When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 629: Tree Roots Buried Deep in the Soil
Although the autumn wind was howling outside the window, Horn's study was bright and warm like spring, but the heavy and massive books displayed on the bookshelf made people feel quite oppressive.

In front of this bookshelf, Catherine seemed to be talking casually: "...if there is such a person who holds great power but seems to care little about promises...

In fact, I have seen many historical books from ancient times to the present, such as the civil war between the two emperors of the Ancient Aiel Empire... I think you should understand that beauty has always been a knife that corrodes bones...

...Your Majesty Horn, do you think that if such a person continues to grow stronger, will it affect our common goals?"

Horn put his hands on the table: "You might as well make your words clearer."

Seeing that Horn still didn't respond, Catherine looked around, gritted her teeth, and pressed her whole body on the desk: "...Meliyati."

"Oh, you are talking about Her Highness Meliati. Don't worry, as long as our goals are the same, I think everything can be properly resolved."

"No...I said so much, did you listen to it?"

"It's too early to think about this now." Horn smiled and waved his hands, "Let's talk about it after we defeat the Kingdom of Leia. Don't open the champagne in advance. You're thinking about dividing the spoils of war before the battle even starts."

Looking at Horn's harmless face, Catherine was about to say something but stopped herself. She could only sigh and turn away.

"After dinner tonight, remember to call Meliati. I will take you to see that Shilov."

"Got it." Catherine slammed the door in anger.

Horn lowered his head and continued to flip through Juanno's collection of criticisms of the church. By the beginning of next spring, he planned to be able to promote Pravda to all county seats in the Thousand River Valley.

By then, the warm and affectionate theological popularization will disappear from Pravda, and will be replaced by Juanno's ruthless criticism and exposure of the church.

The basic content can be summed up as "Oh damn, the Leia people and the church are so bad."

This was not Horn's intention, but for the sake of the ensuing war, inciting revanchism was unavoidable.

Otherwise, if the Kingdom of Leia arrives, it will be troublesome because there are loyal guides everywhere.

Although this move cannot eliminate the guides, it can greatly increase the cost of the guides.

Seeing that Catherine left and Horn remained indifferent, René walked forward worriedly and said, "Your Majesty, I have to remind you that what Lady Catherine said actually makes some sense."

Horn raised his head and looked at René for a long moment before he chuckled and said, "Do you think I would be defenseless?"

"Did you really?"

Without directly answering René's question, Horn spread out a piece of white paper and drafted a schedule for the next few days on it. He said calmly, "Where do you think Meliati's power comes from?"

"It comes from the support of the nobility, gentry and wealthy merchants." René replied quickly.

Horn had led them to do this kind of political analysis countless times before.

Especially during the period of being trapped in Daze Township, Horn would give them small lessons almost every night with a book in hand, leading them to read history and analyze the situations in the history books.

“Where does the power of these people come from?”

"Because they hold a high position?" René asked uncertainly.

After thinking for a moment, Horn decided to tell René the truth. After all, he was the core of the Cheka, and any matters in the future would have to be handled by him.

If I fail to understand Horn's intentions, it will be difficult to do things in the future.

"This is just an appearance." Horn took out a piece of white paper and drew three concentric circles. "We divide the forces supporting Meliati into three types: core subjects, actual subjects, and nominal subjects. The core subjects are people like Herman and Silvers who help Meliati govern, the actual subjects are the nobles and gentry you mentioned, and the nominal subjects are the ordinary civilians below.

The biggest difference between actual subjects and nominal subjects is that actual subjects have the ability and willingness to influence the country, while nominal subjects either have the willingness but not the ability, or the ability but not the willingness, or neither.

But where does the power of these actual subjects to influence the state come from? "

Seeing René lost in thought, Horn smiled and said, “They also have three concentric circles, the nominal subjects of Meliati, the actual subjects of the actual subjects, and even the core subjects.

Meliati's way of ruling is to expand the number of actual subjects so that she can easily replace the core subjects, thus making both the core subjects and the actual subjects listen to her.

In other words, it seems that the core subjects are in charge of state affairs, but in fact they all rely on nominal subjects who cannot speak. Do you understand what I mean?"

René nodded thoughtfully. "You mean, as long as we can turn their nominal subjects into our actual subjects, they will defect to us in order to preserve their own status?"

"It won't lead to a rebellion, but at least it will come to a halt. If we continue to add fuel to the fire, that may not happen."

René still frowned. "But you can't spread so many favors in a year, right?"

"Why should I spread so much Holy Favor?" Horn asked back.

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"Excuse me, Your Majesty, we defeated the extraordinary people with their power." René frowned and said, "But I don't despise the power of these ordinary people, but their power is too dispersed."

"Then why do you think I want to establish a 100-household district?"

Hearing Horne's words, René slowly opened his eyes and said, "Ah, you, you didn't think of it during the constitutional period...did you think of it then?"

Horn did not answer directly, but leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest.

The establishment of 100-household districts and perpetual leasehold rights was Horn's conspiracy, or in other words, in the process of moving towards modernization, as long as it is handled properly, the more advanced system will naturally crush the old system.

People living in the old system can’t even sense why, they just feel it’s a coincidence.

However, establishing a 100-household district is only the first step in a three-step plan. It does not mean the end of the reform. Industrialization and modernization are linked together.

Not only the economic and war situations need to change, but even the lifestyle and ideological and cultural levels need to change synchronously.

Inspired by republican enthusiasm, the army after the French Revolution achieved terrible results against the Austrian and British armies of the old system.

When the material conditions of both sides are the same, the ideological revolution not only brings about a flourishing of culture, but also causes a lot of changes on the material level.

He has laid the material foundation in politics and economy, and now he is waiting for ideological changes.

As for ideological reform, it has actually already begun. Otherwise, how could there be a debate in Pravda about whether people can voluntarily become slaves?

"But Your Majesty, I want to ask a question that is not quite right." René stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Although we have gathered so many mortals, can they be a match for the extraordinary ones?"

"It's not like I haven't seen mortals defeat extraordinary people in various ways." Horn added silently in his heart. He had seen it not only in this world, but also in his hometown.

"Will this really work? They can't resist the knight's charge."

"But we can. You have to know that the lushness of a tree's crown is not determined by the branches supporting the green leaves." Horn pointed to the ground with a mysterious smile, "but by the roots buried deep in the soil."

(End of this chapter)