Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Selection and Holding Groups for Warmth
Chapter 524: Choose to stay together
"Have you designed your family emblem?" Claude asked, looking at the emblems of the territorial nobles scattered on the map of the Nasseri area.
Marshal Bolognik walked to Claude's side, looked at the map, and sighed: "Find someone to design it, one official and three spare ones. When you go to the royal capital to register, you will have to review it to avoid following up.
The family emblems of other nobles overlap. But I think one of these four emblems will always work. If it really doesn't work, I'll think of a solution later. At the worst, I can just pay a high price and ask someone from the Wang Family Coat of Arms Registration Office to get one for me.
..."
Claude laughed: "Don't worry, you are a hereditary viscount. You can carve patterns on the lower half of the family crest. This alone is more conspicuous than the bare family crests around hereditary barons. As for the emblems, flowers, birds, animals, and fish,
You can choose any pattern you like, including grass, trees, mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars. Even if it is the same as others, you can deform the pattern so that it is different from others. You see, the cow pattern on the map is used as the family emblem.
There are thirteen families, but they all look different."
"Well, I chose the image of a musketeer." Marshal Bolognik said: "The soldiers holding muskets and aiming to commemorate my first experience on the battlefield when I was young, and also to let my descendants remember their ancestors.
He was born as a civilian soldier, not much nobler than others. It was through his own efforts that he achieved his current status, and obtained titles and territories..."
Claude rolled his eyes on the spot: "Pull it down, you graduated from the Royal Military Academy with the rank of second lieutenant. You are talking nonsense about having a civilian soldier background. It's true that you have a civilian background, but becoming a soldier would make yourself too miserable.
Who would let a second lieutenant line up among the soldiers to attack the enemy's position? I have had such an experience, but luckily I survived..."
Marshal Bolognik smiled and shook his head: "I really had the experience of holding a musket and marching to the enemy's defensive position in formation with the soldiers. I remember that more than 800 people were dispatched in that attack, and the enemy's position was finally captured and survived.
Less than three hundred. I am very lucky. Like you, I am one of the surviving officers and soldiers.
In fact, the enemy only had a large defensive force on the position that time, but they defeated eight attacks by our two battalions, and most of the soldiers fell on the offensive road. If their artillery and ammunition had not been able to support them, four of them would have been defeated.
Three of the light infantry field artillery pieces were disabled, so maybe our attack would also fail. By the way, how many territories are there on the map now?"
"Nearly six hundred people come home..." Claude picked up a folder next to the table and opened it for a few glances: "As of yesterday, there were already four hundred and fifty registered hereditary baronies in the kingdom.
Six families, 61 hereditary viscounts in the Kingdom, 43 hereditary earls, 17 hereditary marquises, and three hereditary duchies. A total of 580 hereditary nobles. I don’t know if there are any more hereditary families today.
of......"
Marshal Bolognik was a little envious: "These aristocratic families should be relatively wealthy. They took the lead and occupied the best place in the Nasseri area as their family territory..."
"The best place in the Nasseri area should be the Royal City of Polivisia where we are currently located and the surrounding areas, but His Majesty and the Royal Court will not take this place out to grant a title. These nobles who have obtained hereditary territories are also very interested.
They are sensible and will not overestimate their ability to ask for the royal city to be their family territory. They know very well that no matter how much money they pay for the land, His Majesty will not agree and will even question his loyalty, so no one will choose this place." Claude
explain.
"Have they all paid?" Marshal Bolognik asked curiously.
Claude nodded: "Yes, it is at least 100,000 gold crowns for the site selection fee. News from the royal capital said that your majesty and the royal court have made a fortune, and the inner and national treasury suddenly increased by tens of millions of gold crowns.
.It is said that Her Majesty the Queen also used money from the internal treasury to lend money to those honorary nobles and national parliamentarians who could not collect the fees for promotion and land selection. In addition, there is also news that, in fact, the fees for promotion and land selection can be lent to Your Majesty.
Build relationships to get discounts...
