Chapter 144: The Young Wolf Lord Visits
After the city lords looked at each other, they exchanged words with each other, and several city lords still had the courage to stand up and play the right game.
The first person was the city lord of Haolang who Mu Sheng had just pardoned not long ago, this old boy was used by Mu Yinaqi to contain Borlangtai's pawn, anyway, now that the old thief is dead, he doesn't really want to rebel, so he simply pardoned.
The city lord of Haolang stepped forward and kowtowed: "Long live the emperor!" Long live, the emperor is shining brightly, if the emperor wants to re-establish the presbyterian council, we can do the courtiers' obedience, the emperor travels far away, the ministers must represent the emperor to govern the city in an orderly manner, the ministers have no objections, and when the emperor returns to the court, the ministers will naturally withdraw the presbyterian council, and the great government will be returned. ”
After the city lord of Haolang spoke, more than a dozen city lords stood up and also stepped forward to express their support for the city lord of Haolang.
Mu Sheng laughed secretly in his heart, it is easy to give out power, but it is extremely difficult to take it back, originally he planned to rule the world with these noble city lords for a long time.
After listening to everyone's speeches, Mu Sheng still pretended not to make a sound, and when he saw that the heads of the dozen or so city lords who stood up to speak first began to sweat slightly, he said:
"Hmmm! What you Aiqing said is very true, you have also understood the king's order just now, I intend to rule the world with Zhuqing, in the future, and in the future, since this is going to restart the minister's meeting, the old man has no plans to withdraw since then, I hope you can understand what the old man means. ”
The city lords have repeatedly said, you have been trying to come and go for a long time, and seeing that the emperor really wants to restart the elders' meeting, all the old fritters are secretly happy in their hearts, but their faces are tightly frowned, pretending to be as if they have lost their backbone, and the future of Yucheng is worrying and so on......
In the next few days, Mu Sheng personally came to the site of the Presbyterian Church to discuss the system of the Presbyterian Council with them, and after discussing it for a long time, he understood how the Presbyterian Council operated more than 300 years ago.
More than 100 city lords in this presbyterian congregation come to Yucheng to hold a general meeting every three to four months, meeting three or four times a year, depending on the urgency of the situation, sometimes they can come once or twice a year, and most of the time they stay in their respective fiefdoms and do not come out.
However, the affairs of Yucheng still have to be dealt with for a long time, and the elders will elect ten highly respected elders from the city lords from all over the city to stay in Yucheng for a long time to deal with state affairs, which is equivalent to a member of the standing committee, and the elders are all lifelong and have very great power, and only after the death of several great elders can the city lord be re-elected to succeed him.
These committees of ten elders discuss state affairs internally, and they are basically on par with the oldest or most prestigious elders, and this primitive aristocratic republic has been in operation for about a thousand years.
Until the emergence of a national hero, Borges was born, leading the mountain puppet army to be invincible, with a very high prestige, with military exploits, Borges was successfully elected as the Great Elder, with Borges prestige day by day, later the Council of Elders even gave him the honorific title of Dazhongzai.
In the later plot is the same as the practice of many heroes in history, after Borges said everything in the Presbyterian Council, he immediately turned his face and ruthlessly purged the Presbyterian Council, and after killing all these noble lords, he acted arbitrarily and smoothly became the Immortal Emperor, until now.
After Mu Sheng had a general understanding of the situation, he reformed and optimized the system of the Council of Elders, anyway, he also took the path of separation of powers and checks and balances, and it was best for no one to dominate, and the Ten Elders Committee still retained.
Once a person stays in a position of real power for too long, he will always form a powerful political force centered on him, and eventually form a political oligarchy, Borges is taking advantage of the loopholes in this system to take power, plus he is a monk, and he has the support of the army, and his life span is much longer than that of other ordinary elders, and the elders who have prestige and qualifications than him can't survive him, and in the end he can only become the king of the leftovers.
Mu Sheng of the Ten Elders Committee was changed to a five-year term, and the elected city lords could not be re-elected until all the city lords and elders had been elected, so that to a certain extent, the possibility of such a tyrant like Borges coming to power again was avoided, and no one could hold power for a long time and take turns to sit in the village, which also avoided the emergence of political oligarchs to a certain extent.
In this way, Mu Sheng doesn't have to learn from the old thief to kill after he comes back, of course, the first Ten Elders Committee still has to personally designate the candidates, first of all, it is necessary to focus on winning over the city lord of the Borges family, at least nominally related by blood, and he is a natural political ally himself, and directly designate three of the elder seats to them.
The rest of the council Mu Sheng is in the inspection and selection of other city lords will be decided, and when the ruins of the elders are renovated, they can officially open for business, and finally issue an edict on the insurance, if the five-year term of office of the great elder arrives, dare to be lazy and not retreat, the city lords can raise troops in the name of the Immortal Emperor to discuss it.
After the meeting at the ruins, after entrusting all this, he took Mu Yinaqi's soft little hand and sat on the chariot, and then went back to the palace.
