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Can a pure merchant state exist?

Sui Xiong felt that it should still be possible. Although this world has all kinds of wonderful powers, dangerous monsters, and powerful gods, the life of mortals is essentially not much different from that on earth. There are many countries on the planet that are dominated by businessmen. There is no reason why this world cannot have them.

Not to mention the distance, before Sui Xiong traveled through time, the most powerful country on earth was running for president. One of the two candidates is backed by a large financial group, and the other is a big businessman himself.

However, he did not say these words, but thought about how to solve the matter of the Gold Coin Federation.

Although the goddess of wealth stated that the problem was very serious, Sui Xiong felt that there should still be a solution, or in other words, a way to temporarily alleviate the conflict.

On Earth, when the merchant class rose, they didn't start fighting and killing people.

Although no matter how hard we try to alleviate it, there will eventually come a time when the conflict cannot be suppressed and a fight will have to take place, but no matter how you look at it, that time has not yet arrived.

Sui Xiong's world history study is not very good, but he at least remembers that the "capitalist revolution" should be after the "industrial revolution".

The world hasn't even started the industrial revolution yet. How can it develop to the point where a war to overthrow the feudal system is needed?

Marx would definitely laugh at them if he found out.

"What are you going to do next?" He thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out how to temporarily resolve the conflict, so he found a random topic first.

"There is no other way. Let's let the church mediate as much as possible, or try to delay as much time as possible." The goddess of wealth said, "Let it be delayed as long as possible."

Sui Xiong nodded. It takes as long as it takes. This is certainly not a good solution, but it is the most practical one.

At least... wouldn't it be okay if we could postpone it until there was a better way to solve the problem?

"In other words, can't we let them sit down and negotiate with each other and discuss it?" he asked.

"We have had many talks, and both parties believe that they have retreated to the bottom line and are unwilling to retreat any further." The goddess of wealth said with a wry smile.

At this moment, Sui Xiong had a flash of inspiration and came up with a way.

"How about setting up a parliament?" he said. "How about listing the various problems of the country one by one, and forming a parliament composed of representatives from various regions and classes, and discussing them slowly one by one?"

The goddess of wealth was stunned and asked in confusion: "At the end of the discussion, aren't we still going to fall out?"

"It's different." Sui Xiong smiled, "First of all, the rule of the parliament is 'the minority obeys the majority'. For example, if you want to build a bridge over a certain river, some people support it and some people oppose it, then in the end everyone votes, and the majority supports it. , just build it. If the majority of opponents are against it, then it won’t be built. Everyone must obey this result..."

"This practice has been around for a long time." The goddess of wealth sighed, "The Federation has always done this. The big businessmen and the big nobles have been engaging in this kind of public discussion and voting."

"It's different!" Sui Xiong smiled. What he had learned in the politics class in the past turned into inspiration and came to his mind. "There are only big businessmen and big nobles. Of course, it is easy for the discussion to break down. Because they Both hold great power and have the support of the entire class, so the first step of the parliament is to break up their class!”

"Dismantled?" The goddess of wealth frowned, thoughtfully, and her eyes brightened.

The wisdom of the gods should not be underestimated. Just a little hint was enough for her to understand Sui Xiong's plan.

"I understand what you mean. Separate the big businessmen, medium businessmen and small businessmen. Separate the big nobles, powerful nobles and small nobles. Then according to different regions, select a large number of representatives to form a huge parliament." He He nodded and said, "When there are more people, it is difficult to achieve consensus, and even if there are any conflicts, they will often fall into internal intrigues and no longer form two strong fronts to fight each other."

"Not only that." Sui Xiong said, "In this council, we also need two other types of people. Priests and civilians."

The goddess of wealth nodded vigorously: "Yes! The clergy always stand on a neutral position, while the civilians stand on the position that is most beneficial to themselves. Their number does not need to be too many, but at critical moments, it is enough to decide the vote. Then both the merchants and the nobles will have to try their best to win over their opponents in the parliament. But to win over the clergy and civilians, they will definitely need to give up their benefits - the former is the benefit of faith. The latter is a material benefit. Since we have to give up benefits anyway, we might as well compromise with each other."

"Yes. And you can also break down various national affairs, big things into a number of small things, and discuss them bit by bit. In this kind of discussion, the energy of both parties will be worn away. Even if a compromise cannot be reached in the end, at least a compromise can be reached. It takes a long time." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "No matter what, there are always things that can be compromised. Let's talk about those things slowly, at least in a year or two. If they still want to fight, then. We’ll figure it out later.”

"Although one or two years is not a long time, for mortals, it is long enough." The goddess of wealth nodded and said, "Maybe things will change, or maybe both parties will find some new things that can be compromised..."

"Yes, if that doesn't work, you can still deflect the conflict externally..." Sui Xiong said with a smile, but he didn't notice the goddess of wealth's eyes shining slightly again.

The two sides continued to discuss and discuss many details.

For example, how many votes should the great nobles and the great merchants have? How many votes should each class have? What method should be used when voting? How to pull all social classes into the water as much as possible? How to promote and create an atmosphere of "hope for a peaceful solution to the problem"?

These issues need to be discussed one by one to design a more reasonable plan.

Relying on Sui Xiong and the goddess of wealth alone, they still felt that they were not thoughtful enough, so they invited other allies, and together with the wise and far-sighted believers, they discussed carefully for several days and finally came up with a complete set of plans.

When this set of plans was finally drawn up, the Goddess of Wealth Church, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately announced this set of plans. The goddess of wealth even descended directly to the incarnation and ordered the nobles and merchants who had been arguing so much that they wanted to draw their swords to fight each other to return to the negotiation table and form a parliament to discuss and solve the problem.

Whether it is nobles or merchants, they all cherish their lives from the bottom of their hearts. However, in the face of huge interests, the two huge interest groups they formed no longer allow individuals to cherish themselves. In other words, they were forced by the "big trend" and could not make their own decisions.

Once the "Great Council" was proposed, it immediately gave those worried merchants and nobles, especially those middle-level powerful people on both sides, an opportunity. They spared no effort to publicize and advocate it. Soon, even the great nobles and merchants felt that this method was indeed more considerate and temporarily put aside the plan to solve the problem with a knife.

Thus, the preparation work for the Great Council of the Gold Coin Federation began vigorously.