The rhythm of this group of trumpets allowed the representatives to have the most basic sober understanding even if they were unwilling to do so.
House Peake generations have managed this land and have already laid a very solid foundation for centralized power.
The wealthy knights under them have always been "controlled" very strictly, and they are far less free than those knight leaders in the central region of the continent.
Titus must thank House Peake's ancestors and predecessors, otherwise it would be even more difficult to do things by oneself.
The people here are fierce and have always only recognized and followed the strong. It is indeed easier to implement centralization and restructuring.
But there is one thing.
Warlords must look like warlords!
You must be strong enough to have the confidence to take drastic measures and make new changes.
This reform is by no means a spur of the moment, even if it is as strong as Titus, it took two years of brewing with the power of a winning streak before it started to move them.
Just to keep a steady hand and prevent chaos.
He is now strong enough, and his control over the territory has reached a peak, so that he can implement such a complete power reshuffle.
Just when the knights secretly lamented that "there is no good feast" and were worried, Titus once again signaled the servants to serve wine and asked them to refill each knight with the 85-year-old Lafite wine.
The overall situation has been decided.
This time, his tone softened a lot. He picked up his wine cup and toasted to everyone. "Today's topic is for the long-term development of the territory, and is not aimed at any one person. I would like to toast you all first. I hope that in the future you can also fulfill your duties and protect Dornish Marches with me."
This move is undoubtedly a different kind of "releasing military power over a glass of wine".
When the knights saw this, even if they were still upset in their hearts, they could only pick up the wine glasses and drink the bitter wine in one gulp.
After drinking this glass of wine, Titus once again announced the follow-up arrangements, "The Military Police Knights commanded by Egon Leavell will next be adjusted and reorganized. The original number of official members, numbering a hundred, will soon be expanded to 200, and they will also be equipped with twice the number of attendant cavalry."
The knights who were taken back to their fiefs this time can give priority to apply and be incorporated into the gendarmerie regiment, and the rest, depending on their talents and vacancies, can join other regiments as captains or serve as peace officers in other areas."
This time, the reform of the Military Police Corps is not just about doubling the number of personnel, Titus will also further delegate certain law enforcement powers.
In fact, the establishment of such posts is more similar to the circuit court system.
In addition to being qualified to maintain order in the military and serve as military judges, the formal knights of the Gendarmerie will also be sent "to the countryside" in turns to be responsible for supervising the implementation of criminal laws in the entire territory, as well as investigating and punishing local officials' greed, corruption, abuse of power and other malfeasance.
This move is the most wonderful move among all the wonderful moves.
For example, these knights present were once local managers, and they were well aware of the loopholes and hidden rules of grassroots management.
After that, if they are asked to supervise the new types of officials who steal their "good jobs", they will inevitably keep a close eye on them and try every means to find out the omissions and mistakes of the new group of officials.
-Especially those vulnerabilities that they themselves have exploited.
Under such strict supervision, which is like the gaze of an enemy, the rate of corruption of newly appointed officials will inevitably slow down significantly, enough to sustain it until the efficiency of official training is improved, the number of civil servants is increased, and officials from various places are rotated.
In this way, House Peake's direct rule over the grassroots was completely consolidated.
The aroma of wine still lingers in the mouth, Titus is thinking:
First complete the territory of Starpike, take a look at the operational effectiveness, and then promote this set of things to other areas - but other places are not as thoroughly explored as Starpike, and the degree of control is not as strong. The resistance of traditional feudal forces will definitely be greater.
Don't force it, just take your time.
He plans to spend a few years giving his Starpike territory a new look first.
Other sites were slowly advanced.
The subsequent pressure may not be the hostility of the knights, but the speed at which the bachelors train civil servants?
As for junior officials, demand exceeds supply----
Even with "targeted training", not every settlement can be equipped with three officials.
In some small places, it would be good to have an administrator who is similar to a village chief, but there is no need to talk about taxation, infrastructure, and credit unions. Public security is also managed by several districts.
Titus ended the meeting and sent Jero to go to Gardon for training.
East Study returned upstairs and called Ai Geng, the commander of the military police regiment who currently stayed in Starpike much more than Riven Valley City, to give him instructions.
The other party has done quite well in the past two years, and has fully learned from Lady White Eagle's previous decisive style of not investigating, but ruthlessly ruthless once it is discovered.
If I say I'll get you done "at the prescribed time and at the prescribed place", I'll never break my promise!
Otherwise, no one will be afraid, and we will just engage in nonsense law enforcement and charity.
Except for Ser Aigon, the performance of the other regiment leaders was not bad either.
Sir Robinson is a veteran and often stays at Starpike. He understands the purpose of Titus most clearly. Currently Six training stations have been built in the six locations where Starpike, Whitegrove, Dunstonbury, Horn Hill, Valley City, and Ringlet are located.
With the regular training of farmers and soldiers in the territory, it really has a bit of a Zhechongfu flavor.
The government army system and the land equalization system are closely integrated, and the army is integrated with the farmers. It not only reduces the military expenditures of the castles in various places, but also promotes the construction of collective farms. In conjunction with the gradual dismantling and relocation of the resident knights, it can also prevent the knights from leading the troops to be self-reliant, which is more conducive to the centralization of Starpike.
When the "business" of the training corps becomes more mature, Titus also plans to join part of the guard system.
