"Amiya?" Little Frederick hugged the little rabbit tightly in his arms. The boy was still very young, not much older than the rabbit. Hearing his mother give the little rabbit a name, he hugged the little boy excitedly.
The rabbit kept shouting: "Great, Amiya, let's call her Amiya, and she will be mine from now on!"
Emilia frowned. The Imperial Lady thought to herself that rabbits are very smelly and difficult to raise. Does her son really want to raise such a thing?
Emilia is not an ordinary imperial noble. She has learned a lot of basic knowledge from the Blood Ax Mercenary Group during her years of exile, and she also has some understanding of raising rabbits.
Why did Karl-Franz give a bunny to his son?
Due to her experience, there are not many people Emilia can trust. Even Karl Franz she does not completely trust. The Imperial Countess did not agree. She got up, washed and dressed up, and put on a set of casual clothes.
She put on light makeup and then called over her engineering master Wagner: "Where did this rabbit come from?"
Wagner told Emilia that when he went to the palace, Emperor Karl-Franz had just gotten up and was preparing breakfast. The boy ran into the kitchen and saw the little rabbit being used as food.
If it is cute, it must be brought. The palace chef has no choice but to give it to him.
Before Amelia could make arrangements, little Devon Hill, who was crawling on the ground, was drooling and barely stood up. He stretched out his hand, pointed at the little rabbit in his brother's arms, and shouted: "Donkey! Donkey
!It’s a donkey!”
"Ah?" Amelia felt a little strange. The little maid looked at Ryan and Lidya Su's son and thought that she would like a bowl of water to level it now, so she took it from Frederick's hand.
He took the little rabbit and said with a smile: "Devon Hill, this is obviously a little rabbit, how can you say it's a donkey?"
"It's a donkey! It's a donkey!" Devon Hill didn't wipe his mouth clean, and his saliva drooled, hitting his clothes. The five-month-old little guy was very determined. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the pair of little rabbits.
Brown erect ears: "It's a donkey!"
"...This is the Rex rabbit, Devon Hill." Emilia explained patiently: "This rabbit is a typical meat rabbit, a cross between an Imperial rabbit and a Brittania rabbit. It is just
The ears are erect and very long, a bit like donkey ears, but they are definitely not donkeys!"
"Donkey!" Little Devonshire stood up, reached out and held a pair of ears of the little rabbit, and pulled hard: "Donkey's ears! Donkey!"
The little rabbit's ears were pulled by Devon Hill and he screamed in pain. The rabbit's voice attracted Ryan and Sulia. Seeing this, Sulia quickly picked up her son and held her in her arms: "Okay.
Yeah, Devon Hill, that’s a little rabbit, it’s Amiya, or at most it’s Amity Rabbit.”
"Donkey, donkey Ami!" The little guy seemed to get into trouble with this matter.
"Haha, calling a rabbit a donkey." Ryan couldn't help but laugh. He seemed to have no intention of arguing with his son on this matter.
However, a terrible scene suddenly appeared in the Duke's mind.
Twenty years later, when his two sons grew up, they were arguing over a rabbit, arguing whether it was a donkey or a rabbit.
"It's Amy Donkey!" Behind Devon Hill are the Holy Grail Knights, the Old Guard and the Knight Army.
"It's Ami Rabbit!" Behind Frederick were the Nur armored troops, steam tanks and imperial military formations.
After thinking about it, Ryan couldn't laugh anymore, and he quickly said: "Okay, stop arguing, it's pointless, let's eat, eat."
It’s over, Ami Rabbit has become Ami Donkey! Emilia shook her head helplessly. She gave up. After all, it was not her biological son. She felt that it was inconvenient for her to take care of her, so she had to signal to the Nur armored general under her command.
Take the rabbit off and talk about it later.
The next morning, Ryan and the others visited the Imperial Court.
There are certain differences between the laws of the Empire and the laws of Britannia, but there is no doubt that the laws of these two human countries, or the entire human country in the old world, come from the heritage of the elves, that is
The "Elf Code" written by the Elf Empire.
It is a super-large code that requires dozens of carriages to carry. Its content is detailed enough to ensure that any ordinary human being will not be able to fully integrate this code in his lifetime, because even with the longevity of elves,
It will take at least hundreds of years to fully read and understand this code with astronomical regulations and become a qualified elf judge.
Humans couldn't do it. After Charlemagne established his empire, he immediately ordered his courtiers to spend countless hours translating and condensing the writings left by the elves. After the Great Cataclysm, the entire old world was actually illiterate.
