019 Anti-corruption
When Levi saw Martin's face looked puzzled, he said in a serious voice: "Mr. Clive, your daughter is here, and we are considered in-laws.
Now that the authority of the king of the Kingdom of France is being provoked, there will be a big chaos sooner or later. I will expand my army at this time to prevent problems in the future. As long as I have enough troops in my hand, the Charles family and I may not be able to go further in the chaos.
At that time, it would not be a big deal to give you a lord."
Martin's figure was shocked.
This is a lord!
Now that Louis XVI has not yet fallen to the ground, the noble privileges of the Kingdom of France have not been banned, and everyone's concept is still at the time when the nobles are the best!
How many great capitalists, factory owners and bankers in the Kingdom of France spent money like money for the throne, and defected to those great nobles as lackeys.
A native rich man from a small town like Martin dared not imagine the position of a lord. A man like him would never be able to become a lord without the strong support of a noble above the earl.
The Lord is the threshold for a true noble!
If you want to become a nobleman in the fiefdom of the sword or a nobleman in the palace, you need the king to nod.
"I will do my best to complete what the Lord has told you!"
Martin finally made up his mind and replied unwaveringly.
After all, this is not his own money. If he becomes the mayor, and he is part-time president of the Charles Town Commercial Guild, he can summon rich people from the entire Charles family territory to share the money. I believe that at that time, Li Wei will stand behind him and stand for him.
Doing so will certainly offend the rich people in the Charles family territory, but what else can these people do except to endure the voice and swallow their anger in this era?
Do those feudal aristocrats with swords have less exploitation on bourgeois bosses?
Why did most industry and commerce in this era be located in big cities?
Because the vast countryside is full of the sphere of influence of traditional feudal aristocracy, there is no way to make a fortune there. The fiefdom aristocracy above is a wolf. He can swallow as much as you earn. Don’t expect a group of traditional feudal aristocracy who do not understand the way of industrial and commercial operations to generously give the growth of industry and commerce.
Of course, not all aristocrats are so short-sighted. There are also relatively enlightened people among the great aristocrats in the French Kingdom, who are called liberal aristocrats.
However, although these great nobles supported the development of industry and commerce and emerging financial industries, they personally invested in it and took the initiative to control it, rather than allowing domestic capitalists to grow independently.
It can be said that these liberal aristocrats are capitalists themselves!
Fortunately, a group of great nobles joined the bourgeoisie, which led to the outbreak of the Paris Revolution. Some policies of the Kingdom of France are indeed not very friendly to the development of industry and commerce, and the taxes are too heavy!
In particular, King Louis XVI completely regarded industry, commerce and finance as fat sheep, and the third-level conference that caused the Paris Revolution was actually because King Louis XVI wanted to increase taxes on the rich third-class people.
It would be fine if the tax was raised, but King Louis XVI was still unwilling to give up political interests, so the Great Revolution broke out...
As Martin Clive took office as the mayor of Charles Town, Li Wei took advantage of the situation to lift the military control system in the Charles family territory, and the Charles family territory gradually restored its original order after the chaos.
However, the decline in population resources, especially the young and middle-aged population, has had a significant impact on the Charles family territory.
In particular, Li Wei did not let go of the peasant prisoners of war at all. Even the prisoners of war in the labor office were stripped out. Except for those old people, they were all screened out and devoted to the Charles town training camp!
With Martin, the vampire, the third session will be started soon after the second session is over.
Levi also officially exhausted his last little glory.
Of course, in Li Wei's eyes, the glory value placed in the total war system is meaningless, and it is more effective to turn it into his own strength.
Waiting for the third phase of the line infantry training, Li Wei has three thousand troops, and is still the kind who is absolutely loyal and fearless of death. He is enough to be rampant in the Morbiang Province!
However, even if these three thousand troops do not have to pay military pay, daily training and life consumption alone are not a small amount. Li Wei felt that it would be difficult for him to continue to support them.
After the second training session, Levi began to set off a wave of anti-corruption throughout the Charles family territory.
To put it bluntly, it is to search the house to fill the financial gap.
Dozens of officials died before, and there was no much restraint in the Charles family territory. Martin was the only one who followed Levi's leadership. It was not too easy to find evidence.
Nowadays, let alone being an official, as long as you have a little power, you will use your power to be more greedy.
One counts one, but none of the houses were found unjustly, but there is a difference in corruption.
As a result, in the anti-corruption struggle of Li Wei, the dozens of people who had been cleaned up before were unable to escape the disaster. How could Li Wei, who was known as a cruel person in the Charles family territory, not arrest anyone when the house was raided?
What?
Isn't the one who embezzles himself?
This is what your father said, didn’t he spend money on you?
Have you ever used your husband's greed for money?
Your son embezzled public funds and never gave you anything?
Unless it is really a severance, how could those corrupt officials’ relatives not be stuck to the cheapest ones?
Many people don’t even have their own jobs and don’t go to farm, but they still have no worries about food and clothing in their small lives. Where does the money come from?
Falling from the sky?
There is no saying in this era that no relatives are involved. In fact, from a legal perspective, the immediate relatives of corruption victims cannot escape. Even many close relatives should be punished, because many corruption victims’ “white gloves” are the ones that are their relatives and friends!
Is your own talents more trustworthy?
As a result, all of these people were arrested, and the men were charged into labor service, regardless of age!
The woman was directly charged to the Jiaofangsi...
Yes, this Jiaofangsi was also Li Wei's invention!
In fact, it is an official brothel.
There is no way, the cost of raising a military army is too high, and Li Wei has to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Which industry is the most profitable and has the lowest cost these days?
Pornography, gambling, drugs!
Of course, there is no poison now, but yellowing and gambling are the long-lasting profit-making industries in human history.
What's more, the laws of the Kingdom of France do not prohibit these two industries. Most taverns in the Kingdom of France have erotic secondary industries, but they are just relatively low-end.
Chapter completed!