Chapter 124 The Changing Duchy of Standing

The June of 3787 in the continental calendar was just an ordinary early summer envoy to other countries on the Sainz continent, but it was a very restless one for the Principality of Standing in the southwestern corner of the mainland, and it was even very possible that the principality in the Principality Write a strong month in history.

At the beginning of June, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce encountered strong opposition from more than a dozen noble lords in the Principality for promoting the establishment of the magic power signal tower, and directly announced the severance of cooperation with these noble lords, causing chaos in the private territories of these noble lords. It also made the citizens of other irrelevant principalities panic.

Everyone is worried that if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gives up and continues to invest heavily in the Principality of Standing, it will have an extremely serious and adverse impact on the entire Principality.

In the middle of the month, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Duchy of Standing, Ankelu, suddenly publicly announced that he would resign as the Speaker of the Congress.

The public explanation to the outside world is that he has served as the Speaker of the National Assembly for three years. According to the Constitution of the National Assembly, he has completed his first term of office, and because of physical reasons, he does not plan to continue his term.

This news caused another great shock to the Principality of Standing.

Although the rapid development of the Principality of Standing in the past few years is mainly due to the great investment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Congress led by Ankelu has played an important role that cannot be ignored.

In the minds of many people of the Principality of Standing, he has become the most important leader who has led the Principality of Standing to become stronger.

Now that he suddenly announced his resignation, many people are very worried about the future fate of the Principality of Standing.

Can his successor continue to lead the Principality of Standing to maintain rapid development like him?

No one can give a precise answer to this.

Although Congress was clearly prepared for Angru's resignation. A new speaker was announced the day he resigned. It was a not-so-famous viscount from somewhere in the northern part of the Principality of Standing. But it hasn't been tested by time, and no one knows how far this new Speaker can do.

However, when everyone expressed doubts about the speaker, the speaker announced an extremely shocking decision as soon as he took office - to abolish the private territory of the nobles in the Principality of Standing!

Once this news came out, it not only shocked everyone in the entire Duchy of Standing, but also shocked people in all surrounding countries.

Since ancient times, it has been a tradition on Sainz Continent for nobles to own private territories.

As a nobleman, if you only have status but no territory. In the eyes of everyone, it is no different from an empty shell.

Because the foundation of the nobles is on his private territory.

Private territories can provide noble lords with the food, population, and economy they need, and then form their most important aspects of strength.

If you don't even have a private domain, what strength is there?

In any country on Sainz Continent, the first goal of all the nobles is their own private land, and they will regard the private land as their last bottom line.

Depriving them of their private territory is tantamount to directly declaring war with them!

Therefore, when everyone learned that the new speaker actually wanted to pass this decision, their first reaction was that the speaker was a lunatic.

He actually wanted to pass such an outrageous decision, that is simply a fantasy!

Just when everyone was planning to see the speaker's joke, the result was far beyond everyone's expectations.

The Congress of the Duchy of Standing. They actually passed this decision that made everyone feel incredible!

The Principality of Standing has officially abolished the qualification of all noble lords to own private territories!

Countless people were shocked by this at the same time. Qiqi set his sights on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly the chamber of commerce that has the greatest influence on the Principality of Standing, and their chairman, Xu Yi, is currently one of the great nobles and lords in the Principality of Standing, with a private territory of tens of square kilometers under his name. .

The National Assembly has passed a resolution to abolish private lands, so how will Xu Yi, the lord, react?

Is he willing to hand over his precious private territory?

You know, the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is established on his private territory. If he hands over his private territory, what will the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce do?

Everyone felt that Xu Yi would definitely reject the implementation of this decision, but the fact was once again beyond everyone's expectations.

On the second day after the Congress passed this decision, Xu Yi was the first to publicly announce that he would hand over his ownership of the private territory under his name and return the territory to the Congress of the Principality.

Then at the same time, Xu Yi, on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, proposed to the Congress a proposal to purchase land use rights totaling more than 50 square kilometers, including the area where the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's main base is located, and it was passed by the Congress.

After the news came out, everyone suddenly realized.

