Chapter 782: Dominating Southern Xinjiang (8) On the eve of the storm
Knowing that the next economic crisis was not far off, after the assassination of Fawit II, from the current Phoebe Bob to the governors of the major provinces, they were very trustworthy and said that they would elect Seliti as the new president of the United States in accordance with the previous agreement with Fawit II.
After all, we are nobles of noble blood, and even if there is no god to oversee our promise, we will not be able to break it! And since we have elected you Seliti as president, should we reward our loyalty with all the conditions that Fauti II promised us, those who are fulfilling and those who have not fulfilled?
The enlightened nobles scoffed at this, "Lie to the ghosts, you guys, why do you keep the covenant?
Therefore, when the bones of Fawuti II were still cold after his assassination, the orthodox nobles who opposed Fawuti II and supported the enlightened nobles led by Fawuti II should start a struggle on the issue of heightened the issue.
Of course, the secret infighting of these nobles naturally cannot be exposed to the public eye, just as the question of Sesti's succession is actually the issue of Fawti II's power, and the focus of controversy reflected in the public eye is the enlightened policy of Fawti II.
Among the orthodox aristocracy, there are many high-achieving students who have graduated from higher universities, and they pull out a group to write a mountain-like thesis, arguing that enlightened policies have not changed much of the economic crisis, but that various coincidences have overcome, three points of falsehood and seven points of truth, and the lies are hidden in the data, which has attracted a lot of attention for a while.
And the core argument of the orthodox aristocracy is naturally that since the enlightened policy has not played the role that the enlighteners boasted, it is better to abolish them, otherwise the world will be less and less ancient!
You see, after the implementation of the enlightened policy, some city councils have actually been weighted by property, and isn't this the root of all evil? Is there still a natural reason to judge a person's social status, moral character, and right to participate in politics by his wealth? Shouldn't a legal society decide a person's rights by blood? How can a person be decided by property?
Of course, it is the most wonderful and correct truth in the world that nobles with noble blood have huge wealth at the same time, but the world is getting worse and the people's hearts are not ancient, and after the start of the Apocalypse War, many merchant groups gradually got out of control, and these merchant groups actually wanted to let political rights be determined by property, how could this work!
And the real estate is also depreciating, the price of luxury goods is getting more and more expensive, and many nobles have less and less dividends, resulting in their inability to cope with the increasingly high luxury goods to maintain their dignity as nobles, so that many nobles began to become more and more dilapidated, while the power of the merchant group is increasing.
Not to mention the hated Fawuti II, who made people gnash their teeth, this product gave the green light to the merchant group all the way, and now the merchant group is so powerful, Fawuti II is not to blame for his death!
The orthodox aristocracy did not like the enlightened policies of Fauti, and most of the enlightened nobles naturally did not like these policies, they were nothing more than a faction dragged along by Fauti II, although they were now fighting for power for Celiti III, but most of them knew that they were actually fighting for the power of their own faction.
The leader of the enlightened aristocracy, who is also the speaker of the Great Council of Sib, is none other than the son of Naissa III, the governor of the slave-hunting province who had supported Fauti II, and this man had the same attitude towards the reformers as his father, believing that if Sib was in chaos in the future, the reformers would be the first to blame.
Therefore, just as after the successful coup d'état of Navarre I, the infighting between the two nobles made Navarre I sacrifice his own spy system first, after a period of infighting, the first sacrifice of the enlightened nobles was the merchant group supported by Fauti II, as well as those so-called enlightened policies.
Of course, as a henchman of Fawuti II, it is obvious that he could not abolish the state policy of Fawuti II's observation of his life while his bones were still cold, so the slogan of the enlightened aristocracy was not to abolish the enlightened policy, but to reform the enlightened policy.
Of course, we, as enlightened aristocrats, will not abandon the enlightened policy, but since the enlightened policy is problematic, we cannot let it go, so we must practice a moderate enlightened policy, that is, the "new enlightened policy."
Under the guise of the "new enlightened policy", the enlightened aristocracy compromised with some moderate orthodox aristocrats on the one hand in exchange for benefits, and on the other hand, they revised all the parts of the enlightened policy that they did not like, such as the law on freedom of speech.
Therefore, the so-called "new enlightened policy" is actually a reaction compared to the time of Fawuti II, a counterattack of the old aristocracy against the enlightened policy, but the merchant groups can do nothing about it, in the final analysis, they are not nobles or small nobles who have been dilapidated for a long time, and they are powerless to resist those who occupy the upper echelons of the city.
But this betrayal will undoubtedly turn into anger and slowly squeeze in the heart, because it is not sad to be born blind, but sadly the sighted are blind again, and the enlightened policy is not good for the whole people, but it is beneficial to the policy of the merchant group, when they experience the sweetness of the enlightened policy but lose it again, this anger is undoubtedly dozens of times the previous one.
