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Chapter 111 Pioneering Nobility

After the Duke of Gloucester agreed to all the conditions, Purficott finally took over the canonization document he brought.

"Unexpectedly, I am now an earl." Purficott sighed with emotion. Although she was conferred a pioneering earl, which is not the same thing as a fiefdom earl, this still cannot hide the fact that she became the real power of the empire at the age of fourteen. Facts about great aristocrats.

And the most important thing is that in addition to inheriting a noble status from her family, Purficott also inherited the hereditary baronage based on her ability before reaching adulthood. This cannot be said to be unique among the nobles of the Victoria Empire. Quantity, 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 nobles are generally divided into two types, one is the fiefdom and the other is the honorary noble.

Although fiefdom nobles are also divided into actual 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 fiefdoms can hereditary.

Honorary nobility is just a title. It only enjoys the status of a noble. It 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 people in the fiefdom belong to the Brandlis family. They can legally collect taxes from the people and promulgate some laws that they think are reasonable, as long as they do not conflict with the current laws of the empire.

For example, if Perficott is willing, she can require all families in the territory to provide a female of suitable age to be her maid, or recruit all males of suitable age to train 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 enjoyed 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 defined within a range to limit the scope of their development.

This is 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.

Therefore, 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 that it is just an empty title and does not give her any real power.

The title of pioneer noble is precious only because it can expand the territory infinitely.

But now the world is about to be destroyed. Are you telling me to expand your territory?

Moreover, Purficott had no soldiers, so what could 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 those in the Parliament of Nobles and the Crisis Response Committee, hoping to use this to restrict Perfectcott.

But it is obvious that both the Duke of Gloucester and Purficott realize this, and at the same time understand that it is impossible to successfully implement the northern development plan by relying on the methods of these insects.

That's why the Duke of Gloucester agreed to Perfectcott's conditions, so that she would not be restricted by the Crisis Response Committee and would not have to pay attention to the Parliament of Nobles.

It was for these reasons that Purficott 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.

At that time, even if the noble council wants to make trouble or want to 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 royal family's interests 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 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 noble council would not say it. Purficott was given 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 Northern Guardian, but the specific situation still needs to be operated by the Duke of Gloucester.

"In that case, Sir Duke, are you going back to Langton now?" Holding the canonization document of his northern pioneer earl in his hand, Perfectcott looked at the Duke of Gloucester, and after thinking about it, he took back his 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 that the speed of the airship is indeed very fast. If possible, I would like to order one of these private airships for daily travel." The Duke of Gloucester did not care about Po. What Ficott said before was a joke based on her words.

(End of this chapter)