Originally, Lin thought that the grand dukes were eager to legally distribute the power in the hands of the emperor, so after learning the content of the constitution and the conditions given by the empress, they would immediately announce the relevant matters and start implementing them. With a posture that cannot be questioned,
Remove all obstacles.
In fact, these cunning nobles once again taught a certain time traveler a lesson.
They unanimously requested that the relevant content be postponed for three days. And during these three days, they used it to... snatch people!
Needless to say, the agricultural population in their respective territories can be settled and registered directly. Farmers are tied to the land and are the least controversial group.
The same situation applies to those nobles who have fiefs. Whoever's fief is tied to the land will be tied to the land. There is nothing to say. If you still dare to refuse, the ownership of the land can be reconsidered.
The focus is on three categories of people: craftsmen, merchants and families of nobles.
The movement of craftsmen occurs relatively rarely. However, there is a situation where a certain area lacks a certain type of craftsmen, so the lord will hire them from other places.
Such people may settle there, or they may return to their original environment after teaching qualified apprentices. The grand dukes want to find a way to let these craftsmen who stay in their own territories settle directly.
Become a settled population.
Merchants are the group who are the best at running around. If a chamber of commerce has its roots in its own territory, but its members go to other places to do business, the grand dukes will directly issue an order. Even if those people do not come back, they must be let go by agents.
If they settle in the Chamber of Commerce base area, they are of course not allowed to register elsewhere.
As for laborers hired by the Chamber of Commerce, long-term mercenaries, etc., as long as they meet the qualifications to become citizens, semi-forced means are used to allow them to stay and settle down.
For a time, these most politically sensitive businessmen were panicked, knowing that the empire's political situation was about to undergo major changes. But how they would change, they had no idea.
In comparison, although the actions of the grand dukes in their respective territories are of a coercive nature, there are no obvious disadvantages in choosing to settle down. On the contrary, if they do not settle down, they will face difficulties from the lords. Therefore, they believe that doing more is worse than doing less. attitude and obey the orders of the lord.
You must know that if it is a small noble in the empire, some wealthy merchants have the ability to suppress the other party. But for the nobles who have made big moves in the past few days, the will behind them comes from one of the six grand dukes.
Or the empress who followed suit, no matter how powerful the wealthy businessmen were, they couldn't afford to offend her. So they had no choice but to cooperate.
The most troublesome part is the family members of the nobles.
Unlike their knighted family heads, noble family members are not bound by fiefdoms. As long as they can afford the local living expenses, they can live wherever they want. In the Karlsruhe Empire, as long as they are noble children from well-to-do families, they can live wherever they want.
They will all move to big cities.
In addition to convenience, it is also to get a share of the profit pie of big cities, so they must have people with weight to take charge.
The person in charge can also be a noble himself, and the territory can be entrusted to a steward or a consul to manage the territory. But in more cases, adult family members are still responsible. Such people are likely to live in these big cities for a long time.
, far away from the family territory.
These people cannot be generalized and all be taken back to settle in their respective territories. Because they also need to ensure their influence in these big cities, and even have a seat among the parliamentary representatives elected by these cities. So how do people arrange the arrangements?
Got a problem.
The next step is to calculate the population of each gathering place in the territory. If there is a small town close to the threshold of 2,000 people, find a way to increase the population and cross the population threshold where representatives can be elected.
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This is because the window left is not long enough, otherwise Lin believes that someone will be crazy enough to break up some towns with larger populations.
Fortunately, it is too late to build a new house in a short period of time, and it is not necessarily possible to find a suitable place to build a new town. Otherwise, the policies implemented by someone with good intentions as the starting point may be turned into a bad policy by these nobles that wastes people and money.
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At this time, Lin understood why in the history of his hometown, those who implemented the New Deal mostly failed. Even people like Wang Anshi, although they have not yet reached the point of ruin, they are not far behind.
In fact, those who implement the new policies are very good at maneuvering and can always find ways to take advantage of them. Then they take advantage of the convenience provided by others' implementation of the new policies to find ways to maximize their own interests.
The actions of the six grand dukes were not secretive at all. After all, they involved matters inside and outside the territory and people, and it was impossible to keep them secret even if they wanted to. After Lin reacted, he immediately strongly suggested that the empress follow suit, and he even offered
There are several strategies.
Although the emperor will be excluded from the ruling circle in the future and will no longer be involved in it, the emperor still has territories, and these territories can also elect parliamentary representatives. So those who want to win in the voting battle will inevitably have to find a way
Win over the elected members of these emperor's territories.
