"Yes, Consultant Dominic, we people have built the kingdom's glory. Are you looking down on us seniors when you are new?" the minister below said in a strange tone.

"Of course I don't dare. The king's word is law." Dominic quickly withdrew after hearing this. No matter what he said, he could not dissuade Andrew. Instead, he would offend those old guys.

Seeing that the matter was passed, Andrew felt that the ministers below were very obedient, so he decided to give him a little sweetener.

"I saw the changes in the empire and found that they are very civilized, far beyond what we backward people can compare with. Do you admit this?" Andrew asked.

It's hard to admit that you're not as good as someone else, even if that's true.

For a moment, the expressions of the ministers and nobles below changed, but they still answered truthfully in response to the king's inquiry.

"Your Majesty, we are not as good as the empire." The ministers bowed their heads and said.

"Look, I said that's it." Andrew was very satisfied when he heard this, and nodded to Majia, who nodded quickly in agreement.

Hiss~ Is this young king going to humiliate them in public?

The ministers below heard this and gave up. They looked at each other, but no one wanted to be the one who stood out.

It wasn't until everyone's eyes turned to an unpopular noble that the noble stood up bravely.

He is a marquis, responsible for the city defense and public security of the royal capital. However, in this era, the new title of marquis is far from being recognized by the nobles. In some cases, it is not even as respectful as a count saying it.

"Your Majesty, the Adizmret Empire has revised the "Declaration of Freedom of the Nobles". Nobles no longer serve for life, and they do not even have to serve at all during non-war times. Any noble can go abroad at any time and can dispose of the property under his name at will.

manor."

The Marquis looked at Andrew and said, "Your Majesty, you are so optimistic about the empire, why don't you transfer this "Declaration of Noble Freedom" and implement it?"

As soon as the Marquis said the words, the parliament hall suddenly became quiet, and all the nobles held their breath to see if the king on the stand could get off the stage.

The result was beyond their expectations.

Andrew nodded, "That's what I meant."

"What?" The Marquis was stunned.

"Dominique, go and draft these two decrees. I will sign them and implement them later," Andrew said.

"Your Majesty, what?" Dominic was shocked when he heard this. "You have too many decisions that you should discuss with me in front of the parliament."

"Go! You are just a consultant. Do you want the Chapman family to obey your will?"

"When has it been your turn to be so presumptuous here? How could you still do it if you were the prime minister?"

"Dominique, I don't like others to suppress me. I hope you won't talk too much in the future." Andrew looked at Dominic and said coldly, "You still won't do it!"

Dominic trembled when he heard this. Only at this moment did he understand what his father, the former prime minister of the kingdom, said.

They are just His Majesty's dogs.

Dominic drafted this decree in despair, and the ministers and nobles over there complimented him.

Immediately, Andrew appointed Queen Marja as a major and squad leader, so the ministers would naturally not object.

The guard belongs to the king, and if he likes it, no one would object to letting a dog serve as a police dog.

Then came the matter of reducing the private army of the nobles. Andrew had his own plan on this point. The fiefdoms of his two younger brothers were too wealthy, and they had their own troops. If they were forced to do so, they would cause resistance.

If this law continues, they will be unable to resist.

But as soon as this proposal came out, the nobles were not very supportive.

"Your Majesty, unlike the empire, our kingdom has its own national conditions here. The kingdom is mountainous but has few soldiers. If the nobles do not raise their own troops, they cannot resist the bandits and chaos in the territory." The ministers prayed quickly.

"Yes, it's not easy for those nobles who have fiefdoms. They all pay taxes conscientiously. We can't let these nobles who dedicated themselves to the kingdom be killed."

They have another meaning in saying this, which is to remind the nobles of Andrew that you have high mountains and far away roads and you don’t have many troops. If they don’t carry out the decree and instead don’t even pay you taxes, then the kingdom will be in danger.

.

However, they didn't say it was okay, but when they did, they made Andrew angry.

"Speaking of paying taxes, where did they send the taxes at this critical moment of my coronation?" Andrew looked at the ministers below and said with a gloomy face:

"There are legions in many provinces of the kingdom. There are no bandits or mobs that they can't deal with. They have dozens of knights who can protect themselves. With so much tax left in their hands, do they want to rebel?"

The ministers thought that the army in the province was in such bad shape that they had no fighting capacity and relied on private soldiers to fight the war. However, seeing that King Andrew was very angry, no one dared to touch the gun. They could only say politely, "Pay taxes."

There is a deferment period, and they have their own difficulties because they didn’t deliver it for a while.”

"They have difficulties, but I don't have any difficulties?" Andrew immediately punched the throne after hearing this, "In order to raise donations for the coronation, I had no choice but to marry the daughter of a young baron. Do you know how difficult it is for me?!"

The faces of all the ministers changed when they heard this. This new king really has no respect at all.

They secretly looked at the queen and found that she was not angry, and her face always remained dignified. She was very strong, so strong that it made people feel pitiful.

"Also, the church is not a good thing. It is in vain that I have admired and worshiped it so much since I was a child. I am a king, a monarch! The power of kingship is granted by God, and I am the son of the God of Crimson Flame! These servants of God actually stuck with me because of that dedication.

succession!"

Andrew said that his face was extremely distorted. He stood up and kicked over the decorations on both sides of the throne, then pointed at Dominic below and shouted:

"Make a note to me. The church must serve the gods with peace of mind. The churches in the empire have no land. My legion is short of money. Starting today, the church's land will be confiscated!"

