When Roger heard the Queen's promise, he bowed and bowed: "The minister has resigned, and someone will transfer the Duke of South Carneton to the Secret Law Society later."
The Queen of Eternal Night smiled and said: "This is unnecessary. I am going to entrust the construction of the oath of the altar to Dior Aiqing. You don't have to be stingy in terms of spending and manpower, and the lamp oil will naturally be handled by you."
Roger frowned slightly, Your Majesty, is it really okay for you to squeeze labor like this
[Come here, you put a lot of effort into making shadow puppets, but one Roger is not enough, you want to exploit one person as two people? 】
[It's really easy to calculate, no capitalist can calculate and squeeze like you! I bother! 】
Evernight Queen heard this familiar voice, although she was complaining, she was unexpectedly happy.
Great, the little guy's mental strength has finally recovered, and he can copy his homework with confidence again!
Wait, I'm not shaking M, I'm not happy because I'm being scolded, I'm happy because I can be scolded again...
Uh, there seems to be something wrong with this!
The Queen of Eternal Night waved her hand, expelling the strange thoughts in her mind.
I won't be full of energy when scolded like those strange officials in the military.
Without waiting for Luo Jie's resignation, she took a step forward: "This altar will also be used as a residence for the Night Guard. I believe it will be more comfortable if you design and construct it yourself?"
This sentence really made Roger hesitate.
Although I often talk about the wonders of mistaking the country, but thinking that my office will be in a wonder in the future, isn't that a very face-to-face thing
It just so happens that I have god-level architectural design capabilities. If you want money, money, and people, it's not difficult to create a spectacle, right
It just so happens that the Night Guard supervises the imperial nobles and is stationed in the land where the imperial nobles are ennobled, which also makes very, very sense!
"Your Majesty has a decree, I should do my best." Roger finally agreed.
The Queen of Eternal Night hummed inwardly, you see, I am not the only one who rejoices, right
It seems that my imperial technique has improved again!
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In January, the Night Guard traveled from south to north across the entire empire, completed a major change of blood for the aristocracy, and dealt with old cases.
As the public trial of the Night Guard's nobles came to an end, Roger Charles also became the most beloved figure in the Empire after the Queen of the Night, as the Commander of the Night Guard.
His popularity was at its peak, and he returned triumphantly to the secret capital.
While the Night Guard ruthlessly rectified the nobles, Angelina used tender methods to win over and negotiate again and again to complete the preliminary preparations for the implementation of the Pledge of Glory.
Although Angelina's tone was always gentle, her younger brother was holding a butcher's knife high, and was trampling the nobility and pride of the aristocracy to the dust.
So as long as the conditions are not too excessive, no one can think of rejecting Angelina's conditions.
The nobles were also afraid that Angelina would give him a look and the sword would slash at their head.
As we all know, the right phase is not the kind of person who reverses black and white.
But her younger brother is now looking like a madman, scurrying around the empire like a wolf, who can guarantee that the trial will be notarized
It only takes a few group performances to beat the emotions of the people and send your whole family to the guillotine.
Today, the Charles brothers and sisters are highly relied upon by the Queen of Eternal Night. They have the powerful force of the Night Guard and the banner of reforming the empire. No one dares to confront them head-on.
In the autumn of the third year of the Eternal Night Calendar, on a clear and sunny day, the nobles once again came to the mysterious capital, had a pleasant exchange with the Queen of Eternal Night, and jointly implemented the brand-new "Empire Charter".
The charter stipulates that the Eternal Night Queen has absolute jurisdiction over every inch of the empire. She is the highest political, economic, and military leader of the empire. Every subject should be loyal to the Eternal Night Queen.
But the power of the Queen of Eternal Night is not unlimited. Her legislative power has been divided and belonged to the Imperial Parliament, which was reorganized from the current parliament.
The Imperial Parliament stipulates that there are three sources of members: twenty-five representatives of nobles, twenty-five representatives of commoners, and fifty-one representatives of magicians.
The formulation and revision of all new bills must be voted by the Imperial Parliament on the basis of not violating the "Reich Charter", and more than half of them can be passed.
Even if the Queen of Eternal Night wants to create a new law, it must be submitted to the Imperial Council for voting.
Unless it is a wartime system, she can act as the supreme military leader and issue temporary decrees beyond parliament.
However, the power of the Queen of Eternal Night is still unlimited, because it is very interesting that the number of representatives of magicians in the Imperial Council is higher than the combination of the nobles and the commoners.
With the appeal of the Queen of Eternal Night in the magician group, if an internal consensus is reached, any new bill can be forcibly passed.
Although this article is essentially to reflect the importance the empire places on magicians, there are a series of detailed regulations to become a member of parliament as a magician.
But in the end, the Eternal Night Queen still left an operable back door for herself.
In addition, the Imperial Charter re-divided the empire into sixty provinces.
