Chapter 456： Not negotiating

Gao Wen sat at the top of the conference table, relaxed and leaned on the back of the high chair, smiling with a smile on the face of every Southland aristocratic face changes.

Everyone’s reaction was unobstructed, and no one’s reaction was unexpected.

Confusion, horror, silence, resistance, a little thought, and the anger of a few people.

These nobles themselves are actually useless. Their rule has fallen apart. After losing the land and the army, these aristocrats who have left the castle have become useless. Putting them in their cells can only consume food, and sending them to work can’t create much. Wealth and Gao Wen do not think that simple labor and education reform can make any fundamental change in these stubborn and slow people. Therefore, he does not care about the attitudes of these people and their own wishes.

But the "added value" of these nobles besides themselves is useful.

To establish a new order in the rigid and backward old order, the most difficult problem for the pioneers to encounter is the stubbornness and counterattack of the old order.

Although it is difficult to let the people at the bottom of the country change their customs, but in this social background close to the Middle Ages, the people are numb and free of freedom. They will only be slow to respond to orders because of their ignorance, but they will never refuse the order of the lord. Therefore, although it is difficult to change the customs and promote education, more is only a matter of time and cost. In contrast, the "system" left by the old aristocrats is the biggest difficulty.

The “scholar group” and “customer” who are attached to the aristocratic system rely on the old aristocracy to hire, or simply an extrajudicial mercenary (legal extravagant robber) composed of the illegitimate children and adoptive children of the old aristocracy, and The exiled knights who left after the collapse of the old nobles, and the vowed knights, those groups that are destined to be affected or affected in the process of the new and old order changes are the biggest obstacles in the process of social transformation. These people’s incompatibility is enough to give birth to new students. The Office of Government Affairs has caused enormous problems, not to mention that some of them have even become violent factors that directly threaten territorial security.

Gao Wen knows that he is lucky. Compared with many pioneers who try to establish a new order, his greatest advantage lies in that he is not only the founder of the new order, but also represents the supreme authority of the old order as the foundation of the kingdom of Ansu. One of the people, he has sufficient "legal justice" to formulate guidelines for social operation, and even if someone raises doubts about it, he does not have to care about it.

Since he knows this, he must of course maximize his "legal justice". He must use the legal method to deprive and transfer the ownership of the old aristocracy, and use the "legal claims" of these old nobles to complete the system. A smooth transition to minimize the counter-attack of the old order or to reduce their excuses for counterattacks.

Gao Wen can despise the rules and order of the old aristocracy, but since people of this era recognize it, he can use these rules and order without any pressure, as long as they can exert enough value.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these documents are not so difficult to understand," Gao Wen estimated the time. He broke the silence when he saw that there was already a nobleman who couldn’t help but want to speak. "If you understand, Just sign it."

"The Duke...the Duke of the Duke," a middle-aged man with a slightly fat body couldn't help but stand up for the first time. "The contents of these documents... Are you serious?"

"Of course," Gao Wen nodded. "Otherwise?"

Later, he slowly stood up, his eyes swept over everyone's face, and said without hesitation: "...except for the preservation of the castle, all the land and the additional property on the land belong to the Principality; the abolition includes taxes, All the old privilege, including legislation and recruitment, belong to the Office of Administration; unified decrees, abolish all old private laws... I have written plainly."

"Adults, we are willing to swear allegiance to you, but these things... Are these things still negotiable?" Another nobleman bravely stood up. "This is almost a complete subversion of order, even for your authority." You should also think more about it..."

They have learned at least awe and humility, but they obviously haven't figured out the situation yet.

"I think you made a mistake." Gao Wen’s face had almost no expression changes, but he quietly stated the facts. "The things written on these documents are actually already in effect, as early as the end of the war. You have lost your land and property. The things you want to retain are no longer in your hands. So I am not coming to discuss with you today. I am only officially informing you."

The southern aristocrats in the hall were turbulent, and the prison life of dozens of days could not completely ruin the thoughts in their hearts, so when these thoughts collapsed, even if there was a guard around the hall, even if they were sitting in the south The rulers, they can't help but start whispering.

However, Gao Wen just looked at it quietly, waiting for the discussion of these people to calm down.

They finally calm down, Gao Wencai continued: "Sometimes, it is more important to recognize the reality than to strive for something that will never be obtained. By signing this document, you can at least live decently, your 'noble' The title is still preserved, you can also rely on the annuity to maintain food and clothing, and even maintain a more affluent life. If you can open your eyes and look at the people who are under the control of your rule, hungry and cold, you will know that you have How lucky, you made a big mistake, but still can be so comfortable and comfortable, what else is not satisfied."

On both sides of the long table, everyone’s face became tangled and embarrassed. Some people frowned and thought, some people stopped talking, and finally someone couldn’t control it. A middle-aged man with a sallow face and deep eye sockets stood up. : "Please forgive me for accepting the Duke, please forgive me! I refuse to sign, even if you have to pay for it, you can't destroy our traditions and laws!"

