Chapter 43 Celebrating the whole world
Although Egil only gave less than a day of preparation time, Krakow is worthy of being the capital of the Norman Empire. The officials were busy and even the mayor of Krakow personally took action, like a coolie. Egil also sent his 100,000 troops to arrange the arrangements. So the next day, when people woke up, they found that the entire Krakow had become completely different. When Egil was happy, he ordered the mayor of Krakow to wrap trees with high-end fabrics, sprinkle wine on the streets, and pave the roads with flowers. The entire Krakow was covered with red colors and dressed up in a new way!
The most surprising thing was probably the big merchants from the East, especially those Far East Chinese who thought they were the Celestial Kingdom. Originally, they thought that only the luxury of the Eastern Emperor - and the orthodox emperor was terrifying and dizzy. In this way, they appeared on the local buns emperor of the Western Empire that they looked down upon. This made them a little unacceptable...
"His Majesty Egil Scadragrimson is a wedding today. The people of the whole city, regardless of gender, age and age, were given a pot of wine, a pound of meat, a pound of white bread, a pound of salt, and a spoon of honey!"
The household registration system was issued in recent years, with the promulgation of the serfs' law. The emperor conducted specific demographic statistics in his own country and issued wooden signs to register the names, genders, marriages, and work status of family members. The residents of the empire needed to marry, have funerals, sue, buy and sell real estate, make credit guarantees, open shops, trade, or be apprentices, short-term workers, tenants... all need this thing as a certificate.
The Empire obtained first-hand information because of such a strategy. Statistics of household registration helped the Empire control its residents, collect taxes and management. Such an advanced system is also one of the guarantees for the Empire's development.
However, this policy requires great manpower and material resources to be implemented. At the same time, it was opposed by many landlords and nobles who concealed their household registration. Moreover, because of the previous Black Death, countless casualties and injuries were killed or injured. Therefore, household registration management became full of loopholes. After the Black Death, the empire gradually recovered and the household registration policy began to gradually recover. But now, only the empire's early territory - Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Britain - had to be in towns. It was only possible to handle it.
People don’t even know this policy in ordinary small villages and towns and even in some remote areas. As for the newly acquired territories such as France, Germany and Italy, this policy has just begun to be implemented. I don’t know how long it will take to succeed.
Such a voice was shouted out by the Imperial Guards, which woke the Krakow citizens who were still intoxicated in this world of luxury. After all, the fantasy of this city could not affect their jobs. However, the previous voice may be a luxury that they would never be able to eat in their entire lives.
"What's going on?!"
When it comes to their own interests, people always act very quickly. At that time, in the streets and alleys, in various residential areas, people took action and found out the matter as quickly as possible.
"The emperor's wedding is celebrated together! The whole city of Krakow, whether men, women, young or old, can receive these supplies from the street management office with the certificate of household registration. A pot of wine, a pound of meat, a pound of white bread, a pound of salt, and a spoon of honey!" The soldiers of the Imperial Guard looked at him with a dark and obsessed look, but they didn't mean any stage fright. They still said this. The loud voice made the crowd around them hear it clearly.
Hearing that there was such a good thing about the pie falling from the sky, the rich businessmen, gentry, noble lords and other things were unmoved. However, the common people were very happy and hurried back home. They took the wooden sign of household registration certificate issued by the royal government and went to the street management office in the center of the residential area to collect supplies. The officials who handled the matter were not vague. After reading the wooden sign of household registration certificate, they stamped it on it. Then they gave supplies according to the number of people on it.
The bread and meat were worn with thin linen, the wine was filled with clay cans, and the salt was placed in a cloth bag. Only honey was a little troublesome, and each person had a spoonful of honey, which was not easy to get. The official who handled the matter didn't care, so he used a spoon to scoop, and then asked the person who came to collect the things to reach out and sprinkle the honey on his hands...
Some people were skeptical or were slow to react. They did not take action as soon as possible. As a result, when someone happily came back with bread and meat, they realized that this was true. They also rushed towards the street management office.
