522. Chapter 522: Institutional Advantage

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In September of that year. The Herefords - nay, it should be said that the affairs of the Russian-Gothic Empire were largely prepared. The administrative divisions of the Empire, the rules and regulations of the Empire, the administrative system of the Empire, the capital of the Empire, and the Praetorian Guard of the Empire are all on the right track.

Although the Russian-Gothic Empire still has many deficiencies, and although this empire is still only a rudimentary form, its terrifying size, vigor and vitality have made many people of insight daunted.

It's a scary, intimidating, scary country just thinking about it.

If I had to make an analogy, it would be to combine the size of Russia with the quality of Germany on the European continent. The result is inevitably invincible and invincible.

William deeply felt that he was one step closer to his purpose and dream.

In the following period, the Hereford family continued to complete its own internal affairs and the structure and establishment of local governments at all levels and the central government. Countless things were so complicated that William was exhausted. He had to work almost sixteen hours a day to make sure his empire was running correctly and accurately.

In the process, William was in pain and happy. The feeling of being in power, the feeling of being above everything else, made him hardly feel the fatigue of work.

He was full of energy, and he could almost float when he walked. After so much work, he returned to the dormitory, and was even able to sleep in bed with his wives for half the night. It made Elise and Charlumi a little unbearable.

Therefore, people are like crops, they can't do it in drought or flood.

This special feeling for William lasted until October. When the pace of winter quietly came, William said: "Ah, it is, it's another year." It was only after this feeling that he realized that he was starting to work less.

In the final analysis, the Hereford family's tactics of stockpiling talent and developing education have had a good effect. In addition, although the civil service examination system has been scolded by countless aristocrats, the effect is undoubtedly good.

It is not only the talents of Russia - the Gothic Empire that are desperately trying to get closer to this aspect, but also the talents of other countries.

In this year, all kinds of universities, colleges and so on were opened, and in the post-Renaissance era, the number of scholars of all kinds increased tenfold, hundredfold, or even more than in the Middle Ages.

However, only a handful of them will succeed - those with noble titles don't worry, they go to school to gild them all. After graduating from the academy, you can get a relatively good job by relying on the arrangement of the noble title and family.

But the students from civilian backgrounds were very distressed. For in the vast majority of countries today, including the most powerful, the bourgeoisie has attained a certain degree of full strength, all appointments and appointments are made through ancient traditions.

Either by hereditary system, or by nepotism, clergy and nobility were appointed to maintain their courts.

Under this system, only a very small number of people from civilian backgrounds can get ahead. And most of these civilian-born talents are only the most elite and the best. And this group of people will soon be assimilated by the aristocratic class.

Through marriage, and through canonization, knighthoods were appointed. These commoners will quickly transform into members of the aristocratic class. In this way, the class remains solid, without any signs of being broken.

Although the scientists of the natural sciences, the humanities, the scholars of the Enlightenment, the philosophers and thinkers, the naturalists, the biologists, the mathematicians, and so on.

Although these people are said to be very respected, they also have a high social status. But if you want to talk about power or something, that's what it's all about.

In this era, these technologies and ideas will be turned into reality. To be more precise, the speed of turning into money is a little slower, and it takes at least a few decades for a new invention to be discovered, perfected, and put into use. And even so, if you want to make money from this, whether you can make money, and how much money you can make are still two words.

Yes, in the north of the empire, those territories held by the Alchemist League, in Briton, in Visigoth, these more advanced and developed regions, there are all kinds of salons. The aristocrats liked to invite scholars and scientists to their place to give lectures on the latest scientific discoveries and ideas.

But that's just fashion, it's just fashion, it's just face.

Many of those nobles couldn't even read words. It is even rarer to know and be able to write Gothic characters fluently.

What mathematical formulas can these guys understand, what chemical principles can they understand, and what humanistic and legal spirit can they understand?

They're just going to be fashionable. Pretend that you are serious and understand these things, and then make yourself appear to be of high quality.

To be honest, academics and scientists are very unhappy with this feeling. Because they are scientists and scholars, they will have some pretentious feelings and look down on people.

