554, Peace Conference

Charles's feat of cleansing Strasbourg quickly spread throughout the Old Continent.

His handling of the Axels was routine, yet his treatment of rebellious nobility opened the eyes of monarchs everywhere, nearly everyone showing interest in Charles's novel invention of Indulgence Certificates.

Whether it was Inglima, Byron, or the monarch of the Lionheart Dynasty, the bizarre thought "Why doesn't anyone rebel against me?" emerged.

Almost every monarch on the Old Continent envied the Emperor of Brittany, for being able to extensively clean up noble territories.

After all, taxation from noble territories was almost entirely collected by the local nobles, with the Emperor struggling to levy taxes, and having to provide pensions and knights for them. To all monarchs of the Old Continent, the fewer the nobles within the lands, the better, with purely titular nobles without territories being ideal, unable to tax privately.