My name is Ren

Chapter 544 Forcing others to do something passively is far better than enticing others to do something proactively
After coercion, there is temptation. Even if Queen Pars puts a knife on the necks of the nobles for things that are not beneficial, it may not necessarily make these nobles do what she wants.Nobles, or nobles with titles, are not important to the family in themselves.Under the aristocratic elite education, even if other people are not as good as the patriarch, they will not be able to open up a bright future, but there is no problem with being successful.The death of a patriarch is not a problem for the family as long as the foundation of the family is not shaken.

In order for these aristocrats to continue acting according to the route designed by the script, Queen Pars naturally had to offer enough benefits to lure these veterans.

Luvis is indeed a very capable person, and Pars has already fully realized this through his recent understanding.He is not as mellow as Gan Wen in dealing with some things, but he is definitely a ruthless person.Including this plan, it was also Luvis's first proposal.

He and Queen Pars have the same idea, that is to weaken the power of the nobility, including the power of the gold nobility.

How to weaken the power of the nobility?
The answer given by Gan Wen is to use political means to set off rounds of political storms, marginalize a large number of nobles in the political arena, so as to gradually concentrate power in the hands of a few people, and then use political means to trade interests so that the royal family gradually controls the overall situation .Gan Wen's idea can't be said to be bad. He has indeed improved the royal family through this method over the years, but at the same time created some powerful enemies for the royal family to centralize power.

For example, aristocratic groups, interest groups.Power has been centralized, but the final hurdle is even more difficult.Going forward according to Gan Wen's thinking, the royal family can indeed monopolize power in the end, but this process is by no means something that can be seen in a few years or decades. This peaceful road to centralization requires the unremitting efforts of several generations of emperors to complete.

The time was too long, it was too long for the powerful Empress Pars, so long that she felt desperate!
Luvis is different. The biggest difference between him and Gan Wen lies in his radicalism. His idea is very simple. If you want to weaken the nobles, let the nobles weaken themselves.The method is also very common, to stir up conflicts and wars among the nobles, and let them fight to the death. No matter who can win the final victory, they will be losers in the entire process of centralization.Of course, the victor gets a larger fiefdom, more population, and more wealth in the future.

But now that they have lost, the disabled nobles are simply vulnerable, and it is impossible for Luvis to stop the war between the nobles.Round after round of conspiracies, the nobles could never stop their conquests. Even if some powerful nobles appeared in the end, compared to watching the excitement from the beginning to the end, the royal family who maintained their own strength was still much worse.At that time, the royal family only needs to swipe lightly, and no one in the entire empire can prevent the emperor from centralizing power.

Just like now, starting a competition and conflict among nobles within the empire and cutting off some nobles will not cause any loss to the royal family at all.The defeated family lost their territory, wealth and even their lives, but these things were not originally owned by the royal family, and they had nothing to do with the royal family after they were canonized.The royal family has not been compromised, but the empire has lost a big family that has been entrenched in a certain place for hundreds of years, which is simply a big profit.

Of course, the premise is that there must be enough benefits to tempt these nobles to jump down holding their noses even if they know there is a pit in front of them.

"The nobles of the Northland really disappointed me. The empire gave them enough power and preferential treatment, but they did such a thing. As the emperor of the empire, there is no reason, whether it is legal or reasonable. Forgive them." Queen Pars glanced across the faces of the crowd, paused on Ren's face for a moment, and continued: "All of you here are the ministers of the humerus of the empire, the pillars of the empire, and those despicable and repeated Shameless villains are decidedly different, and I also believe in your loyalty to the Empire."

"If you make mistakes and don't punish them, if you make meritorious deeds and don't reward them, this is not what a wise monarch should do. For families who are willing to contribute to maintaining the dignity and status of the royal family, on behalf of the royal family, I promise that all the territories you conquer will be It belongs to you. Everything you obtained during the war also belongs to you. And, after the war, according to the degree of merit, I will increase officials and ranks as appropriate."

She smiled confidently, "There is no limit! As long as you have made enough achievements to shock the entire empire, even if you are a duke, I will not be stingy."

If the old fritters in the political circle in the first half were watching a show and regarded themselves as bystanders, then after Queen Pars said this, they were tempted and even decided to enter the game.Even if it is a pit, they will jump into it.

