Urban Sims

Chapter 643 Rewards
"boom!"

When the head of the Duke of Paris, like a piece of garbage, was thrown on the floor of the palace chamber by Earl Hill.

"what!"

Seeing the heads rolling on the floor, all noble ministers including King Jaime were startled.

Immediately there was great joy.

King Jaime said angrily: "This traitor! The royal family treated him well, but he raised his troops to rebel. He deserves to die. Hmph, that's what he deserves!"

King James also announced: deprive the Duke of Paris of his title and territory, chop up his body and feed it to the dogs, arrest other members of the Paris family, and condemn all of them to prison, no one will be let go!

All the nobles and ministers also celebrated with each other.

"The kingdom gave the Paris family 30 troops in the hope that they would guard Dongjing well and resist the Soliu Kingdom. They were lucky, instead of doing a good job of guarding the border, they turned around and attacked the king."

"Paris, that bastard, besieged the capital for three months. He completely destroyed the pharmaceutical production plant, and the workers took half of it. We lost at least tens of millions!"

The pharmaceutical production factory was set up outside the city. After the rebels besieged the city, the pharmaceutical production factory suffered devastating damage. It would take at least a few months to repair the factory.

"It's not just the loss of money, many people from various families have also died, excluding the Imperial Capital Defense Army, each family has at least lost more than 1 outstanding family warriors, and some sons and grandsons of some earls have died. , these excellent nobles, what a pity to die!"

Hearing this, a nobleman immediately knelt down and begged: "Your Majesty, each family has lost so much, please give each family some compensation. The Duke of Paris has hundreds of nobles who follow him. The royal family can send their All the territories will be taken back, and every meritorious family will be compensated!"

Boom~
Hearing this, more nobles immediately stood up to show their merits for their families, hoping to get certain rewards and compensation.

The rebellion had just ended, and the court was desperate for the fruits of victory.

King Jaime's head grew instantly.

After the death of the Duke of Paris, the party members around him were cleared away, and at least hundreds of territories were vacated.

These lands are not only coveted by the nobles who stand on the side of the royal family, but the royal family themselves are also very tempted. They are ready to take a bite, and it is best to swallow them all.

But after the rhythm was brought up by a certain nobleman, King Jaime felt an unusual headache in the face of a large sound of "asking for a reward".

Zhou Ming did not get involved in these discussions.

He only said a few words for Earl Hill, hoping that the king would pardon Earl Hill's crimes, allow him to make meritorious deeds, lead the remaining surrendered rebels, and return to the border to garrison immediately to prevent the Soliu Kingdom from moving around.

King James nodded in agreement, and Earl Hill heaved a sigh of relief and knelt down to thank him.

After that, Zhou Ming stood aside and watched the various nobles compete for merit in front of the king.

But he found that there was a person who had been very quiet. He looked at the head on the floor and didn't speak for a long time.

He is Duke Rudolf.

In fact, Duke Rudolph has a good relationship with the Paris family, and is also an old acquaintance with Duke Paris, and the relationship with each other is quite warm.

Unexpectedly, as one of the Dukes of the "Three Pillars of the Kingdom", the Duke of Paris would end up in such a tragic end, not to mention losing his head, and his body would be chopped up and fed to the dogs.

To be honest, Rudolph, who has lived for more than 70 years, has not seen many such scenes.

I was deeply touched by this.

Because Rudolph, who is also the Duke, was assuming in his heart: If he was in the position of the Duke of Paris, and then raised his troops to rebel, if he failed, would his end be the same as that of the Duke of Paris, with his head chopped off, and then he would be like garbage? Throw it back and forth?
Seeing Duke Rudolph's expression, Zhou Ming whispered in his ear:
"Isn't this a normal thing? Since ancient times, the king loses the enemy, the winner takes all, and the loser dies. What is there to be surprised about?"

Hearing this understatement, Rudolph snorted coldly: "Hmph, if you were in my position, you wouldn't be so light-hearted."

"So, Duke, you are in the right position, aren't you? If the royal family wins, the interests of the Rudolph family will not be harmed; if the rebels win, the Rudolph family, which has huge wealth, is still the target of wooing. There is no need to worry about the family's demise, but..."

Zhou Ming asked curiously: "I didn't find a single child of the Rudolph family in the Duke Paris's barracks. Did you bet on Duke Paris's head?"

"That's not your style."

"Humph!"

Duke Rudolph snorted again: "Duke Paris is brave and foolhardy, headstrong and conceited, but his talents are not one-tenth of his father's. Except for his good tricks, I'm sure he can't achieve great things!"

Zhou Ming nodded. Duke Rudolph has always been known as a "reader of people". His comments on others basically never made a mistake.

but……

Zhou Ming said: "If the royal family does not have a pharmaceutical production factory, if there are no nobles to support the royal family, and Paris launches a rebellion, what choice will the Duke make?"