In addition, a series of measures, such as the liberalization of freedom of speech and the press, greatly increased the influence of the enlightened on the citizens, and the power of public opinion was growing at an unprecedented rate, and it had long ago fallen out of the control of the priests and nobles to the side of the enlighteners.
Now the society is still very stable, when most people can eat enough, no one wants to shed blood for the benefit of the merchants, but as long as the firewood burns, the anger of the merchants will burn all the old everything.
The first firewood is the coming economic crisis, which will break the existing balance, and that is when the business group is an opportunity.
As for the second firewood, it comes from the cold game where Batyros is walking in the form of an ordinary civilian, and he wants to bring a new invention to the citizens of this world to balance the influence of spiritual power.
What is the specialty of the streets of Paris in the 19th century? Leng Yi's face has a smile that makes passers-by inexplicably - the answer is "barricades".
“...... When the people at the bottom were still ignorant, the upper class already knew that the time for the next wave of economic crisis was getting closer and closer, and although Sesti III was evaluated as weak by the people of the time, he was still unwilling to enter the crisis like this, so he still tried his best to make some of his own efforts after the initial administration. ”
But if a man is tied hand and foot, his efforts are bound to be insignificant, which only makes his struggle seem more pathetic and complicates the evidence: the forces of Orthodoxy, Enlightenment, and Celiti III himself are converging to lead to a situation beyond the three parties, and beyond the predictions of the original promoters of the Revolution, and even all of them. ”
In this regard, it can be seen from the fact that after the advent of the terrible era of the Revolution, the early revolutionaries were guillotined one by one, and the situation was out of control. ”
—From Tocquevey's The Ancien Régime and the Great Revolution
The events mentioned in this famous book of reflections on the Revolution are undoubtedly the painstaking appointment of Sesti III in 2918 to promote Nessa of the Smokepi family as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to carry out the "Sesti Economic Reform", or "Nessa Reform", which is different from the "new enlightened policy" of the enlightened aristocracy.
The Smokepi family is a family with an ancient history, he can be traced back to the "Sydney Unification Organization", he is a nobleman who followed the "madman" Huls a long time ago, and thus was the most powerful local aristocrat in Dima's time, and once competed with Dofan I for the initiative over Siber.
However, after the failure of the attack on the fortress of Naro, the strength of the Smokepi family was severely damaged, and they began to gradually decline, and now they are just ordinary nobles.
In fact, the Smokepi family is not alone, he is the representative of a group, that is, those who followed the "madman" Hulse in the "Sydney Unification" movement, and after the defeat, they lived in Dima, under the guidance of the "great sage" Boligu, as the group that first emerged in Dima.
These families used to be in Dima's glory for a while, and Dima was under their control when Duofan came to study here, but after the establishment of the Parson Dynasty, the nobles around Dima became the new nobles who followed the Parson Dynasty, and most of the old nobles were excluded.
It is precisely because of this that the Sibo nobles are actually divided into two groups, the nobles who rose through the Parson Dynasty are closer to and more conservative to the nobles in other parts of the southern Xinjiang mainland, and the Sibo is now beginning to have a lot of checkpoints, and they are inseparable from this group of nobles.
Most of the families that have continued from the Hulse era to the present day have preferred commerce while still maintaining the guidance of the Boligus, and even after being excluded from the upper echelons, they have devoted themselves to commercial trade through the accumulation of the past, and the so-called merchant groups that supported the Enlightenment are inseparable from these families.
In any case, hundreds of years after the families withdrew from the political scene, they were once again recalled to the front of the stage, at least in the case of Naissa, who had been just an ordinary official in a small town, but was merely one of the enlighteners, and his editorials were noticed by Celiti III, and he was promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer in one step.
Nessa was promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer, and after a mixture of ecstasy and horror, he also began his own reforms, of course, he did not dare to carry out too drastic reforms, but in fact only made some modest reforms such as spending cuts and tributes, and reinstated some of the "old enlightened policies" that had been abolished.
However, even such reforms were attacked by a combination of orthodox and liberal aristocrats, the most criticized of which was that he borrowed heavily to maintain fiscal balance, and borrowed money to invest in domestic commercial trade construction.
An enlightened aristocrat attacked Nessa in the aristocratic press: "If the borrowing of the time of Fauti II was only a gentle drizzle, then the borrowing of the age of the borrower maniac was as violent as a downpour, which would undoubtedly plunge our country into the predicament of borrowing and repaying the loan, like a tightrope clown who would fall off a cliff and fall to pieces if he was not careful." ”
Thus, when the autumn harvest of 2918 was completed, the financial tables were put together, showing that the economic situation had not improved much after the reforms of the "Naisa", and the aristocracy immediately had an excuse to oppose the financial plan of Sesti III, which led to the so-called "aristocratic revolution".
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