Chapter 516 Tax Reform 1
Hansel Abbott hummed a tune and walked briskly out of his office.
Just now someone from the Lord's Mansion came over to inform that Earl Grayman was going to summon the chief officials of the various ministries of the Government Administration Council for a meeting.
Hansel has been in a pretty good mood recently.
Last month, as the heir to the throne, Earl Gerd Rodney came to Lake Town to negotiate business with his current boss, Paul Greiman, on behalf of the royal family. At first, Hansel was asked to He took the lead in the introduction. Fortunately, the two earls ended up having a happy conversation, and Gerd Rodney wrote a special letter to thank him. This flattered Hansel. After all, Gerd Rodney was ranked high in the ranking of royal heirs.
As for why Earl Gerd asked Hansel to introduce him, it was because Sir Hansel Abbott, in addition to being the agricultural director of the Alda Government Office, also had another identity - the royal representative in the northwest bay.
Hansel used to be deeply proud of this identity, but now he is slowly thinking about it. The so-called royal commissioner is most likely because during the rebellion of the Jingyao City Guards, Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine had no place to place the children of various noble families who came from Jingyao to "serve" in her army voluntarily, so she took the new title of royal commissioner. , kicking these aristocratic children to all parts of the country, out of sight but out of mind.
Otherwise, why... why... no salary of a copper plate has been paid to him until now?
Otherwise, why did the head of the intelligence department who stayed at Jingyao, who was nominally the boss of the royal commissioners from all over the country, act so indifferent every time he saw him?
Alas, if it was really the talent that Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine was interested in, he would have been retained in the army to serve in the army at that time, such as his old classmate Matthew.
After the counter-insurgency war, Matthew even used this qualification to be directly spotted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to help him obtain a coveted position.
And I was still blown by the wind in the northwest bay.
Thinking of this, Hansel felt panicked and his steps were no longer brisk. He quickly shook his head to shake these unpleasant memories out of his mind.
His thoughts returned to Count Gerd Rodney. As the king's nephew, he was theoretically second in line to the throne of His Majesty - after his father.
The current king of Aldo only has two daughters, and there has never been a precedent for a female to inherit the throne in the history of Aldo, so the crown is likely to fall on the head of His Majesty the King's younger brother, and Ger Gerd is the eldest son of the king's younger brother, so if nothing unexpected happens, the crown will most likely fall on Gerd's head.
The reason why he is said to be the second in line of succession is that if something happens to Gerd's father, the crown will fall directly on his head.
This should be the case, but the existence of Princess Catherine caused variables in the above program. When Hansel was still staying in the royal capital Jingyao, there were rumors that the king was very keen to let his outstanding eldest daughter inherit the throne.
Will the king change hundreds of years of tradition for his daughter? If His Majesty the King has this plan, will the nobles accept his arrangement?
Hansel shook his head again and drove these thoughts out of his mind. No matter whether His Majesty the King had such a plan or not, no matter whether the nobles thought so, it was not his turn to be sent to the border area. , speaking to a lower-level noble with half "lowly" blood.
Now his desire to return to the capital of Jingyao is no longer as enthusiastic as before. In Lake Center Town, he was the respected director of the Government Affairs Council and one of the top officials appointed by the lord. But when he returned to Jingyao, he would immediately return to his previous disgraceful status and become one of the Aldo nobles. shame. If he had just arrived more than four years ago, the scene in Alda would have given him a huge sense of disparity, but now Alda, no, even the entire northwest bay, has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Yes, this is still the border of the kingdom, but it has become a "rich" border of the kingdom.
Look at the wide and straight avenue in front of you, running through the north and south of Huxin Town. It is paved with smooth and flat stone slabs of the same size.
Except in the capital of Jingyao, Hansel had never seen streets like this in any other city in the kingdom. Most of the streets in other cities are made of earth. The better ones will be paved with a layer of gravel. When it rains, they become muddy and difficult to pass.
The sanitation situation is even worse. You can see almost all kinds of garbage on the streets of other cities, and even human and animal feces. Walking on the streets, you have to endure or get used to those unspeakable things. odor.
On the streets of Huxin Town, the Government Affairs Council established a special agency to manage the sanitation on the streets, and hired people to disperse them every day. At the same time, it introduced laws to impose heavy penalties on those who destroy public health. Thanks to various strong measures, the sanitary conditions on the streets of Huxin Town can be said to be the best in Aldo without exaggeration. In this aspect, even King Capital Jingyao can't hold a candle to it.
On such a road, the carriages and carriages form an endless river. The traffic is so busy that the Government Affairs Council has to formulate traffic rules that are very complicated to outsiders. Public safety The Ministry also sent people to stand guard at various intersections, using a set of unified and standardized hand gestures to provide immediate guidance to passing vehicles on how to pass.
Now Huxin Town is a prosperous city, and it is not the kind of static prosperity, but showing a trend of becoming more and more prosperous. This city has a strong manufacturing industry, with new factories and buildings rising every day, and people coming from the surrounding areas and further afield to make a living every day.
Of course, the busyness of the north-south main road is mainly concentrated in the new city on the south bank of Lake Weiss, while in Lake Center Town - the real Lake Center Town, the small island surrounded by the lake - this section is still Very empty.
Because of the specially designated administrative area here, the original low-rise residential buildings have been replaced by government office buildings. The original residents have also been moved to the new urban area and used beautiful buildings as compensation.
As the size of the Government Affairs Council became increasingly large, important departments, such as the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, etc., all had their own independent office areas or buildings.
The Ministry of Agriculture, which Hansel is responsible for, works in a three-story building. The entire building belongs to their Ministry of Agriculture.
Because various departments are concentrated on a small island and are not far from each other, after officials are working, they can also go for a walk on the street and communicate with the people they meet across departments about their work content. It's really convenient.
Sorry for not updating in time, there were a lot of things going on last night. And in the early morning, the child had a fever again, which made him very confused.
(End of this chapter)