Ten minutes later, Zhao Yu and Li Jiaze signed a series of agreements, then left with their conscription orders, satisfied.
Li Jiaze, as expected, chose the first option. After all, as the wealthiest family in Hua Yi Nation, they possessed sufficient wealth to support retaining these thirty thousand people.
Fiefs would require enough manpower to manage them. If they truly accepted the conscription, how would their Li Corporation have anyone left to oversee their affairs?
"Xiao Ze, congratulations to your group for obtaining the fiefdom of one city. If you further receive the title of steward, your group will truly step into the center of power," Li Le said, looking at Zhao Yu's departing figure with admiration.
"Brother, stop teasing me. You know we've only obtained a fiefdom for now. It's not that easy to get officially enfeoffed."
Although Li Le was excited, he also understood the difficulty of obtaining a steward title among numerous noble families who had acquired fiefdoms.
An organization within the Heavenly Dao could obtain a fiefdom if its registered population in the real world exceeded thirty thousand during conscription. The moment this news broke, all factions across Blue Star were thrown into a frenzy, constantly undergoing reshuffling and integration.
Despite the considerable amount of gold coins required daily, the allure of a fiefdom was simply too great. Three provinces forming one city—this was larger than the territorial area of most countries!
Most importantly, for the tycoons and wealthy individuals across Blue Star, this was a starting point for them to enter the circles of power! It was also the biggest real-world investment opportunity they would ever encounter in their lives!
"Even so, isn't it also an opportunity for you?" Li Le smiled.
With the societal system reformed towards centralization, it was even more difficult for businessmen like them to reach the upper echelons of power than for commoners. After all, commoners, with clean backgrounds and their own intelligence, could secure decent positions.
But merchants? The interest chains and connection networks behind them were complex, making it hard to guarantee that these individuals wouldn't cause public resentment for personal gain.
Therefore, even if they obtained the authority to manage fiefdoms and establish their own private armed forces, the Empire would still dispatch supervisory personnel to ensure they did not violate imperial laws. Consequently, to ensure the continuous economic prosperity of their fiefdoms and their own long-term benefits, they would invest heavily.
Ye Yun's objective was simple: the Empire had just been established, and military construction required massive financial injections. Furthermore, as the conquered territories gradually expanded, the current manpower was insufficient to manage such vast regions. Rather than this, it was better to enfeoff it to ambitious capital.
This was akin to capital investment; he would simply enjoy the dividends daily, and it was a guaranteed profit.
The news quickly spread throughout Blue Star. Not only the financial groups and noble families, but even the common people began to unite. Especially in Hua Yi Nation, using their surnames as units, some even used ethnic groups, social circles, or industries as units to form various organizations. In just one week, Blue Star saw the emergence of over three hundred new organizations of varying sizes.
The number of organizations across Blue Star that met the requirements for a fiefdom reached over a thousand! And almost all of them unanimously chose to retain all personnel of their organizations, not subject to conscription!
Ye Yun was happy with this. Although it meant over a hundred million people would migrate to other star domains, over a thousand organizations meant the Empire could collect over tens of billions of gold coins daily! And after five years, these over one thousand fiefdoms would bring him a daily income of no less than four trillion gold coins!
Four trillion a day! This amount of gold coins would be enough to elevate a nobody to the Heavenly Venerate realm!
Of course, Ye Yun did not limit these fiefdoms only to humans. He used the same method to allow the various major races in his conquered territories to choose for themselves!
In other words, all conquered star domains except Blue Star, the Divine Race, the Demonic Race, the Monster Race, and the Ghost Race star domains would be enfeoffed!
One could say Ye Yun employed every means possible for the sake of gold coins!
"Your Majesty, the number of fiefdoms allocated by each department has been tallied. Human fiefdoms: 1300. Divine Race fiefdoms: 3600. Ghost Race: 2600. Monster Race: 5100. Demonic Race: 1100. The Seven Races also requested 70 fiefdoms."
"The total number of fiefdoms distributed is 13,770!" Song Ji exclaimed excitedly within the seventh heaven of the Imperial Palace!
With so many fiefdoms, the daily income of gold coins alone was an astronomical figure, let alone the fact that this number would increase by ten percent monthly for the first five years!
"Mmm, if there are any major races in those new territories that have rendered great service, they can also be granted similar fiefdoms." For Ye Yun, a daily income of over a hundred billion gold coins was merely an appetizer.
At least forty percent of these gold coins would be invested in the development of the Dragon Palace's four major legions. Forty percent would be invested in the armies expanding into new territories, and the remaining twenty percent would be allocated to other areas.
For Ye Yun, the strength of the army was paramount.
"Why did the Monster Race acquire so many fiefdoms? Won't this affect the foundation of the Monster Race star domain?" Ye Yun had not entered the game for several days due to this matter.
"Your Majesty, you can rest assured. The Monster Race has tens of thousands of species. These over five thousand fiefdoms are only for over two thousand relatively large-scale species. Compared to the vast base of the entire Monster Race, it's less than ten percent," Xia Xingchao interjected.
The two prime ministers had been frequently visiting the imperial court to discuss state affairs with Ye Yun lately, to the point where they might as well have moved in.
"Although the Monster Race's strength is generally lower, their species diversity is the highest among all races, and they are mostly gregarious," Song Ji explained.
"Mmm, apart from the gold coins they submit, ensure that your explicit and implicit scoring mechanisms are fair and just."
The scoring mechanism, in essence, was an evaluation of how the enfeoffed powers managed their territories by the imperial stationed personnel. It comprised three individuals, one explicit and two implicit. Their scores would determine which fiefdom leaders would receive imperial enfeoffment.
Simultaneously, each star domain had its own supervisory bodies at various levels, such as domain lords, stewards, and inspectors, to oversee everything.
"As commanded!" The two bowed. The system had already been reformed, and they could no longer act as arbitrarily as before, lest it undermine Ye Yun's imperial authority.
Under Ye Yun's funding, their strength had recently broken through to the Great God realm, placing them within the top ten thousand of the Empire, making them considered backbone powerhouses of the Empire.
Ye Yun said no more and flashed away to the ninth heaven. This was Ye Yun's first time entering his imperial bedchamber. Because Ye Yun didn't even have a girlfriend, the eighth and ninth heavens were empty except for Ding Yi who managed them.