June of 3787 in the continental calendar was just an ordinary early summer envoy to other countries on the Sainz continent, but to the Principality of Standing in the southwest corner of the continent, it was a very uneasy one. A month that made a mark in history.
In early June, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce encountered strong opposition from more than ten noble lords in the principality for promoting the erection of magic signal towers, and directly announced the severance of cooperative relations with these noble lords, causing chaos in the private territories of these noble lords. It also caused people in other unrelated principalities to panic.
Everyone is worried that if the New Flying Chamber of Commerce gives up its heavy investment in the Principality of Standing, it will have an extremely serious negative impact on the entire Principality.
In the middle of the month, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Principality of Standing, Anglu, suddenly publicly announced his resignation from the position of Speaker of the Parliament.
The public explanation to the outside world is that he has served as Speaker of Congress for three years and has completed his first term in accordance with the Congress' charter. He does not intend to renew his term due to physical reasons.
This news caused a great shock to the Principality of Standing.
Although the rapid development of the Principality of Standing in the past few years is mainly due to the heavy investment of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the Congress led by Angkru has played an important role that cannot be ignored.
In the minds of many people of the Principality of Standing, he has become the most important leader who led the Principality of Standing to become powerful.
Now that he suddenly announced his resignation, many people are very worried about the future fate of the Principality of Standing.
Can his successor continue to lead the Principality of Standing to maintain rapid development like him
No one can give an accurate answer to this.
Although Congress was obviously well prepared for Angkru's resignation. A new speaker was announced on the day he resigned. He is a not-so-famous viscount from somewhere in the north of the Principality of Standing. But without the test of time, no one knows how far this new speaker can achieve.
However, just when everyone expressed doubts about the Speaker, the Speaker announced an extremely shocking decision as soon as he took office - the abolition of the private lands of nobles within the Principality of Standing!
Once the news came out, it not only shocked everyone in the entire Standing Principality, but also shocked people in all surrounding countries.
Since ancient times, it has been a tradition on the continent of Sainz for nobles to own private territories.
As a noble, if you only have status but no territory. In everyone's eyes, it is no different from an empty shell.
Because the foundation of the nobles is on his private territory.
Private lands can provide noble lords with the food, population, and economy they need, and then form their most important strengths in all aspects.
If you don't even have private territory, then what strength is there
In any country on the Sainz continent, the first target of all the thousands of nobles is their own private territory. They will regard the private territory as their final bottom line.
Depriving them of their private territory is tantamount to directly declaring war on them!
So when everyone learned that the new Speaker actually wanted to pass this decision, their first reaction was that the Speaker was a lunatic.
He actually wants to pass such an outrageous decision, that is simply a fantasy!
Just when everyone was planning to see the speaker's joke, the result was far beyond everyone's expectations.
Parliament of the Principality of Standing. This decision was actually passed which made everyone feel incredible!
The Principality of Standing has officially abolished the qualifications of all noble lords to own private territories!
Countless people were shocked by this. Qiqi set his sights on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly the chamber of commerce that has the greatest influence on the Principality of Standing, and their president Xu Yi is currently one of the great nobles and lords in the Principality of Standing, with a private territory of dozens of square kilometers under his name. .
The National Assembly passed a resolution to abolish private lands. So how will the lord Xu Yi react
Will he hand over his valuable private territory
You know, the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can be established on his private territory. If he hands over his private territory, what will the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce do
Everyone thought that Xu Yi would definitely reject the implementation of this decision, but the facts once again exceeded everyone's expectations.
On the day after the Congress passed this decision, Xu Yi was the first to publicly announce that he would hand over his ownership of the private territory under his name and return the territory to the leadership of the Principality Congress.
At the same time, Xu Yi proposed to the National Assembly on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce a proposal to purchase land use rights totaling more than 50 square kilometers within the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the proposal was approved by a congressional resolution.
After the news came out, everyone suddenly realized.
