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Stephen told his family in Zipping about his knighthood.

Even if he doesn’t say it, after the mayor of Qiping Town knows it, he will come over to congratulate him, which is a means of wooing.

The mayor of the town of Qiping is a viscount, with a higher title than the baron he is about to receive, and as a viscount, he can usually manage a small town, that is, the territory can reach the size of a small town.

As a baron, the territory he owns is the size of the village, dozens, at most hundreds, of which can form towns of different sizes.

However, in the Kingdom of England, those who hold the title have absolute autonomy within their own territory, that is, if Stephen obtains the territory of a certain village in Xia Xia in Qiping Town, she has absolute right to govern within this village territory, even the mayor of the viscount town who is one level higher than him must not easily interfere.

Unless he made a big mistake, the mayor could only report it to Kingsbury, who would then determine whether to strip him of his knighthood and confiscate his territory.

The mayor of the town has no right to decide, he only has the right to supervise.

In normal times, the mayor of the town is also responsible for taxation, and the mayor of the town is responsible for the collection of taxes in various rural territories, and then after it is concentrated, it is handed over to the higher earl, the earl who manages the city, and then the earl is handed over to the marquis, who manages a certain district, and the marquis is finally handed over to Kingsbury.

If the taxes are not paid on time, the mayor of the town has the right to sanction a viscount who is one level younger than him, and in addition, he must not interfere easily.

In other words, such an open right to autonomy, the position of the mayor of Qiping Town, is also supported by these dozens or hundreds of viscounts, in order to sit firmly.

That’s why it needs to be wooed.

As for the staff under the mayor of Qiping Town, they all did not have knighthoods, but were just private guest secretaries invited normally.

The title represents the official position in the Kingdom of England, and if you want to grant the official position, only the King of England has this right.

Sooner or later he would find out, so Stephen told his family about his upcoming baron.

Stephen’s family was very shocked, but also very happy, after becoming a baron, he will have a large territory, you can cultivate crops or do other things to increase economic income, and you don’t have to worry about the economy at all, and you will be admired by ordinary people when you go out, and you will have all face.

Of course, Stephen’s family must have asked why Stephen got the knighthood.

Stephen casually made up a reason, saying that when he went to Ferding Valley before, he met the seriously injured Hal, and then saved him, Hal is not actually a bad person, he is now the earl of the kingdom of England, he heard a huge secret from the witch of the wasteland, but because he was attacked, he was seriously injured, and he almost couldn’t bring this secret back, and then because of my help he recovered, and then brought the secret back to the palace, made a great achievement, and then looked at himself in front of the king, So the king gave himself the title of baron.

Hal is no longer necessary to be a murderous image in front of the people of Qiping Town.

The Witch of the Wasteland was later hunted down and killed by the royal wizards sent by the angry Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Airland.

And he heard that it had fallen, so there was no need for Hal to hide, he simply drove the moving castle directly out of Ferding Valley and came to the edge of the wasteland he had always liked, on the vast prairie.

Kingsbury’s Royal Palace, Stephen and Hal had come once before, what they needed to pay attention to, they all knew, but Maluk was not clear.

He followed the attendant to the main hall of the king of the palace, where Stephen met the king of the kingdom of Engri.

As well as a lot of courtiers in full costume.

The courtiers sat down on the left and right, revealing a red-carpeted aisle in the middle.

The attendant shouted, “Stephen, Maruk Fisher, arrive.” ”

The king and the noble courtiers on both sides listened and did not turn their heads to look at Stephen and Maluk.

The first time Maruk has seen such a scene is not small, except for the tension at the beginning, the feeling is the same thing later.

However, the noble courtiers looked at Yifen and Maluk both with disdain, because Stephen and Maluk were too young, and they heard that these two underage commoners received knighthoods because they helped Hal, they didn’t know how these two children, who were not even officially low-level wizards, helped the senior wizard Hal, and could get a knighthood, it was really the king’s enlightenment, plus the ancestors smoked, in order to pick up such a bargain.

The king couldn’t remember the names of Stephen and Maruk, he knew too many people, and after being reminded by the eunuch standing beside him, he knew the origin of the two people.

Also seems to be very careless, these days, the king does not know how many people from all over the world to receive the title, unless it is a count or a person who receives a higher title, these people are an important part of the kingdom of England, as for the viscount, baron or something, the king does not care very much.

He asked the eunuch to follow the previous steps, first speaking in front of Stephen Maruko on how to love and be loyal to the English kingdom, and then asked Stephen Maruk to take an oath and establish a loyalty contract.