Militiamen who have performed well in training are recruited into the military, and along with their immediate family members, they are required to work in the fields to support themselves and pay a quota of military rations.
His family only participated in the garrison as military dependents, rather than as a hereditary military household. They preferred a self-sufficient semi-recruitment system under the guise of a guard.
No way, we can't use a large-scale recruitment system in Westeros. It's already a great thing to be able to raise a few thousand professional soldiers. When the war breaks out, using these thousands of soldiers as a skeleton is enough to support a scale of tens of thousands of people.
The garrison corps, which needs training corps to provide "new blood" during wartime, still has a strength of 2,000 people and is still the most backbone military force in the entire House Peake.
Sir Duncan, the leader of the regiment, is in charge of Starpike and directly manages the two regiments of Gino and Parker. One of them is in charge of city defense and security patrols, and the other is responsible for camping and training outside the city.
One inside and one outside, rotate every three months.
For the other two regiments assigned to Whitegrove and Dunstonbury, although Finlay and Bowen remain unchanged in their positions as commanders, the centurions and Company under their command are also rotated every year to try to eliminate the possibility of "side generals" becoming too powerful.
Two years have passed and the operation of Peake Legion has been stable and improving.
The busiest one is undoubtedly Rosso Brune's survey corps.
The popularity of the "Headhunting Order" has not diminished, and as its influence has spread, it has already attracted some idle knights from surrounding areas and even the southern border to join.
The members of the Survey Corps are the main force in this "headhunting operation".
They are a violent group with complete organizational structure and logistical support. They are the strongest. They have gradually become familiar with the terrain deep in the mountains, including the migration distribution of the clans, and have become better at detecting and locating those Wildlings tribes that refuse to surrender.
The "Bounty Hunter" from various places has become an important supplementary force for the former.
These unlicensed "Hunter" search for "targets" everywhere in order to earn bounties. Once they find "hard bones" that are difficult to crack alone, such as some large clans with large populations and powerful combat capabilities, they will report to the Survey Corps as soon as possible.
After receiving the report, the Survey Corps will quickly verify the target information, then integrate the surrounding scattered Hunter teams to carry out a bloody conquest against the stubborn Wildlings tribe.
In the past two years, in the peaks, valleys, and woods on the west side of the Red Mountains, the sounds of fighting could be heard almost day and night. It can be said that heads were rolling and blood flowed like rivers.
The roles of Hunter and prey are completely reversed.
The savage bandits in the Red Mountains have to face opponents more savage than them, and they can no longer stand up.
Starpike used the most direct force, using gold coins and human lives to force those who were originally entrenched in the mountains.
The unruly tribesmen of the Wildlings clan had to abandon the mountains where they had lived for generations and chose to escape down the mountains.
This directly resulted in the "resistance policy" implemented by Titus, which showed good results.
More and more wild people are arriving at various fortresses through the three "safe passages" for "foreign population registration".
At first, there were only a few Wildlings who dared to try, and they did not trust the promises given by Lord Dornish Marches.
But as more and more tribal people who were forced down the mountain really found a stable life, the news gradually spread among the savages in the mountains, which gradually led to an increase in the number of people who took the initiative to "submit".
With a large number of new landless citizens, Titus's follow-up policies can keep up.
Develop various "protected areas" along the foot of the mountain Red Mountains to centrally resettle the new residents who were forced to go down the mountain, and implement the "household system for all residents".
At the same time, in view of the terrain characteristics of "more slopes and less plains" on the edge of the Red Mountains, we vigorously promoted the reclamation of terraces and organized the residents to build layers of terraces on the hillside, supplemented by irrigation facilities, to plant wheat, barley and legume crops.
Two years later, the first batch of newly cultivated terraces received good feedback, and golden waves of wheat began to roll up and down the hillsides.
At this time, Titus already owned six cities, and its territory spanned rivers and mountains. There were also Prince's Pass's enclaves, and its territory of power was unprecedentedly strong.
Looking at the entire territory, he does not lack a vast territory and a sufficient population. The output of grain, grass and cash crops is also very abundant, and various minerals, timber and other natural resources have also been initially developed.
In terms of funds, due to the strong "support" of Highgarden and the tax revenue brought by the restarted Dorne trade route, there has been no shortage of money in recent years.
The core need of Titus is to transform these fragmented resources into real development momentum.
He needs a labor force that can be flexibly deployed and skilled craftsmen to support the construction of ports, road repairs and the development of new industries. He also needs fixed financial resources that can support the rapid development of the territory, rather than just relying on war indemnities and checkpoint taxes.
And all of this, with the steady progress of the construction of the New Harbor port and the "wave of immigration" continued by the "resistance policy", there are already signs of realization.
The "Headhunting Order" and the "Battle Resistance Policy" not only eliminated the potential safety hazards around the Red Mountains, but also added a large number of laborers to the front line of their territory that could be called upon at will.
Through household registration and terraced field reclamation, the agricultural foundation was consolidated and local order stabilized.
Titus started to use the knife on the knight again.
He plans to integrate local armed forces, expand the gendarmerie, further strengthen centralization, and ensure that all subsequent new policies can be implemented smoothly without encountering regional resistance.
This series of interlocking measures will eventually build this land into the most solid foundation of House Peake.
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