Chapter 226: Re-election of the King
Cornelies' banner frightened the crowd at the entrance to the council's office, everyone knew who she was, but no one knew what she was trying to do.
The Minister of Household Affairs jumped to his feet and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade, "Your Highness, this is unacceptable, Your Highness! Let's go in and sit down and talk about it, what are you doing here?"
Cornelies was unmoved, holding the banner aloft and her eyes swept over every face at the entrance of the office, trying to see through their true thoughts under the disguises of panic, bewilderment, or distraction.
Soon someone went in and invited out the chairman of the board of directors, Jeffrey, who was a middle-aged man with a curly mustache, according to the family lineage that could not be beaten, Corneerys should call him cousin, but Geoffrey's family had long since declined before the establishment of the inner city, and had little contact with Cornelies, who was born in the orthodox royal Laurenol family.
A side branch of the royal family like him was originally unable to access the core of royal power in his life, but Geoffrey was a smart man, he gave up the power and status given by the royal family, and switched to the council, where he rose all the way until the orcs attacked, the inner city was established, and the king's body was weakening day by day, and this member of the royal family, who was born in the last minute, actually controlled the king through the council and seized the royal power. Look at the book
Although Cornelys has not seen Geoffrey much, in recent years, the New Year's message published in the newspaper has changed from a king's speech to a chairman's speech, and Geoffrey's portrait can be seen everywhere in the inner city, and it is difficult to know him.
The council advertises that Chairman Jeffrey has been appointed to act as king, and Cornelies knows how ambitious that man really is.
If you ask who in the inner city wants a king the most, Corneerys is Geoffrey.
But seeking power and usurping the throne is always not good, although the current monarch Finn Laurener is frail and sickly, and he has not seen anyone for a long time, but he is after all a hero who established the inner and outer cities to fight against the orcs, even if the inner city royal family is scolded, but he is still the spiritual pillar of the ninth-star civilians, and it is not so easy for Jeffrey to abolish Finn Laurener himself.
So he has been very smart and waiting, waiting for an opportunity for a division to become famous.
Cornelys sent him the opportunity.
Sure enough, Jeffrey stepped out of the office door, and when he saw the big words on the banner, the corners of his mouth immediately raised a faint arc.
But he didn't show this joy too obviously, but adjusted his facial expression in time, showing a look of panic and pain, hurried to Cornelies's side, crouched down and asked her, "What is this doing, Your Highness?"
Cornelius came at him, almost slapping the banner in his face and shouting discontentedly, "Can't you see? I think the current king is incompetent, and I demand that the monarch be re-elected!"
"This can't be said nonsense, the king has not done anything wrong, even the council has no reason to impeach him, Your Highness should not mess around."
"I'm messing around? Can't you see what the outer city has been trampled by orcs?!"
She glanced at the growing crowd at the entrance of the office and said in a loud voice, "If the king really is a wise king, he will not let the outer city be destroyed and remain indifferent! The outer city is broken, how far do you think it will be until the day when the orcs will break through the inner city?!"
She repeated what Shu Yungui had said to herself, and when she thought of herself, the faces of the crowd watching the show around her changed significantly, and she hit the railroad while it was hot: "Do you really believe that the only guns in the inner city can stop the butcher's knives of the orcs? Have you really seen the orcs slaughtering the city?! The out-of-town victims you are now laughing at will soon become synonymous with ourselves!"
The crowd was in chaos with an "uproar", and people began to talk about it, many with worried looks on their faces, obviously moved by Cornelies's words.
Chairman Geoffrey did not disperse the crowd, nor did he stop everyone from talking, he wanted this result, only if the people of the inner city were dissatisfied with the king, he could adapt to the situation and inherit the throne "as a last resort".
"You'd better get up first, it's not a trivial matter, and even if you have this idea, you can't ignore Lauren
The face of the family, after all, it is your own cousin."
He personally stepped forward to help Cornelies, and the Minister of Household Affairs reached out to grab the other arm, but Corneerys broke free.
"What's wrong with my cousin? Is this the time to miss family affection? Since my cousin is not in good health and can no longer work hard for the people of the Ninth Star, wouldn't it be good for both parties to let him rest well and elect a capable monarch again?!"
Both Geoffrey and the Minister of Household were silent, and Cornelys seemed to have been preaching to the crowd about the benefits of re-electing the monarch, but in fact he had been secretly watching Geoffrey.
"The orc invasion has led to the withering of the royal family, King Finn has been unmarried and has no children, the Council has been urging the king to leave an heir all these years but has been refused, at this time, if you want to re-establish a monarch, you have to find a suitable candidate from among the royal family's appropriate descendants, this is not an easy task, and the Royal Affairs Management Office needs time to sort out these things."
