Urban Sims

Chapter 653 Inheritance

Chapter 653 Inheritance
The capital of the kingdom, Dilo City.

In the palace, at the imperial meeting.

The royal family, represented by King James, quarreled fiercely with the nobles and ministers.

"18 earldoms, the royal family must get 6, not one less!"

"The royal family took out 1000 million gold coins, and the royal family took out half of the military expenditure. The royal family must have a share of the spoils!"

"You don't want to swallow all the spoils!"

The old fox Roberts said hoarsely. He had repeated these few words dozens of times, and his voice was almost hoarse.

But the nobles headed by Rudolph retorted with those few words.

"We have signed an agreement with His Majesty, and His Majesty cannot violate the agreement and go back on his word!"

"What's more, the royal family spends money to keep Princess Syvenes, and the royal family should use this money!"

"Also, we spent a total of 4500 million gold coins in this war, and the royal family's money only accounts for a small part, not half!"

"So all the spoils of this war should belong to us."

A nobleman with a loud voice said.

Immediately attracted a lot of approval.

"That's right, Your Majesty is the king, and you must never go back on your word and break your promise!"

"Although we won 18 earldoms, we also suffered a lot of losses. The royal family just took out a little money."

"These territories were won by our ability, why should the royal family take one-third of them?"

"No, absolutely not!"

King Jaime was remorseful and angry as he spoke of the pact with its traps in it.

He even patted his head with his hands, and denied it flatly: "What agreement? I'm old and faint, and I don't remember what agreement."

"Your Majesty, in black and white, your name is written on it."

Immediately, a nobleman took out the agreement from his sleeve and handed it to King Jaime, asking him to recognize the handwriting on the lower right corner.

The self-proclaimed "Old Man" King James, but this time he has quick eyes and quick hands, ready to snatch the agreement, tear it to pieces, and destroy the corpse.

But the nobleman reacted faster, immediately took back the agreement, raised his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty, you are the king, do you also want to play tricks?"

"Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you tore up the agreement. At that time, there were more than 30 nobles serving as notaries. Your memory is not very good, but our memory is very good."

"Your Majesty, don't waste your time, you have no share in the spoils of this war! Hahaha~"

Amid the smug laughter of the nobles, King Jaime's face became increasingly ugly.

The old fox Roberts also said coldly:

"You secretly made military plans without telling His Majesty, and used the king's army to seek your own interests... This is an unforgivable crime of deceiving the king!"

"Even if you have 18 extra counties in your hands, if His Majesty refuses to recognize them and grant you titles, you still cannot legally own these lands."

"The only way for His Majesty to forgive you now is to give part of the spoils to the royal family."

"That's good for everyone."

Roberts said in a threatening tone.

All the nobles fell silent in an instant, as if they had been hit in the soft spot.

Indeed, the king signed the "Agreement on the Distribution of Spoils of War", but it was signed under the premise of being deceived. If King Jaime knew that this battle could reap so many benefits, he would not be able to sign the agreement!
Secondly, the newly added 18 earl territories are enough to entrust 18 field earls, or even two to three dukes... There are quite a few viscounts and barons waiting to be entrusted below.

If the king does not agree to the entrustment, everyone will get the land, but they will not be named, which will bring a lot of inconvenience.

Not even protected by the kingdom, may be crusade by the kingdom of Soliu.

No spoils will be given to the royal family, and the royal family's countermeasures will make everyone feel uncomfortable.

Even from a win-win situation to a total loss.

But the royal family wanted to swallow the six counties and take one-third of the land, and the nobles couldn't agree.

The scene fell into an extremely rigid state.

At this time, Zhou Ming had no choice but to stand up.

resolve this impasse.

How to resolve it?

Take out a small part of the benefits to settle the royal family.

After three days of discussion, after reaching an agreement, as a representative of the nobles, Zhou Ming stood in front of King James and showed his "sincerity".

"The 1000 million gold coins that the royal family took out before are all returned to His Majesty now, not a single penny."

"Not only that, we will also take out 500 million gold coins as dividends for the royal family's war... This is not a small number."

"In addition, 5 viscounts and 12 barons agreed to give their territories adjacent to the royal family to the royal family in exchange for another piece of their territory in the new territory."

"Although these 17 pieces of land are not large, they are equivalent to half the area of ​​the Earl's territory, and they are right next to the royal family's territory."

"Your Majesty, this is the best condition we can offer. If you cannot agree to this, those nobles will decide to elect a duke as the leader and establish a duchy between the Kingdom of Soliu and the Kingdom of Yadude. Allegiance to Your Majesty... Your Majesty must not want to see this kind of situation, right?"

Zhou Ming said that the three conditions he gave "return all invested funds", "500 million dividends" and "replacement of 17 territories" are the most favorable conditions for the royal family and cannot be compromised for the nobles. condition.

In exchange for the king's acknowledgment of title to their new lands.

"This……"

King Jaime is caught in the balance.

1500 million gold coins is still a lot of money for the current royal family.

He was a little moved.

The 17 pieces of land close to the royal domain exude an incomparably attractive flavor to King Jaime... Although they are not very large, the royal domain has still been expanded.

Moreover, those audacious nobles dared to threaten the king, saying that if the king did not recognize their possession of the new land, they would establish a duchy themselves!
This is simply outrageous!
King Jaime was about to lose his temper.

but……

Now these nobles have much more power in their hands, whether it is land or the army, than the royal family, if they are really in a hurry...

shook his head.

That scene can be called "the earth shakes and the mountains shake".

