On the vertical day, Adric, the general of the 13th cavalry regiment standing in the center of the empire, was transferred to the imperial army, and the appointment of serving as the deputy minister of military affairs has been transferred to the Senate.
This move of Emperor Cantos immediately caused a commotion in the circle of elites in the imperial capital, and many sensitive people began to speculate, what was the intention of His Majesty's actions like this.
Although it was expressly stipulated in the code at the beginning of the empire's founding that the appointment of the ministers and vice-ministers of a department of the empire by His Majesty had to be reviewed by the Senate.
And such a process, in fact, has existed in name only a long time ago. The process of the decline of the Senate has gone through hundreds of years from the beginning of the empire to the middle period. During this period, there have been many fierce struggles between the leaders and dignitaries of the Senate who advocated democratic restrictions on imperial power and the royal family, but because of this The system of "democracy restricting imperial power" has irreparable congenital defects at the earliest establishment - the Senate itself does not hold any actual power, which results in that once the imperial power is concentrated, the Senate becomes A decoration that can only be negotiated.
It can be said that at the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the idea of this kind of senate was good, but the flaws in the system turned it into a deformed so-called democracy.
And once the emperor, general and political power are in his hands - it's just a matter of encountering a master with a weak personality, and the Senate will occasionally have a chance to make a sound. But once you meet an emperor with a strong temperament and a strong desire for power, the Senate may even become a place for empty talk.
Therefore, about two hundred years ago, an emperor of the empire did a more thorough job: the emperor at that time directly forcibly passed the imperial decree, and the emperor has the power to issue special appointments, and this appointment only needs to go through the nobility council. If you agree, you can directly replace the deliberation process of the Senate, and transfer it to the head of the appointed department for signing and taking effect.
The so-called aristocratic parliament is actually a group of big imperial aristocrats closely surrounding the royal family - the royal family is the largest noble in the empire, and all the other nobles, whether it is from the class itself or the common interests of the general direction, want to come. The royal family advances and retreats together, and even to the end, most of the members of the so-called noble council are members of the royal family or royal family-in-laws. In this way, at least at the level of personnel appointments in the empire, there is almost no restriction on the imperial power. !
And this time, what surprised the different circles of dignitaries in the imperial capital was that the Great Lance Emperor didn't know which string in his head was suddenly tied wrong, and actually handed over a personnel appointment letter to the Senate? !
senate? !
Everyone knows that in the past 200 years, this kind of personnel appointment system has been relaxed in the Senate. After more than 200 years, let alone appoint a dignified Minister of Military Affairs, even if it is a petty official in a deserted department. Appointment, it is not the Senate's turn to interject.
Emperor, what does he want to do? Could it be that Emperor Cantos was very drunk before signing this letter of appointment
Or is this lancer old confused, what does he want to have a relationship with the Senate
That's all there is to it.
The one who can't laugh or cry the most is the Senate itself.
It has been two hundred years since the Senate has held a discussion on personnel appointments. It is said that when the emissary in the palace sent the official document signed by His Majesty to the Senate, the person who kept the door of the Senate suddenly saw the palace emissary wearing a brocade robe. Recognize the other's attire - the Senate has not received a court emissary for many years.
When the envoys from the palace came, they immediately made a mess of the senate, which was usually lacking in people. There was a quarrel over the etiquette steps for entering the Senate for more than half an hour—this was the first time in more than 200 years! Finally, I found a few cases from hundreds of years ago from the literature.
When a few elders walked out of the courtyard to greet him, the palace messenger was already standing in the sun with a worried expression on his face, while a few elders were still standing at the door, even if they didn't show respect, He held his head high and blocked the door, looking at his appearance, I was afraid that even if he slammed into it, the other party would not give way at all.
What does this mean
The palace messenger was a little unhappy, and coughed: "I bring the appointment signed by Your Majesty, and ask the Senate to discuss it."
"Yeah." The first elder standing in the middle suddenly shouted loudly, and that voice almost made the palace messenger startled, "Your Majesty knows that civil rights come from people's livelihood!!"
The muscles on the messenger's face trembled, and he suddenly remembered that His Majesty's strict order had mentioned the scene before him, so he could only shrink his head and said, "Your Majesty knows."
"Very good." The first elder nodded with satisfaction, and stepped aside with a reserved smile.
The second elder was still standing there, and suddenly shouted in a loud voice: "Your Majesty knows that monarchy is taken from the people!!"
The messenger gritted his teeth and resisted the tingling ears: "Your Majesty knows."
"Not bad!" The second elder stepped aside.
The third elder seemed to be so old that he even lost all his teeth. Although the silk robe looked shiny, if you looked closely, there were already many cavities on it, and there was also a faint mold of mildew on it. The smell, I don't know if it was temporarily turned out from the bottom of the press box just now. The old man seemed to be unable to stand, and he could barely breathe. The palace messengers were a little worried. I was afraid that the old man would not be able to lift himself up in one breath, and he would be called by the Lord at any time...
