"Bang!"

When Duke Paris's head was like a piece of garbage, Earl Hill was still on the floor of the Palace's Council.

"ha!"

All the noble ministers were startled as they watched the head rolling on the floor, including King James.

Then there was a great joy.

King James said angrily: "This traitor! The royal family treats him well. He actually raises troops to rebel. He dies well. Humph, this is the end!"

King James also announced: he took back the title and territory of Duke Paris, chopped his body into pieces and fed it to the dog, captured other members of the Paris family, and all were imprisoned and convicted, and no one could be let go!

The nobles and ministers also celebrated each other with each other.

"The kingdom gave the Paris family 300,000 troops, hoping that they would defend Dongjing and resist the Suliu Kingdom. They would not do a good job in guarding the border, but instead turned around and beat the king."

"This bastard Paris has been surrounded by the capital for three months. The potency factory was completely destroyed by him. The workers snatched half of it. We lost at least tens of millions!"

The chemical factory was set up outside the city. After the rebels besieged, the chemical factory was devastatingly damaged. It would take at least a few months to repair the factory.

"It's not just a loss of money, but many people from all families died, not including the Royal Capital Defense Army, and at least more than 10,000 excellent family warriors were killed in battle. Some counts' sons and grandsons were killed in battle. It's a pity for these excellent nobles to die!"

Hearing this, a nobleman immediately knelt down and asked, "Your Majesty the King, all families have suffered such great losses. Please give all families a certain amount of compensation. Duke Paris and hundreds of nobles who follow him. The royal family can take back all their territory and compensate each family with some meritorious ones!"

Boom ~

After hearing this, more nobles immediately stood up to show their merits for their family, hoping to receive certain rewards and compensation.

The rebellion had just ended, and in terms of the fruits of victory, the palace robbed them.

King James' head immediately grew bigger.

After Duke Paris died, he cleared the followers behind him, and at least hundreds of dollars of territory were empty.

Not only are the nobles standing in the royal family greedy for these lands, but the royal family itself is also very moved and is ready to take a bite, preferably swallowing them all.

But after the rhythm was brought up by a certain noble, King James felt an unusual headache in the face of a large number of "seeking rewards".

Zhou Ming did not interfere with these discussions.

He only said a few good things to Count Hill, hoping that the king would pardon Count Hill's sins, allow him to make meritorious service, lead the remaining surrendered rebels, and immediately return to the border to guard the Soliu Kingdom to prevent the Soliu Kingdom from getting ready.

King James nodded in agreement, and Earl Hill breathed a sigh of relief and knelt down and thanked him repeatedly.

Afterwards, Zhou Ming stood aside and watched the nobles compete for merit in front of the king.

But he found that there was someone who had been very quiet. He looked at the head on the floor and didn't speak for a long time.

He is Duke Rudolph.

In fact, Duke Rudolph has a good relationship with the Paris family, and he is also an old acquaintance with Duke Paris, and has a very warm relationship with each other.

However, he did not expect that as one of the "three pillars of the kingdom", Duke Paris's fate was so miserable. Not only did his head fall, his body would be chopped and fed to the dog.

To be honest, Rudolph, who lived in his seventies, actually didn't see many such scenes.

I was deeply touched by this.

Because Rudolph, who is also a duke, was assuming in his mind: if he was in the position of Duke Paris and then rebel, if he failed, would his end be like Duke Paris, his head was cut off and thrown around like garbage?

Seeing Duke Rudolph's expression, Zhou Ming spoke in his ear:

"Isn't this a normal thing? Since ancient times, success and kings are successful and defeated, winners are taken all, and losers are lost. What's so surprising?"

Listening to this light tone, Rudolph snorted coldly: "Hmph, if you were in my position, you wouldn't have said so lightly."

"So Duke, are you in the right position? If the royal family wins, the interests of the Rudolf family will not be damaged; if the rebels win, the Rudolf family, which has huge wealth, will still have a place to use their power. There is no need to worry about the demise of the family, it is just..."

Zhou Ming asked curiously: "I did not find a child of the Rudolph family in Duke Paris's military camp. Duke, have you not placed bets on Duke Paris' head?"

“It’s not like your style.”

"snort!"

Duke Rudolph snorted coldly again: "Duke Paris is brave but not scheming, he is conceited, but his talent is less than one-tenth of his father. Apart from his powerful conspiracy, I conclude that he can't accomplish anything big!"

Zhou Ming nodded. Duke Rudolph has always been known for "just looking at people". He has basically made no mistakes in his comments on others.

but……

Zhou Ming said: "If the royal family had no potassium manufacturers and if these nobles did not support the royal family, Paris would launch a rebellion, what choice would the Duke make?"

