In order to appease the aristocrats' uneasy mood, Roland specially arranged a sumptuous banquet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the center of the hall was a long table covered with white cloth, where the nobles sat opposite each other, and in the middle were a variety of dishes, wines, and flowers.

After two glasses of red wine, the atmosphere eased a lot, and the big nobles had all fallen, and the honeysuckle and elk were on Roland's side again, and the rest of the little nobles would not jump out at such a time to contradict them, but instead revealed their intention to take refuge in their words. In this situation, Roland knew it was time to bring his new order to the table.

After he had eaten and drunk, he handed out the small notebooks he had prepared in advance to the nobles.

It was a "propaganda brochure" that he had carefully prepared.

"Your Highness...... What is this," and sure enough, soon a nobleman asked in surprise, "why is the painting on it so realistic?"

"That's right, it's just like the real thing. ”

"It's not like it's painted...... No pigment can express such delicate colors. ”

It is not a loss that the nobles in the big city, it can be seen that these people have a certain appreciation for paintings, Roland stroked his palms and smiled, "They are indeed painted by painters, but if there is any difference, it is that this painter is a witch, and the paint she paints is omnipresent magic." ”

These words made everyone's bodies stiffen, and the book in their hands was not placed, nor was it if they were not put away.

"The local church has vanished, what are you worried about?" the prince raised an eyebrow, "witches are no different from us, I've proven this many times. ”

"Ahem...... Ahem," Pero almost choked," His Highness said. ”

"It's not a loss, it's the fourth prince, haha...... Ha," the other nobles laughed awkwardly.

Well, as if he had said something rather ambiguous, Roland pretended to be casual and changed the subject—after more than a year as prince, he found himself at a level of unfazed...... Or that the thickness of the skin has increased by leaps and bounds, "The picture is just to make the content more vivid, and the story described above is the focus." ”

Everyone continued to flip through a few pages, and the little girl of the Elk family, Aurelian, quickly raised her head, "This is the family history of a nobleman?"

"Aurelian!" Wren reminded in a low voice, "Your Highness!"

"That's right, he used to be a Western nobleman," Roland gestured innocably, "and some of you should remember him." ”

"Your Highness...... I know him," said one of the knights, "Tigou Pyne, who is my neighbor, and our two lands were once attached. ”

"I've seen him too," the other recalled, "and seems to be a baron, and his father was a vassal of Joy Cole. Ever since Master Joy left the West, his realm has decayed. ”

"Viscount Tigu is currently in the Frontier Town," Roland smiled, "and this album is a record of my acquaintance with him...... And what happened later. As you can see, he is a nobleman living under the new system, and he is currently busy practicing his musket, and it is estimated that when the evil moon is over, he will take his daughter and his attendants to the Hidden Forest to enjoy the hunt. As far as I know, since he sold the territory east of the fortress and settled in the border town with peace of mind, he can't help but be promoted to a first level, and his family fortune has increased several times. ”

Fear stems from the unknown, and so does resistance to institutional change, because they don't know how the change will affect them. Roland asked Soroya to depict Tiago Pyne's small-town life in the form of a caricature as an example of his own propaganda, precisely to reduce the resistance and fear of the aristocracy. Compared with those boring text biographies, it is obvious that the expressiveness of comics is more vivid and expressive.

"You should all know that I'm about to build a city in the West, and in fact, I've been planning this for a long time. At that time, the border town, the Changge fortress and the narrow strip of land between the two places will be reduced to a single whole. Roland continued, "One might ask how two towns could be connected when they were so far apart. First of all, the meaning of the whole is administrative, that is, the new city will carry out the same laws and policies, which is why I want to take back the right of the nobility to divide and make laws. ”

"Your Highness, what about our territory......" someone asked.

"It still belongs to you," he interrupted, "and I said that taking back these powers does not mean that you have anything to lose - the essence of a feud is to cede your own territory to others in order to form your own subordinate nobility, and in this way to increase your power, to defend yourself against the enemy, or to fight together for profit. Under the new system, the task of defending against foreign enemies will be done by a professional army, and as long as you follow the rules, you will earn far more benefits than before. After all, it's better to make the cake bigger than to divide that little bit of cake. ”

Seeing that everyone was silent, Roland took a sip of tea, "You have never been to the border town, so it is normal to not know how big the cake can be, in fact, in the second half of the year, the town's financial income reached as much as 30,000 golden dragons, if it were not for the early arrival of the Demon Moon, this number would probably increase by about 10,000." ”

The nobles took a cool breath in unison, "Three...... Thirty thousand?"

Roland had already learned from Pello about the financial situation of the fortress over the years, and the annual income of the town hall was only this amount, not to mention these minor nobles, and a hundred golden dragons was a huge amount of money for them.

"And you, as the managers of all walks of life here in the future, will naturally be able to reap rich rewards from this. He continued, "Returning to the establishment of the city, in addition to the administrative unity, the two towns will gradually move closer to each other geographically. For example, it only took me one day to reach Changge Fortress from the border town, and when the construction of the Kingdom Road is completed, the land walking time will be shortened to one day, and if I ride a horse or a bicycle, it will only take half a day to arrive, not to mention the faster transportation. ”

"What is a bicycle?" Aurelian curious.

"A human-powered vehicle that runs very fast on flat ground," laughed the prince, "and I dare say five years...... No, within three years, we'll be able to have breakfast at the fort and then go to work in the border town. "Because of the use of a straight line, the distance between the two places has been shortened to 60 kilometers, and it takes half an hour to replace it with a rail locomotive or car.

However, most of the nobles were not on their minds about this, and the knight, who claimed to be a neighbor of Tigou Pine, asked cautiously, "Your Highness, do you want to put the fortress in our hands?"

"Yes and no," Roland shrugged, "as I said before, the two places will be a whole in an administrative sense after the establishment of the city, and the fortress will be transformed into an area of the city, under the jurisdiction of the central town hall. But for now, a day's journey is still too far, so I'm going to set up a lower-level town hall in Changge District, where there will be many lower-level departments according to the current model of the border town, and you will work in these departments and be responsible for dealing with the specific matters here. ”

"Subordinate...... Department?" The nobles had a bewildered look on their faces.

"Managing an area is a complex task, and while it can pay you a lot of money, it's not easy to do your part," Roland said bluntly, "so when order is restored here, you'll all have to follow me to the Frontier Town to see first-hand how a fully functional town hall works." You still need to learn one more about the management course. (To be continued.) )