[Chapter 345 New Structure and System]

David can think about who to summon with the remaining Rubik’s Cube slowly, there is no rush anyway.

After Weatherby Swan arrived, David and his political officer began to seriously discuss how to set up the internal affairs system of the Principality of Winter.

Before leaving Winter City for the Marvel Universe, David had already talked to Weatherby Swan, asking Weatherby to think carefully during this period, and even discuss with others, and then come up with a plan.

So when David came back and summoned Weatherby Swan, the political officer had already handed the plan prepared in advance to his lord.

“Administration, finance, personnel, supervision, agriculture, transportation, education, the new government department will include these subordinate agencies.”

The plan detailed the specific powers and responsibilities of each department, and there would be no overlapping powers and power grabbing, at least it seems so at present.

David took a rough look and combined with Weatherby Swan’s introduction, he felt that the plan was perfect enough, and the several major departments had covered all the things that Winter City needed to deal with at present.

“I understand that the military is not included in the calculation, but the public security is also separated out?”

“After discussing with others, I think the public security department should be treated as a military force.” On the Brunnian Road, public security work is the job of soldiers.

Whether the public security forces of Winter City are considered soldiers or not, Winter City itself has not made a clear statement.

Most people believe that the public security team that has received military training and has certain military qualities should be regarded as a reserve military group, and can be armed as a real soldier in an emergency.

In addition, because the scale of Winter City is constantly expanding, Elizabeth believes that the public security department also needs to be reorganized and can no longer be like it is now.

“Elizabeth suggests establishing a police station and a fire station, and separating public security management from rescue, fire fighting, disaster relief and other work.”

“Well, okay.”

The schedule is very thick. David flipped through it and found that it not only included Weatherby Swan’s reorganization plan for the government department, but also Elizabeth’s plan for the reorganization of the public security department.

David looked at it and found that compared with the government department, which was divided into a large number of departments, the public security department was only divided into police, disaster relief and fire departments. It was not complicated at all and was much simpler than the government department.

“Let’s reorganize according to this plan!”

After the reorganization, the Winter City Government Building in the southwest of Glamorgan Castle will become busier, and the originally empty floors and offices will be gradually filled.

Especially the administrative department, which will be divided into two parts: the Duchy of Winter and Winter City. The Duchy of Winter will deal with the affairs of the entire northern plains including Winter City. In the future, as its power expands, it will manage more and more areas.

Now Weatherby is the Minister of Government of the Duchy of Winter and the Political Officer of Winter City. In the future, he will definitely hand over the governance of Winter City to others.

Afterwards, David told Weatherby that the Duchy of Winter would not use the feudal system, and Weatherby thought it had no effect.

There are not many internal affairs officials in Winter City, and many of them are newly recruited grassroots staff. They don’t think they have the opportunity to become lords.

What David really wants to appease is the military. Although they are all crushing, the army has fought several wars and made many contributions. Before announcing the feudal system, it is better for David to prepare a complete reward system in advance to ensure the welfare of the soldiers before announcing it.

“I do have some ideas and want to hear your opinions.”

David already has some ideas in his heart, so he will bring up these things at this time. The

reason for asking Weatherby is that Weatherby Swan is the person with the most political experience in Winter City, and he should be able to make a reasonable judgment. Weatherby

nodded and waited quietly for the Duke’s narration. David used the simplest and most straightforward language to tell his arrangements for the army.

According to his idea, the knight’s title will not be invalidated and will still be retained, but the land will not be divided.

In the Duchy of Winter, the only way to obtain land is to open up wasteland and purchase, and David will issue a series of decrees to impose certain restrictions on land purchases and transactions.

He knows that things like land annexation are not easy to restrict, but it is definitely not okay to do nothing. He can only take one step at a time.

Weatherby felt that the Duke seemed to have gone off topic, but he kept his mouth shut and listened quietly.

Fortunately, David only mentioned it casually and then turned the topic back to the original topic.

Although you will not be rewarded with land by getting the status of a knight, you can receive various benefits from the Duchy of Winter, including but not limited to money. The

status and benefits of a knight can be enjoyed for life, but will not be passed on to heirs.

In other words, although there is no land of their own, the knights still have long-term security and are more closely tied to the Duchy of Winter. Only when the Duchy of Winter

is strong and has always existed, your knighthood will continue to bring you benefits.

