The First Magic World War-Chapter 589 - 555, the New World Conference nominally pledges allegiance to Duke Mecklen!
Chapter 589: 555, the New World Conference nominally pledges allegiance to Duke Mecklen!
Chapter 589: 555, the New World Conference nominally pledges allegiance to Duke Mecklen!
Charles really happened to think, after managing the rebellion in Strasbourg, that there was a huge fortune on the bodies of the New Worlders—the land of the New Continent.
Those who could organize a return to the Old Continent were either leaders of large districts or federal heads of certain regions, or at the very least, city lords naturally possessing the legal rights to some lands of the New Continent.
Charles explicitly priced the dozens of cities in Southseraph, demanding the group of New Continent migrants to bid with New Continent land, successfully dividing most members of the New World Conference.
After all, having left the New Continent, its land held no value to them; suddenly being able to exchange it for Southseraph land was essentially a “business with no capital”, where everyone could win big.
For Charles, the benefits were even greater.
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Once the New World Conference had banded together, its combined strength was formidable, rivaling any Empire on the Old Continent—it would have given even him a headache.
However, when he turned all cities and villages in Southseraph into individual targets, these members of the New World Conference naturally divided into small groups to protect their own interests, losing their previous unity.
In this world, everyone has their own selfish desires.
With the New World Conference no longer united as a team, the chairpersons and members with their own interests formed only a loose alliance.
Next, he would possess the legal ownership of vast lands of the New Continent.
Charles came from the modern world, where the legality of land ownership is essential—the world’s order is constituted by countless international treaties and a myriad of various agreements.
The sort of mess where unoccupied land gets claimed and then forcefully stolen by the powerful was all too common.
The essence of world order is power, followed by rules.
Owning legal authority eliminates the need for sheer force.
The third point is…
Yes, that’s right, the New World Conference would nominally pledge allegiance to Duke Mecklen!
Besides land exchange, the talks also revolved around renaming the Southseraph autonomous region, eventually renaming it as New World Conference Freehold, discarding the Southseraph title.
Charles didn’t really care; the Southseraph autonomous region was originally a base for rebellion.
The South Ceraph Reclamation Army had caused countless troubles for the Fars Empire, even daring to assassinate the Archduke of Behemoth.
However, after many years of war and Charles’s constant manipulations, there weren’t many Southseraph people left in the region.
Most were relocated by Charles to other areas, and now it was occupied by immigrants from the New Continent; this place would never be the original Southseraph again.
The twenty-seven rounds of negotiations finally culminated in a “Contract of Loyalty to Duke Mecklen from the New World Conference Freehold.”
Charles was quite cunning.
Beyond the general contract of the New World Conference, he had each city and village take separate oaths, thereby further dividing the New World Conference.
Although Romios understood Charles’s intentions, and many chairpersons and members of the New World Conference were also aware of Charles’s motives, no one opposed it, as they had never truly been united even when they were in the New Continent; everyone acted independently.
This contract was a substantial volume, spanning 1,058 pages, containing provisions covering everything from politics to economics, trade, and even cultural areas.
After its completion, five master copies of the contract were distributed: one to the Royal Family of the Fars Empire, one to Mecklenburg, one to the headquarters of the New World Conference, one to the City Lord of Arcadia Port, Romios, and one to a chairman from Sedona whom Charles had never met.
Delegates, members, city lords, and village masters of the New World Conference each held a copy.
Throughout the discussions, Charles consistently avoided talking about Avesh.
To him, there was no need to discuss Avesh—once the contract was signed, the New World Conference and Avesh would no longer be united.
Although Avesh was quite powerful, he was left alone and could no longer stir up any trouble.
Avesh was cunning—realizing that no one stood with him and that everyone refused to fight, he took a few subordinates and disappeared into thin air, leaving no one aware of his whereabouts.
When everyone signed the contract, even the New Worlders couldn’t help but cheer because they could finally live in peace and stop fighting.
For the immigrants of the New World, this was a dream come true.
Of course, if it were not for Charles’s strong counterattacks that left the New Worlders feeling crushed during their push through Mecklen Duchy, their mood would have been entirely different.
After finalizing the contract, under the supervision of Charles and several chairmen of the New World Conference, the first to demobilize was the military of Mecklen Duchy, followed by the disbandment of the New World Conference’s military, handing it back to the city lords and village masters.
Charles knew it was impossible for the New World Conference to give up its military altogether, so he played a clever trick: the New World Conference wasn’t allowed to have a military force of its own, only retaining the right to requisition troops from lords during wartime.
This proposal won widespread support as nobody wished to relinquish control over their own forces.
The demobilization and military disbandment proceeded orderly and methodically.
Two weeks after completing the contract, Charles led his main fleet back to Mecklenburg, though most of his officers stayed in Duoviliat Port, which next to the Holy Light Divine State Title, had become a top recreational and entertainment spot with Hot Spring Mountain.
Upon returning to Mecklenburg, Charles’s first order of business was to clean up gang activity.
In this world, in this era, the only elements disrupting societal order were gang members and destitute people with no way out.
In all the areas he managed, starting with the Lucavaro District, Charles’s approach toward gangs was to eradicate them completely.
Whether here or on Earth, typically the police are in charge of eliminating gangs and they follow the law, but Charles would deploy the Knighthood—a bona fide military force—without needing any legal provisions.
As long as there was a gang element, he would forcibly mobilize all involved, leaving no option for their dissolution.
Therefore, security in his territories always remained in good condition.
Mecklen Duchy was a new territory, and after Charles had acquired this land, he had campaigned around the Agres Sea and had no chance to overhaul the territory before it was war-time again, so the number of gangs within the Duchy was growing.
However, once the Westwind Knights mobilized starting from Mecklenburg, gangs within the Duchy boundaries rapidly began to disappear, and no gang could resist the Westwind Knights, drastically improving the security throughout the Duchy within plain sight.
As for the desperate poor?
In a world where nobility can levy taxes, the vast majority of the poor are created by the nobility themselves.
After the signing of the “New World Conference Freehold Loyalty Oath Contract to Duke Mecklen,” who was most hurt by it?
Naturally, it was the South Ceraph Reclamation Army, and Cyrus, their leader!
