Chapter XXXV. Expenditure Limits
The moment the news of the marriage between the Kingdom of Elt and the Kingdom of Byron spread among the nobility, Leah's loss of power was a foregone conclusion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDuring the term of the current king and the next king, Leah has no chance to turn around. Until Leah's father inherits the throne, the shackles imposed on her will not be untied.
Whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, there is not much difference in the living environment of young people. Power is in the hands of elders, resources are also in the hands of elders, and connections are also influenced by elders. No matter what you are capable of, you will always be subject to them.
There are many legends about prodigies in this world. Legend has it that the prodigies' abilities were praised and absolutely recognized, but these prodigies were rarely able to do much at a young age. Stories that are written in books become boring if the main character is replaced by an adult, but as long as the main character is replaced by a child, people will find it very powerful and funny, and say that he is a child prodigy.
When a child does what an adult can do, people call him a "child prodigy." What is a child prodigy? At the end of the day, the fundamental meaning of the word is "a very powerful child". What does "child" mean? It is a person who cannot be independent, who cannot occupy a place in society. In other words, no matter how capable these children are, adults will not see them as equal beings to themselves.
When they see themselves as children's beings and put themselves on an equal footing with them, they will comment that the child is arrogant and does not know how to respect adults. When they see the existence of a child against their will, they will comment that the child is really rebellious and does not make people worry. When they see it as a child's existence and can do things they can't do, they will scramble to stand up, tell their own credit in front of others, and force the child to say all kinds of words of gratitude, and give all the credit that should be attributed to him to unrelated people, otherwise they will label the child as immodest and ungrateful.
Young people who want to snatch power from adults are labelled as a challenger to authority and are ruthlessly suppressed. Leah is such a young man, her sharpness is too strong, her momentum is too strong, and the light she emits has overshadowed all the elders, so she will be shackled.
A really intelligent young man, who acts in a low-key manner, will always show a submissive attitude towards his elders, because only by doing so will he not be suppressed. Leah is not stupid, she just doesn't see the so-called "true face of adults", idealizing that as long as she does good enough, she can win, but she doesn't know that the resources at her disposal are temporary, unstable, and can be taken away at any time.
As she set out with the procession, her former followers stood either with her father or with her grandfather. This master-slave relationship, built with hypocritical performances and money, is fragile from the start. Today, with the exception of a very small number of idealists, there is no one among the aristocracy who supports Leah.
To Leah's surprise, the servants who had nothing remained loyal to her after she lost power. Because they have nothing, everything they have is given by Leah, and they will follow Leah wherever she goes. But these people can't help Leah change the situation, they can only bring her some comfort in the face of adversity.
On the other side, the Byrons family, into which Leah will marry, already sees her as an enemy of the family. The kingdom of Byron will not be a place for her, but a cage for her.
Now the Byrons family is Leah's only chance to turn the tables, as long as she can give Mel a son, as long as the son listens to him, as long as Mel makes her son the heir to the throne. Then, as long as she finds a way to kill the current king, she can reasonably and legally start a war to seize the throne of the Elt Kingdom.
Leah's son inherited the throne, which was of great benefit to the Elts. First of all, the Elt Kingdom can unite the Byronic Kingdom, and the Tayron Kingdom is united by the Byron Kingdom, and the Elt Kingdom is unified by the Byronic Kingdom, which is equivalent to the Tyron Kingdom. The Byrons had a very good relationship with the Ilibians, and they had mastered the method of capturing the Tajon elves, which could bring a solid ally to the Elt kingdom and an inexhaustible source of wealth.
As for the issue of succession to the throne, because of her grandfather and father, Leah is now the third in line of succession. Since she is married to a foreigner, her children will not be ranked fourth, but fifth. According to the inheritance law of the Elt nobility, as long as a woman with a high inheritance order in the clan marries, the children of the first male born in the same generation, regardless of gender, will inherit after the woman, and then the children of the woman. One of Leah's cousins already had a son, so Leah's children would be succeeded by him.