"Your Majesty... but... know... the people... come... the people... plan..."
The shriveled and leaking mouth reluctantly spit out these few words, but it made people hear it vaguely, as if there were no, the messenger felt helpless, this old guy, I am afraid that the earth is buried in the sky, What are you running out for? But he didn't care what the other party was talking about. His Majesty explained it before coming here. The ceremony of entry is an ancient ritual.
Immediately, with a loud voice, the old man nodded, and also replied, "That's right." But the messenger was already restless, and he took the first step to get in through the gap.
After entering, he directly put the documents he brought into his hands and handed it over to the first elder, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The official document written by Your Majesty has been handed over. If you need to hold a proposal, please decide as soon as possible. Go back and recover."
After speaking, seeing the three elders standing in a row, as if they were going to perform some ancient ceremony, the messenger felt impatient and quickly got out of the room.
The three elders were relieved when they saw the messenger leave. The eldest one could no longer stand up immediately, and two entourages rushed up to support him. One of the elders opened the document and glanced at it: " Yi? General Adrick, take office, Emperor, Empire, Deputy Minister of Imperial Military Affairs?!"
The other two were stunned for a while, and even the old man seemed to be out of breath suddenly, staring at his two colleagues in surprise.
After half a day, the three talents suddenly showed ecstasy: "Great victory! Great victory!! Hurry up! Quickly issue the summoning order! Summon all members of the Council of Elders, and send it to everyone today! Great victory!! For the emperor to submit such an important appointment to the Senate for deliberation, that is a great victory of democracy and civil rights over the imperial power!!!"
The three of them all looked obsessed, and after laughing wildly for a while, the one standing in the middle sighed thoughtfully: "Alas... With such a foundation in place, the funding for next month should be Could it be posted sooner? Well, these days, eating cabbage every day is really boring. Now, can you eat meat?"
When the other two elders heard it, they immediately showed empathy expressions on their faces. For a while, they became elated. Even the eldest one was dancing, and one elder could not stop talking: "Meat, eat meat..."
The three elders, who were usually highly regarded by Reed, looked like this, and the young servants on the side couldn't help but be at a loss. These young servants have never had any books, democracy and civil rights, and so on. Naturally, they don't know anything, but they look at the appearance of the three masters.
Uh... This democracy, does it mean eating meat
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The appointment and removal of personnel, which was held only once in two hundred years, caused a sensation in the entire imperial capital. After the summoning order was issued that day, the original Senate was registered. But after such a call, it was discovered that the number of people was greatly wrong.
It turns out that since the Senate has fallen, it only maintains more than 30 standing members to carry out their daily work on weekdays - the so-called work, that is, some celebrities in the imperial capital regularly gather in this Senate, under the guise of "limiting imperial power". Under the pretext of “implementing democracy”, he made a stab at the current state policies of the dignitaries. To put it bluntly, he complained and made empty talk, among which there are quite a few things like “what if I were the prime minister” and “what if I were the prime minister”. How should the Minister of Military Affairs be restructured?” “How should I cheer up Tsunuki if I am the Imperial Chancellor...”
Among them, it is not worth mentioning that there are few capable people, and there are many complaining but pretentious idiots. The so-called people go high and water flows down. This Senate has been in decline for so many years, and it has no power or power. How can it still retain the real talents
However, there is always a benefit to these people's regular gatherings. Among them, there are many celebrities who like to be arty and self-proclaimed to care about the country's affairs and people's livelihood - but they are only second- and third-rate people. . I can only do some empty talk here, sighing a few words about my underappreciated talents. It's just that people like this, although they are only second- and third-rate classes, are always rich, and even some people have a title of nobility on their head.
These people often gather once, and each time they will come up with a fundraiser, and the funds raised are used to maintain the daily operation of the Senate.
In addition, in order to show its true character of "democracy and civil rights", the Senate also sent the membership with decision-making power to the people, leading figures from all walks of life, profound scholars and celebrities, etc. … Naturally, this scene was only seen more than two hundred years ago, and it is no longer there.
Today's Senate has long since become a neglected family, and even the resolution membership of those Senates can't even be sent out sometimes!
Why
This decision qualification is of little use on weekdays. In this huge Senate, where can there be any nonsense to decide? But to decide membership, you have to pay a membership fee every year. Which one is willing to do it
Therefore, in the end, the qualifications of members dropped again and again, and the qualifications of members fell to the point where they could no longer be lowered, but the good and the bad were still mixed - and it really fell, and it was difficult to rise again.
Therefore, when the summoning order came down, the imperial capital was a sensation that day, but when it got dark at night, the more than 100 decision-making members on the roster were not counted, and the servants in the Senate hurriedly rushed back to report: a certain A member passed away many years ago.
A certain member has already moved with his family.
A certain member has already converted to the church, and has served the gods in this life, regardless of worldly affairs.
In the end, let's put aside those who have been born, old, sick, and died, floating without a trace, or jumping out of the mundane... The final count is still in the imperial capital, and the group of decision-making members who are alive and breathing, can move around, and have no problem, actually Only eighty-eight!
