Carry on.

The King’s order was issued.

The county lords who participated in this assembly and were on the list all had pale, frightened faces, but the representatives of the free citizens almost cheered in joy——they originally did not believe that they could really achieve any good results at this meeting, and only came on the order of the King. It was just a gamble, but now the lucky balance was tilting towards their side.

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The discussion started again, but the members of the meeting all knew in their heart——

This was no longer a petition, but an unprecedented impeachment.

It was not uncommon to file a lawsuit against the officials appointed by the King through the convening of the parliament.

Since the Mad King Henry conceded to the parliament in order to launch an expeditionary war against Bressi, Legrand’s parliament had the right to impeach the “unlawful officials”, but this was often a means by the great nobles to restrict royal officials.

For the first time since the establishment of the parliament, civilians were able to make their voices heard on the bench of power.

Although the power behind this voice came from the King, at this moment, the representatives of the free citizens were still very excited. If the King wanted them to swear allegiance to him on the spot now, they could even kneel down and kiss the King’s boots.

A fierce debate broke out in an instant.

The representatives of the free citizens, the judges, the county lords, and the great nobles who were all instigated by the King broke out into non-conceding arguments among themselves. Out of worries that one day such impeachment might befall them, even the great nobles who usually didn’t like each other before had no choice but to join forces now.

But this was all in vain.

The civilian representatives fervently accused the county lords of violating the imperial laws and wantonly embezzling and oppressing the people. Each and every small matter was exposed in detail by them, and the judges who were instructed by the King provided them with strong legal support.

Someone once said that the discussion part of the imperial parliamentary meeting was actually a large-scale bazaar quarrel.

So this time, in this biggest bazaar dispute, it was undoubtedly the representatives of the free citizens representing the King’s will who were the most valiant and triumphant winners. They were simply awe-inspiring, utilizing the detailed investigation data and the many laws and regulations provided by the judges, they closed in on their opponents step by step.

Whereas on the other side, the county lords lost ground steadily.

The King, as the puppet master behind everything that was happening right now, only sat in his place, indifferent to the situation as if he was just an outsider.

He didn’t participate in the debate, he just coldly watched as the verdict of the petitions were quickly decided through discussion——or argument. Those results would be uniformly presented before the King by the Lord Chancellor, and the King would make the final judgment.

The King had a clear measuring stick in his heart.

Legrand’s county lords must undergo a major exchange of blood.

This was not only for the subsequent military reforms, but also for strengthening the royal family’s control over the empire. Hundreds of years ago, the Mad King Henry established the institution of county lords based on the system of “the employee of my employee is still my employee”.

At the beginning, the county lords really did help the king to strengthen his rule over the empire, because the position of the county lord was appointed by the King himself.

However, with the passage of time, earldoms gradually overlapped with the scope of the counties, and the system of county lords originally appointed by the King turned into an invisible “hereditary system of county lords.”

This was not something the King could tolerate.

The Duke of Buckingham, who sat next to the King, felt pride for his nephew.

He knew that if the King had not spent so much effort to conduct such a detailed investigation before, and also personally participate in the entire compilation process, then this scene would not have occurred today.

——A miracle would never come out of thin air.

Soon, this alternative impeachment came to fruition one by one, and the county lords all fell back in their seats, limp and defeated. The elderly Lord Chancellor, holding the final decision of the discussion, walked to the King’s desk solemnly.

The King accepted the parliament’s judgement.

Everyone looked at the King nervously.

The result of the judgment not only deprived the county lords of their posts.

The anger of the representatives of the free citizens had been suppressed for too long. They needed to vent, and the result was severe punishment. According to the severity of the crime, some of the county lords were sentenced to imprisonment, but more were sentenced to death.

The county lords still held onto their wishful thinking in their hearts.

If it was all carried out according to the decision of this parliament, the number of county lords who would be executed would be as many as 56 people, and some of them were earls.

Would the King really execute so many nobles directly?

The representatives of the free citizens came back to their senses from the brief joy of victory. They also looked at the King nervously, for fear that it would be nothing but false joy in the end.

The King looked through the parliament’s verdicts one by one.

Under the harsh breathing of everyone, the King took out some of the verdicts and put them aside. The nobles instantly had triumphant smiles on their faces while the representatives of the free citizens could not hide their disappointment, their hearts sinking deeply. They suppressed their sorrow and watched the King’s actions unblinkingly.

The King picked up a pen.

Unexpectedly, he signed his name on all judgments.

What did the King mean?

Everyone was confused.

“These…..”

