Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Five Three Requests from Members
Chapter 525: Three Demands from Members of Parliament
The original Principality of Karrnath was a rather peculiar country in the eastern part of the Farea continent. Not only was it the only prairie in the eastern region, but even the title of Grand Duke of Karrnath was self-supporting. If you look into it carefully, Karrnath
The inheritance of the Grand Duke is not based on his bloodline, but several large tribes on the prairie fight against each other. The chief of the tribe that wins in the end automatically becomes the Grand Duke of Karrnath...
In the past hundreds of years, each inheritance of the Grand Duke of Karnas meant the coming of bloodshed on the prairie. However, in the past sixty years, the two inheritances of the Grand Duke of Karnas have been very peaceful and peaceful, not on the prairie.
The reason is very simple. Sixty years ago, a hero finally appeared on the Karnas Prairie. He was the chief of the Kemiduo tribe, Jamie Ad. Dorbagi. Kemiduo.
It is said that when he was young, Chief Jamiad Dolbagi Kemido traveled with caravans throughout most of the Farea continent, and later returned to the tribe to become chief. He was the first to introduce muskets and artillery equipment on a large scale.
The tribal chief of the light cavalry then used the power of muskets and artillery to continuously annex small tribes, so that the Kelmidor tribe eventually developed into a large tribe, and successfully won the title of Grand Duke of Karrnath at the age of fifty-four.
After becoming the Grand Duke of Karrnath, Chief Jamiad Dorbagy Kermidol changed his tribe's nomadic customs and began to choose dangerous locations to build the Grand Duke's Castle of Beaumaris to make his tribe's people accustomed to settling down and settling down.
He lived a life of planting, formed caravans to trade with neighboring countries, made great efforts to make good friends with the Nasseri Kingdom, and sent his son to study in the Nasseri Kingdom when he was sixteen years old.
Chief Jamiad Dorbagi Kemidor stayed in the position of Grand Duke of Karnas for fourteen years. In addition to building the Grand Duke's Castle of Beaumaris and changing the living customs of the Kemidor tribe, the remaining
Time was used to vigorously suppress the other large tribes on the prairie, so that these large tribes would no longer have the ability to compete with the Kermido tribe. So when he was about to die, he successfully let his son inherit the Kanna
No big tribe in the prairie has the strength and courage to compete for the title of Grand Duke of Karrnath.
The person who succeeded to the throne was the eldest son Bridur Dorbagi Kermido who went to the Kingdom of Nasseri to study at the Royal Military Academy. He was also regarded as the second British master of the Principality of Karnas. What is interesting is that he
Kingdom Nasseri studied at the Royal Military Academy, but what he did was more like a businessman. He spent twenty years vigorously developing the Beibu Gulf area, making it the largest port with the most commercial atmosphere in the eastern region.
Let the Beibu Gulf region become the source of gold and silver for the Principality of Karnars. The annual commercial tax revenue alone is no less than the production income of two or three large gold mines.
The Grand Duke Bridur Dorbagy Kemidow was called Kemidow II. He also built a city on the coast of the Beibu Gulf, which is the capital of the Beibu Gulf region, Canpast City. His last
He basically spent all his time in the city of Campast, so much so that some people regarded it as the second capital of the Principality of Karrnus. In the twenty-second year of his reign, Kemidor II fell seriously ill.
Before his death, he also allowed his son to inherit the throne of the Grand Duke of Karrnath.
Although the successor to the throne, the Grand Duke of Karrnath, Kelmidor III, is not as cunning as his grandfather, nor as wise and decisive as his father, but in the evaluation of outsiders, he is also the lord of the establishment, controlling the entire Karrnath prairie.
More than enough. The only mistake he made was that he should not have tied the Principality of Karrnath to the broken ship of the Kingdom of Nasseri. As a result, the principality was now destroyed and he and his family had to go into exile to the Kingdom of Hicks.
Kemidor III has been in office for twenty-four years. His most brilliant moment was during the First Eastern War, when he made a desperate move and used all the last light cavalry in the principality to raid Ovelas who invaded the Karnas Steppe.
