The Rise of the European Emperor

It has been a long time since the Battle of Lübeck, and such a long time is enough to count the military exploits. After all, reward for merit and punishment for wrongdoing must be strictly enforced.

In fact, the merits of the soldiers are counted after the autumn harvest. However, where to reward them will have to wait for Marin's men to take over the lands in Bremen, West Friesland and Jutland.

After all, Marin is not happy to enclose East Frisian native land on a large scale. It would be most appropriate, then, to select land as a reward from newly received lands in places such as Jutland and Bremen.

In this war, in addition to Marin himself, Schwartz, Woolf Esbrand and others who have been the main commanders must be the most successful ones. In addition, Kahn, who was responsible for leading the "Wolf Tooth Commando" to the front, and Saqqara, the commander of the newly emerging England Corps, also had a lot of credit. And Captain Kidd and others also have a certain amount of credit.

In the end, after statistics, Schwartz was promoted to the third-class viscount, that is, from the viscount, because of overall planning and the first in military exploits. As for Woolf Esbrand, because his starting point was too low, he could only be promoted to first-class baron despite his great military exploits.

As for Kahn, although the credit is not as great as Schwartz. However, he was responsible for protecting Marin's safety, as well as personally leading troops into battle in the decisive battle. In addition, his starting point is similar to that of Schwartz, so he was promoted to first-class baron.

As for Saqqara, because the starting point was too low before, not even a noble. Therefore, despite the great credit, they can only be promoted to the third baron, that is, from the baron. But even so, Saqqara was overjoyed. After all, he was just an ordinary Frisian soldier before. Although he learned a little bit of commanding ability with Marin, his background is still very low.

The promotion from a commoner to a knight can be considered a step to the sky, not to mention that Saqqara became a baron directly? Although he is the lowest third baron among the third barons established by Marin, he is also a baron, isn't he?

As for the other soldiers, in addition to Captain Kidd, who was also promoted to Baron because of his merits, there were also five phalanx captains who performed well, including Miller, Kelson, and Harold, who were promoted to Baron.

In addition, there are more than 200 soldiers and soldiers (including Nicholas Cage) who have been promoted to hereditary knights and ordinary knights due to their merits, and the lineup is huge...

Of course, this also brings about a big problem, that is--a lot of land is needed to be subdivided...

According to the award standard set by Marin, the fief of a viscount is 6,000 Ugram (12,000 acres) of arable land; the fief of a deputy viscount is 5,000 ugram (10,000 acres) of arable land; the fief of a viscount is 4,000 Ugram (80,000 acres). thousand acres) arable land; baron's fief is 2000 ugram (4000 acres) arable land; vice-baron's fief is 1500 ugram (3000 acres) arable land; from baron's fief is 1000 ugram (2000 acres) arable land...

The above are middle and high-ranking nobles.

As for the lower nobles, the fiefs of hereditary knights are 300 Ugrams (600 acres) of arable land; common knights are 100 Ugrams (200 acres) of arable land...  

Looking for a reward standard, compared to other countries, it is much less. Of course, the less here refers to the land area. For example, the fiefs of French knights have reached 1,500 acres; German knights often have about 1,000 acres; English knights have only 600 acres... Of course, the fiefs here do not refer to pure cultivated land. Sometimes, a fief of 1,500 acres is good enough to have 500 acres of arable land...

Moreover, because Marin provided the nobles with high-yield fertilizers, although the land area of ​​the nobles under Marin was not large, their income was higher than that of the nobles of other countries.

One Viscount, one Viscount, two Barons, 6 Barons, and 200 Knights, minus the lands originally owned by these people (e.g. Adler was made a Viscount with a fief of 6,000 Eugrams, but he owns 2,000 Eugrams). Gram, so Marin only needs to supply him with 4,000 Ugram arable land), and he needs Marin to newly seal out 44,000 Ugram (88,000 acres) of arable land. Fortunately, Marin won a large piece of new land, and there was enough land to be enfeoffed. Otherwise, just relying on the internal blockade of East Friesland, Marin's land will also lose a lot. If you fight a few more battles, if you don't expand, Marin probably won't have much territory...

Fortunately, Marin was stingy and greatly lowered the standard for sealing land. If, like the French, an ordinary knight seals 1,500 acres of land, it will be a huge loss. You know, 1500 acres is 750 Eugrams. For 200 knights, it would cost 150,000 Eugrams, not counting those barons and viscounts...

Marin felt pain just thinking about it, 44,000 Ugram arable land! Converted into mu, that is 1.008 million mu! You must know that the emperor of China, rewarding ministers, generally rewarded a few hundred acres of land. The heavy reward is not more than a thousand mu, at most a few thousand mu. Only the fiefs of the emperor's own son, the prince, can be calculated in terms of ten thousand mu. After all, they are Princes.

But in Europe, fief standards are simply too high. For an ordinary knight, the fief would be 1,500 acres, equivalent to 9,000 acres. Such standards, even the ministers in the court, may not have so many...

Fortunately, Marin will develop the Americas on a large scale in the future. In that way, there is no need to worry about no land being awarded to the meritorious men.

Also, take into account the sheer size of these fiefs. Moreover, there are too many people in the middle reaches of the fief. After thinking about it, Marin decided to adopt the remote leadership system to deal with the people in the fief...

What is the remote system? It is to be given a post, but not to take the job in person. In fact, this is just a way of giving treatment, no real power.

For example, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, was once named King of Jin and held the post of Governor of Bingzhou. However, he himself did not go to Bingzhou to be the governor, but only enjoyed this treatment.

This situation is relatively common in the Tang Dynasty, and is generally a special treatment for princes.

The reason why Marin wants to promote this kind of treatment is not actually for the benefit of the fief, but for the people of the noble fief...

Why? Because according to European tradition, the people in the noble fiefs are the subjects of the nobles, but they are not the subjects of the king. Once a citizen of a noble fief, the king has no right to appoint the people of the noble fief. If you want those people to help you work, you have to go through the fief aristocracy...

This, Marlin will not tolerate. Moreover, this also seriously affects centralization.

Therefore, Marin can allow the nobles to own large tracts of land and have huge profits, but it does not allow the people in their fiefs to be free from their own control.

After thinking about it, Marin remembered the remote leadership system of the Tang Dynasty. The core of this system is that the princes and princes, although they enjoy high-level treatment, cannot manage the people of the fief. That is to say, they are only responsible for obtaining the wealth and income of the fief, but they are not responsible for the management of the fief. The people of the fief still accept the management of the imperial court...

In this way, those vassal kings, because of the lack of real power in their hands, would not be able to turn the tide. In the Tang Dynasty, there were no successful rebellions by the vassal kings. However, in the later period, those Jiedushis with foreign surnames, because they also held local military and political power, became the cancer of the dynasty.

The remote control system that Marin intends to implement is to let the nobles under him just stay in the capital and wait for the output of the fief to be sent to them to squander. However, those lands and estates were managed by officials sent by the government. At the same time, for those fiefdoms, in the slack season, Marin may levy them to build water conservancy or something. During the war, there is a possibility that soldiers will be recruited from it...

In this way, he, the monarch, deserves his name...