Geoffrey pulled Cornelis up and comforted her, "We know that Your Highness is worried about the Ninth Star and the Inner City, and your proposal will definitely be on the agenda of our council, but please don't be too anxious, take care of your health, and don't forget that you are also one of the candidates for the throne."
"I don't have that skills."
Corneerys said disdainfully, "You'd better hurry up and solve this matter, I don't want to live in fear of orcs breaking the city every day!"
The purpose has been achieved, Corneliese will not stay long, she only needs one hard performance, and those audiences will publicize what she has done today, especially Geoffrey, and the news of "the righteous destruction of relatives by the royal family, the chairman of the board of directors is in danger" will appear in the newspapers of the inner city in the next few days.
Cornelys returned to the palace and waited for two days, and in the past two days, as Shu Yungui had expected, the Coexistence Faction had sent someone to meet him, and this person was none other than Jeffrey.
It seems that in order to let Shu Yungui understand the status and means of the coexistence faction in the inner city in advance, he always brings a newspaper when he delivers food in the past two days, Corneerys holds a banner at the door of the council office, Shu Yungui bites the bacon sandwich, looks at the newspaper and can't help laughing.
This stupid girl, let her go to the council office to propose a re-election of the king, who knew that she would play a big game, Shu Yungui didn't have to go out, he knew that there must be a lot of uproar in the inner city now, and the major camps in the council are probably arguing about this matter.
He was so happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and as soon as he finished eating, the people of the coexistence faction came uninvited.
The door opened by Defense Minister Gran for Jeffrey himself, and the man in a suit and leather shoes stood at the door with a ceremonial staff, took off his gentleman's hat and smiled at Shu Yungui.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I'm Jeffrey, the president of the Inner City Council."
Shu Yungui glanced at him, silently pushed the plate out, he didn't get up, just leaned back in the chair and turned his head slightly, and said, "It's okay, it's earlier than I expected."
Jeffrey handed the cane and hat to Gran, walked in with his own hands, and glanced out as he passed the glass window before sitting down across from Shu Yungui.
"You've been with Her Highness Cornelis for a long time, so you must know something about the inner city, right?"
Shu Yungui didn't deny it, but said, "I'm not from the inner city, so your inner city affairs have nothing to do with me, right?"
Jeffrey's lips curled into a smile at an angle similar to that of his curly mustache.
"It can also be related, your ability is obvious to all, when the boss of the Colosseum Harvey chose you to go out of the city together, didn't he take a fancy to your superhuman ability?"
Shu Yungui put down the newspaper and raised his eyelids slightly, he caught two important points from Jeffrey's words, one was "Harvey" and the other was "ability".
It is not unusual for Jeffrey to know Harvey's name, after all, there is such a ruthless person in the outer city, and it is impossible for the inner city to be indifferent, and the person who colluded with Harvey inside and outside to seize the metallurgical machine and power core is likely to be Jeffrey.
But he even knew about the "powers"?
This surprised Shu Yungui a little, there is no one on the ninth star who can change abilities like him, how accurate is Jeffrey
Did you judge that he would have "powers"?
Could it be that Jeffrey has seen someone else with special abilities besides himself?!
Shu Yungui clenched his fists silently and asked, "In addition to Boss Harvey, how many other people did you send out of the city?"
"A lot." Jeffrey made no secret of the fact that "the inner city needs resources, and Harvey has so little to offer, and besides him, we have many teams on missions in the wilderness."
"'You mean the coexistenceists?'
"Of course not." Geoffrey shook his head slightly, "It means that the entire inner city, the council, and the royal family, everyone is sending people to the wilderness, even if the orcs are rampant outside the city walls, the wilderness is still the primary target of the various forces, isn't it?"
He only said a few words, Shu Yungui judged that this was a very cunning person, and his daughter's degree of fraud was not lower than those old foxes on Wright Star, Shu Yungui didn't like to deal with such people the most, and when he met such a person on Wright Star, he naturally had Cheng Sikong to deal with, but now he could only rely on himself.
He raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows, and in this brief movement, he quickly analyzed the current form from Jeffrey's words.
He must have known that Finn Laurenier sent Corneerys out of the city, Harvey and the two transport helicopters were also sent by him, so there is a good chance that the power core is also in his hands, and now the second negotiation with the orc leader is imminent, if he can get the throne at this time, then the waist pole at the negotiating table can be a little stronger.
The situation is already very biased in favor of Jeffrey and the Coexistence faction, but they still came to Shu Yungui, but Shu Yungui was a little confused, what else does the Coexistence faction need to win over themselves?