The kingdom's three field legions, with nearly 200,000 troops, finally won a complete victory! Because of this great victory in the Karnas Grassland, the Kingdom of Orvilas was unable to hold on any longer, and had to fight with the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath.
The signing of the armistice and peace agreement brought an end to the First Eastern War.
The above words were introduced by General Albert, who came to greet Claude and Marshal Bolognik. He has been sitting in the Karnas Prairie for more than half a year. When he is not doing anything, he will capture the documents of the Principality of Karnas.
He turned over the information. He had no choice but to find some information on the horse bandits who came and went without a trace in these documents to see if they were nomadic tribesmen pretending to be horse bandits.
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"The Principality of Karnars has not divided into local counties because the grassland is too big, and even if it is divided, the boundary lines cannot be remembered. Therefore, the Principality of Karnars is only divided into four small districts and one large district. The most famous ones are the Beibu Gulf area, the seaport and the three districts.
A town can be regarded as a commercial area. Next is the Grand Duke Castle of Beaumaris, the nominal capital of the principality, which is an agricultural planting area and the largest grain base of the principality. It mainly has three rivers that can be used for agricultural planting and irrigation.
The third community is the Likumada Hill District, a mineral resource area in the Principality of Karnas. However, there are no gold, silver, and copper mines. There are only three small and medium-sized iron mines and some stone mines. There is also a large open-pit black stone mine, which is the
Lord, the coal mine you mentioned. The black stone produced here is of very good quality and has very little smoke. The people of the Principality of Karnars mix black stone powder with soil and press it into black stone cakes for cooking, boiling water and heating.
The last community is the Qingshan District in the southwest of the prairie, which is relatively remote. It is a district granted by the nobles of the Principality of Karnars. I led two groups to sweep there and found that the nobles of the principality there were all extremely poor.
, the total loot captured is not worth 30,000 gold crowns, and it is a remote and remote area. As for that large area, it refers to the Karrnath Prairie. Any place with endless grass is considered a grassland area."
General Albert continued to point at the prairie and introduce it. Marshal Bolognik really liked this boundless grassland scenery. The horse's hooves trampled the half-foot-high wild grass, as if walking on a huge green field.
It looked like it was on a velvet carpet. He rode his horse for a trot, then came back and asked, "Where are we going? The Grand Duke of Beaumaris or the Gulf of Tonkin?"
General Albert replied naturally: "Of course it's the Beibu Gulf, sunshine, beaches, delicious food, and beautiful and considerate girls. Now is the best time to play in the water and escape the heat. We can rest on the beach for a few days.
, waiting for the arrival of the armored fleet. You must know that the sea water here is blue, unlike the sea water on the Nubisia continent, which is dark red.
Although we know that all seawater is the same, and that certain minerals in the Nubisian continent turn seawater red, the feeling in blue seawater is completely different from that in dark red seawater. To me,
, this place is simply paradise, if there are not those fly-like horse bandits harassing me from time to time, I really want to spend the rest of my life here..."
"Is it really as good as you say?" Claude said with a smile.
General Albert shouted as if he was swearing: "Of course it's true. I didn't know until I got to Canpaste City why Kemidor II built this city and stayed in the Beibu Gulf until his death."
I haven't even returned to the Grand Duke's Castle of Beaumaris. Compared with Canpaste City, the Grand Duke's Castle of Beaumaris is more like a military fortress. The stone fortress there is cold and dark and not suitable for living at all. So I will also take command.
The headquarters arranged for a light cavalry battalion to be stationed at the Grand Duke Castle of Beaumaris in the city of Campast..."
Marshal Claude and Bolognik, accompanied by General Albert, arrived at the city of Canpaste in the Beibu Gulf region on September 2. Just as General Albert boasted, the city of Canpaste was indeed
It is a seaside city with beautiful scenery. There are specialty goods from various countries in the Farea continent, as well as many specialty goods from the colonies on the west coast of the Nubisia continent. Goods from the two continents are traded here, creating a prosperous ocean trade.
A big city with a very strong business atmosphere.
"This is indeed a nice place." Claude praised, he liked the free business atmosphere here very much. The only shortcoming was that when the city was built, it did not anticipate future development, and the houses and residences in the entire city.
