Chapter 253

"Lilia acts as the head of the family and is fully responsible for the internal affairs and finance of the territory. When I am not in the territory, Lilia exercises the power of the Lord on my behalf and takes charge of all the affairs of the family. The annual salary is 500 kingsol."

Victor first established Lilia's unique status. While everyone at the meeting was relieved, they were also quietly observing the expressions of the Elena sisters. These two beautiful ladies, with strong backgrounds and noble origins, are by no means comparable to Lilia. Both emotionally and in their own interests, Nelson and his wife and several village chiefs were worried that they would challenge Lilia's position. Now it seems that they are worried too much, and the Elena sisters look calm and don't seem to care about Lilia's position.

On the contrary, Lilia was very happy at first, but when she heard that her annual salary was 500 gold sol, her face changed greatly and she looked like gnashing her teeth. With her knowledge of Victor, everyone here will have an annual salary, and it will never be less!

How much does it cost?!

Sure enough, Victor smiled at Lilia and continued, "Alice is the family liaison officer, responsible for the family's foreign trade and diplomatic affairs with other families, with an annual salary of 300 kinsol."

It's Alice's turn to be unhappy. She doesn't care how much power Lilia has or the position of liaison officer. In fact, the Elena sisters have been educated by noble women since childhood, serving their husbands, educating their children, managing castles and manors, and holding all kinds of banquets and celebrations are the noble women's life they pursue.

Alice didn't see the power in Lilia's hands. In her opinion, Lilia was nominally the same as their sisters. She was Victor's personal maid, but she was actually the housekeeper of the Randall family.

The responsibility of a lady is to multiply the family blood, educate the family offspring and enjoy a comfortable life. How can she be a housekeeper?

If it weren't for Victor's pleasure, Alice didn't even want to be a liaison officer. She envied her sister who managed the silver moon manor. But Lilia's annual salary was 200 gold sol more than her own, which hit Alice deeply. She felt that it showed that she was not as important as Lilia in Victor's mind.

It is true.

Alice did not dare to play a little game with Victor, so she looked at Lilia angrily until her sister Elena quietly kicked her under the table.

Victor didn't care that his woman was jealous of haishengbo and continued: "Elena is responsible for managing the silver moon manor and the family castle. In addition, the children over the age of 7 and under the age of 15 of the vassal family should receive Elena's attendant education. Elena's annual salary is 300 gold sol."

The nobles selected outstanding children from the vassal families, let them serve as the servants and maidens of the family, taught them fighting and hunting skills, learned rich social etiquette, educated and cultivated their good living habits and a sense of honor of loyalty and courage. This is the servant education. Only the vassal children who have received the servant education can be regarded as real superior. They are often reused by the Lord. Therefore, the vassal family calls the servant education noble education.

Isn't what feudal officials strive to become aristocrats?

The village heads were respectful, and even Linda showed a flattering smile to Elena, just like parents flattering teachers.

Elena's power is not high, but her influence is very great. She decides to select and train the family servants, and the feudal officials of Randall family should try their best to please the lady. This will promote the Elena sisters to integrate into the Randall family, and more than 200 vassal families are no longer monolithic, virtually reducing the influence of the Nelson family in the vassal. The tightly held small collective consciousness will be pried open a crack until it collapses.

Victor's mouth tilted slightly and said, "Nelson served as the captain of my guard team, led the family guard, concurrently served as Randall's chief urban defense officer, and led the urban defense captain of all villages and towns, with an annual salary of 2000 kinsol."

"No! There are too many 2000 gold sols! You can only give 1000 gold sols."

Lilia jumped out and objected loudly. Linda with a smile immediately turned her eyes. Lilia stared back impolitely and stared at her brother fiercely. Nelson spoiled his sister. He said weakly, "then 1000..."

Victor said angrily, "when this is a grocery store? Can you bargain? Just 2000 kinsol!"

"The salary paid by the royal capital guards to the knights is 8000 gold sol per year, and the Knights of York family also have an annual salary of 4000 gold sol. With your current strength, you should be able to get 4000 gold sol. However, our Randall family is not rich at present, so we can only give you 2000 gold sol first."

"Thank you for your generosity." Nelson felt his head embarrassed and asked, "Sir, I've heard of urban defense officers, but what do the urban defense captains in charge of villages and towns do?"