Or a state of semi-illiteracy. Except for clergy, almost no one can read, and the level of low-level clergy is also very low, and they also lack education.
In order to change this situation, Charlemagne brought together the best priests in the entire empire, restored and built schools and libraries, and desperately drew nourishment from the remaining remnants of the glorious civilization of elves and dwarves. Religious education institutions
began to appear, and human civilization gradually developed.
This period of history is known as the "Carolingian Renaissance".
The laws of the Empire have shadows of both elves (statutory law) and dwarves (case law), while the laws of Britannia are copied from the elves and "improved" (more towards statutory law), but are generally similar. The Kingdom of Knights
The "Code of Chivalry" strictly stipulates the difference between knights and serfs, and corresponds to different legal restrictions.
The core of Britannia's law is that "knights enjoy the ownership of serfs, but they must also assume the obligation to protect serfs."
The core of the empire's laws is "Everyone in the empire should do their job and fight to protect the country!"
But obviously, under the supervision of the Fairy in the Lake, the knights have adhered to the spirit of chivalry for thousands of years, and the empire collapsed after adhering to this principle for nearly a thousand years, and then everyone knew that there was a full-scale civil war in the era of the Three Emperors, vampires
The war and the great holy war that followed are familiar and popular.
After the Great Holy War, the new Imperial Emperor Ludwig the Savior amended the imperial laws and added "Everyone has the right to be paid for his labor."
Today, what Ryan and the others were watching was a trial by an imperial judge, and the subjects of the trial were some imperial citizens who had violated the law.
A man was sentenced to 20 lashes for theft and intentional wounding and ordered to pay damages.
A male aristocrat caused trouble in the street after being drunk and made blasphemous remarks. He was sentenced to fifty lashes. However, because he paid enough bail and a high fine, the sentence was changed and put in a "criminal bag" for public display.
He was not allowed to eat for two hours and could only drink water for a whole day.
Several cultists were sentenced to death because they were found to believe in the Evil God of Chaos and were executed immediately without bail. As soon as the verdict was handed down, several swordsmen raised their knives and dropped them, splattering blood on the ground, and then dragged them out and burned them clean with flames.
Lane and others watched a series of judgments, and he asked the entourage sent by Emperor Karl-Franz: "Now that we know how the Imperial Court operates in Brunswick, what about not in the city?
"
"It's the Circuit Court, Your Excellency Ryan, Your Excellency Sulia." The emperor's entourage replied respectfully: "The city will regularly send circuit judges, leading a team of guards to the countryside where there are no judges to judge matters, until one day
A resident judge takes the place of a circuit judge, but I would say, that's not a good position."
"Not a good position?" Ryan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked, "Why?"
"It's too dangerous, Lord Lane." The attendant quickly told Lane what he knew in a somewhat flattering manner: "The circuit judge has to move back and forth in the wild and go to different places to hold circuit trials. Even in Reikland, this is not the case.
A very dangerous job. After all, no one knows about those black forests.
What's inside, and... Compared with the huge risks and hard journey, the salary of circuit judges is really not that generous. They are often seen asking for rewards and offerings from local nobles and farmers, and those who provide food and
Those with funds will be able to sit on the jury with dignity."
"Hmph~" Emilia snorted lightly, but she didn't say anything.
"Why is this!" The Lake Fairy who controlled Sulia said unhappily. She wanted to say something out of habit, but the goddess quickly realized that this was an empire, and she also snorted.
, changed his words: "So many crimes can be forgiven as long as they pay enough fines?"
"Yes, except for some unforgivable crimes, almost all crimes can be offset by paying high fines to offset the punishment or be exempted from guilt." The attendant immediately said: "In fact, many fines are also an important income for these circuit judges."
"This is better than us always relying on village elders and village elders to solve problems on our own." Ryan smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "Who are the main people who serve as circuit judges?"
"Most of them are lawyers who cannot become famous, or unlucky people who have offended the local legal research society." The attendant continued: "There are also devout followers of Lady Justice, but there is no doubt that as long as they have the opportunity, they will try their best to return to the city.
Come inside."
Lady Justice is the folk name of Valena, the god of justice and law. Valena is concerned about real fairness, not the legal fairness that serves certain people. She and her followers have always opposed tyranny and oppression. Just as
Valena represents wisdom and education, and the priests of her sect are more active in practicing magic than the clergy of other religions in the empire.