In addition, the road traffic construction seems narrow and small. Although it looks a bit exquisite, it is not spacious enough, giving people a feeling of small layout.
The military camp was deployed outside the city, while Claude and Marshal Bolognik stayed at the city lord's palace. During the three days before the armored fleet arrived, Claude was busy holding promotion and canonization ceremonies in the temporary legion.
After all the rewards and promotions for the meritorious soldiers in the division were completed, the temporary division was disbanded and the troops were reorganized into the 1st and 2nd Thunder Divisions.
Two days later, General Beachlin and Michael Jack led the 3rd Thunder Division and the newly formed 4th Thunder Division, and escorted the families of the officers and soldiers who had newly joined the 4th Thunder Division to Campast City.
, and moved into the completed camp. This time, while escorting all the parliamentarians from the overseas autonomous territories and the honorary nobles of the kingdom, the armored fleet also cooperated with the ocean-going transport fleet to transport a batch of military supplies and grass supplies to the Thunder Legion and the Panshiyun Group.
, when they return home, they will transport the families of these officers and soldiers of the 4th Thunder Division to overseas autonomous territories for naturalization and settlement.
After two days of busy work, Claude delegated all the military matters at hand to Michael Jack and his younger brother, and then he and General Albert dragged Marshal Bolognik and General Beachlin to the
They spent a day playing on the beach. Just as General Albert said, it is indeed more comfortable and pleasant to stay in the blue sea water than in the red sea water, and it is more enjoyable to play in the water. Just when they were happy
Just when they were about to turn around and have dinner, wisps of blue smoke appeared in the distant horizon, and the armored fleet finally arrived at Beibu Gulf.
Claude suddenly found that his observation of human nature was not yet complete.
Ever since Frederic I issued the granting decree in the royal capital on June 1, Claude has been pessimistic about the future of the overseas dominions. He believes that human nature is inherently selfish, and His Majesty used the conspiracy of granting hereditary family territories.
, those congressmen in the overseas autonomous territories will definitely be stunned by this big pie falling from the sky, and they will definitely go bankrupt and spend all their money to be promoted to the title in order to obtain a hereditary family territory. Claude believes that Frederic
The big guys who planned this conspiracy in Yishi and Wang Tingli would all think so...
Compared with the overseas autonomous territories, the Falea continent is the center of the world. If the parliamentarians of these overseas autonomous territories and the honorary nobles of the kingdom all get a hereditary family territory in the eastern region, then they will definitely focus their energy on this family territory.
The result is obvious. When these parliamentarians and the honorary nobles of the kingdom are busy working in their hereditary family territories, the overseas autonomous territories will lose these backbones and collapse, and they will revert from overseas autonomous territories to overseas territories directly under the kingdom.
It's not far off.
This was what Claude had always buried in his heart. He never believed that the members of the overseas dominions would all be selfless and consider the future of the dominions. The reason why he and General Bolognik did not choose a family territory in advance was because
Mainly, I want to let the members of the overseas autonomous territories know that I and the soldiers who have made great military achievements are willing to unite with them to keep warm. I have no objection to obtaining the hereditary family territory from His Majesty. However, I object to suppressing everything.
On the territory of hereditary families, thus ignoring the development prospects of overseas autonomous territories.
It's just that Claude forgot the most critical and important point. He could build a family business for himself in such a barbaric land directly under overseas jurisdiction and become a famous person and powerful family with local prestige and industry.
Among the members of the Dominion, who are not cunning, cunning and thoughtful people?
They had already discussed it during their trip to Beibu Gulf. Everyone wanted the hereditary family territory, but the overseas autonomous territories were the fundamental place for everyone and must not be given up. The most important thing is that the parliamentarians of these overseas autonomous territories
Most of them are civilians or businessmen, but compared to the industries and reputations of overseas autonomous territories, as well as business connections, hereditary family territory is not particularly important.
This is actually a misunderstanding between civilian merchants and traditional aristocrats. For traditional aristocrats, obtaining a hereditary family territory is the most important thing, and you can pay any price. But for the members of the overseas autonomous territories, from the perspective of merchants,
Looking at the perspective and perspective, they do not value the profits from the land, nor do they value the power of life and death of the people in their territory. Compared with power, they value business interests and family prestige...
