My British Empire

Facing Rodney's gaze, the other three nodded their heads quickly, with expressions of approval on their faces, echoing what you said and what I said.

Seeing this, Rodney showed a smiling face, and the tense atmosphere in the air suddenly dissipated, and everyone became happy.

Such screening was carried out throughout the city of London.

Inside and outside London, a total of 264 hundred-household districts and 22 thousand-household districts obeyed the orders of the London City Government, began to screen people, and reported to the city government.

So, less than a week later, a total of 286 excellent officials were assembled in the London City Hall, waiting for the final news from the city government.

And the origin of this event comes from our Majesty the King, the King of England, the young Edward VI.

The riots have been quelled, the whole of England has begun to maintain the general tranquility of the whole society, and the war has disappeared in England.

Therefore, our Majesty the King has decided to start a huge political reform that has been talked about for a long time, the trend of the times - the reform of the local system.

If we are not in England, we cannot appreciate the English people's indifference to the country and their stubborn love for their hometown.

In other words, the people of England are only willing to pay attention to the affairs of their own region, and the largest scope has just reached their own county.

Moreover, this kind of stubborn local affection has created a terrible consequence, the cohesion of the country is not strong.

Each county is like an independent small kingdom, which is governed and protected only by the people in their own county, and it is difficult for people from other counties to interfere.

For example, in Kent County, 90% of the gentlemen are from Kent County, and only 10% are from other places, and most of them migrated by marriage.

If you use one sentence to describe the heart of the people of Kent at this time, it must be this sentence: Kent is the county of Kent.

This separate and independent tradition is not in any danger to England, which is united as one nation.

However, if this tradition is maintained, it will be a powerful obstacle to the king's centralization, and even slowly weaken the king's rights.

And this traditional custom of the English was brought to North America in the end, forming the narrow world view of Americans who only care about their own one-third of an acre of land.

Therefore, at this suitable time, His Majesty the King, who had been patient for a long time, finally started his next reform.

In terms of reform methods, Edward did not carry out comprehensive reforms throughout England in one fell swoop.

Instead, after studying the Great Heavenly Dynasty, gradually expand from point to point. In this way, the pressure and resistance will not be reduced too much, and it will be relatively safe.

So, as an experimental site, Edward chose it in the East of England, an area where there had just been a riot.

East of England: Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

These six counties were basically affected by Robert Kate's uprising, the area was somewhat dilapidated, and the local power was slightly weakened.

Therefore, our Majesty the King has made some preparations and started to carry out local reforms that will change England.

And this reform requires a lot of talents, but where can our Majesty the King find so many grassroots officials.

At the moment when he was confused, London, which had been reformed for a long time, was in front of him.

As a result, the London City Government began to remove people from the 100-household district and the 1000-household district as the basis for reform.

Therefore, referring to the later reforms of Elizabeth I, Edward made the following reform plan, which is called the county guard system.

First of all, set up a sheriff in each county to exercise administrative power on behalf of His Majesty the King, and set up:

Personnel Management Committee: Examine, evaluate, appoint and record the members of each committee.

Household Registration Land Management Committee: Responsible for county land management, registration, review, and registration of changes in household registration management.

Industry and Commerce Management Committee: manages, supervises, examines prices, and protects and promotes industry and commerce.

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Forestry Management Committee: For the allocation management, support and supervision of agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry.

I will not go into details about the six major committees, including the taxation management committee, the traffic management committee, and the security committee, and everyone will take care of themselves.

On the contrary, the county lieutenant is in charge of the military power in the county, and the newly appointed supervisor is in charge of the supervision power, administration: supervision: military, the three are opposed to each other and check and balance each other.

In this way, coupled with the county court directly under the royal court and the hundreds of household district courts in various places, the power structure of the county has been ingeniously balanced, and the power of the county has been centralized.

Moreover, at the county level, the original hundred-household districts will be reformed and merged, and the hundred-household districts and thousand-household districts will be established. That is to say, if it is really realized, the king's power will extend to the depths of the countryside.

Therefore, what is presented to us will be such a political structure map: village-hundred-household district-thousand-household district-county-king.

That is to say, the original two establishments of manor and town were eliminated and replaced by Hundred-Household District and Thousand-Household District.

The county centralizes power, and the center centralizes power from the local area. In this way, the whole of England will be deeply under the control of the king, and the possibility of being overthrown is extremely small.

The King of England will be the most powerful king in Europe, and the first country to centralize power and monarchy.

Some people say that it is precisely because of this relaxed environment in the UK that capitalism was born, and England became the hegemon after two years.

However, I want to say here that the absolute monarchy does not mean killing capitalism.

On the contrary, after the centralization of monarchy and centralization in European countries, domestic capitalism will develop vigorously and bourgeois revolutions will be born.

Because, in this era, the monarch and the capitalists are in an alliance at this time, and they work together to deal with their common enemy-the feudal aristocracy and the local separatists.

For example, during the period of Henry VII and Henry VIII, they set up autonomous cities on a large scale and encouraged merchants to self-govern the cities, as long as they paid taxes on time.

Moreover, they set up various laws to encourage the development of business.

For example, during the period of Henry VII, subsidies were given to shipyards, and ships with a tonnage of more than 500 tons were subsidized by one shilling per ton.

Moreover, he also actively negotiated with various countries, discussed trade exchanges, and actively expanded the living space of English merchants.

And you must know that if Edward's reform can be successful, then all counties will have the same tax rate, and business exchanges will be more active.