Summoning Total War

centralization!

This is the path Murphy must take in the future, because without centralization, he will not be able to integrate the power of the entire human city-state to face this turbulent era and cope with future wars. If power is distributed layer by layer like the Parliament of Nobles, the nobles in various places will be timid in the face of war in order to preserve their own strength, fearing that their strength will be lost too much.

What a slap in the face!

If the nobles from all over the country were not united, the nobles would compete for power within the noble council, and the great nobles would be afraid of losing too much of their own strength in the war.

Will millions of humans be beaten like that by two to three hundred thousand jackals?

If Murphy hadn't arrived, if the gnolls hadn't massacred the city several times, if the gnolls hadn't used humans as food, if it hadn't been for this race war that resulted in nearly 200,000 human civilian casualties, those bastards in the Noble Council wouldn't have been able to survive. Know how long to fight passively! Under this decadent system, the soldiers of nobles from all over the country are their personal armed forces, and what they lose is their personal strength. Under such circumstances, what do they have left in the face of this all-out racial war? How much mobilization power?

This is not an era of peace, this is an era of chaos where one's life may be annihilated if one is not careful!

After promulgating the decree prohibiting the use of humans as slaves, Murphy once again promulgated the tenant system, which meant gathering all the poor people from the lower classes and moving them to Athens to reclaim wasteland for Murphy. These reclaimed wastelands will be cultivated by them. As long as they cultivate for five years, each population will be able to obtain five acres of land from the reclaimed wastelands as a reward from Murphy, and have their own private cultivated land, and Obtain the status of a second-class civilian and have certain freedoms in life.

In these five years, the amount of land cultivated will far exceed the land rewarded by Murphy, and the harvested food will greatly enhance the strength of Athens.

Murphy plans to reserve the excess cultivated land for distribution to soldiers and officers in the future, while the grain will be filled into the national treasury as a strategic material reserve. Except for part of the food harvested from reclaiming wasteland for the poor people's own use, the rest belongs to Murphy's property, because he is the Grand Duke of the Principality of Athens, and these lands belong to his wealth.

After five years, these lower-class poor serfs will own part of their own land and obtain corresponding status.

Put in the sweat, and the animal husbandry will be rewarded!

Not many people know how to cherish things that fall from the sky and get them for free. If Murphy directly rewards them with land, it may not have better results, and it may not make them grateful. Give them a chance to obtain land through their own efforts, improve their status through their own sweat, this is the best way for a person in power to deal with things.

And Murphy's move can build the foundation of the future kingdom in one fell swoop, allowing more poor people from the lower classes to obtain land through hard work.

These lands will serve as their proprietary property.

The issuance of this system actually means that after Murphy initially stabilized the rule of the principality, he began to attack the aboriginal nobles to further weaken their strength, deprive them of their autonomous ruling status, and give more power to them. Take over the state machinery. In the future, these aboriginal nobles will become rich and have high social status, but they will no longer be the kind of rulers who have the power of life and death for the people in their territories.

For these aboriginal nobles, Murphy only gave one way out.

That is, if you really have the ability, then join the huge war machine of the Principality of Athens, and use your talents to obtain the allocated power from the state machine, instead of trying to establish another one under the state machine. * ruling power.

This is something Murphy will never allow!

In order to deal with the coming race war, Murphy must highly centralize his power to gather the full-scale war mobilization power he has when the war breaks out!

11. "Hit a stick and give a sweet date."

In order to avoid a comprehensive backlash from the indigenous nobles, Murphy also began to open the door of core power to those talented indigenous nobles. Now more than a dozen talented aboriginal nobles have been promoted to various positions such as mayors, financial officers, etc. There are even two noble children with good talents, good fighting ability and plasticity who have been promoted to generals by Murphy. Arrangements were made for further studies at the Academy of Athens.

As long as they can achieve excellent results in tactical theory, then they can become one of the generals of Athens!

certainly.

If they are those noble children who do not learn Yuan arts and only know how to eat, drink and have fun, they are better off guarding their fiefdoms and becoming rich. If they are unwilling to lose power, or if they have other ambitions, Murphy will use thunderous means to tell them what the bloody reality is! Murphy will never show mercy to these restless elements!

