Arkarand agreed so happily, but Ren was surprised.

The eye of the soul also saw that Aklande's emotions were far more intense than it seemed on the surface, and he was extremely excited and high-pitched, as if his long-cherished wish that had not been available for many years had finally been fulfilled, as if he could participate in the construction of the Principality of Augustus. Supreme glory.

"what's the situation?"

Ren murmured in his heart and said in surprise, "Can you call the mechanic's union? This is not a trivial matter."

What he meant was that Akland should at least go back and report to the mysterious president.

Akland was stunned for a moment, as if to hide something, and explained: "You give the Mechanics Union such a big deal, and the president will definitely not refuse. I promise you in advance that there is no problem."

There is indeed a problem!

Ren was like a mirror in his heart, but his face was calm, "You'd better communicate with the President, and then give me a clear answer."

"Okay!" Akland nodded again and again.

However, the eye of the soul can still see clearly, although Akland seems to have calmed down, he is actually very excited, and he can't wait to leave and return to the empire.

Next, Ren roughly talked about his plan.

First and foremost is to build roads.

To get rich, build roads first! This is a well-known saying in the past life. How many people rely on these six words to get rid of poverty, and the economic benefits generated have stimulated the development of the entire region.

Rennes intends to give the seven cities under the duchy's governance to the highest standards, all of which will build roads of the highest standard and connect them to each other. The streets in the city will also be re-planned and managed centrally, and new urban areas will be developed outside the city to accommodate more people.

At the same time, a railway will be built through the dragon forest to the port terminal in Kingsland.

The second is universal education and worker training.

This requires cooperation with schools and factories to liberate labor from the land, improve individual productivity, and fully tap human resources.

The third is to establish a new governance system.

The Principality of Augustus is no longer that kind of backward feudal country. Except for Ren himself, there are no real nobles anymore, and all the land is owned by Ren himself. He will appoint talents, appoint a mayor to each city, establish a city hall, and be fully responsible for the construction of a city.

The mayor does not look at his body but only his talents, and will examine the mayor's political achievements every year.

Renn already has a set of ideas in his mind, roughly copying the municipal management system of the previous life, including finance, education, industry and commerce, health, public security, justice, etc., and there are more than a dozen bureaus in the initial concept. The candidates for these key positions are only the mayor. Nomination rights and final appointment rights are in their own hands.

Like the mayor, every director must be screened by the Eye of the Soul, and those who are unqualified will be replaced immediately.

People are unpredictable, especially in politics.

In the previous life, even the most wise ruler would inevitably be deceived, and the moths appeared under his command, which corrupted the hearts of the team, and finally ended in a tragic end.

But unlike Ellenus, no matter how smart the mortals are, they can't resist the extraordinary.

The eye of the soul can penetrate the heart and easily distinguish the loyal and the traitor.

Ren is confident that there will not be too many mistakes, and no small actions can escape his own scrutiny.

Moreover, in the future, he will select a group of the most loyal Ultramarines as the backbone, and then replenish the manpower from the spear-wing knights to form a "trial court" that only obeys his own orders, patrol the entire territory of the duchy, clean up the fallen and monsters, and have supervision. The power of officials can find out the criminals hidden among the nobles and commoners, and when necessary, they can be executed first and then slapped.

Wren's goal was to build a strong industrial state, not a capitalist frantically squeezing surplus value.

Most of the profits produced by the citizens of the principality will be turned into welfare and fed back to them. Those newly built factories, schools, hospitals and public facilities are all owned by the Duke of Augustus, that is, Ren himself, but they are actually a bit like state-owned enterprises in the previous life. Units, unified distribution of benefits.

A stable and orderly country with relatively happy people, even if there are only a few million people, can provide an enormous amount of faith, far exceeding the free-range missionary model.

Rennes will also benefit greatly from this.

One is wealth and the other is population, which are necessary elements to build a large army.

The Spear Wing Knights will be vigorously expanded. In the future, the main source of troops will come from the Principality of Augustus, and the most talented group will be selected from millions of people to become one of their most solid backers, second only to the Extreme Battle.

There is also a third benefit.

The development model of Augustus is like a test field. If the results are gratifying and the goddess approves, he decides to expand the scale, then...