"Your Majesty, no, the royal power needs the support of the church!"

At this time, all the ministers and nobles were frightened. Whether they were nobles or civilians, they were guided by the church from birth to death. Even many oppressions could be explained by God. Andrew did this completely to subvert the kingdom.

"Of course I know that the empire already has a more enlightened approach, which is to introduce churches and prohibit the persecution of other churches. The reason why we are suppressed by the church in this way is because they have a monopoly on faith!" Andrew shouted loudly.

"You even know about monopoly?" the Finance Minister couldn't help but exclaimed after hearing this.

"Since I am following the example of the empire, I naturally have some idea of ​​what kind of life the nobles there live every day, and what kind of life you will live tomorrow. I went out of the royal capital to pick up the queen, and I even saw some people who couldn't put on their pants!"

Andrew looked at the nobles and ministers below, "Don't you know this? Can you bear to see yourself living in such a backward place? The same food only costs one gold coin in the empire, but you can't buy it for ten gold coins here?"

"

"The citizens rebelled because they didn't have enough to eat, they were helpless because of a natural disaster, they opened a salon and had to worry about robbers at night, and they walked around covered in feces. Is this the life you want?"

The ministers and nobles were all shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect Andrew to have such knowledge.

But still the same sentence.

"Your Majesty, you are right, but our national conditions are different, and the decree is implemented too hastily." The Minister of Military Affairs said, "It's like if you want to eat a year's worth of food in one day, you will choke to death."

"Is this too urgent?" Andrew snorted coldly after hearing this, "This is just the beginning. In addition, I also want to support the development of industry and commerce, lift the foreign trade ban and investment ban, I want to open mines, and I want to use those things that we do not have the ability to do.

Exploit, or even maintain the status quo, resources that we will not be able to mine after 500 years in exchange for help from the empire, whether in industry or military strength!"

"No!" The Minister of Military Affairs' expression changed when he heard this. "We can accept other assistance from the empire, but not the army! That will attract wolves into the house! The dynasty will be destroyed in one day!"

"Yes, we have to be slow while being urgent, and slow while being urgent. Apart from this, we can consider everything else slowly." The nobles also nodded quickly.

"Do you think so?" Andrew frowned upon hearing this, "But the book says that change begins with bloodshed. Although I believe in my team, once someone looks for trouble and gets into a stalemate, we will lose money because of the war.

Too many.”

"So there will be no loss if we don't change."

A nobleman said, "It's not that the old king never thought about changes when he was alive. His idea was to open commercial lines. This has been very effective in both Vuxiliary and Slovakia, and it has brought prosperity to the kingdom. That was his fault."

It takes a lifetime to implement one decree, but you have to implement several in an hour."

"That's why we need to supplement it with support from the empire. We don't even have any industrial foundation now. Take a mountain-circling railway line as an example. We need a complete industrial chain."

Andrew said, recalling the description in the book, "We need the empire, the royal family, the Privy Council, the audit team, the Secretary of Commerce, the military factory, the craftsman department, 60 related professions, and 800 factories to manufacture it."

"This is simply a terrifying number for us." The ministers shook their heads slightly after hearing this, and then asked, "What are the audit team, the Secretary of Commerce and the military factory?"

"The audit team is to audit the historical expenditures of the kingdom, which parts are reasonable and which parts are unreasonable. It belongs to the employment system and is guaranteed by the empire's credit. They know where our money is used and why we are so poor."

Andrew looked at the ministers and sneered, "You all should be restrained from me. From today on, I will not pursue any previous matters. However, if there is any corruption after today, including any corruption among the subordinates you control, you will be punished."

Wait to die!"

"Although I don't want all the ministers to be replaced by imperial ministers in the future, which would make me feel very insecure, but I don't want you to be burdened to death either."

The ministers' expressions changed when they heard this, and everyone hesitated to speak.

Dominic, who is closest to him, treats him this way, and they don't want to get into trouble.

Fortunately, these ministers are self-sufficient and have their own industries. As for their subordinates, just warn them not to offend from today on.

Where will this civilized king go?

The meeting lasted until noon. Dominic drafted twenty-three laws, all members of the House of Lords agreed, and the king signed them. Among them, the aid laws and proposals handed over to the empire were set off after the meeting.

This proposal was prepared by the Earl of the Court as the Foreign Minister, and the four Viscounts of the Court as his deputies, together with a hundred Guardsmen, who set off without stopping.

Andrew requested strict confidentiality regarding this diplomacy, and the ministers were also tight-lipped, but there is no airtight wall in the world.

Chapter 6.2 Signs of Collapse

Inside the palace, in the king's tea room, twenty-two bills were piled on the table. While Andrew was flipping through the "Manuscript of Imperial Change", he looked at the military minister and assistant ministers around him.

"What I just mentioned is a framework, and the specific implementation details have yet to be worked out. Do you think the church will hand over the land?" Andrew asked.

"It's very difficult, unless we grab it head-on." The Minister of Military Affairs lowered his head and said, "Although the church has an archbishop, several priests, and two professional teams of night, day and day, it can still be done with three thousand Guards and the Praetorian Guard.

of."

"Are you sure you can do it?" Dominic said from the side. "Although the archbishop is equivalent to the fourth rank, with the magic circle in the city, even the sixth level can be used. Even the 30,000 Guards may not be able to defeat them."
To be continued...