Chapter 1435: Strange Tricks Come Out One After Another
Faced with the nobles' random playing methods, Lin directly resorted to thunderous methods. Of course it's not about forcing people to do anything. To force a cow to press its head without drinking water, the first prerequisite is that it must be stronger than the cow in order to press the cow's mouth into the water. If you don't have this strength, you can only think of ways to seduce it.
Therefore, one of Lin's strategies to the empress was to manipulate the implementation schedule of the New Deal.
First, the method and time for the election of parliamentary representatives in each region can be arranged after the local population census and household registration are completed, and it is not mandatory for the entire empire to be elected at the same time. As soon as the parliamentary representatives are elected and are appointed by the lord and recognized by the local people, they can go to Neuquén Imperial City to participate in the formation of the lower parliament.
Secondly, when more than 70% of the nobles and representatives of the parliament in their territory are present, the lower assembly will officially begin to operate within one week after reaching the target. The most important task is to elect the first cabinet minister.
Once the gekui was born, he could formally and legally take over the power once in the hands of the emperor.
At this point, the transfer of power is completed. How the empire will move forward next depends entirely on Ge Kui's will.
Simply put, there is no set time point for the implementation of the entire plan. Instead, when the progress is reached, the next stage will automatically start. In order to grasp the greatest power under the emperor, everyone needs to race against time!
This is mainly aimed at two types of people. One is people who are willing to cooperate with the New Deal, but are trying various ways to gain maximum benefits.
If such people are given too much preparation time, they may not be satisfied with just census, household registration and election of members. They may actually adjust the population to produce as many council members as possible in their territory.
If given enough time, a town full of two thousand people wouldn't be a problem. It is true that the folk customs of the Karlsruhe Empire are fierce, but the reason why the nobles are nobles is that their ability to execute their will is quite impressive.
For those squires and wealthy businessmen who are not nobles, they are also happy to cooperate. Imagine electing one councilor from a town of 10,000 people or one councilor from a town of 2,000 people. Which one has a greater chance for them?
If a town with a population of 10,000 is divided into five towns with a population of 2,000, it means that the number of seats for one council member is increased to five. If there is a strong family, there is no problem in grabbing a single quota; but when there are five quotas, is it possible to grab them all without giving them to others?
Therefore, from the standpoint of country gentry and wealthy businessmen, they will definitely cooperate with this evil policy of population allocation. The only ones who suffer are the people at the bottom who are the basis for population calculation. The nobles gave orders and the gentry carried them out. How could they still have the ability to resist?
Lin couldn't even imagine how many families would be destroyed as a result of this forced relocation. The best thing to do is to prevent the nobles from having time to do this kind of population transfer slowly.
Don't hold discussions just because the number of members is sufficient. It seems to have no impact on the power of the nobles. But whether it is a political exchange or a cabinet election, if there is no member of a certain noble family in the lower house, it does not mean that he is not involved.
Since he didn't participate, when the spoils were divided, would anyone remember to keep him a share? Even if you think about it, it’s impossible!
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Another type of people to deal with are those who deliberately undermine the New Deal.
Such people will obviously not cooperate with the various measures of the New Deal. The simplest way to oppose them is to do nothing. As long as they do not select any members, it means that there are still opponents or doubters in the empire, and it should not be implemented.
According to the past governance methods, the support and opposition parties will start to operate and exchange interests under the table. Both sides slowly give in until a plan that satisfies everyone is introduced, and political affairs can be implemented.
In other words, the old way of governing was all about 100% consent. If there are such tough opponents, the only option is to appease the opponent, or else drive the opponent out of the ruling circle, either exiled or exiled. In short, there is no room for any noise on the table.
But these people obviously have not experienced what is called "majority violence".
As long as 70% of the members report for duty, the new policy will be launched.
As for Grand Duke Frias, plus the power of the royal family except the Empress, and at most some small nobles who are attached to this group of people, according to the estimates of people familiar with the strength of the nobles, this group of people exceeds 20% of the total strength of the empire, but it is far from the total strength of the empire. Less than 30%. In other words, these people are completely uncooperative with the New Deal, but as long as most of the others are present, the Lower House can still run smoothly.
Archduke Frias, combined with the power of the royal family other than the empress, can indeed stand out among the others in the empire. Because other people are not monolithic, they each have their own requirements and goals.
However, when it came to the discussion of the lower council, it became the royal family besides the Grand Duke Frias and the Empress, with more than 20% of the strength to overpower the more than 70% of others who were willing to participate in the council. The either-or choice has made the camp that opposes the establishment of parliament become a minority.
If Archduke Frias still opposes strongly at this time, the cabinet minister elected later can directly label him as a rebel and then suppress it forcefully. No one can say anything wrong.
The so-called negotiation also requires sitting at the same table. When someone doesn't want to sit at the table and wants to turn over the table, will the people who are already at the negotiating table still be polite to them?
