Chapter 1328 Reform? Reform!
"Crazy! You're really crazy!"
In the palace study, Aurelia was muttering and busy there. As soon as the new laws and regulations were announced, even her secretariats were too busy. Now almost everyone was spinning around, and the information fed back from various places was in a mess. The sound of magic power phones never stopped.
She cried and laughed, "You are crazy, but I'm crazy with you too!"
If someone who is uninformed sees it, I'm afraid I don't know what to think.
Olina next to her also felt the same way. She looked at Tang En's face full of collapse: "Dear, we all know what you want to do for the future of this world. We also know that you come from a more civilized and harmonious world. You really want to make this world more civilized as soon as possible, but what you are doing now is really exaggerating. Your steps are too big! You are competing for benefits with those people in this way, which can easily arouse the counterattack of those people!"
Aurelia said in a crying voice: "This time I agree with my mother's statement. I really shouldn't have accompanied you so crazy now. Now they are not crazy, I'm going crazy."
Both mother and daughter knew Tang En's identity and mission very well, so they also knew that Tang En's world was a more civilized world. Plandal's social reform was indeed imperative, but reform was not like this! A lot of new laws and policies were issued so suddenly, and most of them were against the aristocratic class that occupied the social voice. This was definitely seeking death!
It’s a bit unpleasant to say that officials force the people to rebel, but at least there will definitely be someone who will revolt for their own interests!
Tang En shook his head and said, "You have been worried too much. In fact, the pain experienced in reform is essential. In particular, the political system of our entire Irrus Empire has not experienced a huge internal revolution. It is a social reform that we spontaneously initiated in the development of social forms, so it is normal for us to encounter resistance."
Olina couldn't help but say, "Since you know, you're still so suddenly..."
"It is precisely because of knowing that we need to make such a decisive decision," said Tang En very seriously. "I have experienced a lot of reforms. To be honest, it would be impossible to succeed without the courage to cut off the arm of a hero, the determination to break with the past, and the decisiveness to completely separate from the old society."
"Social contradictions are common in any class, and the intensification of this contradiction will become more and more serious with the solidification of social classes. Now, the entire society is undergoing tremendous changes due to our actions, and the contradictions between classes have faded. This is a great opportunity for us to take action."
"If we don't take advantage of the moment to directly solve the legacy of the old society, but instead put it on the process of slowly, these problems will sooner or later become terrible time bombs and explode at a moment that no one can imagine."
Tang En looked at the two of them seriously and said, "Solve all potential problems as soon as possible, rather than finding a way to deal with them when they are about to break out. This is what I think. In fact, if I were not worried that nationalizing the land would stimulate those people, I would even directly turn the land into state-owned rather than taking back the land in my own name."
Aurelia also knew that with the development of the Tang Chamber of Commerce, the productivity of the entire society was constantly increasing. At this time, the contribution of the lower class to society by the people is far greater than that of the aristocratic class. At this moment, the aristocratic class has done more harm than benefits to the entire society. They occupy a large amount of social resources, but have no contribution to the development of society. What is even more terrifying is that they take this treatment for granted.
In the past, due to inconvenient transportation and inconvenient communication, the aristocratic class was a tool for rulers to maintain their rule. If the huge territory was divided and ruled, the rulers only needed to manage the aristocratic class well, and their own rule would basically not have too many problems.
However, now, there are various convenient communication tools such as magic mobile phones, artificial soul quantum computers, magic fax machines, and magic networks. The central government's control over local areas is unprecedentedly powerful, and no longer requires the aristocratic class to assist in management. Their existence disperses the control of the central government and has too many privileges, which is an unstable factor.
So abolishing the privileges of the nobles, releasing resources to the entire society, increasing the rights of the people, and giving them a path to rise. This is almost something that will inevitably happen in the future, but Aurelia did not expect that this day would happen so soon.
If you think about it carefully, what Tang En said is actually very reasonable. Social reform must be full of various obstacles. No vested interests will be willing to give up their rights. They will try every means to prevent the occurrence of reform. This process itself is extremely difficult and full of obstacles. It is simply impossible to complete the reform process moderately.
