vs 153 The troubles left by the Church of Light
When Solomon saw Freas again, he was with Yusuf.
He didn't make a move, but accepted the results as he was.
This was also expected by Solomon, who was loyal to Norman and the kingdom rather than to Margaret, and that Solomon did not kill Margaret.
After Margaret wrote the edict of abdication, although Stephanie's ascension to the throne was an inevitable product of the compromise of the current kingdom's political structure, she did have Norman blood in her.
However, Freyas resolutely resigned from the post of commander of the Guards and handed over the position to Solomon.
After hearing that Perseus might be in distress, he decided to go to the rescue as well, and that after this operation, he would return to his Edwardian retreat.
Solomon felt a bit of a pity, but it was an acceptable ending, as long as Freas didn't stand on his side.
At this point, the dust of this glorious revolution has settled.
However, there are also some aftermaths, such as the previous political promises to be fulfilled one by one.
The first thing the parliament did when it was reopened was to have equal power between the upper and lower parliaments, so that the new class could be reconciled with the old aristocracy.
Then the House of Commons unanimously agreed to re-amend the Magna Carta, so that henceforth the king would be in parliament, not the king in parliament, and the royal family would no longer have the right to veto legislation and dissolve parliament, as well as other matters that Solomon had agreed with the dukes.
Another important change was the unanimous agreement of the Church of Light to deprive the Church of Light of its missionary powers in Asturias, declaring it an undesirable cult, and the belief in the god of war as the state religion, but the people also enjoyed religious beliefs. But any religion if declared undesirable by Parliament. There is no longer the freedom to preach openly, to meet in meetings, to organize missions.
The church of Ralawan surrendered under the siege of thousands of musketeers. The remnant of the clergy were expelled from the kingdom without sin, and those who were guilty were thrown into prison.
In terms of religious changes, it is far better to establish a moderate and tolerant belief in the god of war as the state religion than to encourage people to believe in a monotheistic religion, and even if the revolution succeeds and the Church of Light is expelled, it does not mean that all citizens will abandon their belief in the gods of the heavenly realm overnight.
What Solomon needed was to put an end to the Church of Light and a chance to make a comeback and to make religion work for the new power structure. And not the opposite.
He was then elected prime minister by the upper and lower councils and formed a cabinet, but he encountered some trouble in forming a cabinet, because old courtiers like Mansfield and Reginer were unable to recover from the throne after attending the celebration of the throne of Tiffany.
Solomon had to patiently visit each of them, hoping to help Tiffany gain the support of Edward's old courtiers.
Eventually, his sincerity changed the minds of some people, and although Mansfield intellectually accepted that Tiffany was more suitable to be the king of Asturias than Magritte, he may still not be able to accept the previous coup d'état emotionally, plus he is indeed not young, he is not a mage, and he has experienced the battlefield in his early years, and his body is in decline. Still not out of office.
But Regina eventually returned to the cabinet and continued to serve as chancellor of the exchequer. Solomon hopes that he will be able to establish a real vertical tax system in the years to come.
The benefits of a vertical tax system for tax collection are self-evident, independent of the lords and county governors, and under the direct control of the kingdom center, so that the collection is much more powerful, but to establish such a system, it will require a lot of people, and in the future this number will be more and more large, and a strict set of management will be required.
In the past, there were some obstacles to the establishment of this, even if Edward did not die and forcibly pushed it, it was by authority, but now it will be relatively easy, because the revolution has cleared the way, and the supreme power of the kingdom is vested in the parliament, although the royal family still has great prestige and great political participation, but the parliament has much more power to check the king.
In this case, the aristocracy and the merchants, who were not as resistant to the taxes as before, accepted the tax as a whole.
Lump sum taxation refers to the exemption of privileges and non-taxation, but it does not mean that the taxes paid are the same, and the early nobles will still have a certain advantage in tax rates, and it will take time and continuous struggle in the lower parliament to gradually change this unfair phenomenon.
Anyway, the taxes collected are also redistributed through the gamblings of the parliament.
