The Imperial Diet is the only state organ that can oppose the power of the imperial family, and there is no one. In a way, the Imperial Council is a battlefield in which the Orlando family or other golden nobles are the weaker side.www.biquge.info Even if the Empress Pars appears in Parliament and asks for the passage of a policy or regulation, it will take the entire council to go through a voting process to determine whether the Empress Pars's request can be met.

This is a battlefield where there is no smoke of gunpowder, no one rushes on their backs, and there is no killing of swords and swords. You can't see the cruelty of blood splashing here, nor the cruelty of stumps and broken arms flying around, this is the battlefield of civilization, but its cruelty and cruelty are not weaker than a huge war.

The existence of the Imperial Diet also eased the tension between the aristocratic clique and the Orlando royal family, pushing the two sides into the ring of civilization, and using voting as a form of war to compete politically.

The Orlando family and the golden nobles don't have to worry too much about the aristocratic group suddenly taking risks and starting a war to overthrow their rule. The aristocratic group, on the other hand, can also politically restrain the power of the royal family, and also use color. The value and significance of the very existence of the Imperial Diet has exceeded the functions exercised by the Imperial Diet.

The Imperial Council was divided into three camps:

The weak wall-riding faction, this kind of person belongs to the kind of people who are not welcomed by anyone, and most of these people are fictitious nobles. They only have the title of nobility, but they have no fiefs and subjects as a basis, and they are not even qualified to lift the table. Of the entire aristocracy, these nobles were the weakest of the nobles, and those nobles who were actually sealed looked down on these people. Their value lies entirely in their own ass, and the better and higher the chair the ass sits on, the heavier the power and status they have. If they can't hold important positions in important departments, they will become marginalized in power circles, as Bethel did.

The wall-riding faction of the Imperial Parliament was often made up of important ministers from the previous period, such as the princely ministers of Orlando V, and nobles who were reused during the Orlando VI period. They rise because of one emperor, and they are weakened by a little emperor. Immediately after Empress Pars came to power, several prominent parliamentarians became marginal figures. They are not content with all the treatment they have suffered, but they are powerless.

Such people will either be stripped of their parliamentary titles as they grow old, or they will defect to one side of the camp and become the lowest figures.

The second is the weak royalists, the Imperial Diet has never been based on the will of the royal family, and the parliamentarians like nothing more than to go against the royal family. The royalists struggled in the Imperial Diet, and if it weren't for the Imperial Constitution, which gave each successor to the throne the ability to promote a certain number of parliamentarians, as a bargaining chip for the imperial family to balance the power of all parties in the Imperial Diet, perhaps the royalists would have been cleared out of the Imperial Diet by the members of those aristocratic groups.

And the rest, and the most powerful party, is the small collective formed by various aristocratic groups. They hold the largest number of voting seats in the Imperial Diet, and if a law, regulation, or policy is passed, it must be approved by half of them before it can be finally passed. It can be said that the Imperial Diet is the biggest mountain on the road to centralization.

During the reign of Orlando I, there was no such institution as the Imperial Diet to make trouble for itself, and the reason why this institution existed and continues to this day is simply a matter of history.

In order to quickly quell the civil war in the empire during the reign of Orlando II, in order to quickly quell the civil war in case of growing tensions on the Western Front, Orlando II promised the nobles who had helped him to quell the civil strife during the civil war, promising that they could select representatives to govern the empire together with the Orlando royal family and the golden nobles.

This was also the solution of Orlando II's helplessness, and although he lost some of his power, he quickly quelled the civil strife. At the same time, the reflection brought about by the civil strife also made Orlando II realize that if the aristocracy was allowed to use force to assert their interests and political ideas, civil war would continue to erupt. Initially, the full name of the Imperial Diet was "Orlando Supreme Legislative Body", and later changed its name several times, and finally became "Orlando Imperial Supreme Resolution Body", referred to as the Imperial Council.

The birth of the Imperial Council played a crucial role in stabilizing the situation within the Orlando Empire, and the aristocracy began to influence the Empire's policy by voting, a way that apparently did not cost much to confront the royal family. After more than 200 years of evolution, the Imperial Diet became a battlefield between the aristocratic group and the royal family, and the aristocratic class apparently found that it was completely possible to fight the royal family after uniting, and thus the aristocratic group was born. It can be said that the aristocratic group is actually the predecessor of the party, dividing the aristocratic class and the royal family into different parties and containing each other.

But today, the Imperial Diet has become a lingering shadow of the royal family, a feast for vested interests to divide the cake.

Perhaps after a few decades or hundreds of years of evolution, the aristocratic group will become a partisan in line with the changes in the political system and the actual distribution of benefits, but it is clear that Wren will not be able to wait that long. What he had to do now was not to increase his authority and consolidate his position by purges and purges, as Empress Pars had imagined.

His purpose was to promote the establishment and birth of the party.

His first knife was to be slashed at the head of the wall-riding faction.

The Wall-Riders held about twelve or three seats in the Imperial Diet, a pitiful number compared to the total number of seats in the entire Imperial Diet, but if they were united, they were a force that no one else could ignore.

Wren wants to integrate this power and use it for himself.

"Lord Gai, I have a list here......", Wren tapped his knuckles on the table, pushing a list over, and the thin list was crammed into nine names, most of whom were wall-riding councillors. "You should know how to do it. ”

Gain took the list and glanced at it, his face changing. Members of the Imperial Diet are not neighborhood members, each member has a very high status, and it can be said that every member of the parliament has the potential to become a great noble, and some of them are already great nobles themselves. He was silent for a moment, not worried much about his safety at this moment, as a nobleman, he knew that action was only a means to an end.

