Chapter 847 Closed Door Meeting
“Let’s not talk about the Red Knight anymore. Let’s talk about something behind closed doors.”

After the meeting of the high-ranking nobles was over, Jinigis kept many of them for dinner.

But before dinner, while accepting Raffl’s apology, Giannis asked someone to close the door of the conference room.

At this moment, those sitting in the conference room are King Gigi’s core leadership.

Local nobles like the Duke of Ormes were more allies than vassals.

The people in the conference room are Genegis’s confidants and the core decision-makers.

After several servants had left, two trusted royal barons took on the task of serving tea and water.

They didn’t dare to trust the servants at all.

The young king was the first to ask, “Has the summer fever been eradicated?”

“Speaking of the Charlize Fever, Charlize City has been eradicated, but other plagues are still there. However, we have blocked the roads, so they can’t get out.” Count Alaric of Tielinburg whispered.

In the current court of Leia, Count Alaric is only twenty-five years old as a courtier and is a newcomer to the court.

His greatest advantage was that he had been a sword-bearing attendant of Genegis when he was a child.

Most of the former courtiers either adopted a non-violent non-cooperative approach or had ulterior motives.

“Very good.” Jinigis said calmly, “Then let’s talk about the next strategic plan…

As the saying goes, the key to a problem is to find the problem. We have lost the war, but have you found the problem?”

Naturally, Lavle brought up military issues such as the lack of unified orders and commands.

Jinigis shook his head: “This is not the key issue. The key issue is that the local nobles are too authoritarian.”

Several nobles in the meeting room immediately fell silent. This was a topic that could not be touched at all, and no one dared to talk about it except Jinigis.

“…In this regard, we should learn from Fran and the people of Qianhe Valley. However, the people of Qianhe Valley are still too radical.”

In Jinigis’s opinion, his problem was that he took too small steps and they were ineffective.

The biggest problem of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance is that it took too big a step and ended up causing trouble.

On a bloodless winter night, the holy grandson deposed the tyrannical Prince Meliati, but left a vague space for discussion.

Simply put, the Holy Grandson merely incorporated the Thousand Valleys into the Papal Jurisdiction, which was a temporary takeover of the wartime system.

The question of whether it was Meliati himself who was dismissed or the title of Duke of Despotism has always been ambiguous.

In other words, there is a major legacy issue in the Thousand Valley Holy Alliance: where should the nobles be placed?
Horne drastically reduced the legal privileges of the nobility and took advantage of Marienboe’s victory to amend the Magna Carta.

So what is the position of the nobles and their supporters in the emerging Holy League?

They refused to degenerate into civilians.

Continue to be nobles, they cannot.

Horn himself still has an ambiguous attitude towards the nobility. On the one hand, he does not say that the nobility should be completely abolished, but on the other hand, he is depriving the nobility of their power.

But on the other hand, those nobles who engaged in industry and commerce received his admiration and favor.

The aristocratic group gradually split, and their views on Horn became more extreme.

The most classic example is mountain riders.

Now, not only did they refuse to obey orders and accept retraining, but they also ignored Horn’s orders and ran to North Mound County.

The euphemism is to defend against enemies from the Gravel Plains.

The troops that were supposed to be deployed on the front line in Hotam County were suddenly reduced by nearly 10,000.

“Haven’t the nobles been completely subdued by Horn? Is there anything else they can do?” Laffer continued to ask.

Jinigis picked up the book on the table. It was a thick volume containing Leia’s spy investigation and analysis of the Thousand Valley.

The gaps between this thick book are filled with his densely packed notes.

The young King Leia has always believed that the premise of all actions and plans is to have sufficient understanding of himself and his opponent.

After a long period of analysis, he had discovered the long-standing internal division problem that had existed in the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance since its establishment.

And the entry point is household registration.

“In the early days of the Thousand River Valley, Meliati and Horn forcibly promoted the transformation into a 100-household district.

The so-called Holy Fathers monks held household registration books and went door to door to register household registration, and then the army came to check. But have you noticed that they only strictly registered household registration, but did not register specific fields? “

Raffl had seen the Holy League household register in Hotam County, and he had to admit that he had never seen such a complete, good, and clear household register.

