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Chapter 194 Compromise
"Viscount Xia Lin, Your Majesty has summoned you."

After the court meeting was over, Xia Lin was ready to go back to deal with the new army's pension-related matters, but she did not expect that Dorothea, who had just succeeded the queen, would send another invitation to summon her through the court servants.

"Really? It just so happens that I also have some things that I need to explain to Her Majesty the Queen. Please lead the way!"

Xia Lin thought about the possible purpose of Dorothea summoning her, then nodded and said to the respectful attendant.

Following the guidance of the court servants, Xia Lin came to the Sun Palace, where Dorothea was having a somewhat uncomfortable conversation with an old man he knew.

"Your Majesty, please forgive my offense, but when will the aspect you promised to our Louise family be fulfilled?"

"Master Babbitt, I have just won the throne tonight, so it is naturally impossible to have a conflict with the Fusk Palace right now. When the situation calms down, I will follow our agreement and separate the palace ministers into left and right ministers."

Without the help of Babbitt's chief attendant, Dorothea would never have been able to get the support of Marshal Hubbard. Although Babbitt's chief attendant acted a bit presumptuously, Dorothea still said in a gentle tone.

"If this is the case, then the old servant can rest assured. Your Majesty, the Louise family will offer you eternal loyalty."

Babbitt's attendant got Dorothea's verbal promise, and the tension on his expression finally relaxed a lot.

Since they took that step, it is bound to be impossible to stay in the position of chief attendant of the court.

After all, no emperor would trust a chief attendant to help change, even if the emperor himself benefited from the chief attendant's actions.

"Don't worry! Babbitt's chief attendant, the position of the palace minister of Fosk should indeed be changed."

Sensing the faint uneasiness revealed by Babbitt's chief attendant, Queen Dorothea continued to comfort the old man who had served her father for decades with gentle words.

At this moment, the court attendant knocked lightly on the door and reported:
"Your Majesty, Viscount Xia Lin has arrived!"

"Really? Viscount Xia Lin, please come in and sit down!"

Queen Dorothea was still dressed in the blue dress she wore for the New Year's banquet, but after going through a series of upheavals tonight and mastering the supreme power of the empire, her temperament has changed a lot invisibly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

Xia Lin gave Queen Dorothea a standard aristocratic salute, and sat down graciously.The court maid at the side immediately stepped forward and poured green tea for him.

"Viscount Xia Lin, why did you propose to formalize the alliance parliament at the court meeting and let me give the alliance parliament the power to make legislation?"

When Xia Lin was seated, Dorothea took a sip of the black tea, put down the gilded silver cup, stared at Xia Lin and asked him.Obviously, Dorothea was very dissatisfied with Xia Lin's idea of ​​distributing the emperor's power to the parliament.

"Your Majesty, this is a necessary move for you to govern."

After a series of changes, it is now late at night, Xia Lin looked at the luxurious silver cup, did not drink the hot green tea in it, put down the cup and stared at Queen Dorothea's golden eyes, and continued to say to her:

"I said before that the foundation of the Enlightened School lies in merchants and nobles engaged in business. That is where your foundation lies. Now that you have won the throne, what group do you think your foundation will be now?"

"..."

"Of course it's the enlightened faction I established."

Dorothea was silent for a moment, the dissatisfaction between her eyebrows calmed down a little, and she said thoughtfully.

"Yes, Your Majesty, your foundation is enlightened.

Although in various myths and epics, there are sayings that the gods bestow power on the emperor, but you must know that that kind of saying requires the gods to really come forward and support it with his mighty power.

At the moment when the gods are still unknown and your personal strength is not enough to change everything, all your powers come from your foundation.

If you want to implement your will on the territory of the empire, you must satisfy your basic needs and become the spokesperson of their will.

The so-called 'Water can support a boat, but also can overturn a boat' refers to this truth. "

Xia Lin explained that this statement made Dorothea a little dumbfounded, so she could only murmur in a low voice:
"But that doesn't necessarily give Parliament the power to make laws..."

The three most important powers of the emperor are military decision-making power, personnel power and legislative power.

Among them, the legislative power represents the power of the emperor to keep the constitution in his mouth and follow the law. Xia Lin wanted to attribute this power to the parliament, which naturally aroused Dorothea's considerable uneasiness.

"Then, Your Majesty, what do you want to use to stabilize your base?"

"I think lowering business taxes will be enough."

Dorothea frowned.

"That's what you promised to the members of the alliance. Naturally, it's not enough for everyone to hand over the hard-earned Jinlunt to solve the current plight of the royal family, unless you are willing to promise to permanently exempt all business taxes except customs! "

Xia Lin mercilessly pointed out the fallacy in Queen Dorothea's naive thinking.

The current business tax rate of the empire is [-] in [-], and there is an additional duty of [-] in [-] for goods traded overseas.

Just lowering the commercial tax will benefit the alliance member chambers of commerce a lot. Basically, every percentage point can make the medium-sized chambers of commerce earn nearly [-] gold lunt more profits every year, but compared with the hundreds of gold that need to be paid to enter the parliament The price of Jin Lunte is really not worth it.

The most important thing is that the original intention of the establishment of the business alliance was to protect the interests of the business community. It can be said that Dorothea had promised to reduce business taxes and support business development in exchange for the support of the enlightened nobles.

"..."

Queen Dorothea also realized that no one would be willing to do business at a loss. If she only relied on this bargaining chip, she really couldn't raise enough funds from the alliance members to stabilize the three major armies and stabilize the situation. There was silence.

"Your Majesty, raising such a huge sum of money requires the full support of the Alliance, and to obtain the full support of the Alliance, you must give the Alliance sufficient power."

"..."

"I understand. I will allow the Union Parliament to transform into the Empire's official parliament and gain legislative power."

After much deliberation, Dorothea couldn't think of a way to break the deadlock, and finally said with a sigh.

"Your wisdom will surely make the empire grow stronger, Your Majesty the Empress."

Seeing that Dorothea was willing to compromise, Xia Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there is a parliament, those things will be easier to handle.

"However, I have two requirements. The first point is that this parliament must bring me no less than 15 gold in return before I will hand over the legislative power to the parliament to exercise!"

But Dorothea went on to add forcefully.

"This is quite simple, Your Majesty, we only need to divide the parliament into two types. One is the upper house. Members of the original alliance meeting need to subscribe for at least 1000 gold Rent of national debt to serve. The second is the lower house. The former alliance meeting Councilors need to subscribe for at least 300 gold Rent to serve.

The two houses review the bills submitted by members at the same time. The lower house has financial and administrative supervision powers, and the upper house has legislative power, bill review power and veto power.

In this way, the alliance will be able to raise at least 20 Jinlund funds. "

Xia Lin explained the parliamentary structure of his magic reform.Compared with the conservative aristocrats who basically rely on land output for their food, the enlightened aristocrats who control many industries in the empire have accumulated more than several times more funds.

Although this amount of money will make many chambers of commerce that do not have so much liquidity on their books have to sell some of their fixed assets, it will not reach the level that will hurt them.

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