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Chapter 422 Dahan Federation (8)
Chapter 422 Dahan Federation ([-])
Unexpectedly, it was him who opposed Spiegel the most fiercely at this moment. Sigrisa stood up and stared at Owen fiercely, but he lowered his head after he finished speaking, waiting for Spiegel's response and nothing else. reason.
"Your name is Owen?"
Spiegel asked lightly.
"Yes, Your Majesty, my servant Owen."
Owen said neither humble nor overbearing.
Although the other ministers and nobles didn't say anything, they also had this doubt. Why should they pay more taxes, while the stupid and useless pariahs don't have to pay taxes? What's the point of being a noble?
"Do you think the nobles should only make their own family prosperous, or let everyone in the whole country be strong."
asked Spiegel.
"This……"
Owen was at a loss for words for a while, he really wanted to say that it is not a matter of course to put his family's prosperity first?But if he really said that, and he didn't have a country in his heart, then what kind of minister would he be?
"Family first, country last."
Someone stood up again, and it was a viscount who spoke, but he didn't know where the fief was, and Spiegel didn't know him either.
"Putting the family above the country, it seems that you are not suitable to continue to be a nobleman in the Han Federation. Now you will be deprived of all your noble titles and identities, and you will be expelled. The entire family will never be hired."
Spiegel said coldly, he didn't get angry, how good did he think his temper was?
After Spiegel finished speaking, the viscount was dumbfounded, and two guards came over immediately, picked him up and walked out.
Only then did he react.
"Your Majesty! The minister made a slip of the tongue, the country comes first, the country comes first!"
The viscount immediately confessed, but it was too late, Spiegel remained unwavering, watching the viscount being dragged out with cold eyes.
There was no sound in the hall. They didn't expect that Spiegel, who had been amiable just now, would suddenly go mad. The concept of family first is correct.
According to the rules of aristocratic inheritance, once the country and the family confront each other, it is correct to protect the interests of the family first.
But they dare not say it, they can only think silently in their hearts, it seems that the world has changed.
"Your Majesty, even if the country comes first, nobles are the cornerstone of the country, and harming the nobles is equivalent to harming the country. This is not contradictory. Please also explain why you want to feed the foolish people at the expense of the nobles."
Owen was not intimidated by Spiegel's actions just now, and asked loudly.
Sigrisa clenched her hands tightly. This Owen really pissed her off. The person who promoted him personally dared to openly challenge Spiegel's majesty.
"Good question!"
Spiegel stood up.
"It's just that I don't agree with what you said that nobles are the country, but limited by your status as a noble, it's normal for you to have this kind of cognition."
Spiegel is taller now, and he can see the faces of almost everyone in the hall from a condescending height.
"Almost all the people present are nobles, so you will all be the losers of my tax decree. You must also have doubts and unwillingness in your hearts. Why do my family and I work for the country, and the benefits we get are still damaged."
Spiegel looked at each face, and indeed saw many people showing unwilling expressions.
"Because in my opinion, if a country is compared to a tree, the common people are the roots that take root in the soil, and the nobles are the branches and leaves under the sun."
"Compared to the branches and leaves that can bathe in the sun, the roots planted deep in the soil are so humble."
"But a tree without roots will wither quickly. The nobles are not the cornerstone of the country, but the people are. Therefore, if you want the country to be stable and develop more harmoniously, you must give proper support and help to the bottom."
After Spiegel finished speaking, it was a pity that he could not see much approval from the faces of the nobles and bureaucrats below.
The concept he said is too advanced. You must know that the country was still a feudal system before, and now it has just transitioned to a centralized system. How can you understand the capitalist or even socialist system.
However, although they don't understand Spiegel's good intentions, they are still very clear about the damage to their own interests, so no matter what Spiegel says, they will not agree with it. They want these nobles to have This awareness is really difficult.
There is a saying that the ass determines the brain.
Their position limits their way of thinking, agreeing with Spiegel is tantamount to cutting a piece of flesh from themselves.
But Spiegel is too powerful now, and no one in the entire Dahan Federation dares to openly defy Spiegel, otherwise, let alone cutting a piece of meat, they will lose their lives.
"Your Majesty's words are wrong."
It was still Owen who spoke, and the other nobles gave him admiration and admiration. He was the only one who dared to speak the truth.
"Your Majesty uses big trees to describe the country, which is very vivid, but the relationship between nobles and commoners is different."
Owen paused.
"The reason why civilians can survive depends on the power of the nobles to protect their safety, otherwise they will not be able to survive under the attack of monsters. The tax is only for the nobles to provide better protection fees, and if the nobles are severely Heavy taxes, and they are not allowed to tax the civilians in their territory, the power to protect and protect the civilians will definitely be greatly reduced, and the civilians will not be able to survive, so the consequences are more serious than paying a little tax.”
After Owen finished speaking, many nobles nodded repeatedly, thinking that what he said was very reasonable, don't pay taxes?Those untouchables simply couldn't survive the attacks of monsters.
"Did you misunderstand something?"
Spiegel froze for a moment, and found that what Owen said was quite reasonable. The reason why he thought it was reasonable was because what he said was indeed the tradition of the older generation. The common people paid taxes to the lord, and the lord guaranteed the safety of the territory.
But now it is a centralized system, and local security is transferred from the lord to the chief executive.
It is true that when the chief executive has a lord, Spiegel mostly lets the lord directly serve as the local chief executive.
For example, a viscount is directly the county magistrate in his territory, and an earl is the mayor, but it also depends on the size of his territory. Some marquises are just county magistrates because his territory is too small.
This was originally for convenience and to reduce social turmoil, but the performance of these nobles made Spiegel understand that if they were allowed to serve as chief executives, it would not be conducive to the reform of the system, and they would not give up their power.
"The national security is guaranteed by the state and assigned to the localities. The specific responsibility is the security guard. The nobles no longer have the power to form armed forces. At most, they can recruit a few private security personnel. The number of people will be determined by the Senate, and the power to collect taxes is also controlled by all. To take back the country, of course, after all the taxes are collected, the nobles can still get [-]% of the land tax of their own territory, and the right to manage their own land."
When Spiegel explained this, most of the nobles were stupid. Although Spiegel had already announced the framework of centralized power, most of these nobles were from families with more than a hundred years of history. Their thinking was rigid and they were not happy with the new system. , It was only then that he realized that his aristocratic status had undergone such an earth-shaking change.
(End of this chapter)