Chapter 413 The new life of the Archbishop of Würzburg
Compared to the trebuchet director Master Weidenfeller, who has not experienced many ups and downs in life, the militia director Archbishop Würzburg has a much better work attitude.
Although today's life is much worse than the days when Würzburg Weifu lived alone, he has finally settled down anyway.
He quickly expressed his enthusiasm for this new job to Ladislaus and went to receive the account books that day to confirm the specific content of his work and the resources that could be deployed.
When he noticed Ladislaus visiting several elderly soldiers to express his condolences, he immediately followed up with similar actions.
Even on New Year's Day in 1526, His Excellency the Archbishop of Würzburg was personally visiting every household. Unlike Ladislaus, who was purely close to the people, he happened to have some newly inherited work to do together.
He compiled a roster of militiamen with the help of police and municipal officials. At the same time, several of his sons were also mobilized by him to carry various festival supplies to the hands of the militiamen.
Machiavelli has completed the preliminary work and organized male residents with relatively large military service experience into the officers of the militia. These people are the most important recipients of holiday condolences.
Ladislaus allocated a total of five thousand thalers in related funds, which was neither too much nor too little compared to the first list of four thousand people. The Archbishop of Würzburg organized his family and servants to save money.
The delivery cost was reduced by nearly 100 thalers, and the effect of condolences was improved.
With a population of less than 50,000 in Vienna, the first phase of the 4,000 militiamen included almost half of the men of the appropriate age.
However, Ladislaus's plan was more ambitious than this. All males between the ages of 18 and 40 in Vienna are obliged to undergo militia training twice a year for half a month each time, even servants of large noble families.
Nor can it be escaped.
In theory, various exemptions including disabled veterans and large taxpayers are directly managed by Ladislaus. Of course, in fact, Ladislaus entrusted this power to Margarita, the matron, to implement it, Würzburg
Archbishop assists.
Margarita made great efforts to seize this power. She not only played several tricks with Ladislaus in bed, but also prepared a very good plan and even filled in Machiavelli's words.
There is a blank for work. It stipulates a quite appropriate points plan based on age, years of service, and family status.
Bonus points will be given to Austrian veterans with meritorious service, disabled people, and those with family difficulties, while points will be deducted for those whose families are wealthy or who have never served in the military.
A total of dozens of additions and subtractions are clearly organized. Although it cannot be said to be perfect, it does reflect a high level. Using this as a blueprint and analyzing the gains and losses in future actual operations to adjust the scores, Ladislaus can
It is expected that the Austrian militia system will make great achievements.
Her experience in managing the palace maids in Madrid is indeed very useful. This also explains why there were so many good sisters throwing stones in the pit when she was in trouble. If such an excellent talent is used in managing the palace maids, it will be useless to accumulate a lot of hatred.
strangeness.
This certainly does not mean that Margherita's administrative skills are better than Machiavelli's, after all Machiavelli has so much work to do.
But in any case, Katharina still has many things and grievances in the court, so the energy she can invest is limited, and it is even harder for her to get the recognition of Austrian public officials. Therefore, Ladislaus only gave her the right to balance power.
This power, in fact, at least half of this recognized power is still in the hands of the full-time Archbishop of Würzburg.
"Your men are indeed better trained than most civil servants." Ladislaus acknowledged the talents of several of Margarita's female officers after inspecting their ability to take the time to evaluate them.
However, Ladislaus's support for Margaretta could not exceed a certain limit, and he had to suppress the Archbishop of Würzburg while giving him enough dignity.
"But you must also understand that I cannot unplug all the intricate connections in the civil service system at once."
"I just randomly check a certain proportion of cases. I am just filling in the gaps for the State Councilor. All the members attending the State Council are the most distinguished people in Austria. Only you can reward and punish." Margarita's mask came under the mask.
Very hoarse voice.
Ladislaus reaffirmed the authority of the Council of State by granting the Archbishop of Würzburg administrative powers.
The Archbishop of Würzburg is also very aware that the more affairs he actually handles, the more power will be concentrated in him.
To this end, he tried his best to bargain with salt merchants and fish farms, and even mobilized the militiamen who had just been added to the roster to pickle salted fish. Anyway, with the food supply of the militiamen, no training could be carried out in winter. He stated in the work of pickling fish
The organizational structure and leadership prestige are quite original.
Fortunately, the city of Vienna now has many large warehouses, so Ladislaus' plan to build high walls and accumulate grain can proceed smoothly.
Of course, the behavior of the Archbishop of Würzburg made Ladislaus give him some good points in his heart. It seems that after going through the ups and downs in life, he is more able to cherish the life in front of him.
Naturally, the militiamen were extremely happy about the salted fish. It’s not that they didn’t know that this was actually part of the money they paid for their lives, but no one, including the Archbishop of Würzburg, could be as sure as Ladislaus.
Enemies would threaten this new and majestic capital city.
After all, it looks so majestic and tall that Poland or Hungary are too busy to take care of themselves. Who can threaten such a huge city?
Even Ladislaus's militia system is considered by most Austrian officials to be an over-investment. Although the Austrian army has achieved great results in central and northern Italy in the past year and has a lot of trophies, it still consumes a lot of money after sending out troops continuously.
Food and constraint most of the energy of the Austrian state machine.
The autumn harvest situation in Austria in 1525 was quite unsatisfactory. Both the Hohenzollern Chancellor and Machiavelli suffered a lot from this problem. The pressure increased and many civil servants had a very miserable New Year, involving
Those who have outstanding military performance in logistics can still survive, but those who do not have this extra point are facing a lot of pressure.
Although civil service personnel, even Ladislaus, would not dare to threaten dismissal easily, the difficulties in performance evaluation and promotion are enough to make those civil servants uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!