As he spoke, Pedi wrote a letter of order in front of Bipp and handed it to Secretary General Wolfmar, instructing, "Send this order to Baron Hanina as quickly as possible." ”

Seeing this uncontrollable wild beating of his eyelids, Bip's scalp was even more numb, and his mind subconsciously recalled the turmoil that had occurred in the royal capital a year ago, as well as countless nobles who had fallen in pools of blood.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis de Pombo is now just an old man waiting to die, and there is hardly anyone in the kingdom who has any contact with him anymore..."Bipp felt that it was necessary for him to speak out on this matter as Prime Minister of the government.

Although there was a tacit understanding between the monarch and the courtiers in the case of Daisily Pombo, after the incident, Sir Bipp couldn't help but want to remind his king that if Baron Hannina continued to investigate the case of the Marquis of Daisyri-Pombo, it would cause a backlash from the nobles of the kingdom.

"You don't have to worry about Marquis Pombo's case. ”

Pedy's words immediately calmed Bipp's beating heart. As he spoke, Pei Di picked up another document, "Should you have read this report?"

"No!" Bipp shook his head affirmatively, and although the report had the mark of the Prime Minister's Government on the cover, it did not have his seal on it, and he immediately understood that it must be His Majesty's improvised Investigation Department, working in the name of the Prime Minister's Government.

"Look at it. Peddy put the paper down and pushed it under Sir Bipp's eyelids, "Just look here." ”

"Pour Sir Bipp a cup of coffee. As Bipp picked up the papers, Pedi pointed to the King's attendants in the room.

After Bipp thanked him, the king picked up another document and flipped through it, and he had to look down at it in his hand. It was an ordinary cover, but his heart was beating uncontrollably, and after a moment of silence, he took a deep breath and opened the thick document cover.

The first page is a profile of the archive, and it's Hanina's personal file.

Bipp looked at the photo of Hannina in a police uniform in the upper right corner of the file, and his hands holding the file trembled slightly uncontrollably. He flipped the page and didn't read the file, because Hannina's file he could almost memorize.

The typesetting of 'Creud City Survey Report' is written in red letters at the front.

It was a handwritten report, so neatly written that it had been deliberately transcribed by a copywriter who specialized in record-keeping.

Bipp kept his eyes on this row of words for several seconds, he had heard of the investigation report half a year ago, and he even planned to intervene in the matter at that time, but finally learned that the officials involved in the investigation were all close servants of the king, and immediately assumeled that nothing had happened.

For the next half hour, the office became extremely silent, and Bipp looked through the papers with great care, taking out the notepad he carried with him from time to time to record. Despite the temperature-controlled magic circle in the office, Bipp was so hot as he flipped through his papers, taking out a handkerchief from time to time to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

The document had already been read, and at this moment Bipp no longer cared about the contents of the document, but about the reason why the king asked him to read it. Just now, the king ordered Hannina to investigate the case of Daisily Pombo in front of him, and then asked him to look through the fatal investigative report.

Bipp thought as he quickly scribbled a draft of the note on his notepad that only he could read, and after a long time he stopped to check the draft and looked up at the king, who was still reviewing the document.

"Ahem" Bipp deliberately let out a slight cough and picked up a warm coffee cup.

"Have you finished reading it?" Peddy raised his eyelids and glanced at Bipp, closing the document after reading a sentence on the document he was flipping through, "What do you think after reading this report?"

"Your Majesty, actually... The Prime Minister's Government had specifically invited a bachelor's degree in sociology to discuss these issues. Bipp rejoiced in his wise decision, "The kingdom has grown at an unimaginable rate in the past five years because of your economic reforms, but because of this rapid development, the merchant community has grown at an unimaginable rate. ”

"As people's incomes rise, more and more middle-class and lower-middle-class families can see things that are constantly expanding, slowly... The aristocracy is no longer a mysterious and unsightly existence for them, especially since last year's rebellion in the royal capital and the traditional aristocracy have suffered..."Bipp stopped abruptly at this point, as he suddenly realized that his words were interceding for those nobles who had already been condemned as 'treason'.

