I Became the illegitimate son of a duke

143 – Governance (2)

“Let me meet the governor right away!!”

“What’s going on?”

“What are all those rude commoners doing!!”

Indigenous nobles and churches were greatly angered by the governors and officials whom Claude had dispatched to manage the lands he had acquired.

They are working to exercise administrative power in the territory, acting as they always do in Rotaring, following the orders they received, following the manuals they were familiar with, but their actions greatly irritated the Carolingian nobility and church.

In the end, the nobles and clergy who were greatly dissatisfied headed for the governor’s palace in Lutecia with escort troops, and the official who passed in front of them just in time was baptized with their questions.

“Why do you dare to come and survey my estate?!”

“Not only that, the earthly lord dares invade the realm of the sky! Dare you claim allegiance?”

The measurement that the nobles said was that officials checked the exact area and population of available farmland and investigated whether there were important resources in order to prevent tax evasion and strengthen administrative power. It means that you have been notified to admit it.

For a nation to function properly as a nation, these measures are essential, but of course, those with vested interests are unlikely to welcome such measures.

I don’t know if it’s going around as an individual, but outside forces wandering around their own territory without permission is not something that is objectionable, it’s a matter that can cause a competition, and the law above the sky is better than the law on the ground. The religious world, which sees this as more important, also demands compliance with secular laws, which is a great humiliation.

“Yes?”

“Yes?! Didn’t I explain everything!!”

“No… What’s wrong with that?”

“…What?”

However, the officials dispatched from Dijon have no sympathy for the Carolingians.

That’s right. This is because this official has completed a four-year course in public administration at the University of Dijon.

As he learned over the course of four years, the officials they swear at, or partners, are doing the very right thing. Wouldn’t it be impossible to create a unified nation if people who do not know their own capabilities and who do not abide by the law spread all over the place?

A country that fails to properly project its administrative order onto its own territory will soon perish. This is the motto of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Dijon, as evidenced by history and today by Carolingian and Empire.

“Didn’t you do what you were supposed to do?”

“Hey, hey…!”

“How dare you open your mouth!!”

Of course, this way of thinking did not take into account the nobles and clergy who would be dealt with administratively.

No matter how efficient it is, when it comes to dealing with people, you have to consider the feelings of the person being treated.

However, it is up to the superiors to consider such feelings and formulate policies.

If the administration is called a gigantic machine and the people who use it are high-ranking officials, then these officials are just cogs and other parts that go into the machine.

Parts take emotions into consideration, should that be the case?

“I-i-i…! I don’t need someone like you! Direct me to the governor right now!!”

“If you want to meet the governor, you must apply in advance.”

“What kind of bullsh*t is that!! Let me meet the governor immediately!!”

“…For the stabilization of Caroling, Governor-General, numerous schedules are scheduled in 10-minute increments. Meetings that have not been requested in advance will lead to the collapse of that schedule—- keke!!”

“You bastard!!”

The nobles and clergy have no business with the official anymore.

Their escorts use physical force to correct the manners of common officials who have spoken unkindly, while nobles and clergy pass by, glancing at the officials being educated as if they are looking at something dirty.

“What are you doing now!!”

And such a violent act naturally provoked the soldiers who stood guard at the Governor’s Palace.

Until just a moment ago, the soldiers had been standing still in front of the castle gates and observing them from an outsider’s point of view, but the sudden violence, and that in front of the Governor’s Palace, was something that could not be overlooked.

“What are you doing? You’re educating a thousand that dared to insult those who follow noble blood and gods in the plebeian system.”

“Good luck! Hey, direct the way to the governor now.”

“Yes?”

The soldier clearly heard with both ears, but he doubts whether they said something wrong or whether there is something wrong with his ears.

The soldiers serving at the Palace of the Viceroy were all dispatched directly from Dijon, and those soldiers had never experienced anything like this while working in Dijon.