But it can't be helped.

Well, yes, there is no way at all.

As I said before, these respectable guys have only social status, not economic and political status. And very badly, scientific research needs money. And it's not small money, it's big money. Whether it is doing experiments, buying experimental materials, or conducting various research, equipment, personnel, materials, and land, all of these all require money.

And this money, the very sad thing is that ordinary scholars and scientists, and even those with a little bit of assets, can't afford it.

If you want to get ahead, you need to study hard, and if you want to study hard, you need a large amount of research funds, and if you want to have a large amount of money, you have to take refuge in those big nobles, make them happy, and then let them pay money to support themselves.

In this case, these guys, in fact, are not much different from the servants, with those ballerinas, opera singers and whatever.

Composer, artist, sculptor, painter, philosopher, novelist, operanist......

These guys are practically the same as natural scientists, philosophers, thinkers, educators.

Maybe the latter ones are a little better. But in the eyes of the great nobles who have power and money, there is no difference.

That's it, these families or that family are in a sense nothing more than vassals of the nobility. Not even the Alchemist Alliance could change that.

Although they were able to influence the hearts and beliefs of the Northland princes. But that's just the impact. They weren't the Northland princes themselves, and they didn't have much power. If you want to go up, you have to cling to the big tree like a vine, hoping to get the help of the tree and get the nutrients of the tree. In the hope that one day, this big tree will be able to replace it.

It is precisely for this reason that William implemented the civil service examination system, claiming that as long as he can pass the exam, he will have officials to do, and there is no invisible ceiling or anything, and there are no barriers.

As long as there is enough talent, even a commoner can be a prime minister.

After the introduction of such a system, William almost completely pushed himself into opposition to the old-fashioned aristocracy. Even many people who claimed to be reformers and enlightened monarchs were unimpressed by William's orders.

It's not a mess, it's a bit of a rule. The dignity of the nobility is still missing.

Sure enough, it is worthy of being an upstart from the border area.

Even if a monkey is dressed in human clothes, it is still a monkey in the final analysis.

In the areas controlled by these nobles, a large number of newspapers controlled by the nobles, royal literati, novels and operas were like chicken blood, desperately trying their best to attack William's policy.

And the slightest protest from the Enlightenment scholars, and the various scientists and philosophers, the expectation that they would learn from the experience of the Hereford family, also collapsed in an instant.

The only person who had the strength to carry out such a reform was the Hereford family, which controlled the entire country, the entire army, the people and the faith, and the only one who had the industrial revolution and a strong economic base.

But the Briton Empire was not a simple capital state, its current essence was a state of compromise between capital and aristocracy. Even in many cases, the power of the nobility prevailed. Therefore, even though they realized that this policy would bring great benefits to the country, these nobles still quarreled fiercely, and the upper and lower houses of parliament were all kinds of sprinkles. On the one hand, the members of the lower house of the capitalist class see that this will be of great benefit to them.

On the other hand, the noble members of the House of Lords understood that this would have a huge impact on them.

In this case, it will still take a long time to reach a compromise.

"In the end, the policy can still be passed. On the mainland, Victoria, who was leading the final campaign to exterminate the Swabian family, learned of this situation and made this judgment: "The final result will still be a compromise." The nobility will still receive a portion of the hereditary quota. At the same time, they can also be promoted according to the civil service examination. However, there will still be a large number of young people who have passed the examination to enter the government and put their talents to good use......

But is this half-talked, mutually compromising policy the best way to do it?

Comparatively speaking, which is better, complete policy or incomplete policy?

Hereford Family ...... No, now it should be called the Russian-Gothic Empire. What will happen to the Hereford family, Wilhelm von Hereford, under his control, the Great Frontier, the human world, and even the world...... It's really hard to figure out, I can't guess. ”

Thinking of this, Her Majesty the other Queen of Briton felt uneasy and flustered.

She began to realize that the previous idea that William would calm down and be at ease without starting a new war was foolish and incorrect.

When you think about it, William was known for his political and economic reforms at the beginning, and he was not the world's first-class general and commander, but the world's first-class administrator and a wise prime minister.