For thousands of years, manor economy has been popular in all the great kingdoms in the foreign world. Every manor can be regarded as a semi closed micro economy.
There are vast fields, farmhouses, pastures and woodlands in the manor. In most cases, the manor can achieve self-sufficiency. Only a small part of the materials need to be imported from outside, so it has little dependence on the outside world.
The people living in the manor are mainly divided into three classes.
The top floor is naturally the owner of the Manor - the nobility, who occupied all the means of production, and others all depended on the nobility to survive.
The middle class are tenant farmers, or free farmers. They can get the right to cultivate the land only by paying a certain degree of rent to the Lord. They have a limited degree of freedom.
At the bottom were the miserable serfs, who had no personal freedom and whose life and death depended entirely on the nobility.
In the eyes of manor nobles, this pastoral lifestyle is the most perfect one.
However, in any system, the alternation between the new and the old, and the transformation between the less and the old are spontaneous metabolism and eternal themes.
From the moment Renault started magic energy technology, the era of manor economy will eventually pass away, and it will be replaced by the mode of commodity economy. With this process, the industrial and commercial nobles of the new era will step on the stage of history.
This is an irreversible trend of manpower.
But will the old nobles quit?
Of course not.
They will try their best to suppress the new aristocracy.
Because of the fundamental opposition of interests, there is no possibility of peaceful handover between the two sides, which must be full of turbulence, even bloody and killing.
In the different time and space where Renault once lived, a saying is often used to describe this phenomenon, "history always spirals up.".
The so-called "spiral rise" means that in the process of the development of new things, there will be repetition.
Like the coolies at starfish City wharf, as the party whose interests are damaged, they extremely hate the flame reef transportation company with a large number of magic forklifts.
Haichao chamber of commerce is making money every day in Qianhu kingdom. The speed of making money is enviable. Is there no one envious?
Of course not.
In the whole kingdom, there are a lot of aristocrats who want to devour the chamber of Commerce. Among the 100 aristocrats, at least 95 are hostile to the chamber of Commerce.
If it was not for the great external pressure and Renault''s excellent force that the vast majority of nobles were forced to exercise restraint, I''m afraid the nobles of the whole kingdom would rise to attack.
To some extent, the existence of black orcs is not necessarily an absolute bad thing, which can barely be regarded as a kind of "unbreakable".
Because of this, even as strong as Renault, he did not dare to take the influence of the old aristocracy lightly.
He assiduously wooed a group of nobles and cultivated the industrial and commercial aristocracy. In essence, his fundamental purpose was to "pull one faction and fight one faction".
No matter how powerful the elder brother''s fighting power is, if he chooses a large group of people alone, he will feel that he can''t bear it. It''s better to win over a group of younger brothers, strengthen their strength, and then fight each other in groups.
Therefore, when preparing to build the second plant of "sub base", namely "black ice distillation plant", under Renault''s instruction, Haichao chamber of Commerce specially drew up a restriction.
"Ladies and gentlemen, like the subscription method of cement plant shares, this time we will also auction 70 shares of black ice distillation plant, 0.5% of each share."
"In addition, in principle, we hope that the nobles who have bid for shares in the cement plant will no longer participate in the bidding for shares in the black ice distillation plant."
"If there is a flow auction, there will be no more restrictions when bidding again..."
Facing a full house of nobles, Goodall announced.
There was an immediate outcry.
"Mr. good, it''s not fair. I''ve made money and sweated for the rose army. Why don''t you let me bid?"
"I want to protest. It''s a black box operation. Why can someone take shares with less money..."
However, a group of little nobles with insufficient financial resources were happy and expressed their support one after another.
"Mr. good, that''s the way it should be. We have donated money for the rose army, so we have to keep a piece of bread for us..."
"Yes, we are also the most loyal supporters under the title. We should be given a chance."
"That''s to say, some people''s eating looks are too ugly. In order to take advantage of them, they openly suppress their competitors..."
The two men quickly quarreled, and one nobleman pointed to the other nobleman opposite and cried:
"don''t speak in a strange way, Baron Ferrari. Who do you say is'' ugly ''
Baron Ferrari, who was named, was also angry. He "Shua" stood up and revealed more information:
"Mr. good, you may not know that because Lord nasiri has sufficient financial resources, someone even threatened the Lord and warned him not to participate in the bidding."Everyone was in an uproar.
In the aristocratic circle, most of the time, the nobles with higher titles are naturally more powerful, and the little nobles tend to exercise restraint, but in the face of interests, the little nobles do not lack the courage to fight back.
The other faction immediately began to fight back.
"Baron Ferrari, if you don''t have evidence, don''t talk nonsense..."
"Yes, an honest gentleman should not slander others at will..."
Seeing that the quarrel became more and more fierce, some nobles even climbed onto the table. Goodall sighed with a headache and hammered the table with a bang.
"Don''t make any noise. That''s the meaning of crowning..."
However, the interests of the head, Goodall''s face is obviously not enough to stop the dispute, in all desperation, he had to let his subordinates immediately inform his Lord.
When Renault stepped into the auction house, the noisy room became audible.
He looked around and spoke without expression.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I heard from Goodall that some people have different opinions on the restrictions of this auction?"
No one answered.
In front of Goodall, the nobles dare to retort, but in front of Renault, no one dares to stab.
"Good." Renault sneered, "I''d like to add that this share auction will be in the form of" secret bid ". Each person has only one chance to bid, and the offer will not be made public."
Don''t you dislike injustice?
The master is not fair to the end.
There''s more room for secret bidding. Anyway, I''ve made enough money. It''s nothing to do with less money.
In Renault''s view, the small nobles with more people are the most worthy targets.
Because strength is always proportional to desire, the stronger the strength, the greater the appetite.
Renault noticed this at the last auction.
The big aristocrat, who also owns 0.5% of the shares and has abundant financial resources, is not satisfied at all. On the contrary, he has a lot of complaints, but the little aristocrat is very happy about it.
In fact, in Renault''s anticipated commodity economy society, the fewer "giants" at the top of the capital pyramid, the better.
There is only one big alligator at the top, namely Haichao chamber of Commerce. The second level giant is controlled within 10, and the next is a large number of small chambers of Commerce.
Therefore, in Renault''s plan, most of the great nobles are actually the objects that must be weakened.