The issuance of government bonds is usually led by the Ministry of Finance, and Roland's request is supposed to move Zahar's "cheese", but the Chancellor of the Exchequer breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in agreement with a smile on his face, hoping to give up this hot potato.

"If His Majesty and His Excellency Lloyd do not object, the issuance of treasury bonds will be the sole responsibility of His Royal Highness Roland, and our Ministry of Finance will fully cooperate."

Of course, Rudolph would not object, Lloyd had already realized that he would give power to Roland, and he had no opinion, and the matter was settled.

Roland glanced at Zahar with a smirk. The bald fat man seemed to have just let go of the burden on his shoulders, and seemed to be very relieved, and it seemed that he was extremely fortunate to have been freed from the drudgery of issuing government bonds. Roland was happy to see this, and since the initiative to issue government bonds fell into his own hands, Zahar should not think of recovering this power in the future.

The Cabinet Council was a consensus-seeking balance between the nobles and close ministers who followed the Koras father and son on one side and the emerging bourgeoisie represented by the Awakened ministers on the other. At present, the power of the noble side is far greater than that of the latter, so the two military advisers attending the cabinet meeting - Alexei and Pavel - are full of ideas:

Why would His Royal Highness want to waste his tongue with a loan shark like Zahar? Since he has the full support of His Majesty the King and the absolute allegiance of the army, Roland can decide what he wants to do, so why bother to put a cabinet on himself.

After the cabinet meeting, the two generals stayed behind to express the confusion to Rudolph and Roland.

"Alyosha, Pasha, you only look at things like a soldier and don't understand politics, which is why you can only be a cabinet adviser but not a minister." Rudolph instructed the two old subordinates earnestly, "What is politics? Politics is the art of compromise! Only by compromise can we make more friends and make fewer enemies, avoid internal friction and seek consensus, everyone works together, if you see who is not pleasing to the eye, you will use force to kill, it was a pleasure at that time, who will be willing to do things for us in the future? ”

"However, those people of the Awakening faction are nothing more than ** businessmen and literati, what serious consequences can there be if you offend them?" Pavel asked rhetorically, somewhat unconvinced.

Rudolph smiled, "Pasha, we rely on the army to fight the world, but we can't rely on the army to govern the country, the construction of the country depends on workers, peasants, merchants and literati, workers and peasants have no political power, but businessmen and literati have energy that cannot be ignored, businessmen hold money, literati hold knowledge, the power of money and knowledge is even better than a victorious army, these two forces can promote the rapid rise of the country for my use, on the contrary, if you do not give merchants and literati a way to rise, If they are not allowed to participate in the politics of the country, they will rise up against me, and the money and knowledge they have will be turned into a destructive force that tears apart society and subverts the regime! ”

Rudolph knocked out the ashes from his pipe, handed the empty pipe to his son, and then said to the two generals: "Lloyd, Zahar, Zinovi, Maynard and Yodl are all the elite of the merchant and literati class in the Far East, and they are the spokesmen of these two emerging powers, and the attitude of the royal family towards these ministers will be regarded by the merchant and literati as the attitude towards all of them, and if these people are thrown out of the cabinet just because of disagreement, the merchants and the literati class in the Far East will feel the same way, Hostility to our new regime, which has not yet been firmly established, and of course, we will not make unprincipled compromises for fear of offending businessmen and literati, Roland behaved very well in the cabinet meeting today, he was not impatient in the face of doubts, explained as much as he could, and insisted on the principles that should be adhered to, and if the controversy was too great, he took a step forward first, and broke through the camp of the opponents, and finally the outline of the five-year plan he proposed was successfully adopted, which was a major political victory. ”

The two generals seemed to be inspired to continue questioning, and left together.

Seeing off the two generals, Roland lit a pipe full of tobacco and handed it to his father.

"Pavel and Alexei have followed you in the war for many years, and the credit is great, and now that the revolution has been victorious and the country has been established, meritorious men should be rewarded, otherwise it is inevitable to feel resentful when they see the merchants and literati who speculate halfway climb on their heads."

Rudolph took the pipe and looked deeply at his son: "You are aware of it too?" That's what worries me the most...... Sit down and let's talk about that. ”

Roland sat down on the sofa beside his father, poured himself a cup of tea, held it in his hand and asked, "What are you worried about?" ”

"As you just said, I am afraid of breaking my brother's heart, but how can I reward it? Let's just talk about Pavel and Alexei, on the day of the independence celebration, I personally held a promotion ceremony for them, and they were named lieutenant generals, and other officers were also promoted, and even the two boys who were mixed with you, Alexander and Ivan, were also promoted to majors, it should be said that they are worthy of them, but this is not enough, soldiers in peacetime are the loneliest, Pavel and Alexei may feel uncomfortable when they see the scenery and pomp of Lloyd and others......" Rudolph sighed, rubbed his temples and continued, " I also want to give the old brother more practical benefits, but according to the traditional practice of the founding monarch to give titles and large tracts of land, the result is often to make the nobles in the army turn into a powerful or even feudal princes, and one of the main purposes of the new policy we implement is to de-feudalize, which is contrary to the interests of the nobles, and in the long run, there will inevitably be contradictions, what can you do to solve this problem? ”

Roland closed his eyes in contemplation, his fingers gently rubbing his chin stubble.

Rudolph knew that his son was using his brain, so he didn't rush him, and picked up his heather pipe and spit out smoke.

Whenever confronted with a difficult problem, Roland's habitual thinking is to look back at the history of China and other countries on the earth, looking for similar situations and solutions. Of course, it is rare that it can be copied completely, and at the same time, it is necessary to reprocess it to adapt it to the actual situation, rather than trying to forcibly distort reality to adapt to the precedent.

Rudolph was about to finish his cigarette, and Roland finally broke the silence:

"You just mentioned that the kings of the past often rewarded the nobles and nobles at the beginning of the founding of the country, causing the country to move towards feudalism, and the power of the monarch could not be fully exercised in the country, while the power of the local aristocratic feudal lords continued to expand with the land they occupied, and even posed a threat to the monarch...... We can learn from the valuable part of it - the aristocracy. ”