Therefore, it seems that the emperor has been excluded from the ruling circle, but the emperor still has influence. For the current empress, this is a way for her to regain political influence.
The grand dukes could see this, but they did not try to prevent it or exclude the empress again. It was a big enough concession for an emperor to give up his power to govern on the surface. It allowed the other party to take back some power.
, this is not a problem.
The actions of the six grand dukes and the empress' following suit made the nobles who had not received the news bewildered when they watched the show. No one knew why those big shots did what they did.
There was the timid noble, although he didn't understand, he still followed it. Maybe he didn't learn the whole thing, but at least he could understand the census and household registration.
The one with the greatest sense of crisis is the Grand Duke of Frias, who is recognized as the most powerful among the nobles.
He was excluded from the Constitutional Conclave by a certain magician because he became a great nobleman closest to the emperor's power through his son's marriage to the empress, Prince Thomas. Such a person can almost be regarded as
Treated as a quasi-royal member, that is, they are very likely to become part of the resistance to the constitution.
For this reason, the other six grand dukes did not think it was excessive at all, and they also recognized the behavior of a certain magician. Instead of strongly demanding that, as members of the great nobles of the empire, they should advance and retreat together. In fact, their mutual feelings
The nasties would not be smaller than the conflict between them and the empress.
And this group of big shots at the same level as himself had special actions, and the empress also followed suit. Of course, Archduke Frias could not just sit back and watch all the changes without responding to them. He comforted those who were also ignorant and clinging.
My own nobles also sent out men to find out what was going on behind the scenes.
It was already the next day when Archduke Frias received the documents of the Constitution and the Royal Code.
Maybe he couldn't get an explanation from a certain time traveler, but he could understand the unmistakable words and also understood the intentions of other great nobles. Grand Duke Frias's first thought was to stand from the standpoint of a child of the royal family.
Thinking, we must stop this law that empties the emperor's power!
He may not have the chance to grasp that throne or crown, but his descendants and family will have a chance! If the emperor's power is really gone, then what will his efforts so far count?
What's even more despicable is that it's difficult to use a double-sided approach to this matter. That is, while preventing the implementation of the matter, you are also secretly carrying out the same thing as the other six Grand Dukes.
Because those actions are too difficult to conceal. If the minor nobles who are attached to you see the clues, or your allies in the royal family see through, then your actions to stop the implementation of the two laws will become a joke in the eyes of others.
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At most, they operate within their own territory. This also means giving up opportunities in those big cities.
The source of everything lies in that hateful magician!
Archduke Frias was not only furious with hatred, but the furnishings in his study also suffered.
In the end, the two laws were promulgated. But they were not officially promulgated by the empress three days after the secret meeting as planned by the six grand dukes. Instead, they were circulated by Archduke Frias. And with the help of the power of the forum,
In a very short period of time, the news spread to all the nobles, wealthy businessmen, and gentry.
In fact, Archduke Frias did not want to do this, because it would accelerate and consolidate the implementation of the whole thing for those who had the opportunity to gain power from it. But he had to share it with those who had the opportunity to oppose with the same front, rather than
Stand alone against this coming political storm.
After all, although those royal children have been deprived of their inheritance rights, their heirs still have a chance. As long as the empress still has nothing to do, regardless of whether Prince Behar is currently ranked first in the succession, which family's child the empress adopts will mean
The first person in line of inheritance will be replaced immediately. So, everyone has a chance.
But what Grand Duke Frias didn't realize was that the reason why these people were deprived of their inheritance rights was not only that they were not secretive, but also that their employment was erroneous. One thing that should have been secretly connected,
Suddenly it became a secret known to the whole world.
And it's not just the Karlsruhe Empire, the whole world is paying attention. A certain magician who is on a business trip has received complaints from the old Grand Duke of Kawei from the Gwana Empire.
When the matter could no longer be concealed, Archduke Frias could only change his response method no matter how much he hated him. At this time, he planned to delay the change until the matter was no longer possible, and then overturn it in one fell swoop.
This would also put those supporters on the charge of failing to do things well and failing the people, and expel them from the core of the ruling party. Archduke Frias believed that as long as he refused to let go, things would be impossible to move forward.
If not for anything else, just because he, the nobles who depend on him, and the royal family members are the largest force in the empire, and everyone must be afraid of him. No camp has the right to challenge him.
But when the empress formally promulgated the relevant laws, there were additional implementation methods that she had not discussed with others.