Most of the 580 kingdom nobles who have obtained hereditary territories are hereditary nobles. They only need to pay a land selection fee of 100,000 gold crowns to obtain a satisfactory hereditary territory. The rest are rich
Honorary nobles and third-generation nobles, they paid promotion fees to promote themselves to hereditary barons, and paid land selection fees to obtain the family's hereditary territory. It is estimated that His Majesty and the royal court received nearly 30 million from these two fees.
Income in gold krona.
It is said that there are still 700 to 800 royal nobles in the royal capital who have not yet obtained territory. They are all third-generation nobles and honorary nobles. Think about it, His Majesty granted all members of the National Assembly the status of honorary barons, which suddenly gave the kingdom three more nobles.
There are more than a hundred honorary barons. Currently, each of these honorary barons is raising money to obtain a hereditary family territory from Her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen's loan business is doing very well. One hand lends money and the other hand takes it back.
It’s a huge profit!”
This is all information collected by spies from the overseas dominions' offices in the capital. They reported all the rumors circulating in the streets of the capital. Of course, it is almost a semi-public fact that Her Majesty the Queen lends money in the capital.
Many people know that. Claude just said a few words when he saw it, but it can't be said that he was envious or jealous...
It’s just that Marshal Bolognik didn’t want to criticize the rights and wrongs of the royal family behind his back. He changed the subject: “Claude, do you think that if all the nobles in the kingdom have a family territory, will the entire Nasseri area be allocated?
complete?"
Claude shook his head: "That's not possible. Even the hereditary dukes only occupy half of the county. The territory of the hereditary barons of the kingdom is only one village. Those who are lucky can occupy a small town. In the middle of the Nasseri region
There are sixteen local counties, five counties in the northeast and seven counties in the southwest, as well as the Royal City of Polyvisia and the surrounding directly-administered territories. The entire area is not much smaller than the kingdom itself.
At present, there are 580 kingdom nobles with territories scattered in these 28 local counties. The territory they occupy is only a quarter of the entire Nasseri area. And the 7800 in the royal capital are
The nobles of the kingdom can only be promoted to hereditary barons at most. Their combined territory is at most as large as the territory of these 580 nobles of the kingdom. There should be half of the land in the Nasseri area reserved for His Majesty to grant a title in the future.
Or leave it to our members of the Overseas Dominion Parliament and us generals who have been knighted for military merit..."
Marshal Bolognik was a little disgusted: "Those territories that were selected by others were given to us. When it comes to our overseas autonomous territories, there are no good places..."
Claude smiled bitterly: "If you and I go to choose a good place to be our hereditary family territory first, then what do you think Allen, Bick and Skerry will think, what will the parliamentarians from the overseas autonomous territories think, we
What will the generals who are newly promoted to the honorary nobility of the kingdom think? Will they still believe that we are the leader? Maybe His Majesty and the Royal Court want us to do this. Without the overseas autonomous territories, do you think there are still people who regard us as the leader?
Is it the same thing?"
Marshal Bolognik was silent. This was also his dilemma. Without the Rock Army, he would not have become the Kingdom Marshal. The Rock Army was one of the two major armies of the Overseas Dominion. And if he left the Overseas Dominion, no one would put him there.
In the eyes, whether he is a marshal of the kingdom or a hereditary viscount of the kingdom, he has the identity and status he has today because of the support of overseas autonomous territories.
"Let's wait another month. When the armored fleet escorts the MPs from the Dominion to Florik Harbor in September, we will also set off for Past City, the capital of the Beibu Gulf. By then, all the MPs from our overseas Dominion will have obtained
The generals with honorary noble status in the kingdom will hold a meeting there to discuss how to deal with your majesty’s grant of family territory. Speaker Bennett has written to me and told me that he hopes that we can unite together and not give the royal court the opportunity to defeat each other individually.
Opportunity, self-disruption..."
Claude put his arm around Marshal Bolognik's shoulder. Of course, he was the only one qualified to do so: "No one could have imagined that something like this would happen before we sent out troops. His Majesty's move caught our overseas autonomous territories off guard. Skerry said
He wrote to us and told us not to act rashly. It would be best if we all get through this crisis together. Didn’t he warn us in his letter that if this mishandling leads to bad results, it may even cause the entire overseas dominions to be divided?
