Upon hearing the verdict, Xu Yi did not show any surprise, but instead smiled happily.
Seeing Xu Yi's reaction, Count Basa and a dozen or so council members around him were stunned.
Count Basa frowned and shouted softly: "What are you laughing at? This is the Holy Kingdom's Noble Council, you are not allowed to be so presumptuous!"
Xu Yi shook his head: "I'm just a little funny. It is so difficult to obtain the status of a noble, but it is so easy to be deprived of the status of a noble. It turns out that just by asking a few questions, Mr. Vice Speaker, you can directly announce that I will be deprived of the status of a noble. . Haha, don’t you think this is too hasty?”
Count Barca said with a stern face: "This is a decision made by the council after careful consideration. Letting you come to the council is just to give you a chance to defend yourself. However, you just didn't have any defense and fully admitted the fact that you violated the regulations. So what do you think you have gained?" Is there still a problem with this kind of punishment?”
"No, no, no, I don't think there's a problem, I just really want to laugh." Xu Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "When I was notified before and asked to attend the committee, I was a little nervous, but I didn't expect the process. It’s so simple, and the outcome has already been decided. If I had known this, I might as well not have come, it’s just a waste of time.”
"Presumptuous!" Count Barca shouted angrily. "Xu Yi, let me warn you again, this is the sacred noble council, and you are not allowed to be so presumptuous here!"
Xu Yi shrugged: "Deputy Speaker, you seem to have forgotten one thing. You just said that the parliament has decided to deprive me of my aristocratic status, so I am now a civilian. Since I am a civilian, the aristocratic parliament can You can’t control me? Vice Speaker, if you have any dissatisfaction with me, please go to the Royal Parliament or the Public Security Bureau to file a complaint.”
Count Basa pointed at Xu Yi. He was shaking with anger, but he couldn't find any fault in Xu Yi's words.
Because according to the regulations of the Kingdom's Parliament, although the Kingdom's Nobles' Parliament has all management powers over the nobility, it is only limited to the nobility. It does not have any power to deal with civilians, because this is the management scope of the Kingdom's Parliament.
Xu Yi was right. Now that he has been deprived of his noble status by the noble council, he has become a commoner again. That means that the noble council no longer has the power to manage and restrict him.
If Xu was just an ordinary civilian, then the noble council could naturally find 10,000 ways to deal with him with its own power.
But Xu Yi is not an ordinary civilian. On the contrary, there are a lot of powerful people standing behind him. So this time, under the instructions of some people, the noble council wanted to deal with Xu Yi, and it had to deliberately create a review. It will come out, at least there will be no mistakes in the superficial procedures.
The other congressmen present looked at Xu Yi and were dumbfounded.
They thought that Xu Yi would definitely fight for his being deprived of his noble status and strongly oppose the resolution of the noble assembly.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yi had no intention of denying or defending from the beginning to the end. After hearing the verdict of Count Basa, he also did not show any excitement. He actually accepted it very calmly.
In fact, their original plan was not to directly deprive Xu Yi of his noble status, because directly depriving a noble of his noble status was actually a matter of great consequence. The noble council would not make such a decision easily.
Their original plan was to hope that Xu Yi would make some excuses for himself, and then they could lower the punishment on Xu Yi to achieve their real purpose - to weaken some of the benefits that Xu Yi had obtained through his noble status, such as territory and taxes. In terms of tax exemptions, preferential policies, etc., they indirectly weaken the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But Xu Yi now directly accepted the decision without making any excuses, and showed such an attitude towards Count Barca. Even if Count Barca wanted to proceed according to the original plan and withdraw the decision to deprive Xu Yi of his noble status, he did not do so at all. Find a way to speak out.
Seeing Xu Yi standing in the middle of the venue with a smile on his face, Earl Basa and the other congressmen were speechless for a moment.
Xu Yi looked around and saw everyone looking at him blankly. He smiled slightly and said, "Is everything okay? If everything is okay, then I'll leave. I still have a lot of things to do, so I won't play here with you. ”
Just as he was about to turn around, Count Barca roared: "Stop!"
Xu Yi stopped turning halfway, turned his face sideways, and looked at Count Barca with a frown: "Sir, Deputy Speaker, please pay attention to your demeanor as a noble. I don't think it is too rude to shout like this to a commoner. ?"
Earl Basa almost choked to death on a mouthful of saliva. He was so angry that he coughed hard several times, and then said breathlessly: "You can't leave yet, there are still some procedures to be completed."
"oh?"
Count Barca calmed down and took out a pile of documents from under the table that he had obviously prepared long ago.
"Since you have been deprived of your noble status, some of the privileges you enjoyed as a noble should also be taken back. Here are some relevant documents that you must sign before you can leave."
Xu Yi took these documents from the hands of a young congressman who was sent over. He flipped through them and found that they contained some information about the recovery of the privileges that Xu Yi had when he was a viscount, including private lands.
Xu Yi was not surprised by this treatment, but he raised objections to some details in these documents.
