Different political structures create different national behaviors.
The Thorne Empire is a bulk empire composed of multiple kingdoms and principalities. The Kingdom of Mattia under its jurisdiction is also a bulk kingdom composed of fiefdom nobles.
If the Kingdom of Mattia is like the Kingdom of Byron, a military country where royal power is supreme and honor is promoted.
They will definitely not undermine the fairness of the promotion route for military academy non-commissioned officers in order to absorb potential emerging forces.
However, the Kingdom of Mattia is a country with collective royal power. It is good at compromising with the large and small forces within the territory to maintain stability. It relies on its indispensable refereeing function to maintain the nobility of the royal power.
In essence, the Kingdom of Byron is a centralized military government, and the Kingdom of Mattia is a tribal council government.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Mattia and the Thorne Empire are more suitable for nurturing new forces, while the Kingdom of Byron is more repressive and unified, and has poor tolerance for emerging forces.
Thanks to the special national conditions of the Kingdom of Mattia and the strong war potential of the Life Church, Zhou Weide easily obtained the entire Burni Port.
With the legitimacy of rule and strong force, all conspiracies and checks and balances of power will be meaningless, including the local nobles.
The old king did not mention them in his letter to Zhou Weide, and Governor Bell planned to drain some of them.
This power group that was supposed to threaten the rule of the new lord was abandoned by everyone with a tacit understanding from the beginning.
Before Zhou Weide could figure out how to deal with them, Governor Bell had already thought of it for him.
Governor Bell escorted half of the nobles who paid the high ransom directly to the Church of Life, and told Zhou Weide approximately how many gold coins he had obtained.
"Vide, I will give you the remaining half. I am the current governor and you are the future lord. The wealth accumulated in Burnie Port should be divided between the two of us."
"Bell, you shameless and greedy liar, you promised to set us free."
"Calm down, I have fulfilled my promise by letting you leave the Governor's Palace.
Now You are standing on Lord Wade's land. I can only release your present, but not your future."
Complaining to the complaining local nobles and the indifferent Governor Bell made Zhou Weide understand the situation. The cruelty of power distribution in the Kingdom of Tia.
The nobles of the kingdom are never a whole, but a group of predators of the same class. The weak ones who fail will inevitably be brutally divided.
"By the way, Vader, no matter what you want to do, please give them dignity, and don't let them have the opportunity to enter the royal capital.
His Majesty the King is not young anymore, we You can’t cause more trouble to your kind Majesty.”
“I understand, Bell, I have no experience in governing the place, so don’t leave me with any trouble in governance.”
"Of course Vader, I will leave you a pure city, and you can transform it according to your own wishes."
Governor Bell did not lie. , all interest groups in Burnie Port will be severely damaged.
Without the support of wealth and interests, the Life Church, which possesses powerful force, can indeed transform the city at will.
Now as long as Zhou Weide does not act recklessly, the local residents will assume that he is a kind and wise lord.
After all, nothing could be worse than Governor Bell, a vampire. With him as his backing, it would be difficult for Zhou Weide's reputation not to be positive.
"Vade, I am sacrificing my reputation to establish a low enough tolerance limit for you.
Feel free to try and make mistakes. If someone stands up to oppose you, just invite me. Come to manage the city, then many of the rules that cannot be changed will be changed."
Looking at the confident Baron Bell, Zhou Weide decided to send the Life Knights to collect a group of people when he left. A huge property transfer tax.
Although the kingdom does not have such a tax that harms the interests of the nobles, Zhou Weide is ready to use the territorial legislative power to put some anti-loophole patches on Burnie Port.
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The king's messenger is still on the way, and Baron Bell can still serve as the current governor for a while.
However, he has given up the power of city management and only leads the guards to exercise law enforcement powers with an impartial and selfless face every day. Many groups have no choice but to pay money to eliminate disasters.
This provided Zhou Weide with an excellent opportunity for integration. With the help of the clerks in the Governor's Mansion, he quickly took control of the city's affairs.
Without the existence of Governor Bell, this city could already be regarded as the territory under his actual control.
"Your Excellency, Baron Bell has the power of law enforcement, and you also have the power of law enforcement. Do you want to send the Knights to limit the scope of his law enforcement."
"No need, Bell is a smart man, He will give me a reasonable answer."
The Life Church suddenly obtained a piece of land near the sea. Apart from the Life believers, the most excited person was the management of Dreamland City.
After they learned about the changes in the church from the letters of cross-border soldiers, they immediately formed a group of secretaries.
They do not plan to directly intervene in the management of Burni Port, but plan to assist Zhou Weide in managing the territory in the form of a secretarial team.
Due to the different dimensions of interest points, the secretarial team produced by Dream City is undoubtedly reliable.
As long as Zhou Weide provides them with enough urban data, they will be able to help him plan, manage and solve development problems.
Therefore, Zhou Weide once again replaced the twenty-member management secretarial team through personality replacement.
These new arrivals are only equipped with simpleA single self-defense pistol, more real weight will be used to replace computers and solar panels.
With their joining, Zhou Weide's urban governance entered a high-speed stage.
When Life Church recruited a group of local clerks to form a neighborhood administrative unit, a comprehensive census work began.
What Zhou Weide expected was that Burnie Port, a prosperous city with coastal trade, offshore fisheries, shipbuilding industry, and basic agriculture, had an actual population of only 42,000 people.
In this regard, local clerks also said that Burnie Port is already one of the most prosperous cities nearby, and many cities are not as big as Burnie Port.
This pattern of scarce population caused Zhou Weide to have a question.
If Burnie Port with a population of 42,000 is considered a prosperous city, then what is the Dream City with a population of nearly 5 million? Is it a principality or a small kingdom.
"How many professional guards could our city maintain, and what was the proportion of emergency mobilization during wartime."
"Your Excellency, with the financial situation of Burnie Port, you can maintain A permanent guard of about three hundred people can recruit two thousand militiamen during war, and four thousand can be mobilized in an emergency."
"Ten to one. The emergency recruitment rate is reasonable, but what does a gang with nearly two thousand people count? Can Burnie Port support so many profit usurpers?"
"Your Excellency, although I don't want to admit it, but Gangs are also militia groups that can be mobilized in the city.
Most of them still need to work, such as the dockworkers group,”
The words of the clerk of the Governor’s Palace. Zhou Weide understood why the local nobles and gang forces were tied to each other.
Because gang power is a free-range model for maintaining family armed forces, they are both subordinate and a unit of interests.
"Notify the editor-in-chief of the Burnie Port Daily that the Life Church will form a city court, and the Lord of Life will give fair judgment to all believers."
"Understand, Your Excellency, you will see A city composed entirely of believers in life.”