Marceau's opening gave Smith no more reason to refuse, and glancing at Joseph, who had not spoken, Smith nodded as a promise that the Olympics would be in charge of Western Sahara......

"I will submit a detailed plan for the Olympic city in the near future, but I also hope that the government will allocate 2 billion euros as soon as possible."

If it were other people, they would not dare to speak directly to the Prime Minister in this way, but Marceau, unlike Western Sahara, was close to autonomy at this time, and the situation there did not have much influence even if Prime Minister Smith spoke.

Some people commented that the top ten female politicians in the world throughout the ages, Wu Zetian, Catherine, and the Queen of England are excluded, only female politicians like Thatcher are counted, then Marceau is also in the top ten sequence, even if she is ranked relatively low, it undoubtedly proves her strength.

The Governor of Western Sahara is a position that is even more difficult to hold than that of the Prime Minister of the Nord Kingdom, but Marceau has been in good order over the years, which cannot but be admired by the politicians of the Nord Kingdom.

Smith is undoubtedly the leader of the radical party, and most of the cabinet members are radicals, and with three years to go before the 2000 election, there is no guarantee that Marceau will win more votes than Smith this time.

In the 1995 ballot, because of his age and the fact that the first Smith did a very good job, he was re-elected with 36% of the votes, but now his reckless handling of some things has displeased many citizens, and even the support for him within the radicals has decreased a lot, and it has become unlikely in his eyes that he will be re-elected for three terms.

Morris no longer has the intention of running for prime minister, he thinks about the governorship of Western Sahara after Marceau leaves office, but in such an important personnel arrangement, Marceau should not give them the opportunity to these members of the Radical Party.

James now has a new title, that is, the President of the House of Lords of the Nord Kingdom, because he is the first Lord of the Nord Kingdom, the Lords of the Nord Kingdom has become a noble member of the House of Lords, and Joseph's control of the House of Lords is not as tense as before, and the House of Lords has begun to have a little power of its own.

If Smith loses re-election in 2000, then he has two options. If Joseph canonizes him as a lord, then he will have the opportunity to become a member of the House of Lords. If not, then he has only two paths to go, either to run for membership in the House of Commons or to retire.

In fact, there are not too many members of the House of Lords (House of Lords) of the Nord Kingdom, and James is the Speaker, Kate, Charlie, Flender, and Louis are all members. The others are the two billionaires who received knighthoods for their economic exploits, Robert Robert, president of the Royal Media Group and current Minister of Commerce.

Smith was the first Minister of Commerce, and it stands to reason that he should have been canonized a long time ago, but because of the Prime Minister's position, Joseph decided to give it after he left office, so to speak, if not too much of a mistake. Even if he loses his bid for the next prime minister, the chances of him making it to the House of Lords are very high.

The Speaker of the House of Commons is now held by Kate, but with the 2000 general election approaching, the House of Commons system has begun to officially begin, and the Nord royal family's control of both houses will be completely relaxed.

This will not affect the rights of the Nord royal family, after all, the Nord royal family has a veto, whether it is the House of Lords or the House of Commons, as long as it feels that it infringes on its own interests, then it can be vetoed with one vote, which is the foundation of the Nord Kingdom to maintain the monarchy.

In June 1997, Prime Minister Smith applied through the Governor of Western Sahara, Marceau, to prepare for the Olympic City project. All of a sudden, the media from all over the world went to Nord mainland and Western Sahara to interview Marceau and Smith.

Smith hasn't been busy with this lately, and he has frequently visited the members of the House of Commons of the Nord Kingdom, trying to convince them to persuade the citizens of his area to continue to serve a third term, but only 20% of them actually agree, or even less.

This is not the beginning of Smith's preparations for the general election, after all, there are still three years before the general election, and Smith's purpose is to test and test how much chance he still has for a third term, if not, then he needs to hurry up and prepare for some plans. The results are clear......

In mid-June 1997, before the media had left, the Cabinet brought a report to Joseph's desk, hoping that the Moia, the intelligence agency of the Nord Kingdom, would be accountable to the government rather than the royal family. Joseph angrily rejected the proposal.

This time, however, Smith seemed to have made up his mind, not only did he do so himself, but even reapplied with more than a dozen heavyweight officials, on the grounds that the government could not do without its own intelligence service, and the prime minister also needed a subordinate with oversight powers and sufficient cooperation.

