Chapter 1662: ""

Often, the insignificant thing in other people's minds is that they will see it bigger than the sky.
Aoyama Gangchang (Japanese cartoonist, the pinnacle of "Detective Conan")
The DPRK debate that should have ended before lunch, because the debate on the judicial immunity of the aristocracy continued until the sunset was over; no matter how the pressure of Duke Aukin Lake, Duke Marcus, etc., the nobles clinging together are Unable to survive until the end, until the end, Bai Feng was unable to do anything. On the condition of withdrawing the legislative power of the senior aristocracy, he temporarily waived the judicial immunity of the aristocracy.
This is the helplessness of the aristocratic society. Even if Bai Feng was the supreme emperor, he could still not intervene in the aristocracy's territorial affairs outside his immediate territory. In addition to the rebellion of the lord, he could not even launch an armed attack on his aristocracy.
As for those nobles with independent fiefs, they have great rights in their own territories, and they have almost the same powers as the emperor except that they cannot claim to be emperors; for example, they collect taxes, and the tax rate is also set by themselves, and they are assigned to serve To formulate laws and regulations, develop production, build troops, dig up mountains and dig gold, foreign trade, and even wage smaller internal wars.
This time, with the opportunity of judicial immunity, Bai Feng relinquished the power of the former nobles to formulate laws and regulations to the Central Ministry of Justice. Although the effect did not directly exempt the nobles from judicial immunity, it was still very fruitful, at least the nobles Our power is weakened.
From the perspective of the rulers of this world, the imperial power and the noble power are complementary and interdependent, and the combination of the two has a stable social order; but in Bai Feng's view, the noble power is the most restrictive factor restricting the development of the imperial power .
The nobles, large and small, everywhere in the empire, each of them owns a barren or wealthy enclosure. The existence of these enclosures not only makes the imperial central government's financial revenue less and less, but also makes the emperor's power extremely severe. Big restrictions.
The vast Tianlong Empire, except for the two provinces of Baima Special Administrative Region that have just been brought under the rule of the empire, which of the other provinces has no aristocracy? Six provinces in the east, six provinces in the north, 12 provinces in the middle, ten provinces in the south, five provinces in the south, four provinces in the northwest, three provinces in the southwest, and eleven provinces in the west With the population, it is only half of it.
This is the result of the successive wars that destroyed many noble families. Otherwise, the towns and population directly under the imperial power in the empire might not even have a quarter; the empire’s limited territory and slow-growing population It has long been divided up by the nobles who have only increased year by year, and how much can be left to the emperor and the central government.
Of course, the Tianlong Continent is not the only one in the Tianlong Empire, and the situation of other human nations is not much stronger than the Tianlong Empire; the only exception is the Pope Kingdom under the control of the Holy See. It is a country with no nobles and all powers. Attributed to the pope.
It is also a good choice for Bai Feng to build a country, but he will not do that; on the one hand, because the Holy See, as a pioneer, will never allow a second powerful Religion, the other side is because Bai Feng is not used to pin his hopes on anyone, even if the other side will not threaten his sun Apollo.
Although there are not many roads for Bai Feng to choose from, there are so few, in addition to the establishment of a ruling country that he has rejected, there is a more feasible plan, which is to follow the Qin State in Chinese history. , Replace the aristocracy with the monarchy!
Bai Feng, who loves to read history, naturally knows that China in the pre-Qin period was a typical state ruled by aristocrats, not kings, and even the Qin state that finally swept the six countries to dominate the world was the product of such a noble; the Qin who was sealed by Zhou Tianzi Bo, after five hundred years of inheritance, his descendants wiped out Zhou as the King of Qin, which has to be said to be a great irony.
From the melee battles between the Spring and Autumn Periods to the Seven Heroes' hegemony in the Warring States Period, and then to the final of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty was established; in Bai Feng's view, the victory of the Qin State was never just a military victory, but also its politics Institutional victory.
Perhaps, the superiority of the political system of the Qin State is not necessarily in the supremacy of monarchy, but the replacement of the feudal dynasty represented by the monarchy and the feudal dynasty represented by the aristocracy is an inevitable trend of historical development; and now Bai Feng has to do It is to imitate the Qin state in Chinese history, and use reform to gradually recover the power of the nobility, and promote the empire at the stage of noble society to enter the feudal society.
It’s just that copying is not the same as drawing a gourd; the reason why Qin State was able to complete a country’s political reform with a Shangyang reform was not only because of the support of Qin Xiaogong’s generation of Ming Jun, but also because At that time, Qin State did reach the point of being indispensable. The result of the reform is that it is possible to regenerate, and the result of the invariant law is bound to perish.
Today’s Tianlong empire is different. The Tianlong empire that sweeps the rebellion internally and expands its territory to the outside world is still enjoying the huge dividends brought by the war; in this general environment, it must be changed through a fierce reform Empire, there is absolutely no possibility of success.
This is why Bai Feng, who has always been strong, ultimately did not choose to forcibly cancel the judicial immunity of the aristocracy; he did not have the strength to be an enemy of the entire aristocracy, but he did not want to trigger a new civil war and missed the rise of the empire. opportunity.
He decided to do it step by step, intending to use warm water to cook frogs against the imperial noble class that hindered the development of imperial power; considering the fragility of the human heart, this time he no longer placed his hopes on those seemingly loyal soldiers, Instead, he prepared to use the power of the Roman system to boil a pot of warm water to kill the imperial nobles.
How to use the power of the Roman system to cook a pot of warm water that kills the nobles of the empire, Bai Feng has not yet planned in detail; but he will discuss this matter with Marcus, Quintus, Vepsani, Lucius and others To develop a practical plan.
It happened that Hades’s control plan also required Bai Feng to recruit a group of ninjas and spies from the shogunate system, so Bai Feng returned to the city of Rome with Marcus and Quintus, who were called into the palace by night; In the Roman city, because the Pantheon and the Roman city reached a series of agreements, the central part of the barren land was successfully included in the ruling Roman city, and it was extremely busy at night.
Cars and cars of various luxury goods and daily necessities produced in the city of Rome, under the operation of a caravan, are continuously transported westward to the central region that is in the period of high-speed construction, in order to accelerate the construction of cities directly under the central region At the same time as the process, the caravans formed by the merchants in the cities and towns directly under the eastern region also made a lot of money.
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