Chapter 110: Survive in Death The House of Lords, the conference hall that had been silent for a long time, was lively again.
The parliamentarians, dressed in white antique robes, walked into the venue one by one.
The ancient bronze seats, the tall statues, the atmosphere is classical and solemn.
On the oval-shaped rostrum, twelve chief councillors are seated, and in the center is Speaker Mel Gibson.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please be silent, and in the will of the just and wise Norman Archduke, we are here to judge the culpability of General von Hull, and I ask all the members of Parliament to express their opinions."
"Kill him, he's a cruel executioner," an arm was raised from the audience, and his loose robe slid down to reveal his black-haired arm.
It was a young man not yet twenty years old, very tall, with long thick brown hair, a high forehead, and a pair of eyebrows almost joined together, almost like an uncivilized barbarian.
Mel Gibson knew him, it was the aristocratic Councillor Patrick, a nasty bastard.
His father, who indulged in wine and never gave birth to a formal heir, was forced to bring back this illegitimate son with a prostitute, arrange a random origin, and then let him inherit his own title.
Mel Gibson frowned, waved his hand gracefully, and said gently and politely: "Councilor Patrick, please be quiet, we are going to agree on a crime for him, and it is the right of His Excellency the Grand Duke to decide whether he lives or dies, please give me your specific opinion." ” "I, I", Patrick, who had no learning and no skills, squeaked, and finally sat back with a red face, causing a burst of laughter.
"It is an undeniable fact that General von Herr retreated in Vondenburg, defeated the Butanny army, killed nearly 20,000 enemies in the first battle, and made the first contribution."
A slow, methodical voice spoke.
As soon as he spoke, the audience fell silent, and even Mel Gibson turned his head and looked at him respectfully.
He was the soul of the House of Lords, though he had always spoken little, leaving Mel Gibson to show off his might.
Of all the noble councillors, he was the oldest, eighty-two years old this year, with a wrinkled face, age spots on his skin, and always with a look of misanthropy, and this old man was the former noble abbot, Mr.
Sulasgerman.
On a hot day, he was still wearing a pure white woolen shawl, and the strong smell of perfume could not hide the smell of death and the suffocating smell of aging on his body.
Mel Gibson wanted to put General von Hull to death immediately, but this old guy seemed to have the intention of exonerating von Hull, and Mel Gibson did not dare to refute it, so he had to let him go on first, while urgently thinking about how to convince him.
The old man continued: "Immediately, General von Her took advantage of the enemy's main force to attack instead of defending, interspersed behind the enemy's back, turned the people of the Duchy of Butanny on their backs, and captured more than ten cities in a row. ” "Listen to me, Honorable Councillor Surasgerman", Mel Gibson never expected that Count Suras, who had supported and nurtured him, would help General von Her to speak, and he interjected anxiously.
"Wait, I'm not done yet," the old man raised his crumpled palm and waved it weakly, and Mel Gibson had to close his mouth.
"But, Honourable Parliamentarians, let us now go back and look at this whole war, which is very debatable.
In the Battle of Vondenburg, General von Hull defeated the army of Butany, which greatly reduced the enemy's morale, and if the troops were rearranged at this time, the chances of victory were still very high.
If he retreats to the Stormy Castle, with the army that he won in the first battle and the fortified walls of the Stormthunder Castle, it will be difficult for the Grand Duke of Butany to move forward.
They came from afar, robbing villages and plundering villages to maintain supplies, and in the end they had to retreat.
However, General von Hull took the initiative to send troops, capturing more than a dozen cities and displacing millions of Buttany civilians. slaughtered more than 100,000 people in a city, and in the end, he left behind tens of thousands of heroic Norman soldiers and fled back alone.
He has made meritorious deeds, made immortal deeds, with the blood of countless people" Councillor Suras seemed a little tired after saying so many words in one breath, and he closed his eyes tiredly.
Mel Gibson seemed to hear something out of his words, and he busied himself with respectfully pouring a cup of hot tea for Count Suras, and bringing it to him.
The old man took a sip lightly, put down the cup, and continued: "Now that everything is clear in retrospect, General von Hull has two ways to win.
