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They didn't expect that when Reid divided the territory, he would leave a large piece without dividing it.

"What is this piece for? Why isn't it distributed to those people?" Harold asked Reid on the side in puzzlement.

However, Reed looked helplessly at the bewildered expressions on the faces of the two young leaders, and said with a wry smile: "This is for you and Your Excellency Yang Yuan, you two must have your own territory!"

Yang Yuan pinched Cairns' armpit, finally snatched a piece of barbecue from his hand, and stuffed it into his mouth.Then he said vaguely: "But these territories belong to Harold in the first place. Even if they are distributed to others to manage, they still belong to Harold!"

He had never heard that the governor wanted to manage a village by himself.Of course, the governor only needs to take care of the mayor—this is Yang Yuan's simple understanding of the functions of administrative officials in the motherland.

Of course Reed knew that even if the territory was entrusted to the knights, it still belonged to Lord Harold.But the tax collected in this way is different, and it cannot be directly managed, and you will lose direct control over these lands.This is not a good thing for a lord.So even His Majesty the King hopes that the more territory he can directly control in his own hands, the better.

But Yang Yuan didn't think about it at all.He felt that it was a joke for a knight to manage dozens of families.What is there to manage?Doesn't the so-called enfeoffment just give them an extra chance to collect taxes?

As for other things, such as laws and regulations, administrative management, etc., it is still necessary to establish relevant institutions to directly manage them.Otherwise, would those knights who didn't even know a single word know what to do with their subjects? ——Actually, even Yang Yuan himself is not very clear about it.He is still a senior intellectual who has gone to university, Yang Yuan joked in his heart.

All the livelihood problems in Korbaugh's territory were solved by Reed alone.But Reid also told him later that he also pulled the vassals left by the old lord to complete the task together.

But this is obviously not enough.You must know that in Korbaf, a land with tens of thousands of people, there is not even a court.Not to mention police stations, prisons, tax bureaus, finance bureaus, municipal administration offices, and so on.

And of course it is impossible for him to continue to use Fenori's original mechanism and the officials inside.

So what he and Harold need to do now is to establish these institutions one by one—yes, he finally decided to establish such a framework himself.

Thinking of what Milton had done before, he still hesitated to let him be completely relieved of these knights now—set the rules and policies one by one, and the knights and nobles who are now entrusted can help He will implement the policies formulated one by one.If anyone is not doing well enough, they will be taken down and put back up again.

It will be so much easier.

But he thought that as long as he worked hard in the early stage, after establishing these construction frameworks, he should still be able to drink tea and play with lizards in the future.

Reed stared at His Excellency Yang Yuan dumbfounded. After a few words, he deprived all the little lords of their right to manage the fief.You must know that in Simina, no matter how small the lord is, the rights he has over the fief and the people on the fief are supreme, absolute and unique—the supervisory officials, in this kind of fief When exercising power, you need to be careful again and again.

He wanted to remind Your Excellency Yang Yuan of this matter, but he opened his mouth, but swallowed the words again.

He thought about it carefully, and felt that this did not seem to be a bad thing.In the hands of Your Excellency Yang Yuan, even a barren mountain can be turned into a treasury full of dinars.If he is allowed to manage his four small villages by himself, is it guaranteed that his ideas will be better than those of His Excellency Yang Yuan?

In particular, this Your Excellency is a truly generous and benevolent lord, and he will never covet the production of the vassals' territories-of course, taxes still have to be paid-but it will certainly not be more expensive than other big lords. Got more.

So isn't that a very good thing?Master Yang Yuan will give advice and teach them how to manage their people, and when something beyond their control happens, Ruhrburg will definitely send troops out to settle it for them—because according to His Excellency Yang Yuan, now It's all in Ruhrburg's hands - what a pleasant and easy way to manage it!

Reed nodded with a smile, and decided to discuss this matter with a few old friends in advance, hoping that they would not object to such a proposal because of a momentary enthusiasm.

And obviously on this matter, Your Excellency seems very determined.Then this is something that cannot be changed - this is also Reed's perception of Yang Yuan after getting along for such a long time.

And according to His Excellency Yang Yuan, many management departments will be established in the future.And this is probably the real center of power in Ruhrburg in the future.He's definitely going to have a place in it!

But in fact, Yang Yuan didn't mind Reed's active participation at all, because now he suddenly discovered that intellectuals are really a scarce resource!