Normally, only by a thorough revolution, overthrowing the previous regime, and completely overthrowing the privileged class can a new order be created.
But Tang En came.
He established a new order, brought about the productivity revolution of society, and created one miracle after another. What the people most cannot understand is that he actually gave up his own interests and chose to give back the interests to the entire society!
Others don’t know, but everyone around Tang En knew very well that he didn’t need these so-called wealth, and he didn’t care whose wealth was in. The Tang Chamber of Commerce was just a channel for him to gather the entire Prandal resources. The identity of the Regent was just a tool for him to redistribute these resources. He always wanted to achieve only one goal, that is, to promote the overall strength level of the entire Prandal as much as possible, whether it is agriculture, industry, commerce, or the most important military strength.
Tang En wanted to sacrifice his own interests to lead the class revolution in the entire Plandal, completely abandon the old ideas of the past, and welcome a new social concept. Everyone worked hard for a glorious future and a lofty ideal. Tang En's most ideal situation is to complete this reform within one or two generations, and standardize the laws, customs, morals, education and other standards of the entire society as much as possible, so as to form a stable, efficient, harmonious, and civilized modern society.
Otherwise, if it takes a long time, it will be difficult to guarantee whether those people will distort this concept in the future and will eventually be pulled into the abyss by cancer-like social garbage that is unwilling to make progress and self-deprecating degeneration, and everything will be restored to its original state.
As the well-deserved emperor of Plandal, Tang En did have the right to do so. His leading role was obvious. At least Obery, Adrien, Duke of Taris, and the new lords supported by Tang En have publicly stated that they fully support Tang En's decision and have taken the lead in returning all the land owned by the family to Tang En. At the same time, complying with the new laws and regulations, it will allow farmers who are now using the land to farm for free, no longer collect rent from the tenants in the territory, and the tenants have completely gained their freedom, but according to the new law, they must accept the jurisdiction of the chief executive of their administrative district and accept identity registration.
Aurelia and Olina, and even the others around Tang En knew that Tang En did this for the sake of the future of the entire society, but they all had the same concern, that Tang En was too fast and had no time to prepare for the entire society. He suddenly threw a bombshell, which made everyone stunned.
"Aren't you afraid of their uprising?"
Olina had deep concerns in her heart. Tang En was a very kind person. He couldn't bear to attack those people. Those people might not be thinking about his goodness. If they were really anxious, they would really dare to rebel, especially since their current education level was still far from being too low. Those people were really easy to be fooled. No matter from any perspective, this was not a good time for social revolution.
"Don't worry, most people dare not."
Tang En said with disdain: "90% of the people in the entire society are civilians at the bottom. Now all the civilians at the bottom are on my side. Why should they fight me?"
"Now everyone knows that Gene and the City of Silver are on my side. Dwarves, dwarves, gnomes, elves, Nagas, and even goblins and giant dragons are all my allies. They all support the decision I made. How brave should those who are unwilling to accept their wishes to dare to stand up and rebel?"
"Yes, it is true that some people are easily brainwashed and fooled, and some people are also furious because of the loss of interests, so they will impulsively want breakfast. But don't forget that I am the king and I have taken over the righteousness. If they dare to stand up and rebel, they must be ready to die for their ideals. Then I can take the opportunity to clear these unstable factors."
Tang En smiled very happily: "They think I'm forcing them to rebel? It's right to think so. I'm just avoiding those people and jumping out on their own, so I don't have to work hard to find them one by one..."
"They think I'm too kind to attack my people? Then let them continue to misunderstand this."
Tang En smiled even happier: "Although I don't know who gave them this misunderstanding, this is a kind of affirmation of me, and I feel quite honored."
Tang En is kind?
Yes, in general, he is indeed kind.
But you have stood up and wanted to rebel, and you still feel that he will continue to be so kind. Not only will he let you go, but he will also choose to forgive you...
How big do you think he has a heart?
Chapter completed!