Tiandu - Alonidan - House of Commons.

"Silence!"

The presiding officer, Archon Hans, grabbed the wooden mallet representing the divine jurisprudence on the iron plate, struck the bronze bell engraved with the original code, and immediately cast his gaze to the front of the Hall of Light:

"Congressman Anthony, on behalf of the will of the Cabinet and His Majesty the Emperor and the Senate, I allow you to speak. ”

Behind the crescent-shaped stone platform, a tall and thin man with short hair and a white draggy robe walked to the front desk, with a high hairline, sunken eye sockets, and obvious symptoms of bubble ulceration at the corners of his lips.

Antony walked up the quaint sloping stone steps, through the realm of truth in the center of the hall, and walked quickly to the back of the podium beside the consul Hans, and saluted Emperor Romulus, who was resting on the cast-iron throne in the rear:

"May your summer last forever and winter short, my majesty. ”

After saluting the emperor according to the agenda, he immediately turned around, took out a blood-stained letter from his robe, glanced at the more than three hundred councillors below, and said with a stern expression:

"This is a letter from the people of Emilion to His Majesty the Emperor and to the House of Representatives through my hand, so that the demands of the citizens will not disappear for no reason, this time, let me stand at the rear of the realm of truth and make their misfortunes and sufferings public!"

His voice was strong and powerful, and through the special structure of the council room, the ups and downs echoed in the ears of everyone, and immediately several councillors changed their faces drastically, and stared at this man with a look that longed to eat his flesh and blood.

“...... That powerful George Bomir took possession of your suffering people by deception and violence - our pastures, which we have owned for generations. He fenced off the pastures and other lands for his own use.

“...... Afterward. This George Bomir took our homes, our fields, our furniture and our orchards by force. Some of the houses were demolished. Some were even set on fire by him. We were forcibly evicted. ”

“...... If anyone didn't want to, George led the thugs to surround his home. Armed with swords and sticks, they broke down the gates of his house with great vigour, not heeding the cries of his wife and children. ”

"Georges Pomir took us to prison, beaten, maimed, and even killed us in order to occupy our land, and we could not even save our lives. ”

Anthony narrated in a heavy tone. The picture of the aristocracy oppressing the poor peasants, making them homeless and crying cold was reproduced in front of everyone, and most of the councilors in the audience showed sympathetic expressions.

Even Emperor Lammulus, who was on the throne and kept his eyes closed, had a look of unbearability on his face, but it was fleeting, and it was quickly replaced by coldness and composure.

"This is a provocation to the imperial order! This is a blasphemy against the law! This is the naked persecution and oppression of the common people by the rotten aristocracy, what are our courts doing when our citizens are unlawfully violated? What are our executors doing? What are our procurators doing? Why can people like Georges Bomir go unpunished, I think this needs to be reflected on by all of us!"

"Dissent!" a chubby councillor raised his right hand behind the crescent stone platform. He got up from his seat.

"Allow!" Archon Hans struck the brass bell.

"Congressman Anthony, the blood book in your hand is only one side. Mr. George was a major tax collector for Emilian and a great philanthropist in the area. What he has done is in full accordance with the law, and all this is an impudent and false accusation by the peasants who have bought their land, but have repented on the other hand!" he said with sweat on his forehead and a pale face, as if he were arguing with strong words.

"It turned out to be Congressman Lawrence of Ammilian......"

Anthony looked down at the other party condescendingly, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his lips:

"You may have a point, Georges Bomir may be a philanthropist, or he may be a robber, none of us can say that. Therefore, I beg His Majesty the Emperor to send a direct investigation to find out the truth of the matter, and to restore the innocence of Mr. George or the innocent farmer. ”

"Allowed. Emperor Romulus opened his eyes and said calmly.

"Thank you for your wise decision. ”

His face suddenly brightened, and he turned to face the emperor and bowed again.

“......”

Councillor Lawrence, with his face as white as earth, sat down like a lifeless clay sculpture.

"We can't let this continue to happen!"

Congressman Anthony waved his fist out of thin air, his eyes flushed with excitement, and said indignantly:

"Something like this is happening not only in Emilion, but in the whole country, especially during this time, to the point that it happens all the time. The aristocrats and merchants joined forces to encroach on the peasants' land, leaving them homeless and reduced to sixteen hours of miserable labor in workshops and new factories. You can't imagine the environment in which they live, and the merchants' attempts to squeeze every ounce of value out of these poor people are a destruction and contempt for life and basic human rights!"

At this point, he paused, then raised his voice in a strengthened tone, and said angrily:

"So, I propose legislation to stop this madness, to give the civilians the legal weapons to resist them, and to hell those businessmen whose filth and greed are filled with every drop of blood!"

“......”

Councilor Anthony's loud ending slowly dissipated in the hall, but the space was unusually quiet, and the councilor did not say a word, and even looked at each other with disgusted expressions.

"No. ”

A faint voice came from the throne, although the voice was not loud, but in Anthony's ears it was tantamount to a thunderclap, he almost trembled and turned around, looked at His Majesty the Emperor high above, and asked with a face full of disbelief:

"Your Majesty...... You...... What do you say?"

