145: The rescheduled morning assembly

When the nobles began their vigorous campaign to eradicate internal traitors and had no time for other matters.

Arthur's City Lord's Manor construction, however, proceeded exceptionally smoothly. In just one month, the 350 City Lord's Manors were initially completed!

Arthur finally gained complete control of the Lionheart Kingdom because of this!

Having completely taken control of the Lionheart Kingdom, Arthur was now ready to implement his policy of reducing noble territories!

However, this policy might cause internal instability within the kingdom, so Arthur secretly dispatched four Minotaur Sky Knights who had been idle for a long time.

He sent them to the Orc Royal Court to monitor the movements of the orcs.

These four Minotaur Sky Knights had been idle ever since they plundered the Orc Royal Court, and now it was time to reactivate them!

Although it was highly probable that the Orc Royal Court would not dare to attack the Lionheart Kingdom, which now had three Legendary powerhouses.

Instead, they were more worried about the Lionheart Kingdom invading them, but just in case, Arthur still made this decision.

With no more worries, Arthur began to summon officials and all the great nobles for a court session.

In just one month, Arthur held such a grand court session again.

The summoned nobles didn't know what Arthur was planning, but his previous actions gave them a premonition that it certainly wouldn't be anything good.

So, when those nobles above the Rank of Earl went to the Royal Capital to attend the court session, their inner worries made them all look distressed.

They even inquired everywhere about why Arthur was causing such a stir this time, even asking Arthur's father, Abergh!

But Abergh didn't know, and even if he did, he wouldn't tell them, so the nobles only received answers of not knowing.

In the end, they gained nothing.

On the second day after Arthur issued the summons, numerous officials and nobles gathered again in the court.

Arthur scanned below and found that compared to his first court session a month ago.

The nobles now clearly feared and dreaded him much more. This was all brought about by Arthur's sweeping Governor and City Lord's Manor measures of the previous month.

After dealing with some miscellaneous matters, Arthur directly got to the point, saying:

"I have summoned you all to the Royal Capital for a court session for only one matter.

That is, I am about to issue a policy to re-divide the territories of nobles of various Ranks.

This is the re-divided territorial scope for nobles of various Ranks."

With that, Arthur waved his hand, and the guards beside him distributed the pre-copied documents to the nobles.

Upon hearing that it was about re-dividing the territories of various nobles.

The nobles below had a bad premonition, because Arthur, as a member of the royal family, out of self-interest, would only reduce their territories, never enlarge them.

Although they were prepared for this, when all the nobles finished reading the documents in their hands, expressions of disbelief still appeared on their faces.

Some even cried out in indignation:

"Your Majesty, isn't this method too extreme? To try to strip us of two-thirds of our territory all at once, this is practically taking our lives! Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Following that noble's indignant cry, almost all the nobles present nodded in agreement.

Due to their promotion in noble Rank, Arthur's elder brother Art and second sister Arina, having been promoted to Marquis, also attended the court session with Abergh this time.

The three of them were among the few who did not show any signs of opposition at this moment.

Not only because they were Arthur's relatives, but also because Arthur had been too good to them before!

Even their noble Ranks were promoted by Arthur, and even after this policy, their territories would still be larger than before. What reason did they have to object?

Besides them, only David did not object.

David, as a Duke, had a territory that, due to previous circumstances, happened to be only the size of a Marquis's territory, which was one-third of a normal Duke's territory.

Thus, this policy had no effect on him, so he naturally wouldn't object.

However, apart from these four, everyone else was different!

Even Arthur's maternal grandfather, Duke Gryphon, now frowned.

After all, even if Arthur was his grandson, two-thirds of his territory was too important!

It was something his ancestors had fought hard for, and he could not give it up without reason.

Arthur watched the resolute opposition of the crowd below, but did not immediately stop them, merely observing silently.

It wasn't until the nobles below felt that arguing was useless and stopped their disputes that.

Arthur slowly said:

"Oppose? Think carefully, do you even have the ability to oppose now?"

Hearing this, many nobles felt as if they had been struck by a sudden realization, recalling Arthur's actions from the previous month.

They thought of the City Lord's Manors in their respective cities that stood in opposition to them, and the Governors in their respective provinces that made them wary.

It turned out that all of Arthur's previous actions were for this moment!

Recalling all of this, everyone suddenly understood Arthur's plan and immediately became dejected.

Because they also clearly knew that they currently had no strength or confidence to resist the royal family.

Seeing the nobles below begin to resign themselves to their fate, Arthur, to prevent them from becoming too pessimistic and taking unpredictable actions, offered another word of comfort:

"I know you are dissatisfied with this decision of mine, but from my perspective, I am also doing it for the prosperity and flourishing of the kingdom.

Furthermore, I know you will worry that if I continue like this, you will lose the territories you rely on for survival.

Therefore, I assure you that the Lionheart Kingdom will never again enact similar policies, and your territories will not be arbitrarily taken away in the future!

I guarantee it in the name of King Arthur!"

Hearing Arthur's words, the faces of many nobles finally brightened slightly.

Because they were indeed worried that Arthur would pull such a stunt again in the future, causing them to completely lose their status as lords!

Now that Arthur had given his assurance, while it couldn't guarantee what would happen in the future, during Arthur's reign, they should not have to worry about this issue.

"We hope Your Majesty will keep today's promise!"

Considering the absolute strength of the royal family and Arthur's assurance, after their expressions constantly changed, the numerous nobles finally accepted Arthur's territory reduction policy.

Seeing that the nobles had resigned themselves, Arthur, remembering something, added:

"Rest assured, as king, I will naturally not break my promise.

Furthermore, I am not an unreasonable person. This new policy for noble territories of different Ranks will certainly be implemented.

But I can make an exception: you can choose your own reduced territories!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the nobles improved even further.

Because this way, they could keep the most prosperous part of their territory, and the loss wouldn't be as great!