Age of Empires From Scratch

For the remaining Rubik's Cube, David can think about who is used to summon it. Anyway, there is no rush.

After Wetherby Swan arrived, David and his political officer began to seriously discuss how to form the Duke of Winter's internal affairs system.

Before leaving Winter City to go to the Marvel universe, David had already got through with Wetherby Swan, let Wetherby think carefully during this time, and even discuss it with other people, and then come up with a plan come out.

So when David came back and summoned Wetherby Swan, the political officer had already handed over the plan he had prepared in advance to his lord.

"Administration, finance, personnel, supervision, agriculture, transportation, education, the new government affairs department will include these subordinate agencies."

The specific powers and responsibilities of each department are written in detail on the schedule, and there will be no situation where powers overlap and rob each other of power, at least it seems like this at the moment.

David roughly took a look, and with Wetherby Swan's introduction, he felt that the plan was complete enough, and several major departments had already covered all the things that Winter City needed to deal with.

"I can understand that the military is not included in the calculation, and public security is also separately drawn out?"

"I've discussed it with other people, and I think the Sheriff's Department should be treated like a military force." On the Brunnian Parkway, policing is the job of soldiers.

Whether the public security forces of Winter City are considered soldiers or not, there is no clear statement within Winter City itself.

The vast majority of people believe that security forces who have received military training and have a certain degree of military literacy should be treated as a reserve military group, and they can be armed as real soldiers in emergencies.

In addition, because of the continuous expansion of the scale of Winter City, Elizabeth believes that the security department also needs to be reorganized, and it can no longer be like this.

"Elizabeth suggested establishing a police station and a fire station, and separating public security management from rescue, fire fighting, and disaster relief."

"Well, yes."

The schedule was very thick, and David turned it over and found that it was not only Wetherby Swan's plan for the reorganization of the government department, but also Elizabeth's plan for the reorganization of the security department.

David took a look. Compared with the government affairs department, which has been subdivided into a large number of departments, the public security department is only divided into police, disaster relief, and fire departments. It is not complicated at all, and it is much simpler than the reorganization of the government affairs department.

"Let's reorganize according to this plan!"

After the reorganization, the Winter City Government Affairs Building in the southwest of Fort Glamorgan will become even busier, and the originally vacant floors and offices will gradually be filled.

In particular, the administrative department will be divided into two parts, the Duchy of Winter and the City of Winter. The Duchy of Winter will deal with the affairs of the entire northern plain including the City of Winter. In the future, with the expansion of power, the management will become more and more important. more and more regions.

Now Wetherby is the Minister of State for the Duchy of Winter, and the official of Winter City. In the future, he will definitely hand over the management of Winter City to others.

Later, David told Wetherby that the Duchy of Winter would not use the enfeoffment system, but Wetherby thought it would have no effect.

There are not many internal affairs officials in Winter City, and many of them are newly recruited low-level staff. They have not yet felt that they have the opportunity to become a lord.

What David really wants to appease is the military. Although they are all crushed, the army has fought several wars and made a lot of contributions. Before David announces the enfeoffment system, it is best to prepare a complete reward in advance Incentive system to ensure the benefits of military personnel announced.

"I do have some ideas and would like to hear your opinion."

David already had some ideas in his heart, so he brought up these things at this time.

Wetherby was asked because Wetherby Swan was the person with the most political experience in Winter City, and he should be able to give a reasonable judgment.

Wetherby nodded, quietly waiting for the Duke's narration, while David expressed his arrangements for the army in the simplest and most straightforward language.

According to his thinking, the title of knight will not be invalidated, it will still be retained, but the land will not be divided.

In the Dukedom of Winter, the only way to obtain land is to open up wasteland and purchase, and David will issue a series of laws and regulations to impose certain restrictions on land purchases and transactions.

He knew that things like land annexation were not easy to restrict, but it would definitely not work to do nothing, and he could only take one step at a time.

Wetherby felt that the Duke seemed to be digressing, but he kept his mouth shut and listened quietly.

Fortunately, David just mentioned a few words casually and then changed the topic back to the original topic.

Although you won't get land rewards for being a knight, you can receive various benefits from the Duchy of Winter, including but not limited to money.

The status and benefits of a knight can be enjoyed for life, but will not be passed on to heirs.

In other words, although they no longer have their own land, the knights still have long-term security and are more closely bound to the Duke of Winter.

