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After softly putting down this sentence, Faris showed a sneer in front of him, looking at the discolored expressions of the councilors below, and his heart became more and more disdainful.

But the MPs below beat the drum in their hearts, and at that time, they did not understand the place of the Tower of London in the hearts of the people.

The Tower of London was built in 1078. Historically, it served as a royal palace, a court, and later a prison. The Tower of London covers an area of 7.2 hectares and is surrounded by a thick wall of boulders. There are many forts and arrow towers on the city walls, and a wide and deep moat on all sides. If you want to run to this kind of place, you can only find yourself dead.

As the king's royal prison, the people who could be held here were famous political prisoners. For example, Edward IV's son Edward V and the Duke of York, and even Princess Elizabeth were beaten into the Tower of London by Mary I.

There is nothing scary about this, the most important thing is that not only is there torture here, but after coming in, basically don't plan to go out, either stay until death or be killed, and only a few people can get out.

Even Princess Elizabeth was able to come out because Mary I did not leave an heir after her death, and as the only heir to the Tudor royal family, she must come out.

If you have to use an analogy, the Tower of London is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei's edict, which is the heavenly prison in folklore.

It is no wonder that the faces of these councillors are ugly, and Sir Moore on the side is also frowning and disgusted.

This is still a minister blatantly threatening the parliamentarians, indirectly threatening, which brings a great deterrent.

Of course, if you want people to do things, you have to have a big stick in one hand and a radish in the other, so that it can be effective.

"As compensation, His Majesty believes that Parliament has the power to supervise the execution of the Privy Council, and to impeach any official to the King, and His Majesty will review it, remove or punish it, as long as the evidence is conclusive!"

As compensation, Edward gave oversight to Parliament, which was not the case in history.

Of course, Edward still had his own concerns about doing so.

First, after the establishment of the bureaucracy, it is necessary to have a strong supervisory body, and at present, the supervision within the bureaucracy is not very effective and is very prone to corruption.

As an independent institution, the council is obviously in line with this role, and its members are all citizens of the city and local gentlemen and knights, and those who can be elected by the local government must be elites, and the supervision effect is very great.

Second, it is to let the parliament find something to do for the council, so that they can stand on the king's side and become an assistant to the king's rule.

You know, the purpose of the council is to limit the royal power, and if it is diverted to deal with the bureaucracy, then there will be no energy to limit the king, but it will become a boost to the royal power.

Moreover, such a success rate is very large. The members of the parliament were local elites, who did not participate directly in politics like the aristocracy, and the parliament became the only person they could participate in politics.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the House of Commons had only 296 members, but by the end of the century it had reached 462, and the local elite became more and more enthusiastic about entering the House of Commons and participating in politics.

Edward, on the other hand, decided to give them more rights, which had more privileges.

In addition to free speech, immunity, and self-discipline, Edward had to give them some.

"Moreover, in order to better serve His Majesty the Parliamentarians, every month, His Majesty will take out some funds from the treasury and the royal family as your allowance!"

"Moreover, His Majesty will not only establish the right of freedom of speech and immunity of the members and gentlemen, and the right of self-disposition, plus the right to directly ask the King, and the right to submit letters in secret!"

With a high gesture, Faris continued.

"Moreover, His Majesty will make it a rule that no man or nobleman shall insult or assault any member of parliament in public!"

"And these will be established by His Majesty in the form of legislation to protect the rights of the Parliamentarians!"

For the parliamentarians, if the right of oversight was compensation, then the payment of allowances and the freedom to see the king were great surprises.

The last rule, which forbids insulting and beating the councillors, is a natural disgrace to the councillors, which gives them great satisfaction in vanity and dignity.

You know, in the present, nobles generally don't break the law to kill people. And they were all burghers and gentlemen and knights, and theoretically speaking, they did not have the slightest sense of dignity in front of the nobles, and they could beat and scold at will, and even kill people.

Of course, the nobles only need to pay a fine afterwards, and there is no such thing as a life for a life.

Farris's words succeeded in buying the hearts of these parliamentarians.

What is the right to tax, at most it makes the king uncomfortable, and he gets nothing.

Moreover, the right to tax was not completely waived, but only the approval of the grant, and even if the king asked for it later, could you not agree?

Moreover, to get so many benefits, even if you give up the right to tax.

The expressions on the faces of the parliamentarians became more and more brilliant, and one by one they happily discussed, and the atmosphere became more and more intense.

Sir Moore, on the other hand, looked at Faris on the podium with a stunned expression, opened his mouth, and made no sound.

There was only one question in his mind: did the king start to attack the House of Commons after the House of Lords was reformed?

In fact, he knew in his heart that the control of the parliament over the king was getting looser and looser, and in the end it would definitely fall completely into the hands of the king and become his tool.

In fact, the Tudor kings' transformation of the House of Lords was the first to begin.

First of all, the aristocratic upper house is integrated, the noble parliamentarians, and the upper house is aristocratic, so that the aristocracy and the upper house are linked; The second was to slowly drive the high clergy out of the House of Lords, so that the nobility occupied the main seats.

The voting rights of legislative and judicial officers were then abolished, and the House of Lords became the legislature and no longer had judicial power.

Seeing the excited expressions of the parliamentarians below, Faris couldn't help but nodded, this time the bill was passed with confidence.

In fact, at the beginning, Faris was reluctant to give His Majesty the King so many rights to these members of the lower parliament, perhaps out of jealousy.

But only now did he understand that if the parliament passed the proposal, the parliament's suppression of the king would be lost in one fell swoop.

Later, with the permanent right to tax the grant, the parliament lost its biggest bargaining chip, and the parliament's restriction on the king was greatly reduced, and in the end it had to be allowed to be ravaged by the king.

Of course, there will also be lawmakers who can see what is behind this proposal.

Subsequently, after a vote of 303 parliamentarians, the proposal was finally adopted by 267 votes in favor and 36 against.