"We'll discuss it later." Victor motioned Nelson to be calm and said, "Barrett served as the military officer of the family, responsible for the training of family soldiers and militias, as well as the management of armaments and materials. His annual salary is 200 kingsol."

"Barrett, I will order people to build a training camp and a warehouse of military materials. In the future, the military training and military materials led by Randall will be independent from the internal affairs system of Pinghu Town, and you will be fully responsible."

Old mercenary Barrett got up and saluted victor. "Yes, sir!"

Victor nodded, turned his eyes to Linda and said, "Linda will no longer be a sheriff. She will take over the position of territorial inspector. Her annual salary is 200 kingsol."

"The Ombudsman is my new post. Her authority is to listen to the voice of the people, inspect the government affairs of villages and towns, and supervise the work of village heads, town heads and public security officers. Village heads and public security officers shall not obstruct the inspection and inquiry of the Ombudsman in any way, and the Ombudsman has no right to intervene in government affairs."

"Do you have any questions?" Victor glanced faintly at the embarrassed village head and the monkey.

Maureen raised his hand and asked, "Sir, is the inspector like the original deputy team leader?"

"That's right."

At the beginning, in order to prevent the villagers' group leader from using his power to practice favoritism and bully his subordinates, Victor asked the members of each group to take turns as the Deputy group leader to supervise the words and deeds of the group leader. Today, members of the work point system have deep friendship, and it is inappropriate to expect them to supervise each other. At this time, it is very necessary to establish an independent supervision system. Victor just wants to replace the sheriff. He simply appoints Linda as the inspector, which can not only appease Nelson, but also restrict the inspector and the sheriff.

The village heads are used to being supervised by the Deputy group leader. Now they just change their personal supervision. They don't think there is anything wrong.

"Munk, my new sheriff." Victor pointed to the monkey and said, "he is responsible for the security of the territory, and the security guards in all villages and towns are under his jurisdiction. The annual salary is 100 kingsol."

Everyone's eyes gathered on the monkey. He quickly stood up and bowed and said, "my Lord, I will do a good job!"

Victor smiled and said: "The appointment of village heads remains unchanged. You are responsible for leading the villagers to complete the labor arranged by Lilia, paying remuneration to the free workers and arranging their lives. In addition, because Randall territory is vast and sparsely populated, and there are no dangerous beasts and monsters in the wild, I have increased the actual control range of each village from 300 square kilometers to 400 square kilometers. You should control the exploitation of natural resources Set work

"The village head's annual salary is 100 gold sols." Victor paused and said, "in the future, when you become mayor, your annual salary will be increased to 200 kingsol."

"Your Excellency, you are so generous." George, the head of the second village, said excitedly, "it's the first time we've heard that the head of the village also has a salary."

"No salary!" Lilia puffed her cheeks and said coldly, "the village heads of other territories don't have salaries! Only the village heads led by Randall have annual salaries and give them so much!"

Victor pays 4200 kinsol to the top of the family every year, plus the expenses of hiring managers and soldiers, there should be 6000 kinsol every year. Lilia thinks that the land is divided, and there is no need to pay them any more, but she doesn't know that this expense is the core of Victor's system reform.

Victor didn't explain to Lilia, and even if he did, no one could understand.

"The money is not so easy to take." Victor knocked on the table, stood up and said, "if one of you can't do his duty, I'll remove him and let others take his place. Do you understand?"

The village heads said in unison, "I see."

Victor slightly jawed his head and said, "Nelson, Barrett, you have deployed your own personnel to arrange three guards in each village. They serve as urban defense captain and militia instructor respectively, and are responsible for commanding the militia in each village and protecting the security of villages and towns."

"Munk, you need to transfer people from the security office and arrange three security soldiers in each village to be responsible for the security of the villages and towns."

"From now on, professional things will be left to professional people. Each village head is only responsible for internal affairs and production, and can coordinate, but shall not directly interfere with the security and public security of the village."

The village heads were confused. Maureen raised his hand and asked, "Sir, how can we coordinate?"

"In peacetime, it focuses on production and construction. In case of invasion by foreign enemies, it focuses on defensive combat." Victor explained: "I divide the territory security into three levels. Green represents security, the village head commands the overall situation, and the urban defense team leader and security officers cooperate with the village head. However, the monthly militia training shall not be less than 5 days."