Because of this coup d'état, Solomon ended quickly, and by seizing central power as a means, and then compromised with the old nobles to introduce a suitable person to succeed the throne, so as to minimize the loss as much as possible, so when other countries found out about the anomaly, it was too late to intervene.
At its best, that is, the Saxons really tore their faces, accusing Stephanie and Solomon of imprisoning their crown prince's fiancée, the rightful heir of the kingdom of Asturias, and then uniting with Aurora to have an attempt to turn around and eat Perseus's army.
However, of course, this still did not succeed, and after receiving the timely warning from Guerra, although he was stunned by the political changes in the country, he still accepted the result with mixed feelings, and retreated to the Western Beast Plains through the central wilderness according to Solomon's plan, and on the way he was successively supported by Wolf and Rhine, and Freas arrived, so that the parties who were secretly watching finally stopped.
However, the Church of Light left a problem for Asturias.
In the process of recovering the 'religious property', Cameron and Mainz adopted both hard and soft means, trying their best to extort a large amount of precious metals from the nobles and transport them back to the Saxons, including a lot of Mithril.
Although it is not known what their purpose is, for to the Church, Mithril is a more valuable metal than gold, but the Church is mainly magical, and Mithril is much less useful to them.
Even if the Church of Ralawan surrendered, only a small portion of the Mithril had been recovered, and the Mithril that the Church had previously collected from Asturian had already been transported.
This may not seem like a big deal, but it actually caused Solomon quite a bit of trouble.
For from a long time ago, Solomon had plans to implement the Mithril standard.
Back in Liberty City. He tried to implement the Mithril standard. But it was possible to succeed at that time because of the discovery of a mythril mine near Liberty City. And the free city is a hot trade city between the human race and the orcs, the orcs are not only willing to accept the Mithril coinage, and they have no bank, they can only use the Fragreen Bank in the free city as their central bank, a large amount of trade balance is precipitated in it, they want to consume, but also in the city after withdrawing money to spend, is slow to get used to. No one will take away a large amount of coinage and bury it somewhere in the wilderness, because there is still interest in the depository bank, so as to ensure sufficient circulation.
However, it is much more difficult to implement the Mithril standard in a country, and if only Mithril can be minted as the standard currency, it will face the dilemma of insufficient currency at any time.
So no matter how Solomon wanted to achieve this step, but did not dare to start immediately, Asturias was still the de facto composite standard.
However, when Edward was there, it was not impossible to achieve it.
At that time, the external conditions had gradually become favorable, and that was that Asturias had taken possession of some veins of magical metals during the conquest of the Alien Plane. Among them are the Mithril Mines, such as Faddell and Farusion, and if it weren't for the monsters that are rampant now. Mithril mining can also be done.
The endless conquest of the planes could continue to provide a raw material for the transformation of Asturias, including Mithril, which supported the currency reform.
However, the involvement was too great, and with the outbreak of wars one after another, Edward did not make up his mind to carry it out until his death.
Until now, in fact, the council would not have supported Solomon to carry out it immediately, even Solomon himself is afraid that he will safely carry out the xenoplane conquest again and get more sources of Mithril before starting, because the risk of this is really quite large, and he, a time-traveler, knows far better than others.
But Cameron, after they transported a large amount of precious metals, really caused a lot of trouble for Asturias, that is, there was a shortage of currency.
At this time, the merchants approached Solomon and the cabinet, and the council of Tongguò cried out, and there was not enough money, and there was no way to do business.
So the battle for the standard currency re-emerged.
The council is in a state of debate over this issue, with gold, silver, and Mithril supporters all having to do with the latest magical developments.
In this case, Solomon supported the use of Mithril as the standard currency, and no longer allowed gold and silver coins to be used as the standard currency, but only as auxiliary coins, in order to slowly reduce and gradually withdraw from the field of large circulation.
After Solomon's statement, the Gold and Silver Coins quickly merged against the Mithril Sect.
Ren Mithril Sect listed various advantages, such as the future development of the kingdom is inseparable from the magic, and to integrate magicians into the kingdom society, change the previous state of detachment, the unity of value is necessary, if there is no currency that can be accepted by magicians, this is difficult to do;
And the gold and silver faction came up with a killer weapon, let you talk as wildly, I will only say that you are not enough to support the reform at all.