Disintegration. It is the most difficult thing to gather and recover when people’s hearts are scattered.”
Marshal Bolognik smiled bitterly and patted Claude's hand around his shoulder, pointing to the map of the Nasseri area on the wall with the crests of the noble families of the kingdom: "I understand what you are saying, but there is something wrong with it.
It’s not our turn to settle for a good place. All the recognized rich and productive places in this Nasseri area have now become owner-occupied lands. As the lords of these places, they can earn a lot of income without any effort.
Look at the area where the seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mining bases are located. They were immediately marked with the family crests of various established noble families in the kingdom. It is said that they now have personnel stationed at the mines to liquidate us.
The amount of ore mined every day will be taken over when the half-year mining period expires next month. We even sent a messenger privately to ask me if we could sell some Hicks prisoners to them to continue working as miners..."
These seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mining bases overseas autonomous territories have obtained mining rights for half a year. Because the Nasseri area will be granted by His Majesty as a noble territory, Claude was too lazy to assign the captured 100,000
The rest of the Hicks prisoners were to do the labor of repairing national highways and digging and repairing irrigation canals. Instead, some of them were selected to mine in the seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mining bases, and the rest were in the Royal City and
The surrounding area is busy.
The output of the gold, silver and copper mines in the first five months was pretty good. Without the corrupt officials of the Nasseri Kingdom who were trying to conceal the situation from above, the ore production of these seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mining bases was very good.
Surprisingly, it is almost twice as much as what was recorded in the original Nasseri Kingdom’s account books. Based on this calculation, the gold and silver reserves produced in a year can actually reach more than three million gold crowns, and the original Nasseri Kingdom’s treasury
Only gold and silver reserves worth 1.4 million gold crowns and revenue from copper coinage were recorded in the account books.
It is conceivable that the officials of the former Nasseri Kingdom who handled these gold, silver and copper mines embezzled almost half of the output of these mines, but now they have benefited from the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion. The gold and silver produced by the mining rights in these six months
The copper mine was used to fund the garrison of the two legions. All that was needed was to hand over 200,000 gold crowns to the royal court and the treasury. I thought that the ore mined after half a year of hard work would be enough to make up for the value of the minerals taken away by the special envoy.
One hundred thousand gold and silver reserves, but now I find out that I have made a lot of money, nearly one million gold crowns more...
This is the reason why Marshal Bolognik is unhappy. The Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion only have a half-year mining period. Now the territorial nobles where these seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mining bases are located have been put in place, and they are waiting to be opened next month.
After taking over these mineral bases, these minerals will belong to their hereditary family territories. Although half of them must be handed over to the kingdom, it is still based on the account records of the original Nasseri Kingdom. In the future, these territorial nobles will own two or three times.
Mineral income.
"Don't forget that our overseas autonomous territories are rich in gold and silver mineral resources." Claude reminded. Small-value transactions in overseas autonomous territories are all paper money. According to statistics, about 30 million gold crowns worth of small-denomination banknotes are used in private transactions.
Circulation, a large part of which is used in the colonies of various countries on the west coast.
However, the colonies on the West Coast do not allow the Overseas Minsheng Bank of the overseas dominions to open branches in their colonies. However, gold, silver and copper coins can be exchanged for these banknotes in the commercial banks run by the overseas dominions, so paper money is becoming more and more popular in the colonies on the West Coast.
Bailu City in the Kingdom's mainland allowed Overseas Minsheng Bank to open a branch, but the Royal Capital did not. However, the Royal Capital office played the role of a branch and could exchange banknotes and gold, silver and copper coins. However, the people in the Royal Capital did not trust banknotes very much.
, except for merchants traveling to and from Bailu City, paper money is difficult to promote and use among the people of the royal capital.
