Summoning Total War

The New Year celebrations have come to an end, and Murphy's goal has been achieved. He invited many aboriginal nobles to come here, not only to discuss the establishment of the Principality of Athens, but more importantly, to demonstrate to these aboriginal nobles Strength, these strengths are not only military, but also include Athens' economy, popularity, order, etc. At the same time, it is also warning them that it is best to give up the idea of ​​​​standing on the opposite side of Athens, because that is asking for death!

Strong strength can pave the way. With sufficient military power and economic wealth support, the process of establishing the Principality of Athens is quite easy. []

The prestige that Murphy has accumulated has long exceeded the predetermined standard, so when the alliance contract was officially signed, Murphy's attitude was stronger than ever! There is no such thing as the Nobles Parliament, where many nobles are noisy and sarcastic about each other and falling into the wells in order to compete for interests. The ceremony for the establishment of the entire principality is quite simple, that is, Lady Elizabeth takes out twenty-six A copy of the contract documents was handed over to the noble families who joined the Principality of Athens one after another.

There is no dispute about the distribution of rights and interests, and no one dares to compete for more benefits at this time.

When these aboriginal nobles signed their names under the contract and printed their own family emblems, the Principality of Athens was officially established. From now on, Murphy's name should also be followed by the title 'Your Excellency the Grand Duke'. In this era, the Grand Duke was a title between a king and a duke. In terms of status, Murphy was already above the three Dukes of the Noble Tribe Council at this moment.

at the same time.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Athens also announced the establishment of the Principality of Athens.

For a time, the entire southern plain was in an uproar! Although everyone had expected this in their hearts, when this moment actually occurred, everyone still felt a little uneasy in their hearts.

Because with the establishment of the Principality of Athens, the entire human city-state was divided into two.

The emergence of two political powers, one new and one old, completely means that the human city-states that have been unified for thousands of years are divided. And when these two political powers have a power struggle, mankind is likely to enter a period of thousands of years. None of the Civil War era. But at the same time, some people of insight have also realized that the alternation of old and new political powers is a historical inevitability. The corrupt and corrupt aristocratic parliament is weakening and withdrawing from the stage of history step by step.

And a new and powerful kingdom has been established with Athens as its center!

Compared with the shock caused by this news to the outside world, Athens itself seemed very happy and excited.

The establishment of the Principality of Athens means that Athens is completely independent from the human city-states, and will no longer be restricted by the aristocratic parliament. This is an emerging independent political power, and it is increasingly The decadent noble council will no longer have any relevance. The citizens of Athens also have a new identity. They will no longer belong to the human city-state ruled by the noble parliament, but will be the subjects of the Principality of Athens ruled by Murphy.

"Your Majesty the Grand Duke!" People are becoming familiar with this new title.

About the third day after the news of the establishment of the Principality of Athens was spread, the half-elves also announced the news. The first was that the half-elves would form an alliance with the Principality of Athens to start trade and military alliances. The second was that they announced to the outside world that they had formed an alliance with the Principality of Athens. Owned by Murphy, this undoubtedly officially casts the legendary glory over Murphy.

The noble council was obviously not expecting Athens to declare an independent human city-state so quickly. After the initial panic, the three archdukes urgently mobilized a group of troops to station themselves outside the borders of the Principality of Athens. To prevent Murphy from suddenly launching an internal war for human power. However, the general trend has accumulated to this point, and the cohesion within the noble parliament has been exhausted. Except for some large nobles who are unwilling to hand over the power in their hands, many small and medium nobles are determined to move closer to the Principality of Athens.

They are just some small nobles, and they don't have much power except their own fiefdoms.

The real power of the Nobles Council lies in the hands of the three Grand Dukes. Although small nobles like them have seats on the Nobles Council, they have little say. The battles in the Nobles Council are more about It unfolded between the three archdukes, and they just chose different positions.

If you don’t have much, you will naturally have little to lose.

These small and medium-sized nobles all found out clearly that the nobles who were first incorporated into the Principality of Athens, in addition to retaining all their fiefs, also held many positions within the principality. What they handed over was only the governance of the territory and the management of taxation. As these resources were handed over, the defense of the natural territory no longer had to be borne by themselves, and the military expenses for protecting the territory were also eliminated. After saving, as long as the fiefdom remains, one's wealth and status will still be guaranteed.

Even in the past, they only had a nominal territory.

