Hearing Gao Wen's words, Knight Philip was a little stunned for a moment. He didn't understand exactly what his lord meant. Until Gao Wen asked him a more specific question: "How big is your fiefdom when the old Cecil was still there?"

"It is in two villages and a trunk southwest of the old castle," replied Knight Philip, "...and a mill."

Within the system of the Ansu Kingdom, this was a standard fief of a relatively poor knight. After the decline of the Cecil family, the only knights who were loyal to the family were basically the only territories.

Gao Wen nodded: "You have been following me for a while. You should know that according to the current land distribution system under Cecil, there is no living soil for traditional land aristocrats here. Even if the concept of "fiance" is still there, the privileges of land aristocrats have been greatly compressed."

At present, the Cecil territory has passed its initial foothold. With more and more pioneering areas, land distribution has become a problem that the rulers of the Cecil territory must consider. For Gao Wen, the pioneering construction of the Cecil territory is by no means his entire goal. He will eventually push the new order to the whole world, but he does not want the new order he promoted in this world to become a "change of dynasties" without any progress, so he really consumed a lot of brain cells when considering how to deal with traditional land aristocrats and related systems.

At first, he considered to take the reform step into place and wipe out the concept of "noble" completely, tie the governance of the territory to the Government Affairs Office, and destroy all the nobles in front of him along the way during the future expansion of the territory. However, during the trip to Glen, he was awakened.

Too aggressive will lead to big trouble.

Although the situation of Cecil's territory was different from that of Glen's territory ten years ago. Although Gauwen had already promoted education and publicity to open up people's wisdom in the territory, and also had his own armed forces and supporting productivity, he still had to face up to the fact that outside Cecil's territory, the nearly indestructible old social order that covered the whole world was still very strong. Even within Cecil's territory, the officials, soldiers, and civilians who strongly supported him also grew up under the influence of the old social system, and the changes he wanted to make were far more intense and profound than the Glen's territory ten years ago.

The old social order has long been soaked in everyone in this world and this era. His "one step in place" may lead to unpredictable consequences.

Even if Cecil's productivity develops rapidly, it will be difficult for him to complete the transformation and reconstruction of the entire society while conquering the world in the future. First of all, quality and capable civilian managers cannot emerge out of thin air. Most talents used to maintain social order must be selected from the old aristocratic system. Secondly, excessively extreme changes will stimulate the aristocratic system in the world. Unless he can eliminate all opponents from the world in a short time and replace them with a new system, then the situation of external enemies attacking together will come sooner or later, and most likely, when Cecil's expansion is greatly expanded and internal instability will come.

Traditional nobles may be greedy or slow, but they are by no means stupid, and they are not lacking in vigilance.

After realizing these hidden dangers, Gao Wen thought carefully for a long time and referred to some situations in the Eastern Tifeng Empire. In the end, he made his policy in future expansion, which was to retain the nobles, but gradually disintegrate the soil on which they depend for survival.

Gao Wen will retain the title of "noble" and some honorary privileges, and will even retain their power to collect tribute from the land in the early stage, but he will reclaim all the powers of the feudal nobles' over-standard powers, including legislation, retaining the army, minting coins, self-determined tax rates and other privileges. In this way, the control of the land aristocrats over the land will be greatly weakened. At the same time, Gao Wen also plans to abolish the concept of "fixion" and replace it with "territorial" to cut off the relationship between the old "lord" and the land. In the end, he hopes to create such a situation:

A new nobleman, who owns a legal "territory", can collect a certain percentage of tribute from the economic development of this territorial as his "annuity", but apart from this "dividend", he will no longer retain any control over the land and its population. He can retain the family's castles, vaults and various honorary titles, but this is all he can retain.

If he wants to gain more profits or gain greater power, he can choose to compete for a position in the government affairs department, or invest in a factory or a business.

This is an incomplete change, but Gao Wen knew that even such a degree of change would still greatly stimulate the traditional nobles, and it would even be more severe than the Tifeng Empire next door, causing a stronger rebound. After all, in Tifeng, the nobles at least retained the concept of "fixion".

But it doesn't matter, as long as their rebound is within the control of Cecil's "truth", then nothing is a problem.