And this guy Leylin promised: If there is another chance for a similar war next time, he will definitely recruit the royal family.

"Okay, I agree to your terms."

"But next time there is such an opportunity, the royal family must take a share!"

King Jaime nodded, and the two sides finally reached an agreement.

The aristocrats breathed a sigh of relief, and held a celebration banquet. Everyone smiled and celebrated with each other.

In this war, they can be said to have made a fortune.

Aside from the 18 earldoms, in terms of gold and silver treasures alone, a total of more than 3500 million yuan was seized... This item basically paid off.

40 able-bodied strong men and soldiers were also captured.

If all the 40 captives are put into factories or mines, it will create a lot of benefits.

In addition, there is a population of 500 million people in the Soliu Kingdom. If all these people are digested, a large number of them will be transformed into factory workers, medicinal farmers who grow medicinal materials, or herdsmen who raise sheep... The industrialization progress of the Yadude Kingdom will be greatly accelerated. .

The benefits created are naturally countless.

In a word, after this battle, the nobles led by Zhou Ming have obtained a huge profit of more than 5 million gold coins.

It can be said that everyone is making a lot of money.

only……

Zhou Ming's father, Earl Cohen, a middle-aged man loyal to the king, had some objections to Zhou Ming's actions.

Even severely questioned.

"Why don't you help the king, but grab the benefits for those nobles, their power has increased, will they obey the king's orders in the future?"

His father, Cohen, couldn't understand why Zhou Ming, as a member of the Leylin family, didn't bring the royal family to participate in such a big profit cake?

Isn't this going to shame the Leylin family?

Which king will continue to trust and reuse the Leylin family in the future?

Zhou Ming explained to him the difference between "Family Tianxia" and "Common Tianxia", and talked about the destructiveness and limitations of the king's centralization of power, and the superiority of "co-ruling the world" by the nobles and the king.

He even told his father Cohen about some bold designs and ideas, which made him think about it.

and at the end said:
"Father, I believe you should have heard of the absurd things that Crown Prince Luther did in the capital recently, right? He robbed beautiful women in broad daylight, trampled on his horses in the downtown area, spent money like dirt, and lost 1000 million gold coins in gambling places. ...I believe you should be able to guess what kind of damage such a person will bring to the kingdom if he sits on the throne, right?"

"Would you still be loyal to such a king?"

"Recently, the old king's health is getting worse and worse. After Crown Prince Luther came to the throne, have you stopped his absurd behavior and taught him to become a wise king?"

"Have you changed a person who is stupid, ignorant, violent and perverse?"

"Do you believe that the kingdom will be better in his hands?"

This……

Facing Zhou Ming's critical questions, Earl Cohen stopped talking and fell silent.

In my heart, I slowly accepted Zhou Ming's proposition called "Constitutional Monarchy".

……

Time to enter October.

The mercenaries who came to the Yadude Kingdom one after another, whose number reached more than 10, happily left the Yadude Kingdom after receiving their rewards.

But there are also a small number of mercenaries who stayed in the Yadude Kingdom.

There is even a group of mercenaries with a number of about 500 people who have become nobles of the Yadude Kingdom because of their meritorious service value exceeding 1.

Owned a territory that belonged to them.

What impressed Zhou Ming the most was a mercenary organization called "Fire Mercenary Group". They resisted on the first line of defense for a full month, repelled hundreds of attacks, and killed countless enemies. .

In the end, there were 118 people in the entire mercenary group, 108 people died in battle, and only 10 people survived.

And among these ten people, except for a man named Hodt who was slightly injured, the other nine were all seriously injured.

In other words, this masonry fortress, under the siege of countless enemies, can be understood as "annihilated."

Their leader, Klein, died in battle.

The old man Arnold also died in battle.

Many team members died in battle.

But the fortress they defended never fell.

And the enemy's heads they cut off and stored in the granary totaled 1200...including the head of the enemy count... Klein died with him.

When Zhou Ming heard the stories of the defenders of this fortress, he was deeply shocked.

In order to seize a chance to change their fate, this mercenary group actually fought to such an extent.

After the war, Zhou Ming counted the merits for them in person. Instead of using the head as the basis, he directly calculated the number of their kills. After the final calculation, their merits were worth 38410 points...that is to say They killed more than 3000 enemy troops.

With so many merit points, it is enough to give this mercenary group three field barons.

But Zhou Ming thought about it, and in order to set an example, he directly conferred noble titles on the ten surviving people.

One viscount and nine barons were awarded.

The land they entrusted was near the fortress where they fought... The land within a radius of 50 miles all belonged to Hodt, who was enfeoffed as a viscount, and the other nine seriously wounded.

The name of this viscounty is Kleinland... in memory of a man named Klein.

At the grand and grand funeral, standing in front of the tombstone of Captain Klein, Hodt tore off the aristocratic clothing on his body, took off the aristocratic badge on his chest, threw away the viscount's sword at his waist, and plopped on the tombstone Before, crying to death.

"What's the use of having this noble title? I'm just an old man dying, what's the use of being a noble?!"

"These should be yours! Klein, everything should be yours!"

"The one lying in this tomb should be me! The one who survived should be you!"

"Woooooo~"

Hodt beat his chest hard, looking very sad.

Zhou Ming saw this scene.

Walked over, patted him on the shoulder, sighed and said:
"If you want to blame him for his death, blame me."

"I gave him hope that he shouldn't have."

"Don't be too sad. Since you said that Klein still has an illegitimate son, then go find him. This land should be well inherited."

Hodt wiped away tears and nodded.

(End of this chapter)

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