One, he personally will not have much merit, but he will be able to repel the enemy just as well, and the casualties of our troops will be minimized.
The other way is for him to personally create a great feat, at the cost of the lives of all the soldiers of the army, which he knew before he sent out the army.
And the valiant knights who were stationed in Vondenburg after he sent his troops, alas" The audience was silent, and all the councillors looked up at the dying old nobleman with reverence.
Today's meeting was originally intended to falsely accuse General von Herr and sentence him to death.
For this reason, the nobles were ready to be scolded by the whole team and the citizens behind their backs, and they were ready to be ridiculed and disdained by the nations.
But the great councillor Suras raised a banner for them that stands for justice, benevolence, and justice.
"I convict him of the massacre of countless civilians, and the Grand Duke of Butani, who has violated us, is a war criminal, but the massacre of civilians is against the rules of a knight," one of the councillors said aloud, standing up.
"I convict him not because of how many civilians of the enemy country he slaughtered, but because he sent countless soldiers who should not have been sent to death into the abyss of death for his own selfishness, which is intolerable to the Grand Duke who treats his people well, and every one of our upright and selfless nobles."
"I convicted him, he personally slaughtered the warriors who trusted him and followed him, and for his own merits, this path was not his only choice, let alone his best choice.
Von Hull, this person, not killing is not enough to be angry with the people," another parliamentarian stood up and said sadly.
"If we don't kill Von Her, why don't we kill Von Her to the citizens of the whole country, why don't we kill Von Her, there will be careerists who will follow suit, we will lose the heart of the army and the people, and the consequences will be unimaginable If we don't kill Von Her, how can we face those mothers who have lost their sons and sons who have lost their fathers" A middle-aged nobleman stood up and burst into tears.
There are people in the audience who know him well, knowing that this guy is addicted to eating a kind of medicine extracted from stones, and after eating, he will be fluttering, of course, in the eyes of others, he is crazy, if he has not swallowed this stone powder after the time of drug addiction, he will have snot and tears, and now it is estimated that eighty percent of them are drug addicts.
"Fake public and private, von Hull is guilty" "With the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, fighting for a personal merit, von Hull is guilty" "Von Hull is guilty" "Guilty" There was a murderous aura in the eyes of the nobles, like a pack of wolves surrounding their prey.
With a slight blow of the "snap" copper hammer, the fate of General von Her was sealed under the golden mouths of these politicians.
"One more thing, it's about the Jinding Stock Exchange incident," Mel Gibson, who had fallen to the ground with a big rock, put a relaxed smile on his face and began to discuss another matter, when von Hull's life and death were confirmed.
The first thing is to put political opponents to death, and the second thing is not to ask, of course, to regain power.
As soon as this sentence came out, the audience suddenly became confused, most of the nobles present had investments, although they did not take out all their family property, but this loss was enough for these wealthy nobles to feel pain.
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"Damn good luck boy, it's that little boy Bato, who maliciously smashed the market, causing the whole market to be dominated by panic, so that there was an uncontrollable stock market crash" "And Jedi, Jedi of First Financing Bank, he has a close relationship with the military and von Hull, before Barto threw all the bonds, he personally rushed to the Jinding Securities Exchange, obviously he got the news that our army was wiped out on the banks of the Bula River, I believe that von Hull has died, he and Bato are in cahoots, and he can't get rid of this matter."
Two furry arms were raised high into the air and slammed into the table, and it was Patrick, who bared his teeth like a gorilla.
Almost half of the property left to him by his dead ghost father was buried in the Golden Dome Exchange in one day.
"I just want to know who moved my bonds," Patrick shouted in a suffrage, sonorous voice.
"Sit down, boy, you sold it, you didn't take it," reminded an old fellow next to him.
"What is that being sold, the price has dropped twenty-seven times in one day, what's the difference between that and grabbing," the gorilla cried.
"Well, it's funny to say, that Barto, after mistakenly thinking that von Hull had died in the battle of the Bura River, sent some men to the civilian area to lure the ignorant people in order to throw away all the bonds in his hand.