For the things he has to do, some older nobles are unlikely to be used by him due to their fixed inertial thinking.And most of the younger noble children entered the knight order and became knights.

And it is obviously impossible for them to enter the city hall and become city management officials.

So he could only recruit their second sons from those families, but found that many of them had been sent to other territories.

"What do you mean? Give it to someone else as a servant?" Yang Yuan asked dumbfounded, "Why is the son of a nobleman given to another nobleman as a servant?"

This Harold really knows, but he doesn't understand why Yang Yuan doesn't know, "Because they can't afford it. Or they can't afford to raise a child with noble standards. But if this child is sent to another Noble families, as foster children, they will live in the other family as servants or knight attendants, so their living expenses will not be so high."

In fact, the nobles fostered their second sons in other noble families in the name of hoping that their children could receive a good education under the upbringing of the hostess and hostess of the foster family, and learn all the knowledge that knights need to learn. Etiquette, cultural edification, and most importantly, knight riding and combat training.

But in fact, even if these children have all the inner conditions to become knights, most of them cannot become real knights.

Knights need military exploits and canonization, and even the latter is the first.

The canonization of a knight requires not only the armor, weapons and other equipment needed for the knight to prepare for battle, but also the horse and fief, as well as all the expenses required for the sword-giving ceremony.

If the knight's family can't provide him, there is no way for him to become a knight.

And most aristocratic families simply cannot afford to support a second knight.

This also means that the purpose of sending the second sons out is only to reduce the family's expenditure a little.

Yang Yuan nodded subconsciously when he heard the words. He seemed to have a vague impression of such a thing, but he was not particularly clear about the specific circumstances of this system and the root causes.

"Then--will they be able to read?" Yang Yuan shook his head, leaving behind these things he didn't quite understand, and directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

Harold paused, scratched his head, and said with some uncertainty: "Maybe—?"

Before he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Reed, who was beside him, and looked at him with questioning eyes.

"Of course, of course! That's one of the reasons why we sent them out!" Reed quickly nodded with a smile, "There are many children who can learn good cultural knowledge or become knight servants in host families. These are Very good people and you can bring them back if you need them."

Reed himself has two second sons who are living abroad, and he sends some silver coins over every year.Especially this year, when his income has increased greatly, his wife Sarah even wants to bring back the two children-but this is obviously impossible.

The host family's support for these children is not free, although they also receive fees from the children's parents.But these foster care costs are more or less, not every pair of parents sincerely hope that their children can live well in host families.And their upbringing of these children, of course, requires these children to repay them after they grow up.

So at that time, such children often stayed in the foster family for many years, and sometimes until they got married, they may stay in the foster family, or become a part of the family, or serve it for the rest of their lives.

This is even a better way out for some children whose family conditions are not very good.

If the parents of the child take the child back when they just raised the child and asked them to pay back, then all these years of upbringing will become voluntary labor.

So Reed has never been able to agree to Sarah.

But now, if the lord issued such an order, he would have every reason to take someone to bring the child back—of course, the necessary reward must be indispensable.

Reed secretly apologized to His Excellency the lord who was about to take countless scapegoats, but with a just and strict expression on his face, he said without selfishness: "I'm afraid this is better than the school proposed by His Excellency Yang Yuan to re-train noble children." , much faster and more efficiently.”

Yang Yuan had no idea that he was being tricked by this seemingly simple and honest subordinate.However, after asking the opinions of several people, he settled the matter.

——Everyone’s opinion is that there are indeed advantages and disadvantages in doing so, but if Ruhrburg really needs these talents, they can still be considered.

So Yang Yuan and Harold finally decided to recruit these second sons from their foster families at a price of [-] dinars each.And these dinars will be brought directly by the people of Ruhrburg, not through the hands of the parents of these second sons.

These dinars will need to be deducted from their income by these second sons after working for Ruhrburg in the future.

It is already known that the lord will set up a town hall to directly govern all territories within the power of Ruhrburg.

In this way, the power of the minor nobles shrunk directly, and when people were complaining non-stop, they heard such news that they were extremely pleasantly surprised.

This also means that the second sons of their family are likely to win a seat in the city hall.At that time, the power in their hands will cover all the land in Ruhrburg.

This is much more than the dozens of families in their family!

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