That is to say, according to the inheritance law of the Elt nobles, after Leah marries and has children, the future king of the Elt Kingdom will ascend the throne in order of Leah's grandfather, Leah's father, Leah. After Leah's accession to the throne, the succession priorities of her son, as well as her cousin's son, will become very blurred. Leah can make her son ascend the throne, but her son is a foreigner, and the legitimacy is not as high as that of her cousin's son, and it is easy for rebellions to occur in the country after ascending the throne.
The nobles may have made her cousin's son king, because they were nominally supported by the nobles rather than initiating a rebellion, so her cousin's son would not be considered a usurper if the rebellion succeeded. However, with Leah's son in control of the kingdoms of Byron and Tayrong, and the support of the Ilibians, it was almost impossible for the rebels to win, and the likelihood of such a rebellion would diminish over time.
As long as Leah's son has a son, the next king must be his son. By the time Leah's son arrived, the blood of the original Elt royal family became even weaker. However, by that time, most people have become accustomed to the rule of the Byron family, and the Elt royal family will gradually transform into the Byron family with the surname of the Alt royal family.
The boundaries between the Kingdom of Elt and the Kingdom of Byron will also become more and more blurred, and the influence of the Ayrtic culture on the Byronic culture will become deeper and deeper, and the Kingdom of Taeyong will also be affected. Eventually, these two countries will be merged into the Elt Kingdom, and there will be tens of millions of Elts with foreign accents in the world.
The act of being able to take two countries without bloodshed, with a population of tens of millions, and enhance the strength of the Elts, will definitely be supported by the Elts. Anyway, Leah will definitely be able to take the throne, but it is a matter of time. If Leah's early accession to the throne would have brought benefits to the Elts, then her father and grandfather would have had no need to ascend the throne at all. As long as the nobles understand this, Leah will be able to gain their support. As long as she has the support of the nobles, Leah will not be considered a usurper after taking the throne, and her son will be more legitimate when he ascends the throne.
Of course, it's just a beautiful idea. Leah has not yet given birth to a son, and even if she does, she is not sure that Mel will make him the heir to the throne. Even if Mel had named Leah's son as the heir to the throne, Leah didn't know how to kill the current king without anyone noticing.
Even if Leah succeeds in taking out the current king and seizing the throne, things won't necessarily go as expected. Leah knows all these things, but now she can only believe that she can succeed. Because if she didn't, she would have to spend the first half of her life like the walking dead, until her father ascended the throne, and she could "come back from the dead" and become a real living person.
Leah doesn't want to be the walking dead. She wants to be alive all the time, to feel alive all the time. She wanted to break free from the shackles and get out of the cage as soon as possible. In order to achieve this goal, she can only obediently engage to Meier and prepare to marry into the Byron family.
On January 17, 140 New Calendar, Leah and Maier held a grand engagement ceremony in the Bluestone Palace, and then Leah moved from Yuebin Pavilion to the side hall of the Chosen Pavilion. As the actual principal of the side hall, Yun Xin gave Leah the most remote and easy room to monitor, and all her servants were removed and replaced with people from the Bluestone Palace.
Yun Xin exempted these people from their status as servants, and gave them a pester, and sent someone to send them out of the city of Byrons. There were about seventy servants who followed Leah, and forty of them were unwilling to accept the money Yun Xin gave them, and wanted to stay in the Bluestone Palace to serve Leah. After taking the money, the rest of the people were sent out of Byron City by the people of the Bluestone Palace.
Yun Xin didn't forcibly drive the forty people away, but let them stay in the Bluestone Palace. She did not let the forty people do any work, and told them that from now on their food, drink, shelter and transportation would be paid for by Leah, and all the money would be deducted from Leah's daily expenses.
The members of the royal family of Byrons, except for King Mel, have a monthly spending limit, except for the "housing" item that does not cost money, food, drink, clothing and play all cost money. If a member of the royal family spends more than the spending limit, Yun Xin will mercilessly deduct it from the next month's spending limit, and if there are multiple overspending, the spending limit will be permanently lowered, even for herself. Similarly, if there is a surplus in the current month, the surplus will be included in the next month's spending limit.