The second petition was not rejected outright by Joseph as the previous one, and a week later, the order signed by Joseph returned to Smith's desk. Smith was pleased because Joseph agreed to place the Moia under the Cabinet and at the same time allow the Prime Minister to establish a Cabinet Guard of no more than three hundred men.

The world is developing, Joseph can not always occupy all the power, as long as the veto power is in his own hands, the country is in his own hands is also a good thing.

Joseph also did not want to be deaf without eyes and ears, so he set up a MIG in the army, which would replace the original MOIA and be responsible for Joseph.

Because Mig's responsibilities are much smaller than those of Moia, it is perfectly fine for Andy, the director of the Security Bureau, to be concurrently, although Andy is a lot busier because of this, but he is still very happy to return to his old job.

The most important thing is that there is not so much scope of management, and his abilities are fully displayed in the Royal Military Intelligence Agency, such as the original Moia, which is completely beyond his scope of ability.

Smith has made a crucial overhaul for the Cabinet, he has done what James's tenure has not done, and apart from the most sensitive military powers, the Nord Cabinet has acquired most of the political power in the country, and they have been able to fully exert their hands.

In 1996, the Nord kingdom's central financial revenue reached 80 billion euros, but this was still not enough for the large number of construction projects in 1997, and Smith's rejection of Marceau's investment in the Olympic city was not entirely an excuse.

Smith also had one of his greatest wishes, which was to nationalize the Nord Royal Oil Company, but he knew that it was almost impossible, even if it was equivalent to going out of Joseph's left hand and right hand in.

Eighty percent of the annual dividends of the Nord Royal Petroleum Company are in the treasury, but that is borrowing, from the beginning to the present, the cabinet of the Nord Kingdom has leased more than one trillion euros from Joseph, even if Joseph does not have a veto power, only needs to collect debts from the cabinet, then the cabinet can only sell the whole country to Joseph.

Of course, the Nord Kingdom itself is the private domain of the Ragnar royal family, and the cabinet only manages it on its behalf, but the current situation is that instead of slowly turning the company into their own, they make the company owe more and more money to the chairman.

In the company's parlance, if Joseph's original stake in the country was 70 percent, then as the years have slowly developed, Joseph has bought back the remaining 30 percent, and continues to make the company owe the chairman a lot of wealth.

No country or media can accuse Joseph of squandering state assets at will, not to mention that this itself belongs to the Ragnar royal family, and the debt alone leaves them speechless.

Smith's home is in one of the most luxurious areas of the Nord kingdom, and his neighbor is Lord James, but Andy is usually inhabited there, not James.

The title of Lord cannot be inherited, the only one who can inherit is the royal title, and the descendants can inherit the title of their father, while the non-descendants can only seek hereditary titles themselves, but they are members of the House of Lords and the title of Lord from birth.

Titles in the Nord kingdom began with the king, followed by princes, grand dukes, earls, and lords, with lords being non-hereditary titles and earls and archdukes being hereditary titles that could be obtained by those who were not members of the royal family.

According to the nobility law promulgated by the Nord Kingdom, the lord and his immediate family members have the right to education, medical care and free of charge, as well as supplies and 1 million euros (although the time and the number of lords are subject to change) of the Nord Kingdom's domestic start-up capital.

Hereditary titles are different, with a guarantee fund of 100 million euros for the Prince, 50 million for the Grand Duke and 10 million for the Earl, all of which are fixed and will not be changed.

Lords who have been in the field for more than six generations and have not earned a hereditary title on their own will lose their title of lord, but will retain their status as royals, in addition to the basic food supply, school exemptions, and other benefits that the Nord Kingdom will provide them with.

Joseph did not want the Nord kingdom to become another Manchu, so he had to be wary of the burden that the future Nord royals would bring to the country, which was already the most appropriate approach.

Although there will also be pressure on the country, the financial pressure is already very small, and Joseph believes that his family will never have too many children, and with the fertility status of the Nord Kingdom, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of years for the number to reach a thousand.

For hundreds of years, the Nord Kingdom may not be absent, Joseph does not need to think so far away, and it is best for future children and grandchildren to worry.

The nobles were dissatisfied with the Nord Cabinet, but they had no right to deny any decision made by Joseph, so they had to express their dissatisfaction in other ways, such as Smith would refuse the Lord's canonization, but Smith would accept such an offer?

That's the honor of the Nord Kingdom, the supreme honor, and besides...... Did Smith really have the guts to resist Joseph?

The answer, of course, is no, so the cabinet's dissatisfaction can only end in nothing. (To be continued.) )