With Highgarden's prostitutes and fine wine as incentives, Tyrion instantly wiped away the fatigue of dealing with government affairs for days, directly aroused enthusiasm for work, and doubled work efficiency.
In just a few days, he had completely handled all the territorial affairs that Harrenhal had accumulated.
Tyrion has calculated and counted all the losses caused to Harrenhal by nobles plundering their territories in recent years.
All natural villages within the territory will be registered in a unified manner, and household registration and land information will be organized.
He showed no mercy to those low-level vassals and small knight families who had long been in arrears with taxes and secretly encroached on the rights of the lords. He directly deprived them of their noble status, took back all their fiefdoms and properties, and completely expelled these family forces from Harrenhal.
During this period, several small and ignorant families tried to gather people to resist and refused to obey the government orders.
After Davion learned the news, he did not hesitate at all. He personally led a team of light cavalry to rush in quickly, crush them with thunder, and completely eradicate these small families who were stubbornly resisting.
In just a few days, Harrenhal's domestic situation was completely reshuffled.
Within the entire vast territory, only the House Vance family is left as vassal vassal, and all other lands and villages are under the direct control of Harrenhal.
This centralized situation is the result of the superposition of multiple factors.
The primary reason is War of the Usurper.
Harrenhal, located at the core of Riverlands, was one of the most brutal main battlefields that year. Almost all the noble families in the territory, large and small, were affected by the war.
At that time House Whent took sides with the Targaryen Dynasty, and all the heads of households and adult males of all the vassals under his command were conscripted into the army.
In the brutal war, only ten of the lower-class nobles were left alive.
A large number of male members of the family have died and their bloodlines have been broken. They are either directly destroyed and extinct, or only widows and orphans are left struggling to support them. In the end, they cannot escape the end of decline and destruction.
There are very few lower-class nobles who are lucky enough to survive.
Coupled with Davion's iron-fisted liquidation, Harrenhal is now in sole control of the entire territory and has a highly centralized governance structure.
Everything has its pros and cons, and so does this extreme centralization.
The benefits are very intuitive. Harrenhal has unprecedented control over the territory.
All farmers, fields, villages and towns belong directly to the lord. There is no need for secondary nobles to exploit and withhold taxes, and all territorial resources flow back to the main city.
But the disadvantages are also prominent.
After all the small and medium-sized nobles were completely eliminated, the local armed forces in each village and town that originally relied on the private soldiers of the nobles completely disappeared, and the grassroots defense force was completely blank.
In order to protect the stability of the territory and protect the people, Davion can only send out two to three cavalry squads every day to patrol the entire territory in rotation.
Strictly guard against bandit robbery and intrusion by the nobles next door.
But this is only a temporary transitional measure.
This trip to Highgarden and Davion also intends to recruit talents to fill the gaps in territorial management and armaments.
His ultimate goal is to build a full-time elite army of four thousand to five thousand people in Harrenhal in the future.
At that time, those farmers will only need to cultivate with peace of mind, work hard, and support their families.
The strong men in the family will no longer be drafted out because of some trivial matter between nobles, and they will never come back.
In Davion's view, this is the correct way for the territory to be stable and steadily stronger for a long time.
This development model is extremely expensive, but compared to Gold Dragon, the most valuable thing is that the territory is stable, the people live in peace, and the power is strong.
According to the original plot trend, War of the Five Kings will completely explode in two years.
Davion believes that even if he does not take action with his invincible combat power, he can still rely on Harrenhal's own strength to protect the security of the territory.
It can even take advantage of the chaos to expand territory and gather forces. If it works properly, it is not impossible to sit in the position of Riverlands's guardian.
A few days later, the plain outside Harrenhal became extremely lively.
The open space was filled with farmers and women in simple clothes.
They all come from villages under the territory of Davion.
People in each village gather in a small circle, clearly distinguishable from people in other villages.
Kevin, a young man from Qingshi Village, followed the village chief and mingled with the crowd.
He looked about ten years old, but he was actually thirteen years old.
Long-term deprivation of food and malnutrition made him extremely thin and thin, much thinner than other children of the same age.
Kevin sat with the village chief and several farmers from the same village.
The adults around him all looked nervous and uneasy. Only Kevin's eyes were full of expectation, and he looked up from time to time, full of longing in his heart.
He still clearly remembers the first time he saw Davion. That scene was deeply etched in his heart.
In the past, he was often recruited by the George family to do free labor in the castle. He worked hard all day long and had to be whipped several times before leaving.
He was full of unwillingness, but as the lowest farmer, he had no way to resist and could only endure it silently.
Until that day, a group of elite knights, like magic soldiers descending from the sky, rushed in from the castle gate and attacked the George family.
There was a brief scream in the castle, and silence soon returned.
Not long after, the group of cavalrymen walked out of the castle carrying more than twenty cloth bags and completely sealed the castle.
Soon, he learned that the group of people who entered the castle were nobles with a higher status than the head of the George family.
The big noble not only left a lot of food to the village, but also specially gave Kevin and his young brother a few pieces of candy.
From then on, he remembered the name of this great nobleman, Davion·He'an Earl!
He was filled with gratitude and had been looking forward to seeing this lord again and saying thank you personally.
So when the village chief said he wanted to find a few people to go to Harrenhal, Kevin volunteered to join.
He came to the side of the village chief and asked in a low voice:
"Uncle Owen, can we see Lord Earl today?"
Irving is in his forties. Years of heavy farm work have made him look old, and he looks like a man in his fifties.
He is the head of Qingshi Village directly appointed by Davion.
Hearing Kevin's words, Owen suppressed his nervousness, put on a straight face and put on some official airs, and said roughly:
"Kevin, what did I tell you before we set off? You have to address your duties when you work! Call me village chief!"
In the past, each village was managed by small nobles. There was at most one leader in the village who helped spread the news, and there was no such position as village chief.
Davion After all the local nobles were cleared out, no one was in charge of the villages for a while.
So he personally selected a group of strong, down-to-earth and capable civilians who had some prestige in the village and appointed them as village chiefs.
All government orders and notices from Harrenhal will first be conveyed to the village chief, who will then relay them to each villager.
This established a simple and easy-to-use grassroots management system.
From now on, any orders Harrenhal has will be notified to them first, and then they will be notified to all the villagers in the village.
Because he is an official personally appointed by the lord, Owen has been particularly proud of himself recently and can't help but take the opportunity to put on some airs.
Kevin scratched his head, smiled honestly, and quickly changed his words:
"Yes, village chief."
Being interrupted by the young man, Owen's tense mood relaxed a lot.
Just as he was about to reply, a man in his thirties from the same village next to him interrupted first.
"If you ask me, it would be best not to see you! If the lord doesn't show up, it's probably a trivial matter! If he comes out in person, there's no telling!"
The other person next to him felt nervous and retorted in a low voice:
"But when the cavalry sent the order, they clearly said that they were going to distribute livestock cubs to each village. It should be a good thing."
The man who spoke earlier snorted and said angrily:
"You big fool! Otherwise, who would be willing to come all the way here? I think this time there is a high probability of conscription!"
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of everyone around him instantly became tense.
Kevin immediately frowned and retorted:
"You are talking nonsense! Master Earl will never lie to us! He is much better than those bad guys in the George family!"