"There is no problem with private land transactions and they are in line with the most basic principles of contract. The Emperor looked at him expressionlessly, and said word for word in a tone as hard as steel, in an undeniable tone.

"Your Majesty, do you know what that means?"

His eyes widened red, his voice trembled, and his whole body trembled, "Do you want to abandon all the farmers in the empire?"

"They can go and be workers. His Majesty Romulus was indifferent. The wind replied lightly.

"Your Majesty! The living conditions of those workers are like hell on earth, Your Majesty! Do so. It is tantamount to losing the hearts and minds of farmers all over the country!"

"It's progress. The emperor was unmoved, and his tone was as cold as ice.

He didn't care about losing the hearts of the peasants, because it was not worth mentioning, and even if the peasants of the whole country rebelled, they would not be able to shake the rule of the empire. Facing the three mountains of knights, mages, and bourgeoisie, these peasants are very different in terms of combat power, intelligence, and financial resources. It didn't make much of a disaster.

"You, you, you......"

Antony hesitated incoherently for a while, suddenly turned blue, stretched out his hand to the sacrosanct emperor, and rebuked impassionedly:

"You are stupid! You want to ruin the rule of the Empire! Ruin the state of the Agaric Dynasty!"

"Presumptuous!"

Archon Hans struck the bronze bell and ordered the guards on the left and right: "Councillor Anningny's front of the palace is out of order, take him to the lounge, the meeting will not be dissolved, he will not be allowed to come in!"

"Yes!"

Two King's Guards, dressed in gold armor, immediately stepped forward, grabbed each other like chickens, and strode towards the exit passage of the council hall.

"Let go of me! Let go of me, Your Majesty, think again, You can't abandon your allegiance, Your Majesty, !!" Councillor Anthony was still struggling. He cried out and wept blood.

“......”

Wait until the other party's figure completely disappears from the hall. The emperor sighed lightly, Anthony was a loyal minister, and most of the farmers were innocent citizens. He knows this clearly, but even if he is as strong as a god, there is a dead knot that will never be resolved.

There is a shortage of money, and the entire empire is now extremely short of money, with a deficit at the highest level in a century, and a huge proportion of the spending on the Hundred Days Holy War.

Among them, the pension for the martyrs who sacrificed in the Hundred Days Holy War is only a small expense, and the real bulk of the cost is weapons and equipment, and the cost of just one rapid-fire gun is millions of soles, and the production and assembly are all purely manual, which is tantamount to selling gold holes.

The reason is that Rossevia is an agrarian country, yes, the empire has developed trade, an advanced financial system, and prosperous handicraft workshops, but the proportion of agriculture in the national economy still dominates.

For thousands of years, Rosevia's capital power has been limited by energy difficulties, and although it is also strong and active, it has always been suppressed by mages and knights, and the key to this is that it cannot substantially increase its military power......

Now that the energy problem has been resolved, the Magic Stone Revolution and the Armament Act have set off a wave of industrialization in order to win the Cold War. Rosevia must complete the Magic Stone Revolution, and the capitalists are the cornerstone of the successful completion of the Stone Revolution, so they must strengthen their power.

But the peasants would not obediently go into the factory, because in the traditional consciousness of all Rossevians, it was very undignified and undignified to work in the workshop, and it was necessary to carry out the project through the necessary violence.

It was the unanimous decision of the emperor and the cabinet to let the capitalists expropriate the peasants and then drive them into the factories to increase the power of capital and industry as cheap labor.

At the heart of the plan is the separation of direct producers from the means of production, freeing up more capacity. Although the farmers are pitiful and innocent, there is no way, their existence hinders the progress of society.

Because of this, it is clear that a large amount of food can be conscripted from the hands of the Flower Lord with a golden arrow edict (the food irradiated by mana is also unsafe, but those who don't have food don't care). Emperor Romulus simply watched the hungry peasants cry out after losing their land, just to force them into the factories and force them into workers.

"Next, we continue to agree on the Enclosure Act and the Wanderers Act...... restricting the original right to common land and animal husbandry...... Able-bodied vagrants must be forced to work and if discovered, they will be repatriated to local factories. ”

Archon Hans recounted word for word, each of which represented the indulgence of the power of capital and the oppression of the poor people.

However, the vast majority of parliamentarians are full of recognition, because the financiers behind them, or their own families, will benefit from this enclosure movement.

These two bills were passed by the parliament as a matter of course, and when the wooden hammer representing the divine jurisprudence struck on the draft bill, announcing the official entry into force, the hall resounded with cheers one after another.

Councillor Anthony, who was under house arrest in the break room, heard the wave. In a trance, there was a thousand miles of starvation in front of him. Picture of a farmer stepping into a sweatshop in desperation.

"It's all over...... It's over. ”

He walked over to the grooming mirror in the lounge. With a solemn expression, he straightened his dress, then walked to the back of the compound door and slowly knelt in the direction of the emperor.

