In the spacious and warm room, a flame burns in the fireplace, and from time to time there is a light crunch burning sound.

On the table are two wine glasses with amber wine.

"Count Solomon, is there anything else that needs to be reminded of this?" The man in front of him was very similar to Pomsois, with a pale and unhealthy complexion, but he was as handsome as the descendants of those ancient princes in the Shadow Animation, with an indescribable elegance in his posture, tone, and the charm of his speech.

Solomon thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, I believe that next, you will do a good job by handing over the Fadell plane to the Rose Bank." ”

The man who spoke to Solomon was Raymond, a man sent by the Hidden Alliance to consult with Solomon, and would also be the general manager of Fadell Pioneer Ltd.

Now, half a year has passed since Fadell was conquered.

At the beginning of the conquest, the Fadell Pioneer Company immediately planned to mine the Black Rock, and at that time Solomon had to focus a lot of attention on the affairs of Fadel, in addition to the mining of the Black Rock, that is, how to rule the Albanian Fadel District.

Solomon proposed a series of strategies for ruling and running the Albanian Fadel, such as the Chamindar system.

However, a good strategy also needs people to execute, and Solomon also made the Fadell Development Company a joint-stock system, and also issued shares for the purpose of leveraging the connections and strength of other shareholders.

Therefore, the other major shareholder, Rose Bank, Hua Ti Yì Leimon, became the general manager, and with Solomon's approval, the shares of the two parties alone accounted for 40 percent of the company's shares, and as long as the other shareholders were not all united, it would be difficult to stop. Moreover, the other shareholders who have been on the board of directors also have a different affinity with Solomon.

Leave the rest of Fadell's business to the vampires. Solomon was relieved. After the establishment of the Chamindar system, the situation of the Albanian Fadel is basically stable, and with the people of the blood clan as the chairman, the Secret Alliance will work harder.

His time and energy could not be spent on Fadell all the time, and he had to return his eyes and mind to Asturias, which was facing another critical moment, and although he could not exert much effort on it for the time being, he had to pay attention.

That is the enlargement of parliament. It will be divided into an upper house and a lower house.

Expanding the functions and functions of the parliament as a platform for bargaining between the great nobles and the royal family on power and interests was a condition for the great nobles to give in under the oppression of foreign enemies.

First of all, it is necessary to affirm that after the concession, the military and political affairs of the kingdom are relatively unified, which does have obvious benefits, such as the affairs of the Fadell plane that happened not long ago, and the Titania finally agreed to the open door policy, and it was after the centralization of power in the kingdom that gave Titania a deep impression in the battle of the Farousi Gongong. Let them know very well that the price to pay to defeat Asturias in this situation is far higher than before.

However, whether it is the royal faction represented by Edward or the duke faction with the three dukes as the core, they will not give up the struggle for power and interests, and they are all concentrated in the parliament.

Edward had agreed to elevate the functions and powers of the council to no longer just a place to discuss how much to pay to the king. Rather, it is a place where parliamentarians can participate in the deliberations and be responsible for legislation, and at the same time promise that the royal family will also be subject to certain constraints and restrictions in the laws established in the future.

This is a bargain between the nobles and the royal power, and Edward will not break his promise, otherwise it will be the great schism of Asturias.

So what he can do is, if you want to increase the authority of the council, okay, then I will expand the size of the council and mix sand into it; there are a lot of nobles who support you, thinking that they can take advantage of the number of people, and then pass some laws to benefit you, then I will simply come to the upper and lower courts, demarcate the upper house for the nobles to play, and the lower house will bring in the lower nobles and businessmen who will not support you, and when the time comes, you will be dumbfounded.

Moreover, even if there is a parliament, it is a dual constitutional monarchy, and the monarch has the right to veto the legislation of the parliament, and there is also the power to dissolve the parliament and re-claim the formation of the parliament, but this power must also be used by the monarch carefully, if the reconstituted parliament after the dissolution still maintains the previous council, the monarch can no longer dissolve the parliament. The composition of the cabinet, the parliament only has the power to recommend, but the decision power is also in the hands of the monarch.

These were written into a formal charter after the enlargement of the parliament, which was a contract between the nobility and the royal family to balance power.

What Edward had to do was to mix sand into the parliament and prevent the dukes from holding the power of the council, so it had to be expanded to the upper and lower houses.

Of course, this trick is clever, and the dukes didn't expect Edward to do this, the original calculation book was broken immediately, even if they could get the support of most of the upper nobles and old lords, but they were also cleverly thrown to the House of Lords by Edward, and the House of Lords must not interfere with the decisions of the House of Commons.

The dukes lost a trick in this regard, and could only rely on the power that was still entrenched in decline, and made a big fuss about the authority of the House of Commons.

On the grounds that the lower chamber was mostly composed of middle- and lower-class nobles and merchants, and that they had little political experience, they tilted the authority of the two chambers upwards to the upper house.

This won back some of the initiative, because even Edward could not refute this fact, and could only wait for the future to slowly change this disadvantage.