The people who were fooled really thought they were going to make a fortune, so they ran to the stock exchange to take over the public bonds thrown by the securities tycoons, and they really made a fortune, hahahaha" The laughing man was a very conservative and conservative aristocrat, who believed only in rent, pawnshops, and usury, and never gave a damn about this illusory wealth, and it turned out that this fool was right.
"Yes, this nouveau riche is going bankrupt now, I heard that he ordered a new car a few days ago, renovated the swimming pool at home, and bought a batch of jewelry for his lover, these things have not been paid for, and there are many people blocking his door to collect debts in the past two days", another person gloated.
Mel Gibson tapped the table with a bronze hammer: "Quietly, what we are going to discuss now is not the personal loss of some people, but the end of the principality".
"Ladies and gentlemen, the war is over, the vitality of the Principality of Butani has been greatly damaged, and more importantly, the personal prestige of the Grand Duke of Butani has been greatly damaged, and it will take him a considerable amount of time to stabilize the situation in the country.
As you know, the Duchy of Butani is now formed by the merger of the Kingdom of Croia, the Kingdom of Appia, and the Duchy of Butani.
The Grand Duke of Butani was defeated, and now that the hearts of Croia and Appia were unstable, and the nobles of Butani himself were also dissatisfied, it was impossible for him to send troops again.
However, we also have a lot of problems."
"In order to cope with this war, we have issued nine installments of public debt, which will need to be paid by the principality.
In this war, we have not gained much, we have not received war reparations or plundered any wealth, the public debt is like a heavy burden, and the vast majority of the tax revenue in the next few years will be used to pay off the principal and interest of the public debt, and even so, our principality will still have to pay a heavy debt.
The only solution is to issue new bonds when they mature, and use the new bonds to pay off the old ones in order to tide them over.
Each of these steps must be calculated in detail, and there must be no delay, otherwise once the capital chain is broken, the Norman economy will fall into a crisis.
Can the Principality's First Financing Bank take on this responsibility?
The House of Lords is responsible for the future of the Principality, it is responsible for the Grand Duke, and I think the House of Lords should consider this matter" Regain financial power The aristocrats were like a pack of scavenging hyenas, and they all set their eyes on Mel Gibson A bamboo chaise longue, Jedi lying on his back under the big tree in the castle of Bato, the shade is like a cover, and a gust of wind brings a burst of flowers.
He stretched comfortably, and sat up suddenly.
There was no one under the tree, and there was silence everywhere, and he was currently the president of the Principality's First Financing Bank, but his power was extremely small.
All plans had to be approved by the House of Lords, and he was just an executor.
Everyone in the Norman principality knew that he had lost power, and Jedi used the latent power of the Daji Cult to make a big noise, and the whole country knew that he was implicated by General von Hull and was treated unfairly.
Because of this public opinion, and because the Norman Grand Duke had a good opinion of him, the nobles also thought that Jedi was just a snobbish businessman and had no importance in politics, so he was not further persecuted.
During this period of time, he lived quite comfortably, lightly furious horses, and took his daughter to the spring, completely looking like he had no intention of officialdom and indulged in lust.
It's a pity that the Norman Grand Duke didn't know that all those public debts were concentrated in his hands, otherwise how could he have the opportunity to be so easy, and he would have been robbed by the Grand Duke long ago.
In the distance, Helen was teaching the little fox girl kung fu hand in hand.
Helen was a samurai, and it was obviously difficult to get the timid little fox girl to fight the enemy head-on like her, the little fox girl was light-footed, brisk, and agile, and she was an assassin by nature, and it might be more appropriate to let Miss Cleopatra teach her.
However, there are some skills that Assassins and Samurai have in common, that is, the skill of killing, and the Fox Girl is a specialty of Hidden Shadow, and she is proficient in mind control skills of temptation and fear, and can be killed in person without hiding when facing weaker opponents.
Lolita is well-behaved and sensible, she knows that Jedi is doing great things, and almost everyone around him has the same ability, Lolita doesn't want to be idle, so she is very attentive to learning.
