Chapter 783: Dominating Southern Xinjiang (9) Freedom Before the Storm
In September of the usual year, when the Sibber's financial statements for the year are compiled, regardless of the actual economic situation, the President of the Sibber Commonwealth will appear in Parliament or on the city wall to show the inhabitants of Batiros the results of the year, so as to show that the great ship of Sibber is still moving steadily forward.
However, September 2918 was quite different, there was a beautiful scenery in front of the palace, a group of nobles, standing or sitting, old and young, conservative and enlightened, as if they had been discussed in advance, sighed at the door, saying that this country pill is cloudy, and some female nobles even cried loudly, reprimanding the president for harshly criticizing the nobles, and the country will not be a country in the long run.
Naturally, the big nobles such as Speaker Li Xiwei would not surrender their status and go to the door to do this kind of thing, but sat high at the table and waited for the reaction of Seliti III with a smile, and the surrounding guards turned a blind eye to this, which was undoubtedly inseparable from the coordination of Li Ximian and these people.
It was a deliberate show in front of the square, and when the nobles wept at the temple, their newspapers were ready to write the news in the newspapers and publish it throughout the country as a serious blow to the prestige of Seliti III.
As early as the time of the pioneer Zhong Ming, Siber had already invented photography, and now even color cameras are available, so this scene has been transformed into an image in a newspaper and passed down as a classic photograph forever.
And the speaker of the parliament, Li Xiyin, is obviously not only the only means, in fact, this is only to embarrass Seliti III on the table, and the actual harm is also there, that is, to strike and resist taxes.
In the case of a strike by ordinary workers, all they could do was bring the factories to a halt, which could be solved by the galloping of the horses' hooves of the army, but the strike of the aristocracy, and especially the strike of the whole class instigated by the Speaker Le Sie, meant the paralysis of the ruling apparatus of Sib.
As for the tax resistance, there is no way, in the past, individual nobles resisted taxes, they could be arrested in accordance with the law, for these stupid to resist taxes in the open, other nobles will not support them, but this time it is a large group of nobles to resist taxes collectively, and the tax authorities can only sit on wax.
When faced with such intense pressure, the young Celiti III seemed panicked, after all, his weak and wooden personality determined that he was not suitable for Game of Thrones, and the untimely death of his grandfather prevented him from raising his own team, so that when faced with a strong backlash, he had no choice but to give in.
After the persuasion failed, Seliti III had no choice but to send envoys to summon the speaker of the parliament, Li Xinmi, and others, expressing his willingness to give in, and also asking the other party to stop this confrontational behavior, and the speaker of the parliament, Li Ximian and others, agreed to stop the confrontation, but only if the post of Naisa was removed from office and the administrative adjustment of Naisa was abolished.
This was extremely unacceptable for Celiti III, because the Naissa reform was the first political adjustment since he succeeded to the throne, which lasted for more than half a year, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources.
But what can be done about this? When the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Li Xi Yin, put pressure on Seliti III, who had no means of countering, even if he did not want to, he could only choose to submit to them, even though he was the supreme ruler of Sib and the president of the United Nation above all ten thousand people.
Nessa was thus deposed, and on the day he left Batiros, Celiti III saw him off in person, and put on a necklace of his own making, which moved Nessa to the fullest, and swore that if Celiti III was in need, he would leave and return wherever he was.
So far, the first confrontation between Celiti III and the nobles ended in the complete defeat of Celiti III, after this setback, Celiti III fell silent for a while, but this was only temporary, he would not be willing to be suppressed by the nobles like this, let alone a nobleman like Li Ximian who was still promoted by his father.
Seliti III quickly came up with a new idea, to find allies through marriage, and to get himself to be helped by a group of real and reliable forces.
Since Dofan was assassinated by Zhong Ming, the "Night Demon Slayer", Fauti II has only one heir, Selitti III, and so he arranged the marriage of Selitti III as a bargaining chip, with the result that to this day, Selitti III is not even engaged.
Since you are looking for an assistant instead of Erwuzai, then you can't choose a bride from the local nobles, otherwise, for example, if Seliti III marries Li Xini's granddaughter, will Li Xiyi let go and help Seliti III? How is it possible! Take advantage of the situation to control yourself and wait for the opportunity to force yourself to abdicate! Don't forget that Li Ximi's surname is also Palsen!
So after selection, the woman Atona Lorraine quickly came into the sight of Celiti III, and the two quickly got engaged, and under the pressure of the local aristocracy, they officially married in January 2919, and Lorraine was crowned the first lady of Siber.
