Chapter 415 Behind the law is the trampling and humiliation of the privileged class on the unprivileged class

Celeste now has a sense of crisis, and after Wren's coming-of-age ceremony, his wedding date is approaching, and she is a little afraid and uneasy. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Avlo came back at this time, giving her a special sense of peace of mind, as if she had something to rely on.

Time always sneaks away unconsciously, the sky outside the house is gradually getting darker, the summer night always comes later than the winter, it is almost time to eat, and Wren has not yet returned.

At this time, in the hall of the Imperial Parliament, the air was so turbid that the Empress Pars had to order all the doors to be opened, and the nobles were smoking pipes and cigarettes, and the smoke was like a fire after a fire, and there was thick smoke everywhere.

Everyone looked exhausted, and sat in their chairs with their heads bon, unable to continue to maintain a decent demeanor, and one by one they tore their necklines, or half-reclined, or lay on the table. The whole day of voting is really a bit desperate, and every vote means a clash of brains. Behind every proposal, there are too many interests and compromises to consider.

By this time, most people's brains have become sluggish, and even the strength to think seems to be dragged down by physical strength.

"I will now proceed to a vote on the last proposal of the day. Gan Wen also put on his eyes tiredly, and cheered up to read the last and most critical vote of the day.

The parliamentarians seated in the hall finally cheered up a little, and as long as this final vote was completed, they could go home and be liberated!

"This vote was put forward by Mr. Randolph, the leader of the Truth Party, and the content of the proposal is to refine the content ......of the code and the charter by amending the Imperial Code and the Charter", Ganwen looked at Randolph, who was sitting in the second row, and put his hand on the bridge of his nose in the eye, "Mr. Randolph, do you need to explain the content of this proposal and your point of view through a speech?"

Someone in the hall gasped, others sighed, and their eyes were full of anticipation when they looked at Randolph.

In anticipation, Randolph shook his head, which relieved most people. They didn't want to listen to another hour or two of arguments at a time when they were already exhausted.

Let this damn vote end at once, I'm going home!

Gan Wen asked again: "The materials are in your hands, does anyone have anything unclear that needs to be asked?", the sparse negative voice made Gan Wen have a smile in his eyes, he picked up the wooden chase and rang the golden bell, "Then the voting will start now......

"Wait!", a loud voice interrupted Ganvin's words, and the people followed the sound as Isaac stood up, arranging his collar with an indescribable smile on his face, "I have a question. ”

Empress Pars suddenly looked at Isaac, her eyes almost bursting into flames, everything had come to this point according to her and Ganvin's plan. After a long day of exhausting bombardment, the parliamentarians no longer wanted to do much, and their only thought was to go home early to rest, eat something, take a hot shower, and throw themselves into bed. But what I didn't expect was that someone still stood up. That's not a good thing, at least not for now.

Just as she and Gammon want to use human fatigue to get lawmakers to make decisions that are in line with their hearts, when these lawmakers have begun to lose their ability to think, it can often have a fatal effect when someone who still has the ability to think comes forward. They can't think, so they use someone else's thinking instead of their own thinking ability.

Gampon lowered his gavel and looked at Isaac.

"I have a question, Mr. Randolph, that, in your submission, I find that you have referred to a new privilege - immunity. May I ask about the value and significance of this immunity and its function. As we all know, we already have a death redemption, and it doesn't make any sense to have a new and similar privilege. This was not something Isaac had come up with on his own, in fact, he, like the other councillors, had long been tired of the more than ten hours of meetings, and he was eager to leave immediately.

But his staff reminded him that there may be a trap here.

Isaac's words immediately woke up many nobles, and they opened the materials distributed to them by Randolph, found one of the items about immunity, and read it carefully, and soon they found that immunity was different from the death ransom. Some frowned, while others looked impulsive.

Immunity did not work only against the nobility, as was the case with the death ransom, but against all privileged classes. Within the scope of the interpretation of immunity, different privileged classes can enjoy different degrees of legal immunity. For example, the lowest privileged class - the magistrates, tax collectors and clerks, who enjoy the power to be exempted from minor injuries.

Another example is that these members of parliament here have the privilege of certain reductions in punishment for causing death in addition to the crime of murder in the first and second degrees.

The beneficiaries of immunity are no longer just the aristocracy, but the privileged class as a whole. The nobles may not have felt it very deeply, but the commoner councillors were all excited.

Privilege is the dividing line that distinguishes a shepherd from a lamb.

Almost all of the civilian councillors looked at Randolph with fiery and friendly eyes, and they already had a good impression of Randolph in their hearts, and they also had their own ideas about this proposal.

Randolph stood up, and he first bowed to the councillors around him, and then replied calmly: "The times are constantly advancing, and no one can stop the wheel of the times, and the laws of more than 300 years ago may not be applicable to the present new era." I'll give you an example......", his voice is very steady and gives people a very reliable feeling, which may have something to do with his years of education, at least he knows how to speak to get people to notice him.

"At the beginning of the Empire, in order to combat bandits and robbers that were rampant in the wilderness, there was a clause in the Imperial Code, 'If you travel with more than five people in the wilderness and carry a longbow, you will be considered a bandit, unless you have officially sanctioned it.' Randolph showed a faint mockery on his face, and his voice rose slightly, so that everyone could feel his psychological changes at this time, "Look, now find a random caravan in the wilderness, they all have the size of more than fifty people, and they also carry more than one longbow, so according to the imperial code, should we treat these people as bandits, so as to deal with them?"

His words made many people laugh. Not to mention caravans, even some travelers traveling in groups often travel in a dozen or twenty people, and they will also carry longbows. Bows and arrows play a great role in the wild, whether it is hunting for supplies or defending against the invasion of outsiders. Almost all those who knew how to use a bow and arrow, and when they had to travel long distances, they would carry a longbow or a compound bow.

So, the entire empire is full of robbers outside the city?

It's just a joke!

"But it has nothing to do with immunity!", Isaac frowned, emphasizing.

Randolph was not annoyed at all, and smiled slightly, "That's what I'm going to say next." After the amendment of the code and the bill, more standards will be refined, which also means that the law will become more fully detailed, and the death redemption privilege is to use money to buy the crimes they have committed, so how to define how much price should be used to buy it?", his words made some people start to think deeply, especially the nobles, to be honest, the death redemption is not a privilege that every nobleman wants to use, because when using the death redemption, it often means spending a lot of money to settle the mistakes they have committed.

"A nobleman, angered by his anger and accidentally killing two commoners, asserts his power and uses a death order to atone for his crimes. It took him almost fifteen thousand gold coins in exchange for exonerating himself. ”

"Then I want to ask a question, is the life of a civilian worth fifteen thousand gold coins?"

Randolph's words immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, including the reporters who had not yet left, as well as the civilians who had come back after a full meal. Some people are angry, but behind the anger, they can't help but reflect, is the life of two civilians really worth 15,000 gold coins?

Someone burst out laughing, when did the lives of civilians become so expensive?