"Sir Vice Speaker, according to what is marked on this "Private Realm Recycling Agreement", shouldn't I have to hand over the entire Luoyu Valley outside Bangta City? Then the factories of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce in Luoyu Valley What to do with various other facilities?”
Hearing this question, Count Barca and other councilors around him seemed to be relieved.
Count Basa showed a proud smile on his face and said: "How to deal with those factories and other related facilities has nothing to do with the parliament. If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot hand over the territory within the specified time, then according to the regulations, everything on the territory will be destroyed. The territory was forcibly surrendered."
"In other words, is the council planning to completely drive our New Flying Chamber of Commerce out of Luoyu Valley?" Xu Yi asked.
Count Basa made an upright look: "Xu Yi, I'm warning you. You are slandering the Parliament. I reserve the right to file a complaint against you to the Kingdom Parliament."
Xu Yi laughed. I thought that the Vice Speaker was clearly shameless. There was no point in saying anything to him.
After reading the contents of these documents, Xu Yi casually threw the documents aside and said sternly to Count Basa: "Sir Vice Speaker, I think I must remind you. The Luoyu Valley, including the area around the Luoyu Valley, , in fact, my private territory is not large, and the other most important parts are directly leased from the royal family. Although the noble council can deprive me of my noble status and confiscate my private domain, the noble council cannot control the leased land. I have no right to intervene.”
Earl Basa snorted coldly: "Do you think the parliament will make this resolution without finding out? Of course the parliament will not clean up the part of the land leased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from the royal family, but you have as high as Nearly ten square kilometers of private land must be handed over!”
Xu Yi looked surprised: "Sir Vice Speaker, who told you that I actually own a private territory of nearly ten square kilometers? I am just a viscount. How could I own such a large private territory? Where did you do it? wrong!"
Earl Basa waved his hand: "Stop messing around. Your private domain area is on file in the parliament. How could it be wrong?"
"No, no, no, I just applied to His Majesty the King for a private territory of up to several thousand square meters, just to build a private manor for living. How could I ask for a place as big as ten square kilometers? Even if I asked It’s obviously impossible for His Majesty to give it to me, so you must be mistaken. If you don’t believe it, please ask His Majesty the King for confirmation.”
Count Barca chuckled, and determined that Xu Yi was struggling to death. He said coldly: "No need, the parliament will only make decisions based on the information in the parliament. Besides, why bother the king now because of this trivial matter..."
Halfway through his words, Count Basa suddenly paused, staring straight behind Xu Yi with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
The expressions on the faces of the other congressmen were equally wonderful, and they all stared blankly behind Xu Yi.
Xu Yi turned around and saw a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance and short height, who looked to be in his forties, slowly walking into the side hall.
The middle-aged man nodded to Xu Yi, then turned to Count Barca and asked: "Deputy Speaker of Barca, is Xu Yi's council over? Are the results out?"
Count Basa's face became extremely ugly, and he hesitated for a long time before replying: "It's over. As for the result..." Count Basa glanced at Xu Yi, and his face became even more ugly. "Viscount Xu Yi has deliberately violated the relevant regulations of the Parliament and has now been deprived of his noble status in accordance with the regulations."
The middle-aged man nodded, then turned to Xu Yi and asked, "President Xu, are you a civilian now?"
"Yes."
Xu Yi thought about it in his mind, and suddenly thought that he seemed to have seen this middle-aged man in the palace before when he met with His Majesty the King.
The respectful manner in which the Count of Barca and other members of Parliament treated him showed that this middle-aged man who looked nothing special was likely to be His Majesty the King's confidant in the palace.
"Very well. Since you, President Xu, are already a commoner, I will now read to you His Majesty the King's appointment to you."
Seeing the middle-aged man take out an order book with the seal of His Majesty the King from his arms, Count Basa's heart moved, and his face instantly became extremely gloomy.
"In view of Xu Yi's great contribution to the kingdom, His Majesty decided to specially promote Xu Yi, a commoner, to the status of baron as a reward."
While Xu Yi was still dazed, the middle-aged man took out an identical order letter from his arms and continued to read it.
"In view of Baron Xu Yi's great contribution to the kingdom, His Majesty decided to specially promote Baron Xu Yi to the status of viscount as a reward."
Except for the title given to Xu Yi at the beginning, there is almost no difference between the two orders.
It can be seen that the middle-aged man has been prepared for a long time and came specifically for Xu Yi.
The Earl of Barcelona heard the two appointment letters and said with a serious expression: "This... Director Dema, Xu Yi has just been deprived of his noble status by our noble council. It is not possible for His Majesty the King to promote him to a noble at this time... I'm afraid it's not very good. good?"
Steward Dema glanced at him and said calmly: "I don't care about this. Anyway, I am here according to your Majesty's order. Your Majesty said that as long as Xu Yi is deprived of his noble status by the noble council, then I will read out these two orders. In addition, these two orders are permanently valid.”
After hearing what Director Dema said, Count Basel and a group of surrounding councilors all turned pale in an instant. (To be continued...)