In the end, the distribution of powers between the two chambers was as follows: the number of the House of Lords was indefinite, but the upper limit was the same as that of the House of Commons, tentatively set at two hundred, and if there was a competition for the same seat over two hundred, it would be decided by the king; Generals and other high-ranking officials automatically become members of the House of Lords, which means that if there are two high nobles in a family, it is equivalent to two members of the House of Lords; if they are lifelong nobles and not hereditary titles (for example, the head of a legion is also eligible to be a member of the House of Lords, but not necessarily for life or hereditary), or if there is no heir to the title, their membership of the House of Lords will be withdrawn after death; the descendants of members with hereditary qualifications are eligible to join the House of Lords after obtaining the hereditary title, but the noble members who join the House of Lords later need to be reviewed by the original members of the House of Lords, including their qualifications, reputation, morality, to have the right to vote. Otherwise, only the corresponding knighthood is available. A six-month hearing period is required (i.e. it can only be heard when the House of Lords votes. However, they have no right to vote, and they will not have the right to vote until half a year later), and if there is a stain during the sitting period, they will lose their eligibility to enter the House of Lords; the House of Lords is theoretically composed of lifelong members and hereditary members, except that each of the main army commanders or county guards in the kingdom automatically becomes a member of the House of Lords during his term of office; the king has the power to adjudicate the qualifications of disputed members of the House of Lords, and can appoint a nobleman to enter the House of Lords as a member of the House of Lords without qualification examination (that is, a low-ranking nobleman can be appointed) as a communication between the House of Lords and the king's will.

And in terms of authority, the House of Lords has more authority than the House of Commons. The House of Lords alone has the power to make proposals. That is, any bill can be proposed by the House of Representatives, and the House of Commons only has the right to vote (not veto); on the financial bill, the House of Lords has the right of veto, that is, if it belongs to the financial bill, it will be voted by a majority in the House of Lords, and if it is passed, it will be voted on by the House of Commons, and it will be decided by the general number of voters, but if there is no bill in the House of Lords, the House of Commons does not need to vote again, and this power is quite controversial. Moreover, with the strong counterattack of the House of Commons, and the merchants' financial contribution to the kingdom's tax revenue soon exceeded that of the great nobles. Two years later, this veto was forced to be converted to a joint vote, abolishing this prerogative of the House of Lords, which also had the privilege of impeaching incompetent members of the Cabinet despite not being in control of the Cabinet.

The upper limit of the House of Commons is also tentatively two hundred, but it must be full, and it will be added by regular elections. The official position, which allows all citizens who meet the conditions to be elected, here the citizens are not every citizen, but a citizen who has a tax record registered with the Ministry of Finance in Regina, and who has to meet the current tentative annual tax payment of more than one eagle coin, and who has to pay a deposit equivalent to a standard Mithril coinage after becoming a candidate, and the right to vote is lower, requiring only ten silver eagle coins a year to elect others; in the event of a vacancy in the lower council, but no new subordinate has been elected, the king has the power to appoint provisional deputies until a new member is elected。

The House of Commons is also more restricted, with no power of impeachment against the Cabinet in addition to the House of Lords' power to propose.

But in some powers, it is equal to the House of Lords, such as the right to declare war, the king has the power to authorize local wars without convening a parliament, but for a total war, it is necessary for the upper and lower houses of parliament to communicate together, and the upper and lower houses have the same power;

For example, in the voting of non-financial bills, the voting rights of a member of the lower council are the same as those of the upper councilor, but the right to propose is very passive, and the businessmen spent more struggle for the right to propose the right to veto the financial bill, and finally obtained the equal rights of the upper councillor with the support of the king after a special period.

Without going into details, in short, the kingdom's politics can be said to be racking their brains around the expansion of the parliament, so Edward did not support Solomon too much in the Fadell War, which could bring great benefits to him and the kingdom, and it can even be said that if it were not for Solomon's insistence, Edward would simply give up, and he needed to devote all his energy to the struggle against the great nobles in the expansion of the parliament.

Although the final result was not 100 points, it basically achieved Edward's goal of getting the low-level nobles and wealthy citizens to intervene in politics and help him balance the big nobles.

This amounted to a bourgeois revolution and progress, and although it was most of the kings and not the propertied themselves, it would soon awaken as soon as they tasted the sweetness of politics.

Solomon began to silently watch Edward's battle with the Dukes in the enlargement of the Parliament, and at that time his energy had to be spent on the plane of Fadell.

Later, as Fadell's plane gradually stabilized, he began to turn, but he was still careful not to express a direct opinion on the enlargement of the council, but only to act in accordance with Edward's wishes.

But with his status, it is a sure thing to enter the House of Lords now, and although his current earldom is not hereditary, it is certainly no problem to be a lifelong councillor, and if he marries Tiffany in the future, it will be transformed into a hereditary title.

In addition to Edward's use of the House of Commons to stir up trouble, a small hill will definitely be established within the House of Lords to convey his influence and contain the circle with the three dukes as the core, and Solomon is definitely qualified and will definitely be among them.

The only suspense is whether he can enter the cabinet, according to merit, after the results of the affairs of the Fadell plane, Solomon will definitely be eligible to enter the cabinet, and if he can enter, he will be the youngest cabinet member.

I'm afraid someone is starting to bet on this. (To be continued......)