Warlord: King of All Clans

Sitting in the little mouse's bedroom, Leo looked through the many documents left by Queen Lola.

This late queen, who has received mixed reviews, drafted a large number of decrees and measures during her more than ten years in power. Some of these have been promulgated, while others can only be found within the royal family.

For example, reviving the imperial provincial system and bringing the princes of various territories under the jurisdiction of the provincial governors.

During the heyday of the Orlantis Empire, the three territories were divided into nine provinces, which were governed by nine provincial governors appointed by the royal family. The royal family in the southern territories directly governed the imperial capital and the Orlanteri province, and the emperor himself was also the Grand Duke of Orlanteri and the governor of the Orlanteri province.

However, hundreds of years of feudal division and separatism have resulted in the provincial system being in name only. Now people in the north and west only know about earldoms, not the names of provinces.

Only people in the southern border still like to use provincial names to distinguish outsiders.

The governors-general of the nine provinces were gradually replaced by local dukes and became titles for local separatist expansionist forces.

For example, Earl MacDonald, who lives on the southern foot of the Fabados Mountains, also serves as the Governor-General of the Carolingian Province. In addition to the right to recruit troops in his own earldom, he also has the right to recruit four earls and nine viscounts in the Carolingian Province to form a legion.

He gathered a full army of elite soldiers of his own and recruited a full army from the vassal nobles to invade the northern border. Even if he was defeated, he would not suffer any serious consequences.

Only the southern border does not have a real title of duke or marquis, otherwise Earl MacDonald would be a real duke or marquis.

Queen Lola attempted to revive the provincial system and restore the empire's standing army, which once had an impact on the three southern provinces. However, with her accidental death, naturally no one mentioned the provincial system again.

In addition, there are various measures to strengthen centralization and develop the economy.

The theory that feudalism harms the country? Isn't this just the alien version of feudalism?

The second son's legacy system? This is the alien version of the Enfeoffment Order!

The theory of feudal system harming the country written by Queen Lola is similar to Liu Zongyuan's theory of feudalism. Both analyze the drawbacks of feudal system and prove the superiority of provincial system and national unity.

The system of inheriting the land in the name of the second son is a modified version of the Enfeoffment Order, which roughly means that all children of hereditary nobles have inheritance rights, the eldest son can only inherit half of the land, and the other half should be divided among the remaining children.

There are many cities in the south, with developed industry and commerce. The bourgeoisie is not small, including various handicraftsmen, workshop owners, businessmen, and freelancers. They create wealth at a speed far exceeding the improvement of their social status, but the profits generated are almost monopolized by the feudal landlords.

Although the royal family bestowed a large number of titles on these groups and barely improved their status, it only temporarily eased the conflict but failed to solve the fundamental problem.

In a hereditary aristocracy, only the eldest son inherits the territory, and the rest of the children become the eldest son's employees. They run various industries on behalf of their brothers for a long time and create huge wealth, but in the end the wealth does not belong to themselves.

This contradiction was almost irreconcilable. Rebellions broke out in many earldoms, and it was not just the peasants who had lost their land who were rebelling.

Without a large amount of resources to support them, they couldn't even afford to eat, let alone equip themselves with weapons and armor to fight.

Just like Master Freeman, a leader in the alchemy industry, who is a staunch supporter of Queen Lola, the industries and products they produce will be exploited at every level once they leave the imperial capital, and they have almost nothing to do with the profits.

Mass-produced plate armor, finely crafted enchanted weapons, and high-end alchemical equipment can be sold at more than ten times the price in the two northwestern regions, but after the profits are squeezed out, what's left is no different from direct sales in the imperial capital.

The properties in the earldoms are even more pitiful. Unless they are the earl's family's own properties, 80% of the profits will be given away.

After reading the Queen's manuscript for several days, Leo also gained a lot of knowledge from it, and even vaguely felt that Queen Lola was also a time traveler.

Of course, if we look at the ancient pioneers with modern eyes, everyone looks like a time traveler.

The Great Earldom in the North was an independent kingdom, and the square banner system severely weakened the growth of vassal power, making the rule of the Northern Earl unbreakable.

On the contrary, as the rule of the Earl of the North became more deeply rooted, the ruling power of the Grand Duke of the North, who was once the High King of the North, became increasingly weak.

As a child of the Northern Grand Duke's family, Queen Lola obviously also learned many lessons from it.

In this comparison, the resistance to centralization in the North is smaller than in the South. The large number of knight lords in the North do not have hereditary legal system, and their hereditary rights have been deprived by the earl for hundreds of years.

All Leo had to do was to further deprive them of their right to rule.

The situation is different in the south. There are a large number of earls, viscounts and barons in the south, all of whom have been hereditary for hundreds of years.

Taking back their territory is equivalent to digging up their ancestral graves.

Seeing that Leo was interested in his mother's documents, the little mouse was very happy. He collected Queen Lola's manuscripts everywhere in the palace and showed Leo the truest side of Queen Lola.

Reading a long-forgotten diary, Leo coughed dryly and closed the diary. "Your mother was actually pursued by Count Beowulf. Tsk, tsk, tsk, that old guy also wants to eat young grass."

The little mouse tilted his head and thought for a moment, then quietly reminded, "Lord Beowulf is younger than my father."

Leo grabbed the little mouse, held her under his ribs, and whispered, "Does your father know that your mother has a crush on Sword Saint Algernon..."

The little mouse smiled and said, "Teacher Algernon can hear it!"

Leo was speechless immediately. He quickly put Queen Lola's diary into the box and shouted, "How dare you, little mouse, flip through Her Majesty the Queen's diary! This is the privacy of the royal family! Put it away! Put it away!"

As he said that, he stuffed the book into Fesha's small schoolbag, preparing to take it home to read.

Feisa was taking care of her new tribesmen in the river bend and had no time to play in the palace, so she could only give the small schoolbag to Leo and entrust him to help purchase various equipment for the imperial capital.

Under the guidance of Mage Morse and Al, she quickly learned various craftsmanship (physics) and alchemy (chemistry) knowledge, and she also has strong hands-on skills. Now she is the chief craftsman of River Bay.

Valeri, the head craftsman who was a blacksmith apprentice, was used to using his hammer to get around. Although he had studied Leo's assembly line operations and upgraded all the workshops in the river bend to assembly line levels, he was still too conservative in the use of mechanical equipment.

His assembly line workshops, whether they are forging workshops, leather workshops or textile workshops, are basically rows of craftsmen and apprentices, swinging hammers and other simple tools to produce products. Only some processes that are very labor-intensive and require precision will use manual equipment.

But it's different with Feisa. She has no limitations in production experience at all. Instead, she is full of flexible thinking and can do whatever is convenient. She also sees further than the craftsman supervisor Valeri.

There are more types of simple mechanical equipment in the dog-headed workshop than in the human workshop!

After arriving in the imperial capital, she immediately set her eyes on all kinds of advanced manual lathes in the imperial capital, whether they were boring, milling, planing, grinding or drilling, as long as Esenbol didn't have them, she wanted them all!