The lord can make the laws as he pleases, and he can also increase various taxes. To put it simply, after paying the taxes prescribed by the kingdom, the lord can toss as much as he wants in his own territory.

Theoretically, a lord can kill all the people in his realm on a whim. Of course, as long as the lord is not a demon believer, a devil believer, or a brain-dead or something, he will not do such a thing, because even if the royal family doesn't care, there are all kinds of righteous people who come to intervene.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the lord will not kill people indiscriminately. But even so, the life of the common people in general was not much better, because most of the nobles did not treat the commoners under their rule as if they were their own kind.

In other words, most of the nobles treated the commoners under their rule as pigs, horses, cattle and sheep. In a way, nobles who are born with extraordinary powers are two different species than commoners who have no power.

In addition to being both humanoids, human aristocrats have almost nothing in common with ordinary humans, appearance, stature, physique, talent, and even lifespan, almost everything, nobles are above ordinary humans, there is no comparison. And all this, in general, is decided at the moment of birth.

The heir of a nobleman, no matter how poor he is, can become a manor owner with extraordinary power. The children of commoners are basically commoners, and only a very small number of people have a chance to turn over when they get certain opportunities, but the probability is much lower than that of nobles.

The absolute imbalance in power caused the nobles to treat their people with contempt, which was not the same thing.

The tax of the Rockman Kingdom for the common people under it is determined by the income of a normal peasant, as long as it is about 30%, no matter whether the harvest is good or bad, it is 30% under the normal harvest. This is a fairly friendly tax in the human kingdom.

As long as they are not lazy, relying on the extremely fertile land because of the existence of elemental energy, the commoners can basically meet the three meals of the family after paying taxes, work a little harder, save a little money, and eat some meat during the New Year's holidays.

But the commoners living in the fiefdoms of some nobles had a very difficult time. The noble lords had to pay taxes to the royal family every year, and these taxes were shared among the nobles and their lords.

These ordinary human beings are not finished at all after helping the nobles pay their taxes, because the nobles themselves have not yet made a profit, so they also have to bear the exploitation from the tax laws made by the noble lords and officials.

If you meet a slightly benevolent lord, the people under his rule can still have a similar standard of living as the commoners under the royal family, and if that nobleman's territory also has some special mineral resources, he can even live a more nourishing life.

But if it is a little harsh, the nobles with poor territories will have a very miserable life under their rule. The harvest he had worked so hard for a year was collected by the lord eighty or ninety percent, leaving only one-twelfth of a little, barely enough for the family to fill their stomachs and not starve to death.

Treating the people under his rule as serfs and exploiting nobles wantonly, Muria encountered many times when he crossed the Osniro subcontinent, and every time Muria took action, he really couldn't stand the behavior of treating people as animals.

"I just don't know how many such nobles there are in the Rockman Kingdom?" Muria whispered to herself, "the law must be reformulated, the amount of taxes can only be set by the royal family, and the noble lords have no right to increase or decrease various tax laws." ”

The system of the Rockman Kingdom is somewhat similar to the system of the county system and the system of feudal division in the Western Han Dynasty in the previous life, and the lord who has the right to build an army, formulate laws and various taxes is a king who is like a reduction and weakening.

The noble territories scattered throughout the kingdom were like countries within states, and they were not under the control of the royal family at all. Such a situation is naturally intolerable to Muria, who is now in power.

How can the authority of the king be so scattered?

"Assemble all the ministers and all the nobles still among Scarlet to the council chamber. Murray looked at Mia, a dragon girl with a pretty face like a girl and a plump body like a young woman.

"Yes, Your Highness!" Mia, the dragon maid who was also summoned by Muria from the Titan Islands and is now in charge of all the housekeeping in the palace, has a heartfelt smile on her face to convey Muria's order, she has just heard what Muria is going to do.

Soon, under the orders of Grand Governor Mia, hundreds of chamberlains set out from the palace to the homes of the ministers and nobles who lived in the royal city of Scarlet, to convey Muria's summoning order.

The nobles and the ministers who had been notified rushed to the council chamber in the palace, this was the first summons of the Grand Duke Muria since he ascended the throne, and it must be treated with caution.

Muria's rise to the throne not only frightened the aliens, but also all the nobles and ministers. Of course, what shocked them were the three thousand cloud giants and the six hundred storm giants, and the legendary ancient dragons had changed into humanoid forms, and they who were not at the scene couldn't feel the ten dragon powers that made the legends frightened.

...... In less than half an hour, the splendid and vast council hall was neatly filled with nobles and officials. The most conspicuous of them were the twelve Cloud Giant Commanders on both sides, which made the human magnates standing between them a little uncomfortable.

When Mia informed Muria that all the noble ministers had arrived, Muria used any door to cross the space for a short distance and appeared directly on the throne of the council hall, and then looked down and spoke directly without anyone seeing clearly:

"I have decided to take back the legislative power of all noble lords!"

As soon as these words came out, except for the giant leaders in the hall, they still looked expressionless, and the faces of the human magnates were not very good-looking, and the throne under the buttocks of the archconical archduke was not yet hot, and the rights of the nobles were about to be reduced.

However, the cuts are all those powerful nobles who have fiefdoms, and the problem is not big, and it has nothing to do with them. Most of the people standing here now are officials who don't even have titles, and even if they do, most of them are fictitious titles and don't have corresponding fiefs.

Therefore, no one in the council hall spoke out against it, but there were a small number of people who did not look very good, they were nobles with territories, and they were stakeholders.

"From now on, all nobles, officials, and lords will be deprived of the right to make tax laws at will, and only the king has the right to make and abolish tax laws.

Except for the tax laws promulgated by the kings of the past dynasties, all the decrees and tax collection terms made by the noble lords privately are abolished!"

"Wow!" At this moment, the faces of all the human magnates in the hall changed color, and they could no longer bear it anymore, and suddenly someone spoke up, trying to stop Muria and make him take back the order.