To put it bluntly, one of the most prominent external characteristics of power is title.The level of title represents the time a family can last. A family with a history of 500 years and a family with a history of only 50 years. Even if the highest titles of the two families are viscounts, the strength of the two sides is definitely not the same. grade.One duke was enough to keep a family privileged for at least 500 years.

This is an incomparable temptation for those families whose third generation and second generation died. They are willing to pay all the price they can afford for a higher title.

wealth, or life.

Immediately, many people's breathing became short of breath. The empire started from Orlando II, and until now, the empire has only conferred one duke.The reason is also very simple, the title of duke is enough to establish a principality, which is another ancient vassal state in the world.In the Principality, the Duke is called His Royal Highness, who can have his own vassals, and even canonize his own nobles and fiefdoms!
If you can go one step further to the grand duke, it will be a complete small kingdom. In the empire, you are the grand duke, and in your own territory, you are the king!

This is the pursuit of all nobles, who doesn't want to be a king?In the past, because the existence of the principality was too harmful to the empire, the emperors would never confer the title of grand duke unless they had no choice or they were willing, and almost never conferred the title of duke.But what Queen Pars said in front of everyone today, does it mean that this unwritten rule has been broken?
As long as you have enough military exploits, you can be named Grand Duke?

Even the eyes of some members of the golden nobles turned red, let alone those ordinary nobles.

"Your Majesty..., is what you said true?" An old nobleman stood up. This guy Ren knew him. His fief was in the province of Tulum next door to Ren, and he was a senior earl.His family was rich in heavy armored fighters, and they boasted that five hundred heavy armored fighters were enough to capture a city.Five thousand heavily armed soldiers can reach Byron's imperial capital.Whether they were bragging or not, at least everyone knew about his family and the expensive heavy armored fighters in his family.

Queen Pars nodded in satisfaction. It's not easy to perform a one-man show. If it goes wrong, it will be embarrassing, and it will also reduce her prestige, but group performances are different.As long as there is interaction, there is a chance to come back, "Yes, as long as you have enough military exploits, even if you are a Grand Duke, I will confer titles to you according to the charter."

The old nobleman's face immediately turned red, and he laughed loudly, "Then, on behalf of my family, Your Majesty, I am willing to send out [-] heavily armed soldiers to fight against the disobedient ministers for you!"

One after another, the nobles stood up enthusiastically, expressing their loyalty to the royal family, and willing to contribute their efforts to share the worries of the empire and the queen.Faced with such an enthusiastic scene, Queen Pars was also very satisfied, and at the same time she was even more satisfied with Luvis.

The play is still going on.

After the group of nobles calmed down for a while, someone stood up again and asked: "Your Majesty, I have a question." Queen Pars nodded and asked him to continue, "Soldiers from different families accept After different trainings and different situations, how can these people be brought together and at the same time show their original strength?" The man smiled apologetically, "I believe that if Grace Your Excellency or Your Excellency Grian can naturally do it, but apart from these two, I don’t think other generals can do it, so I have a little idea.”

Queen Pars raised her chin, and he continued: "It's better for us to fight on our own, choose our own opponents, and fight in a family-to-family way. In this way, whether it is the distribution of benefits after the war, or the use of the legion way, there will be no unexpected problems, what do you think?"

This is not wrong, many people nodded.If everyone joined forces and conquered a city, how would the wealth in the city be distributed, how would the population be distributed, and how would military exploits be distributed?These are all problems, even if one is not careful, it will cause disasters, which will lead to the disintegration of the "Allied Forces" from within.What's more, various types of arms and soldiers belonging to different families are mixed together. First of all, command is a big problem, and it is easy to cause mutiny because of command problems.

Why are people from such and such a family behind, and if people from our family are asked to go first, are they sending us to death?

Problems like this absolutely happen, and when they do, they are big problems.

On the contrary, it is better to fight each other, whether you win or lose, no one will have any complaints. It is gratifying to win, but there are not so many reasons and excuses for failure, and there will be no internal conflicts.

Empress Pars did not nod directly, but let the nobles present here, who could represent the noble class, discuss among themselves.The discussion didn't take much time, and the result was what Queen Pars hoped, and they approved of this way of fighting each other.

(End of this chapter)