Hearing the verdict, Xu Yi did not show any surprise, but smiled happily.

Seeing Xu Yi's reaction, the Count of Barcelona and the surrounding dozen councilors were stunned.

Count Barcelona frowned and said softly: "What are you laughing at? This is the Council of the Noble Lords of the Holy Kingdom, 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 nobleman, but it is so easy to be stripped of it. It turns out that just by asking a few questions from you, the vice president, you can directly announce the deprivation of my noble status. Hehe, don't you think that's too hasty?"

Count Barcelona had a calm face: "This is a deliberate decision of the council. Allowing you to come to the council is just a chance to defend yourself, but just now you have no excuse and fully admit the fact that you have violated the rules, do you think there is still a problem in receiving such a 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 to come to the council before, I was still a little nervous, but I didn't expect the original process to be so simple, and even the result had already been decided. If I had known this was the case, I might as well not have come at all, it would have been a waste of time. ”

"Presumptuous!" exclaimed the Count of Barça. "Xu Yi, I warn you again, this is the Holy Noble Council, and you are not allowed to be so presumptuous here!"

Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders: "Vice President, you seem to have forgotten something. As you said, the council has decided to strip me of my nobility, so I'm a commoner now. Now that it's a civilian. The Council of Nobles can't control me, can you?, Vice Councillor, if you have any grievances against me. Please also ask you to file a complaint with the Royal Assembly or the Sheriff's Office. ”

The Count of Barcelona pointed at Xu Yi. He was trembling with anger, but he couldn't find any fault with Xu Yi's words.

Because according to the regulations of the Kingdom Council, although the Kingdom Noble Council has the power to administer the nobles, it is limited to the nobles, and does not have any power to dispose of the commoners, because this is the management of the Kingdom Council.

Xu Yi is right, now that he has been deprived of his noble status by the noble council, he has become a commoner again. That meant that the Council of Nobles no longer had the power to govern and limit him.

If Xu is also an ordinary commoner, the noble council can naturally find ten thousand ways to clean him up with its own power.

But Xu Yi is not an ordinary commoner, on the contrary, there are a bunch of powerful big people standing behind him, so that if the noble council wants to deal with Xu Yi under the instructions of some people this time, it must first deliberately make a council out, at least not showing any differences in the surface procedure.

The other parliamentarians present looked at Xu Yi and were also dumbfounded.

They thought that Xu Yi would definitely fight for the sake of being deprived of his aristocratic status, and strongly opposed the resolution of the noble council.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yi did not have any intention of denying and defending himself from beginning to end, and after hearing the verdict of the Count of Barcelona, he also did not express any excitement. It was unusually indifferent to accept it.

In fact, their original intention was not to directly deprive Xu Yi of his nobility, because directly depriving a nobleman of his nobility is actually a matter of great influence. The Council of Nobles would not have made such a resolution.

Their original plan was to hope that Xu Yi would make some justifications for himself, and then they would be able to reduce the punishment of Xu Yi to achieve their real goal - to weaken some of the benefits of Xu Yitong's nobility, such as territory, tax exemptions, policy preferences, etc., to indirectly weaken the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

But Xu Yi now accepted this resolution without any justification, and put on such an attitude towards Count Barcelona, so even if Count Barcelona wanted to proceed according to the original plan and withdraw the resolution to deprive Xu Yi of his noble status, he would not be able to say it at all.

Looking at Xu Yi, who was standing in the middle of the venue with a smile on his face, the Count of Barcelona and the other councilors were speechless for a while.

Xu Yi looked around, saw that everyone was looking at him blankly, and smiled slightly: "Is it okay? If it's 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, the Count of Barcelona roared angrily: "Stop!"

Xu Yi stopped halfway around, turned his face sideways, and frowned at Count Barcelona: "Vice President, please pay attention to your demeanor as a nobleman. Doesn't it feel rude to shout at a civilian like this?"

The Count of Barcelona almost choked to death with a mouthful of saliva, and coughed a few times in anger, before he panted and said, "You can't leave yet, there are still some formalities to be done." ”

"Oh?"

The Count of Barcelona froze and took out a pile of essays from under the table, which had obviously been prepared a long time ago.

"Since you have been stripped of your nobility, some of the privileges you enjoyed as a nobility should also be taken back. Here are some related texts that you have to sign before you can go. ”

Xu Yi took the documents from a young councillor who sent them, and roughly flipped through them, and found that they were about recovering some of the privileges that Xu Yi had when he was a viscount, including private domains.

Xu Yi was not surprised by this treatment, but Xu Yi objected to some details on these texts.

