V3.Chapter 64

The new year's celebration has come to an end, and Murphy's goal has also been achieved. He invited many aboriginal GUI people to come here, not only to discuss the establishment of the Principality of Athens, but also to show their strength to these Aboriginal GUI people, not only in the military, but also in Athens's economy, popularity, order and so on. At the same time, it's also a warning to them that it's better to give up the idea of standing on the opposite side of Athens, because it's a suicide!

Strong strength can pave the way. With enough military strength and economic wealth, the process of establishing the Duchy of Athens is quite easy. [

All along, Murphy's prestige has long exceeded the predetermined standard, so when he formally signed the alliance contract, Murphy's attitude has never been stronger! There is no such quarrel in the Council of the Guixi people that many Guixi people quarrel with each other in order to fight for interests. The ceremony of the establishment of the whole duchy is quite simple. That is, Lord Elizabeth took out 26 contracts and gave them to the Guixi people who joined the Duchy of Athens one after another.

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

When these aborigines signed their own names under the contract and printed their own family emblem, the Duchy of Athens was officially established. From now on, Murphy's name should also be followed by the title of "Archduke". In this era, the Archduke was a baron between the king and the Duke. In terms of identity, Murphy is now on the top of the three Dukes of the GUI nationality Council.

At the same time.

The Ministry of foreign affairs of Athens also announced the establishment of the Principality of Athens.

For a time, the whole southern plain was full of waves! Although everyone had expected this early, when this moment really appeared, everyone still felt a little uneasy.

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

The emergence of the new and the old political power completely means that the human city-state has split up for thousands of years. When the two political powers have a power struggle, human beings are likely to enter a civil war period that has not existed for thousands of years. But at the same time, some people of insight also realized that the alternation of new and old political power is the inevitability of history. The decadent GUI nationality parliament is going to decline and step by step out of the stage of history.

And a new and powerful kingdom will be built around Athens!

Compared with the outside world because of the shock caused by this news, Athens is very happy inside.

The establishment of the Principality of Athens means that Athens is completely independent from the city-state of mankind, and will no longer be bound by the parliament of the GUI nationality. This is a new independent political power, which has nothing to do with the decadent Parliament of the GUI nationality. And the citizens of Athens have a new identity. They will no longer belong to the human city-state ruled by the parliament of the GUI nationality, but to the people of the Principality of Athens ruled by Murphy.

"My Lord!" People are getting familiar with the new term.

About the third day after the news of the establishment of the Duchy of Athens was spread, the half elves also announced the news. The first is that the half Elves will form an alliance with the Duchy of Athens to carry out trade and military alliance. The second is that they announced that they already belong to Murphy. This is undoubtedly the official glory of the legend shrouded in Murphy.

As for Athens's announcement of the establishment of a human city-state so soon, the noble Parliament was obviously unexpected. After the initial panic, the three Archduke urgently mobilized a group of troops to live outside the border of the Principality of Athens to prevent Murphy from suddenly launching an internal war for human power. However, when the situation has reached this stage, the cohesion within the parliament of the GUI ethnic group has been exhausted. In addition to some big GUI ethnic groups who are not willing to hand over their power, many middle and small GUI ethnic groups are willing to move closer to the Principality of Athens.

They were just a few small noble clans, and they did not have much power except their own fiefdoms.

The real power of the Council of the GUI nationality lies in the hands of the three grand princes. Although the small GUI nationality like them have seats in the Council of the GUI nationality, they have no right to speak. The fight of the Council of the GUI nationality is more between the three grand princes, and they just choose different positions.

What we have is not much, and what we lose is naturally less.

These small and medium-sized GUI people have made it clear that the GUI people who first merged into the Principality of Athens, in addition to retaining all the fiefdoms, also held many positions within the principality. What they have handed over is only the governing spring of the territory, and the management spring of the tax revenue. With these springs' profits being transferred to Shu ǎ As a result, the defense of the natural territory does not need to be borne by itself, and the Jun expenses for protecting the territory are also saved. As long as the fiefdom is still there, its wealth and status will still be protected.

Even in the past, they were just the head of the marsh spring with nominal territory.

Although the tax is also in their hands, a large part of the income of cities and towns needs to be collected ǎ Ng to the GUI nationality Council to maintain the expenditure of the Jun nationality team. In fact, these small and medium-sized GUI nationalities have not lost much. They just jumped from one camp to another.

