Heroes of Silver Moon Chapter 490

The convoy drove slowly into the town, and everything in front of her made Deborah a little confused. The houses with weird styles, the streets full of people coming and going, this vibrant and prosperous town, was it really just a wasteland two months ago?

Crown Prince Yona opened the car window and looked at all kinds of scenes, but also fell into silence for a while. Since he came to the southern border, the more he went here, the more desolate the land boundary became.

When passing through the territory of the Hawke family before, he was entertained by Simon's father, Valery, with the highest banquet standards.

The extremely rough banquet hall, the ugly and cheap wooden banquet table, the plainly dressed retainers, and the seemingly rich but extremely ordinary dishes made the father's heart feel cold for a while, and he couldn't help but feel worried about his daughter.

If you marry into this kind of place, you must suffer a lot!

Not to mention, the new French Territory is more remote and has been established for a shorter period of time. In Crown Prince Yona's prediction, this place should be a wasteland, but the prosperous scene in front of him gave him a completely different answer. .

What exactly is going on?

The convoy was driving slowly on the concrete ground, and the people passing by saw the carriage and the coat of arms of the accompanying warriors, and they all consciously gave way.

Although they didn't know that the coat of arms represented the royal family, they could tell from the size of the entourage and the sophistication of the weapons and armor that this was definitely a great nobleman.

"The road is so smooth!" The crown prince thought as he narrowed his eyes without feeling the bumps of the carriage.

After arriving in the southern border, they basically walked on dirt roads that had not undergone any repairs, and the bumps along the way almost made him spit out.

But since coming to this newly developed town, the carriage has been running more smoothly than in the capital.

This means that the roads in this town are better than those in the capital!

"Impossible!" The crown prince subconsciously wanted to veto this idea.

The bluestone roads of the Royal Capital are already the best in the entire Silver Moon Kingdom. How can this town, which has been opened for less than half a year, surpass the Royal Capital in terms of road repairs.

He wanted to veto it wholeheartedly, but the carriage was driving smoothly, but it kept tugging at his heartstrings.

Facts never lie, the roads of this new town are even better than the capital!

Crown Prince Yona, who was in a complicated mood, came to the headquarters of the new army under the leadership of Deborah and the soldiers of the new army. The appearance here has also changed drastically. The wooden barracks that could accommodate 3,000 people has now become an area of nearly 3,000 people. Ten acres of compound.

Looking at this magnificent courtyard, Deborah didn't know what to say for a while, and after going out for less than two months, the house became like this, and now he doesn't know how to leave.

Fortunately, Simon, who got the news, didn't keep them waiting long, and hurried here.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." After the Crown Prince got off the carriage, Simon knelt down on one knee and kissed the other's extended right hand.

"Well, good boy." As if treating a nephew, the elegant Crown Prince Yona patted Simon on the shoulder and pulled him up with a smile.

"His Royal Highness, this way please. Deborah, please arrange these noble knights." Simon first smiled and invited the crown prince into the compound, then turned his head and told Deborah.

Deborah hesitated to speak, brother, I don't know the way now, how can I arrange these followers!

Of course, looking at the backs of Simon and the crown prince, he didn't dare to say anything after all, so he had to ask a soldier on duty to call Ma Silan, the commander of the logistics battalion who was in charge of guarding the headquarters, and let him arrange the entourage of the crown prince.

The study room is located on the top floor of the four-story building. It only has a bookshelf, a desk, a clothes rack, and a few wooden chairs. It looks very simple.

The crown prince stood by the window, looking down condescendingly at the new town that was expanding around this compound.

Simon stood behind him nervously.

"A very lively town." Looking at the scene of people coming and going, the crown prince seemed to be talking to himself, but Simon knew that the confrontation between the two sides had already begun.

"Oh, this is just the beginning, it's still far away!" Simon said with a smile.

"Oh?" The crown prince turned around, smiled deeply, "In your mind, what should the new law collar look like?"

Simon bowed his head in silence for a moment, went to the desk and opened the drawer, took out a map from it, showed it to the crown prince, pointed to various icons on the map and said, "Look, this is the overall plan of the new law."

The crown prince went to the desk to look carefully. The map was still the topographic map of the new French territory. This had been pondered over and over again on his way here, and it had been deeply memorized in his mind.

However, on the original simple topographical map, there are many more dots and lines at this moment, dividing the entire new law, just like chess pieces are evenly distributed on a Go board, and in some places, there are one more circle after another, There is a question mark symbol inside the circle.

"What does this all represent?" The crown prince pondered for a while, and then asked in confusion.

Simon smiled and pointed to the pawn-like dots on the map first, and said, "This is a town with various facilities. The population should be between 10,000 and 20,000."

The crown prince nodded knowingly, waiting for Simon to continue explaining.

