Chapter 455 The second step in building the city

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
In order to appease the uneasy mood of the nobles, Roland specially arranged a sumptuous banquet.

There is a long table covered with white cloth in the middle of the hall, and the nobles who came sat facing each other, and in the middle were all kinds of dishes, wine and flowers.

After two glasses of red wine, the atmosphere eased a lot. In addition, the great nobles had all fallen, and honeysuckle and elk stood on Roland's side. The remaining little nobles would not jump out to sing opposites at this time. Instead, they expressed their intention to take the initiative to surrender in their words.

In this situation, Roland knew it was time to bring his newly established order to the table.

After he had enough wine and meals, he distributed the small notebook he had prepared in advance to the hands of all the nobles.

That was the promotional brochure he carefully prepared.

Your Highness...What is this? Sure enough, a nobleman asked in surprise, why is the painting above so realistic?

That's right, it's just like the real one.

This doesn't seem like it was drawn...no pigment can express such delicate colors.

It’s not a good thing that they are nobles in big cities. It can be seen that these people have a certain appreciation of painting. Roland smiled and said, “They were indeed drawn by the painter, but if you want to say anything different, it is that the painter is a witch, and the paint she paints is omnipresent magic.”

These words made everyone's body stiff, and it was not right to put the notebook in their hands, nor was it right to put it on if they didn't.

The local church forces have disappeared, what are you worried about?The prince raised his eyebrows. The witch is no different from us. I have verified this many times.

Cough... Cough, Pelo almost choked, what Your Highness said.

It's no apologies for the fourth prince, haha...ha, the other nobles also laughed awkwardly.

Well, it seemed that he said something quite ambiguous. Roland pretended to be nothing, changed the topic and served as the prince for more than a year. He found that he was calm in his face...or the thickness of his face has made rapid progress. The accompanying pictures is just to make the content more vivid, and the story recorded above is the focus.

Everyone continued to look through a few pages. Orellian, a little girl from the Elk family, quickly raised her head. Is this the family history of a noble?

Orellian!Rennes lowered his voice and reminded him, calling him Your Highness!

That's right, he was also a Western nobleman, and Roland made a gesture that anyone should still remember him.

Your Highness…I know him, said a knight, Tigu Pine, he is my neighbor, and our territory was once attached to each other.

I've seen him, and another recalled that it seemed to be a baron, his father was a vassal of Joycole.Since Lord Joey left the West, his territory has declined.

Viscount Tigu is currently in the border town, Roland smiled, and this album records the story of what I met him and I... and what happened later.As you can see, he is a nobleman living under the new system, currently busy practicing muskets. It is estimated that after the evil moon is over, he will take his daughter and servants to the hide-and-see forest to enjoy the hunting fun.As far as I know, since he sold his territory east of the fortress and settled in the border town, his title was promoted to a higher level, and his family property had increased several times.

Fear comes from the unknown, and the same is true for resistance to institutional change, because they do not know what impact they will have on themselves after the change.

Roland asked Soroya to portray the life of Tigu Pine in the form of a comic book, as an example of her own publicity, in order to reduce the resistance and fear of the nobles.

Compared with those boring biography, the expressiveness of the comics is obviously more vivid and vivid.

You should all know that I will build a city in the West. In fact, I have been planning this plan for a long time.By then, the border town, Changge Fortress and the narrow and long land between the two places will be transformed into a whole.Roland continued, someone would ask, how could the two towns be separated by a distance?First of all, the overall meaning refers to administrative, that is, the new city will implement the same law and policy, which is also the reason why I want to revoke the aristocratic feudal power and the legal power.

Your Highness, then our territory... Someone asked.

It still belongs to you, he interrupted, I said, reclaiming these powers does not mean that you will lose what the essence of the eviction is to hand over your territory to others to form your own subordinate nobles, to strengthen your strength in this way, to resist the enemy together, or to work together to gain benefits.Under the new system, the task of resisting foreign enemies will be completed by a professional army. As long as you follow the rules, the benefits you earn will be far beyond the past.After all, it is better to make the cake bigger than dividing that little bit of cake.

Seeing everyone silent, Roland smiled and said, "You have never been to Bianfeng Town, so it is normal for you to not know how big the cake can be. In fact, the town's fiscal revenue in the second half of the year reached 30,000 golden dragons. If the Demon Moon had not arrived early, this number would have probably increased by about 10,000.

The nobles took a breath together, three...thirty thousand?

Roland had already learned from Perro about the financial situation of the fortress over the years, and the annual income of the city hall was only this amount, not to mention these little nobles. One hundred golden dragons were all huge sums for them.

And as managers from all walks of life here in the future, you will naturally get rich returns.He raised his lips and returned to the city building. In addition to administrative unity, the two towns will gradually get closer geographically.For example, it took me only one day to arrive at Changge Fortress from Border Town. When the construction of Kingdom Avenue is completed, the land walking time will be shortened to within one day. If you are riding a horse or riding a bicycle, you can only get there in half a day, not to mention faster transportation.

What is a bicycle?Orellian said curiously.

A human riding tool that runs very fast on the flat ground, the prince smiled, "I dare say five years... no, within three years, we can have breakfast in the fortress and then work in the border town."Because Kingdom Avenue uses a straight line throughout the journey, the distance between the two places is shortened to 60 kilometers and replaced with a locomotive or a car, which is only half an hour.

However, most nobles did not focus on this. The knight who claimed to be a neighbor of Tigu Pine, asked carefully, Your Highness, do you want to hand over the fortress to us for management?

Neither, nor, Roland smiled slightly. As I said before, after the founding of the city, the two places will be an administrative unit, and the fortress will be transformed into an area of ​​the city, under the jurisdiction of the Central City Hall.But for now, the journey of one day is still too far, so I will set up a lower-level town hall in Changge District, which will divide many lower-level departments according to the current model of Bianfeng Town, and you are working in these departments and are responsible for handling specific matters here.

Subordinate...department?The nobles showed confusion on their faces.

Managing an area is a very complicated task. Although it can bring you generous rewards, it is not that easy to do your part. Roland nodded, so when the order here is restored, you all have to follow me to the border town to experience for yourself how a fully functional town hall should operate.Regarding the management course, you still need to study one.