Chapter 177 It's Ti to Tax
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After inspecting these manors, Edward started back to London with Little Lolita and his party.
This return, the London City Governnt began preparations early in the morning, and the entire street was cleaned again. mbers of the London City Governnt and the Privy Council ministers all ca outside London to welco His Majesty Edward.
This grand ceremony was held by the unanimous decision of the Privy Council. One is to welco the return of His Majesty the King, and the other is to celebrate the formal conquest of Scotland by England. The establishnt of the United Kingdom of Scotland and England is imminent.
This joyful atmosphere has also brought to the people of London, the citizens, the nobles and the rich celebrated this rare prosperity for hundreds of years, and sales of all kinds of alcohol and commodities were booming.
The poor and beggars at the bottom, although they don't understand why this is, and what is a national event, they are also very happy.
Because many nobles and rchants were generous once in a while and began to donate bread, so they also rejoiced along with the whole city.
From this point, it can be seen that England is different from most countries in Europe. At the beginning, the English people have initially awakened their national consciousness.
The religious reform not only brought huge financial inco to the Tudor royal family, but also allowed the rise of the bourgeoisie.
More importantly, it loosened the ideological **** of the English people, allowing businessn and nobles throughout England, as well as so commoners, to begin to identify with and be proud of this country.
It is the Tudor royal family that plays a representative role. Unlike the previous royal family, the Tudor royal family fully recognizes themselves as the king of England, instead of thinking of themselves as the king of France as before. The king of England is just a crown that is forced by the situation.
Since Henry VII, the Tudor royal family has started to manage England, from the establishnt of sheriffs, hundred-household districts, and the encouragent of comrcial developnt, and a mode of restraint on the enclosure movent.
And the efforts of the Tudor royal family have achieved results. The English nation began to be born, the national consciousness was awakened, and they recognized the king as the representative of the English nation.
So, after Princess Mary ca to the throne, the fact that he married the Spanish king was so difficult for the English to accept that a man who did not belong to England beca the king of England.
And this is also an important reason why Elizabeth I did not marry later. She chose rights and gave up marriage, just the opposite of her sister. This is also the key to her being loved by the English.
The streets are full of energetic boys and girls, bouncing children, peddlers hawking, troubadours playing and singing by themselves, and jugglers performing arts. It's a lively scene.
Edward did not start patrolling London as stipulated after everyone greeted him. Instead, he lay on the bed and began to sleep soundly.
I slept until night, only to wake up in a daze, and eat a hot and freshly cooked dinner.
Braining up his spirits, Edward began to et with the Privy Council Minister in London.
This ti, Faris Alexander, the head of the Privy Council, ca to report the specific situation to Edward.
"Your Majesty, since you set off for Scotland, the reform of the central governnt has been adjusted. According to your reform content, all departnts and personnel have been basically replenished, but..."
Facing Edward, Alexander, the first president of the Privy Council, began to hesitate while speaking, and Edward couldn't help feeling suspicious.
"What's the matter? My Excellency Dean!"
"Your Majesty, it's just that there is not much money left in the treasury!" Alexander was a little embarrassed, and his head began to bow.
"Didn't I leave 10,000 pounds when I went to Scotland? Why did I spend it so quickly?" Edward was speechless at this speed of spending money. In less than a month, 10,000 pounds were gone, but you must know It only cost him 10,000 pounds a month to support 3,000 guards, how did the Privy Council spend it all.
Regarding the matter of spending money, Faris Alexander has every reason to support it. Imdiately, he took the ti to explain one by one:
"Your Majesty, since you reford, due to the expansion of a large number of central manpower, you have taken the initiative to pay the salary!" As he spoke, Alexander began to complain, with an expression on his face that you were taken advantage of.
My heart was churning, how good it was before, you served , I gave you rights, and from ti to ti, the king rewarded you with so money for a good job, and it was not bad to pay a visit to the house.
At that ti, those who could beco mbers of the royal family were either local nobles or monks. Few of them were short of money, and all they cared about were rights.
Besides, if you lose your rights, are you still afraid of running out of money? Therefore, in the Middle Ages, it is a tradition to be greedy even if you are greedy, and the king will not condemn you for it.
"Now, there are hundreds of people in the court, with a monthly salary of 1,500 pounds, plus more than 400 people from various departnts of the Privy Council, whose salary is more than 5,000 pounds, plus three from the navy. Thousands of pounds, plus the annulnt and consolidation of so small courts, the ten thousand pounds you gave will be gone in half a month."
As for money, Alexander ca here casually. After all, he had worked as the Minister of Finance and was familiar with it!
Looking at the helpless President of the Privy Council, Edward couldn't help feeling sorry for him.
I was very happy when I co-authored the reform, but the labor pains afterwards were so uncomfortable. Originally, the entire central governnt could not spend much money in a year. All the expenses of the entire country, except for the enjoynt of the king, are wars, and wars are currently the largest expenditure of the governnt.
However, if you want to centralize power, you must establish a bureaucracy throughout England, so that the rule can be stabilized, and the power of the entire country can be quickly concentrated, so that it can have greater war potential.
However, if local reforms continue, then the annual salary paid to bureaucrats will be a large number, and Edward can't afford it now!
Without reform, Edward’s dream of conquering France, defeating Spain, and dominating Europe will be delayed for decades.
So, at present, if Edward wants to get out of the predicant, there is only one word—money.
And relying solely on the royal family inco, it is impossible to continue to support the reform. Besides, he is not willing to take his money all the ti!
For the current plan, we can only collect taxes, and it is ti for the parliant to open for a while.
At this ti, the parliant did not et frequently like it does now, and only the king can convene the parliant. Therefore, the mbers spend most of their ti resting at ho, and the king will call them when he has sothing to do.
During the period of Henry VII, during the decades of ruling England, only seven parliants were held, and Henry VIII had only thirteen tis.
"Your Excellency Alexander, I think it's ti to collect taxes!" Thinking of this, Edward stood up and said solemnly.
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