Chapter 13: The Secret Fight
"I will wake up after the dark night, and I look forward to what will come back tomorrow......"
On the third floor of the Golden Garden Knights of Truth, a young girl sings softly in the light of dawn.
"Nina, don't sleep for a while?" the tower-like Daron looked at the girl in the light of the rising sun, and a touch of warmth appeared on his face. She was so pure, why did the gods let her go through all that unbearable pain?
"Father, I've slept a lot. I want to see the sunrise, it's beautiful, isn't it?" the girl had an innocent smile on her face, like a fairy among flowers.
"I love you, baby, you're my angel!" Daron reached out and stroked his daughter's hair, and his heart couldn't stop hating the vulture.
"I heard you're resurrected again!Very well, this time I'll make you taste all the pain in the world!" Daron swore inwardly.
An inconspicuous yellow beetle took off from behind him.
The light of dawn shone into Nikita's bedroom, and the woman, who hadn't slept all night, straightened up, trying to stand up.
With a bang, the muscles of the injured leg were torn and painful, and the leg went soft, and the woman and the dresser fell down together.
"Bichi!" the woman gasped and turned over and scolded fiercely.
Early in the morning, Balin rubbed his eyes. His injuries looked messy, but they were carefully planned and did not affect his mobility.
In order to create conditions for Bahrain, Raymond summoned many members of parliament who he supported in the middle of the night.
The council decided that the Wizarding Committee and the Homeland Security Committee would cooperate to set up a temporary commission of inquiry into the grocery store, and as the only wizard in the entire Council of Glory, and Bahrain, who also played a huge role in the investigation of the incident, successfully entered this temporary committee.
However, Bahrain did not immediately go to the Golden Garden, and when he walked out of the DHS building, he turned left and right and came to the gate of the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce.
Having changed into silk clothes and holding a golden scepter, Bahrain stepped through the door of the Chamber of Commerce.
The two security guards politely asked Mr. Senator about his intentions.
"I'm sorry, but there is no appointment for you to meet with the president, so I'm afraid you won't be able to meet with the president for the time being. Do you need to make an appointment now?" the security guard politely stopped Bahrain.
"Tell Raymond that Balinto said hello to Farah. He'll see me!" Barin smiled and sat down on a couch in the hall.
The security personnel looked at each other helplessly, and could only go upstairs to report the situation. They knew that since the grocery store bombing, President Raymond had stayed up all night meeting with all sorts of people. Staying up late is a big burden for Raymond, who is over half a hundred years old, and his temper is not too good.
Coming to the top floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, the security personnel with a numb scalp knocked on the door of Raymond's lounge room nervously.
Raymond, with bloodshot eyes, opened the door and looked at the two employees with a blank face. He knew that there was nothing special, and these security personnel on the ground floor did not dare to come up and disturb him easily: "What's the matter!"
"There's a glorious councillor downstairs, and he says hello to Farah Balinto, say you're meeting him!"
Raymond frowned, as if he didn't figure out why he was exposed after only a few hours: "Please ask him to come up!"
Two security guards immediately turned downstairs and led Bahrain into the lounge on the top floor.
By the time Bahrain entered the lounge, Raymond had already adjusted his mind, washed away the facial oil stains caused by staying up late, and his whole body exuded the compelling momentum of a successful businessman.
"Mr. Honorable Councillor of Bahrain, do you know Farah?" Raymond asked knowingly, smiling tentatively.
"We're not going around in circles, Mr. Raymond. You may have heard of some of my girls who are pretty good at settling accounts, and they didn't get my orders yesterday when I was dating Miss Farrah, so they told the Department of Homeland Security some of the bad money flows for the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce. As your partner, I think it's my duty to give you a heads up!" said Bahrain with a smile.
Raymond narrowed his eyes, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes: "It seems that I underestimated the ability of Mr. Honorable Councillor." So what do you propose to me as a collaborator?"
"Frankly, tell me everything you know, after all, I am also a member of the temporary commission of inquiry into the grocery store incident, and I hope Mr. Raymond can help us close the case as soon as possible!" said Balin with a slight smile.
"Confess, Mr. Wizard, there are many things that I know that are not good for you, such as 50,000 gold coins and wooden boxes!" Raymond smiled coldly: "And I think I am as smart as you, I don't know the reason why you were put into the Temporary Investigation Committee!"
"Spread it out, you're just a businessman. So you don't know what the truth of the incident is, and we don't think that the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce is behind the whole incident. We just need to know who you and the people behind you are! Trust Mr. Raymond to know what to say and what not to say. ”
"So, wizard, how much do you want me to say? DHS coffee doesn't taste good. Raymond understood what the wizard meant, and the stone hanging in his heart fell to the ground. The tone finally softened.
"So you might as well tell me first, let's discuss it, and then I'll ask you to go to the Department of Homeland Security and interrogate it again. Don't worry, the coffee I'll serve you won't be unpleasant!" said Baring.
