blackstone code

Chapter 1104 Some changes

After everyone's gathering was over, Lynch returned to his Earl's mansion with the little Earl alone.

The former countess sent some sweet and sour drinks. The Gefra people believed that honey can relieve the discomfort caused by drinking, and lemon can improve the oral condition.

So after drinking, they often prepare some honey lemonade to hangover.

Some people also say that this is just an excuse for the nobles to enjoy themselves. Before sugar appeared on a large scale, honey was one of the few sweeteners available to the nobles, and they would find various reasons to eat honey.

The sweet and sour taste really makes people like it. Lynch said thank you and put it down after taking two sips.

Then she brought a hot towel, and Lynch took one, "You can ask the servant to do it."

The former countess just smiled and left without saying anything.

She knew the men had things to talk about, and she wasn't going to be an eyesore here.

After taking a sip of the sweet and sour honey lemonade and covering the face with a hot towel, the feeling that the pores of the whole body are opened in an instant is great.

After about twenty seconds, the towel cooled down before he wiped his face and put the towel back on the plate.

Then the servants took the plate away.

"You must not have paid attention to some situations on Gefraben Island recently." The first sentence of the little count is very interesting.

Lynch nodded, "Yes, I haven't paid enough attention to the situation on Gafferaben Island recently. I have a lot of things to do, the plane."

The little count was a little stunned, yes, the whole world is discussing this, and he also knows, no wonder Lynch has no time to pay attention to the situation on this island.

Then Lynch also asked "what happened on this island", and the little earl officially started the conversation.

"There is a rift between the Privy Council and the Prime Minister and the Royal Family..."

Lynch frowned. He had visited the Prime Minister before leaving Gafla, and said something that might have seemed disobedient at the time.

At the time the Prime Minister was not interested in his ideas at all, and hinted that if he said that kind of bastard again, he would be arrested.

But now it seems that the situation has changed.

"The Prime Minister has been very close to the Privy Council recently, and some great nobles seem to be in series. I can sense that some things are getting out of our knowledge and control."

"This feeling makes people very nervous. The last time something like this happened is in the history books. Now I feel scared when I mention going back!"

Lynch gave the little count a cigarette, and the two smoked together. Lynch let out a mouthful slowly, and asked, "Are they planning to overthrow the royal family?"

The little earl stood up in shock. He stared at Lynch dumbfounded. The next second, he suddenly lowered his head and stomped out the cigarette butt that fell on the carpet.

With just such a shock, he destroyed a [-] francs carpet.

But he didn't feel distressed at all, he was just shocked how Lynch knew.

The eyeballs that were about to pop out seemed to be attached to the sockets, otherwise they would have fallen off. Lynch raised his hand and pressed it falsely, "You are a nobleman, you have to maintain your demeanor and composure at all times, sit down."

After a few seconds, the little count sat back down again, "I...", he didn't know how to express this feeling, he thought it should be a secret, but he didn't expect Lynch to know more than he seemed to know .

"How do you know about this?", after a brief pause, he changed the phrase.

Lynch shook his head slightly, "You told me that the problems between the nobles and the royal family always revolve around power."

"The nobles want more power, but obviously the emperor will not allow the nobles to have too much power. This is the core, irreconcilable contradiction. With your performance, I can guess it casually."

The little count was really convinced, "It sounds like I'm an idiot..."

Lynch glanced at him, which made the little Earl couldn't help laughing, "Your eyes tell me, am I right?"

He laughed twice, and relaxed again, "I went back last time, and someone contacted me privately, asking me what I think of the current situation in the country."

"They said a lot of questions, and finally asked me what I thought, and they were connecting in series."

That's normal, actually.

Before any large-scale political struggle begins, series connection is a necessary process. To put it simply, it is to accumulate strength and win more people to stand on your side.

When there are enough people, political strife will start, and political struggle will break out.

When he proposed the idea of ​​a constitutional monarchy to the prime minister, Lynch realized that the prime minister would definitely do it, and the specific time would depend on when he could figure it out.

A person who has been a mascot for decades suddenly seized the wealth and power of the empire. Do you think he is just a decoration?
No, this kind of person is a politician. He can wait in the long dead night for the light that does not know when it will come, and he can blend into the darkness better than anyone else.