The Duchy of Winter is strong and has always existed, so your knight status will always bring you benefits.

And this kind of welfare income is more stable than that of land, and David has also prepared a series of promotion and salary increase regulations: for example, the extra income of just becoming a knight (which does not overlap with his own military income), is equivalent to the current Tilan The normal income of an ordinary knight's territory in the kingdom.

Then as the knights continue to make meritorious deeds, they can get more rewards-such as medals. This income can continue to increase, and they don't have to bear the risk of no harvest due to the situation in the territory. David believes that no one will object to this plan.

"Sounds okay."

After hearing the Duke's description, Wetherby felt that if this plan was announced like this, even if the Duchy of Winter completely abolished the enfeoffment system, the military would not object.

The real problem with this set of plans is: with the expansion of the army, if the "knight" class that the Duchy of Winter wants to support continues to expand, it will bring greater pressure on the finances.

But Winter City doesn't seem to have to worry about financial problems in a short time, right?

"Then how does your lord plan to accommodate those nobles from Tilan's royal capital?"

"Leave them alone."

Theoretically speaking, they are the nobles of the Kingdom of Tilan, and it shouldn't be up to David, the Duke of Winter, to think about what they should do.

But the current situation is that following the announcement of His Majesty Abelson, the entire Kingdom of Tiran knows that David, the Duke of Glamorgan is currently the real ruler of the Kingdom of Tiran, so the rights and interests of the nobles should also be protected by the Duke of Glamorgan .

"In this case, these people may cause some trouble in Winter City."

"It depends on Elizabeth's performance at this time."

Leaving them alone is actually screening for idiots.

The guy who jumps out early will become a model for David to warn other nobles.

In addition, when the Duke of Winter has not expanded its power to the original land of the Tilan Kingdom, it has not caused any damage to these nobles in essence.

So there is a high probability that after being warned, they will just stay there and do nothing.

When the Duchy of Winter begins to officially go south, the power in David's hands should be strong and stable enough. At that time, there will be no movement from such a small number of nobles.

Of course, it is not ruled out that these nobles act as spies and undercover agents for other countries for their own benefit, so for a considerable period of time in the future, the focus of the work of the Winter Intelligence Department will not be external, but internal stalking.

David just mentioned these things to Wetherby incidentally. The experienced Wetherby Swan knew how to cooperate with Edwin Van Cleef.

After finishing the matter and getting approval from Wetherby Swan, David talked to Gareth Stanton and Floyd alone.

As expected, these two had no objection to the abolition of the enfeoffment system, and the next step was to improve the knight's reward standards and salary increase regulations.

At the same time, when the two guard knights were reorganizing, they properly spread the information about the abolition of the enfeoffment system in the army. During this time, the Winter Intelligence Department began to shuttle around the city frequently, in order to get the real information as soon as possible. feedback of.

As the news gradually spread, some people really expressed their dissatisfaction.

However, the army is very stable, only a little bit of dissatisfaction within the Tiran Knights.

"This is much better than I expected."

As time passed, when midsummer arrived, David officially released a series of announcements as the Grand Duke of Winter.

These include the abolition of the enfeoffment system and new benefits for knights.

With the release of the announcement, the little dissatisfaction in the army disappeared immediately, and the knights of the Tiran Knights felt that under this kind of treatment, it was not a big deal not to have a fief.

The Winter Knights have fallen into a state of frantic endeavor. Almost all the Winter Knights hope to get a real knight status as soon as possible, instead of just wearing the name of a "Knight Member".

In this state of hard work, apart from a few commanders and instructors of the Winter Knights, real paladins finally began to appear.

This is not surprising. Under the guidance of paladins such as Tyran Fording and Renault Mograine, the winter knights have already received orthodox paladin training, and it is only a matter of time before a real paladin is born.

What really surprised David was that Megatron also learned the Holy Light, followed in the footsteps of his old rival Optimus Prime, and consolidated his position as the number one military commander of the Cybertronians.

"Congratulations, Megatron!"

Megatron didn't say anything, but everyone could see the smug look.

However, he was not complacent because of this. Although he finally learned the Holy Light and seemed to have caught up with his old opponent, Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime had upgraded himself not long ago, and this guy actually upgraded his carriage. Transformation, so that he can fit with the carriage, has a more powerful posture.

Now, Optimus Prime is the number one master of Cybertron, and Megatron can only be second!

"Leader, should I also upgrade myself?"