"That's another matter."

Although he was reluctant, Duke Rudolf had to admit in his heart that if it were not for the character Zhou Ming to be inserted, the rebellion initiated by Duke Paris would have been completely different from that now.

Moreover, after this rebellion, if a strong royal family is cleared out, the power will inevitably increase a lot.

The royal power will be strengthened.

The remaining two dukes will have their strength significantly weakened.

Once the royal family digests the land and interests of the Paris family, the will of the kingdom and the nobles will be difficult to violate.

This is something that Duke Rudolph doesn't want to see, but is happening.

But what can this be done? Although the Rudolf family is the richest, they have less than 5,000 private soldiers. Duke Hansen has an elite order of ten thousand people. It is acceptable to fight in the field, but it is far weaker than Duke Paris's border guards.

Therefore, after this rebellion was put down, the superstructure and future development direction of the Kingdom of Adude will undergo earth-shaking changes.

...

Two months later.

After countless discussions and quarrels.

Regarding the distribution of the fruits of victory, the royal family and the nobles finally reached an agreement.

The fiefdom, which accounts for about 25% of the land area of ​​the kingdom and has a total of 122 pieces, has been allocated as follows:

The royal family received 22 higher-level fiefs to enfeoff the descendants of the royal family and the royal family members who had made contributions.

The 60 nobles who made great contributions each had a medium-sized fiefdom to commend their meritorious deeds.

There are more than 40 nobles who have made minor contributions and have not obtained fiefs, but each received a reward of 50,000 to 200,000 gold coins, as well as sales agency rights for magic potions in more kingdoms.

The remaining 40 fiefdoms, because of the climate, environment and soil, are more suitable for planting medicinal materials, are included in the "medicine material planting area" and are uniformly managed by the pharmaceutical production factory. In these "medicine material planting areas", every meritorious noble can apply for a piece of land to plant medicinal materials for free. As long as the medicinal properties meet the standards, the pharmaceutical production factory will be underwritten and will not have to worry about not making money.

Of course, ordinary merchants and civilians can also apply for land in the "medicine planting area", but a certain fee is required.

All of these expenses are finally paid to the treasury to serve public utilities.

For example, to form the Xinde Kingdom Legion and build an elite soldier of 100,000 people.

For example, the number of enrollment students in Brno Magic School is expanded, allowing a large number of talented civilians to enroll, significantly reducing tuition fees, and increasing the magical strength of the kingdom.

There are also public utilities such as road construction, bridge construction, etc.

This all requires a lot of money.

With so many expenses, Zhou Ming couldn't keep paying for money himself.

Including the royal family and all nobles, they all need to share some of it.

Whoever shares more will have the opportunity to make money in the future will have priority.

So King James stated on the spot: "In the future, the profits of the pharmaceutical manufacturer will be 20% directly belong to the national treasury."

When other nobles saw it, they also received tax quotas, including those who received 10,000 gold coins per year, and those who received 5,000 gold coins, and 3,000, and 1,000 gold coins... In addition to the king, the nobles contributed a total of about 500,000 gold coins.

500,000 gold coins can probably maintain the kingdom's financial expenses for one month.

Zhou Ming felt very funny at that scene at that time. When he received the tax quota, these nobles seemed to suffer great losses one by one, and their faces were as if they were constipated.

However, when the word "glory of tax payment" became popular, not only the nobles and the "big taxpayer" were involved, but even some businessmen participated, and the tax amount received was surprising.

Even some civilians with more assets strive to be "taxpayers" with voting rights.

Taxpayers have become a symbol of status and status.

Of course, this will happen a few years later.

...

in addition.

Zhou Ming, who made great contributions in the process of dismantling the rebels and distributed the fruits of victory, came up with many plans to satisfy everyone. What should be his reward? At a court meeting, King James and the nobles discussed for two or three hours.

Finally, the opinions were unified.

There are three rewards belonging to Zhou Ming:

1. He was promoted to the title, from viscount to earl... Zhou Ming became the youngest earl in the Kingdom of Adude and was the real-world earl. Zhou Ming took all the large "black swamp" land in the southern border of the kingdom.

2. Rewards of 500,000 gold coins and several treasures... This is actually not worth mentioning. With Zhou Ming's current wealth, it is a drop in the bucket.

3. Pardon the Leilin family.

The last point is the real drama. Because of Zhou Ming, the Leilin family, which has been ups and downs for more than three hundred years, is about to get up again.

And the speed of getting up was quite fast, because so far, the Leilin family has only been exiled for more than two years.
Chapter completed!