Barto also went to the Dream Forest, and if he was hated, once he became a poor bastard, he would only be ridiculed at best.
Barto is such a poor bastard, bankrupt, penniless, and out of the house, the good luck boy has since disappeared in Baptiste, and only his legend is still spread in the Golden Dome stock market.
Now Jedi is the only one who is here to support himself, and he is waiting for news from the Duchy of Butani.
The Picasso siblings were sent by him to the Duchy of Butani to find out the news.
Of course, he sent more than just this group of people, but Jedi believes that those who can become good liars are outstanding diplomatic talents, and as long as they are used properly, they can also do the great thing of stealing the country.
So even though Helen didn't think it was appropriate to deliver such a big task until she could trust them completely, Jedi sent them out.
Jedi stood up, walked a few steps with his hands in his hands, and suddenly turned his head and smiled: "Come out" On that big tree, a pair of bright eyes suddenly disappeared, almost making people mistakenly think that they were dazzled.
Jedi smiled and walked over to the tree, looked up and down a few times, and suddenly reached out and grabbed it.
This grasp made people see that it was wrong, it was obviously a big tree, and it looked like Jedi's fingers had touched the dark brown bark, but if he looked at the big tree in its entirety, his hand seemed to be more than a foot away from the trunk.
"Oops", like a wave on the surface of the water, he grabbed a transparent iceman, a ripple-like ripple disappeared, and Princess Leah pouted and was caught by him.
"People have studied very hard, but every time you see through it, alas, I can't even practice invisibility."
Of course, Jedi wouldn't tell her that he didn't see through her invisibility with his eyes, but based on an animal instinct, but he didn't want Leah to be so unconfident, he laughed and said, "It's very good practice, I think as long as you stand there and don't move, it won't be a problem to hide from most people."
I can recognize it because you know, I'm an envoy of the Daji Cult, and I have some secret skills. ” He took Leah's hand and sat down on the chaise longue, and said, "You must not rely on invisibility, which can paralyze the enemy, and at the same time will make you relax your vigilance, if someone notices your existence but pretends not to know, and stabs you with a sword, you don't even have time to dodge." ” Leah was held by him, she was very happy in her heart, she smiled sweetly, smoothed her eyebrows, nodded and agreed like a well-behaved little daughter-in-law, and lifted the silver kettle on the chair next to her: "Brother Jedi, I'll pour you a glass of wine" The wine was put into the bottle, and the hand was sent, and Jedi was really drunk.
"It's a pity that the weather is hot, and the wine has already dawned, and if it is chilled, it will taste better."
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Princess Leah said regretfully.
She is a princess, and she has been pampered since she was a child, so she has so much exquisiteness.
Although Jedi has also been a gentleman for two years, he still knows how to taste wine or chew peonies He was about to speak, when a crisp voice suddenly sounded in mid-air: "What's the difficulty of making ice, my water magic can turn water into ice" When Jedi and Leah looked up, they saw a green dragon hovering in the sky, and Miss Sallyest's white clothes fluttering from the sky, and her posture was indescribable.
She is showing off her flying skills again, but she is so charming and has a particularly outstanding temperament, and this scene of flying in the air is indeed moving.
Princess Leah was jealous when she saw it, a woman's intuition is very sensitive, and she knew that Sally was well aware of Jedi's pursuit.
It's ridiculous to say that Helen and Lolita are already in love with Jeddy, but they don't care that much about Sallyster.
Helen wasn't worried that someone would take her wife's place, and perhaps no one but Leah would have the qualifications to do so.
The customs and habits that have been formed throughout the continent for thousands of years, coupled with the results of what she has seen and heard in the royal family since she was a child, it is within her tolerance that a successful man has a few lovers.
Lolita was even more demanding, as long as Jedi doted on her, she was satisfied, and she never thought that she was entitled to this man alone.
Leah, on the other hand, always has a strong sense of crisis, including that Miss Cleo, who has a little more contact with Jedi, she will be wary.
This insecurity is probably due to the fact that she herself has not yet been acknowledged by Jedi.
Either way, her hostility towards Sally is real.