The three elders looked at each other and looked helpless.
whatever then! Eighty-eight, eighty-eight! Something is better than nothing.
Then they sent someone to send the invitation signed jointly by the three people in the Senate, and sent it to the residence of the general Adric in the imperial capital, and agreed to hold a meeting the next day.
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Early the next morning, the three elders had been so excited that they couldn’t sleep all night, but they had encountered a great event that they had not encountered in more than two hundred years. God bless, this string, it will be more wrong in the future!
He also thought of his position as the elder of the Senate, but he has experienced something that has not happened in two hundred years. In the future history books, he should have his own account!
Excited but excited, waiting for the three elders in the morning to wait for the resolution members who came to participate in the meeting according to the summoning order... The three guys were stunned at the same time! !
This... this... This is the fucking member of the holy senate with civil rights as its foundation, who has the power to decide the holy people? !
Standing on the steps of the Senate, the three elders were dumbfounded at the same time: at the gate of the Senate, an ox cart blocked the steps of the main entrance, and the bones of the ox cart were deeply sunk in a dirt pit on the road. , the driver above was sitting on it with his legs crooked, but now he has jumped down, pulling the bull's head to exert strength, and the bull changed to "moo-moo".
At the same time, there were some people of various colors surrounding the door. As soon as the Senate opened the door, these people immediately swarmed over: "The door is open, the door is open! Hurry up!"
"Wait! Wait!!!" The younger one of the three elders was frightened, and hurriedly called the servant: "Block the door, block it! People outside, report their names and occupations one by one! "
There was a young eldest sister with a bulging chest in a small cloth jacket and a child in her arms: "My man is a blacksmith, and my man has work to do today, so he asked me to... um, I don't have a name."
There was a man with a bloody smell and a greasy face, with a boning knife stuck in his waist: "I'm a pig butcher!"
There is a middle-aged man with a roll sleeve covered with dirt: "I am a gardener who grows flowers."
A thin and short young man glared: "My father died, I came for him."
…
In the end... there was a pale young man with a bit of green air, even under the sun, he looked a bit feminine and ghostly: "I... I am, I am... I am... "
At this moment, the hearts of the three elders were already cold, and when the last person in the family was hesitant to speak, one of the elders couldn't help frowning impatiently and shouted, "What the hell are you doing?"
"I..." The pale and feminine man suddenly twisted: "I... I'm from the hall... "
Before the three elders could understand, the butcher who killed the pig suddenly smiled and pointed at the man: "Ah, it turned out to be a rabbit."
…
The three elders, at this moment, I am afraid that they even have the heart to die! !
The dignified Senate, the symbol of civil rights established at the beginning of the empire, has actually fallen to such a state? !
What kind of mortal father pawns, that's all! Actually, actually... Even the rabbit in the fucking hall has become a resolution member of the Senate? !
The three elders looked at each other, and finally, the elder in the middle coughed and frowned: "Don't make any noise! This is too outrageous!! Where do you guys get your memberships from! According to According to the regulations of the Senate, those who can obtain membership must have a certain level of cultural education, you, look at you…”
The elder stomped his feet heavily and snorted: "Don't make any noise! Listen to me! Among you, whoever is literate, can recognize Byzantine script, can read and write, come up first!"
But after asking this sentence three times, I saw everyone below looking at each other, you look at me, I look at him, but no one really moved up.
The elder felt grief and indignation in his heart, and was about to let out a few sighs when suddenly the man with a blue face and sullen face stretched out his hand timidly: "That... I..."
The old man Yixi: Sure enough, there are still people who can read! Anyway, something is better than nothing!
However, when the femininist man continued, he said, "I... Although I can't read, I can count! From one to one hundred, there is no problem."
counting? Counting from one… one… to one hundred?
If this old man hadn't already had a strong mind, I'm afraid that he would die on the spot on the spot!
Counting numbers? ! Among the elites of the past dynasties in this senate, there are historians, researchers, inventors, politicians, military strategists, and many artists of mainland civilization...
And now, a guy who can only "count from one to a hundred" has actually become the most educated member among the decision-making members? ! If the predecessors of all dynasties knew about it, I'm afraid they would jump out of their graves one by one!
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel sad, the original excitement and anticipation have long been swept away!
The old man's face was full of anger: "Counting from one to one hundred?! Humph, you can count to one hundred!!"
He originally said the opposite, but he didn't expect that the green-faced man didn't feel it at all: "Ah, yes! I can usually do four businesses a day, and in one day, I can earn 100 copper coins. ."
The elder sneered: "Oh, so you can earn twenty-five coins every time you... do business?"
The blue-faced and feminine young man suddenly looked surprised: "Yi? This old gentleman, how did you know that?! Ah. Could it be that you have been to me too... Well, it's just that I have no impression of you... "
"...Puchi!" A streak of blood.
"Ah! Lord Yuan! Lord Yuan... oops! Come on! Lord Yuan!!"