Although the kingdom can continue to conquer the Alien Plane to obtain Mithril in the future development, it is far from quenching the thirst of the near, and the kingdom needs to reformulate the currency system now.
However, Solomon still insisted on the Mithril standard, and in order to address the concerns of the opposition and the current shortage of the current number of Zài, Solomon proposed the Mithril preparation standard.
The so-called Mithril preparation standard is actually the gold bar standard that appeared in history before Solomon's crossing, that is, it still uses Mithril as the standard, but in Asturias, there is no new Mithril coinage, and the existing Mithril coinage will be gradually withdrawn, and replaced with bank bills representing a certain weight of Mithril for circulation, and the bank notes can be exchanged for Huàn as Mithril by legislative means, but in actual operation, it is easy to operate. Efficiency issues and other reasons set up obstacles, requiring a certain amount of bank bills to be redeemed, plus some normal operating methods, such as the need to make an appointment in advance for large amounts of money, the daily limit for a single person, and the limited physical exchange of Mithril instead of the free currency exchange.
In this way, it is possible to use Mithril as the standard currency, and at the same time solve the current problem of the shortage of Mithril and the consumption caused by the wear and tear of the precious metals that have been stored in Zài for a long time.
At the same time, it also achieved a goal, that is, to limit the free flow of Mithril from Asturian as much as possible, knowing that many of the precious metals transported by the Church of Light this time were Mithril.
And even if Mithril is not used as a standard currency, it will be indispensable in the future development of magic.
If it is also used as a standard currency, it will be used in large quantities in the future development of magic, so it will be necessary to restrict free circulation.
According to Solomon's Mithril Preparation Standard, Mithril will be used as a strategic material, although it is the standard currency of the currency, but it is not widely circulated in the market, and is only used for international payments or charter payments, and the ordinary circulation in the country is gradually withdrawn from the minting and replaced with bank bills.
But in this case, it is necessary to have an institution for the management and supervision of the banks, otherwise it will not be possible to enforce it at all.
As a result, the Central Bank of Asturias, which was born in order to borrow money from Edward and the royal family, really became a "central bank", and first bought the bank with the funds of the treasury, and then the central bank completely abandoned the function of the traditional commercial bank, and appeared as a "bank of banks", no longer lending to private individuals and companies, and the object of lending will be banks.
The central bank has the powers, firstly, it is the only institution that can issue bank bills, and secondly, the clearing center established within it is also responsible only for interbank transactions and debts.
Other banks must hand over a certain amount of Mithril reserves to the treasury of the central bank for safekeeping, and this part of the custody of Mithril reserves is called reserves, and then the central bank issues corresponding bank bills to deliver to the bank, the bank's daily Mithril exchange can only be paid with the part of Mithril left, if once the limit is exceeded, it can only apply to the central bank, and the central bank is to concentrate the Mithril reserves of each bank in hand, which can be comprehensively balanced.
In real transactions and in life, it is not possible for every bank to encounter the requirement of large payments at the same time, so it is possible to avoid the restrictions of the Mithril standard due to the insufficient production of Mithril.
The Mithril Preparation Standard is a variation of the gold bar standard, and the gold bar standard is not highly evaluated in the history before Solomon's crossing, and is called the broken gold standard, because it itself is a limited gold standard adopted in the context of insufficient gold production and restrictions on the free export of gold by various countries during war, and it still collapsed later because gold production could no longer support the development of world trade and the outbreak of world war.
But for now, it is the best choice for Solomon to implement Mithril as the standard currency and solve the current shortage of production, otherwise he has to abandon the Mithril standard.
But he didn't want to give up, and he could increase the production and reserves of Mithril through guò's continuous conquest of the outside world and maintain the Mithril standard.
Even if one day the speed of increasing the production of Mithril by plane conquest can no longer support the great development of trade and economy, but at that time, the mages should have been deeply integrated into Asturias, and even if they use credit currency, they can still support the development of society. (To be continued......)
PS: The content of this section is estimated to be a bit boring, and you may not like to read it, so I will write it briefly.