Pointing to the lines like chessboard lines, Simon said: "These are villages distributed in a linear shape, equipped with only infrastructure, with a population of 2,000 to 8,000."

The crown prince's eyes narrowed. As the heir of a kingdom, he has accepted the policy of governing the country since he was a child, and he has already seen some ways.

Different from the tradition of allowing towns and villages to develop freely, this is centered on towns and extended by villages, dividing up small areas one after another, and rationally planning the entire territory.

Not a single inch of land was wasted, nor was any labor redundant.

"So, these small areas cut off by towns and villages should be farmland!" the crown prince asked with certainty.

"Yes!" Simon nodded unsurprisingly. It is easy to see that in this era of low productivity and most people are farmers, these blank land divided by towns and villages can only be farmland .

"It's interesting." The crown prince nodded thoughtfully. Such a reasonable plan can indeed make effective use of resources, but it is a pity that it is too difficult to implement.

The people are used to doing whatever they want, even if the lord or even the king repeatedly forces them, they will act freely and aimlessly, and it is impossible to develop the residence according to the plan.

Therefore, he still has doubts about Simon's plan.

"What about the circles?" the Crown Prince asked, pointing to the circles filled with question marks.

"This is reserved land, which will be directly used by the territory in the future, but what it will do is uncertain." Simon rubbed his chin.

"Oh." The crown prince nodded knowingly, without saying anything, and continued to observe the map. It was impossible for the lord to distribute all the land to the people, and he must use part of it for himself. It is normal to reserve part of the land.

There is nothing left, just the three lines of defense in the defensive circle, and several military outposts distributed in the territory.

The crown prince nodded frequently. At least in terms of planning, Simon did have something, but it still depends on how it is implemented. A plan that cannot be realized is like a pile of waste paper.

Consciously sitting on the chair behind the desk, as if in his own home court, the crown prince propped his elbows on the table, looked at Simon solemnly, and said, "Now, let's talk about other things. I heard that you are going to The new law is implemented in the territory, and the name of the territory is also derived from it, can you talk about it in detail?"

Simon moved a wooden chair, sat in front of the crown prince, and replied after clearing his mind: "The new law mainly involves three goals, namely to establish a clean and honest administrative system, a disciplined military system, and a fair and just judicial system!

There are five directions for specific implementation, namely soldiers, farmers, businessmen and soldiers.

Scholars represent nobles and officials, that is, those who hold power, mainly to restrain power and increase responsibility.

Specifically, nobility and officials no longer have legal immunity, are no longer exempt from paying taxes, and the title and official position are separated.

The title can be directly inherited, but the official position must pass the assessment and be promoted step by step from the grassroots. At the same time, the class restrictions on recruiting officials are relaxed, allowing civilians to hold official positions.

At the same time, set up a power supervision department to conduct special supervision on officials and nobles to prevent corruption and abuse of power.

Farming, that is, farming and farmers, implements the household registration system and the land equalization system. Everyone in the territory, including nobles and officials, must register their information in a book.

The land is distributed according to the household registration information. Adults have five mu and minors have two mu. When they are minors, the land is handed over to their parents for farming. When they are adults, they must separate from their parents and make up five mu of land.

The ownership of all the land in the territory belongs to the territory or the lord, except for those enfeoffed to retainers, and the people only have the right to use it, which can be leased but not traded.

The distributed land can only be used for cultivating crops, and cannot be used for other purposes, unless a formal administrative permission document is obtained. After the death of the user, the territory will automatically take back the land, and the heirs cannot inherit it.

Workers, that is, craftsmen, workers, and handicraftsmen, must pass the technical certification of the territory before they can accept work in the territory and must accept the management of the territory.

For industrial practitioners, the territory will also give certain preferential treatment, and specific policies have not yet been formulated.

Merchants, that is, commerce, taxation, in terms of taxation, the city entry tax, poll tax, cleaning tax, security tax and other messy taxes are cancelled, and only farmland tax, transaction tax, and personal salary income tax are collected.

30% of the tax is paid per mu of farmland. Due to the lack of officials in the territory, the transaction tax is temporarily replaced by the use of shops and stalls. You must rent a stall to carry out commercial activities. Personal salary income tax has not yet been drafted, so let's ignore it for the time being.

Without preventing merchants from arbitrarily manipulating prices and implementing the parity law, the premium of all commodities in the territory shall not exceed 50% of the average price, and those who disobey will be punished.

Soldiers, that is, the army, soldiers, the army implements a new organizational structure, the army must be strictly disciplined, the people must not be looted, and the officers must not oppress the soldiers.

In addition to salaries, officers and soldiers also have many benefits, such as the distribution of an additional five acres of land, the compensation of five acres of land for those who died in battle, and one gold coin every year for ten consecutive years, and so on.

