Blackstone Code

Chapter 779: process

After the Prime Minister took the people around in the Privy Council, he entered the inner conference room.

Since the Privy Council is an administrative agency, there must be a distinction between superior and superior.

In the past, when the Privy Council was still able to perform its duties, the highest authority in the Privy Council was called the "senator."

The Privy Council was once called the "Senate" by people for a while, implying that this institution is the site of the "Senior" and everything must be listened to by them.

Under the elders, there are "elders." The way to distinguish between elders and elders is very simple.

At that time, nobles were still wearing linen robes, so the elders’ robes had golden barley ears, and the elder’s robes were silver wheat ears to distinguish the status of the two.

The rest were ordinary nobles, who also wore robes, but only the clan emblem and no wheat ears were on the robes.

Later, the power of the Privy Council was gradually abandoned, and the elders began to put down their arrogance and wanted to unite all the nobles. Unfortunately, the changes in the political system and the transfer of power made them useless even if they really did that.

The conference room here is for the elders and elders. As for the nobles in the hall outside, they are not allowed to enter here without permission.

The prime minister is not a member of the Privy Council, but he can come in directly without the permission of others. This is the characteristic of power and can ignore most rules.

After the people sat down separately, the Prime Minister looked at the big nobles around him with a vivid smile on his face, "Have you come to a conclusion during this period of time, who should be appointed as the Minister of Finance?"

The nobles sitting around the conference table communicated briefly with their eyes, and the nobles sitting in the first seat gave a light cough, which attracted everyone's attention.

"Your Excellency, we have been discussing this issue for this period of time, but after all, it involves an important position and does not give us enough time, so..."

The Prime Minister shook his head and said, "So there is no result, is it?"

The nobles around nodded one after another, and some of them explained, “There are too many excellent people. It is difficult for us to make a decision. There is only one position. If we choose this, we don’t care about that.”

"At that time, there will definitely be people arguing about this, and they will even doubt whether our selection is fair and just. You know, those who lose will always have many reasons."

The Prime Minister did not deny after hearing this. This is like a gambler. Anything may become a reason for them to lose money.

Today is bad luck. I didn’t wash my hands after going to the toilet, facing the window or back to the window. Whoever asked him to borrow money but didn’t pay it back...

Those gamblers can easily find dozens of hundreds of reasons to be responsible for the money they lose, and the nobles who lose the election are the same. They come casually like some black-box operations, and don't even need to think about it.

Therefore, it will take a long time to select this candidate.

The prime minister's brows wrinkled, "What we lack most now is time. It is impossible to keep the position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer vacant and wait for you to elect someone before arranging work. This will delay a lot of our affairs."

"This is not some other post. It is related to the planning and appropriation of the entire country's fiscal budget. There is no way to give you so much time."

"Before the end of the month, you must choose someone."

At this time, one of the nobles suddenly reminded, "Your Excellency, it's the end of the month."

"It's the end of the month?" The Prime Minister's expression was suddenly stunned. He glanced down at his watch, which had a small window with a calendar on it.

Watches with calendars like this are very popular nowadays, and only a few companies have mastered the key technology, so it is hard to find a watch on the market.

He glanced at the calendar before exclaiming, "It's really the end of the month, I didn't even feel it!"

He said and shook his head, "This time is too busy, there are too many things for me to deal with, I really miss the peaceful days before."

"Although boring, there is a lot of personal time."

The nobles in the room just smiled, didn't take it seriously, just like what they are discussing now, they are just discussing, it does not mean that the content of the discussion has any direct relationship with the outcome of the matter.

"In a few days, I did feel a little nervous. Why don't you give it a try?" the Prime Minister asked again.

He looked like he was actually asking about this, but in fact everyone knew what he was asking and how to answer it.

"Your Excellency, although the Privy Council is nicknamed a nursing home by people, this does not mean that we have no sense of responsibility. We can't choose a suitable candidate in a short time. It's better to..."

The chief nobleman looked at the nobles on his left and right, and said softly, "You will take up this position first."

The Prime Minister was a little stunned. He looked at the nobles in front of him, and then shook his head with a wry smile, "This is not good. I have proposed with your majesty before that I should be given a part-time job first, but... he refused."

The chief nobleman continued with a smile, "This time we will personally discuss this matter with your majesty. I think your majesty will agree to it."

The Prime Minister was a little moved and hesitated, "But the people outside..."