Although the empire is rich, for ordinary people, the degree of wealth is just about having no worries about food and clothing. It seems that white bread is only eaten once during festivals and festivals. Salt and other things are also intimate goods. As for honey, sugar and other sweet things, many people probably never tasted them once in their lives. At that time, many Krakow citizens who had received the spoon of honey held in their palms couldn't help but smell the fragrance. They wanted to slap half of themselves in their hands.
After this, the sweetness of honey stimulated his taste buds. An unprecedented feeling spread from the tip of his tongue to his whole body. He immersed himself in a strange feeling of happiness. Some people wanted to swallow their tongues. Some people cried and laughed, danced and seemed crazy. Some people were stunned and stayed in place. The Norman spies hiding in the crowd looked at the opportunity and shouted: "Long live the Emperor Egil!"
For a moment, the "long live voice" like a tsunami was heard. Egil's approval rating suddenly increased by more than 20 percentage points.
At the same time, in the Grand Palace of Krakow, Egil, wearing a black wedding dress, was making final preparations. Then he heard the door "bang" open. Aurora, who ran in a white wedding dress, rushed to Egil in panic, opened her mouth and asked, "Are you going to distribute supplies to the citizens of the city?"
"Yes. Wine, meat, bread, salt and honey. There are a lot of them." Egil turned around and looked at Aurora with a smile and admitted calmly.
"Do you know how much it costs? The residents of Krakow totaled nearly 300,000!" After hearing Egil admit it calmly, Aurora looked like she was going crazy: "I'm afraid it will cost millions of Normankin!"
"Wrong!" Egil quickly corrected Aurora's words: "It's tens of millions - I have issued an order to distribute supplies once in other provincial capitals and major cities!"
"Are you crazy?!" After hearing Egil say this, Aurora almost fainted: "I just ransacked Constantinople, I don't know how to spend money after making money, right?! There are so many serious things in the empire, and you have the time to sprinkle money into the river and play?!"
"Wrong, wrong, wrong..." Egil walked to Aurora while shaking his right index finger and pressed her shoulder: "I'm not spending money indiscriminately - you see, I used these tens of millions to buy blessings from the people of the empire to our marriage. What's wrong? It's very cost-effective - very cost-effective."
After hearing Egil say this, Aurora lost her temper. She rolled her eyes and pushed Egil away, and snorted softly: "If we were both married, then I would recognize it." Egil heard it. She emphasized the tone of the word "two of us". It seemed that she was quite dissatisfied with Egil's other girls and holding the wedding together.
"Well, there are seven girls including Joan of Arc, Maria, Sonya, Nightingale, Bamami, Princia and Aien. But is there any problem? There is no problem at all. Because my love for you is unique. In this world, as long as there is love, it is fine. Even if the sister has love, it is fine. God will definitely forgive me and bless me."
As Egil said this, he stepped forward and hugged Aurora again. This time Aurora did not resist, but leaned on Egil, hugged him with his backhand. He murmured in a low voice: "I would have been fine if this was the case..."
In this way, after hugging both sides for a short while, Egil let go of Aurora: "Make the final preparations again. The wedding starts at twelve noon, and there is no more time."
"Yeah." After Egil said this, Aurora also let go of her hand, then tiptoed to kiss Egil gently on her side face, then turned around and left.
After Aurora left, Egil then turned around and asked Sonia, who didn't say a word from just now, was wearing a wedding dress, but had a very thin presence, and asked: "How is the situation?"
"Not very good." Sonia shook her head. Although she was wearing a wedding dress of the same style as Aurora, how could she say... it was completely mismatched. She didn't wear a dragon robe like the prince's level. She had a facial paralysis expression, and she was wearing a short dress suitable for combat, or she might as well wear men's clothes. However, at this moment, Egil didn't bother to make fun of her or strip her naked and then change to other clothes to take advantage of it.
"Tsk, Joan of Arc still doesn't want to?" Egil continued.
“Yes, Master.”
"Don't call the master in the future, call me husband."
“Yes, Master.”
"I didn't say... forget it, just casually." Egil quickly gave up his plan to change his words. He thought to himself: "Just play as a master and servant." Because there are more important things to deal with now...
Chapter completed!