The corners of Ren's mouth rose, and there seemed to be light flashing in his eyes.

When Akland listened to his plan, the more he was surprised, but the more excited he became. He couldn't wait to say: "Ren, I will go back to contact the President now, you wait for my good news."

Ren had already seen that he couldn't sit still, so he nodded.

After personally sending Akland into the teleportation array, Ren turned around and entered the main hall of Dragon's Back Castle, where many people have been waiting for a long time.

"Meet the Duke."

Ren took the main seat in the hall, and a group of people below saluted.

These people are the upper class of Longji City, nobles, businessmen and extraordinary people, as well as representatives of all walks of life, all of them are famous and famous people in the city. During this period of time, the power in Longji City was empty, and they jointly organized an extraordinary guard to maintain order in the city.

Of course, taking advantage of the good opportunity to control the city, these people did not forget to take advantage of it for their own benefit.

They were suddenly summoned by the Spearwing Knights, and they didn't know what the new duke had planned.

Ren's eyes swept over everyone, read the thoughts of more than 100 people, and said softly:

"Don't be too polite, everyone sit down."

After the sound of clattering, Ren continued: "I invite everyone to Longji Castle today, there are a few things to announce."

The people below are all refreshed, knowing that the next words will be related to their future.

"The first thing."

Ren stretched out a finger, "Dragon's Back City will become the capital of the Principality of Augustus," he stretched out a second finger, "Augustus Principality will not have any real lords except me. ."

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of surprise in the hall.

Dragon's Back City was originally the territory of Viscount Felton. This family has been uprooted, but there are still several vassal lords alive under Felton. There are six people in total, each with a piece of knighthood, and the area does not exceed the population. A town belonging to the lowest kind of petty aristocracy.

However, even a piece of knighthood is a land that countless people dream of but cannot obtain.

The six lords had the most intense reactions. They were all extraordinary people, and they were also the only real nobles in Longji City. They used to be loyal to Viscount Felton, and they did not follow Viscount Felton when he abandoned the city and fled, nor did they participate in the usurpation war that year, so they escaped Emily's revenge purge.

Just as one of the lords was about to object, Ren's eyes came over, and it was as if a basin of ice water had been poured on his head, his face was pale, and he couldn't say a word.

The other five noble lords were also trembling.

"I allow you to keep your title of lord and the castle where your family lives." Ren said in an unquestionable tone: "In addition, all land ownership, taxation and law enforcement in the territory will be returned to Austria. The Gustus family."

"After depriving the fief, your family's private army must be disbanded on the spot. Taking the family as a unit, you cannot recruit more than ten extraordinary guards at most."

"Whoever has a different opinion can put it up now."

Every word of Renne is like a knife, piercing the hearts of the six noble lords. This is depriving them of their fiefs and glory. Without land, how can the family survive?

However, in the face of an extraordinary person at the pinnacle of legend, who personally killed Mark's King Killer, there are two teams of extreme warriors around, no matter how much opposition there is, no one dares to say it.

Everyone was silent, and the hall was silent for half a minute.

In the end, no one dared to stand up against it.

"Very good." Ren smiled and said to the six noble lords: "I will give you three days to hand over the jurisdiction in the territory."

Then, he stretched out his third finger, "Dragon's Back City will appoint a mayor to manage the city for me. The mayor is not limited by background, age, or gender, as long as those who have the confidence to qualify for the position, Anyone can sign up.”

"If the performance evaluation is excellent during my tenure as mayor, I can consider granting the title of nobility."

"There are also more than a dozen positions after the mayor, each responsible for one aspect, with different rights and benefits."

Many people's eyes lit up.

They were unfamiliar with the name mayor, and only a few had heard that many cities in the Empire had a mayor. Although according to the words of the Duke, the mayor is only a position and does not have a fief, but the power in his hands is no less than that of the city lord.

Managing hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside Longji City is by no means an easy task.

But what is this compared to the power that can be obtained?

Immediately someone stood up and asked, "Lord Duke, what are the requirements for being the mayor? What are the criteria for being excellent in the assessment?"

This is what everyone wants to ask.