"Vice Councillor, according to the terms of this Private Territory Recovery Agreement, shouldn't I hand over the entire Falling Rain Valley outside of Bonta City?

Hearing this, the Count of Barcelona and the other councillors around him seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

With a smug smile on his face, Count Barcelona said, "What to do with those factories and other related facilities has nothing to do with the council. If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot hand over the territory within the specified time, then according to the regulations, everything in the territory will be forcibly handed over along with the territory. ”

"In other words, the council is planning to completely drive our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of the Falling Rain Valley?" Xu Yi asked.

Count Barcelona made a righteous and awe-inspiring look: "Xu Yi, I warn you." You are slandering the Parliament. I reserve the right to lodge a complaint against you in the Royal Assembly. ”

Xu Yi snorted. I thought that the deputy speaker was shameless. There's no point in saying anything more to him.

After reading the contents of these texts, Xu Yi casually threw them aside and said to the Count of Barcelona: "Vice President, I think I have to remind you." The Rainfall Valley, including the area around the Rainfall Valley, is actually not a large part of my private domain, and the other most important parts are leased directly from the royal family. The Council of Nobles may deprive me of my nobility and confiscate my private fiefdoms. But the council of nobles was not in any position to intervene in these leased lands. ”

Count Barcelona snorted coldly: "Do you think the council will make this decision without ascertaining it? Of course, the council will not clean up the part of the land leased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the royal family, but your private territory of nearly ten square kilometers in the Falling Rain Valley must be handed over!"

Xu Yi was surprised: "Vice Speaker, who told you and I that I actually own a private territory of nearly ten square kilometers? I am just a viscount, how can I have such a large private territory." You must be making a mistake!"

Count Barcelona waved his hand: "Don't mess around, the area of your private territory is archived in the council, how can you be mistaken." ”

"No, no, no, I just applied to His Majesty the King for a private land of up to a few thousand square meters, just in the hope of building a private estate for living, how could I ask for such a large area as close to ten square kilometers. Even if I asked. His Majesty the King obviously can't give it to me. So you must be mistaken, if you don't believe it. The deputy speaker is asked to ask His Majesty the King for confirmation. ”

The Count of Barcelona smiled, determined that Xu Yi was dying, and said coldly: "No need, the decision of the council will only be judged based on the information in the council, and now why bother His Majesty the king because of this trivial matter......

In the middle of speaking, the Count of Barcelona suddenly paused, with a ghostly expression, staring straight behind Xu Yi.

The expressions on the faces of the other councillors were equally wonderful, and they all looked blankly behind Xu Yi.

Xu Yi turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a plain face, not tall, and who looked to be about forty years old, slowly walking into the side hall.

The middle-aged man nodded to Xu Yi, then turned to Count Barcelona and asked, "Deputy Speaker of Barcelona, is Xu Yi's council over?

Count Barcelona's face became extremely ugly, and he hesitated for a long time before replying: "It's over, as for the result, ......" Count Barcelona glanced at Xu Yi, and his face became even more ugly. "Viscount Xu Yi has deliberately violated the relevant regulations of the parliament, and now he has been stripped of his nobility 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 when he met His Majesty the King before, he seemed to have seen this middle-aged man in the palace.

And judging from the respectful attitude of the Count of Barcelona and other councillors towards him, it shows that this middle-aged man who doesn't seem to be anything special is very likely to be a close confidant of His Majesty the King in the palace.

"Very well, since you are already a commoner, President Xu, I will now read to you the appointment of His Majesty the King. ”

Seeing the middle-aged man take out an order with the seal of His Majesty the King from his arms, Count Barcelona'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 specifically promote the commoner Xu Yi to the status of a baron as a reward. ”

When Xu Yi was still stunned, the middle-aged man took out an identical order 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 name of Xu Yi at the beginning, there is no difference between the two orders.

It can be seen that the middle-aged man has been ready for a long time, and he came here specifically for Xu Yi.

When the Count of Barcelona on the side heard these two letters of appointment, he said with a sad expression: "This...... Governor of Delma, Xu Yi, has just been stripped of his nobility by our noble council, and His Majesty the King has been promoted to nobility at this time...... I'm afraid it's not good, right?"

Chief Delmar glanced at him and said calmly, "I don't care about any of this. Anyway, I came according to His Majesty's orders. His Majesty said that as long as Xu Yi was deprived of his noble status by the noble council, then I would read these two orders. In addition, both orders are valid in perpetuity. ”

Hearing these words from Chief Delmar, Count Basel and the surrounding group of councillors were all instantly dead. (To be continued......)