Chapter 160: The conflict intensifies

"yes, it's me, so what?"

The man who walked in through the side door was the Marquis of Carolas. I saw that he was wearing the aristocratic dress characteristic of the old Elta, and looked at Count Finfmere with his hands on the plaintiff's table with a look of pity on his face.

"Plaintiff, please remain silent!" Immediately afterward, the presiding judge's hammer was struck. As if it had struck him on the top of Count Finnmere's head, he sat back in his chair, the only edge of his energy cut to the bare of it...... He could never have imagined that this witness was actually the Marquis of Carolas who was attending the banquet with Joronaco! Although he himself appeared that night with the Marquis de Joronaco, he was powerless to refute what the Marquis of Garolas had said at this time—who would believe that the account of another count would be more convincing than that of another of what a marquis had said and done?

With the Marquis of Carolas as a witness to testify for the defence, there was no suspense about the course of the lawsuit - the battle was adjourned at noon, and all long-eyed people could already see that the plaintiff who had handed over the blank paper at the stage of proof was about to lose. And even during the witness question-and-answer session, the Count of Finnmere gave up all questioning, and simply stood up and returned to his seat.

"The Earl of Finnmere is in a dilemma." Wang Liqun said to himself, "The Marquis of Garolas on the witness table is a nobleman, and his rank is higher than him. If the Count of Finnmere were to question him 'in court,' it would be inconsistent with aristocratic traditions, whatever the outcome of the questioning......"

In other words, the Count of Fernmere himself was a staunch supporter of the aristocratic set, and after the Marquis of Joronaco was the supreme supporter of the aristocratic tradition of Cierta, it was unlikely that he would break it in any way.

But if this is not broken, this lawsuit can only be the defeat of the Marquis of Ronaco, that is, the plaintiff. Completely disappointed, Wang Liqun quietly left the court during the adjournment, leaving only an empty seat......

Like him, many Chinese have given up on watching this boring, ridiculous show of Count Finnmere. The Count of Fernmere, who knew only a piece of paper about modern law, in the end believed only in the useless theory of aristocratic superiority and inferiority, and lost faith in the meascan knowledge of the law in his hands - that was his lifeline!

"Now please all the parties and agents ad litem to stand!"

"The verdict is as follows...... The plaintiff's claim was dismissed ......"

The Count of Finnmere didn't listen to a word of what was going on. He almost took all kinds of papers, signed his name, and floated out of the courtroom with Noah, who was also in a trance, and accepted the result of defeat in a trance.

From the second round onwards, this public case that should have been their victory was easily reversed by people from another world in front of them - no need for Wright Ryuichi or Koomemon Kensuke, it was a very simple proof-proof process, in this "fair game" set up by people from another world, he was not familiar with the rules of the game, and he was unwilling to explore the rules of the game, he could only usher in strategic failure.

The outcome of the lawsuit quickly spread throughout Mendong City through conversations between people. Of course, the civilians applauded, and the resentment against the Elta government almost completely disappeared, just because the result was "to their liking" and "surprisingly good".

By the time the next day, when the news and newspapers officially broadcast the lawsuit, only people who had not known it were still talking violently, and readers who had known about it saw it and passed it off - because the verdict was already satisfactory to them, and there was no need to complain and complain about it.

This is what the central government and the Chinese side of Elta want. The case was quickly forgotten by the city of Mendong and by the civilians of Cierta. If Elta had the Internet, a search engine, and a search engine with a search heat retriever, it would have been easy for onlookers to see that in early March, after the curtain came down on this public case, it quickly fell out of the hot search list, and was overtaken by news such as Elta's currency reform, the opening of railways and highways, and the electrification of the power grid.

Like other hot spots, it quickly lost traction. This is exactly what Chinese expects - this "first trial" with the participation of internal ghosts, and what the Chinese side wants to do is to make it less popular, and the second is to find a just and factual trial result for the conflict between the nobles and commoners......

Precisely, the latter serves precisely the former. This time, the Chinese side transferred new people from the country and did the work of the Marquis of Carolas, in order to give the coachman's family the best result, that is, to withdraw the plaintiff's claim.