Nodding, the two of them are now grasshoppers on a rope. Although Bahrain has only verbally promised cooperation, as long as Raymond says something about Bahrain, it will have a very bad impact on a low-level honorable parliamentarian like him.
"As you say, I'm just a businessman. I don't know the exact inside story and I don't care. Vultures have always worked for me, and you know that the slave trade is the most lucrative business in the Sea of Stars. The vulture often helped me capture some slaves, and I also helped him with some goods that he was not very convenient to handle. The grocery store is a vulture's stronghold in the city, and we all communicate with each other through the grocery store. Raymond said.
"And who resurrected the vulture?" asked Barin.
"Eye, a man named Eye contacted us. They bought the soul contracts of vultures and others from me, and then they were resurrected. I don't know anything else, I only do business!"
"Who's the eye?"
"No, it can get a lot of information from the Golden Council. I have obtained a lot of information about the Golden Council through it, but I have never seen it or contacted it, and it has always reached out to me. ”
"Who was the wizard who attacked the grocery store?"
"Unclear"
"Where's the wooden box?"
"Hehe, I have two answers here, answer one: the wooden box is a good thing that a group of monks have researched, and I think it is very valuable, so I arranged for the vulture to buy a sample from them. At the same time, the eyes also contacted me and wanted to buy it from me at a high price. So I asked Mr. Honorable MP of Bahrain to help me get it out of the Department of Homeland Security. Answer 2: This is what the vulture did after it was resurrected by the eyes, I don't know!
"Why don't you cut down the first answer. This case is always going to be solved!" Bahrain said.
"I don't think you want to see your eyes caught. I'm not sure it can keep your secret!"
"My secrets, until I do anything, these are just a snake between me and the bandits who kidnapped me in order to get out. It's nothing to be ashamed of, at most it's just a bit of a shame for me. The wizard immediately returned to the opposing army.
Sure enough, Raymond's face immediately became a little ugly, and he suddenly laughed again as if he had figured out something: "Good calculation! Sure enough, he is a wizard known for his wisdom!"
"Just telling the truth"
Leaving the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce and looking back at the top of the Chamber of Commerce, a smile curled up on the corner of Bahrain's mouth.
Raymond, who was standing at the top of the Chamber of Commerce, silently looked at the departing wizard, and said to Farah, who was with him: "I said that wizards are not so easy to control, and now you believe it?"
Farah's face was a little unsightly, and he snorted coldly: "When he touches his hand on the wooden box, he can't help it!"
"Do you think that things have come to this point, and that he will touch the wooden box without being fully prepared? If he can't pick himself up, I won't ask for this box anymore! There are some things that the eye can do, but you can't do" Raymond said this and said no more, he was very unwell after staying up all night when he was old, and needed to make up for sleep. “
In front of the building of Hector's campaign office, a group of Hector's supporters gathered. They are all citizens of the Sea of Stars.
In the Sea of Stars, there is a very different difference between citizens and ordinary citizens. Citizens are freedmen who are recognized by the Golden Parliament's constitution as having the right to vote. Most of them may not have full wizard blood or even no wizard blood, their ancestors may be Knights of Truth or gold coins, and most of them do not have the right to be elected. But the votes in their hands are their political power to protect their wealth.
The Knights of Truth are also limited to citizens, so the army of the Sea of Stars is also known as the most powerful army in the mortal world. Because they are citizen soldiers, their political obligations are strictly equal to their political rights.
Once a great sorcerer of the Palace of Wisdom established a vast empire on a whim, the Persian Empire. This is for a wizard named Xerxes who enjoys the honor of extreme tranquility in the mortal world. He even called himself a god.
Just in that ancient era when the Continent Patrol Committee had not yet been established, and the entire Wizarding Continent was made into a miasma by wizards who lacked restraint. A group of great wizards who are dissatisfied with the status quo are led by a wizard lord to cross the continent and settle in the desert.
They named their territory, the Tower of Babel, after the black tower that led their wizard lord.
A mortal settlement was soon established in the outer area of the Tower of Babel. They inherited and continued the freedom and democracy from the Tower of Babel, and the civic system of reciprocal political obligations in the Tower of Babel. They are known to the outside world as the land of sin.
In the sand, they carved out a miraculous city-state. Their system attracted many people who were ** in their own country to join, and these people used their own hands and blood to gain the recognition of this small city-state in the desert and obtain the citizenship of the city-state.
Soon the vast Persian Empire sent an ultimatum demanding that the fledgling city-state hand over a political prisoner from the Persian Empire.
The small city-states were immediately in fear, but they were unwilling to give in. Because the prisoners that King Xerxes wanted to claim had become citizens here, it was a threat to their citizenship system.
So, through the deliberations of the council, their leader Sparta led an army of only three hundred men to the entrance of the desert, Thermopay. With a huge disparity of 300 people to 600,000, he defended the hot spring pass.