Probably the main thing is so much, and the rest are details. The code has not yet been formed, and I am rushing to draw it up. "

After the long passage was finished, the study fell into silence again. Simon could clearly see that the crown prince's brows were already furrowed, and his face was cloudy and uncertain, obviously he was weighing and thinking repeatedly.

After a long time, the Crown Prince breathed a sigh of relief, staring at Simon and said slowly: "It's too bold, it will cause problems!"

These five reform directions not only completely harmed the interests of the nobles and officials, but also farmland is the lifeblood of the people, and they who do not trust the aristocracy will never lose the ultimate ownership of farmland.

In this world, 90% of the people are farmers, while the nobles control most of the wealth, power and armed forces, coupled with dissatisfied craftsmen, businessmen, and military officers, the new law basically offends everyone. Direct suicide makes no difference!

Simon had a firm face, looked at him sharply, and said with a sneer, "I'm not afraid that there will be problems, I'm only afraid that there will be no problems. If there are problems, we will deal with them. If there are rebellions, we will suppress the rebellions. If there are enemies, we will deal with them!"

Although these new laws seem to have offended everyone's interests, the only beneficiary is him, the lord.

But in fact, just like cutting off rotten flesh, new flesh will grow. As long as they have endured the initial pain, these people will be surprised to find that their interests will be damaged. Only nobles, officials, and speculators will be harmed by the new law. be beneficial!

What the new law seeks is not for a moment, but for generations to come!

After staring at Simon for a while, the crown prince rubbed his head with a headache, he couldn't understand, how could his daughter like such a lunatic?

"I won't comment on the new law for the time being, but please remember, if you can't solve all the threats, Irina will never marry here!" The crown prince stood up with his hands on the table, like a lion stared at Simon.

The smile on Simon's face disappeared, and he said seriously: "I will never let her be threatened."

The crown prince sat back on the wooden chair, closed his eyes for a moment of silence, then opened them suddenly, and said in a deep voice, "Let's not talk about this matter for now, let's talk about the reporting of the territories. The territories of forty towns are all half the size of the The principality is gone, how do you want the royal family to recognize it?"

Simon got up and came to the window, looking at the town uprooted out of thin air, his heart was full of thoughts, he turned around and said, "You have come to the southern border and passed through so many places, have you heard of my title?"

The crown prince rubbed his chin and face, remembering what he heard on the road and what he saw when he came to Xinfaling, he narrowed his eyes and said, "The builder? It's a very appropriate title."

Let alone whether the legendary story of building a majestic city wall of tens of kilometers in one night is true, the town that Simon quickly built alone can fully deserve this title.

But at the same time, the crown prince also knew very well that Simon must have some rapid construction technology in his hands, otherwise it would be impossible to do this.

"How about a new type of construction technology that can quickly build various stone buildings?" With a wry smile, Simon threw out the first bribe.

The crown prince showed a smile on his face, and asked: "The city wall built overnight, as well as this town, and the flat and solid roads are all thanks to this technology?"

Simon nodded and said: "Yes, I will compile this technique into a book in detail and hand it over to Your Highness for you to take away. If the alchemists in the royal family can't understand it, they can come here to find me, and I can teach them by hand. .

The smile on the crown prince's face became stronger, he nodded and said: "Not bad~www.mtlnovel.com~ But, it seems that this is not enough."

Simon didn't talk too much nonsense. He took out a set of half-body plate armor from the space ring. There were only three parts, a semi-enclosed steel helmet, a breastplate stamped from a whole piece of steel, and a chain armor skirt made of steel pieces connected in series. .

The crown prince was a little puzzled, not knowing what it meant. This kind of half-body plate armor was basically worn by subordinates. Compared with the full-body plate armor, it was not popular at all.

"The Second Legion has been fighting the orcs all year round. I think that soldiers can no longer be injured and die because they don't have good armor." Simon said with a serious face, as if he really cared about those soldiers.

The doubts on the Crown Prince's face dissipated, and what turned into horror appeared, asking: "Everyone in the Second Legion?"

Among the three major legions of the Silver Moon Kingdom, the Second Legion has always been the core force of the royal family. They have been stationed at the border all year round, fighting against the orcs trying to cross the border. Their combat experience and military literacy are very sophisticated.

If all the leather armor on them were replaced with this kind of half-body plate armor, then Crown Prince Yona couldn't imagine how the Second Army's combat power would be raised.

"Not everyone." Simon smiled slyly.

The crown prince lost his mood when he heard this. Unless everyone changed their outfits, the combat power would at best be enhanced rather than transformed, because the soldiers' emotions had to be taken into consideration, so why should they change their outfits and we can't!

Once such emotions appear, the morale of the entire army will be shaken, and the morale will also dissipate invisibly, so either don't change, or change all the members at once. .

"King's Shield Knights, I will equip them with better full-body plate armor!" Simon laughed.

what! The crown prince stood up in astonishment.

Chapter end

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