After returning to the palace, Mu Sheng said triumphantly to Mu Yi Naqi: "Sister Naqi, how is it?" Husband, can I arrange it properly? ”
Hearing this, Mu Yinaqi lifted the curtain covering his face, looked at him with a strange and complicated look and said, "Yes, I think it's okay to deal with it." ”
Mu Yinaqi's tone paused slightly, and said: "Husband, these days I always feel that it is not you sitting next to me at all, but the old thief of Borges, I once thought that the old thief was alive again. ”
Mu Sheng laughed when he heard this: "This shows that my acting skills are in place?" ”
Speaking of this, Mu Sheng suddenly wanted to tease her, so he learned the tone of the old thief, took her into his arms, and said: "Aifei, the old man wants to spoil you little goblin now, why don't you wait for the old man to change his clothes?" ”
Mu Yinaqi raised his pink fist and hammered Mu Sheng a few times, and said, "I hate it! You pervert don't do anything all day long, you know how to toss the old lady. ”
Hearing this, Mu Sheng laughed and hugged her waist, and said with a smile: "The most positive thing in the world is to toss you, a vixen." ”
A few days later, one day Mu Sheng enjoyed Hongmei's service on the terrace of the castle, and these ten days of tossing Mu Yinaqi made her so annoyed that she drove him out, and Mu Sheng had to come to Hongmei for comfort.
At this time, the waiter came to report that Sucha Koyenu, the wolf king of the cockle slave group, had come to visit.
Mu Sheng said in his heart, who is he? Haven't heard of it? When he heard the words "Cockle Slave Group", he vaguely remembered that the four brothers of the Qi family might be the people who killed them in the first place, and they came to find trouble?
Mu Sheng waved away the waiter and asked him to inform Mu Yinaqi to go with him to meet the wolf king Sucha Piyanu, with her by his side, to introduce him to the local people and things, Mu Sheng also knew what their specific background was, so as to prescribe the right medicine.
On the way to the hall to meet the wolf king, Mu Sheng turned his head and asked Mu Yinaqi, "Naqi, who is this wolf king Suchapiyanu?" ”
Mu Yinaqi said: "That's right, the father of the wolf king Suchapiyanu is the wolf lord Suchanur, and this cockle group was founded by the wolf lord Suchanur, and it is mainly based on the former tribe to recruit a lot of elite mercenary corps who can fight habitually. ”
"Some of our mountain puppet tribes have also joined them, there are about 8,000 people in the cockle slave group, and when there is no war, they are entrenched in the base wolf fort, this gang of people is very strong in combat, they are thirsty for killing, they will slaughter the city at every turn, as long as they give money, they can fight for anyone."
"The wolf lord Suchanur himself is also an old monster in the realm of four phases, and he became famous very early, and the four brothers of the Qi family are the more well-known generals under him, and they have made a lot of achievements for them."
Listening to the background introduction of the Wolf King, Mu Sheng sneered and said, "Hmm! It seems that the old thief cut down the four brothers at the beginning, and this wolf king Sucha Piyanu came here today to find trouble on behalf of his father? ”
Mu Yinaqi shook his head and said: "This is not necessarily, even the wolf lord Suchanur may not dare to really offend the Immortal Emperor, our mountain puppets really want to fully mobilize the whole country, and we can also gather 100,000 elite soldiers, and if we really make up our minds to take their old nest wolf castle, it is only an overnight matter." ”
"Although this cockle slave group has always recognized money and not people, but there are still some bottom lines, which people can be offended, and which people can't be offended, speaking of which, this wolf lord Suchanur is only a monk who became a four-phase one realm more than a hundred years ago, and compared with the old thief, he still belongs to the backward generation, and he easily dare not tear his face with us."
Listening to Mu Yinaqi's words, Mu Sheng nodded, and he also had some calculations in his heart.
After Mu Sheng and Mu Yinaqi came to the lobby of the castle, he took a look at the young master of Wolf Castle, wearing a hood with a wolf head on his head, wearing leather armor, his figure was powerful, and his face was resolute.
Ho! Isn't this an old acquaintance? He is the barbarian warrior who gave his troops a fatal blow and finally caused Mu Sheng to surrender, and he has to say that the road is narrow.
Mu Sheng originally thought that this giant wolf warrior was a subordinate of the old thief of the Immortal Emperor, but it turned out to be the foreign aid of the cockle slave group invited by the old thief?
Really! The old thief really spared no expense in order to take down him, the so-called God Clan Hou Yi, and he felt that this giant wolf warrior was also a Heavenly Master-level cultivator, but he left a deep impression on Mu Sheng himself on the battlefield.
After the guest and host sat down, before the emperor could speak, the young wolf lord respectfully stepped forward and saluted: "Junior, long live the emperor." ”
Mu Sheng smiled and waved his hand, and said a few words of greeting to him and asked him to sit down and talk.
Mu Sheng asked, "Why did the young master come here today?" ”
The young wolf lord couldn't see the emperor's expression clearly through the mask, and he didn't know that Mu Sheng was his former defeated subordinate.
The young wolf lord still said respectfully: "Congratulations to the Great Emperor for his great achievements, today's junior is here to represent my father's affairs for the four Qi brothers." ”
Mu Sheng snorted coldly when he heard this: "What? At the beginning, the four brothers came to the door in person and almost took the old man's life, Suchanur came to ask the old man to collect debts? I haven't settled accounts with him yet! He actually asked about the four brothers with the face? ”
When the young wolf lord Su Chapiyanu heard that the emperor's tone was not good, a layer of cold sweat immediately appeared on his forehead, and he said in a more respectful tone:
"The emperor is angry, I am here today to apologize to the emperor on behalf of my father, in fact, the four Qi brothers and their affairs, my father is completely unaware, your old family also knows the rules of our Wolf Castle, has always recognized money and not people, their four brothers are hiding from their father to privately contact Hu Ketila, the thief's private work, our Wolf Castle heard about the Yucheng incident, only to know about it, and please ask the Emperor to know about it."