Chapter 179 The Mint, the Officer and the Fleet
In order to express the preferential treatment of the vassals in the northern border.
Lin En nodded for a moment and replied in a positive tone.
"Yes, as long as I am a noble from the north and swear allegiance to Baigang City, I will consider it as appropriate. However, the remuneration of the affairs officer cannot come from the inside of the castle, and can only be paid by Baigang City. The affairs officer only implements the management of daily things and makes major resolutions on the castle, which must be approved by Baigang City."
"Isn't Baigang City's approval? Isn't it the approval of the adults?" someone asked in confusion.
Lynn chuckled, "In the future, unless major resolutions and military matters are made, I will let a group of officials in Baigang City make decisions."
When the little bear girl Lyanna heard this, she widened her eyes and said, "The official of Baigang City, are you planning to hand over the daily affairs of Baigang City?"
Lynn glanced at the excited Lyanna, knew what she was trying to do, and nodded without hiding it, "Of course, when Baigang affairs get on track, I plan to recruit a affairs officer for Baigang City."
Leanna continued to ask: "But don't you have a Bachelor's degree in Hill? In the future, there will be a bachelor's degree sent by Xuecheng to help you."
Lin Neng looked at the hunched back of the old bachelor who was lying on the desk and was speeding with a pen on his left. "Of course, Bachelor Hill is fine, but he is old and should train a successor and spend his old age. As for the school city, I don't plan to send a new bachelor to the school city, but I welcome the affairs officers to study in the school city for a while, and then return to participate in the management of the castle affairs as a bachelor."
"But the school will not allow non-bachelor's degree to study. Every new bachelor's degree needs an old bachelor's degree to send a letter of recommendation and can only enter after being approved."
Lynn did not answer this point. He believed that the practice of Xuecheng monopolizing most of the new knowledge may change in the future.
In addition to the mint, with the affairs officer, Lynn finally proposed to build a fleet.
“Since the 'Ship Burner' Brandon burned out the entire Stark family fleet, the North has lacked naval for hundreds of years.”
Lynn felt it was necessary to build a fleet in the North, a fleet that was large enough to challenge Dragonstone Island and King's Landing.
As soon as he heard about the warship, Rooney's interest came.
As the attendant, although no one asked him for his opinion, he felt that the Lord’s idea was really great, and he could already outline the scene in his mind!
The Manchester United led by him was in front, and behind him was a fleet of thousands of sails, waiting for the flags sent by Manchester United at any time and hitting wherever they pointed.
However, during this time of the Widow Hope Battle, the Lord Lord did not send his Manchester United to carry out the mission, but instead appeared some new warships with strange styles. It is said that the names of the warships include Lip, Hot Spear and Chelton. I wonder if the commanders of those warships will compete with him in the future to command the position of commander-in-chief of the fleet?
Rooney wanted to make a mistake, but unfortunately the proposal had been circulated below. After stamping the seals of the vassals in the north, it was handed over to the lord on the high platform, while the old scholar Hill was still writing quickly.
Instead of funding privately in Baigang City, the North Fleet Lynn proposed at the Vastual Conference and built in the name of the North.
In fact, the reason is very simple.
To establish a sense of collective honor, there is no difference between the name of the fleet in the North or the White Harbor Gripen Legion. As long as the person sailing on the ship is Lynn's navy, no one can get involved in Lynn's army.
Lin En's proposal is the case. Even the officials are not allowed to recruit a military force. As the attendant can, the military power will always be firmly controlled by Lin En.
Lynn built the northern fleet to give the northern nobles a sense of sustenance. Lynn no longer recruited army soldiers from their territory to supplement the army. The navy built in the name of the northern border at least allows these nobles to gain the most basic sense of participation. Otherwise, these northern nobles would gradually decline in the territory because Lynn did not need to recruit troops from them and did not need to deal with any threats in the northern border. Without the army, these nobles could easily feel empty. This sense of emptiness is the lack of the sense of honor brought by the loss of the army. Lynn used this as a consideration to set up the name of this fleet.
However, Lynn did not expect that this simple comforting move would have a huge and far-reaching impact someday in the future.
In the subsequent vassal meetings, other vassals from the northern border raised some of their own issues, but there was no key major event. Some people raised signs of the climate, saying that the weather seemed to be getting warmer and warmer, and sometimes the sun was hot, and even the snow left last night could not be seen in the territory, and it was not like the cold winter at all.
This is indeed an abnormal sign, and Lynn also noticed it, but it is an indisputable fact that winter is approaching, and he did not think too much about this information.
Some vassals talked about the stupidity of the civilians, some investigated Linen's words, and even talked about his nephew's desire to join the war.
"My son organized a team of lancers, all of whom were children, none of them over nineteen years old, but they all considered themselves members of the new Grizzly Cavalry. I called them a bunch of little bastards, but they laughed at me instead. So, they simply called themselves the Eagle Corps, and the feathers behind the arrow shaft were all made of the eagle's feathers, singing the knight's way in their mouths, and riding horses and running around."
Lynn thought this idea sounded really great, but the Gripen Legion must currently ensure that its bloodline is pure and he had psychological expectations that he would not recruit Northbound soldiers.
The meeting started from morning to afternoon. The middle of the way, the Bachelor of Luwen sent the macaque servants to the kitchen to bring meals with sister island ale. Every nobleman ate cheese, grilled chicken and brown wheat bread, or tear the chicken with his thick fingers, and chatted politely.
Without formal issues, the meeting turned into a unique banquet for the highest-level aristocratic party in the North.
The vassal meeting ended smoothly. Two days later, nobles from all over the country left Baigang one after another, some riding yachts, some riding sedan chairs, and some riding horses themselves, bringing them a large number of subordinates: knights, attendants, little lords, their wives, commanders, musicians, and a juggling team to take them away from Baigang City again.
These nobles, when they came, their flags and clothes were dazzling, colorful, and when they left, they were full of momentum and spirit, and were full of longing for the future.
Of course, the nobles also left behind 30% of the food harvested last season with the golden dragon and silver moon to make up for it. These are the first batch of taxes collected since Xinbaigang City implemented the new tax policy.
Paying taxes to Baigang City quarterly, replacing annual payments, will become the norm in the north in the future.
Chapter completed!