Chapter 159 Deprivation and Bestowment

Hearing the verdict, Xu Yi didn't show any surprise, instead he smiled happily.

Seeing Xu Yi's reaction, Earl Basa and the dozen or so councilors around were stunned.

Earl Basa frowned and shouted softly: "What are you laughing at? This is the holy kingdom's noble council, you are not allowed to be so presumptuous!"

Xu Yi shook his head: "I'm just a little funny. It's so difficult to get a noble status, but it's so easy to be deprived of it. It turns out that the deputy speaker can directly announce the deprivation of my noble status by asking a few questions. .Hehe, don't you think this is too hasty?"

Earl Bassa said with a sullen face: "This is the decision of the council after careful consideration. Letting you participate in the council is just a chance for you to defend yourself, but you didn't make any excuses just now and fully admitted the fact that you violated the regulations. Is there any problem with such a punishment?"

"No, no, no, I don't think there is a problem, I just want to laugh." Xu Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "When I was notified and asked to attend the review meeting, I was a little nervous, but I didn't expect the original process It’s so simple, and even the outcome has been decided long ago. If I had known this, I might as well not have come, it’s a waste of time.”

"Presumptuous!" Count Basa shouted angrily. "Xu Yi, I warn you again, this is the holy noble council, you are not allowed to be so presumptuous here!"

Xu Yi shrugged: "Vice Speaker, you seem to have forgotten one thing. You just said that the parliament has decided to deprive me of my noble status, so I am now a commoner. Now that I am a commoner, the noble council can You can’t control me anymore? Deputy Speaker, if you have any dissatisfaction with me, please go to the Kingdom Council or the Public Security Bureau to file a complaint.”

Count Basa pointed at Xu Yi. He was trembling with anger, but he couldn't find anything wrong with Xu Yi's words.

Because according to the regulations of the Kingdom Council, although the Kingdom Council of Nobility has all the management power over the nobles, it is only limited to the nobles, and has no right to dispose of the common people, because this is the management category of the Kingdom Council.

Xu Yi was right. Now that he has been deprived of his noble status by the noble council, he has become a commoner again. That means that the noble council no longer has the power to manage and restrict him.

If Xu Yi is an ordinary commoner, that's all. Naturally, the noble council can find 10,000 ways to deal with him by virtue of its own power.

But Xu Yi is not an ordinary commoner. On the contrary, there are a bunch of powerful figures standing behind him, so that this time the noble council wants to deal with Xu Yi under the instruction of some people, it must first deliberately make a comment It will come out, at least there will be no mistakes in the superficial procedures.

The other congressmen present looked at Xu Yi and were also dumbfounded.

They thought that Xu Yi would definitely fight for his deprivation of his noble status, and strongly opposed the resolution of the noble council.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yi did not have any intention of denying the defense from the beginning to the end, and after hearing the sentence of the Earl of Basa, he also did not express any excitement. It was an unusually indifferent expression of acceptance.

In fact, their original intention was not to directly deprive Xu Yi of his noble status, because directly depriving a nobleman of his noble status is actually a very influential thing. The noble council would not easily make such a decision.

Their original plan was to hope that Xu Yi would make some excuses for themselves, and then they would be able to push the boat along the way and reduce Xu Yi's punishment, so as to achieve their real goal - to weaken some of the benefits Xu Yi obtained through his noble status, such as territories, Tax reductions, policy preferences, etc., indirectly weaken the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

But Xu Yi does not make any excuses now, directly accepts this resolution, and adopts such an attitude towards the Earl of Bassa, even if the Count of Bassa wants to proceed according to the original plan and withdraw the resolution to deprive Xu Yi of his noble status, there is no way at all. Way to speak out.

Looking at Xu Yi who was standing in the middle of the venue with a smile on his face, the Earl of Basa and other councilors were speechless for a moment.

Xu Yi looked around, saw that everyone was staring at him blankly, and smiled slightly: "Are you all right? If it's all right, then I'll take my leave. I still have a lot of things to do, so I won't play here with you guys." gone."

Just as he was about to turn around, Earl Barca roared, "Stop!"

Xu Yi stopped turning his body halfway, turned his face sideways, and frowned at Earl Basa: "Mr. Deputy Speaker, please pay attention to your demeanor as a nobleman. I don't think it's too rude to shout at a commoner like this. ?"

Earl Basa almost choked to death with a mouthful of saliva, coughed a few times in anger, and then said out of breath: "You can't leave yet, there are still some formalities to go through."

"Oh?"

The Earl of Basa collected himself and took out a pile of documents from under the table that he had obviously prepared long ago.

"Since you have been deprived of your noble status, some of the privileges you enjoyed as a nobleman should also be taken back. Here are some related documents, which you must sign before you can leave."

Xu Yi took these documents from a young congressman who sent them over, roughly flipped through them, and found that they were about taking back the privileges Xu Yi had when he was a viscount, including private territories.

Xu Yi was not surprised by this handling, but raised objections to some details in these documents.

