In the parliament of the Dragon Kingdom, Lant took out several thick stacks of power of attorney and said unhurriedly:
"The Galloping Horse family, including the Marquis of Rousseff, has a total of 20 high-ranking members. They all work under the banner of the Galloping Horse Fund Committee of the Yeqi City Finance Department.
There are a total of 10 high-ranking people from the Imperial City in Galloping Horse Academy. As teachers of riding and magic,
Ravnica City and Howl City (the Great Forest Palace) each have a high-level knight order, with a total of 30 high-level elven knights. There are also 6 high-level priests in his temple, and 30 high-level guardian trees... …”
Hearing that the healing guardian tree also counts as a vote, Duma Feilong couldn't help complaining: "Can your wooden stake still be used as a high-level vote?"
"I knew Baihua Brew was brewed from their fruits!" Lant retorted,
"Also, I specifically proposed in the motion that in order to compensate each family, a primary magic plant can be cultivated into an intermediate magic plant for each family affected by this proposal. Which family will vote if they oppose the guardian tree? Quan can raise it now and I will explain it to Sir Halkara!"
There was sudden silence in the venue. No one wanted to offend a national pillar who specializes in magic plants.
"In addition to the above, we have 8 high-level magical beasts in our family, which have been registered in the Imperial Capital Shanglin Garden, including 4 around me, 2 in the Great Forest Palace, and 2 in Iowa."
There are already two high-level rats in the magic rat farm in Iowa, so Lant "cruelly" deprived the high-level octopuses of their voting rights.
"Yesterday, Ye Qicheng established a transportation management committee, including three high-level sea beasts from Luoyue Lake, three high-level sea beasts, a high-level finless porpoise mage from Benma River, and a high-level finless porpoise. They are all members of the management committee. .”
Counting here, Lant has received 112 votes, which is more than the combined total of Feilong family, Blue Lion family and Elk family. "Gentlemen, in the vote count I just made, I, Gulea Blue Dragon, Ya Wenni Jinyue, not including the 20 votes of Lord Halkara and Lord Ernst, if you can gather 135 negative votes, please let me know!"
"No, it's not 135," King Dusen saw the hope of preserving his family's status and said quickly, "The Baixiao family agreed to Duke Lant's proposal, it should be 150!"
"The Lanyuan family also agrees to Duke Lant's proposal! 175 pictures!"
"We, the Joyason family, agree to Duke Lant's proposal!"
“We, the Frostwolf family, also agree to Duke Lant’s proposal!”
…
Listening to the voices of agreement below, the national pillar Bennett Feilong discovered that Lant Galloping Horse was already an uncrowned king. Although the nobles within the dragon were not used to it yet, Lant was using the power of a kingdom. Influence the situation in the Kingdom Parliament.
Even before Lant has revealed all his trump cards, as the favored one of the Magic Network, he can ask all the magic goblins to support him, which is at least 70 votes.
"Duke Lant's proposal was passed at the High Council!" the speaker announced the result expressionlessly. "The following is the vote of the noble council. All nobles on the ground are asked to go to the Crown Hall downstairs later. The parliament will calculate the votes of all nobles. right!"
The on-the-ground noble vote is the calculated voting weight. Before Rand entered the parliament, the staff introduced him for a long time. Simply put, it is based on the control area and the importance of the city. For the Grand Council, the importance of the city Mainly reflected in population, so voting rights become a comprehensive competition between area and population.
On the Lant side, the Galloping Horse Plains, the Luoyue Lake, the fjords and the mountains in the north of the plains, Roseburg and Ravnica City in the west of Iowa, the Great Forest Palace in the south and the Frostwolf Forest in the east are all his footholds. Claimed territorial scope.
As for the Dragon Kingdom, in addition to several duke and marquis cities and various border territories around the core Dragon Tooth City, a large mountain range in the south is also included in the territory.
