Tang Qi Tan

Return With the change of hands of Mont Saint-Michel, this is both the end of a series of expeditions and raids in the north, and a new beginning.For example, the first order issued by Jiang Tian Xiashan was to rectify the churches in the northern provinces of Upper and Lower Normandy, Calais, Picardy, and Loire.

Of course, the reason is also readily available.Because according to the results of tracing Princess Teresia all the way, it is enough to prove that the church organization in some places in the north has become a sanctuary for the royal party and the old nobles; and continues to engage in illegal activities against the rule of the new dynasty .

Therefore, according to the plan, it will be divided into three steps: the first step is to target the church organizations in these provinces, and their related churches, monasteries and religious schools, with the cooperation of accountants and surveying and mapping personnel sent by the government. and wealth, carry out unified accounting and accounting.

The second step is to form a special sacramental investigation committee; for the relevant village priests, auxiliary priests, deacons, priests, priests and bishops of the church, county/district bishops, provinces/metropolitans; affiliated clergy and assistants, etc., The various fellowship groups that come with it conduct identity checks.

The third step, based on the results of the first two stages of review, is to eliminate redundant clergy, and forcibly return a considerable part of them to members who are no longer suitable for staying in the church, and encourage the exposure and reporting of criminals who are suspected of hiding in the church. The generation, or the suspicious person of unknown origin.

Finally, according to the results of the third stage of rectification, the religious ranks in the northern parts of the Kingdom will be unified and standardized; the jurisdiction of the diocese will be re-divided and adjusted; the clergy will be fixed and staffed according to the corresponding population; Transfer process and reward and punishment standards.

At the same time, the threshold for secular people to join the church is strict; private donations and contributions without notarization are prohibited.Although the status quo is temporarily maintained for the minor clergy below the auxiliary priest, but in the future, the teachers and students of religious schools and monasteries will be gradually replaced and eventually completely replaced.

However, if you want to be promoted from the lower third-class gods of village priests, priest assistants, and auxiliary priests to the great gods above the deacon; not only do you need to evaluate your faith and daily word-of-mouth, but you also need to go to a special religious school/theological college. Long or short advanced studies and subsequent internships.

In this way, through a thorough investigation and liquidation of the reasons for the remnants of the old dynasty and those who sheltered them; further justifiable intervention and indirect control of the church's internal personnel and property management rights.It also creates another large source of additional revenue for the new government from church estates, estates and other items.

As a corresponding coordinating measure, Jiang Tian issued a second official edict, the Land Purchase Order.It is to formally allocate and plan the confiscated/nationalized land in the five archdiocese, nineteen provinces and eight crown territories of the kingdom since the war against the Free Army.

A small part of the real estate is reserved as a farm for veterans and meritorious service in the future; part of it is leased to poor people with clean net worth in the name of the country; Maintenance fees for public works.

In this way, the real estates and farms directly controlled by the state reached 400 million Bonnieres (ancient units/about 1 hectare); they accounted for more than half of the real estate in the kingdom; and the adult population in the southern part of the kingdom was about 800 million. There are another 500 million expected in the north.

In addition, there are a large number of properties such as mills, wineries, mines and workshops attached to these properties and not produced by the fields.As long as enough bureaucrats and business personnel are assigned to carry out proper management and operation, at least within two or three generations, there is no risk of unemployment and exile.

However, just when Jiang Tian left the corresponding guard force and left Mont Saint-Michel to return to the army on the coast of the mainland; unexpectedly but not unexpectedly, he met the secret envoy of the Holy Kingdom who had been waiting for a long time.But unexpectedly, the representative of the emissary was the Principality of Brittany.

Rather than the Holy Blood Court of the Holy Kingdom, and the official status of the Supreme Lords Council.The purpose of the other party's visit is also very clear. After seeing more than a dozen large ships full of soldiers rushing to help, which were destroyed at sea by force majeure, Brittany was obviously somewhat frightened.

Therefore, the contemporary Grand Duke of Brittany is willing to pay a large amount of military expenses in private as compensation; and severely punish the many related people who violated the original "Kingdom Agreement" without authorization and led the army into Mont Saint-Michel in exchange for Jiang Tian's leadership understanding of the Kingdom of Zealand and the new Government.

At the same time, it is also to avoid further investigation and expansion of border conflicts by the tens of thousands of royal troops who are close at hand and only separated by a river; and even seek to reduce the size of the garrison on the border between the two sides, maintain communication channels, and avoid conflicts. A series of secret treaties.

But this kind of attitude and proposal is a bit interesting.Because Jiang Tian didn't actually intend to continue to expand the situation, or use this to invade the territory of the Holy Kingdom, and another protracted national war;

But obviously no matter how the Holy Blood Court and the High Lords Council reacted; the neighboring Britannia took the lead and couldn't hold back.This also involves the Holy Kingdom, the unique national system and internal situation formed since the founding of Saint Laurent.It is also commonly referred to as a collegiate monarchy.