Girls practice magic, and most of them practice light or water magic.
She also knows the magic of the water system, and after this period of hard work, her strength may be a little more clever than Sallyst, but she never thought of using magic to suppress wine Sally fell to the ground and said with a smile: "People are tired of running around outside, but you are at ease at home."
If you want to drink a cold wine, I'll help you."
As she spoke, she had picked up the silver kettle, and a trace of white gas floated in her palm.
"What's the important news coming back," Jedi asked, standing up.
He pushed Leah away a little, in fact, he was just not used to intimacy with women in front of others, but Leah saw that Saliste looked familiar, and was gently pushed away by Jedi, as if she intended to avoid suspicion, and her heart was sour.
"Miss Sallist, you've just come back, let's take a break, I'll do this" Leah was like a child who had been robbed of her favorite toy, and she undisguised her jealousy, and snatched the flask with a copy of it.
Not only did she do the same, but she even deliberately showed a hand that was more sophisticated than Sallyster's magical ability, and a faint layer of frost hung on the surface of the silver kettle, and a faint mist rose around the silver kettle due to the hot air.
Sally smiled, as if she didn't care.
She really rested obediently, and sat down, sitting down where Jedi had just sit, where his body was still warm.
Little Leah was even more angry when she saw it, she angrily handed the flask to Jedi, glanced at Sally as if demonstratively, and said, "Brother Jedi, you taste it, it should taste better now." ” The battle for favor between the two women, Jedi has sensed it, and no matter how arrogant a man is, he is actually very sensitive at this time, and his intuition is even more pure male instinct than that of women.
He didn't want to get involved, and to be honest, as a trophy of this kind of war, he actually enjoyed it.
"Okay, I'll try it," Jedi picked up the cup and poured it, but nothing came out of the pot.
Princess Leah's eyes widened, and Jedi was a little surprised, and he lifted the lid of the pot to see that the wine inside had frozen into a large piece of ice.
"I may be every time, I don't have much experience yet," Princess Leah blushed and ate authentically.
Jedi glanced at Sally quickly, a strange smile on the corner of her mouth had just faded, but it was worthy of being seen by Jedi.
"Alas, the pure little Leah is simply a flower that grows in a greenhouse, if it is really tempting, who is the opponent of the descendant of the god of deception, Sallyste" "Hehe, in fact, the wine ice beans are also delicious, I have seen it at the noble banquet, but I just didn't expect your magic power to be so strong, so I didn't bring it up" Jedi snorted, and with a strong palm, the wine jug deflated, and the broken ice popped out, and he copied a few of them into his mouth, and the bite made a loud noise.
"Is there still such a way to eat" Leah was confident, and a happy smile appeared on her face again.
Out of the corner of his eye, Jedi saw that Sally had pouted, a look of disapproval.
He just smiled and nodded, and then asked Sallyster, "What are the opportunities we can take advantage of?"
Sallyster stretched her waist coquettishly, and her plump breasts and slender waist were not inferior to Helen's, creating a charming curve: "My brother is moving in the kingdom of Appia, and I am fighting for you opportunities, opportunities, many, many.
Although the kingdom of Apia is now incorporated into Butani, the two countries are not yet fully integrated, and the defeat of the Grand Duke of Butani has greatly affected the trade between the two countries.
The political systems, economic systems, monetary systems, religious beliefs and even folk customs of these two countries are completely different, and it may not take decades to completely integrate them.
Now the Duchy of Butani has suffered a lot of political and military damage, you know, the Duchy of Butani is short of money, and their purpose in invading the Kingdom of Kroya is for this.
Due to the economic trauma, the two countries did not agree with each other's currencies in their internal transactions, and the common currency gold was severely insufficient, so they wanted to buy gold, but because of the defeat of the war, the countries were unwilling to trade with them. ” Jedi's eyes lit up and he blurted out, "I see" Sallyster smiled, "So here's our chance." ” "We" saw the two of them frowning, and Leah became angry, and somehow she suddenly remembered a blushing sentence that was by no means a lady's right to say: "adulterer and adulteress":