Maybe His Majesty the Emperor didn't even think that it was the Prime Minister whom he had never looked at in the end who finally challenged him and succeeded. This kind of people are real politicians, and they can do the best for power.

The prime minister has a flaw that many people may not be aware of, but Lynch has.

That is, he is too old, so old that he will not be able to work for long and will retire.

You can't let a 70-year-old or even 80-90-year-old man work as the Prime Minister of the Empire. Even if he can live to that age, what about his energy and ability to handle things?
Can you still make sure he's always at his peak?

No, it can't, which means that his real power will be very short.

He spent his whole life waiting for this opportunity, but he couldn't stay in power for a long time. Anyone would feel unfair and angry about it!
So is the Prime Minister!

He will not be willing to wait for the day when he is really old and hand over the power back to the royal family. He has to fight for it. What he is fighting for now is not to hold power by himself, but to let his descendants or people related to him hold power .

The easiest way is to deprive the royal family of power forever, and then continue the power through political exchanges or some other means.

How to do?
This is not a problem!
If each of the nobles of the empire has their own thing to do, it is actually very difficult for the prime minister to do this. You can't let everyone follow you.

However, in order to resist the infiltration of power by the noble group, the royal family set up a Privy Council, and then threw a large number of nobles into it, gradually depriving the Privy Council of power.

So much so that now the Privy Council is a nursing home for nobles, where a group of nobles without any power drink tea, chat and complain all day long.

It was the royal family who first betrayed the nobility, which allowed the prime minister to find a natural ally.

These nobles who were betrayed by the royal family and lost their power had no chance before, but now they have the opportunity and they will not give up.

The Prime Minister has created a new set of theories based on the constitutional monarchy combined with the past Privy Council system. Simply put, it is a more complicated parliamentary system.

Hereditary nobles naturally have a seat and voting rights, and non-hereditary nobles can participate in the election to obtain a temporary seat. The daily work is handled by the prime minister and cabinet ministers, and when there are major events, the Privy Council votes to decide.

As for the royals... maybe they'll love the new identity of the mascot.

This theory quickly attracted some big nobles. After all, hereditary nobles have hereditary seats. They are no strangers to the federal parliamentary system. less power.

Why not?
Anyway, someone took the lead, and the failure was also the Prime Minister's fault. The emperor did not dare to take action against the Privy Council, otherwise Gefra would break out into civil war.

It succeeded, and each of them regained their powers.

Failed, all guilt and punishment have little to do with them.

This business is too capable!
So the nobles began to connect frequently, and the royal family was also wooing the nobles. His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire also noticed some subtle atmosphere. He kept inviting some nobles to dinner in the palace, saying in words that he was considering handing over some matters to the Privy Council. do it.

These claims... are actually not credible, at least the nobles are not so easy to deceive.

The royal family had already betrayed the aristocratic group once, and the aristocratic group was not a fool, so they would not be so easily persuaded by the emperor.

And the emperor also began to taste the bitter fruit brewed behind the dictatorial power. Only a very small number of speculators from the small nobles were willing to stand by him, and none of the big nobles supported him.

Without the support of the great nobles, the royal family may seem... difficult to sustain, but this is not quite the case.

Since the royal family of Gefra considered the possibility that the aristocratic group would launch a counterattack when they betrayed the United Council, in many rules and systems, although the navy is controlled by ministers in name, in fact Gefra's military is loyal to the royal family .

They are the loyal guards of the royal family. Didn't you see that the fleet is full of princesses, knight captains and other names?

As long as these people are still supporting the royal family, the royal family cannot be regarded as completely finished. At least the royal family still has the confidence to fight against the noble group.

Great, just fight a civil war, but it is actually not realistic to fight a civil war.

Fighting a civil war now means that Gefra will fall behind in the international competition, so the situation on this island is extremely complicated now.

The nobles tried to intervene in the army, and the emperor understood his situation, and now he also ran to the naval headquarters all day long.

In addition to constantly receiving nobles and nobles, he also constantly summoned admirals and naval officers. He couldn't make the nobles stand on his side, but he could make the navy stand on his side.

As for the army...no one takes them seriously, maybe the police are better than them!
(End of this chapter)