Chapter 124: The Principality of Stantin, a Great Change
June 3787 in the continental calendar is just an ordinary early summer envoy for other countries on the continent of Sainz, but for the Duchy of Stantin in the southwest corner of the continent, it is a very unstable month, and it is even very likely to write a strong mark in the history of the principality.
At the beginning of June, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was strongly opposed by more than a dozen noble lords in the principality because of its promotion of the erection of the magic signal tower, and directly announced the severance of the cooperative relationship with these noble lords, leading the private territory of these noble lords into chaos, and also causing other irrelevant people of the principality to panic.
Everyone was worried that if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gave up on continuing to invest heavily in the Duchy of Stantin, it would have an extremely severe impact on the entire Duchy.
In the middle of the month, Ankru, the speaker of the parliament of the Principality of Stantin, suddenly announced to the public that he was resigning from the post of speaker of the parliament.
The public explanation to the outside world is that he has been the speaker of the National Assembly for three years, and according to the constitution of the National Assembly, he has completed his first term, and he does not plan to renew his term due to health reasons.
This news had a great shock to the Duchy of Stantin.
Although the rapid development of the Principality of Stanting in recent years is mainly due to the strong investment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Anglo-led Congress has played an important role in it.
In the minds of many of the people of the Duchy of Stantin, he has become the most important leader to lead the Principality of Constantine to strength.
Now that he has suddenly announced his resignation, many people are very worried about the fate of the Duchy of Stantin.
Will his successor be able to continue to lead the Duchy of Stanting to maintain rapid development like he did?
No one can give an accurate answer to this.
Although Congress has clearly prepared for the resignation of the Anglo. On the day of his resignation, a new speaker was announced. He is a not-so-well-known viscount from somewhere in the northern part of the Duchy of Staten. But without the verification of time, no one knows what the new speaker will be able to do.
However, just when everyone was skeptical of the Speaker, as soon as he took office, the Speaker announced an extremely astonishing decision - the abolition of the private fiefdoms of the nobility within the Duchy of Stantin!
As soon as this news came out, it shocked not only everyone in the entire Principality of Stantin, but also people in all the surrounding countries.
Since ancient times, it has been a tradition on the continent of Sainz for nobles to own private domains.
As a nobleman, if you only have status and no territory. It doesn't seem to everyone to be any different from an empty shell.
Because the foundation of the nobles is in his private domain.
Private fiefdoms can provide noble lords with the food, population, and economy they need, and then form their most important aspects of power.
If you don't even have a private territory, then what's the strength.
In any country on the continent of Sainz, all the thousands of nobles need their own private territory, and they will regard their private territory as their final bottom line.
Depriving them of their private territory would be tantamount to declaring war on them directly!
So when everyone learned that the new speaker had figured out Guò's decision, their first reaction was that the speaker was crazy.
He actually delusionally thought of such an outrageous decision, it was simply a fantasy!
Just when everyone was about to see the joke of the speaker of the council, the result was much more than everyone expected.
Congress of the Principality of Stantin. This decision was made to make everyone feel incredible!
The Duchy of Stantin, officially abolished the eligibility of all noble lords to have private domains!
Countless people were shocked by this at the same time. Qi Qi set his sights on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly the chamber of commerce that has the greatest influence on the Duchy of Stantin, and their president Xu Yi is currently one of the great nobles and lords of the Duchy of Stantin, with a private territory area of tens of square kilometers under his name.
The National Assembly passed a resolution to abolish private lands, so how will the lord Xu Yi react?
Will he hand over his precious private domain?
You know, the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can be established on his private territory, if he hands over his private territory, then what will the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce do?
Everyone thought that Xu Yi would definitely reject the implementation of this decision, but once again the truth was beyond everyone's expectations.
The day after the decision was passed by the Parliament, Xu Yi was the first to publicly announce that he would surrender his ownership of his private domain and return it to the Principality's Parliament.
At the same time, Xu Yi, on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, submitted a proposal to the National Assembly to purchase the land use rights totaling more than 50 square kilometers, including the area where the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is located, and the National Assembly passed the resolution.
