Black Iron Crown

Reiner is very dissatisfied with the current situation, but he has no way to really control it.

He can only let the patrolling soldiers vigorously restrain the mercenaries and other businessmen, as for the knights, they can only turn a blind eye.

After all, those people came to Mecaron City because they admired their fame and were willing to work for them. If they were expelled or convicted of crimes at this time, it would obviously chill these knights.

It is true that Reiner knew that these people wanted to get the fief, but even so he still couldn't do it.

Regardless of the fact that the residents in the territory are very supportive of Leiner, in the final analysis, Leiner, or all the nobles, are basically knights, yeoman and landlords with combat effectiveness.

These talents are the source of power for the nobility, but the situation in the northern region is different from other regions. Most residents can be called self-cultivating farmers, and many people with the title of self-cultivating farmers are landlords. That's why Leiner seems to have a relatively large number of people. .

In the territories in the interior of the empire, a baron has four or five thousand people, and the basic base of the local lord may only be a dozen knights and thirty or so soldiers, as well as the yeoman and landlords who support him.

You must know that those serfs are very inactive in labor. They are completely the private property of the lord and have no motivation to work at all. If no one supervises them, the problem of laziness will be very serious.

And it is impossible for a lord to watch thousands of people work, which means that another class must be created to help the lord supervise.

Landlords, yeoman, and knights came into being.

Although the knights are more military-oriented, and they served as a branch of the army when they first appeared, but since the day they took over the fief from the lords and held titles, they have also assumed this responsibility.

Landlords and yeoman are the same. Although there are no yeoman in the traditional sense in the north, from a military point of view, Reiner's basic base is the knights.

Maybe in the future when he owns more territories, his base will be extended to the residents of the northern border, but at least not now.

In the novels that Reiner read in his previous life, the behavior of directly beating the landlords to divide the land seems to him to be completely brain-dead behavior.

The restrictions of the times exist all the time. It may be useful to divide the land from landlords, but it is definitely not now.

Because of productivity constraints,

The grain yield per mu is too low, so most of the population is still an agricultural population, which means that more handicraftsmen and merchants cannot be supported.

As long as the agricultural population still occupies the majority, the basic set of lords and nobles will never change, that is, a small number of elites, knights, landlords, and self-cultivating farmers.

If the lord betrays the interests of the class, then the collapse of his basic board means the demise of a family.

Even if he really wanted to be kind to the serfs at the bottom and wanted to liberate the serfs, those serfs would not have the courage to fight the knights and landlords.

At that time, even the soldiers under the lord's command will not help him.

Because most of the soldiers are self-cultivated farmers, who cares whether you are a noble lord or not if your interests are touched?

But Lena is not like that now.

Because in fact he did not have the kind of contradiction that emancipating the serfs won the support of most people.

Although the number of serfs is large, they cannot actually be converted into effective strength. They can only provide wealth, and even if they are allowed to go to the battlefield, their performance is limited.

The Northern Territory is different. Most of the residents are in the same situation as the owner farmers. They can be directly converted into troops and soldiers. Even if the knight class and the landlord class collapse, Reiner does not have to be afraid.

Compared with the mainland lords, the territorial hierarchy and structure of the northern border are more reasonable and balanced.

However, if the knight class is dissatisfied with Leiner, then his situation will deteriorate a lot. First, there will be no strong professional soldiers. accept.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to be unfavorable to the Cavaliers now.

It can be said that the interests of the knight represent his interests.

Therefore, Reiner just asked the patrol to warn these restless knights, and turned to rectify the others drastically.

Three days after Leiner's order was issued, the patrol team arrested more than two hundred people in the dungeon of the castle.

They were convicted of all kinds of crimes, or murder, or theft, or robbery, or tax evasion.

Yes, tax evasion is a very terrible crime, even worse than murder. This is the idea that Reiner instilled in everyone. After all, he does not want to get less money due to him.

As serious as tax evasion, there is corruption.

This is what Reiner extremely dislikes, no one would like others to take money from their own pockets.

So Reiner is very angry now, extremely angry.

He slapped the file in his hand on the table, frowned and said to Logan angrily, "Is the news true?"

"Yes, Lord Earl, according to my investigation, Azexi has embezzled at least five gold coins!" Logan nodded, hiding his face in the darkness, and said to Reiner in a respectful tone.

"Damn it!" Reiner jumped up, suppressed the anger in his heart and shouted to the door: "Go and call me Aizexi!"

Reiner glanced at Logan, his dark eyes were indeed very useful...it was even better than Jin Yiwei.

"You hide for a while, go behind my curtain and listen to our conversation, understand?"

"Yes, my lord, I understand what you mean!"

After waiting for a while, Aizexi opened the door and floated into Reiner's study.

I saw him walking briskly in front of Leiner, then knelt down on one knee and performed an exaggerated courtesy, bowed his head and said: "My greatest, bravest, wisest, and most benevolent director, the Lord of the North, Lord Earl Leiner , your servant pays you the highest respect and admiration, what order do you have for calling me?"

Reiner was noncommittal to his compliment, and said coldly: "I already know all about what you did, tell me everything, and I can reduce your punishment, otherwise you will definitely regret it!"

Hearing this, Ai Zexi's face was first stunned, then overwhelmed with surprise, and then turned into heartbroken, it can be said to be full of expressions.

I saw Ai Zexi looking at Reiner with a sad expression, his eyes were full of grievances, and he said in tears: "I don't know what I did, and I don't know that you will look at me like this, but I believe it must not be Your original intention, because I am extremely loyal to you, there is absolutely nothing to hide!"

"I can take out my heart and offer it to you, just to show you whether I have a loyal heart to you!"

Ai Zexi wiped the snot from his nose, and said desolately: "Someone must have slandered me, because they are jealous that I have been favored by you, Sir, you must believe me!"