Because if the defendant loses the case, the outcome will not be something that the central government of Elta can afford in the end - it will be a battle between the two sides without an agent ad litem and no lawyer. The winner, of course, will be on the more reasonable side of the plaintiff in the natural law. The result would then be an outpouring of civilian discontent and perhaps a large-scale public incident, which would be too bad for China and would have to be absolutely banned, even if at high cost.

Therefore, the Chinese side "put itself in the shoes" of the defendant and "hired" an agent ad litem with a confidential strategy and confidential route. It is not simply to "win fairness and justice", but to pave the way for Elta's rule of law. As for the employment expenses, of course, it was a write-off, and the right did not happen.

Victory is justice. This is the most basic idea of human beings when facing a judgment presided over by the powerful. But what is the core of justice? What is the rationale for judging victory? Ordinary people don't worry at all, and all they can do is follow the extension line drawn by victory and continue to develop the right thing about power.

Just a week after the verdict was handed down, several people were arrested for assaulting the Count of Finnmere, who was walking on the streets of Shield City. They were just ordinary Dun City residents, not even factory workers - they were just builders who had built Finnmere's mansion.

As for the reason for beating him, "Do you need a reason?" This is how the leaders of several commoners justifiably state the reason why this cannot be considered a reason: the aristocracy has long been a street rat in their eyes, and deserves to be shouted at by everyone.

"What's more, you also made the verdict!"

What's more, the authorities also issued a sentence that was almost equivalent to nailing the nobles to a coffin board. In other words, "The Chinese can fight, but I Elta can't fight?" ”

So the police sent these "patriotic Ah Q" who made them cry and laugh to the detention center. At the same time, the propaganda department, which felt the need to correct its views, continued to intensify its efforts to clarify the basic policy of the central government of the new Elta in various channels:

"The judgment in the case of nobility is not out of favor for one party (although there are actually considerations), but as a fair exposition of the law...... The nobility was valuable as an honorary reward for those who had made an outstanding contribution to the state, but their actual status was completely equal to that of ordinary citizens......"

As it turned out, such propaganda came at a timely time. The segregation and hostility of the aristocracy caused by the case of Joronaco against the coachman had long been on the rise, and beating Finnmere and putting him in an ambulance was only radical and a very minority practice - cold violence was often more secretive, safer, and deadlier than direct violence.

In fact, most of them are isolating the big and small nobles by their own means: they cast hostile glances from afar, follow them on bicycles on the sidewalk, desperately ring the bell behind the little nobles in their unique costumes, and then laugh at the little nobles who show a frightened expression and are desperately hurrying away; The clerk deliberately shortened the pound and two pounds to the aristocratic women who went to the store to buy non-staple food, and put on a stinky face so that the other party could do nothing; The driver of the battery car looked at the civilians running behind and would still step on the brakes and wait for the other party to get into the car in good faith, and if there was a guy in aristocratic clothes behind him who waved his hand and ran hard, the driver would smile evilly and step on the accelerator hard, leaving only a look of dust and bitterness for the driver.

For a whole month, most of the nobles in the core area of Cierta ruled were living in such an environment. If Elta is a class in a school, the nobleman can be seen as one of the students in this class. Then there is no doubt that this student is the one who has been subjected to cold violence on campus.

Under such unfortunate circumstances, while broadcasting and newspaper propaganda was carried out, legal popularization propaganda teams were also put into the various regions. In Mendong City, night schools in various parts of Duncheng have also entered a unified mode of popular legal education, promoting progressive consciousness to the most advanced group of people in Elta, hoping that they can be used as hot spots to spread to the people around them......

However, the remaining strength of the Elta nobles was followed by a loud landslide - Joronaco's concubine Noa hanged herself in the parlor of Joronaco's house one evening in late spring. The reason for this is said to be that he was teased with frivolous words and actions on the way to Shield City, and he was sad when he returned home......

The grief-stricken nobles then gathered together and carried the coffin containing Noah's body to block the iron gate of the Duncheng City Hall, demanding that the central government catch and severely punish the murderer who molested Noah.

The nobles were filled with righteous indignation one by one, young and old. They changed the civilian costumes they had put on due to the cold and violent epidemic, and all wore the aristocratic attire of the old Elta, and gathered in front of the iron gate of the town hall, commanded by the Count of Finfmere, with a deafening shout:

"Severely punish the murderer to set the record straight!"

"The murderer is at large, where is Eltafa? Where is the fairness? ”