"You mean … if a noble commits a crime, he will receive the same punishment as a commoner?"
Sally was very curious about the "judicial independence". In the eyes of her and other nobles, the "judicial power" always belonged to the lord. Now that it was independent, it sounded ridiculous, but if you thought about it carefully, it was difficult to achieve absolute "fairness" in any judgment made by a person. If the Supreme Court was not interfered and influenced by anyone else, it could indeed make a "relatively fair" judgment.
Giving the people a fair legal environment was also an important prerequisite for the stability of the country. Everyone present understood this principle.
Roddy gave this group of people a simple political lesson, but the people present were not junior high school students. Everyone understood the future significance of this plan in a few words. With Sally's nod of support, the other members of the cabinet naturally did not have any courage to object. They also knew that the "cabinet" they were currently in was Roddy's word. They were here to "work", and if they could solve the problem, they would stay here. If they slacked off, the consequences would be very serious.
Therefore, the whole meeting went smoothly. After finalizing several plans, it was already night time. Everyone who was thirsty needed to rest, so they ended the meeting and waited for the next day to continue the discussion.
"After this period of time, I can relax a little."
At the moment, opposite the crystal wall, Sally leaned on the armchair and drank water. Roddy was also paralyzed on the side. Through this method, even if they were separated by thousands of miles, they still felt like they were meeting. Therefore, after the meeting, Sally would always pester him to talk. Even if it was just complaining and acting coquettishly, she would still feel very happy.
"There is no time to relax, we can't slack off now …"
Roddy said while caressing the infected beast Misha next to him. The latter did not participate in the battle, and ultimately played a role as a "prop" when Roddy explained the demons to the Dragons.
It was almost impossible to find a living pure-blooded demon in this plane, but the existence of Misha did indeed open a new door for the Dragons to study demons, so Misha was now better than anyone else: eating well, drinking well, and there were people checking every day. The only thing he had to do was to go to the various Dragons' laboratories regularly to undergo some magic tests. Life was very comfortable.
Sally pouted and said, "I know, I know. It's better to study divine spells than to be involved in politics. But … "
She suddenly whispered, "Then what about the crown prince …?"
Rody coughed dryly. He was currently in Dragon City, while Sally was in Hollier City. The two of them were separated by thousands of miles. These words were truly somewhat provocative. But Sally also knew that now was not the time to be willful. She smiled and said, "Don't fly to me in the middle of the night. Do these things first. I hope there will be a good harvest this year. Don't starve in winter."
"I'll take care of this. You rest early."
After saying good night to Sally, Roddy turned off the display on the crystal wall.
This technology currently consumed too much crystal energy. Not to mention the nobles, even the magisters of Rassmann could not afford it. If the old guys in the parliament had video communication, they would probably want everyone to finish everything in three seconds and then quickly turn off the video.
If Roddy used it to chat with the Emperor's wife, he would probably be scolded to death by the magisters.
But he did not care. After drinking the remaining water in the quilt, Roddy opened the door of the conference room and walked out of the Dragon Tower to return to his bedroom. The current Kingdom of Karen did not have a mature cabinet to deal with everything because the political system was in a stage of change. At the same time, many of the original old policies were rapidly changing under the experience from Earth.
It sounded like Roddy had to deal with a lot of things every day. In fact, he had gradually learned how to be a "ruler". He only needed to control the direction and provide ideas, and his team of advisors made detailed plans for him. Appropriate approvals were given, and unsuitable ones were taken back and redone.
In this way, apart from the fixed meetings every day, Roddy could finally squeeze out time to practice archery and study magic. At this time, he could even sit in his study and read the few letters brought back from Rassmann.
At first, the fleet that transported the loan was on official business, so there was only official news. After the war, the second fleet that came was mainly merchant ships. And this time, the fleet also brought letters from Merlinsera and Naifeh.
Looking at the two letters in front of him, Roddy reached out and picked up Naifeh's letter.
The little girl's writing was very beautiful. In the letter, there were some anecdotes that happened in class, such as someone accidentally blowing up the laboratory, someone failing to cast a spell and being beaten into a pig's head by his own puppet, and so on. Reading the letter, Roddy could not help but smile. Without realizing it, he read it several times.
This letter should be for him and Camilla to read together. In the letter, Naifeh also said hello to her mother and told her that she was safe. She also attached a painting. Looking at Naifeh's so-called "work", Roddy did not know whether to laugh or cry. In the painting, Naifeh drew a man with an unshaven beard, carrying a bow on his back, and wearing a dirty suit of armor.
Roddy remembered that this was the outfit he wore when he saved Naifeh and Sally near Mogra Village. However, Naifeh had obviously just learned how to paint. In the painting, Roddy did not look wise or heroic. Instead, the proportions of his body were a bit funny. The facial features on the face were also not clear. It seemed that Naifeh had modified it many times, and in the end, it was barely a blur.