General Skerry bluntly told Claude and others that what they were most worried about during the journey was that the meritorious soldiers of the two legions had obtained the family territory from His Majesty first. In that case, the political alliance between the Dominion Council and the military region would be
Conflicts and distrust arose, and if everyone could not unite together, they would be unable to bargain with His Majesty. It was not until they landed ashore and found that none of you had obtained hereditary family territory from His Majesty that everyone felt relieved.
Claude was relieved. Everyone realized that it would be the best. But General Albert was very interested in what General Skerry meant by bargaining with His Majesty. General Skerry said that the Dominion
The MPs made some calculations when they were on the ship. They believed that it would cost 300,000 gold crowns to be promoted from honorary baron to hereditary baron. It was not cost-effective to spend another 100,000 gold crowns to obtain a family territory, so they hoped that your majesty would be able to get it.
Fold in half.
Although each member of the Overseas Dominion has a net worth of 400,000 gold crowns, considering that there are 112 members of the entire autonomous territory, plus those who have already obtained honorary noble status, then His Majesty and the Royal Court can benefit from these people.
No one could calm down after finding a huge sum of more than 40 million gold crowns.
Everyone felt that their wealth, which they had worked hard for most of their lives, was handed over to His Majesty and Wang Ting in exchange for a territory that would take who knows how many years to recover. Everyone felt very unwilling. Especially after obtaining this territory of the intern family,
It was necessary to invest in the territory, which would definitely cost a lot. So everyone agreed on the boat that if His Majesty was not willing to make a concession, then everyone would reject the grant of the family territory and just wear the title of Honorary Baron of the Kingdom.
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For a person to refuse a title without promotion is just a small matter to His Majesty, and you don't have to care about it at all. But if all the members of the Dominion and the honorary nobles of the Kingdom do this, it will be a big deal. Even if you discount it, it will be 20 million.
With a huge sum of gold and crown, I believe that if His Majesty does not agree, he himself will not be able to sleep well. Anyway, the overseas dominion is on the continent of Nubisia, and His Majesty and the Royal Court cannot lose a single hair of the congressmen even if they want to retaliate.
As merchants and industrial owners, councilors are focused on what output the territory can produce, or whether it can build any workshops, rather than thinking about how to squeeze the last copper coin from the people of the territory. This is why they think differently from traditional nobles.
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When owning a hereditary family territory in the eastern region, parliamentarians also need to consider security issues. Obtaining a hereditary family territory does not mean that they will be worry-free. Territorial wars and poor management among territorial nobles can lead to the loss of this hereditary family territory.
Examples are common. Therefore, the councilors hope that everyone’s hereditary family territories can be sealed in one area and an alliance can be formed to ensure the security of all family territories.
"Tell me about your specific requirements." Claude was curious about what the congressmen thought.
Speaker Bennett used his remaining hand to pick up the wine glass and drained the fruit wine in one gulp. Then he said: "We have three requests. First, we hope that your majesty can grant hereditary families to all the eligible families in our overseas autonomous territories.
The territories of the people in the territory are all arranged in one area, so that everyone can help each other. The second is that all fees must be discounted in half at least, otherwise we will refuse the territory's grant, and we will not choose the land if we don't promote it. The last thing is the need for the territory we grant.
A seaport to facilitate our communication and exchanges with overseas dominions..."
Claude shook his head: "Unfortunately, there is currently no seaport in the Nasseri area and an area large enough to accommodate the hereditary family territories granted by all the overseas autonomous territories. They have all been occupied by nobles from other kingdoms."
According to statistics, there are currently 768 territorial nobles granted by the kingdom. Although they occupy only one-third of the total area of the Nasseri region, their territories are scattered among 28 local counties.
They are all good places. It is really difficult to arrange all the feudal territories in the overseas autonomous territories together. At least a dozen territorial nobles who have already occupied the territory must be relocated to free up space.
Speaker Bennett looked at the charming bay scenery outside the window and said thoughtfully: "Actually, I think it's pretty good here..."