So in this carnival of racing against time, some nobles felt like a bank again. Not only is it powerless to stop him, but if he pursues too slowly and his interests are seized by others, he will be afraid that he will change from the position of a eater to the food on the table.
The only person who is sitting firmly is the empress who lets the magician control everything.
Of course she also has to arrange things in her own territory. But since my direct territory is not large, getting things done is not that troublesome.
Secondly, there is no pressure on her to run for cabinet office, and she is not allowed to get involved in governing affairs. Therefore, as long as the empress elects the parliamentarian representatives in her own territory, she can wait for others to come to negotiate terms and provide benefits, if she wants the support of the parliamentarian representatives in the queen's hands.
Being strong without desire can completely describe the empress' current state. In addition, there is a magician, the founder of the New Deal in Lost Lands, who has experienced various tricks in the world before he traveled. Of course, Lin knows where the trick is.
Maybe he has to do it himself, because his face won't work in a strange place like the Karlsruhe Empire. But as a trader, it is easy to instruct people where to exert force.
Everyone is still using the same old methods to target those big cities where dragons and snakes are mixed. That is to support a specific person, give him resources and connections, and let him find supporters on his own. Or perhaps a certain noble scion came forward to personally recruit supporters.
Lin used a very similar method, but the core content was completely different. This is based on the Greco Chamber of Commerce and Longqi Trade as the entry point, allowing people from the chamber of commerce to contact private forces on their own. When the number of supporters exceeds 10,000, they can nominate a representative on their own and run for parliament in the name of the Empress. This is equivalent to joining the Empress' camp.
Although it seems that people are required to find supporters on their own. The thinking of the nobles is still the same as before. They believe that as long as they put up their own banner, people will naturally look out for them and recommend themselves to join their ranks.
And the people who can be named by them are all people who are friendly to these nobles and even have interests entangled with them. If we don’t support these ‘own people’, how can we support outsiders?
But what these old-fashioned aristocrats did not expect was that the people they would select were actually members of the privileged class to some extent. They may have sufficient financial resources and considerable connections, but they may not necessarily win the hearts of the people.
So in order to find forces willing to support themselves, how much price do they have to pay in order to get the other party to agree not to compete and instead support themselves? Even if one person can be guaranteed to be elected as a parliamentary representative, how can a second or third person be chosen?
Lin's method actually catered to the atmosphere of the Karlsruhe Empire. That is to say, ambitious people integrate and do transactions themselves. The person who stands out also means that he represents to some extent the interest group that supports him.
This is a horizontal connection, not a simple acquisition. The relationship between the former will be relatively stable, while the latter may switch to someone else at any time because someone else offers a higher price.
Even though the results seem to be the same. Monkeys will feel happy or angry because of going around or around, and people will also have different feelings due to different ways of requesting.
Besides, there was an unexpected phenomenon that helped Lin a lot when assisting the empress, that is, Saint Alegria's reputation among the people was unexpectedly good.
Perhaps the empress's power to govern was eclipsed by other nobles, and some even openly showed their contempt. But Alegria was able to rise to the top because she had done several great feats and was recognized by everyone.
Fortunately, in the past few years, the internal affairs of the Karlsruhe Empire have not reached the point of outrage, so the empress did not bear the blame. When the banner of Saint Alegria was raised again, compared with the recruitment of other nobles, most people were still willing to join the empress.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this phenomenon is quite normal. Don’t talk about lost places, let’s talk about my hometown before time travel. It’s the same job search. Who wouldn’t want to find a job in a big company or a public institution?
I will enter a small company. If it is not that big companies cannot get in, it is because the treatment offered by small companies is particularly good. If a large company can enter, with similar benefits and similar development prospects, no one would choose a small company.
In the same situation, if someone puts himself in his shoes, if he were a citizen of the Karlsruhe Empire, there would be two forces trying to recruit him. One party holds the banner of the emperor, and the other party is just a nobleman. If the conditions are similar, of course he will embrace the emperor's thick thighs!
Because of this, the power of the big cities that the empress could influence grew like a snowball. Not only did the other nobles be stunned, but even the six grand dukes seemed to have a hint of regret.
There is another group that other nobles have never thought of. That is the Church of God.
Divine power has always been something the nobles guarded against, fearing that the gods would override them. But this time it is different from the traditional ownership of governing power. Instead, one or even multiple representatives are sent to the parliament.
These representatives may not necessarily be able to gather the strength to control the parliament, and of course they cannot hold the position of minister or minister, but they can at least serve as a bridge between the empire and the church of the gods. When the empire intends to make decisions against the church, there are still people in the parliament who can defend the church on behalf of the church or tip off information.
Such an initiative not only caused controversy, but also brought a lot of criticism. The summons of the Royal Council came to a certain magician again.