Chapter 1434: The Rushing Tide
Originally, Lin thought that the grand dukes were anxious to legally divide the power in the hands of the emperor, so after learning the content of the constitution and the conditions given by the empress, they would immediately announce the relevant matters and start to implement them. With a posture that brooks no doubt, all obstacles will be removed.
In fact, these treacherous and cunning aristocrats once again taught a lesson to a certain crosser.
They unanimously demanded that the publication of the relevant content be postponed for three days. And this three-day window period, they are used to ...... Grab people!
Needless to say, the agricultural population in their respective territories is directly registered in their respective territories. Farmers are tied to the land and are the most undisputed group.
The same is true for the nobles who have fiefs. Whoever has a fief will be tied to the land, there is nothing to say. If you dare to refuse, the ownership of the land can be reconsidered.
The focus is on three categories of people: artisans, merchants, and families of nobles.
The movement of craftsmen occurs relatively rarely. But there is a situation where a certain type of artisan is lacking in a certain area itself, so the lord will hire it from out of town.
Such people may settle in the area, or they may return to their original environment after teaching qualified apprentices. The Grand Dukes just wanted to find a way to let these craftsmen who stayed in their territory directly settle down and become a settled population.
Merchants are one of the most popular races. Where the roots of the Chamber of Commerce are in their own territory, but the members go to other places to do business, the Grand Dukes directly order, even if those people do not come back, they must be allowed to settle in the base of the Chamber of Commerce by agents, of course, they are not allowed to register in other places.
As for the servitudes and long-term mercenaries hired by the Chamber of Commerce, as long as they meet the qualifications to become citizens, they are all allowed to stay and settle down by semi-forced means.
For a time, these most politically sensitive businessmen were terrified, knowing that the political situation of the empire was about to change dramatically. But how to change, they don't know.
In contrast, although the actions of the Grand Dukes in their respective territories are of a coercive nature, there is no obvious harm in choosing to settle down. On the contrary, if you don't settle down, you will be troubled by the lord. Therefore, they obeyed the orders of their lords in the spirit of the attitude that more things are better than less things.
You must know that if it is a small nobleman in the empire, some wealthy merchants have the ability to suppress each other in turn. But the nobles who have made big moves in the past few days, whether the will behind them comes from one of the six grand dukes, or the empress who follows the trend, no matter how arrogant the wealthy businessmen are, they can't afford to provoke them. So they have to cooperate.
The most troublesome part is the family members of the nobility.
Unlike their titled heads, noble families are not bound by fiefdoms. As long as you can afford the cost of living in the local area, you can live anywhere you want. In the Karlsruhe Empire, as long as the children of the nobles from the Yin Shi family moved to the big cities.
In addition to convenience, it is also to be able to get a piece of the pie of the big city, so they must have someone who has the weight to sit in the town.
The nobles themselves could also be appointed to sit in the town, and the territory would be managed by a steward or an archon. But more often than not, the adult family is responsible. It is very likely that such a person will live in these big cities for a long time, far from the family territory.
These people can't generalize, and all of them are captured and settled in their respective territories. Because it is also necessary to ensure influence in these large cities, and even to have a seat in the representatives of the parliamentarians that can be elected in these cities. So how to arrange the dispatch has become a problem.
Then there is the counting of the population of each agglomeration in the territory. If there is a town that is close to the threshold of 2,000 people, we should find a way to enrich the population and cross the threshold of the population where we can elect representatives of the council.
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This is because the window left is not long enough, otherwise Lin believes that there will definitely be people who will be frenzied to break up certain towns with large populations.
Fortunately, it is too late to build a new house in a short period of time, and it is not always possible to find a suitable place to settle a new town. Otherwise, the policy pursued by someone with good intentions as the starting point will probably be played by these nobles into a bad government that costs the people and money.
At this time, Lin somewhat understood why in the history of his hometown, those who implemented the New Deal mostly failed. Even people like Wang Anshi, although they have not yet reached the point of ruin, they are not much worse.
It's really those who execute that are too good at drilling, and can always find a place to take advantage of it. Then take advantage of the convenience given by others to implement the New Deal, and find ways to maximize their own interests.
The actions of the six Grand Dukes are not secret at all. After all, it is a matter involving people inside and outside the territory, and there is no way to keep it secret if you want to. Lin, who reacted, strongly recommended that the empress follow suit as soon as possible, and even offered a few strategies.
Although the emperor will be expelled from the ruling circle in the future and will no longer be involved in it. But the emperor also has territories, and these territories can also elect representatives of parliamentarians. Then those who want to win the voting battle will inevitably have to find a way to win over these councilors elected by the emperor's domain.