After the pain, they will cooperate.

Of course, most of these were Gao Wen's plans. Although many people in the territory guessed the fact that the ancestor was planning to pick up a rolling pin and beat the child, Gao Wen had not said anything yet. It was just that for those smart people, such as the Knight Philip, he could at least see the position of the land nobles in the "Cecil Order" from the various systems in the territory.

"To be honest, when you initially announced the land distribution system, formed the Government Affairs Office and transformed various lord powers into the daily work of the Government Affairs Office, I had a feeling of resistance for a while," Philip was a sincere man. Even when he was facing his idol or even a spiritual model for more than 20 years, he did not hide his thoughts. "At that time, I also discussed with the Byron Knights to discuss when you would remember to talk to us about the fiefdom..."

Gao Wen looked at the Knight in front of him with a smile, who was absolutely able to tell the truth: "What about now?"

"Your wisdom makes this land extremely prosperous," Philip said heartily. "I never thought that a land could become so rich in such a short time, not by farming and renting, but by factories and commerce. If you had not cancelled the old system that tied the people to the land, and if you had not formed an efficient government office, then factories and commerce would have absolutely no operation."

"Then do you still miss your fiefdom?" Gao Wen continued to ask.

"A true nobleman, he was granted a title not to rule who or what benefits, but to protect the people, to make the people safe, and to make the land prosperous. All his privileges exist to better fulfill this obligation. This is what you said in Ansu for four years. I engrave it on my shield," Philip said with a serious face. "So, if your new order can make the people safe, to make the land prosperous, and to do better than the old system of privilege, then those privileges are not necessary to be retained."

"Very good," Gao Wen nodded with satisfaction, "It would be great if everyone could have the awareness of you..."

Then he paused and ordered, "I want you to gather all the enfeoffed knights of Kant to swear all their swearing allegiance."

It has always been the Knight Philippe who is responsible for contacting Kant and Cecil, so he is the best choice for this.

The young Knight lowered his head: "I will complete my mission."

After Philip left, only Amber and Gao Wen were left in the study.

The half-elves walked around Gao Wen twice, strictly speaking, it was around the entire desk two big circles. Her actions made Gao Wen unable to help but speak: "What are you going around?"

"I think you're going to do something big," Amber looked at Gao Wen with a serious face, "but I don't understand what you're going to do."

"That's right, it's already surprising that you can tell that I'm going to make trouble," Gao Wen looked at this half-elf who usually knows nothing about territory, laws, traditional aristocrats, and other things, "How did you see it?"

As a result, Amber opened her mouth and wanted to slap her on the wall: "What I am best at in my life is to cause trouble. I still can't see the same temperament?"

"You... Forget it, I didn't expect you to see it clearly."

"Don't say that, I can still see something rough," Amber immediately said with a glaring eyes. "I know how many privileges you have regained after changing the 'fixion' to 'territories', and how did you put those privileges into the previous territory under the control of the Government Affairs Office, except for you, there were only two knights, Viscount Rebecca and Byron Philip. At that time, I was curious. Who did you do this in advance? Now I see that you can't say who you are targeting in the future, but now the old knights under Kant must be attacked first...are you afraid that those knights will resist together?"

"The enfeoffed knights are 'half' land nobles. They hold far less privileges than real lords. They themselves have no power to legislate and coin. After obeying the new law of Cecil, they simply turned the previous land rent income into annuity income and lost the legal right to the fiefdom. But they can get more benefits from the new social order... People with a little wisdom and vision will know how to choose."

"Oh my God, you actually asked them to have the most wise and visionary things that nobles lacked!" Amber said in an exaggerated tone that they deserved, "What should they do?"

"That's great. The annual savings are enough for me to open several steel foundries in Kant."

Looking at the heartfelt smile on Gao Wen's face, Amber suddenly remembered the "negotiation method" mentioned by the other party earlier.

She suddenly felt a little cold...

"But I think it's more likely that they will see the situation clearly," Gao Wen said with a smile. "As for the same sentence, they don't lose much privileges, so their resistance will not be so strong, at least they won't be able to resist with all their lives. As long as they see the power of Cecil's order after this, they will know how right their choice is."

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