After this news came out, everyone suddenly realized.
It's no wonder that the humble new speaker had the audacity to introduce such a stunning resolution and get a pass in Congress.
From now on, this is fundamentally done with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!
Or to put it more bluntly, the new speaker must have won the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to ascend to the position of speaker, and he represents the will of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at all!
And the previous abdication of the Ankru Speaker, of course, is also inseparable from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
At this time, people are even more puzzled about the situation in the Principality of Stantin.
What exactly does the new flying chamber want to do?
If Xu Yi only wanted a larger piece of private territory, then even though it was rejected by the National Assembly before, it should not be a problem to achieve this goal after the replacement of the speaker, so why bother to make such a shocking resolution?
Depriving all noble lords of their ownership of their domains is simply declaring war on all the noble lords in the Duchy of Stantin!
How could those noble lords obediently carry out this resolution?
Indeed, after the resolution was passed by the National Assembly and Xu Yi took the lead in implementing it, countless fierce reactions immediately resounded in the Principality of Stantin.
The southern part of the duchy included four counts, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons with domains who declared that they did not accept the decisions of the Parliament, and publicly stated that they would no longer accept the leadership of the Parliament and would govern their domains.
In the eyes of all, this is almost equivalent to a declaration of self-reliance.
The parliament of the Duchy of Stantin could never accept such a fact, and the only question was how to deal with it.
These noble lords have a large number of troops under their names, and since the parliament of the Duchy of Stantin has no specific background in armed forces, there is nothing they can do about it.
But at this moment, the new flying chamber of commerce made a move.
In late June, the Parliament of the Duchy of Stantin announced that the four counts, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons who also rejected the leadership of the Parliament had been judged treason and decided to carry out a requisition against them.
Then the Congress announced that in the name of the Congress, it would invite the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort to serve as a temporary parliamentary escort to launch a campaign against these noble lords.
Everyone was in an uproar.
By doing this, the Principality of Stantin has made it clear that it has completely become the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and everything it has done is probably serving the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, everyone understands this truth, but it cannot affect the actions of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the slightest.
At the end of June, the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was officially dispatched, and it only took a week to completely defeat the noble lords who had been condemned as treason.
Throughout the process, the troops of these noble lords, who had also purchased a large number of military magic machines from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, were unable to pose any threat to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team at all, and they were powerless to resist the whole process.
After defeating the rebellious noble lords, the Diet unceremoniously took back the private domains in the hands of the noble lords.
At this point, everyone understands that before the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not to contend with the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there is only one way to go.
After this, the other noble lords of the Duchy of Stantin submitted their obedience to the decision of the parliament and surrendered their ownership of their private domains.
However, as with Xu Yi's private domain, although these noble lords surrendered all the private land ownership in their names, the parliament also approved them to lease a portion of the land, and also reserved a small piece of land for them to sell directly to them as their private ownership.
This small piece of land is actually not much different from the previous private land, only nominally, but because the area is too small, at most it can only be used for them to build private estates, etc., and it will not have much impact.
On the last day of June, the Parliament of the Duchy of Stantin took back the ownership of the private domain surrendered by the last lord, and it was announced that from this day onwards, there would be no more noble lords in the entire Duchy of Stantin.
The nobility still existed, but they no longer had a domain, and all they retained were inconsequential privileges.
Of course, Congress only took back their ownership of their private lands, but not their properties.
They still own the rubber plantations, fruit orchards and factories they owned under their former name, and they can still enjoy all the benefits of it.
And all the nobles who obeyed the decision of the Congress also got the understanding of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and regained the opportunity to continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
So when the turbulent June passed, after entering July, everyone found that compared with the previous Duchy of Stantin, the current Duchy of Stantin, except for the replacement of a new speaker and the loss of all the nobles in their private domains, there was not much change.
The aristocracy still enjoyed a life of luxury with the vast wealth of their estates, and the commoners continued to work hard to improve their lives.
But it was clear to everyone that the Duchy of Stantin was indeed completely different from before.
And at this moment, several special guests quietly came to the Duchy of Stantin, where there was no change on the surface. (To be continued......)