However, fairness has never been equated with justice. The Goddess of Justice will ask the nobles for legal wages and seek justice for those civilians who are owed wages or bullied by the powerful. But similarly, the Goddess of Justice will also punish the civilians because of the law.
and suppress law-breaking civilians, even if this
If a commoner is wronged or innocent, the Goddess of Justice sect does not say anything about extrajudicial mercy or lenient treatment. Faced with the same punishment, the nobles can pay high fines to exempt or reduce the punishment, but the commoners must accept it if they cannot pay.
Judgment, Ms. Justice also agreed with this.
The empire needs to be more open in this regard. The so-called openness means that you can solve many things with money. Generally speaking, almost all crimes can be solved by paying a fine. If not, then it must be that the fine you paid is not enough.
, the gods treat them equally whether they face nobles or common people, it depends on whether they have money or not.
The same goes for the Moorish God of Death. When the priests of the Moorish sect come to hold a funeral, the more money they give, the better the treatment of the deceased. If there are only a few copper coins, they just recite a prayer and arrange the cremation. If there are two
Silver coins can be buried in a small grave bag. If there are two
Gold coins, the deceased can get a corner in the Moorish Garden. If there are twenty gold coins, there will be a sarcophagus. The more money, the better the Moorish sect can do. In many cases, how good the treatment the deceased can get does not depend on
Moorish priest, but it depends on how much money the family of the deceased is willing to pay.
Ryan also expressed his understanding of this. After all, the church also had to pay its dues. The Death Cult was rarely able to collect tithes. Their main income was funeral expenses and donations from nobles.
The most people who believe in Lady Valena, the just lady, are the residents of Braunschweig and Nuer, especially the upright bureaucrats, enlightened nobles, scholars, wizards and citizens with a certain level of education. Valena is also the wife of Moore, the God of Death.
"Yes." Ryan was also about to start implementing the circuit trial system. After hearing this, he knew what was going on and said no more.
After visiting the trial in the Imperial Court, Lane and others entered the Imperial Palace and had lunch with the emperor and his family.
On a snowy afternoon, along the snow-covered stone slabs, the Emperor and Rick's guards led Ryan and his party towards the Royal Zoo of Brunswick.
Karl Franz was wearing a purple-gold shirt, breeches, and a gorgeous emperor's satin robe. The Reikland Rune Fang hung on his waist. This was a symbol of his status as the Grand Prince of Reikland. As for
The divine hammer Gail Maraz did not appear. It is said that this divine hammer was enshrined in the Cathedral of Justice when the emperor was not out fighting or declaring his authority as emperor.
"When you came to Braunschweig last time, you said you wanted to visit the Royal Zoo." Emperor Karl-Franz smiled: "But when I arranged for people to be ready for you to visit, you were in a hurry to leave, and in the end you didn't
The visit was complete, why were you in such a hurry to leave? It was made as if there was a purpose."
"Hahaha, it was Lord Tigris who told me that he was going back." Ryan was a little embarrassed, and he immediately used Tigris as a shield: "He said that he had been in the old world for a long time, and the high elf Sav
The Council of Magisters of the White Tower of Hos in the Rui Kingdom cannot be without this supreme mage for a long time. He is gone, and I don’t think I can stay much longer.”
"That's it." Sure enough, the emperor had an instinctive admiration and affection for Teclis. After all, Teclis's achievements in the Great Holy War and his contribution to the creation of the Royal Wizarding Academy brought great benefits to the empire.
, hearing that this was what Teclis meant, the emperor said nothing more,
He began to introduce the history of the Imperial Royal Zoo: "The Imperial Royal Zoo was established by Emperor Dieter IV, long before the Great Holy War and the establishment of the New Empire. It was the home and collection of the most dangerous animals in the old world.
It also provides enough mounts for the imperial army."
After saying that, the emperor suddenly smiled meaningfully: "The zoo is also the most important place that produces imperial war horses. These war horses mainly come from the Ivey Territory, which is a plain rich in war horses... Ryan, you and Mrs. Sulia
You’re all riding your own horses this time, right? Are you interested in taking them here for a stroll? We have many beautiful mares here.”
"As long as it likes Grape, I have no problem with it." Ryan also smiled: "But I will not force my mount to do anything. Let me remind you, Grape has a bad temper."
"Good mounts are always scarce." The emperor could hear the implication of Ryan's words. He shrugged: "Of course, my mount, Deathclaw, is also here."
"His Majesty Karl Franz." At this time, Sulia, who was holding Ryan's arm, spoke up. She asked with great interest: "I heard that there is a dragon in the Empire Zoo?"