What's ridiculous is that in the overseas autonomous territories, after being accustomed to using banknotes, they are too lazy to exploit the gold and silver mineral resources in the Rocky Mountain State. After all, the gold and silver reserves of the Overseas Minsheng Bank are enough to handle 20 million gold crowns, which can fully cope with the exchange of banknotes.
After the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion destroyed the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas, they transported a large amount of gold and silver seized back to the overseas autonomous territories, forgetting to keep some extra funds as emergency funds. Only when they were stationed here did they realize that they were purchasing troops.
The best supply is real gold, silver and copper coins. No one is willing to accept banknotes.
That's why Marshal Bolognik is so concerned about the output of these gold, silver and copper mines. More than 100,000 people from two legions are stationed here, and the funds spent on purchasing every day are not a small amount, including the logistical supply of fresh meat, fish, vegetables and fruits.
Purchasing cost thousands of gold crowns every month. Only after General Bolognik took over these official duties did he regret that he had been too generous and should not have allowed the kingdom's envoys to take away so many gold and silver reserves. Look at the current royal treasury and the royal court. Only their money
The most.
"None of those Hicks captives can be sold to these kingdom nobles. After our overseas council members from the autonomous territories come to discuss it, maybe we will need these captives to develop our new territories." Claude said.
On June 1, 601 of the Holy Light Calendar, Frederic I of the Kingdom of Overas officially promulgated a grant of title approved by the Parliament of Nobles and the National Assembly, granting hereditary status to the nobles of the kingdom in the newly occupied Nasseri area.
family territory. As of August 1, 580 nobles of the kingdom had obtained hereditary family territory.
However, there has been no movement from the kingdom's nobles from the overseas autonomous territories, as if they have never heard of this granting order. The main reason for this is that the overseas autonomous territories are too far away from the kingdom's mainland, and it takes two months to go back and forth. And the autonomous military region
The two legions are stationed in the Nasseri region and the Kannas region and cannot return to the overseas autonomous territories in a short time. Therefore, the members of the Overseas Dominion Parliament decided to all go to the Beibu Gulf in the Kannas region, where the capital Past City is
A meeting was held to discuss matters concerning the granting of seal orders.
Marshal Claude and Bolognik left the Royal City of Polyvisia on August 20 and led the Thunder Legion to the Gulf of Tonkin. The reason why they led the troops was to prepare for reorganization in the Gulf of Tonkin. General Albert wrote to
Claude asked for help. After the fall of the Principality of Karrnus, countless horse bandits appeared on the Karrnus prairie, both large and small. They often attacked the towns guarded by the Thunder Legion. General Alberton only had a temporary
The division has done its best to defend the Beibu Gulf area.
The Rock Legion continued to be stationed in the Royal City of Polyvisia, and Claude took away all the prisoners and excess military supplies during his trip. News from the royal capital said that the royal court, which had money on hand, cooperated with the Kingdom's Army Department to begin
Vigorously reorganized the Guards, Red Dragon and Griffin Legions. It is said that His Majesty compensated the influence of the old noble families in these three legions, so that the Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion were once again under the control of the Royal Court and the Kingdom's Ministry of War.
middle.
A large number of the members of the kingdom's established aristocratic families who have obtained hereditary family territories have retired from the three major armies of the kingdom. They have gathered their cronies and children in the kingdom's army to form the private armed forces of each of their families, and even the old ones.
The influence of the noble families has been greatly reduced in these three legions, and His Majesty and the Royal Court have paid a heavy price for this.
There are rumors in the capital that after the Red Dragon Legion is reorganized, it will be dispatched to the Nasseri area to garrison the Royal City of Polyvisia, replacing the Thunder Legion and Rock Legion. The Griffin Legion will serve as a mountain legion to garrison the Odin Mountains, protecting
At the east gate of the kingdom's mainland, the Royal Guards Corps still remains to guard the royal capital and the Ibiniste Plain. There is also news that His Majesty also wants to re-establish the Blue Feather Corps to garrison White Deer City and the coastal areas, but many ministers in the royal court have opposed it.
Opposition, they believe that the Blue Feathers are rebellious and should not be reorganized...