Urban Sims

Chapter 780
Zhou Ming was quite surprised that the "aristocratic faction", which occupies half of the court, suddenly expressed support for this "advanced pro-government" proposal.

But when I think about it carefully, I think it makes sense.

You must know that the essence of major events in this world, and even all important events, can be summed up in one word: interests.

The essence of all things is interest.

There are natural conflicts between imperial power and noble lords, and the reason is also interests.

For example, the land, the noble lords occupy two-thirds of the land of the empire, and entrust countless lords. On these lands, the emperor can hardly exert any influence. The various policies formulated by the empire cannot be implemented on the land of the lords .

Even if it was taxes, what the noble lords offered to the emperor every year was just a little pocket money in the nature of gifts.

More than 80% of the empire's taxes are collected from the states and counties in the royal area.

Of course, noble lords are obliged to send troops to defend the country, but now is a peaceful era, with few civil strife; there are no neighbors around the entire floating island, and there are no external troubles, so the noble lords basically have nothing to do with this empire. Obligations... other than nominal subordination to the empire.

But things are moving forward. The 300 years of peace have increased the population of the empire several times, and the land has been fully developed. Then, the burden is also increasing. Whether it is the emperor or the nobles, in the They are all unsatisfied with the limited land and are eager for more resources.

After all, the power of the emperor is still greater. After all, the emperor owns one-third of the land and half of the population. It is impossible for the noble lords to obtain more land from the emperor as a reward.

And the power of the nobles is relatively scattered, and it is easy to be defeated individually. As long as one of them commits a crime, the emperor will find an excuse to confiscate the family, take back the land, and change the county.

Therefore, in the past 300 years, due to the implementation of policies similar to "cutting the vassal", the strength of the imperial power has been growing, and the nobles can only hold together tightly. They united tightly around Lord Lucis to deal with the expansion of imperial power together.

But in fact, the Lucis family is also very contradictory in their hearts, because after seeing the various benefits of the county system, the Lucis family also implemented a similar county system in their own fiefdoms to strengthen the centralization of power and allow the feudal About half of the land in the land was gradually controlled by the Lucis family.

Only later, in order to win the support of the nobles, Lord Lucis had to suspend the process of centralizing power and no longer take back the land of the lords and vassals... I don't know if this approach has more advantages or disadvantages.

In short, in the Aurunian Empire, the aristocratic lords and the imperial power are naturally opposed to each other, and it is difficult to establish a relationship of mutual trust.

If it weren't for the factor of the marriage between the emperor and the Lucis family for generations, the empire might have broken out into a civil war long ago.

Of course, the aristocratic faction suddenly changed their minds and chose to support Zhou Ming to take office in advance. In fact, there is another important reason——

The "Empire Soaring" plan formulated by Zhou Ming himself.

What is the main core content of this plan?
Develop productivity, develop productivity crazily.

How crazy does it have to be?
In about ten years, the total agricultural output value of the empire will more than triple.

In about ten years, the total industrial output value of the empire will increase by more than 50 times.

When seeing this plan for the first time, many people's first sense is absurd, crazy, and unbelievable.

But after looking through it carefully, I gradually felt that the feasibility was extremely high, and I thought that dreams could be turned into reality, as long as everyone followed the steps planned in this plan.

In this way, after the industrial and agricultural output value of the empire explodes, people's living standards will be greatly improved, and material civilization will become extremely abundant.

All classes in the empire have money and have entered the era of moderate prosperity, so they can become even richer and enter the "Era of Great Kang".

How to enter the Dakang era?

That is, the empire formed a "floating fleet" that sailed to other continents or floating islands, transported countless commodities to other countries, exchanged countless treasures or high-value resources, carried out foreign trade, and grabbed countless wealth.

In short, it is to embark on a road of crazy wealth.

Interesting?

Is this interesting?

To Zhou Ming, this is really meaningless, he has long since lost interest in grabbing money.

But it's interesting to others.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were full of interest, eager to join in one after another, hoping to get a share of it.

The nobles couldn't sit still anymore, and applied for cooperation one by one, for fear that the massive wealth would go away from them.

There were even some nobles who were blinded by their own interests and were not afraid of the threat of the imperial power. They used the consent of the emperor to take charge of the government in advance as a bargaining chip to win some favor from the emperor in exchange for a chance to join and become a shareholder.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming responded to these longing voices shortly after he formally took over the government. He ordered people to set up an "Empire Development Unlimited Company" and issued a large number of stocks. Pay to buy, all capital is welcome to join.

As for the royal power represented by Zhou Ming himself, it holds 33% of the shares and enjoys the leading power and important decision-making power.

In addition, since a large number of infrastructure construction projects are about to start, in order to improve construction efficiency, Zhou Ming also plans to increase the number of magic net walkers in his hands from 100 to 1000, and invest them in various construction activities.

Zhou Ming, who had been busy for seven consecutive days after taking office, and after a large number of tasks were arranged, finally relaxed and rested, faced another headache.

Urge marriage.

Prince Lucis applied to enter the palace. After meeting Zhou Ming alone, he asked him to fulfill his promise and marry Elsa as soon as possible.

"Marry Elsa as queen?"

Zhou Ming was taken aback, shook his head and said, "I'm only 15 years old, how could anyone get married so early?"

"It's normal to get married at the age of 15. Many ordinary people get married at the age of 12 or 3. 15 is not too young."

The old prince said again: "Besides, Elsa is two years older than you, and she will soon be 18. When she reaches the age of marriage, you are embarrassed to delay her, Your Majesty, right?"

"No, no, no!"

Zhou Ming waved his hands again and again: "Wait a little longer, one is not ready yet, and the other is really young. I read from a book that it is said that men who are in contact with men and women too early are harmful to the body. Great damage, easy loss of lifespan... I want to be a great emperor, I want to be famous in history, so I hope to have a healthy and long-lived body."

"What kind of bastard talk is that!"

The old prince stared angrily with his beard: "I broke my body at the age of 13. I have experienced many battles at the age of 15. Even after 80 years old, I often break my body to try something new. Last night I enjoyed two beauties. , let them both fly up... how could it hurt your body?"

"In the old man's opinion, if the method is proper and the posture skills are skillful, not only will this affair between men and women not hurt the body, but it will prolong life! Live to ninety, one hundred!"

"Boy, your worries are completely unnecessary. If you want to live a long and healthy life, Grandpa Zeng can teach you. While ensuring your long life, next year, let me have a great grandson in my arms!"

"The marriage is settled like this. It will be the auspicious day in three days. I will go back and let people prepare."

Zhou Ming's eyes widened when he heard the old prince's words.

Muttering to himself: I heard some gossip before that my grandfather was the cannon king of the imperial capital, at least a thousand people were bombarded, and there were countless illegitimate children. main character.

(End of this chapter)