Chapter 111: Pioneering Nobles
After the Duke of Gloucester agreed to all the conditions, Perfectcott finally took over the canonization documents he brought.
“I didn’t expect that I am now an earl.” Purficott sighed with emotion. Although the person who was conferred was a pioneering earl, which is not the same thing as a fiefdom earl, this still cannot conceal her fourteenth year. The fact that he became a powerful noble in the empire at the age of 18.
And the most important thing is that in addition to inheriting a noble status from her family, Perficott also inherited the family's hereditary baronetcy before she came of age based on her ability. This is among the nobles of the Victoria Empire. It cannot be said to be the only one among them, but it is also very rare.
Not to mention that she has now become a pioneer earl at the age of fourteen, which is unique in the history of the empire.
The reason is also very simple, because the pioneering earl is a pioneering noble, which is completely different from other nobles in the empire.
Imperial nobility are generally divided into two types, one is fiefdom and the other is honorary nobility.
Although fiefdom nobles are also divided into real fiefdoms and virtual fiefdoms, in any case, they all have fiefdoms in name, can enjoy benefits from their fiefdoms, and enjoy legal rights over their fiefdoms.
And the most important point is that only nobles with fiefs can hereditary.
Honorary nobility is just a title. It only enjoys the status of a noble and does not have the privileges of a feudal noble. This noble status cannot be hereditary.
Take the Brandless family as an example. Although the family's fiefdom is only a small town, all the mountain and forest products in the town belong to the Brandless family, and they can legally manage the resources of this land.
Whether they use the land for grazing or farming, or use it entirely to plant trees, it is their freedom.
There is no problem in using it to build a castle or something, as long as you have the money to build it, there will be no problem.
Similarly, all the subjects on the fiefdom belong to the Brandlis family. They can legally collect taxes from the subjects and promulgate some laws they think are reasonable, as long as they are inconsistent with the current laws of the empire. Just have a conflict.
For example, if Perficott is willing, she can ask all families in the territory to provide a female of suitable age to be her maid, or recruit all males of suitable age to be trained as a private army. This is both possible.
Although the empire has gradually become less popular with noble private armies after the military reform, some big nobles still have some guards at home.
Because the family owns this fiefdom, the family's noble title can be passed down from generation to generation, all the way to Perficott.
As for the pioneering nobles, they are a special kind of nobles.
In terms of power, they are similar to the feudal nobles, but like the honorary nobles, they cannot be hereditary.
The reason for this is that the pioneering nobles enjoy a special power - the right to expand land.
That is to say, the pioneering nobles can expand their territory. As long as they can achieve actual control and pay taxes to the empire according to the scale of the territory, then these lands will be your territory, and no one will control it no matter how big it is.
Of course, generally speaking, in order to avoid the situation of being too big to lose, the pioneering nobles will still be assigned a range to limit the scope of their development.
This will be reflected in their titles. For example, the Earl of Northern Exploration that Perficott received limited her scope of development to the Northern Territory. After the death of a pioneer noble, his title will automatically become a fief noble, and the scope of his territory will be fixed and cannot be expanded.
So the pioneering nobility is a very rare existence for the empire, and the royal family and the noble council will not take it out.
This time, Purficott's title of Earl of Northern Territory Development was obviously because the noble council was really desperate, and there was really no other way. Otherwise, they would have to parachute someone over and set up a stand in Purficott. above.
But this is meaningless to Purficott. It can even be said to be just an empty title that does not give her any real power.
The reason why the title of pioneering noble is precious is that it can expand the territory infinitely.
But now the world is about to be destroyed. Are you telling me to expand territory?
Besides, Purficott has no soldiers and no one, so what can she do to open up the northern border?
She doesn't have to rely on domestic support, she has to rely on the aristocratic parliament and the crisis response committee to support her behind the scenes.
And this is exactly the wishful thinking of the insects in the Noble Council and the Crisis Response Committee, hoping to use this to restrict Purficott.
But it is obvious that both the Duke of Gloucester and Purficott realize this, and also understand that relying on the methods of these insects, it is impossible to successfully implement the northern development plan.
That’s why the Duke of Gloucester agreed to Purficott’s conditions, so that she would not be restricted by the Crisis Response Committee or the Noble Council.
It was for these reasons that Perficott put forward his own conditions so that he would not be disturbed by the group of insects.
In particular, the title of Guardian of the North not only gave her a legal basis to formally rule the entire Northern Territory, but also gave her the foundation to legitimately control the armed forces.
Even if the noble council wants to make trouble or pick peaches, Perficott, who has an army in hand, can directly reject them with force.
As for the royal family not giving Perfectcott the title of Guardian of the North? Neither Perfectcourt nor the Duke of Gloucester worried about this.
On the one hand, Purficott has a close enough relationship with the royal family. She represents the interests of the royal family in this apocalyptic disaster, and it is impossible for the royal family to get in her way on this point.
On the other hand, there is no one else in the empire who can take over all of this. Apart from Perficott, even if the empire wants to let others take over these things, it doesn’t know where to start. Otherwise, the nobles The parliament would not go as far as to give Perfectcott the title of Earl of the Northern Territory.
Whenever they have other options, they will let their own people come instead of letting Perficott take over.
Therefore, it is very possible for Purficott to obtain the power of the Guardian of the North, but the specific situation still needs to be operated by the Duke of Gloucester.
"In that case, Lord Duke, are you going back to Langton now?" Holding the document of canonization of his Northern Territory as Earl in his hand, Perfectcott looked at the Duke of Gloucester and thought for a moment. After that, I took back my previous words: "If you are in a hurry to go back, I can't let the airship give you a ride."
"That would be great, I have to say the speed of the airship It's really fast. If possible, I would like to order a private airship like this for daily travel." The Duke of Gloucester didn't pay attention to what Perficott said before and made a joke along with her words. .
(End of this chapter)