Chapter 84 Implementation of the New Law
When Arthas returned to his office, he put down all his work and concentrated on the upcoming reforms.
First of all, the Basic Law of the Establishment of the City and its derivative laws, second only to the Law of the Kingdom, were to be compiled by Alsace himself and promulgated to the people of the city, which His Highness said was the basis for the implementation of the reform, and the framework for the new social structure after the reform.
After that, the establishment of the Urban Security Bureau and its subordinate public security bureau, and the recruitment of the police force, which can be carried out at the same time as compulsory education.
After the foundations for legislation, the establishment of specialized departments and the successful implementation of compulsory education had been laid, it was time to wave the sword against the aristocracy.
The agrarian reform would be a head-on blow to the already fragile aristocracy of Remlos Fort, and the town hall would forcibly acquire the land of the nobles and contract it to every peasant household.
When it is time for the harvest, 50 percent is handed over to the city hall, which then spends money to buy another 30 percent of the grain from the farmers at the market standard price, and the rest is handed over to the farmers themselves.
The military service system abolished the main value of the aristocracy, and when wars broke out in the past, the nobles always went to the battlefield with temporarily conscripted vassals, and the quality of the soldiers was difficult to guarantee.
For example, if a war breaks out between two counts because of their territory, the earls will summon the viscounts in the fiefdom to participate in the war, the viscounts will summon the barons to participate in the war, and the barons will summon the knights of the next level, and the jazzes will take a few peasants under their jurisdiction, copy straw forks and simple wooden shields, and simply train for a few days before going to the battlefield.
And like before, the troops brought by Count Kuruman to siege the city are already the elite divisions of this era, and generally except for the border, there is no place where there is such a strong army, if he has such a strong army inside the Kingdom of Thebes, it will be enough to seal the marquisate.
As for the new military service system, it will create a professional army, they will not participate in any production activities, they will work every day is training, training, retraining, just as the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days is a while, after they have gone through a period of training and formation, Murphy will expand outward, and a small city will not be able to realize his ambitions.
The final blow to the plan to weaken the aristocracy was the reform of the aristocratic fiefdom system, in which Murphy stipulated that the titles of the nobles would still be guaranteed, and that he would also entitle the new nobles, except that the new nobles would no longer have fiefs, but would give them a sum of money to make good use of.
In fact, if the nobles in the territory are obedient and play chess with the new system, they may get more wealth than they can imagine, but if they are not sensible, this professional army that obeys Murphy's orders will teach them how to follow the rules.
It took Alsace a long time to digest all the contents of the proposal.
He sorted out the sequence of these reform projects according to the plan.
"Cade, come in. Alsace pushed open the door to his office and summoned a busy town hall official.
"At your service! The man known as Cayde put down his work, and Arthas saluted.
"You go and call all the political and legal officials of our city hall and ask them to have a meeting in the conference room of the city hall, I have something important to announce. Arthas said with a serious expression.
Without waiting for Cade to answer him, Arthas turned back to his office, sorted out the papers that he would need later, and rubbed his eyes to clear himself.
Ten minutes later, the long table in the conference room was filled with two rows of plainly dressed town hall political and legal officials, each with a glass of water in front of them, but none of them moved.
Arthas pushed open the door to the conference room and sat down in the main seat, the sunlight shining through the stained-glass windows, hitting him with a red highlight in the face, making him look particularly serious.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Remlos Fort is about to enact a city law. Alsace didn't talk nonsense and said straight to the point.
The political and legal officials below just whispered a discussion, but no one expressed surprise at this, but everyone had a natural expression.
In this world, the lords have a high degree of autonomy, and it stands to reason that as long as the kingdom law is not harmed, the laws of the territory are the lords' final say, but how the noble lords legislate, it is just to levy some more taxes.
"This is our legislative framework, which was compiled by His Royal Highness the Prince, and we want to draw up the basic law of the city based on this. Arthas picked up a dozen pages in front of him, showed them to the crowd, and sent them out for everyone to circulate.
Those political and legal officials all widened their eyes and were extremely shocked after seeing it.
"This, this is simply nonsense!" An old political and legal official slapped his hand on the table with a Chinese table, "The aristocratic farming system, the aristocratic conscription system, and the aristocratic fiefdom system are all inherited for three thousand years! How can it be easily changed? What kind of system is this!?"
"This is waving a sword against the aristocracy!
"The ancient law is immutable! The nobles would never allow this decree to be carried out. ”
After reading the document for a while, several political and legal officials wailed and strongly opposed the implementation of the new law.
"The new law was enacted by His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, do you have any opinions?" Arthas saw that a few people looked like aristocratic defenders, and he was immediately angry, blazing and vigorous, and his momentum was like a grandiose.
"Well, let's discuss how to improve the new law!" The old man who took the lead in making trouble saw Arthas's fighting spirit erupt, and immediately coaxed down, beckoning everyone to supplement the new law.
"Hmph!" Seeing that a few people were so knowledgeable about current affairs, Arthas snorted coldly, but he also withdrew the fighting spirit that erupted.
The new law is in full swing planning, and several people who originally opposed the new law have become gravediggers of the aristocracy, and the laws written against the nobility are more ruthless than the other, and Arthas can't stand it, but he intercepted a few more suitable ones according to the prince's requirements, after all, His Royal Highness doesn't want to be too stiff with the entire aristocracy.
And as long as the new aristocrats play chess according to the new rules, Murphy guarantees that they will be better off.
After more than three days, and without any comments, the new law was passed.
All this is thanks to the "sleepless" potion concocted by Lord Carolen, as well as the cooperation of a platoon of soldiers in the town hall, which made these political and legal officials burst out with extremely high enthusiasm.
The new city law contains more than 50 laws, including the compulsory education law, the farming law, the military service law, the public security law, and so on.
After Murphy personally saw the new law, he ordered the new law to be promulgated, and posted it at the city gate and the central square with a large bill, causing an uproar in the city.