After that, it is necessary to promulgate the official uniform of the English kingdom that has been formulated, as well as the coat of arms.

The knighthood uniform is also a kind of magic props, with the function of avoiding water and dust, so it looks very clean all year round, does not need to be cleaned, and to some extent can automatically shrink the size, such as blessing or growing taller, the knighthood official uniform can also change its size accordingly to adapt.

In this process, not only the noble courtiers on both sides of the king, but also did not care about Stephen and Maruk, whispering to each other in private, not knowing what they were talking about.

Maruk looked even more uneasy, and Stephen only frowned slightly, because there was a feeling of obvious lack of attention, but when he thought that he did not intend to make friends with them, how they did not care about themselves, he did not think so much.

After all of the above, the final and most crucial step has been taken, which is the division of land.

As a baron, you can directly manage administrative land at the village level, but do not think that because it is a village, there is only a little bit of land as large as the estate.

The so-called countryside, just because there are relatively few people living in a certain area, such as mountainous areas, surrounded by mountains, it is difficult to build large-scale towns, after all, if you want to build a town, you must have at least a large piece of flat land to establish a large-scale gathering of residents.

In terms of territory, rural territory is not necessarily smaller than town territory, because the surrounding mountains, those that are not suitable for the construction of dwellings, are difficult to enclose, and although these mountains are not suitable for establishing settlements, they can still be opened up as farmland.

Therefore, after entering the rural area, you will find a phenomenon, the surrounding mountains, unless the soil layer is very thin, most of them are exposed rocks, these mountains are not suitable for farming, in addition, as long as the mountains are wooded, there is a basis for opening up farmland, so it is often found that around the countryside mountains, from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, all have been carved out of farmland, forming a phenomenon of terraced scenery.

In the Kingdom of England, most of the land had already been divided, but this time the Kingdom of Wales was fully annexed, and there was a large vacancy of land, and Stephen thought that the king would definitely give it to himself and Maruk, some small remote country territory in the Kingdom of Wales.

The eunuch did not say directly which territory he got, he turned around and took a map, and then spread it out in front of the king.

The king glanced at the map, indeed planning to find a territory in some very remote small village in the Kingdom of Wales to send Stephen and Maruk, but no matter how he looked for it, the king was a little bad and made up his mind?

Because the Kingdom of Wales is small, but the land is basically very fertile, instead of giving Stephen and Maruk, the two unknown pawns, the king wants to keep those lands for preparation and reward them to some powerful children or royal nobles in the future.

After all, the title of the Kingdom of Ingri, as well as the divided land can be inherited, given to the other party, it means that it has always been the other party’s, the land is limited, people from generation to generation, can be infinite, in the long run, to Stephen and Maruk, two commoners with no background, the king feels very uneconomical.

Stephen and Maruk were not aware of the king’s careful thinking, but thought that the king was thoughtful.

Several courtiers below, seeing the frowning king’s embarrassment, one of them suggested: “Your Majesty, the wasteland area is vast and undeveloped, and it must be a piece of land with great potential in the future, which can be divided and managed by the two viscounts.” ”

Saying this, both Stephen and Maruk chuckled in their hearts, they had been to the wasteland, and they knew what the situation was in the wasteland, and they had never heard of it being uninhabited except for prisoners who were exiled and did not know whether they were dead or alive, and what was the use of such a place even if it was all given to himself, if the king really agreed to this suggestion, it was simply too bullying.

However, the last thing Stephen wanted to happen happened, and after the king listened, his eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed, probably feeling overwhelmed, and the land that the king allocated to Stephen and Maruk reached the size of a city, although it was all wasteland.

and gave Stephen Maluk the right to develop in addition to the wastelands they divided, even if they were outside the fiefs.

The king obviously did not believe that Stephen and Maruk could make a difference on the wasteland, which occupied 1/3 of the original Ingri Kingdom, and the fortunes were vast, and the ancestors of the king also wanted to develop the wasteland, but because of the harsh climate, they all failed.

Stephen didn’t know that the reason why he and Maruk were treated this way was because they had no background, just ordinary civilians, and no strength, unlike Hal, although they were civilians, but they were high-ranking wizards.

No one took them seriously.

Stephen didn’t know if there were any people who had received such unfair treatment like himself in the Kingdom of Ingri, in short, he and Maruk entered the palace this time, which was considered to be happy and defeated.

After the previously planned acquisition of territory, the desire to hire people on their own territory and then work for themselves is considered dissipated. _

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