520. Chapter 520: Encouragement and Restraint
In this way, in the process of moving the capital to Moscow, the first part of the Hereford family's new policy, the establishment of a macroeconomic control bureau under the Ministry of Economy, and the issuance of orders to control the price of commodities, as well as a series of policy indicators, plans and decrees, were issued as quickly as possible. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
A new departmental framework was established and new personnel were recruited and trained. At the same time, the notice was posted as quickly as possible throughout the large border area.
The Hereford family was also much more efficient administratively than his rivals.
Then, while the people in the Great Frontier were discussing the new policies of the Hereford family, William's second, third, and other decrees were issued as quickly as possible.
With an unimaginable determination. Wilhelm decided to begin compiling a new code of laws to replace the classical imperial code that had been in vogue since the days of the classical Gothic Empire, which had been tinkering with for hundreds of thousands of years and was now decaying.
Today, the code, which brought countless honors and glories to the classical Gothic Empire, has long since decayed. In fact, under the rule of the Herefords, the vast majority of the statutes were rendered useless. Even the most conservative and old-fashioned judges have to admit that such codes are outdated.
In its place, there were a large number of amendments to administrative decrees, as well as customs. In other places, judgments are simply based on the Bible.
That's it, the laws vary from place to place. Policies vary from place to place. From the laws between the kingdoms controlled by the Hereford family, to the counties, towns and cities.
The laws are different in these places.
This is very detrimental to the development of the Hereford family, or the Great Frontier area. At the same time, William did not want to see it anyway.
Under these circumstances, it is only natural that the compilation of a complete and perfect constitution, as well as the codification of the written laws of all walks of life, unify the laws and regulations of the kingdoms and territories of the whole family, and it is very advantageous and very correct.
However, there is one more premise here.
Yes, a premise.
William wants to unify the laws of the entire Great Frontier and the various kingdoms, so there is a threshold that cannot be bypassed. Or rather, he didn't do it in name, he didn't have the power to do it. Because in the legal sense, the kingdoms are independent and parallel. Their status is all the same. Their administration, government, and parliament are all equal. Under these circumstances, there is no way to think of a situation in which the kingdoms of the Hereford family could enforce the same law.
"If the name is not right, the word is not good, and if the word is not good, it is difficult to achieve. It's come to this. William felt a little emotional.
Yes, as the land in his hands continues to increase, it is time to unify it.
Establish a truly authoritative central government that will bring Russia - Wende - Bolotsk - Ruthenia - Cuman, Kipchak steppe - central and northern regions...... These areas are all unified. Cohesion into a new nation. That's what William is really going to do now.
If he can do this, then the entire Hereford family's next large number of problems will be solved. One government, one law, one monetary system, one writing and language, one nation and one tradition.
This is the great unification of the border areas under the control of the Hereford family!
Just thinking about it makes you feel very excited.
But after the excitement, I was embarrassed and overwhelmed.
If you want to bring all these kingdom-level states and administrative systems under your control, then it is naturally impossible to establish another kingdom. Therefore, what must be done is to build a new empire.
Yes, a new, powerful empire.
The problem is that the Hereford family is currently under the jurisdiction and control of another empire. They were still theoretically vassals of the Ostrogothic Empire. Both the Central and Northern regions, the Kingdom of Wende and the Kingdom of Russia were part of the Ostrogothic Empire.
If you want to build another empire, then you have to split the Ostrogothic empire.
This will inevitably create contradictions between the new empire and the Ostrogothic empire. At the same time, it will also cause unrest in the hearts of the people in these areas. After that, the most important thing is what form the new empire will take, what name it will take, and what method it will use to unite people's hearts and minds and make people feel a sense of identity with this country.
This is also the one thing that William has been thinking about the most in recent times.
William's time was far more spent on thinking than for the resettlement of displaced people from the warring areas of the Empire, and for the reclamation of Moscow, Ruthenia, and the Cumen-Kipchak region.
And after William's unremitting thinking, a strategy that seemed to have a certain possibility of execution was taken out by him.
First, to build a new empire, it is necessary to ensure the support of both, or at least not to oppose it.
These two are Briton, and the Emperor.
For Briton, William's grasp is slightly higher. For he knew that the Bretons were welcome to any division of the empire.