The average monthly expenditure limit of the princesses is about 10 tairong money, and the monthly expenditure limit given by Yunxin to Leah is 20 tairong money, which is the highest among the royal family members at present. Leah's monthly spending limit is high, but don't forget, there are forty people who can't do anything waiting for her to raise.
Even if the accommodation fee for 1 person for 1 day is 5 Wentai Rong money, 40 people will spend 200 Wentai Rong money a day, and it will be 6 Tairong money in a month. People can't live by food and shelter alone, and there are other needs that Leah has to pay them and let them meet these needs on their own. Add up the miscellaneous expenses, and Leah's monthly spending limit is directly taken in half.
In this way, Leah and the other princesses' expenses are basically the same, which means that Yunxin did not use this to make things difficult for her. But in Leah's opinion, Yunxin is making things difficult for her.
When she was in Loton City, although her monthly pocket money was limited, everything in the palace was free, and she did not have to take care of the servants' room and board and salary, and the royal family would allocate a special amount every week. Leah's monthly pocket money is converted into Taeyong money, which is about 14 yuan, which she can use freely and do whatever she wants.
But now, all her expenses are restricted. At this time, Leah is like a lady who marries from a big family to an ordinary family, and she is not suitable in all aspects.
If Leah had been engaged to Maier two years ago, she wouldn't even be able to enjoy her current treatment. At that time, the economy of the Kingdom of Byron was tight, and the overall expenditure limit of the royal family was only 50 tairong money per month, and it was not possible to overdraft the limit for the next month like now, and the money was gone.
It is true that the Byron family is not short of money now, and they have also set up a small treasury of the royal family, but Yun Xin still strictly restricts the expenses of royal family members and does not allow family members to be extravagant and wasteful. This is not the original tradition of the Byron family, but Yun Xin brought it from the Xiaohu family.
The concept of spending limits was in existence before the cataclysm. Even in their heyday, the Xiaohu family still set spending limits for family members. The spending limit is mainly intended to limit women and minors in the family, and adult males are not restricted. The Xiaohu family did this to prevent women and children from spending money indiscriminately, and by the way, to cultivate their financial management concepts.
As an adult male in the family, Gray was also set a spending limit. When Gray and Yun Xin got engaged, Yun Xin found that Gray was spending money lavishly and without moderation, so he asked him to hand over his financial power. Yun Xin rarely asks Gray, and as soon as she speaks, Gray agrees.
After that, Yunxin set a spending limit for Gray. Although most of the time Gray's expenses would exceed the spending limit, Yunxin only complained every time, and never lowered Gray's spending limit, nor did he calculate the overdraft part to the next month like he did with himself, his daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Regardless, Gray is the head of the family, and he has the freedom to spend his money. Yun Xin set a spending limit for him, just to establish a concept in his mind, that is, how much money to spend each month is normal, not to restrict him from spending money. So he's the only person in the royal family other than Maier who doesn't have to worry about spending limits.
As for daughters-in-law and grandchildren, that's a real restriction. Yun Xin is a woman, and she knows the mentality of a woman when she spends money. More than 80 percent of what a woman buys for herself is something that she won't use soon after she buys it, about 10 percent of it is used occasionally, and the rest is really useful.
As long as a woman has money, she can't help but spend it. The more money you have, the more money you spend. No matter how beautiful a piece of clothing is, if you buy it and wear it for a month at most, your eyes will be attracted by other clothes, and old clothes will be thrown into the wardrobe to eat dust. In the long run, more and more money will be wasted, but women are unaware of this.
Yun Xin can't let her daughter-in-law develop the habit of spending money indiscriminately, let alone let them teach her grandchildren badly. Yunxin doesn't advocate frugality, but she doesn't advocate waste even more. The money that should be spent must be spent, and the money that should not be spent must not be spent, this is her economic principle.