"Yellow represents warning, indicating that there are monsters or bandits in the field. At this time, the village head should cooperate with the work of urban defense and public security, and lead the villagers to work outside on the premise of ensuring safety."

"Red represents danger. The village head and public security officer must unconditionally obey the order of the urban defense captain, cooperate with the army to resist foreign enemies, mobilize materials, stick to villages and towns and evacuate the people!"

As soon as victor finished, the village chiefs began to whisper, "this method is good!"

"Your Excellency is wise!"

"I'm relieved!"

Seeing this, Victor couldn't help laughing. He didn't expect that the system reform would be so smooth. The village head didn't realize what they got and lost.

As early as when designing the water conservancy project, Victor began to study a new system, not because he was disgusted with the vassal system, but because he had no vassal at all.

The vassal system is based on such an objective reality: the rulers can't reach the local government, expand the ruling area through layers of enfeoffment, and form a political pattern of stars and the moon. However, Victor does not have such a problem. Randall is 9000 square kilometers in size, 121 kilometers long from south to North and 75 kilometers wide from west to East. Seven villages and towns in the territory are distributed along the Heihe River and the farthest village from Pinghu Town. It takes only three days to walk. If it was a horse riding, Victor's orders could be transmitted to any place in the territory in one day, not to mention the alchemical crow.

Victor sits in an alchemy tower, has thousands of alchemy creatures under his command, and has the ability to fully control the territory. Since there is no loyal and capable vassal, and the vassal system itself is an inefficient political system, we should simply implement centralism!

If centralism is an iron government official, then the feudal official system is an iron government official.

Although the Lord has the right to appoint and remove the village head and town head under his command, few Lords will intervene in the affairs of the village and town. The position of village head is almost handed down from generation to generation by the vassal family. They are the real earth emperors.

Victor first separated the military power, political power and legal power of each village and town, then concentrated them in his own hands, and then changed the government soldier system to the recruitment system.

The vassal soldiers are loyal and capable without pay. Victor's recruitment of soldiers costs a lot, not to mention, his loyalty is difficult to guarantee, and his combat effectiveness is much worse. But the problem comes back. Victor has no vassal! He had no choice but to hire soldiers.

In fact, the recruitment of soldiers among the free people is only to deal with the current situation. Victor's real source of soldiers comes from mountain people mercenaries. Through actual combat, let them pick out the weak and stay strong, and then select loyal and brave backbone to form an army.

The choice of recruitment was forced by helplessness, but it did shake the foundation of the vassal system. Since you can spend money to recruit soldiers and talents, why hand over your power completely?

So far, the new system designed by Victor has taken shape, which is a centralized system dressed in the cloak of feudalism. Victor called it rental employment.

The lease employment system has the characteristics of both vassal system and centralized system. It is the combination of vassal system and collar employment system. Victor abandoned the concept of vassal, leading people and free people, and promoted supporters, helpers, supporters and refugees. The core of this system is to turn refugees into supporters, select talents among supporters, hire them to become helpers, and turn excellent and loyal helpers into supporters by means of land canonization after a period of investigation.

On the surface, this is still a vassal system, but in fact, it is not.

First, the fief is no longer linked to the right and position, but a permanent land lease agreement. If the feudal officials have no talent, they can only honestly cultivate the land and cultivate the next generation before they are qualified to return to the core of power. In the face of external competitors, the feudal family must study hard, constantly improve their ability, and never dare to slack off.

Secondly, the lease employment system is quite flexible, not limited to the development of territory, but also can integrate with free civil and commercial groups, and finally form an invisible centralized empire.

Finally, it takes hundreds of years for the Lord to cultivate qualified vassal families, and the rental employment system is directly open to a large group of free people. It makes an exception to promote available talents, and its development speed is far faster than the vassal system. Because of the concentration of power, its efficiency is several times that of the feudal system.

Rental employment system also has a disadvantage. It needs money, a lot of money!

At present, only Victor can implement the rental employment system in the whole human country, because his pioneering leader has no traditional vassal force, and he also has the world's most basic force and advanced production technology - the alchemy Tower!

"Do you have anything to add?" Victor asked slowly. Seeing that no one raised his hand, he said again, "let's go."

The monkey bowed to victor and mixed with the village head. He was about to go out, but he was stopped.

"Lilia, Nelson and Linda stay. Monkey, you stay!"