0382 In the seventh chapter, the wisdom of mortals (section 88)
Two days later, uptown, House of Commons building.
Eighteen low-ranking nobles looked either gloomy, angry, or panicked, and they all sat around the long oval table.
Different from those MPs in Zhen Cheng’s hometown who wear wigs and suits, the parliament here seems quite casual. Most of the MPs dress up in Victorian style, Gothic style, or Louis court style, but there are also many avant-garde and trendy behaviors.
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Looking at the faces, there are both serious and old-fashioned elders, as well as many young and beautiful teenagers. Interestingly, the former are not necessarily older than the latter.
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The first person, Earl Consreimu, wore a withered undead face and was more gloomy than usual. He tapped the table with a gavel similar to that of a judge to signal the start of the meeting:
"It's been an eventful time, so let's make a long story short. Today we are going to discuss an unprecedented and serious issue, but as usual, we still start with small things.
But I think given the current situation, no one has the heart to worry about trivial matters, right?" His speech was more like a threat with suppressed anger than a suggestion.
But as if he was deliberately slapping him in the face, Duke Lan Taigong on the left hand side of Earl Consreimu raised two fingers: "There is a small motion here.
The Speaker's blockade of the Xiacheng District ruins has had a very troublesome impact on our daily operations. We also hope that a resolution can be passed here to reopen the authority to explore the ruins.
Of course, we can also understand the speaker's reasons for being so arbitrary. A very troublesome external force has indeed emerged in Xiacheng District, and it must be restricted.
Therefore, I propose Bill No. 1 of this session to only allow members of the House of Commons to conduct heritage exploration, and only to allow the hiring of church members and private armed forces to participate in the exploration."
Half of Lan Taigong's speech was the will of the "Empress of All Realms" relayed on his behalf after the exchange of information and interests with Mei Bixi.
It seems to have given Kongs Laimu a step down, but in fact he is helping Mei Bixi to restrict Zhen Cheng's side. This is Mei Bixi's conspiracy, which was clearly negotiated during the negotiations with Yu Lan Taigong.
Conslaimu's original plan to monopolize the "hidden weapons" in the ruins of the city had originally aroused dissatisfaction among many council members. Now that Lan Taigong was talking about this matter, Conslaimu was angry but did not have a strong stance to reject it.
All three of his explorations failed. Either he was betrayed by the expedition team members invited from outside, or he lost all his close friends in the ruins, which greatly damaged his strength. This has become his biggest weakness at the moment.
Since the parties involved were unable to refute, and the motion proposed by Mr. Lan Tai was very conservative and moderate, this application was quickly passed unanimously.
The Royal Court of Vanbaea belongs to the chaotic evil camp, and the Dome Blood Palace does not care about the governance of the land under its feet. Therefore, the upper and lower cities have become a cake for the powerful to carve up after compromising their interests.
There is no legal constitution here. The so-called House of Commons is just an alliance of a group of nobles who are unable to intervene in the political situation of Upper City and are unwilling to settle down as a strong man who does not compete with the world, so they have been infiltrating and running the Lower City all year round.
The stronger careerists looked down upon the petty profits in their pockets, and the weaker ones were jointly squeezed out by these early arrivals and unable to snatch them. This led to the evolution of the current political system of the House of Commons, which has been stable for nearly a thousand years.
After all, with the pressure of powerful nobles and powerful men, Fanbaia was not able to form the pure law of the jungle like the Eye of Chaos. The "strength" that can participate in the division of interests here includes not only personal combat power, but also family reputation, financial resources,
Diplomatic relations and many other complicated reasons.
Therefore, even though there is a Duke in the [God Awakening] realm and two Marquises in the [Early Opening] realm in the House of Commons of 18 people, the actual center of power is Kongs Laimu, who has the most stable penetration into the Lower City and has the most financial resources.
It is controlled by Lord Lan Taigong, as well as the three counts of Deputy Speaker Fritchinye, who are in tit-for-tat opposition to the Speaker on many political opinions and are used by many members to check and balance.
Immediately after Lantai Gong, this time it was Deputy Speaker Fritsinye who spoke. However, he did not confront Speaker Consreimu like usual, but helped him guide the meeting to the core issue as quickly as possible.
Normally, if a political opponent makes such a huge mistake, everyone would choose to add insult to injury, but now the pot is so big that it affects the core interests of everyone present:
"Now let's ask the Speaker to state the true story of the current situation. Please note that in order for us to have a correct grasp of the overall situation, I do not want to hear any excuses or cover-ups.
Things have already happened. How much responsibility the Speaker has for failing to cooperate with us and other businesses leading to the current situation depends on how this matter ends."
What he said was very impolite, but it attracted unanimous nods of approval from all the members of the audience. Even Constable himself no longer cared about his attitude, and said with a dark face:
"The time limit has come, and all the production materials for this quarter have not been delivered to the city gate for handover as usual.
According to reports from our informants in Xiacheng District, this is not an accident or a caravan strike, but a major incident involving the Sheji Gang, the Labor Gang, and even the entire Xiacheng District.
The incident of foreign forces' involvement in the ruins that Mr. Lan Tai mentioned just now seems to be closely involved in this matter. In short, the people who are plotting the ruins of Vanbaia are the same group of people who are supporting the resistance forces in Xiacheng District.
The worst situation has now happened, the leaders of the four major gangs have maintained close ties with this group of people, and most of the informants we have installed over the years have been eliminated."
When he talked about the troubles regarding the ruins, he did not mention the candidates disrupting the situation.
People who understand this kind of thing will naturally understand it, but if you want to say it directly, you may be affected by the "unrecognized irrational events" of Lamarck's game.
With the strength of the count's [Climbing Path] rank, it is far from being able to be exempted from the rules of the big world. Speaking out these things is purely to cause trouble for everyone here.
But just the factual revelation of this information has caused an uproar in the entire parliament.
"That is to say," Deputy Speaker Fritchin Ye tapped his knuckles on the shiny ebony tabletop: "Our Speaker has been controlling the intelligence surveillance of Xiacheng District with one hand, prohibiting us from intervening.
As a result, now, I suddenly discovered that the income of my informants and all our congressmen for a whole quarter had been intercepted by an external force that has not yet been able to find out?
How are the external forces following? How many people are there, what is their purpose, how do they convince those submissive ants in Xiacheng District to dare to betray us, and how do they cross the sky and sea and swagger away with our profits...
Regarding these, shouldn’t the Speaker give everyone here a reasonable explanation?”
"As you said, the problem now is not how to hold people accountable, but how to recover the losses." Faced with Fritchinye's provocation, Earl Consreimu was not angry. A ferocious look appeared on his gloomy dead face.
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“I propose the second motion of this meeting, to immediately form an expeditionary army in the name of the House of Commons to capture all the rebels involved in this matter!
Our interests are being plundered by despicable reptiles, and our ruling system is being tested. This is an unprecedented rebellion!
Take a vote, congressmen, it's time to choose whether you can tolerate the situation to continue to deteriorate uncontrollably. Please allow me to remind you that there are not a few lower-class nobles eyeing our table."