Can a mere merchant state exist?

Sui Xiong felt that it should still be possible. Although this world has all kinds www.biquge.info of wonderful powers, dangerous monsters, and powerful gods, mortal life is not much different from the earth. There are many business-led countries on the earth, and there is no reason why this world can't have them.

Far from it, before Sui Xiong crossed over, the most powerful country on earth happened to be running for president. One of the two candidates is a big conglomerate, and the other is a big businessman himself.

However, he didn't say these words, but pondered how to solve the matter of the Gold Coin Federation by himself.

Although the goddess of wealth said that the problem was very serious, Sui Xiong felt that there should still be a solution, or that there should be a way to temporarily alleviate the contradiction.

On Earth, when the merchant class was rising, it didn't start with a war and kill people.

Although no matter how much it is alleviated, there will eventually be a time when the contradictions cannot be suppressed and a big war will have to be fought against, but no matter how you look at it, it is not yet that time.

Sui Xiong did not study world history well, but he at least remembered that the "capitalist revolution" should come after the "industrial revolution".

In particular, the world has not even begun the industrial revolution, where can it develop to the point of fighting a war to overthrow the feudal system!

Marx knew about it and would have laughed at them.

"What are you going to do next?" he thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out what to do to resolve the conflict temporarily, so he found a random topic first.

"There is no way to do it, but let the church mediate as much as possible, or delay as much as possible. The goddess of fortune said, "Hold on as long as you want." ”

Sui Xiong nodded, how long can it be delayed, of course, this is not a good way, but it is the most practical way.

At least...... Wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way to solve the problem?

"Anyway, can't they sit down with each other and negotiate?" he asked.

"We have talked about it many times, but both sides believe that they have regressed to the bottom line and refuse to retreat. The goddess of wealth said with a wry smile.

At this moment, Sui Xiong's heart flashed and he came up with a solution.

"How about a parliament?" he said, "how about enumerating the various problems of the country one by one, forming a parliament with representatives from various regions and all strata, and slowly discussing them one by one?"

The goddess of wealth was stunned for a moment, and asked in wonder: "At the end of the discussion, don't you still have to turn your face?"

"It's not the same. Sui Xiong smiled, "First of all, the rule of parliament is 'the minority obeys the majority'. For example, if a bridge is to be built over a certain river, and some people support it and some people oppose it, then in the end, everyone votes, and those who support it have a majority, and they will build it, and those who oppose it will have a majority, and they will not build it, and everyone must obey the result......"

"This practice has been around for a long time. The goddess of wealth sighed, "The Federation has always done this, and there has always been this kind of open discussion and voting between the big businessmen and the big nobles." ”

"It's different!" Sui Xiong smiled, what he had learned in politics class in the past had now turned into inspiration and came to his heart, "Only big businessmen and big aristocrats, of course, it is easy to talk about it when they discuss." Because they all have a lot of power in each other's hands, and they all have the support of the whole class. So the first step of the parliament is to break up their classes!"

"Broken up?" the goddess of fortune frowned, thoughtful, and her eyes lit up.

The wisdom of the gods should not be underestimated, just a little hint was enough for her to understand Sui Xiong's intentions.

"I know what you mean, separate the big merchants, the middle merchants, and the small merchants, and separate the big nobles, the powerful nobles, and the small nobles, and then select a large number of representatives according to the different regions, and form a huge council. He nodded and said, "When there are many people, it is difficult to reach agreement, and even if there is any contradiction, it will often fall into internal intrigues, and there will no longer be two strong fronts fighting each other." ”

"And that's not all. Sui Xiong said, "In this council, there are two kinds of people who need it. The clergy, as well as the commoners. ”

The Goddess of Fortune nodded vigorously: "Yes! The priesthood always stands on a neutral side, while the commoners stand on the side that is best for themselves. They don't need to be too numerous, but at every critical moment, they are enough to decide the outcome of the vote. Both the merchant and the aristocracy will have to try to win them over in order to overwhelm their opponents in the council. But in order to win over the clergy and the common people, it is certainly necessary to give up the benefits—the former being the benefits of the faith, the latter the material benefits. Since both horizontal and vertical are about giving up benefits, it is better to compromise with each other. ”

"Yes. Moreover, it is possible to disassemble all kinds of affairs in the country, and to break down major matters into a number of small things, and discuss them little by little. In this kind of discussion, the sharpness of both sides is spent. Even if a compromise cannot be reached in the end, it can at least be delayed for a long time. Sui Xiong smiled and said, "No matter what, there are always things that can be compromised." Let's talk about those things slowly, at least in a year or two. If they still want to fight at that time, then they will find a way when the time comes. ”

"Although a year or two is not a long time, it is long enough for mortals. The goddess of wealth nodded and said, "Maybe things will change a little, or maybe both sides will find something new to compromise......

"Yes, if you really can't do it, you can still transfer the contradiction to the outside world......" Sui Xiong said with a smile, but he didn't notice that there was a slight light in the eyes of the goddess of wealth.

The two sides continued to discuss and discussed many details.

For example, what should be the number of votes for the big nobles and big businessmen? How many votes should each stratum have? What methods should be used when voting? How should all strata of society be dragged into the water as much as possible? How should propaganda be carried out to create an atmosphere in which "there is hope for a peaceful solution to the problem"?

These issues need to be discussed one by one and a more reasonable plan can be designed.

Relying on Sui Xiong and the Goddess of Wealth alone, they felt that they had not thought about it enough, so they invited other allies, plus those far-sighted virtuous monarchs and ministers among the believers, and everyone discussed it carefully for several days, and finally came up with a complete set of plans.

When this plan was finally formulated, the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately announced this plan, and the Goddess of Wealth even directly lowered her incarnation and ordered the nobles and merchants who had quarreled to the point of eager to draw their swords and slash them back to the negotiating table and form a council to discuss and solve the problem.

Whether it is a nobleman or a businessman, they all cherish their lives very much from the bottom of their hearts. It's just that in the face of huge interests, the two huge interest groups they have formed no longer allow individuals to cherish themselves. In other words, they are forced by the "general trend" and cannot be autonomous.

At this time, as soon as the "Great Council" was proposed, it immediately gave an opportunity to those worried merchants and nobles, especially those middle-level powerful factions on both sides, and they spared no effort to publicize and advocate it, and soon even the big nobles and big merchants felt that this method was indeed more considerable, and temporarily calmed down the intention of solving the problem with knives.

Thus, the preparatory work for the establishment of the Great Council of Gold Coins began vigorously. (To be continued.) )