And this kind of welfare income is more stable than land, and David has also prepared a series of promotion and salary increase regulations: for example, the extra income of just becoming a knight (which does not overlap with the income of the original military position) is equivalent to the normal income of an ordinary knight’s territory in the current Kingdom of Tilan.

Then, as the knights continue to make meritorious deeds, they can receive more rewards, such as medals. This income can continue to increase, and there is no risk of losing everything if the territory goes wrong. David believes that no one should object to this plan.

“It sounds fine.”

After listening to the Duke’s description, Weatherby felt that if this plan was announced, even if the Duchy of Winter completely abolished the feudal system, the military would not object. The

real problem with this plan is that as the army expands, the Duchy of Winter has to support a growing class of “knights”, which will put a lot of pressure on the finances.

But it seems that Winter City does not have to worry about financial problems in the short term, right?

“Then how do you plan to settle the nobles from the capital of Tilan?”

“Don’t worry about them for now.”

In theory, they are nobles of the Kingdom of Tilan, and it is not up to David, the Grand Duke of Winter, to think about what they should do.

But the current situation is that with the announcement of His Majesty Abelson, the entire Kingdom of Tilan knows that Duke David-Glamorgan is currently the real ruler of the Kingdom of Tilan, so the rights and interests of the nobles should also be protected by the Grand Duke of Glamorgan.

“In this case, these people may cause some trouble in Winter City.”

“It depends on Elizabeth’s performance at this time.”

Ignoring them is actually screening out fools.

The guys who jumped out early will become David’s model to warn other nobles.

In addition, when the Principality of Winter has not yet expanded its power to the original land of the Kingdom of Tiran, it has not caused any damage to these nobles in essence.

So it is likely that after being warned, they will stay honest and not cause any more trouble.

When the Principality of Winter begins to officially move south, the power in David’s hands should be strong and stable enough, and at that time, such a small number of nobles will not make any noise.

Of course, it is not ruled out that these nobles act as spies and undercovers in other countries for their own interests, so for a considerable period of time in the future, the focus of the work of the Winter Intelligence Department will not be external, but internal surveillance.

David only mentioned these things to Weatherby in passing. The experienced Weatherby Swan knew how to cooperate with Edwin Van Cleef’s work.

After finishing the story and getting approval from Weatherby Swan, David talked to Gareth Stanton and Floyd separately.

As expected, the two of them had no objection to the abolition of the feudal system. The next step was to improve the knights’ reward standards and salary increase regulations.

At the same time, the two guards were also spreading the information about the abolition of the feudal system in the army while they were reorganizing. The Winter Intelligence Department began to frequently shuttle around the city during this period in order to get real feedback as soon as possible.

As the news gradually spread, some people expressed dissatisfaction.

However, the army was very stable, and only the Tilan Knights showed some dissatisfaction.

“This is much better than I expected.”

As time passed, when midsummer arrived, David, as the Grand Duke of Winter, officially issued a series of announcements.

These included the abolition of the feudal system and the new welfare benefits for knights.

With the release of the announcement, the slight dissatisfaction in the army disappeared immediately. The knights of the Tilan Knights felt that under this treatment, it was not a big deal to have no fiefdom.

The Winter Knights fell into a crazy state of striving for progress. Almost all of the Winter Knights hoped to get a real knight status as soon as possible, rather than just the title of “member of the Knights”.

In this state of hard training, in addition to several commanders and instructors, the Winter Knights finally began to have real paladins.

This is not surprising. Under the guidance of paladins such as Tyran Fording and Renault Mograine, the Winter Knights have already received orthodox paladin training. It is only a matter of time before a real paladin is born. What

really surprised David was that Megatron actually learned the Holy Light, followed closely in the footsteps of his old rival Optimus Prime, and consolidated his position as the number one military commander of Cybertron.

“Congratulations, Megatron!”

Megatron didn’t say anything, but everyone could see his proud look.

However, he did not become proud and complacent because of this. Although he finally learned the Holy Light and seemed to have caught up with his old rival Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime had upgraded himself not long ago. This guy actually modified his carriage so that he could merge with the carriage and have a more powerful posture.

Now, Optimus Prime is the number one master of Cybertron, and Megatron can only be second!

“Leader, should I also upgrade myself?”

(End of this chapter)