It can be brutal and cruel, or it can be some kind of bargain, "What do I get?"

Wren held out a finger, "A seat in the Imperial Parliament!"

The price he offered was something that Gain couldn't refuse, and Gain knew that he would never be able to refuse, and once he became a councilor, his identity and status would immediately change dramatically. Those who look down on him, who hate him and hate him, must smile at him, salute him and say hello when they see him. Gain's breathing grew a little quicker, he moved his ass to sit more comfortably, licked his dry, flaky lips, and looked straight at Wren, "It doesn't seem like that's enough." ”

There is no doubt that human nature is greedy, even ignorant infants and young children, in the face of sweet milk, even if they have filled their stomachs, will not easily let go of their mouths. If they don't stick to it until they spit out the milk they have just eaten, they won't stop breastfeeding.

A moment ago, Guy might have been in great danger, but now he had to bargain with Wren for his own benefit.

Wren asked rhetorically, "So what do you want?"

"Give me at least two seats, I will offend many people, and I would rather do nothing if there are not enough benefits and guarantees. Gain looked at Wren fearlessly, and Wren nodded after a moment.

"I can also give you one more vote, but I also have one condition, that is, when I need it, the two votes in your hand must unconditionally obey my request. Wren stood up and looked at Gain condescendingly, "Otherwise, I'll find someone else who is willing to cooperate." ”

Gain stood up and smiled, this time it was not a loss. If he could be dragged by a horse for a distance to get back two seats in the Imperial Diet, he was willing to be dragged by a horse around every street in the imperial capital.

"Deal!"

From the time Guy was captured until Wren and Gine reached an agreement to cooperate, it took only two hours for the Privy Council to send personnel to the Old Library, and their purpose was to take over Wren's work and investigate the truth about Wren's backstabbing. The Privy Council regulates the criminal conduct of the entire aristocratic class, and it is also a way for the aristocratic class to protect itself from having too much power in matters of nobility in matters of the Orlando royal family.

In the same room, there is a different atmosphere at this time. Gain was still sitting in that chair, his head tilted and he looked decadent. Opposite him sat three investigators appointed by the Privy Council to investigate the assassination of Wren.

The one sitting in the middle was the first to speak, and he carefully examined every inch of Gain's body before he spoke, "Lord Gain, were you subjected to inhumane confessions and retaliatory injuries by the Ministry of State Security in the time before we came here?", the man said and glanced at Wren who was standing in the corner, his eyes tinged with warning.

Gain nodded, raised his head, his left eye was black, the corners of his mouth were broken twice, and the dried blood stains took on a dark red color under the action of oxidation, "They beat me and tried to frame me. ”

The lead investigator nodded, "I also saw your injuries, I'm sorry we came late." As he spoke, he looked at Wren, his eyes were extremely sharp, "Your Excellency the Count of Wren, who gave you the power to torture nobles without the consent of the Privy Council? In the last two Imperial Parliaments, I have not heard any applications for the scope and authority of the Ministry of State Security. ”

Wren smiled nonchalantly, "This is the power given to me by the royal family, and it is also the power given to me by the Holy Bloodline and the Covenant. He looked at the three investigators defiantly, "I'm just interrogating a criminal suspected of assassinating me, and it is very likely that he is the main messenger." As a Golden Noble, I have the power to use any means against anyone who might threaten the safety of the Golden Nobles, and this is the power granted to me by the Imperial Code. ”

The three investigators apparently didn't think about a few words before Wren relented, and after a moment of discussion in a low voice, they gave a new request, "We respect your rights, and we respect the Imperial Codex. You will be supervised throughout your interrogation, and you will not be able to do any physical harm to him, and you must give him the dignity and rights he deserves, in accordance with the rules of the Imperial Code. ”

"Whatever you want!", Wren flicked his shoulders and walked to the door, pausing just as he was about to leave the room, turning sideways to look back at the three investigators, "Trust me, there will be an answer soon." ”

Without any direct interrogation, Wren left with two special investigators in gray uniforms, expressionless, like emotionless machines, constantly pointing questions over and over again. The whole process was extremely boring and long, but there was no trace of fatigue on their faces.

Time passed little by little, and it was late at night, and the investigator from the Privy Council rubbed his face and stood up, "Okay gentlemen, this is the end of the day. ”

But the two special investigators of the Ministry of Security didn't seem to hear him, and continued to ask questions like machines. Guyin, who was already exhausted, was not losing his balance from dozing off, not crooked in his chair. By this time, he could barely open both eyes, and he became numb to the repeated questions.

At the moment when Lord Gai fell asleep, a glass of cold water was poured on his head. He shuddered, and immediately raised his head to look at the few people in the room, and saw that his eyelids began to droop again, and his eyes became dull, and after a while, he fell asleep again.

In the face of such a special interrogation method by the people of the Ministry of Security, it is difficult for the investigators of the Privy Council to say anything. They didn't make any aggressive gestures, didn't even use aggressive language, just kept asking questions that they had asked countless times, and prevented Gaine from falling asleep. The three investigators have woken up to the fact that this method of interrogation is more brutal than torture. Not to mention that Guy couldn't stand it, the three of them as bystanders overseeing the interrogation couldn't stand it anymore.

Time passed little by little, and Guy was sometimes awake for a while, but more time was spent fighting against sleep.

As the sky began to lighten, two of the three investigators had fallen asleep, and one had just woken up, listlessly watching the boring interrogation, and in his heart, he even had an urge to make Gain confess his guilt.

This method of interrogation is really too torturous.

Just as his patience had run out, one of the two special investigators in charge of the interrogation suddenly slammed the table. He asked aloud, "Why is the question just now different from what you answered before?, what are you hiding?!"