The chief nobleman raised his hand and pressed it, "The fight for power is never as important as the stability of the empire!"

This is actually a process. Just like Lynch and others said, the emperor didn't think about fighting the Prime Minister to the end from the beginning, he had been giving in from the beginning.

It's just that this kind of concession doesn't give up everything, and the prime minister doesn't pay nothing.

If their current conversation leaks out, most of the nobles outside will inevitably become angry.

During this period of time, they have been wooing relations everywhere, holding various secret meetings, and operating everywhere for that position.

If you can't get that position, you have to be able to grasp a little bit of benefit.

But what I didn’t expect was that the nobles in the Privy Council sold them as soon as they turned their heads, and helped the Prime Minister get the wealth. After being happy, they lost some things. If at this time His Majesty releases appropriate With good intentions, some of these nobles will fall to His Majesty the Emperor without hesitation.

In other words, the prime minister actually promoted a part of the noble group to turn to the emperor as a price to obtain the opportunity to concurrently hold financial power and realize his own power plan.

Did the emperor lose money?

It seems to be, but not quite.

Although he has lost his financial power, the development plan of the entire country is now there, and the Prime Minister cannot arbitrarily violate it, and everyone is in the same general direction, all for this country.

The power in the hands of the emperor has been reduced a bit, but in exchange for the support of a large number of nobles, these nobles will become the next time he re-masters the hole card.

You must know that the prime minister is very old, and no one knows how many years he can sit in this position.

Three to five years, up to ten years!

Ten years later, a new war will inevitably break out and it will spread to the whole world. By then, how can the prime minister whose physical strength, energy, and brain power have begun to regress, continue to rely on this position?

As long as he steps down and has the support of the noble group, His Majesty has the opportunity and possibility of dictatorship to a certain extent. As long as there are enough nobles to support him, he can even serve as the prime minister and minister of finance by himself when the war breaks out. !

Coupled with the imperial power franchise his control over military power, administration, finance, military administration, and a high degree of unity, a dictatorship emperor will be born!

Even if the nobles do not support him in realizing his dream of dictatorship, he will at least have a chance to regain financial power. As long as the financial power is in hand, even if the prime minister candidate is compromised, he is still in control.

With the immediate opportunities in exchange for the infinite possibilities in the future, the emperor did not suffer from this transaction.

The Prime Minister is very clear about the Emperor's plan, but he doesn't mind. He is even very cooperative. They are all betting on who will show the flaw first!

The content in the conference room was not revealed for a short time, but it has not been long since it was revealed.

After waiting three days, that is, next Monday, when the meeting will be held, the whole country will know it!

At that time, a big drama is about to be staged, and the "victim" of His Majesty the Emperor will begin to draw the resentful nobles to stand on his side.

Of course, the Privy Council will try to unite the nobles as much as possible, they can never let all the nobles fall to the emperor, that is irresponsible.

The Prime Minister stayed in the Privy Council for less than an hour and then left. Not long after he left, some gossips flowed into the Privy Council from the outside world.

People don't know where to find some content, some content related to Lynch.

They heard that Lynch planned to take the money they earned to develop in the provinces of Ameria, and His Majesty the Emperor gave them some preferential policies.

If this news is on someone else, it is just an ordinary news, but if it happens to Lynch, it must attract people's attention.

You know, not long ago, Lynch took the group of trash aristocrats around him and swallowed hundreds of millions of dividends in the financial market. Now he thinks that the eyes of other aristocrats are still a little red.

Those great nobles don’t care, but not all nobles are so rich~lightnovelpub.net~ There will always be some nobles who only have the face of nobles and don’t have much money.

Just when everyone was about to leave for lunch, a few nobles found Lynch.

"Mr. Lynch, I heard that you plan to invest in the province of Ameria?"

Lynch looked at these people, and the little earl wisely introduced Lynch to them. These are all little nobles, most of them have more or less relationship with the royal family, such as close bloodlines.

No matter how cruel the emperor is, he is also a person. As long as he is a person, there will be some "small problems". For example, they are more willing to trust blood relatives than trust strangers.

Therefore, looking at the current small aristocratic groups in the Gevlar Empire, almost half of their ancestors were once members of the royal family, or have a very close relationship with the royal family, and thus they continue to gain blessings.

After the little earl introduced these people to Lynch, Lynch nodded with a smile, "It's true!"

The little nobleman in the lead was very humble, "Could you talk to us about things in the province of Ameria!"