Because, at the beginning, Saint Laurent and his followers were born in the family of the Marquis of Brittany; and as the entourage of King Charlemagne of the Frankish Kingdom, they went to the Iberian Peninsula and defeated the local Pan Lasen people. Emerged in China, also stayed in Catalonia.

However, when the Marquis of Brittany was poisoned by his step-wife in a series of Frank court battles and conspiracies, he stole the power of the territory; The mountains were attacked by local mountain people, and even disappeared for a while.

Later, when he reappeared in front of the world, he had landed in the Catalonia region with a knight order from various ethnic groups at sea; and based on this, he gathered strength and set off revenge against the Frankish Kingdom. battle.Later defeated the army of Aquitaine.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to marry the only daughter of the lord of Aquitaine, she obtained the ruling power and legal principles of Aquitaine; then took advantage of the opportunity to attack her hometown of Brittany, completing the revenge and seizure of power against her stepmother; thus completing the Britannia , Catalonia and Aquitaine, the original union.

A rudimentary form called the United Kingdom of Holy Britannia was born.Since then, in addition to the three major union territories directly belonging to the Holy Blood Court; Saint Laurent and his descendants have conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula and the land north of the mountains through various knight road conquests and expansions. large tracts of land.

Therefore, in addition to the three cores/confederate states that are highly vassalized and fief-like; these successively conquered lands include not only Romanized provinces/counties/cities, but also more than a dozen large and small, which have been preserved for generations. Secondary monarchy titles such as kingdoms, duchies, and counties with varying degrees of privilege.

Therefore, the lords of the Holy Blood Court in the past dynasties held these numerous titles at the same time. While highly centralized in religion, politics, and military affairs, they also retained local nobles in these territories, and a considerable degree of economic, cultural, and ethnic autonomy. , and even build exclusive weapons.

As a result, dozens of knight orders, large and small, were also established within the Holy Kingdom during the expansion of foreign expeditions in the name of chivalry in the past dynasties; Jun's exclusive knights, the Arms Decoration Association/Religious Knights.

These knights, who have been fighting abroad all the year round, have also become an important part of the huge and complicated military system alongside the provincial army, frontier garrison, and local militia that serve as defense and internal repression in the Holy Kingdom.Therefore, the Holy Kingdom is often also called the Kingdom of the Knights.

And the leaders of the major knights, together with the subordinate lords and great nobles, formed an existence called the Supreme Lords Conference; they assisted the Lords of the Holy Blood Royal Court in the past, and jointly decided the country's major policies, as well as the transition of the temporary absence of the throne. Period, responsible for maintaining the daily operation of the Holy Kingdom.

Therefore, during the heyday of the Supreme Lords Conference and the War of Chivalry; several large knights united, and even built a large-scale expeditionary fleet on the long coastline from Galicia to Lisbon, and the southernmost The Andalusian roundabout attack.

Even once, with the response and help of the Henna Federation on the coast of East Africa, they successfully seized and occupied a large area of ​​land near the city of Ceuta, an important town and hub in North Africa, from the Cordoba dynasty.Then, in the name of the Knights of the Sea, he organized many of his raiding ships to venture to the New World.

Even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean for a long time, in that mysterious and wild land; with the Saracens of the Cordoba dynasty, the Vikings from the North Sea ice sheet, the Britons from the archipelago, and even the seamen who were allies. Na city-states; competing for routes and products from the New World.

Until the change of the celestial sphere hundreds of years ago, it led to the collapse of the first dynasty of Zealand; it also blocked and destroyed the route to the New World by the gradually growing marine creatures.It took more than 100 years and several generations before the ships from the New World were seen again.

But everything on the other side of the ocean has already changed.The Kingdom of Sealand took advantage of this opportunity to squeeze out the forces of the Holy Kingdom in Africa and establish the initial overseas province.Having said that, the Grand Duke who was trying to reach a secret agreement came from a close branch of the Holy Blood Court.

As one of the three initial union territories, the Grand Duke of Brittania is not a position that can be inherited; it is a member of the royal family designated by each generation of the Holy Blood Court after the death of the incumbent.The status is also second only to the contemporary heir of the Holy Blood Royal Family known as the "Prince of Asturias".

And it is higher than the royal status of several subordinate princes such as Leon, Castile, Galicia, and Navarre.It's just that as a new regime, Jiang Tian's sources of news within the Holy Kingdom are quite limited. Coupled with the shrinkage of troops and border closures brought about by the celestial change, it is even more difficult.

Therefore, we can only vaguely get some fragmentary descriptions from the monks of Mont Saint-Michel.For example, the Grand Duke of Brittania was appointed by the previous Holy Blood Court as the protector of all secular/religious lords in Britannia at the age of 11 due to an accident in the court.

He has been in power for more than fifty years; for another example, he was an example of a particularly devout believer earlier.I have to come to the holy mountain for pilgrimage every few years; but now it has not come for a full ten years, and only the routine donation of the patron's day is left every year...