At the same time, the Hereford family integrated the entire Great Frontier region and created an empire of their own, which was able to eliminate one of their fears, that is, the Hereford family would become the emperor of the Ostrogothic Empire and integrate the entire Ostrogoth.
After all, tens of millions of Goths live in this area. If these Goths really united, they would form the most populous and powerful nation in the human world. Its geographical location, population, history, and resources all guarantee the strength of the empire.
This is something that the Bretons do not want to see in any case.
And if the Hereford family, the most powerful of the current imperial princes, jumps out of the empire and establishes a new empire, then their relationship with the empire will naturally become very bad.
In this case, it was very difficult for the Hereford family to unify the empire in the name of the princes of the empire.
By the same token, Emperor Kalman IV would have been vehemently opposed to this.
But the problem is, this guy doesn't have any opposition anymore. In the case of internal and external difficulties, how many people still listen to what the old emperor said, which is a debatable issue. At least William himself won't listen.
"In addition, the Swabian family has been able to survive until now, all because of the assistance of the Hereford family. If you exchange it with the threat of cutting off aid, I believe that the other party will make a wise choice. William thought to himself, and then smiled pleasantly.
In this way, it was determined that the empire would be established without any external influence. Then there's the internal problem.
History & Heritage. William wasn't too worried about that. Because the area under his control has had its unique and unique name since the Middle Ages. That is, the Great Frontier. In fact, in recent times, William has begun to consciously or unconsciously use a new title when various official documents and decrees are promulgated.
This title is not the Russian Prime Minister he used before, the **** of the Wende Kingdom, the King of Polotsk, the Supreme Administrator of the Central and Northern Regions, the Duke of Mystia, the Grand Duke of Mazovia, the protector of the Goths of all the Great Border Regions, the Grand Khan of the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, the Supreme Sovereign of Ruthenia, Moscow, Perm and Kholmgad...... Such a series of titles that sound domineering and leaky, but are a bit easy to doze off.
It's straightforward. The supreme ruler of the border region. Such an unprecedented, at the same time sounds domineering, but somewhat nondescript, and no one has ever used a title.
At this time, William had already begun to set up and establish a new country.
In the name, history and inheritance are there. Then the next step is the spirit and concept of cohesion.
Truth be told, this is something that the vast majority of current rulers ignore, ignore, or even ignore. They see it as a mere series of flowery slogans. Think these things are unrealistic. Nor do they think it is useful to unite the hearts and minds of a nation.
What they want to unite is the heart of the upper class.
They used the privileges and beliefs of the clergy to unite the clergy and the monastic class, they used the laws of the nobility and their natural superiority to unite the aristocratic class, and they brainwashed them with chivalry to arm the junior officers and knights. They used money, violence and looting to satisfy their mercenaries and soldiers. Satisfy their courtiers and ministers with the title of nobility.
In this way, they control the hearts of the lower classes by uniting the hearts of the upper classes.
And for the vast majority of the time, the lower classes, the poor and philistine petty burghers, the petty traders who had no rights, the serfs who did not even have personal freedom, the ruffians and the dregs of society, had no human hearts to rally.
It is in the context of this era that it is precisely because of this series of reasons. So in the Middle Ages, during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc in France would have attracted so much attention.
This is not to say that she miraculously commanded the army to lead the troops into battle and turned the tide of the Hundred Years War.
Rather, she put forward the spirit of patriotism, and for the first time turned war from an aristocratic game between lords and kings, knights and gentlemen, into a great cause between the state and the nation. She was the first to propose the cohesion of the people, the first to call on all the French to arms, put forward the idea of national war, and really infected countless Frenchmen.
What is truly rare for her is this, her spirit and her philosophy, transcending that era by hundreds of years.
Of course, William always felt that in the end this guy was betrayed by his own people, and this reason can be explained.
No matter which nobleman, when he sees the enthusiastic people, he will panic.
They could rally against the nobles and knights from England. They can then rally against the nobles and knights of their country. As long as this truth is understood, then it is natural for the nobles to betray and kill Joan of Arc.
By the way. Thinking about it this way, Joan of Arc is very likely to be a traverser.
Of course, this is not very important.