"I need to hear the truth, Sir. Pedi motioned to the clerk not to record the rest of the conversation.

Bipp subconsciously glanced at the stopped pen in the clerk's hand, "Many of the rebels led by Weiz Burstt are the big families of Crewe City, and their destruction has led to the weakening of most of the traditional aristocratic power in Crewe City, and the citizens have seen them slaughtered like beasts, and the prestige that the nobles have built up in three hundred years has been wiped out in that slaughter. ”

At this moment, Bipp was tempted to ask the king: is it worth it to consolidate the royal power at such a price?

But such a question can only be imagined, after the bloody storm last year, no one in the whole kingdom dared to question the king like this.

"I need a solid kingdom, but these ambitious merchants and the large interest groups behind them keep my throne shaky. Pedi leaned back on the arm of the chair and propped her head with her right hand, and looked directly at Bipp with a pair of crimson eyes, "What can you do to shut them up?"

"Your Majesty, they just want to get more rights. "In the past five years, the Royal Government has levied more than 30 percent of the taxes on individuals or factories in the Kingdom with an annual income of more than one kilogram of Lang, and it is natural that they will be dissatisfied if they pay the money and do not receive the corresponding social status. ”

"The title of nobility has long been worthless. There was a slight sarcasm in Bipp's words, "They want more substantial power, of course... You can totally refuse their request. ”

"I can accommodate any reasonable request from my subjects. Pedi frowned, "But I don't know what they want?" I feel like I've given them everything they want, and I've even allowed them to participate in government work, allowing them to enter all the academies that the kingdom has founded. ”

"Your Majesty—" Bipp looked like he wanted to say something.

Pei Di looked forward to Bipp's next words, but after waiting for a while, the other party had no intention of speaking, and he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted in his heart. He hated Bipp's cringe the most, and looking at Bipp's appearance at the moment, he couldn't help but think of Morinda in his mind.

"If you have any suggestions, just say it, you are now the Prime Minister of the Kingdom. Pedi sat up straight and picked up the cigar from the ashtray and re-lit it, "I don't want another killing when our war with the undead is over, we should properly channel the needs of the people." ”

Now, with the further strengthening of royal power, the contradictions between nobles, merchants, and families above the middle class within the kingdom are slowly shifting... It would never be long before their interests would compete with the royal power, something Pedi did not want to see, and he did not want to be suppressed by force again.

Bipp's hesitant expression slowly became firm when he heard the king's words, and after nearly a minute of silence, he stood up, "Your Majesty, I propose to reopen the meeting of the nobles!"

"The Council of the Nobles?" said Peddy, looking at a panicked Bipp, "you can go on." With that, he winked at the Secretary-General Wolf Ma beside him.

Bipp didn't continue to speak immediately, he waited quietly for everyone in the office to leave except for Wolf Ma and the clerk before he said, "Your Majesty, no one in the kingdom can oppose your trade and economic reforms, let alone the kingdom's new laws, or... Nowadays, the kingdom has long been accustomed to the convenience brought by the trade economy, and countless interest groups, large and small, are also formed because of the trade economy. ”

Bill stopped abruptly as he said this, and cautiously met the king's eyes.

Pedy kept his expression composure, and he waited quietly as Sir Bipp stopped thinking about his words.

However, no matter what kind of interest group, there will be internal contradictions, but now these internal contradictions are all hidden for external reasons. Bipp may have felt that this sentence was a bit general, and after a few seconds of thought, he explained in detail: "There are more than a thousand chambers of commerce registered in the kingdom, and more than 500,000 crowns of assets are more than 100,000 chambers of commerce, not counting the royal chambers of commerce that are personally controlled by Your Majesty... These chambers of commerce appear to be a whole and have established a large alliance of chambers of commerce. ”

"But... Your Majesty, this huge alliance of chambers of commerce is not a whole, it is composed of countless local chambers of commerce alliances, and the above-ground chamber of commerce alliance is composed of many regional alliances, and the regional alliance is composed of many chambers of commerce. When Bipp said this, he bowed slightly to the kingdom, "Moreover, these large and small chambers of commerce can also be subdivided into the noble chamber of commerce and the commoner chamber of commerce, and the noble chamber of commerce and the commoner chamber of commerce can be subdivided according to the scope of business. ”

"Isn't there a bit of contradiction in such a large and complex structure?" said Bipp, who subconsciously straightened up and looked at the king.