For the purpose of accelerating national integration, the new provincial division deliberately disrupted the border between Qingteng and the seventeen countries, and considered the provincial border more geographically, and was more general and reasonable.
The province is governed by the governor appointed by the Queen of Eternal Night, and the governor's palace and the provincial guard are established.
The governor-general is held every five years, and when it expires, he will assess the results of his administration and decide whether to adjust or promote.
The original owners of the land, the aristocrats, were required to give up their fiefdoms and no longer directly administer any land. The number of vassals and private armies was also strictly limited, and they needed to make an oath of honor when they were ennobled;
Correspondingly, the empire will guarantee that they can inherit titles, enjoy subsidies no less than the average output of the current territory, and give priority to serving as administrative officials under the same conditions.
In the future, officials of the empire will no longer be required to have aristocratic blood, and civilians will have perfect legal support to become officials, which is no longer a special grace of the queen.
Of course, future administrative officials will need to pass a unified assessment before they can take office.
When the Queen of Eternal Night and the imperial nobles completed the signing of the "Empire Charter", the nobles made full concessions, marking that the Qingteng Empire had already reached a basic consensus on transitioning from the feudal system to the centralization of power, and all the next work can be done naturally.
This process involves bloodshed, sacrifice, and infighting.
But in the end, these struggles were only limited to the upper echelons of the empire and did not have much impact on people's livelihood.
Even because it was pushed to the top of a mountain, the quality of life of the people at the bottom has improved at different levels.
It was the noble class who suffered the most.
Not to mention those who escaped and were liquidated, the nobles who finally chose to uphold the imperial power and signed the "Imperial Charter" also used land, military power, and absolute loyalty in exchange for the qualification to continue to be superior.
However, if they can't be the emperor of the soil in the future, not all the nobles are so heartbroken that they can't breathe.
There are many nobles who have a low desire for power and a lazy personality, and think this is not bad.
Because the empire promised them a subsidy of no less than the average output of the current territory.
This means they can maintain the same quality of life as they do now without having to govern their territories.
The average level of aristocratic governance in this era is terrible and rough, but it's impossible to really care about anything.
The territory is big, and there are always messy things that need to be handled and decided by them. If they are not handled well, their income will drop.
Not only has no money to spend, but also loses face.
Even if it is to exploit the territorial people in a different way, it still needs to use one's brains, doesn't it
Now that the empire has reclaimed their land, it is equivalent to directly giving them a "retirement pension", guaranteeing income during droughts and floods, at least they can get a very extravagant guaranteed income.
Of course, from an imperial perspective, such a promise would not be a loss.
Because the nobles measure the value of land and labor with their current productivity, with the development of magic industrialization, the productivity of a unit of land will increase by a hundred times or a thousand times.
In a few years, the nobles will find that the empire has taken away a large area of their own land, and then only need to send them one percent or one thousandth of the above production, even if the promise is fulfilled...
Even the purchasing power of this pension will decline over time.
The guarantee given to them in the "Reich Charter" is the value determined at the time of signing, and does not calculate inflation.
This can be regarded as a pit left by Angelina. She doesn't want the empire to waste its national power to support idlers.
Let the well-behaved nobles live a good life for a few years, which is a reward for their past contributions and cooperation.
But they will not be raised for a lifetime, let alone their offspring.
If you want to live well, please serve the empire. Whether you are in politics or in the military, the empire has countless opportunities.
Witnessed by representatives from many parties, the Queen of Eternal Night personally used magic to rub the "Empire Charter" on an alloy plate mainly made of pure gold.
This alloy plate is harder than most materials in nature, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant, and has various protective magics attached, which has eternal meaning.
All present dripped blood on the alloy, swore to fight to protect the Imperial Charter, and then banished it to the void of the astral world.
Maybe the Empire of Heaven is not there, but the changes and explorations made by the people of the Empire will forever exist in this multiverse in this way.
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After lunch, the Queen of Eternal Night led a group of nobles to the Palace of Stars, a magnificent building carved and excavated from the entire mountain, forty miles west of the imperial capital.
This is a spectacle-level altar designed by Roger, with the labor of millions of people, investing countless money and precious materials, and it took more than a month to complete.
It is also the only place where nobles will be knighted and fulfill the oath of glory in the future.
It was originally an extinct volcano with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. It was transformed by the power of magic and separated from the surrounding mountains. It became an isolated conical peak protruding from the mountains and standing on the side of the imperial post road.
On the front of the mountain, there are relief sculptures of successive kings of the Qingteng Empire, each of which is 100 meters high.
And the empress of the Eternal Night herself has a relief that is as high as a kilometer and can be seen from a distance.
The quality of the engraving is also finer than that of the other kings, and it is placed in the very center, most prominently.
Although she is young, she has changed from a queen to a queen, and she is indeed qualified to be one size older than her father and grandfather.
Probably, anyway, she asked for it herself, and Roger didn't need to stop the little details...