But Roddy did not care about the standard of this painting. Looking at the slightly clumsy brush strokes, he could almost imagine Naifeh's appearance when she was making alterations. After all, this little girl was the softest part of his heart. Even though time had passed and history had changed, Roddy decided to silently protect her in another way.
It was said that a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood. He did not know how much she would change the next time he saw her.
When he picked up the other letter, Roddy found that Merinsera did not write much. Compared to Naifeh, who could not wait to talk about her life and studies, Merinsera's writing was very calm. This was similar to how he felt when he chatted with her. She was always as calm as an ancient well … or rather, deeply hidden.
"After studying Lassman's magic system, there are indeed some interesting parts. However, I am currently working hard to condense the crystals in my body … "
Merinsera's path of advancement was much more difficult than when she was a Dragons, but she had great perseverance, so Roddy was not worried that she would be stuck at this stage for too long. There was only one letter, and it would take at least three months for the message to be sent across the ocean. However, Merinsera's words added up to less than a thousand words. When Roddy finished reading, he found that it was more like her monologue in the dead of night. However, her words did not reveal much emotion. She was as calm as she was herself.
After reading the words a few times, Rody's heart seemed to be faintly anticipating something. However, no matter how hard he looked, he could not see anything. He was about to fold the letter and put it away when he suddenly saw a faint mark in the middle of the signature.
He took a closer look and found that it was in the shape of the Shadow Dragon Crystal. Roddy thought for a moment, raised his hand, and concentrated some elemental energy in his hand. Because he had absorbed the power of the Shadow Dragon Crystal, he would always have the aura of the Dragons when he cast spells. After being infected by the energy, a line of words suddenly appeared in the blank space at the bottom of the letter. "When are you coming?"
This sentence made Roddy heave a sigh of relief, and then he rubbed the space between his eyebrows helplessly.
How could he reconcile the conflict between the two Dragons, Kardashian and Merinsera? Now that the Shadow Dragons had finally been "cleansed of their grievances," there was only one Shadow Baby Dragon left. Merinsera had abandoned the Dragon Crystal. Even if she could return to level 60 in the future, she would no longer be a "Shadow Dragon."
Roddy did not know what she would become in the future, but at least he had established a good relationship with the Dragons. Speaking of which, if Merinsera wanted to take revenge, the real culprit would not be some Dragons or Queo, who had suggested it, but a demon in another plane. But Roddy did not know what she wanted to do.
Naify said that she would stay there for three years, but he would definitely visit them midway. But he would not be able to go with the group that would set sail in September. There were too many things to do in the kingdom at the moment, so he really could not leave without permission. Besides, there were many problems that troubled him at the moment, one of which was how to "pay off the debt."
If he took over the kingdom, taxes would indeed be a big issue. But in this era, taxes were basically only for agriculture. There were also taxes on commerce, but during the reign of Charles II, these huge amounts of taxes did not fall into the hands of the royal family. Instead, they were divided among the feudal lords.
After he put the letter away, he casually took out the current economic and population statistics of the various regions to take a look. Although he didn't know the level of the GDP of China in history, with the three debuffs of backward farming methods, war, and feudal lord enfeoffment, the current economic level of the Kallon Kingdom could only be described as' appalling '.
Most of the population was tied to the land, and more than 80% of the people could only rely on farming to support themselves. If there were natural or man-made disasters, they would easily become refugees.
Under such circumstances, Roddy naturally had to adjust the proportion of taxes. Levying taxes on capital gains was the first step in his tax reform — and according to the current proportion, the tax that could be collected was much higher than the agricultural tax. Of course, the obstacles were certainly not small, but the kingdom was now under control. Instead, Roddy hoped that someone would stand up and serve as a warning to the others.
Another way to pay off the debt was to sell products. Roddy had already driven the first batch of trucks produced by the Elsen Munitions Factory to the port, and in September, they would be transported all the way to Lachman with the fleet. He believed that this kind of war weapon would immediately open a market in Lachman, and then Roddy planned to include small-caliber crystal cannons in the trade list.
Under the premise of maintaining technological advantages, it was normal for a technologically advanced country to sell outdated weapons to recoup costs. The most important thing was that these weapons were just a pile of scrap iron without the "Rechargeable Crystal." The core technology of the "Rechargeable Crystal" was still in Roddy's hands. Before Lachman cracked this technology, Roddy believed that he could make a huge profit in a few years.
"The premise is … there is a war."
He narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, then wrote down his plan on a piece of paper. When he got up and looked out of the window, the sun was slowly sinking into the eastern mountains. Not far away, a Falcon Fighter was slowly landing on the airport.
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