Since the establishment of the principality, Murphy has successively operated on several aboriginal nobles in the past few months.

As long as they dare to do anything wrong, Murphy doesn't mind uprooting them!

This will make it easier for him to reform the system and establish a new social order.

Second Age Era 377, late June.

After promulgating the tenant farming system, Murphy promulgated a comprehensive talent selection decree. Regardless of origin or status, anyone can be promoted and reused as long as he has enough talent!

As soon as this decree was promulgated, there was an uproar in the principality**o!

Countless people with special skills are eager to get opportunities, have a better platform to show their abilities, gain a better status, and enjoy a better life. Talented people from all walks of life were selected and then filled into the ranks of low-level officials at the middle and lower levels throughout the Principality of Athens, injecting sufficient reserve energy into the ruling institutions of the entire principality. As long as these talents selected from the lower levels can grow up, those aboriginal nobles will no longer be able to make any waves, and the knowledge monopoly they have formed for thousands of years will also be broken by Murphy.

The Academy of Athens has begun to establish enlightenment schools in various places to provide intellectual enlightenment and advanced education to children above the freemen class in various places.

This may be a measure that cannot be effective in a short period of time, but for the future of mankind, this is indeed a major educational breakthrough. Because this will break the thousands of years of phenomenon in which the knowledge of human city-states has been monopolized by aristocratic and wealthy families. Ordinary lower-class people are illiterate and cannot even write their own names. It also laid the foundation for the development and growth of civilization throughout the human world.

At the same time, allowing free people and above to receive education can also greatly stimulate the aspirations of the lower classes in the duchy.

Because becoming a noble may be out of reach for them, but relying on hard work to upgrade their status to a free citizen is an achievable goal. As long as they can obtain the status of free citizens, their children will be able to receive an Athenian education. Education will allow their children to have more knowledge, and then rely on this knowledge in exchange for a higher status.

This is a virtuous cycle, which not only ignites the fighting spirit of the lower class civilians but also provides Athens with a sufficient talent reserve.

The huge kingdom plan is still proceeding in an orderly manner, and Mrs. Elizabeth, Murphy's right-hand man, is busy working again. Now, there is already a team of hers in the Athens Governing Council, which is responsible for implementing the system reform code-named "Kingdom Age". Murphy divided the internal affairs of Athens into two parts, and handed one part to the talented general Jerry Rivard, who was responsible for the construction and reclamation of Athens' interior to enrich his own strength. The other part is taken care of by Lady Elizabeth, who integrates the aboriginal humans and gradually integrates them into the payment system of Athens.

When communicating with these aboriginal humans, it would be better to use people from this world.

As for the army, General Leodalius is still in charge. This usually taciturn general has now begun to recruit the Second Army of Athens, and the formation of the armored cavalry corps has now begun to take shape. In only about half a year, then A heavy cavalry regiment with a number of 1,500 people can be formed. At that time, Athens' combat effectiveness will be greatly increased!

Really establishing a kingdom is actually a very complicated and cumbersome matter, and these things require a lot of time.

Arms: Armored Cavalry [Legion]

Number of recruitment rounds:

Soldier size.

Attack [heavy weapon].

Total defense.

vitality.

morale.

Recruitment fees.

Abilities: Armor-breaking, high morale, able to form cone formations, abundant physical strength, charge bonus in plain areas.

Description: Cataphracts are super-heavy cavalry that can use ferocious charges to turn the tide of the battle. They are the ultimate cavalry, armored siege vehicles that can break through enemy lines and wipe out all those who resist. They are equipped with heavy guns for charging purposes and maces for melee combat. They wore almost unparalleled and extremely heavy armor, and even their horses were also armored.

When advancing, they act like a metal wall that crushes the enemy and has a razor-sharp tip. Their armor is indeed powerful, but it also means that their movement speed is slightly slow and their flexibility is insufficient. As soon as possible, this weight also means that they often can break through the enemy's lines without too much effort!

When groups of armored cavalry charge, there will be an unstoppable giant wave of steel on the entire battlefield!

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