Both companies are willing to make concessions when it comes to map expansion. Calculating the area, the dragon is 30% larger than the galloping horse. However, now that the western border of the kingdom is in the hands of Lant, the area controlled by Lant suddenly It's a lot bigger.
However, in terms of population, Lant is particularly disadvantaged. The current population of Maned Wolf City far exceeds that of Ye Qi City, but compared to several other count cities, it has the smallest population.
Calculating voting rights is like a gambling game. Several nobles take out their own chips and put them into the gambling game to see who has greater voting rights.
The noble council was not held in the Dragon Scale Hall, but in the smaller Crown Hall downstairs. Both the national pillars and the nobles were afraid that Lant would make another comeback in front of a group of small families. In this way, the council Things have really changed.
The Speaker and dozens of mages began to count the voting rights on the map, while the nobles discussed in low voices around them.
"Duke Lant? There are nearly 100,000 southern specialties in your territory. They cannot be counted as the population!" Duma Feilong said with a smile, "As for the barbarians, orcs, and Hindukel slaves in your name , these cannot be counted in the right to vote!”
"What the Marquis said makes sense, but you just counted the population of the Dragon Kingdom as a negative vote. Is there something wrong with that?" Lant asked, "Do you have the final say on the population of the Royal Capital?"
When Duma and Lan were bickering, no nobles wanted to express their support for anyone. The current situation was that anyone could win, and the nobles were only prepared to stand with the winner.
The speaker and his assistants finally finished their work, took out a list and said:
"My Lords, after calculation by the Parliament, the votes supporting the emergency bill are almost equal to the votes opposing the emergency bill. The difference in voting rights between the two parties is within 5%. However, activating the law requires more than 66% support from the supporting parties..."
Duma breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally saved the status of the Feilong family, and quickly said: "Lord Lant, it seems we should move on to the next bill!"
"Please wait a moment, Mr. Speaker!" Lant said with a smile, "As far as I know, when calculating the territory area, cities with magic furnaces have special weight?"
"Uh?" The speaker's hand shook.
"There are now more than 20 magic furnaces in my territory. I request that the weight of the city be recalculated!" As soon as Lant finished speaking, he looked at Bennett, "In addition, Your Excellency, the magic furnace I built will definitely not Are you against my proposal?"
"Twenty stations?" Duma was shocked. "Why are there so many?"
Duma looked at his ancestor Bennett Feilong and wanted him to give some hints.
"Ah..." Bennett Feilong now understood how powerful Lant was.
Recently, Lant has just installed magic furnaces in Feilong Nest and Feilong City. Considering that the new magic furnaces still require constant maintenance by Lant priests, if you offend him now, no one will take care of your own magic furnaces in the future.
Just when everyone was at a loss, the National Pillar Dragon Priest Gorkesh Red Dragon spoke: "According to this calculation, the state of emergency will definitely pass! I don't think it's worth calculating, the situation is quite urgent now. Yes, let’s make a decision now, Lant, you are now the knight with the highest title in the entire council, so you can lead the various knights in Dragon Tooth City to make arrangements first!”
Seeing King Dusen Baixiao nod his head, Lant said: "Yes, Your Excellency!"
Watching Lant leave with the parliamentary resolution and the king's order, Gorkesh said to the room full of people: "You, each and every noble noble, actually lost to a barbarian when you voted in your own parliament?"
"Ancestor, Lant, this is..." King Dusen Baixiao was about to explain, but was interrupted by Gorkesh.
"Didn't you notice that he is about to get more than half of the votes?" Gorkesh's words suddenly pulled everyone out of the vote. "The nobles of the kingdom have become divided, and he is no longer the powerful one. He is the absolute one." most!"
"This..." The nobles, including King Dusen, stopped talking. If they couldn't oppose Lant's proposal together, then the Dragon Kingdom would become another Galloping Horse Kingdom.
"Okay, everyone prepare a gift to celebrate the restoration of the Galloping Horse Kingdom. All work in the parliament will wait until his wooden stakes, pointed ears, and big animals no longer have the right to vote!"
(End of chapter)
