Chapter 616: The Otherworld Edition Pushing the Grace Order
After announcing the establishment of the Kings Guard, John arranged these entourages in his newly established Kings Guard.
This seems to be understandable to outsiders.
After all, everyone has different closeness and alienation. Do you still have to be estranged if you don’t accept nepotism?
There is no pedantic view of later Confucianism in the ancient Middle-earth world. It is necessary to recommend relatives and friends to be officials to avoid suspicion.
The king of a country cannot have no guardian power, so the noble parliament knew that John was doing it to expand his power in Hegal, and there was no excuse to prevent His Majesty from building a private force under his control.
But they didn't care too much. After all, John was still restrained and formed a small army of no more than 300 people in total, which did not have much impact on the overall situation.
In San Jose, the most important thing is the newly established City Guards and the Public Security Bureau. As long as both are controlled by the noble council, their status will be guaranteed not to be shaken.
There are only three hundred people, but in the eyes of these powerful warlords in the former places, they can't make any big fuss.
However, Colonel Henry, the head of the King's Guard, attached great importance to the team of three hundred people and strictly followed the reference conditions provided by John. It took him half a month to select the residents of San Jose and the nearby ones.
Three hundred qualified candidates.
Most of these people are miners without much education. According to the selection method of Qi's army in the Ming Dynasty, John believed that miners were more obedient than farmers, but they were often timid when encountering problems. They dared to fight and kill, and they were not as traitors.
Oily and smooth air is one of the best recruiting sources in ancient times.
After some analysis and practical investigation, Henry and the others were convinced and agreed that John's statement was indeed very reasonable.
So more than 80% of these 300 people were miners. There was not enough in San Jose, so they recruited some of them in several nearby villages and towns.
Being able to enter the King's Guard to eat imperial grain is naturally more comfortable than being a miner digging food in a stone and the salary is higher. Therefore, even if some mines do not release people, many miners who have received the news secretly ran out to participate in the selection.
The one who chose was very happy, but the one who didn't chose naturally returned in a depressed mood.
At the stage when John had just laid his foundation in Hegal, he also formally held the enthronement ceremony under the open and secret application of those in the noble parliament during this period.
It was divided into two groups, the first group was the Earl and Viscount, the middle and low aristocrats like the Baron, and the second group was the lower aristocrats like the Hereditary Knights and Hereditary Lords or the entry-level aristocrats. Of course, there were also some honorary titles and awarded to those who had made contributions to the country.
The heroes were just because Hygar was newly built and peacefully reorganized, except for a few people who had relatively outstanding political and military performance, few received such honorary titles.
Because John didn't want to start a big title like those in the history of his previous life and before he could do anything, he started to be crowned kings and titles, but in the end he was just a flash in the pan.
Of course, the less noble titles are, the higher the value of a kingdom. Only in this way can the lower classes have the motivation to rise and drive the entire country to flourish.
On the contrary, in terms of hereditary aristocracy, John did not stingy with the leaders of the real power ranks and fiefs of the aristocracy that he had promised before.
Among them, there were three Earls alone, and there were more than thirty Viscounts and Barons. Many of the original vassals and second-in-commands in some warlords were also independently awarded the title of upstarts by John.
Divide its fief with its original power.
This is done to divide these forces and prevent them from continuing to join forces to seize the separatist side.
Theresia had some questions about John doing this, and she asked curiously:
"What's the point of doing this? I reward them separately and put the fiefs in one place. Aren't you afraid that they will continue to join forces to fight against you, the king?"
John smiled and explained:
"In the distant Eastern world, more than a thousand years ago, an emperor invented a system called the 'Grace Order', which required that the area under the jurisdiction of the previous princes be inherited only by their eldest sons.
It was changed to his eldest son, second son, and three sons inherited together. Although the nobles of the princes understood that this was a decree against them by the emperor, but if there were not many loved children in the family, the previous generation would always be unable to help but allocate the wealth of the territory to
The descendants, later, according to this decree, the vassal states were divided into smaller and smaller, and the emperor took the opportunity to weaken their power and achieve a unified centralized state."
John was deeply impressed by the Han Dynasty. After all, he was the most famous emperor in the Han Dynasty, and was even more famous than his ancestor Liu Bang. As a practitioner in his previous life, he basically had no knowledge of Emperor Wu of Han. There was a Han Dynasty.
In addition to the great figures in the Xuanmen practice world who were the Taoist ancestor Zhang Daoling, the Taoist ancestor of the Heavenly Master Liu An, Liu An, the king of Huainan, who ascended to heaven, and Wei Boyang, the ancestor of the Neidan School, the story of Emperor Wu of Han seeking immortality and Dongfang Shuo has been sung for nearly two thousand years.
Other characters such as An Qisheng, Magu, Fei Changfang, Zhongli Quan, Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, etc. The former is an immortal in the illusory legend, and the latter is one of the strangers who are among the other people. They are written into the Three Kingdoms to be a human being.
As we know, popularity and the deeds left behind are far inferior to those mentioned above.
Therefore, John knew a lot about the deeds of Emperor Wu of Han in his previous life, and indirectly he understood the order to promote the grace order, which changed the pattern of the feudal dynasty in the Middle Turkish period.
After listening to John's explanation, Theresia said in amazement:
"This is really a great emperor, no less than Alexander the Great and the Red Bearded Barbarossa. No, even better. These two people cannot move the aristocratic system. This is simply a concentrated imperial power and dug up.
The foundation of feudal aristocrats!”
John heard Theresia's amazement and said:
"Of course, although our royal family and aristocratic groups sometimes have opposition, they are actually mutually exclusive, prosper and lose together. I cannot implement such a huge influence in our world. Once the aristocratic class is weakened, then
The more shameless bourgeoisie without bottom line will naturally rise to the front. Believe me, you won’t want to see that result after seeing the situation of the White Eagle Federation.”
"But this does not prevent me from learning from the practice of the entrusting order. After partially separating these local forces, I do not believe that those people will not have their own selfishness and will continue to join forces wholeheartedly. None of them will avoid the issue of distribution of interests within a force.
What's more, if the two parties are nominally independent, sooner or later there will be conflicts over interests, and if one party wants to continue to expand, the allies around him will become blockades. At that time..."
John smiled in his heart, thinking that the scene would definitely be very good.
"Fortresses are usually broken from the inside. John, your plan is really a powerful open plot. You are not afraid that these local forces will not jump into the pit!"
Thereseya, who learned a lot of new words from John, couldn't help but praise her fiancé.
Moreover, she felt that her emperor's father should also use this open conspiracy, and at that time, the separatist forces in Santis that have troubled the royal family for decades have made both emperors very troubled.