Therefore, many small and medium-sized GUI people already have new ideas in mind ǎ。 And all this is what Murphy wants to achieve, that is, to attract the middle and lower classes of the GUI people, and to suppress the big GUI people who have the real power.

Murphy can't empty out all the Kuyi class of the aborigines at once, because the people who hold the knowledge and strength in this era are basically from the Kuyi class. Ordinary poor people can't read, and they may be able to train to become intellectuals

But it is difficult to educate them into scholars and Gu ā And the people who manage urban affairs.

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

Because he can't do it all over again!

The only thing he can do is to create a new system, restrain them, and select excellent, useful and self-motivated people to use. What is really rotten in the Council of GUI nationality is the big GUI nationality who has been in charge of the spring power for a long time. The small and medium GUI nationality below is just chasing Liu with the wave. As long as Murphy can correct the general situation, then their talents can be brought into full play. In the future, the human city-state with millions of people also needs their ability.

Murphy's previous contracts with these Aboriginal GUI ethnic groups are explained with an example.

For example, the Lord of a town is a baron, who owns the town, including the surrounding areas, in the name of tongyuzhiquan, but the town belongs to the guiyuzu Parliament. Although the GUI nationality Council will not directly interfere with the management of the town, the Lord of the town must pay part of the tax to the higher GUI nationality, or the Lord of a city to which the town belongs.

The Baron of this town pays about half of the tax to the higher noble people in the weak city. In return, the town is protected by its own city. For example, when it is attacked by bandits, the city has the obligation to protect the town. Because it's very difficult for a small town like this to maintain a standing Jun team. At most, there is only a small group of people on patrol

It's hard to resist when you meet robbers or foreign Liukou.

In fact, although cities will protect such small towns, when they come, Hu ā Thank you very much!

What really works is the revolutionary team in the hands of the local GUI people.

In the beginning, the purpose of the city-state to establish the Council of the GUI nationality was to help each other. However, with the passage of time, the increasingly greedy desire of the big GUI nationality gradually twisted into such a system of exploitation. Therefore, in order to improve their own strength, the GUI nationality began to invade the wealth of the self-employed people in tun, resulting in many self-employed people becoming poor and even serfs, which is simply land annexation.

The original city-state system has also become this kind of deformity.

In a town, although the nominal Tongzhi spring belongs to the Lord, the Lord does not control all the wealth. There are people living in the town, ordinary civilians and businessmen. All these people own land, and the land also belongs to them. Although the name is sharp, it belongs to the Lord. The Lord owns the largest share of the territory, such as a fertile manor, but it can't be his.

Under the Lord, there are canonized knights, under the knights, there are retinues, and under the retinues, there are Qin dependents.

This is how land is divided.

These aborigines, who signed a contract with Murphy to join the Duke of Athens, kept their manors, castles, palaces, and knights. However, the escort of the town belonged to Athens. All the land except the Lord's fiefdoms belonged to the name of the Duke of Athens, and the freedmen, merchants, and poor people in the town, They also became the people of Athens from the leader of the GUI nationality.

In other words, they keep their wealth and give up the power of independence.

Whether they can get a new position in Athens depends on their own ability.

Murphy's plan is to put the cities and towns with independent spring power into the Principality of Athens, and initially complete the transformation of governing the surrounding areas of Athens and forming the central spring. This means can not be too radical, beyond the scope of this era, so Murphy preserved these small-scale fiefdoms, But Quanli must be concentrated in Athens, in his hands.

As for any stumbling block that attempts to hinder him, Murphy does not mind using force to solve the problem.

in fact!

What Murphy really wants is not the wealth of the aborigines, not the land in their hands, but the population in their name. What they really want is the wealth of the self-employed, the poor, the peasants and slaves. These precious populations are the foundation of everything!

That's what Murphy really wants!

The Jun 圌 team of Athens has the ability to open up land at any time. Whether it goes north or south, the Jun 圌 team of Athens can sweep all the obstacles nearby and expand its territory.

But Athens couldn't have produced so many people out of thin air.

The purpose of establishing Athens was to turn the leaders of these Aboriginal GUI people into their own people, their population!