Ren took out a stack of materials and sent it down. This is the process he wrote before, and said, "Everyone of you can take a copy and go back and read it. I will also have people post notices in the city. Everyone has the same After a week, everyone who participates in the registration will be arranged for an exam, and the content of the exam will be determined by me.”

"The content of the examinations for different positions is different, and each person can only apply for one position."

"With the top five scores, you will be eligible to enter the second interview. I will select the final winner among these five people and take the corresponding position."

"Oh, that's right." Ren smiled at the crowd below, "I have all the right to interpret this process and the outcome of the appointment."

Everyone in the hall looked at each other.

take an exam?

They had never heard of this method of recruiting officials in their entire lives, and Congatro didn't even have a decent school, let alone an exam.

This novel mode caused some to shake their heads secretly, thinking that the newly arrived Duke is simply a nonsense.

But there are also people who are eager to try, as if they see the hope of getting ahead.

Ren didn't have the patience to explain more and let everyone disband and go home.

In less than half a day, the word spread throughout Longji City, and almost everyone heard that the Duke would pass an exam to appoint the mayor and be responsible for managing the entire Longji City.

For a while, both the upper-class nobles and the lower-class civilians were talking a lot.

There were discussions everywhere in the streets, pubs and hotels, and the notice boards in the city were crowded with people, crowded.

And the initiator of all this, Ren, has taken Bolch and the extreme warriors to Stream City. He spent three days traveling through the Principality of Augustus, repeating the same process seven times, depriving the remaining nobles of their fiefs, and announcing his own policy plan.

Under the repression of powerful strength, no one dared to object.

At the same time, Ren used the eye of the soul to screen loyal people in each city, and recruited a group of extraordinary people to form a temporary security team to execute his will.

Of the seven territories in the Principality, two are in the north of the Dragon Forest, namely Dragon's Back City and Stream City.

These two territories have the largest population, occupying two-thirds of the entire principality. The terrain is flat and will become the economic center of the principality in the future.

The five territories south of the Dragon Forest originally belonged to the Principality of Lauberdil. Although the area is larger, the terrain is rugged, dominated by hills and mountains, and the population is scattered and difficult to manage. However, this area is rich in mineral resources, including many gray coal mines and iron mines. As long as the transportation problem is solved, a large amount of industrial raw materials can be provided.

Renn gradually had a blueprint for development in his mind.

When he returned to Dragon's Back City on the fourth day, he set foot on the teleportation array and returned to Glamorgan. Akland brought back good news. The president of the Mechanical Union had agreed to cooperate and gave a preliminary plan.

Ren looked at the plan of the Mechanics Union, the manpower and material resources, mechanical equipment and preparations in various aspects were huge, most of which were transported from the empire to the Principality of Augustus by ships and airships, and even prepared at the airship take-off and landing site in Glamorgan, Build a long-distance teleportation array.

This large-scale effort shows the unremitting support of the Mechanics Union.

Ren pondered for a long time, and the eye of the soul observed Akland from time to time, and noticed some clues from his urgent attitude.

It seems that the mechanics union is more concerned with building the duchy than itself.

This is somewhat unusual.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "I wonder if I can have the honor to meet the President?"

"Sorry." Akalander smiled bitterly, "The President is uncertain, and I managed to get in touch with him. He asked me to tell the Duke that the Mechanics Union has no malicious intentions. On the contrary, the Mechanics Union is willing to reach a better deal with the Duke. In-depth and comprehensive cooperation~lightnovelpub.net~ In order to show the sincerity of the mechanical union, the three million gold shields invested in the motorcycle factory will be paid by the union, and the Duke still owns 10% of the shares."

"The President also said that when the time is right, he will meet the Duke."

Ren was even more curious.

The Eye of the Soul confirmed that Akland was not lying, and that the conditions offered by the Mechanic Union were unbelievably good, sending money, goods and people. There is no free lunch in the world. Obviously, the mysterious president is either asking for himself, or he has other plans. I am afraid that this great favor will not be repaid in the future.

But it's not easy to refuse.

Not to mention, the mechanical trade union is a huge force in the empire, especially in terms of financial resources, it is unmatched, and I also need their support.

Ren thought for a long time, and finally nodded: "Thank you, Your Excellency, for me, and wish us a happy cooperation."