Therefore, it seems that the emperor has been expelled from the ruling circle, but the emperor still has influence. For the current empress, this is a way for her to regain her political influence.
The Grand Dukes saw this, but they didn't try to block it or re-exclude the Empress. To be able to get an emperor to ostensibly relinquish the power to govern is already a big enough concession. It's not a hassle to get the other side to take back a little power.
The actions of the six grand dukes, coupled with the empress's follow-up behavior, those nobles who didn't get the news were stunned when they watched the play. No one knows why the big guys are doing this.
There was the timid aristocrat, although he didn't understand, but he still followed suit. Maybe you haven't learned the whole thing, but at least you can still understand the census and household registration.
The most sense of crisis is none other than the Grand Duke of Frías, who is recognized as the strongest among the nobles.
He would have been excluded from the secret council of the Constitution by a magician because he had become the closest nobleman to the Emperor's power by marrying the Empress through his son, Prince Thomas. Such a person can almost treat him as a quasi-member of the royal family, that is, he is very likely to be part of the constitutional resistance.
The other six Grand Dukes did not feel excessively at all for such reasons, and also approved of the actions of a certain magician. Rather than strongly demanding, as a member of the great nobility of the empire, they should advance and retreat together. In fact, the ugliness between them will not be smaller than the contradiction between them and the empress.
And this group of big people of the same rank as himself have a special move, and the empress also acts, of course, Grand Duke Frías can't sit back and watch all the changes, and he has nothing to deal with. He appeased the nobles who were also unaware and attached to him, and at the same time sent people to find out what was behind it.
By the time Archduke Frías got the documents of the Constitution and the Royal Law, it was already the next day.
He may not have been able to get an explanation from the mouths of a certain crosser, but he could read the unmistakable words, and he understood the intentions of the actions of the other nobles. The first thought of Grand Duke Frías was to think from the standpoint of the children of the royal family, and it was necessary to stop this law that overwhelmed the emperor's power!
That throne, that crown, may not have a chance for him to master, but his descendants and family have a chance! If the emperor's power is really gone, then what is his efforts so far?
What's even more hateful is that this matter is difficult to operate in a two-sided way. That is, while preventing the implementation of things, he also secretly carried out the same things as the other six Grand Dukes.
Because those actions are too hard to hide. If the petty nobles who are attached to them see the clues, or their allies in the royal family, then their own act of calling for the implementation of the two laws becomes a joke in the eyes of others.
At most, operate within your own territory. It also means giving up opportunities in those big cities.
The source of it all is in that hateful magician!
Not only did the Grand Duke of Frías hate itchy, but the furnishings in his study also suffered.
Eventually, two laws were published. But it was not officially promulgated by the empress three days after the secret meeting, as the six Grand Dukes had planned, but it was circulated by the Grand Duke of Frías. And with the help of the power of the forum, in a fairly short period of time, it spread to all the nobles, wealthy merchants, and squires.
In fact, the Grand Duke of Frías did not want to do this, because it would allow those who had the opportunity to gain power from it to speed up and consolidate the whole thing. But he had to share with those who had the opportunity to oppose the same front, rather than fighting the coming political storm alone.
After all, although those royal children were deprived of inheritance rights, their children still had a chance. As long as the empress still has nothing to do, don't look at the current succession of the prince of Behar, which family the empress adopts, it means that the first succession will be replaced immediately. So, there's a chance for everyone.
But what the Grand Duke of Frias didn't realize was that these people were disinherited for a reason. Not only is it not secretive, but the employment of people is also absurd. An incident that should have been a secret series suddenly became a secret known to the whole world.
And it's not just the Karlsruhe Empire, it's really the 'whole world' that's watching. A certain magician who was away on a business trip received a complaint from the Gwana Empire, Grand Duke Kaveh.
When the matter can no longer be covered up, even if the Grand Duke of Frias hates it, he can only change his way of coping. At this time, he planned to wait for change, delay until things could not be done, and then overturn it in one go.
In this way, those supporters can also be accused of acting unfavorably and dishonoringly, and expelling them from the core of the government. Grand Duke Frías believed that as long as he didn't let go, things would not be able to move forward.
If nothing else, just because he and the nobles who depend on him, plus the members of the royal family, are the biggest force in the empire, everyone must be afraid. None of the camps are qualified to challenge him.
However, when the empress officially promulgated the relevant laws, there were many implementation measures that had not been discussed with others.