearly 30 million gold crowns was easily plundered from their pockets...