Chapter 373: centralization

The lord can make laws on his own, and can increase various taxes. Simply put, after the lord pays the tax prescribed by the kingdom, he can toss as much as he wants to toss on his territory.
Theoretically, the lord rises on a whim, killing all the lords in his territory. Of course, as long as the lord is not a demon believer, a devil believer, or a mentally disabled person, this kind of thing will not be done, because even if the royal family does not care, there are all kinds of righteous people coming to interfere.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the lord will not kill people indiscriminately. But even so, ordinary civilian life is not much better, because most of the aristocrats do not treat the civilians they govern as the same kind.
In other words, most aristocrats treat the civilians they treat as livestock like pigs, horses, and sheep. In a way, the nobles who are born to possess extraordinary powers are two different species compared to civilians without power.
Except that they are all human figures, human aristocrats and ordinary humans have almost nothing in common, appearance, body, physique, talent, and even life. Almost everything, nobles are above ordinary humans, there is no comparability. And all this is usually decided at the moment of birth.
Noble sons and daughters can become the manor of the manor with extraordinary strength. The children of civilians are basically civilians. Only a few people have the opportunity to turn around when they get some opportunities, but the probability is much lower than that of the nobility.
The absolute imbalance in strength has caused the aristocracy to treat the leaders under its own authority as inappropriate.
The taxation of the civilian population of the Rockman Kingdom is based on the income of a normal farmer. As long as it is about 30%, whether the harvest is good or not, it is 30% of the normal harvest. This is a fairly friendly tax in the human kingdom.
As long as you are not lazy, relying on the land that is extremely fertile due to the existence of elemental energy, civilians can basically meet the family's three meals after paying taxes, work a little harder, save a little money, and eat some meat on New Year's Day All are OK.
However, the civilians who live on the sub-sovereign territory of some aristocrats have had a very difficult time. Noble lords pay taxes to the royal family every year, and these taxes are shared by the nobles under their rule.
For these ordinary humans, paying the taxes for the aristocracy did not count at all, because the aristocracy itself has not yet profited, so they also have to bear the exploitation of the tax laws formulated by the noble lord officials.
When you meet a slightly benevolent lord, the people under his rule can still have a similar standard of living as the civilians under the royal family. If that noble mansion still has some special mineral resources, it can even live more nourishingly.
But a bit harsher, the barren nobles of the territories, the lives of the people under their rule are very miserable. The harvest that I had worked so hard for a year was harvested by the lord, leaving only one-two-tenths, barely enough for the family to fill their stomachs and not starve to death.
Regarding his rulers as serfs and wantonly exploited nobles, Muria encountered a lot when crossing the Osnile subcontinent. Every time Muria shot, he couldn't bear to treat people as animals. the behavior of.
"I just don't know how many such aristocrats in the Lockman Kingdom?" Muria whispered to himself, "The law must be re-enacted. The amount of tax can only be formulated by the royal family. The noble lords have no right to increase or reduce various tax laws. . "
The system of the Lockman Kingdom is somewhat similar to the pre-Western Han Dynasty county and county system and the system of separation and separation. The lord who established the army, made laws and various tax rights was a weakened king.
The aristocratic territories scattered throughout the kingdom are like a country within a country, and are not under the control of the royal family at all. Such a situation is naturally intolerable by Muria, who is now in power.
How can the authority of the king be so dispersed?
"Gather all the ministers and all the nobles who are still in Scarlet to the Assembly Hall." Murray looked at Mia, a pretty dragon girl and a girl with a full body like a young girl.
"Observe, Your Highness!" Muria was also summoned from the Titans, and now the dragon maid Mia, who is in charge of all the housework in the palace, sent a smile to her heart to convey Muria's order. I just heard what Muria was doing.
Soon, under the order of Chief Mia, hundreds of internal servants set off from the palace and went to the home of the ministers and nobles who lived in the city of Scaret, to convey Muria's summons order.
The nobles and left-behind ministers who were notified went to the parliament hall in the palace in a hurry. This was the first call of Grand Duke Muria since he took office, and he must be treated with caution.
The prestige of Muria's power not only deterred those aliens, but also all noble and ministerial officials. Of course, the three thousand cloud giants and the six hundred storm giants are deterring them. The legendary ancient dragons changed into humanoid appearances. Those who were not on the scene did not even feel the ten dragons that made the legends scared. Wei.
... Within half a quarter of an hour, the splendid expanse of the parliament hall was full of nobles and officials. The most conspicuous among them is the leadership of the twelve cloud giants on both sides, which makes the human powers standing between them somewhat uncomfortable.
When Mia informed Muria that all the noble ministers had arrived, Muria used any door to cross the space in a short distance and appeared directly on the throne of the parliamentary hall. Then she looked down directly and did not even see it directly. Opening:
"I decided ~ EbookFREE.me ~ to take back the legislative power of all noble lords!"
As soon as this remark came out, except for the giant commanders in the hall, there was still an expressionless face, and the face of the human power was not very good. The throne under the ruling grandfather's buttocks had not sat hot, and the rights of the nobles had to be reduced.
However, all the aristocrats who possessed fiefdoms were cut. The problem is not big and has nothing to do with them. Most of those who are standing here are officials who do not even have titles. Even those who have titles, they are mostly vacant titles and there is no corresponding fiefdom.
Therefore, there was no objection from the House of Representatives, but only a small number of people did not look so good. They were nobles who owned the territory and were stakeholders.
"From now on, nobles, officials, or lords will all be deprived of the right to make tax laws arbitrarily. Only the king has the right to make and abolish tax laws.
Except for the tax laws promulgated by the kings of all ages, all laws and tax collection clauses made by the noble lords are abolished! "
"Wow!" At this moment, all the human powers in the hall changed their faces and could not bear it anymore. Someone immediately said that they wanted to stop Muria from taking back the order.