No wonder this humble new speaker has the courage to propose such an astonishing resolution and still get it passed by Congress.
From the current point of view, this is basically done with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!
Or to put it more bluntly, the new speaker must have obtained the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce before ascending to the position of speaker. He simply represents the will of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!
The previous resignation of Speaker Angklu was of course inseparable from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Now people are even more confused about the situation in the Principality of Standing.
What exactly does the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce want to do
If Xu Yi just wants a larger private land, then it should not be a problem to achieve this goal after the replacement of the Speaker, even though it was previously vetoed by Congress, so why bother with such an astonishing resolution? Woolen cloth
To deprive all noble lords of their ownership of the territories under their names is to declare war on all the noble lords in the Principality of Standing!
How could those noble lords obediently implement this resolution
This is indeed the case. After the Congress passed the resolution and Xu Yi took the lead in executing it, countless fierce voices of reaction immediately resounded in the Principality of Standing.
The southern part of the principality, including four counts, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons with territories, simultaneously announced that they would not accept the resolution of the Congress, and publicly stated that they would no longer accept the leadership of the Congress and implement autonomy for their territories.
In everyone's eyes, this is almost equivalent to declaring independence.
The Congress of the Principality of Standing will never accept this fact. The only question is how to respond specifically.
These noble lords have a large number of troops under their names. The Congress of the Principality of Constantine has no specific background in armed forces, so there is nothing that can be done against them.
But at this moment, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce took action.
In late June, the Congress of the Principality of Standing announced that it had judged the four counts, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons who also expressed their rejection of the leadership of the Congress as treason and decided to launch a crusade against them.
Then Congress announced that it would invite the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Guards as a temporary Congressional Guards in the name of Congress to launch a crusade against these noble lords.
Everyone was in an uproar about this.
By doing this, the Congress of the Principality of Standing has simply made it clear that it has completely become the possession of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. Everything it does is probably serving the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
However, everyone knows this truth, but it does not affect the actions of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at all.
At the end of June, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escorts were officially dispatched. In just one week, they completely defeated the noble lords who were deemed treasonous.
During the entire process, these troops of the noble lords, who had also purchased a large number of military magic machines from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, were unable to pose any threat to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escorts and showed no resistance throughout the process.
After completely defeating these rebellious noble lords, Congress unceremoniously took back the private lands in the hands of these noble lords.
At this point, everyone understands that before they have the strength to compete with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the only way to go is to be obedient.
So after that, other noble lords in the Principality of Standing expressed their obedience to the resolution of the Congress and handed over the ownership of their private lands.
However, just like Xu Yi's private domain, although these noble lords handed over all their private domain ownership, the Congress also approved their contribution to leasing part of the land, and also reserved a small piece of land for them to sell directly to them. , as they are privately owned.
This small piece of land is actually not much different from the previous private domain. It is only different in name. However, because the area is too small, it can only be used for building private estates and the like, and it will not have much impact. .
On the last day of June, the Parliament of the Principality of Standing took back the ownership of the private territory surrendered by the last lord, which also announced that from this day on, there would be no more noble lords in the entire Principality of Standing.
Although there are still nobles, they no longer have territories. What they retain are only some insignificant noble privileges.
Of course, Congress only took back their ownership of private lands, but not the various industries under their names.
They still own rubber plantations, fruit orchards and various factories under their previous names, and can still enjoy all their benefits.
And all the nobles who obeyed the resolution of the Congress also received the understanding of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and regained the opportunity to continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
So when the turbulent June passed and July entered, everyone discovered that compared with the previous Principality of Standing, in the current Principality of Standing, except for the replacement of a new Speaker, all the nobles had lost their Outside of private territory, there hasn't actually been much change.
The nobles are still enjoying a luxurious life with the large number of industries under their names, and the common people are still working hard to improve their lives.
But everyone knows very well that the Principality of Standing is indeed completely different from before.
At this time, several special guests quietly came to the Principality of Standing, which remained unchanged on the surface. (To be continued...)