This was the first time that the citizen soldiers had appeared on the world stage, and they did not use stratagem, but only used their bodies and blood to fight against King Xerxes' army of 600,000 men.
However, a scene that shocked everyone was staged. Three hundred citizens with equal political obligations and rights held off the boundless army of 600,000 for a week. They exchanged the lives of two thousand and one hundred men of Xerxes' army for the sacrifice of one hundred and nine.
It wasn't until Xerxes bought off a traitor in the city-state and led Xerxes's army around the Thermopylae Pass from the trail that he was able to win.
Although soon the wizarding drama from the Tower of Babel mediated the war. But the amazing record created by those 300 warriors with a huge disparity in numbers also made the world look sideways.
Countless ** kings of the past have wanted to obtain the secrets of it. What they don't know, however, is that the secret is not a secret at all, it's just that they don't want to believe it.
Political rights are equivalent to political obligations, which is the only reason why the Golden Council of the Star Sea, which was later named, has repeatedly defeated the strong with the weak, and even become more and more courageous.
(Recommend a book, Culture and Killing!) Analyze why European armies have always been invincible and can be called the most efficient way to kill in the most basic senses.) This is also the reason why the author has high respect for the wonderful civilizations of Greece and Rome in the world. The war described above is no stranger to everyone, and the three hundred warriors of Sparta are real events that happened in history. With such a disparity in numbers, it is indeed a shame for all the ** countries to be able to fight this far!)
This is the civic system of Xingchenhai, and it is also the core foundation of Xingchenhai standing stronger and stronger in the world.
Hector stood on a makeshift podium, looked down at the voters holding up his slogan and exclaimed, "Ladies and gentlemen." Thank you for your long-standing support of me! We are not gathered here today to gain the authority of the Speaker. Like you, I am a citizen who grew up in this land bathed in the glory of the Harpy. ”
"We have a civil system inherited from the Tower of Babel, and the scenes of history tell us that the civil system is the cornerstone that guarantees our free and democratic way of life, and the security of our lives and property. He is our ancient tradition, the unchangeable supreme creed that stands on the pillar of the Constitution!"
"Today, however, our Speaker wants to challenge this tradition, which is an encroachment on the vital interests of each and every one of our citizens! Though I hate to regret that his clever words have blinded many other citizens! We are gathered here today to protect our creed! Any force in history that tries to undermine our civil system has failed! What King Xerxes didn't do, what the Macedonian Empire didn't do, what the Whip of the Gods didn't do, what King David didn't do, and what Speaker Earl couldn't do today!"
Hector's voice fell, and a tsunami of shouts from his supporters could be heard below.
"This afternoon, Earl announced his crazy bill through the witchcraft circle, we must not allow this bill that threatens all civil rights to pass! Everyone dies, may the harpy bless the sea of stars!" Hector made a final declaration with an impassioned expression! Now that he has lost Raymond's support, he can only take risks and have a head-to-head confrontation with Earl when this most important reform bill is publicly announced!
Meanwhile, on the fifth floor of the Golden Garden, in the hearing hall of the Upper House of the Glory Parliament.
Wilson, who is the Speaker of the Earl Administration, Chief of Staff and a member of the Cabinet, pointed to the other side of the hearing, the Grand Knight of Talon, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Therefore, for the above reasons, the army must be nationalized. At the same time, the existing citizenship system must be reformed! If the scope of citizenship cannot be expanded, the power of citizens in the military cannot be increased. The Knights of Truth of the Golden Council will not be able to completely shake off the control of their private individuals! Only by ensuring that citizens in the military have the right to refuse private orders from their superiors can such problems be prevented! This is also the cause that this government has been committed to!"
"The separation of powers was originally based on the core of the nationalization of the armed forces. There is no doubt about this, so the actions of the Grand Knight of Talon this time really need to be severely punished. However, the citizenship reform bill on Mr. Speaker is not appropriate for discussion in this setting. This is not the purpose of this hearing, I hope Mr. Wilson can control his language!" Sitting in the chair, a Supreme Court official in the last years of his life made a closing speech in a trembling old voice.
The separation of powers in the Golden Council did not include the judicial power, which was initially controlled by the most respected elders of the time, and never participated in any political acts. Even the Speaker of the Parliament, who claims to be the commander of the army, has no right to investigate it.
Although the constitution clearly stipulates the independence of the judicial power, as a long-standing tradition, Xingchenhai still habitually chooses to forget the great power of the judicial power. Power that has never fallen into the hands of those in power cannot be said to be divided or not.
It is not impossible for someone to say that the separation of powers is not impossible, and in fact it is indeed the separation of powers. It's just going to feel different. What do you share with the power you have never obtained?
The homeland security issue of grocery stores has not yet been resolved, and another storm caused by the general election is about to erupt!
(The Sea of Stars here is not the United States of America, where the system has become perfect, but an ancient country that is still exploring democracy and has the influence of extraordinary power.) Don't sit in the right seat!)