activa-t Chapter 12 Winter Code Draft
Chapter 12 Winter Code Draft
The divine power and royal power of the Cain Continent are interrelated. The king's enthronement ceremony is attended by the respective national religion, and the pope puts the crown on the king.
It means divine right of kingship.
The king and the pope can dislike each other and fight them however they want, but the prerequisite is that they obey the gods they believe in.
The Winter Empire was different. When Xiwei left Dragon Fire City, he destroyed the largest Holy See in the country, the Barda Holy See.
Priests, big and small, were captured and thrown into the dungeons of Winterfort. Anyone who dared to resist had already died on the road.
There is no state religion in the Winter Empire now, and Xiwei has no intention of introducing other gods. Even if there are believers of other gods who want to jump out and spread their faith at this time, he will give them a few words to shut up. .
The Winter Empire does not need the Holy See, nor does it need to believe in a god to receive the so-called protection of a god.
What they are playing is a centralized monarchy. He Xiwei has the final say in the entire Winter Kingdom, and he will fight if he doesn't accept it.
After the enthronement ceremony was over, Xiwei returned to the Winterburg conference hall, where he still had some things to deal with.
He took off the crown not long after wearing it. This thing is actually only worn on key occasions, and the king usually does not wear it.
After all, it’s really inconvenient to have a metal block on your head.
The reason why the enthronement ceremony is so grand is that one is for the players to see, the other is for the big nobles who were rescued from Dragon Fire City, and the small nobles who are about to become the new lords.
The territory cannot be managed without someone. Today, these nobles will be sent back to their respective territories, or those who did not have a territory before will obtain a new territory from Xiwei.
The premise is to comply with Xiwei's rule.
Of course, you can also disobey, and the consequences will be to be pushed to the gallows.
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In the conference hall of Winter Castle.
Xiwei did not act like a king and built a tall palace specifically for discussion.
He felt it was not necessary, but as usual, he summoned all the nobles in this small conference hall.
Compared to the king sitting high on the throne, Xiwei felt that being closer to these nobles would make him appear more "approachable" and "affable".
He sat elegantly at the head of the conference table. Roy helped him hold the shawl that he had taken off and stood behind him with Luo Li.
The discussion in the conference hall gradually disappeared.
Xiwei looked at the nobles present with probing and scrutinizing eyes. His sword-like gaze seemed to pierce their souls, making them tremble with fear and silence.
All the nobles, big and small, stared at the conference table in front of them, as if there was a portrait of a naked beauty carved on the conference table.
Frion is one of them.
He was originally a baron in the Northern Territory without a fief, but now the Viscount of the Northern Territory has been beheaded by the current King of Winter, and as one of the minor nobles in the Northern Territory, he has also been summoned to Winter City. .
Frion probably knew why he was summoned to Winterfell.
To be honest, he was very excited at first because he might be able to have his own territory soon, even though that territory was on a dangerous border.
But as the enthronement ceremony began, Frion's excitement gradually extinguished like a flame poured over his head by a basin of cold water.
He saw so many incredible things today, which could be called fantasy.
In his original understanding, the new empire rebuilt from the ruins should be in ruins and the country was in turmoil.
The king who lacks military strength will definitely win over these nobles and re-distribute the land to maintain the stability of the entire empire.
However, the fact is that there may be a re-confession, but there is no wooing at all. The first thing the newly born Winter King will do after he ascends the throne is to show his force.
The attack on Dragon Fire City didn't seem to cost him many troops, and his tough stance was enough to tell them "I'll beat you if you don't obey."
Thinking of the formidable army under the Winter King, the terrifying execution ability, and the ferocious dragon-shaped mount, Frion shuddered.
When he was just passing by the castle garden, he actually saw hundreds of dragon-like creatures climbing and circling inside the castle.
If he hadn't known in advance that this was Winter Castle, Frion would have even thought that he had entered a dragon's lair.
"I believe everyone should also know the reason for convening you to participate in this meeting, so I will keep the story short."
After a short period of calm in the conference hall, the Winter King who was sitting at the top spoke. Just as Frion expected, the Winter King's tone was tough, saying that it was a meeting, it was more like issuing an order directly.
"Now every territory in the Winter Empire lacks managers, and there have even been riots."
"In order to help you better manage the territory, I have drafted a document for you to take a look at."
As King Winter waved his hand, a parchment with different handwriting but the same content was distributed to the hands of the nobles.
Frion also got a copy. When he took a closer look, he saw that at the top of the parchment, there was written in black the common language of the continent "Draft of the Winter Code"
A trace of cold sweat quietly flowed from Frion's forehead, and he began to read the articles in the Winter Code carefully.
The meeting hall fell silent. Every noble was reading the draft code carefully, but their expressions became uglier the more they looked at it.
This Winter Codex was obviously prepared by the Winter King a long time ago. Each item in it is very detailed, and it is definitely not a defective product that was rushed out.
It can be seen that he has long been determined to win the position of king.
The code is divided into three parts, no more, no less, exactly 1,800 articles. Each part is neat and tidy, and 600 laws are listed in a traceable manner.
The first part is mainly about civil law, which talks about the provisions of personal and family law, including marriage, family, parent-child relations, etc. It sorts out various civil relations and civil rights, and provides detailed adjudication directions.
The second part made the nobles start to have toothaches.
Because the second part talks about property law, it includes various provisions on property ownership and property rights.
The first decree at the beginning was the abolition of all taxes except those imposed by the king.
This meant that the lords' income was directly cut in half, and they could no longer levy taxes at will according to their own ideas.
The third part is the law of rights, which talks about the regulations on various methods of acquiring property.
Including inheritance, gifts, wills, contractual debts, non-contractual debts, mortgage rights, etc., to achieve freedom of exploitation and freedom of contract.
This part once again lowered the status of the nobles. They would no longer be able to forcibly exploit their subjects, and the subjects no longer needed to work for the lord for free. Everything was based on their own wishes.
What was most unacceptable to the nobles was that King Winter unilaterally changed the hereditary system.
All noble children are not allowed to continue to inherit the family territory and must pass the assessment of King Winter. If they fail the assessment, they will lose the qualification to inherit the territory, and the king will re-select a new lord to take over.