Chapter 458: Politics is the art of compromise, but I don’t need to learn it(4/4)
As for the territory, after I become the King of Amn, I will first talk to the nobles who control large areas of land and redistribute the land through redemption.
If you are wise, just take your money and get out of here according to the conditions I set out.
If they don't know what's going on, I have all the legal means to break up their families and scatter their wives and children.
Finally, regarding trade monopoly, I will play a snake game with dozens of the richest families in Ascatra.
Don’t they like monopoly, expansion, and crazy pursuit of profits?
Then I will let them eat to get fatter and stronger until they stretch themselves to death.
The specific operation is to select the families with the highest comprehensive strength every few years, split the property, and distribute it evenly to family members with inheritance rights.
Then disperse them and send them to settle in remote corners of the empire.
If you don't want to be split up, then the family business must shrink and control its scale when it develops to a certain extent.
When all the big business associations at the top begin to restrain their greed and capital expansion and take the initiative to split up their families, won’t the monopoly problem be solved?
And I didn’t confiscate a penny of their property, nor did I force them into desperation.
On the contrary, it conducted an internal redistribution of wealth within an acceptable range.
Those who originally had no chance to inherit the family's huge wealth, instead of hating me, will actually be grateful to me from the bottom of their hearts.
Because I gave them a great gift, an opportunity to get rid of the control of direct lineage and build their own family.
In addition, the heirs of these split families often have a lot of money in their hands, and they can also revitalize the economy of remote places..."
Zuo Si raised the corners of his mouth and revealed a chilling smile.
The reason why businessmen have had a bad image for a long time in history, and can even be said to be synonymous with greed, ugliness, and despicability, is actually closely related to this nature of excessive pursuit of wealth and profit.
Especially the rise of modern capitalism on earth has taken this greed to the extreme.
Obviously, the expansion of capital and the monopoly of social resources by the rich are almost unsolvable problems in any modern country.
Even the most powerful central government can only exert some restraint and adjust taxes to achieve secondary distribution of wealth at the national level.
So when he decided to establish the West Coast Empire, Zuo Si had been thinking about how to deal with the business oligarchs in Amn to prevent them from becoming too powerful and wealthy, and ultimately turning the entire country into a capital empire with powerful magical power.
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After thinking about it, he got inspiration from a very ancient push order and came up with such a set of mandatory antitrust splitting bills.
However, unlike those on earth who only split up the company without splitting up the family, he not only wanted to split up the company, but also split up the huge family together.
In this way, when the huge monopoly group disappears, the market will enter a state of full competition again, leaving enough space for latecomers.
As long as the rulers carry out this behavior, no family or interest group can occupy a monopoly position for a long time.
The upper level of the entire market will continue to make room, while the lower level will also have access to upward channels, entering a relatively virtuous cycle.
Of course, the reason why Zuo Si dared to do this was because he was strong and ruthless enough, and had enough strength and political skills to implement his will.
Otherwise, if we change to a weaker or kinder ruler, the big families in Amn who are used to being domineering may not be able to raise private soldiers to rebel in any minute.
After all, for them, this split bill is simply digging into the foundation of the family's survival.
But as a saying goes, most people in this world like to compromise.
If you directly say that you want to do this kind of split, the big families in Amn will definitely not be happy.
But if you first express that you want to confiscate their property and drive them out of existence, and then propose such an alternative, then they will not only accept it happily, but maybe even shed tears of gratitude.
The art of political compromise.
But in Zuo Si's eyes, it is not himself who needs to learn this art, but others.
"Hahahaha! As expected of you! The perfect tyrant appointed by the great Ben!"
Fu Zol Chamberi couldn't help laughing.
Chapter completed!