"If you don't care about your people, you will pay a price. With that, Anthony removed the gold ring from his thumb, threw his head back into his belly, and closed his eyes in despair.

......

At the same time that the parliamentarian committed suicide by swallowing gold. The Archon Isaiah, who had already been replaced, stepped up to the podium and confronted the subdued House of Representatives, carefully expounding the important direction of the Magic Stone Revolution:

"The center of the Magic Stone Revolution, the center of industrialization, the basis of industrialization, is the development of heavy industry, in the final analysis, the development of the production of means of production, the development and expansion of the machine building industry in Rossevia!"

It sounds a bit lame and extreme, but in fact it is a forced choice, because Rosevia has always focused on local development. So much so that there are few allies in the territory of Intrasu, only Frank (Shake M) and Corella (own son). There are a considerable number of protectorates and vassals outside the territory.

After the formation of the Cold War, the empire fell into the embarrassing situation of almost single-handedly facing the world, and the frontier and the protectorate were far away and could not quench their thirst.

The leaders and giants of the Freedom League are playing Rosevia's calculations all the time. While isolating and isolating the empire, they will start a war at any time, and as long as they think that there is such an opportunity and possibility, they will desperately pounce on Rosevia, who is not at odds with them.

"Only by quickly and with priority the establishment of a powerful heavy industry, and only by the empire itself having an extremely solid material foundation, can it defeat the diplomatic and military offensive of this group of hungry wolves, can it gain the strategic initiative, and can it raise its national strength to the point of crushing them in the midst of the siege of hostile forces!"

Archon Isaiah ended his speech with a murderous tone in a standard hawkish speech, and the next moment, thunderous applause immediately resounded in the hall.

"Like countless wars over the millennia, we will win the Cold War, God bless Rosevia!"

"God bless Rosavia!"

Eventually, the meeting ended with an uncharacteristically aggressive speech by Archon Isabel and a wave of cheers from the parliamentarians.

“......”

Emperor Romulus watched this scene calmly, his eyes cast on the blood book that Anthony had left behind in the Law of Truth, and an ominous shadow cast his heart.

......

A few days later, after receiving the news, Yare stayed up all night, standing alone in the backyard of the Earl's Court, walking a few steps from time to time, and nervously talking to himself:

"It's crazy! It's too radical!"

“......”

In the stone arch of the backyard, three heads emerged from top to bottom, looking at his violent back, and at the same time sighed heavily, and quickly shrank back.

"What to do, after receiving this news, Yalei didn't sleep all night...... Now the next day is almost here. Charlene stroked her forehead with one hand, her pretty face full of sorrow.

"Your Majesty the Emperor has gone too far, this is forcing the farmer to a dead end. Nicole was also full of depression and said in response to the question.

"Give him a moment...... I'm sure he'll figure it out soon. Bruno patted the green-haired girl on the shoulder and said reassuringly.

"By the way, do you think that's a good thing, but in terms of the Enclosure Act and the Tramp Control Act?"

Charlene looked at the two of them nervously, although she was the daughter of a noble family, she had never been involved in the affairs of the family, and her heart was still very kind.

"What a fart! The ancestors have kept a manor for generations, and the family has a house and a field, this is the happiest day for the farmer, and the emperors of all generations have been on their side to barely maintain this life. Now that the emperor is on the side of the capitalists, they are finished, and they will definitely be deprived of their land in every way and finally driven into the factories!"

Nicole has not yet adapted to her identity as a capitalist, and her heart is firmly on the side of the majority of farmers.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with land annexation and intensive farming as the way to go, and it can increase productivity. The entry of farmers into factories is also a force to strengthen industry, and as long as this situation is maintained, Rossevia's national strength will be greatly enhanced, at least the price of equipment will be reduced. It's just that the way it's handled is too aggressive...... What should have been done in a few decades has been compressed into ten or twenty years, and the farmer is really not regarded as a human being. ”

Bruno was born into a wealthy family and was also biased towards capitalists, but he still felt that the cabinet had gone too far this time.

"His Majesty the Emperor and the consuls of the cabinet are too confident. ”

Yalei's voice suddenly came from behind the three of them, and at this moment his expression had regained his calm, but his tone was still full of anxiety:

"They are too eager and too underestimate the power of the farmer. ”

"What do you mean?"

The three of them were stunned at the same time, how much chaos could the farmer set off in the face of the sharp sword of the empire.

"It's true that the farmer himself doesn't have much power, but you know, people often turn to faith when they are desperate. At this time, if someone is a little seductive, tell those who are desperate that their suffering is due to believing in the wrong God. God is illusory, and another god is the true God, what do you think will happen?"

He asked, grimacing.

"Believe in evil gods!" Charlene, Bruno, and Nicole blurted out.

"It's just the turmoil I can think of...... I believe that there must be people in the gang who are trying to subvert the empire to surpass me...... But so many brothers died in the holy war...... Some things are really unimaginable. ”

Yalei looked at the dark red sunset in the distance and slowly narrowed his eyes. (To be continued......)