it's over.
it's all over.
Except for the fifteen members of Congress who participated in the plan to seize the Goblin Farmhouse and later pledged their allegiance to Zhou Li during the impeachment. The other forty-five members suddenly felt dizzy, and a feeling of despair gradually spread throughout the hall.
If Zhou Li had not become a duke, Twilight Forest would not have become the trigger of the war. Mu Qi and Magnum would always be blocked by the Twelve Moments, and the war would not have broken out.
If the war had not broken out, the war preparations that this group of congressmen had spent most of the family's financial resources on, mobilizing family members to donate to the war, and the large sums of money used to purchase resold goods would all have come to naught. The preparation will become a joke, the donations will go to unknown places, and the goods you want to resell will become scrap metal in your hands.
It's over, it's all over.
The atmosphere of despair spread completely, and they knew that today's parliament was being manipulated by Zhou Li alone. Zhou Li had no way of knowing their arrangements and plans, and their thoughts were even more transparent to Zhou Li than the Trisolarans.
Now, the big picture is decided.
"Well, a brave man can no longer become a duke."
Zhou Li stood up with a smile, walked to the podium, picked up the Brave Exclusive, and then hung it around his waist. He looked at the numb and desperate people in the audience, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then let me introduce myself. My current name is Zhou Li."
"He is the brave man you think about day and night."
"Your plan has been successful, why are you humiliating us?"
The middle-aged man who had had a one-sided quarrel with Zhou Li raised his eyes and asked lightly. He couldn't afford to be too angry now. For them, this was a one-sided massacre and crushing, and they had no right to feel angry towards Zhou Li.
"Don't worry, the fun has just begun."
Zhou Li smiled and clapped his hands, attracting the attention of the silent congressmen to himself, and then he said in a deep voice to the indifferent people: "You have made a lot of preparations for this war, right? .”
"Sir Livia, your family purchased 10,000 gold coins worth of blank runes and rune ink three days ago. If my calculation is correct, once the war breaks out, these 50,000 gold coins will be lost." Thousand gold coins will help your family become members of the upper class with a 90% huge profit, right?"
The middle-aged man was shocked and looked at Zhou Li in disbelief. He opened his mouth and said nothing, but it seemed as if everything came out. Then he slumped down on the chair and didn't care.
Zhou Li pointed to another young lady and continued: "Miss Qili, your father, husband, and son joined the army at their own expense the day before yesterday with eight thousand gold coins and a team of sixty gold-level professionals. This almost cost your family Nearly 80% of the wealth, but as long as you can win on the frontal battlefield, what you will gain will be doubled."
A woman wearing standard aristocratic clothing was startled for a moment, and then a glimmer of light appeared in the corner of her eyes. Zhou Li was right, as long as they win, they can gain wealth, but if the war does not start, these relatives and gold coins who have joined the army will go to the bitter cold land to devote their lives to Magnum III.
"Mr. Kaznus, the war law department of your law firm has just been established, and has hired a brilliant-level barrister, ready to exploit more legal loopholes for the congressmen."
When his name was called, the congressman dressed as a lawyer pursed his chapped lips, twitched the corners of his mouth, and revealed a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Marquis Nite, the 30,000 tons of grain you purchased from the Purple Sha Chamber of Commerce will be delivered tomorrow, don't forget to check it."
"Clinis, next time you pay taxes to the War Church, you can consider choosing the secret tax. This way it will be more difficult for me to check, and I won't have to dig through all of you in three days."
After calling a bunch of people's names and the huge price they had invested in the war, Zhou Li stopped talking and just looked at the group of increasingly angry congressmen with a smile. Just when they were about to speak and ask Zhou Li what he meant by humiliating them like this, Zhou Li beat them to it and said:
"Are you willing?"
The unexpected turn of events suddenly shocked the group of people. They all looked up at Zhou Li, the resentment in their eyes lessened, replaced by the hopeful look of a desperate person sensing hope.
He has more to say.
"If the brave man does not become a duke, and the war does not break out, all your previous efforts will be in vain. I think this ending is not good for us who have no grievances and no hatred, right?"
Zhou Li spread his hands and said with a hint of teasing: "But don't worry, His Highness the King will definitely live a good life."
"Your money, people, and things are all transferred under the king's hands. In the final analysis, the king is always making money."
Zhou Li walked off the rostrum, slowly gathered around everyone, and said thoughtfully: "I once learned a word called "cutting vassal". That is, the emperor in the Eastern Kingdom weakened the nobility's control over the country. Improve your control over the country. You tell me, if the war really cannot start, will our dear King, His Royal Highness, be merciful and use his wealth to fill your void, or..."
At this moment, people seemed to hear demonic whispers ringing in the hall.
"How about cutting all your vassals into pieces?"
"How to do?"
For a long time, in the silent hall, the middle-aged man raised his head and spoke weakly.
"what should we do?"
The second voice sounded, and as Lu Lu asked questions one after another, people's voices began to increase, and the panic in their eyes gradually turned into hysteria. They looked at Zhou Li, looked at the man who once sent them to hell, and longed for him. Help yourself.
"You said it yourself, we stand together."
Zhou Li's smile was very bright. Seeing this, Eluma, who had been nervous, tilted her head slightly and twitched her shoulders twice. Then she suppressed the smile and worry on her face and walked to Zhou Li's side. Looking down at the many confused MPs.
"There is an article in the Twelve Hours War Countermeasures Act."
Zhou Li held out a finger. It was as if he had studied these laws and bills for a certain purpose. The look on his face as he spoke freely made the members in the audience wonder why you are so proficient. Then Zhou Li said:
"That is, if an absolutely neutral country adjacent to two warring countries chooses to guarantee the war between the two countries, it will take at least two months to confirm the nature of the war before it can intervene."
"Just in time."
Zhou Li breathed a long sigh of relief, and said casually, as if mentioning something familiar:
"I just want to build a country."
"You said that the country founded by me, who just rejected Duke Magnum and has the status of a brave man..."
Zhou Li leaned close to the middle-aged man's ear and said in a loud voice:
"Is it considered an absolutely neutral country?"