As he said, the middle-aged man looked at his side and his emotions seemed very excited: "You, we have experienced the most difficult days, we have nothing to lose, glory is our only thing, I... I would rather bring it into the coffin..."

Gao Wen looked at the venting of this middle-aged man and looked at the reactions of the aristocrats on both sides of the long table after hearing this remark. This is also what he expected: the nobles have a special way of thinking, they can When the gunfire falls, you can slap the squirrel when you are at the head of the sword. You can give up the castle without hesitation and give up the people, but sometimes it involves the so-called "glorious blood and surname". These guys who have no bones are instead chest-ups. It seems that the behavioral pattern of schizophrenia is difficult for outsiders to understand, but it is in line with the background of this era.

"The Viscount Waynesp, I hope I didn't call your name wrong."

Gao Wen’s sudden opening interrupted the impassioned expression of the middle-aged, and the aristocrats who had already rioted again followed quietly. They all looked at Gao Wen’s direction, while the latter waved beside him. An official of the Administrative Office immediately left the room. After a while, the official of the Administrative Office returned to the conference hall. He held a small metal safe in his hand.

Gao Wen opened the safe deposit box and took out the old documents from the inside. This file was written with enchanted parchment. Even if it was copied, it has a history of hundreds of years. If it is not the protection of magical power, it may be weathered and worn out. The extent of it.

Gao Wen opened the file and said casually: "Mr. Viscount, is it familiar? I believe that there are similar things in your home, which are kept in the deepest part of your castle to prove the legitimacy of your title and the seal. The ancient and orthodox of the surname is like this one.

"Warnsnapp, the Snape family, the Viscount, the Southland aristocrat, Yu Ansu branched to the Spencer family in 476, and obtained the surname; the Spencer family, the Earl, the Holy Spirit Plains nobles, began with the ancestor Maximilian Spencer; Maximilian Spencer, the lord of the knight, the count, the knight of Govin Seychel, was sealed in the first year of the harvest of the first year of An Ansu, and the original territory was located on the west side of the gray mountain in the south, after the influence of the magic tide, the land was sealed. Moved to the southern plains of the Holy Spirit..."

“Then, this is another document,” Gao Wen said as he took out a more old, more fragile parchment paper from the safe deposit box. The document was so old that it acted on it. The protective magic is about to lose its effectiveness, and the old parchment has been severely weathered and corroded. "The seal of Maximilian Spencer is of course a copy."

Gao Wen looked up and quietly looked at the eyes of the middle-aged aristocrat at the long table.

"Mr. Waynesnep, who do you guess the signature at the end of this document?"

No one can predict this incredible situation in advance. Even if Gao Wen was resurrected for such a long time, the nobility named Waynsnapp did not hide the one in the family castle, only when the heir was won. I will come up with a look at the document and associate it with the "living person" in front of me. This is not about wisdom, but the limitation of the direction of thinking, so he can only stutter now: "Duke... Duke adults..."

"Mr. Wayne Snape, you ask for tradition and law, then I give you tradition and law. Maximilian Spencer is a smart and motivated young man. I regret to see that one of his heirs could not afford him. Glory and merit protect the reputation of followers is the owner's obligation, for which I have to usurp your nobility title."

Waynes Snape's eyes widened, and the fish suffocating on the shore was generally open-mouthed. In this blow to the weakness, he groggyly heard a sentence behind Govin Cecil: "... Mr. Snape, you can leave now."

The hall became dead and quiet, and Gao Wen satisfactorily looked at the result. The right medicine was always the most efficient solution. It was far more effective to attack them with the greatest weakness of the nobility than any reason and debate.

For them, the usurpation of the title is more terrible than death.

Of course, he was able to do this because he first mastered the crushing force and forced them to sit at the negotiating table by force. Otherwise, even if he holds the canonical documents of every aristocrat in the country, he said something. It won't be useful either.

"You really don't want to do this." After the documents were re-collected, Gao Wen slightly raised the volume and said, "I hope that in the context of a harmonious atmosphere, everyone will be able to sign smoothly, so I have to be here. Emphasize the title and surname of each person present, after a number of generations, will eventually fall under the name of Charlie Moen and the Duke of the Four Kingdoms, and as the only surviving person in the founding of the king and the four kings of the four worlds, I You can usurp each of your aristocratic titles. Even if the ancestors’ sacred documents are not my signature, I am also a witness to the canonization of the seven hundred years ago. I can question each of you as a witness. Qualified to inherit your last name"

Gao Wen’s words are not mentioned, but his meaning is already clear:

He can question whether the title of each individual here is compliant, and if anyone wants to raise an objection... unless Charlie Moen and the other three founding dukes climb out of the coffin.

Do the Southland aristocrats want tradition and law?

This is the tradition and law of Ansu.

"The time is almost the ladies, gentlemen, the pen for signing is in front of you."