Although taxation is also in their hands, a large part of the town's income needs to be transferred to the aristocratic council to maintain the expenses of the army. In this conversion, these small and medium-sized aristocrats do not actually suffer much loss, but Just jumped from one camp to another.

Therefore, many small and medium-sized nobles already have new ideas in their minds.

And all of this is what Murphy wants to achieve, which is to win over the middle and lower aristocrats and suppress the upper aristocrats who have the real power.

It is impossible for Murphy to clear out the aristocratic class of the aboriginal people at once, because those who hold knowledge and power in this era basically come from the aristocratic class. It is impossible for ordinary poor people to be literate. Maybe they can Train to become a knight

ing, but it is difficult to educate them into scholars, officials, and talents who manage urban affairs.

Therefore, Murphy must learn to accept these talents whether he is willing or not.

Because he cannot start over from scratch!

The only thing he can do is to create a new system, restrain them, and select outstanding, useful and motivated people for his use. The real corruption of the Noble Tribe Council is those big nobles who have controlled the power of the spring for too long. The small and medium-sized nobles below are just following the trend. As long as Murphy can correct the general trend, then their talents can If they can be utilized, human city-states that manage millions of people in the future will also need their abilities.

Murphy's previous contract with these aboriginal nobles is easiest to explain with an example.

For example, the lord of a town is a baron, and he owns the nominal governing spring of the town including the surrounding areas, but the town belongs to the noble council. Although the noble family council will not directly take over the management of this town, the lord of the town must hand over part of the tax to the higher noble family, or to the lord of a certain city to which this town belongs.

The barons of this town pay about half of the taxes to the higher nobles in the city, and in return the town is protected by the city to which it belongs. For example, when it is attacked by bandits, the city is obliged to protect it. this town. Because it is difficult for a small town like this to maintain a standing military force. At most, there is only a small group of patrolling civilians.

ing, it is difficult to resist when encountering robbers or foreign liukou.

In fact, although the city will protect such small towns, when they arrive, the flowers will almost die!

What really works is the revolutionary troops in the hands of the nobles in various places.

At first, the purpose of establishing noble clan councils in human city-states was to assist each other in attacking and defending alliances. However, as time went by, with the growing greed of the noble clans, it gradually became like this. A system of layer upon layer exploitation. Therefore, in order to improve their own strength, the nobles from various places began to invade the wealth of the freed people, which caused many freed people to become poor and even peasant slaves. In short, it was land annexation.

The original city-state system has also become the current deformed form.

Although the nominal governance of a town belongs to the lord, the lord does not control all the wealth. There are free people living in the town, ordinary civilians, and businessmen. These people all own land, and these lands also It belongs to them, although it is ruled by the lord in name. The lord owns the largest share of the land in the territory, such as a fertile manor, but it is impossible for everything to be his.

Below the lord, there are the canonized knights, below the knights there are the retinues, and below the retinues there are the family members.

This is how the land is divided level by level.

These aboriginal nobles who signed a contract with Murphy to join the Principality of Athens will retain their manors, castles, mansions, and knights, but the guard team that maintains the town will belong to Athens, and other lands except the lord's fiefdom will be retained. , all are also under the name of the Principality of Athens, and the free people, businessmen, poor people, etc. in the town have also changed from the subjects of the aboriginal nobles to the subjects of the Principality of Athens.

In other words, they retain their wealth and hand over the power of independence.

As for whether they can obtain new positions within the Principality of Athens, it depends on their own abilities.

Murphy's plan is to incorporate the towns with independent spring power into the Principality of Athens, initially completing his transformation of ruling the surrounding areas of Athens and forming a central centralized spring. This method is not It can be excessive and beyond the scope of this era, so Murphy retains the small-scale fiefdoms of these nobles, but the spring power must be concentrated in Athens and in his hands.

As for any stumbling blocks that try to get in his way, Murphy doesn't mind using force to solve the problem.

In fact!

What Murphy really wants is not the wealth of the aboriginal nobles, not the land in their hands, but the population in their name. The wealth they really control is the free people, poor people, and peasant slaves. These precious The population is the foundation of everything!

This is what Murphy really wants!

The Athenian army has the ability to expand its territory at any time. Whether going north or south, the Athenian army can sweep through all nearby obstacles and expand its territory.

But it is impossible for Athens to conjure such a large population out of thin air.

The purpose of establishing the Principality of Athens is to turn these aboriginal noble people into his subjects, his population!