"Vice Speaker, according to the "Private Land Recycling Agreement", don't I want to hand over the entire Rainfall Valley outside of Bangta City? Then the factories of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in Rainfall Valley And what about various other facilities?"

Hearing this question, the Earl of Bassa and other members of parliament seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Earl Basa showed a smug smile on his face and said: "How to dispose of those factories and other related facilities has nothing to do with the parliament. If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce fails to hand over the territory within the specified time, then according to the regulations, everything on the territory will be with you. Territory was forcibly handed over."

"In other words, the council intends to completely drive our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of the Falling Rain Valley?" Xu Yi asked.

Earl Basa put on a dignified look: "Xu Yi, I warn you. You are slandering the parliament. I reserve the right to file a complaint against you to the kingdom's parliament."

Xu Yi let out a laugh. I thought to myself that the deputy speaker made it clear that he was shameless. There's no point in talking to him.

After reading the contents of these documents, Xu Yi casually threw the documents aside, and said to Earl Basa seriously: "Master Deputy Speaker, I think I must remind you. , In fact, my private land is not large, and the other most important parts are directly leased from the royal family. Although the noble council can deprive me of my noble status and confiscate my private land. But these leased land, the noble council There is no right to intervene."

Earl Basa snorted coldly: "Do you think the parliament will make this resolution without finding out? Of course the council will not clean up the part of the land leased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from the royal family, but you are as high as Nearly ten square kilometers of private land must be turned over!"

Xu Yi looked surprised: "Mr. Deputy Speaker, who told you that I actually own a private domain of nearly ten square kilometers? I am just a viscount, how can I have such a large private domain. Where did you do it?" wrong!"

Earl Basa waved his hand: "Stop messing around, the area of ​​your private domain is archived in the parliament, how could you make a mistake."

"No, no, no, I just applied to His Majesty the king for a private domain of at most a few thousand square meters, just to hope to build a private manor for living in. How could I ask for a place as large as ten square kilometers. Even if I asked Yes. It is obviously impossible for His Majesty the King to give it to me. So you must have made a mistake, if you don’t believe me. Please ask His Majesty the King for proof, the Deputy Speaker.”

The Earl of Basa chuckled, convinced that Xu Yi was dying, and said coldly: "No need, the parliament will only make decisions based on the information in the parliament, and why bother the king because of this trivial matter now..."

In the middle of speaking, Earl Basa suddenly stopped, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, and stared straight behind Xu Yi.

The expressions on the faces of the other congressmen were also wonderful, and they all stared blankly behind Xu Yi.

Xu Yi turned around, and saw a middle-aged man with an ordinary face and a short stature, who seemed to be in his forties, slowly walked into the side hall.

The middle-aged man nodded to Xu Yi, then turned to the Earl of Barcelona and asked, "Vice Speaker of Barcelona, ​​is Xu Yi's council over? Has the result come out yet?"

Count Basa's face became extremely ugly, and he hesitated for a long time before answering: "It's over, as for the result..." Count Basa glanced at Xu Yi, and his face became even more ugly. "Because Viscount Xu Yi deliberately violated the relevant regulations of the parliament, he has now been deprived of his noble status in accordance with the regulations."

The middle-aged man nodded, then turned to Xu Yi and asked, "President Xu, are you a civilian now?"

"yes."

Xu Yi thought about it in his mind for a while, and suddenly thought that he seemed to have seen this middle-aged man in the palace before when he had an audience with His Majesty the King.

And from the respectful attitude of the Earl of Barcelona and other members of the parliament towards him, it shows that this middle-aged man who doesn't look special is very likely to be the confidant of His Majesty the King in the palace.

"Very well, since President Xu is already a commoner, I will now read to you His Majesty's appointment to you."

Seeing the middle-aged man take out a letter of order with the seal of His Majesty the King from his arms, Count Basa's heart moved, and his face instantly became extremely gloomy.

"In view of Xu Yi's great contribution to the kingdom, His Majesty decided to specially promote Xu Yi, a commoner, to the status of Baron as a reward."

While Xu Yi was still in a daze, the middle-aged man took out an identical order from his arms and continued to read.

"In view of Baron Xu Yi's great contribution to the kingdom, His Majesty has decided to specially promote Baron Xu Yi to the status of Viscount as a reward."

Except for Xu Yi's title at the beginning, there is almost no difference between the two orders.

It can be seen from this that the middle-aged man was prepared long ago and came here just for Xu Yi.

The Earl of Basa, who was on the side, heard the two letters of appointment, and said with a difficult expression: "This... Chief Dema, Xu Yi has just been deprived of his noble status by our noble council. His Majesty the King is promoted to noble at this time... I am afraid not too good?"

Chief Dema glanced at him and said calmly: "I don't care about these. Anyway, I came here according to His Majesty's order. Your Majesty said that as long as Xu Yi is deprived of his noble status by the Noble Council, then I will read these two orders. Additionally, these two orders are in effect in perpetuity."

Hearing the words of Chief Demar, Earl Basel and a group of councilors around him were all ashamed in an instant. (To be continued..)