"That's another story."

Although he was reluctant, Duke Rudolph had to admit in his heart: If Zhou Ming hadn't intervened, the rebellion launched by Duke Paris, and his camp might have been completely different from what it is now.

And after this rebellion, the royal family, which has been cleared of a powerful force, will inevitably increase a lot.

Kingship will be enhanced.

The strength of the remaining two dukes will be significantly weakened.

Once the royal family digests the land and interests of the Paris family, the kingdom, the king's will, and the nobles will find it difficult to disobey.

This is what Duke Rudolph does not want to see, but it is happening.

But so what?Although the Rudolph family was the wealthiest, they had less than 5000 private soldiers. Duke Hansen had an elite knight regiment of [-] people. It was good in field battles, but it was far weaker than Duke Paris's border guards in attacking cities.

Therefore, after the rebellion is put down, the upper-level structure and future development direction of the Yadude Kingdom will undergo earth-shaking changes.

……

two months later.

After countless discussions and quarrels.

Regarding how to distribute the fruits of victory, the royal family and the nobles finally reached an agreement.

Accounting for about 25% of the kingdom's land area, a total of 122 Dongjing fiefdoms were allocated as follows:
The royal family gets 22 superior fiefs, which are used to entrust royal descendants and meritorious royal family members.

Each of the 60 nobles who have made great achievements will be awarded a medium-sized fief to commend their meritorious deeds.

There are also more than 40 nobles who have done less meritorious deeds. They did not obtain fiefdoms, but each received a reward of 5 to 20 gold coins, as well as sales agency rights for more magic potions in the kingdom.

The remaining 40 fiefs, because the climate, environment, and soil are more suitable for planting medicinal materials, were classified as "medicinal planting areas" and were unified under the management of pharmaceutical production plants. In these "medicine planting areas", every meritorious Nobles can apply for a piece of land for free to grow medicinal materials. As long as the properties of the medicinal materials meet the standards, the pharmaceutical production factory will sell them all, so they don’t have to worry about making money.

Of course, ordinary businessmen and civilians can also apply for planting the land in the "medicine planting area", but they need to pay a certain fee.

And these fees are finally turned over to the national treasury to serve public utilities.

For example, to form the Xinde Kingdom Legion and build an elite army of 10 soldiers.

For example, expanding the number of students enrolled in the Brno School of Magic, allowing a large number of talented civilians to enroll, greatly reducing tuition fees, and increasing the magical strength of the kingdom.

There are also public works such as road construction and bridge construction.

This all requires a lot of money.

With so many expenditure items, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to put money into them all the time.

Including the royal family and various nobles, they all need to share some.

Whoever shares more and has the opportunity to make money in the future has priority.

So King James stated on the spot: "In the future, [-]% of the income of the pharmaceutical production plant will go directly to the treasury."

Other aristocrats were shocked, and they also received tax quotas one after another. Some received an annual tax quota of 1 gold coins, some received 5000 gold coins, and some received 3000 or 1000 gold coins... Except for the king, the nobles contributed about 50 gold coins in total. The tax quota of [-] gold coins.

50 gold coins can probably maintain the kingdom's financial expenses for a month.

At that scene, Zhou Ming felt very funny. When receiving the tax quota, these nobles seemed to have suffered a big loss, and their faces were as if they were constipated.

However, when the word "paying taxes is honorable" became popular among the people, not only nobles but also some businessmen who wanted to be taxpayers and "big taxpayers" got involved, and the amount of tax they received was even more surprising.

Even some ordinary people with more assets are vying to become "taxpayers" with voting rights.

Taxpayers have become a symbol of status and status.

Of course, this is all a few years away.

……

Also.

In the process of disintegrating the rebels, Zhou Ming made great contributions, and in the process of distributing the fruits of victory, he came up with many plans that satisfied everyone. What should be his reward? At a palace meeting, James The king and the noble ministers discussed for two or three hours.

Finally, the opinions were unified.

There are three rewards belonging to Zhou Ming:

[-]. Promoted to the rank of title, from viscount to earl... Zhou Ming became the youngest earl of the Yadude Kingdom, and he was also a field earl. Zhou Ming took over the large "black swamp" in the southern border of the kingdom.

50. Reward [-] gold coins and some treasures... This is actually not worth mentioning. With Zhou Ming's current net worth, this is simply a drop in the bucket.

[-]. Pardon the Leylin family.

The last point is the real meat of the show, because of Zhou Ming, the Leylin family, which has been ups and downs for more than 300 years, is about to climb up again.

And the climbing speed is quite fast, because so far, the Leylin family has only been exiled for a little over two years.

After the pardon edict was issued, everyone was paying close attention to what changes the return of the Leylin family would bring to the upper echelons of the kingdom?
(End of this chapter)