Chapter 373 Centralization
The lord can make laws at will, and can also increase various taxes. To put it simply, after paying the taxes stipulated by the kingdom, the lord can toss as much as he wants on his territory.
In theory, the lord can kill all the people in his territory on a whim. Of course, as long as the lord is not a demon believer, a demon believer, or someone with a brain, he won't do this kind of thing, because even if the royal family doesn't care, there are all kinds of people of justice who come to intervene.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the lord will not kill people indiscriminately. But even so, the life of ordinary civilians is not much better, because most nobles do not treat the civilians under their rule as the same kind.
In other words, most nobles regard the commoners under their rule as livestock like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep. In a way, nobles who are born with extraordinary powers are two different species than commoners who have no powers.
Apart from being humanoids, human aristocrats and ordinary humans have almost nothing in common, appearance, stature, physique, talent, and even life expectancy. In almost everything, nobles are above ordinary humans, and there is no comparison. And all of this is usually decided at the moment of birth.
The descendants of nobles, no matter how bad they are, can become the manor owner with extraordinary power. The descendants of commoners are basically commoners, and only a very few people have the chance to turn over when they get certain opportunities, but the probability is much lower than that of nobles.
The absolute imbalance in power has caused the nobility to treat the people under their rule with contempt, and it is not a matter of fact.
The Rockman Kingdom's tax on the commoners is based on the income of a normal farmer. As long as it is about 30%, whether the harvest is good or not, it is 30% of the normal harvest. This is a fairly friendly tax in the human kingdom.
As long as they are not lazy and rely on the extremely fertile land due to the existence of elemental energy, the commoners can basically satisfy the family’s three meals and clothing after paying taxes, work a little harder, save a little money, and eat some meat during the festivals. All are possible.
However, the commoners living in the enfeoffed territories of certain nobles had a very difficult life. The noble lords have to pay taxes to the royal family every year, and the nobles will share these taxes on the subjects under their own control.
These ordinary human beings have not paid the taxes for the nobles at all, because the nobles themselves have not made any profits, so they have to bear the exploitation from the tax laws formulated by the noble lords and officials.
In the event of a slightly merciful lord, the living standard of the people under his rule can be similar to that of the commoners under the royal family. If the noble's territory still possesses some special mineral resources, he can even live a more nourishing life.
But a little harsher, nobles with barren territories, and the lives of the territorial people under their rule are very miserable.
The harvest that he had worked so hard to plant in one year was harvested by the lord, leaving only a twelfth of the harvest, barely enough to feed the family and not starve to death.
Treating the people under his rule as serfs and wanton exploitation of nobles, Morea encountered many when crossing the Osniro subcontinent. Every time Morea shot, he really couldn't bear to treat people as livestock the behavior of.
"I just don't know how many such nobles are in the Rockman Kingdom?" Morea whispered to himself, "The law must be re-enacted, and the amount of tax can only be determined by the royal family, and noble lords have no right to increase or decrease various tax laws. ."
The system of the Rockman Kingdom is somewhat similar to the system of the county system and the feudal feudal system in the Western Han Dynasty in the previous life.
The aristocratic territories scattered across the kingdom are like kingdoms within a kingdom, and they are not under the control of the royal family at all. Such a situation is naturally intolerable for Morea, who is now in power.
How can the authority of the king be so scattered?
"Call all the ministers and all the nobles still in Scarlet to the council hall." Murray looked at Mia, a dragon girl with a pretty face like a girl and a plump figure like a young woman.
"As ordered, Your Highness!" Mia, the dragon maid who was also summoned by Morea from the Titan Islands and now in charge of all the internal affairs of the palace, had a heartfelt smile on her face to convey Moreya's order, she I just heard what Morea was going to do.
Soon, under the order of Chief Mia, hundreds of internal servants set off from the palace and went to the homes of ministers and nobles who lived in the royal city of Scarlet, to convey the summoning order of Morea.
The nobles and remaining ministers who were notified all rushed to the council hall in the palace. This was the first summoning after Duke Morea came to power, so it must be treated with caution.
Morea's power when he came to power not only deterred those alien races, but also deterred all nobles and ministers. Of course, it was the three thousand cloud giants and the six hundred storm giants that frightened them. The legendary ancient dragon transformed into a humanoid form, and they who were not at the scene could not feel the ten dragons that frightened the legendary dragons. Wei.
... In less than a quarter of an hour, nobles and officials were standing neatly in the splendid and expansive Council Chamber. The most conspicuous of them are the twelve cloud giants commanded on both sides, making the human dignitaries feel a little uncomfortable standing between them.
When Mia informed Morea that after all the nobles and ministers had arrived, Morea used any door to cross the space at a short distance, appearing directly on the throne of the council hall, and then looked down, without anyone seeing it clearly Opening:
"I decided to take back the legislative power of all noble lords!"
As soon as these words came out, except for the giant leaders in the hall, their faces were still expressionless, and the faces of the human dignitaries were not very good-looking. The throne under the ruler's buttocks has not yet been seated, and the rights of the nobles will be reduced.
However, it is all the real power nobles who have fiefs, and the problem is not big, it has nothing to do with them. Most of the people standing here now are officials who don't even have titles. Even if they have titles, most of them are empty titles and have no corresponding fiefs.
Therefore, no one in the council room objected, but a small number of people didn't look very good. They were nobles with territories and stakeholders.
"From now on, whether nobles, officials, or lords, all deprive them of the right to make tax laws at will, and only the king has the right to make and abolish tax laws.
Except for the tax laws promulgated by successive kings, all the decrees and tax collection clauses made privately by the noble lords will be abolished! "
"Wow!" At this moment, the faces of all the human dignitaries in the hall changed color, and they couldn't bear it any longer. Suddenly, someone came in and wanted to stop Morea from taking back the order.