“I remember there is land listed in the household register, right?” Laffer said hesitantly.

The middle-aged priest who was in charge of helping Jinigis with his affairs whispered, “The land is divided into good and bad. An acre of fertile land and an acre of barren land produce completely different amounts, and the taxes should be even more different.

The Shenglian household register only records the number of acres, not whether it is good or bad. Do you think they don’t want to?”

Jinigis sneered, “Besides, those centurions and centurions are all servants and stewards of the nobles.

Except for the core area of ​​Shengsun, the good operation of the grassroots level of Qianhe Valley is based on the loyalty of the centurions to the nobles and the loyalty of the nobles to the autocratic prince.

That is, dual leadership by a dual monarch.

Did you notice that Winter’s Night Without Blood took place in Grand Rapids, the center of the Holy Word religious reformation?

In other words, the people here naturally tend to favor the common people, which is why Horn seems to be the popular choice.

Common people are ignorant, short-sighted and conservative. Do you think they will prefer to patch up the old and known life, or move towards an unpredictable new life? “

Since Qianhe Valley became an independent country, it has had to swallow bread with broken glass in order to cope with the terrible external pressure.

Although I was full, the glass shards in my stomach could not be expelled for a while.

So it looks like one Thousand River Valley, but in fact it is two Thousand River Valleys.

After a bloodless winter night, the nobles were basically expelled from the upper echelons of the Thousand Valley Holy Alliance.

But expelling does not mean eliminating.

If the nobles were really hanged on a large scale like in Joan of Arc, then the centurions below would rebel.

Most of these nobles returned to their local areas, especially the manor nobles, who began to bow their heads and collude with local forces.

“When Meliati was still here, they could still convince themselves. What about now?” Jinigis threw the book on the table. “Do you know what to do?”

Lavle understood immediately: “I will contact the local nobles of Qianhe Valley and ask them to write letters to the families of the Holy Alliance camp…”

But Count Alaric beside him didn’t understand: “We just said that Meliati was a fake Grand Duke, why are we supporting her now?”

Lavul smiled and put his arm around the stubborn Alaric’s shoulders: “Meliyati is a despotic prince, so we should encourage Horn to take the throne.

When Meliati is not a despot, we encourage her to take back her position.

To put it bluntly, all this means is forcing internal strife within Qianhe Valley.

As long as the Supreme Commander is pulling back and forth, they will have to divert a lot of energy to deal with the internal affairs. “

Alaric blinked rapidly and licked his lips. “What should I do?”

“This is easy.” The courtier beside Jinigis stood up and said, “Either Horn restores the absolute dukedom, or we confer the absolute dukedom upon the Norns!”

The Norns were already dissatisfied because Meliati had previously defaulted on a loan of hundreds of thousands of gold pounds.

The Grand Duchess is in this situation now. If we give them an opportunity, these hyenas will swarm over her.

Because Horn used theocracy to seize royal power, most of the nobles in the empire were dissatisfied and mobilized nearly 100,000 troops.

Under such heavy pressure, will these grassroots centurions with unclear positions choose Horn or Meliati?
It is undeniable that some of the centurions are staunch supporters of the Shengsun faction.

This is actually better, because it will lead to division and confrontation among the grassroots.

Unless Meliati can regain power and make peace with Horn.

It is a real handshake and peace, not just maintaining the situation on the surface.

The struggle for power is a life-and-death struggle, and in Genegis’s opinion, the chances of this happening are pitifully small.

Suspicion will grow bigger and bigger before them, and even if they don’t suspect anything, the people below them will also be suspicious.

The bloodless winter night was a foolish move that had to be made. From then on, the gap between the noble faction and the Holy Sun faction was almost impossible to eliminate.

“We are all our own people here. I’ll be frank. With such a large army, the Holy War Treasury won’t be able to hold out for long.” Jinigis coughed and said, “We must use three methods at the same time: incite division, lure the Norns into the game, and continue the attack. We must defeat them before winter.”

“Isn’t this too, too, too…” Alaric wanted to say something mean, but he couldn’t say it out loud.

“Despicable? Haha, although this saintly grandson was born a liar, there is one thing he said that I agree with.” Jinigis turned the book to a page, “War is the continuation of politics!”

(End of this chapter)