Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 759 Parliament
Xia Feng and Maren Legg became "friends" for their own interests.

Facing the person who once lured him into a dangerous situation, to be honest, Xia Feng didn't have any hatred or psychological barriers, maybe this is growth.

He cared more about winning or losing than his personal feelings.

Of course, there is an important condition in this, that is, Maren Legg only hurt himself from the beginning to the end, and did not hurt his friends.

After a while, the staff of the Yuan Council came to the lounge and informed that the meeting was about to start.

Although Mullenleg is not the head of the Mullen family, he is the heir in line of the Mullen family. As a first-level nobleman appointed by the royal family to manage the Royal Academy, there is not only one member of the Yuan Council.

Marlen Legg is also a member of the Yuan Council, of course, he is just an ordinary member.

The Imperial Yuan Council, composed of members of the major nobles in Victoria, has the power to participate in the formulation of laws and regulations, and participate in the decision-making of the development of the empire. Under special circumstances, it can even jointly veto wrong decisions made by members of the royal family.

Membership levels are divided into ordinary members, resident members, collegiate officers, and yuan speaker.

This is easy to understand. Ordinary councilors refer to nobles like Xia Feng who are not in Londinium and are summoned for the meeting. Ordinary councilors have the largest number of people, but they also have the weakest voice.

The resident members refer to the members who live around Lentinium all the year round, and besides meetings, they also participate in various daily work of the Yuan Council.

The collegial officers refer to the core members who have the right to hold a meeting for a certain decision. The current collegial officers are all heads of the first-level nobles, and there are 1 of them in total.

As for the final Speaker Yuan, he was elected by voting to preside over the meeting. In terms of power, he was almost the same as the collegial officer. The only special thing was that he would call "start" and "end the meeting" at the beginning and end of the meeting.

The full name of the current Speaker of Yuan is Maren Raffle. He is the head of the Mullen family, a first-level nobleman in the north, and the biological father of Maren Laige.

Under the leadership of the staff, Xia Feng walked into the hall where the council was held.

At this time, there were already many people sitting inside, and as far as the eyes could see were old guys over half a century old, some were talking in low voices, some were smoking and drinking tea, and some were resting with their eyes closed.

Xia Feng looked around, he didn't know any of these aristocrats except Maren Legg.

Finally, he found a random seat in the corner and sat down.

Guys like Maren Legg are naturally not as closed as he is. After entering the door, this outstanding young man started all kinds of "high society" and had a great time chatting with some fat men. Almost.

And some nobles with serious faces completely ignored his "enthusiasm".

After walking around the hall like a courtesan, Maren Legg finally returned to sit beside Xia Feng.

People entered the conference hall one after another. Xia Feng checked the time, and it was already time for the conference to start as the staff said.

"boom!"

As the last old man entered, the door of the conference hall was slammed shut by the guards.

This old man has gray hair and a thin face. From the temperament point of view, he does not have the dignity of a great nobleman at all. However, Xia Feng recognized his identity from the name tag on the table.

【Yuan Speaker】

That's right, this person is Maren Leigh's father, the Yuan Speaker of the Imperial Yuan Council, Maren Leffle.

In the conference hall, there were seven or eight people sitting on both sides of Leffle. It was known without question that these people were all collegial officers.

There are a total of 12 collegial officers in the Yuan Council. It seems that several adults did not come today, but this is normal. According to the style of the Yuan Council, since its establishment, there has never been a normal attendance of all members.

Among the collegial officers who were absent today was the head of the Capet family, the Imperial Inspector General Capewami.

The meeting begins.

Maren Leffle took a sip of the tea on the table to moisten his throat, and then spoke.

"My lords, please be quiet. The regular meeting of the Yuan Council is starting now. Before I raise a few issues for today, I would like to introduce a new member to you."

Speaker Leffle looked at the seat below.

"Master Xia Feng, a third-level noble in the south, where is Lord Xia Feng sitting? Please raise your hand."

Hearing his name being called, Xia Feng, who was sitting in the corner, stood up directly, and said to Leffle in a neither humble nor humble manner.

"I'm here, Lord Leffle, you are an elder, so don't call me an adult, just call me by my first name."

Knowing the friendship between Xia Feng and his son Maren Leger, this elder's sentence won Leffle's appreciation.

He nodded and said seriously.

"My lords, this young man is Xia Feng. I believe everyone sitting here should have heard of this young man. From today onwards, he is a member of our Yuan Councilor. Everyone is honored by the Victorian Empire. Nobles, we must take care of each other from now on."

At this time, a fat middle-aged man next to Leffle snorted coldly.

"Xia Feng, I have heard of this name, as far as I know, he is an infected person."

Hearing the words "infected person", there was a slight surprise in the hall. It seems that even though this matter has passed for more than a month, some ill-informed members of the Yuan Council still don't know that he is an infected person.

Hearing this obviously thorny sentence, Xia Feng's humble expression disappeared.

Sensing the change in his mood, Maren Legg, who was sitting next to him, reminded him in a low voice.

"Xia Feng, this person's name is Luo Da, a first-level nobleman in the north, calm down."

Of course Xia Feng will not be calm. His identity will be questioned by the Yuan Council.

Xia Feng lowered his head slightly.

"Master Luoda, right? You are right. I am indeed an infected person, but this does not prevent me from appearing here. Although I am only a third-level noble, my noble status is also awarded by the royal family. Just like us, do you have any questions?"

The Luoda collegial officer snorted softly, not even wanting to answer.

Perhaps in his eyes, a small character like Xia Feng doesn't even have the qualifications to argue with him.

In fact, Xia Feng was indeed an insignificant role in this meeting. After introducing him, the meeting began as usual.

Picking up the pre-organized materials, Speaker Leffle first raised three issues.

First, the adjustment of import and export tariffs for several commodity types.

Second, the increase in treasury grain reserves.

Third, discuss the possibility of disarmament in the four major military regions.

Xia Feng has no concept of these three so-called issues at all, and the only thing that concerns him should be the adjustment of tariffs.

However, the current main business of the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce is smuggling. As for the normal freight business that pays taxes, it is entirely for superficial work, and he doesn't care if it is adjusted or not.

And the subsequent food reserves and disarmament have nothing to do with him.

However, although there is no direct relationship, but only from the literal meaning of these two nouns, he faintly smells something that makes him a little uneasy.

(End of this chapter)