"I remember that 1 mark is equivalent to 1 pound. 100 marks is quite a lot. But if you represent a chamber of commerce, it is indeed not much. Perhaps the nature of businessmen is to pursue small profits. They think that your kindness will bring them a better future.

The benefits are only worth so much of the investment.”

There were no businessmen here anyway, so Annick hacked them hard.

"Are those city council members?"

Drake remembered that when a group of his Dunland crew members talked about their homeland, they often laughed at the country's full name, the Holy Dunland Empire. This country was neither holy nor an empire. An international country actually had different sizes.

There are dozens of vassal states and free cities, and the emperor of Dunland is elected by seven electors. Although the current emperor has been elected within the same family for three hundred years, it is of no use. The country is in disarray.

Martin still shook his head, "Although there are many free cities in Dunland, where the councilors hold high positions, the city I live in is not a free city. It still belongs to the kingdom of an elector."

When Elizabeth heard this, the two previous people had already eliminated so many wrong answers for her, and she confidently replied: "That's the elector, right?"

Martin nodded, "Yes, it's a full 1,000 marks. Although King Bohia didn't come in person, he just took a picture of the steward to celebrate, but he gave the steward the freedom to spend money. I didn't expect that as soon as I took office

Just received such a large donation.”

I'm a little jealous, why are these people so rich? Annick said with a little envy.

Dre directly asked: "What worries do you have after receiving the money? If you wanted to switch places with me, you would wake up every day and worry about the hundreds of people under your command eating, drinking, and eating."

"What I have to worry about is the problem of tens of thousands of poor people in the entire city surviving the winter. This year is the coldest day on record."

"Pah, pah, pah, pah." Annick applauded.

Elizabeth asked: "Mr. Detective, is this anything worthy of applause?"

Annick thought for a while and said: "Of course it is worthy of applause, but Mr. Balance answers two questions for me. How powerful is the Kingdom of Bohia in the Dunland Empire? Does this king have any achievements or ambitions?"

Drake said directly: "Let me answer the first question for Mr. Tianping. The Kingdom of Bohia is a powerful vassal state in the Dunland Empire. It started with commerce and maritime trade. Many of my subordinates are there.

Recruited are the leaders of the small princely states and free cities in the north."

Martin nodded and continued to add: "The current king, Frederick V, is young and energetic and is working hard to govern. Some people say that he wants to compete for the position of the next emperor."

A powerful country and an ambitious monarch, Annick naturally figured it out.

"Hey, Mr. Tianping, congratulations on finally becoming a pawn on the chessboard."

Everyone obviously didn't react, and Martin replied: "Chessboard, pawns?"

"Yes, the whole world is a big chessboard. The gods play chess with the country and the believers. If you narrow the scope, your Dunland is also a chessboard. Obviously, the person holding the piece on one side is naturally the current emperor, or in other words

The power group represented by the emperor naturally does not want them to continue to monopolize the throne when they play chess with him. I think King Bohia is the person they introduced to play chess."

"I see, what does that have to do with me?"

Annick paused just now because he was thinking about the strange political system of Dunland, and then continued to answer.

"It's religious. The current royal family has been able to monopolize the throne for three hundred years. He must have the support of the conservative Anglican Church behind him. Are three of the seven electors of Dunland in the hands of the Holy See?"

"Yes, the three votes are all in the constituencies of the three holy places of the Church of the God of Justice and Order, known as the three major bishoprics. Mr. Detective, you mean that Frederick V hopes to complete the three major bishoprics through me.

?But I don’t have that much energy.”

Annick sighed, this Mr. Balance is just too kind.

"The ideal situation is of course to let your theory reform those old dogmas. As a region that started with emerging commerce and industry, they naturally hope that the peasants will not be exploited too harshly by the church and the nobility. In this way, there will not be enough

Manpower serves industry, and there are only so many human resources available, so naturally they have to compete with conservatives for people."

Annick continued his emotionless analysis: "Secondly, senior technicians and skilled workers must master certain skills, and at least have a certain amount of property that is enough for them to complete basic literacy and arithmetic. Farmers who can only do coolies cannot satisfy the future.

To meet the needs of industrial production, conservatives will only hope to maintain the present, because in their view, maintaining the status quo is the distribution plan that maximizes their interests."

Seeing the detective's eloquent speech, Elizabeth couldn't help but ask.

"Mr. Detective, do the rulers and the highest strata regard the people as just numbers and resources? Isn't this too heartless?"

Annick smiled bitterly and said: "The laws of society are like this, just like a saw cutting wood, sometimes turning to the left and sometimes to the right. In short, it is constantly deepening and progressing. Take our Bruguet as an example, hundreds of years ago

, only the church and the royal family ruled this country. Later, the nobles used force to force the royal family to divide the rights to him in two civil wars. To this day, every Bruguet adult man has an annual income of more than 200 pounds or an annual income of 2,000 pounds.

Real estate has voting rights, and these are the results of continuous progress."

Inspired by this deviant guy, Elizabeth suddenly thought of a question.

"Mr. Detective, last year there were calls in the House of Commons to give rights to women and immigrants without fixed housing. Will there be a day when every adult citizen of Bruguet has the right to vote?"

Has this eldest lady already had this idea? I wonder if her father will come to duel with me if he finds out. Annick continued after complaining in his heart.
Chapter completed!