Doomsday Code

Chapter 540: The Connection of Homuis

Holmes took the letter from Huidun, then bowed and said:

"Since Your Highness has made up his mind, I will definitely live up to Your Highness' trust."

Huidun nodded, then said with a smile:

"Don't leave in a hurry. I read the charter you brought yesterday. It's very detailed and well written. I only made a few minor changes.

You can have breakfast here with me. After you finish reading it, see if you have any objections. If you do, then it will be finalized. It will be a good opportunity to take action with the Duke's Mansion this time."

And Holmes did not pretend to refuse. After all, this was an opportunity to bring him and Huidun closer.

At the dinner table, Holmes was eating while flipping through the charter that Huidun and the others had revised last night.

The main modification here is the calibration of the test questions.

The calibrations previously set by Holmes were all based on scholar level.

After Chen Cheng and Hui Dun argued last night, they decided to lower the difficulty and broaden the scope of the test questions.

After all, what they need for assessment is not great scholars, but a group of officials who understand how society works.

The operation of society naturally includes all aspects, so the scope of this topic must be broadened.

The only thing Chen Cheng and Huidun were arguing about was whether the difficulty should be lowered.

In Huidun's opinion, as officials, they naturally have to be comprehensive, otherwise they would be half-baked, which is absolutely unacceptable.

But Chen Cheng doesn't think so. He has experienced the era of market economy in his previous life.

The role of officials in the court is more of a macro-adjustment and market supervision. Officials are not required to be proficient in everything like front-line R&D personnel.

In order to convince Huidun, Chen Cheng gave him many examples that happened in Huidun City.

Today, the development of Huidun City has already taken shape as an industrial city, so Tophis, the governor of Huidun City, is the best example.

At the beginning, in order to prevent businessmen from opening factories and evading taxes, Tophis worked very hard to learn everything from materials to finished products.

However, when Chen Cheng saw this later, he reminded him that he didn't need to know so many details.

As long as you grasp the import and export prices of raw materials and the market prices of products, and then calculate their approximate profits, and then fluctuate within a few percent, you can then determine the tax based on this.

Thinking of the argument between Chen Cheng and himself last night, Huidun also wanted to see if Holmes would have the same confusion as him, so that he could use Chen Cheng's words to persuade Holmes.

And the old fox Holmes is an old fox, and he has a really good control over things.

He had not considered these things before, but when he saw the above changes, the benefits immediately came to his mind.

Although he could think of it, he still had doubts in some areas.

For example, in his understanding of mineral knowledge, minerals are generally not managed by local officials, because every mine has an owner.

Moreover, the current kingdom does not have much demand for minerals and other materials, so this seems completely unnecessary.

When Huidun heard Holmes' question, he had already prepared to show his prowess in public.

He immediately talked to Holmes about future industrialization, and then told Holmes that the kingdom's demand for minerals, especially metal mines, would increase in the future.

At the same time, all mines in the kingdom will be nationalized as strategic resources.

Huidun told him all this because Holmes was one of the main forces for future reforms.

Although Holmes didn't know what industrialization was, when he thought about the current development of Huidun City, he could already see some signs.

It seems that Huidun wants to spread his model in Huidun City throughout the kingdom.

Since he joined Huidun, he has also learned about the current development of Huidun City.

If the model of Huidun City is really rolled out, then the nobles who are currently occupying various places will probably have their days cut off.

Especially the workers needed to open the factory, those nobles who regard the people as wealth will definitely make a big fuss.

And he finally understood why Huidun used this disaster relief corruption case as a starting point to attack the Duke's Mansion.

This action against the Duke's Mansion is a good opportunity to break the previous unspoken rules, which is also paving the way for industrialization.

Holmes, who finally saw through the fog, also understood why Huidun attacked these nobles.

He found a new way to govern the kingdom. This method was no longer the royal family working together with the nobles, but the royal family working together with the emerging big businessmen.

Because these merchants were politically weak, the royal family could use their power to defeat the local nobles and then truly bring the local areas under the royal rule.

At the same time, they encourage businessmen to develop economically, and then reap their wealth through monopoly financial industries such as banks.

After stringing all of this together, Holmes finally understood why Huidun opened a bank to reap the benefits but was no longer afraid of the civilians rebelling.

Because it is not the royal family and the court who reap the common people, but the big businessmen, and the royal family and the court only reap the businessmen.

The contradictions all lie with the merchants, and their political power is already weak. In order to protect themselves and their families, their dependence on the royal family and the court will be greatly increased.

It can be said that this is a perfect route for harvesting wealth. The only thing standing in the way is the local nobles, who have now become enemies of the royal family and the court.

And if this approach can really succeed, the royal family and the court will truly become one.

I have to say that Holmes is very smart. Once he puts things together, he will immediately guess the real intention behind it.

Of course, there was one thing that Holmes had not expected. If this plan was successful, there might not be any problems with Huidun being the king, but when he got old and died, it was uncertain whether the new king would be the king.

Therefore, in order to keep this system running, the only way is to reduce the king's power and remove him from politics.

So there was Chen Cheng's previous proposal to Huidun, that the king would give up government power and delegate it to the Executive Yuan, while retaining the power to appoint and dismiss the prime minister.

At the same time, the appointment and removal of the prime minister must be approved by the court and must be approved by two-thirds of the court officials before it can take effect.

If the king dismisses the prime minister and he disagrees after three consecutive elections, the winner of the fourth election will be directly appointed as the new prime minister.

The king also has the power to dismiss the new prime minister.

There are also regulations on the term of office of the prime minister. He will resign on his own after reaching the term. At the same time, a general election will be held in the previous year for the main members of the State Council.

The one who receives more than two-thirds of the votes is elected and then appointed by the king to become the new prime minister.

At the same time, military power was returned to the king.

At the same time, the army was reformed to separate the political and military power within the army.

At the same time, the military and political power was also taken over by the State Council, which included the cultural and ideological training of soldiers, military logistics, etc.

The king only has the power to appoint and dismiss military commanders and the power to mobilize the supreme commander of the army.

Any foreign war or mobilization of soldiers required the king's approval and an imperial decree.

It can be said that this is Chen Cheng’s ultimate transformation of the Kingdom of Moss.

In this way, the royal family can use the army to protect itself and use the power to appoint and dismiss the prime minister to restrict the Executive Yuan, while the Executive Yuan can use political means such as logistics to restrict the army, thus achieving a balance between military and political affairs.