The Atona family is a branch of the Parson family, after Siber conquered the Bieber region, the Biber border area was established as an independent state as Phoebe Bo, the supreme ruler of Phoebe Bo is appointed by Siber, and Siber must have each heir to serve as Phoebe Bo's superintendent, reflecting the importance of this land.
And in addition to making the heir the overseer, the Parson dynasty also deliberately sent a branch to Da Phoebebo, so that this branch is responsible for the daily actual management of Phoebebo, after all, the superintendents are likely to be transferred frequently, so they need a branch to help them manage, and the branch that is actually responsible for Phoebe is this Atona family.
It has been more than two hundred years since the Atona family was sent to Phoebebo, and the Atona family is naturally unwilling to live in a remote corner all the time, and once dreamed of returning to the stage of Siber politics, but unfortunately, before this year, they were only dreaming after all, until Celiti III set off a hole for their dreams.
With the consummation of Celiti III's marriage to Lorraine, he had a supporter independent of the enlightened aristocracy, or rather a real supporter.
In fact, after the violent death of Fawti II, the enlightened nobles gradually distanced themselves from Celiti III for various reasons, and introduced the frontier forces represented by the Atona family, which was Celiti III's attempt to break the situation.
And Lorraine, who married Seliti III, can be called the strongest first lady since the founding of Siber, in the past, it was not that there were no first ladies who obtained political rights by marriage, but no matter how much they had political rights, they were also husband and wife, but Lorraine soon monopolized power, and the most active person in the palace became Lorraine instead of Celiti III.
Celiti III acquiesced in Lorraine's behavior, after all, Fauti II saw that his grandson was a silent man, and it was not suitable to be pushed into the political arena in such a hurry, and the failure of the "Naissa reform" deepened his dislike of politics, and now that someone can share the burden, he will completely expose his true nature and simply herd sheep.
However, Seliti III's behavior of hiding has caused some very bad rumors among the government and the opposition, such as Lorraine squeezing out Celiti III to monopolize power, and it has developed later, and it is even more like Lorraine and wild men who have fornicated, Lorraine has launched a coup d'état to imprison and even assassinate Celiti III.
The reason for these rumors is that on the one hand, the two factions of aristocracy have a backlash against the Atona family's attempt to control Battyros, and on the other hand, the policies of the Lorraine and Atoga families themselves.
The Enlightenment has been around for hundreds of years, but it is still only circulated among the burghers in the big cities of the country, and those who can accept the ideas of the Enlightened will be excitedly called the enlightened aristocracy, and the so-called enlightened aristocracy, their number is centered on Batiros, and the farther you go, the smaller it is.
Therefore, the Atona family in Phoebe Bo naturally had no connection with the term enlightened aristocracy, such as Lorraine, whose policies were even more reactionary and conservative than those of the orthodox aristocracy, which gave the old nobles more excuses to criticize.
And because of the mentality that poor relatives suddenly became rich and returned to their hometowns, so that they could squander lavishly, represented by the first lady Lorraine herself, most of the Atona family and the nobles who reached Batiros were extremely extravagant and wasteful, which led to their bad reputation.
At this time, the dissatisfaction and resentment of the era of the enlightened autocracy of Fauti II began to accumulate on the Atona family, that is, the so-called "all the blame of the Atona family", with these border forces represented by the Atona family as a mt to attract hatred, and even the orthodox nobles could pluck themselves out and criticize the government together with the citizens.
In this way, in the situation where all parties maintain the undercurrent of fighting but not breaking, time has come to the year 2921 of the Great Calendar, and many people have regarded this situation as the norm:
The palace was divided into orthodox, enlightened and atonar factions, and the three nobles fought with each other, accusing the country of being the way it is to obstruct their policies, and Seliti III, who was supposed to sit on the throne, hid in the house and played with locks, and the power was controlled by the first lady Lorraine, who sat in the side chair.
The people are also scolding, the pace of the economic crisis is getting closer and closer, the price of dragon fruit is being speculated higher and higher, and even many people at the bottom feel that the situation is not good, but out of knowledge and do not know why it is not good, and the most educated citizen class is tearing their throats and scolding the government, making the people around them feel that they can't live in a country that is becoming darker and more authoritarian.
Although the freedom of speech of Fawuti II had long been abolished, most of the cultural inspectors in charge of censoring the press were influenced by the orthodox and enlightened aristocracy, and all the remarks denounced Seliti III were allowed to be allowed, and for a time the market was even freer than in the time of Fawuti II, at least at that time no one dared to scold the high-ranking aristocracy.
In the midst of this blossoming situation, in April of that year, the price of Batiros's dragon fruit plummeted, triggering the economic crisis of 2921 and the coming "era of the Great Revolution."
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