"You mean to say that the re-establishment of the 'Council of Nobles' is an attempt to transform their previous contradictions with the government into their own contradictions... Or just let them serve the government?" Pedi understood Sir Bipp's intentions at this moment.

In fact, the previous meeting of the nobles in Crewe was originally used by the Reagan family to alleviate the contradiction between the family rule and the territorial aristocracy, turning the contradiction between the ruler and the vassal into an infighting between the vassals. In order to develop the trade economy, Pedi abolished the local domains and abolished the council of the nobles, which instantly turned the contradiction between the nobles into a contradiction between the nobles and the kingdom.

For the past five years, Pedi has dealt with the irreconcilable contradictions between the royal power and the nobility almost every day, and now he has suppressed the part of the nobility that has risen to the top, but there are more complicated things.

Bipp's words made Pedi feel a sense of enlightenment.

Now that his royal power is at its peak, he can completely re-establish the 'Council of Nobles' to divert contradictions, and one of the biggest advantages of the 'Council of Nobles' is that it can infuse the concept of the supremacy of royal power into the depths of everyone's heart.

But the reconstituted 'Council of Nobles' cannot be the same as before, and its functions must be absolutely separate from the government. "Do you think this aristocratic meeting... How do you distinguish it from the government?" asked the question directly.

"The Prime Minister's government is responsible for managing the operation of the whole country, and it is the head of the country's body, and there must be no concessions on this point!" Bipp said with an unusually serious sentence, and then a slightly playful smile appeared in his serious expression, "And the newly constructed 'Council of Nobles'... They are not most fond of discussing national policies and pointing fingers at the government's policies, so give them those powers. ”

"Just to discuss... I can allow it, but I'm afraid they won't be satisfied. Pedi frowned, as a ruler he knew better than anyone what ambition was and what greed was.

The smile on Bipp's face was a little flattering, "The purpose of re-establishing the 'Council of Nobles' is to divert the contradictions within the kingdom, and at the same time... Such a 'meeting of nobles' is equivalent to an official platform to vent, and any grievances they have can be expressed directly, and there is no need to secretly plan like a mouse. ”

Pedy pondered carefully, and he knew very well that if such a 'Council of Nobles' was really established, its impact would definitely not be as simple as Sir Bipp said.

At that time, the government will definitely become entangled with the 'Council of Nobles' and make a mess of the political situation of the entire kingdom. But, as Bipp said, in this way, the internal contradictions of the kingdom are perfectly shifted, and the role of the king is infinitely elevated.

"A body similar to a city meeting?" said Pedy with a smirk as he looked at Bipp.

"Yes. Bipp did not deny it.

"Maybe we can give it a try, but it's not urgent, we have plenty of time to prepare. Pedi leaned back in his chair and took a few hard puffs of his cigar, "I'll give you half a year to write this plan." ”

"Yes!"

"This is not in the name of the Prime Minister's government, you can discuss it with other members of the National Intelligence Office before you officially launch the plan. Pedi advised, "And... Don't take a stand on any formal occasion until I've made up my mind on this matter. ”

"Until the war with the undead legion ends, I am sure that there will not be any problems within the kingdom. Pedi added a word of warning, or rather a warning, after Bipp answered.

'That is to say, it can be said in an informal setting!' Sir Bipp's eyes lit up, and he could not hold back the excitement in his heart, and at this moment he could not help thinking of the nobles who had been hanged or beheaded last year, and even more so of the local lords such as Bell Cade and Bane Lockton, who had been ruthlessly swept away by His Majesty, and who all wanted to restore the Council of Nobles.

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