No wonder the humble new Speaker has the guts to propose such an astonishing resolution and get it through Congress.

From the current point of view, this is basically done with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!

Or to put it more bluntly, the new speaker must have won the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce before assuming the position of speaker, he simply represented the will of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!

The abdication of Speaker Ankelu before was of course also inseparable from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Now people are even more confused about the situation in the Principality of Standing.

What exactly does Xinfei Chamber of Commerce want to do?

If Xu Yi just wanted a larger private territory, then even though it was rejected by the Congress before, it should not be a problem to achieve this goal after the speaker is replaced, so why bother with such an astonishing resolution Woolen cloth?

Depriving all noble lords of their ownership of their territories is simply declaring war on all noble lords in the Principality of Standing!

How could those noble lords obediently implement this resolution?

This is indeed the case. After the Congress passed the resolution and Xu Yi took the lead in implementing it, there were countless fierce reactions in the Principality of Standing.

The south of the principality includes four earls, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons who own territories at the same time announced that they would not accept the resolution of the Congress, and publicly stated that they would no longer accept the leadership of the Congress and exercise autonomy over their territories.

In the eyes of everyone, this is almost equivalent to declaring self-reliance.

It is absolutely impossible for the Congress of the Duchy of Standing to accept such a fact. The only problem is how to deal with it specifically.

These aristocratic lords have a large number of troops under their names. Since the Standing Principality Congress does not have a specific background in armed forces, there is nothing they can do about it.

But at this moment, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce made a move.

In late June, the Congress of the Principality of Standing announced to the outside world that the four earls, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons who also expressed their rejection of the leadership of the Congress were judged as treason and decided to carry out a campaign against them.

Then the congress announced that in the name of the congress, the Xinfei chamber of commerce guards would be invited as temporary congress guards to launch a campaign against these noble lords.

Everyone was in an uproar about this.

By doing this, the National Congress of the Principality of Standing simply showed that it has completely become the possession of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and everything it does is probably in the service of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

However, everyone understands this truth, but it does not affect the actions of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the slightest.

At the end of June, the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was officially dispatched, and it took only a week to completely defeat the noble lords who were designated as traitors.

During the whole process, the troops of the noble lords who also bought a large number of military magic machines from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce before could not pose any threat to the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and they had no resistance throughout the process.

After completely defeating these rebellious noble lords, Congress unceremoniously took back the private territories in the hands of these noble lords.

At this point, everyone understands that before they have the strength to compete with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the only way to go is to be obedient.

So after that, other noble lords in the Duchy of Standing expressed their obedience to the resolution of the Congress, and turned over the ownership of their private territories.

However, the same as Xu Yi's private land, although these noble lords handed over all the private land ownership under their names, the Congress also approved them to lease part of the land at the same time, and also reserved a small piece of land for them to sell directly to them. , as they are privately owned.

This small piece of land is actually not much different from the previous private land, only in name, but because the area is too small, it can only be used for their private manor at best, and it will not have much impact .

On the last day of June, the Congress of the Duchy of Standing withdrew the ownership of the private land turned over by the last lord, which also announced that from this day on, there would no longer be noble lords in the Duchy of Standing.

Although the nobles still have them, they no longer have their territories. What they retain are only some insignificant noble privileges.

Of course, Congress only took back their ownership of private land, but did not take back the various properties under their names.

They still own the rubber plantations, fruit gardens and various factories under their previous names, and can still enjoy all their benefits.

And all the nobles who obeyed the resolution of the Congress also got the understanding of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and regained the opportunity to continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

So when the turbulent June passed and July entered, everyone found that compared with the previous Principality of Standing, in the Principality of Standing, except for a new speaker, all the nobles lost their status. Outside of the private domain, there has not actually been much change.

The nobles are still enjoying a luxurious life with a large number of industries under their names, and the commoners are still working hard to improve their lives.

But everyone is very clear that the Principality of Standing is indeed completely different from before.

And at this moment, several special guests quietly came to the Duchy of Standing, which had not changed on the surface. (To be continued..)