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Regarding this proposal of "taking office in advance", the "aristocratic faction" occupying half of the court suddenly expressed support, which surprised Zhou Ming.

But when I think about it carefully, I feel that this is reasonable.

We must know that the essence of all major events in the world, and even all important things, can be summed up in one word: interest.

The essence of everything is profit.

There is a natural conflict between the imperial power and the noble lords, and the reason is also their interests.

Take land for example. The noble lords occupy two-thirds of the empire's land and enfeoff countless lords. On these lands, the emperor can hardly exert any influence. The policies formulated by the empire cannot be implemented on the land of the lords. .

Even in terms of taxes, the noble lords gave the emperor only a small amount of pocket money as a gift every year.

More than 80% of the empire's taxes are collected from the states and counties in the royal territory.

Of course, the noble lords have the obligation to send soldiers and generals to defend the country, but now is a peaceful era with little civil strife. There are no neighboring countries around the entire floating island, and there is no foreign trouble. Therefore, there is basically nothing that the noble lords need to do for this empire. Obligations...beyond nominal affiliation to this empire.

But things are moving forward. 300 years of peace have allowed the empire's population to increase several times, and the land has been fully developed. Along with this, the burden has also increased. Whether it is the emperor or the nobles, in On the limited land, they are not satisfied and are eager for more resources.

After all, the emperor's power was still greater. After all, the emperor held one-third of the land and half of the population. It was impossible for the noble lords to obtain more land as rewards from the emperor.

The power of the nobles is relatively scattered and can be easily defeated by each one. As long as one of them commits a crime and the emperor finds an excuse to confiscate the family, exterminate the clan, take back the land, and change it into counties, the emperor will generally not be merciful.

Therefore, in the past three hundred years, due to the implementation of policies similar to "cutting down vassals", the strength of the imperial power has been growing, and the nobles can only cling together tightly, on the one hand not to stir up trouble and prevent others from finding excuses to attack; On the one hand, they firmly united around Lord Lucis to jointly deal with the expansion of imperial power.

But in fact, the Lucis family is also very conflicted in their hearts, because after seeing the various benefits of the county system, the Lucis family also implemented a similar county system in their own fiefdoms to strengthen the concentration of power and let the fiefs About half of the land in the land was gradually controlled by the Lucis family.

But later, in order to win the support of the nobles, Lord Lucis had to suspend the centralization process and no longer take back the land of the lords and vassals... This approach has more advantages or disadvantages.

In short, in the Orunian Empire, the aristocratic lord faction and the imperial power were naturally opposed to each other, and it was difficult to establish a relationship of mutual trust.

If it weren't for the fact that the emperor had been married to the Lucis family for generations, a civil war would have broken out long ago in this empire.

Of course, the aristocratic faction suddenly changed their mind and chose to support Zhou Ming in taking office early. In fact, there is another important reason -

The "Empire Takes Off" plan formulated by Zhou Ming himself.

What are the main core contents of this plan?

Develop productivity, develop productivity crazily.

Just how crazy does it have to be?

In about ten years, the empire's total agricultural output value will more than triple.

In about ten years, the empire's total industrial output will increase by more than 50 times.

When they first saw this plan, many people’s first impression was that it was absurd, crazy, and unbelievable.

But after reading it carefully, I gradually felt that it was extremely feasible and that I could turn my dream into reality, as long as everyone followed the steps planned in this plan.

In this way, after the empire's industrial and agricultural output explodes, people's living standards will be greatly improved, and material civilization will become extremely abundant.

Now that all strata of the empire are rich and have entered the era of moderate prosperity, they can become even richer and enter the era of great prosperity.

How to rush into the era of prosperity?

The empire formed a "floating fleet" that sailed to other continents or floating islands, transporting countless commodities to other countries in exchange for countless treasures or high-value resources, carrying out foreign trade, and grabbing countless wealth.

In short, it is to embark on a road to crazy wealth.

Interesting?

Is this interesting?

For Zhou Ming, this was indeed meaningless. He had long lost interest in grabbing money.

But it’s interesting to others.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were very interested, and they were all gearing up to join the company one after another, hoping to get a share of the pie.

The nobles couldn't sit still anymore, and applied for cooperation one by one, for fear that the massive wealth would be far away from them.

There were even some nobles who were so stupid that they were not afraid of the threat of imperial power to them. They used agreeing to the emperor's early pro-government as a bargaining chip to win some favor from the emperor in exchange for an opportunity to join the family and become a shareholder.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming responded to these longing voices shortly after he officially took office. He ordered people to open an "Empire Development Unlimited Company" and issued a large number of stocks. Ministers, nobles, ordinary businessmen, and civilians could all Pay money to buy, all capital is welcome to join.

As for the royal family represented by Zhou Ming, it holds 33% of the shares and enjoys dominance and important decision-making rights.

In addition, since a large number of infrastructure construction projects are about to be launched, in order to improve construction efficiency, Zhou Ming also plans to increase the number of Magic Network Walkers from 100 to 1,000 and invest them in various construction activities.

After taking office, he had been busy for seven consecutive days. After arranging a large number of tasks, Zhou Ming finally relaxed and rested, and faced another headache.

Urgent marriage.

Prince Lucis applied to enter the palace. After meeting Zhou Ming alone, he asked him to fulfill his promise and marry Elsa as soon as possible.

"Marry Elsa as your queen?"

Zhou Ming was surprised, shook his head and said: "I am only 15 years old, how can anyone get married so early?"

"It's normal to get married at the age of 15. Many people get married at the age of 12 or 3. 15 is not too young."

The old prince added: "Besides, Elsa is two years older than you and will soon turn 18. She is of marriageable age. Your Majesty, you are too embarrassed to delay her, right?"

"No, no!"

Zhou Ming waved his hands repeatedly: "Let's wait a little longer. I'm not ready yet, and the two are indeed still young. I read in a book that it is said that if a man comes into contact with men and women too early, it will have a greater impact on the body. Large damage can easily shorten your life span... I want to be a great emperor, I want to be famous in history, so I hope to have a healthy and long life."

"What the hell is this!"

The old Wang Jue's beard glared angrily: "I lost my virginity when I was 13 years old. I have experienced many battles at the age of 15. Even after I am 80 years old, I often lose my virginity to try new things. Last night I enjoyed two beauties. , asking them both to ascend...how could it be harmful to the body?"

"In my opinion, if the method is appropriate and the postures are skillful, not only will this male-female affair not harm the body, but it will actually prolong life! Live to ninety or one hundred!"

"Boy, your worries are completely unnecessary. If you want to live a long and healthy life, Grandpa Zeng can teach you and keep you alive for a hundred years. At the same time, he will let me hold a great-great-grandson next year!"

"This marriage is decided. It will be an auspicious day in three days. I will go back and let people prepare for it."

After hearing what the old Wang Jue said, Zhou Ming's eyes widened.

He muttered to himself: I heard from rumors before that my grandpa was the artillery king of the imperial capital. He could bombard at least a thousand people and had countless illegitimate children. I didn’t really believe it. Now it seems that this is just a living little porn. main character.