The official just said what he had to say, but is that the right thing to do? Even in front of the Governor’s Palace?

No matter how much he thinks about it, the soldier doesn’t think that the official has done anything wrong, and above all, he can’t understand the outsiders who give orders as if it were natural for him as a soldier under the governor’s direct command. No matter how different the status is, the command system is a matter of a completely different dimension.

“Are you deaf!! Direct me to the governor immediately!!”

“…First of all, please tell me your name and position. You can’t take an unverified person straight to the Governor—”

“These stuffy bastards!!”

“ㅡ…Kuh!”

Nobles and priests do not act differently even if they are soldiers. Just like you did with the officials, you also use physical force on the soldiers.

The problem is that, unlike officials, soldiers are physically trained and unarmed.

Aww!

“aaa!!”

“Everybody come out! Arrest all these bastards!!”

The nobleman who punched the soldier, though shallow, was cut by the soldier’s sword and his blood splattered. The soldier who was punched screamed for support.

Soon after, an alarm bell rings loudly above the gate, announcing a state of emergency, and soon after, the group of nobles and clerics who have been instigating this riot are all arrested and detained by the soldiers that follow.

Until just a moment ago, they used force to their heart’s content when they were in a bad mood, but now that a knife is pointed at their throat, there is no sign of that.

…………

‘What are these again?’

According to the urgent letter sent by the governor dispatched to Lutesia, dozens of nobles and priests were imprisoned for causing a commotion in the governor’s palace.

At first, I was surprised to hear that they were nobles and priests, but my heart sank… What are these bastards?

I thought nobles and priests from all over Carolingian united and came up to Lutecia, but it wasn’t.

‘What should I do?’

The nobles caught up in a riot were weak enough that I didn’t have to subcontract them to my vassals, so most of them I swallowed whole, and some even didn’t even have a territory.

But priests are not like that.

Unlike the church territories of Rotaling, which I completely destroyed and castrated their political power, the ecclesiastical territories of Caroling are not only healthy, but are proud of their great power.

In addition, most of the church territories incorporated into the Kingdom of Rotaring did not subcontract to the vassal, but made it my direct vassal, so if all of them united as one to respond, it would be quite a difficult situation.

‘If you just follow the rules… Well, this looks a bit risky.’

Of course, no matter how big and annoying it is, you can’t just quietly close your eyes.

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My precious slave… No, it’s not enough to lynch an official who receives the government’s salary, and to try to use force against a soldier is a problem that can’t be ignored.

Whew, it wasn’t long after the banquet was over that this kind of thing happened.

As the number of captured nobles is large, there must be a few of them who are connected to the nobles who attended the banquet.

‘Ah, I’ll just follow the law.’

“Hey, I’ll write a reply to the governor of Lutesia, so bring paper and a pen.”

But that doesn’t mean it’s pretty funny that there are openly codified laws that aren’t enforced.

Above all, isn’t it the least bit of gossip to punish by law rather than being swayed by personal feelings?

Hard? There’s a law I made myself, and I can’t break it, right? You shouldn’t have broken the law.

Thought so, Claude wrote down an order to the governor of Lutesia and the judge dispatched there demanding that the nobility and clergy who caused a disturbance be punished according to the law. The intelligence department was mobilized, but the unrest that Claude expected did not happen.

The nobility attending the banquet learned very well of Claude’s will to the law after staying in Dijon for three days.

Construction sites that are being built while meeting the safety standard laws of buildings, or the size and width of wagons are designated by law for road safety and unified into three major categories, or prohibited as a law to prevent leakage of factory technology Everything in Dijon that the aristocrats saw during the banquet, such as the regulations on disposal of garbage and filth that all citizens of Dijon had to abide by, each had a related law, and it was a scene of madness.

From the nobles’ point of view, there was no nobleman who could say that the punishment written in the law was too excessive for Claude, who had the mentality of a madman who made laws, no matter how trivial, and followed them by example.