The King put down the pen, picked up the pile he pulled out earlier, and casually handed it to the Duke of Buckingham.

“Execute immediately.”

Execute immediately!

It was as if a thunderbolt had exploded in the whole hall immediately, and everyone was stunned by the King’s words. For a while, they couldn’t even understand what the King meant, except for the Duke of Buckingham, who accepted the judgments.

The old duke stood up and showed the pile of special judgments to everyone:

——The ones that were to be sentenced to death.

“Take them out.”

The old duke said in a deep and strong voice.

The door of the Bright Room instantly opened, the cold wind roared in, causing the candlelight in the hall to flicker. Along with the cold air, a group of soldiers filed in. They were wearing armor and swords, their figures enveloped in murderous auras——these were the royal soldiers personally trained by the Duke of Buckingham.

Amid the shocked exclamations of the county lords, they were as cold as steel. They ruthlessly pulled these arrogant fellows from their chairs and dragged them through the gaps between the long tables in the hall like dead dogs.

It was deathly silence at first.

But in the next moment, the representatives of the free citizens all jumped up from their chairs and cheered loudly. They spontaneously bowed deeply to the King.

“God bless my king!”

“God bless Legrand!”

The great nobles were pale as paper amidst this wave of cheers.

They didn’t know that from the moment everyone entered the palace, the scarlet carpet was quickly removed from the front of the palace’s main gate where the warrior queen slaughtered a large number of nobles, and a tall guillotine was quickly built.

All the executioners near Metzl City had arrived at the Rose Palace three days ago.

They had been waiting for the orders for a long time.

Following the warrior queen Eleanor, Legrand’s second massacre against the nobles was staged.

The moment the King’s signature appeared on the paper, the doomsday judgment descended on the county lords who had forgotten their duties.

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General Edmund sat in a remote corner and watched all this develop rapidly.

As a representative of the State of Ingres, it was an unprecedented honor for him to step into the Rose Palace, so don’t expect to get a good seat. The fierce controversy just now had nothing to do with him. The State of Ingres had always been in a state of autonomy.

The people of Ingres took pride in bravery and felt shame for cowardice.

But at this moment, General Edmund felt a rare timidity.

A kind of fear bred in him uncontrollably. He saw a terrifying power in the young king sitting at the highest seat in this room. That was the will of the iron-blooded monarch. Perhaps one day, this young king would bring unprecedented changes to the entire world. At the moment when the King’s soldiers walked in, General Edmund seemed to see such a future.

He suddenly felt extremely grateful.

—— Fortunately, the State of Ingres made the right choice as soon as possible.

What chilled General Edmund even more was that it seemed to the King himself, the execution of so many county lords was nothing more than a passing thought.

He calmly announced that the parliament shall continue.

The nobles began to join the following discussion with trepidation.

No one made any criticism of the King’s cruelty just now——they remembered the rumor that the King had compiled a book of taxation and civil administration for each county some time ago.

They didn’t know if their names were also on the booklet, so they could only choose to be silent, hoping that they would not become the next target of the King.

The meeting continued to advance, and the Duke of Buckingham was the next to submit a proposal.

The Duke made a request to the parliament for the expansion of the royal soldiers on the grounds that the Bressi Expeditionary Army had not yet left and there was an urgent need to protect Legrand’s safety.

When Grand Duke Grice fought for the throne not long ago, one of the reasons used was the Bressi Expeditionary Army. Now the Duke of Buckingham once again brought it up at the parliament.

The representatives of the free citizens who had just won a victory with the King’s support almost unanimously passed the bill without hesitation——it was worth mentioning that the King also appointed new county lords on the spot, and the new county lords were all acceptable choices for the representatives of each county’s free citizens

The nobles cautiously discussed among themselves in whispers for a while.

They held a grudge against the King’s exploitation during this period, but the county lords had just fallen, and no one wanted to be the next.

In the end, some aristocratic representatives chose to abstain from voting, some representatives of the church expressed opposition, while others agreed.

The proposal to expand the royal soldiers was passed smoothly.

The King’s plan was moving forward steadily.

Knowing that the great nobles had been forced hard enough today, and there was a need to stop before going too far, the King stopped participating in the following matters and allowed the great nobles to file lawsuits over territorial disputes.

One unpleasant thing happened during this period.

The nobles represented by the Earl of Consett submitted to the parliament a letter of request to “resurvey the royal forest”, protesting that the royal forest had expanded to three times the size it was back in the reign of the Lion King, and the “Forest Charter” had become empty words. They requested that the royal family provide an explanation and response to this.

Here it was.

General Edmund, who had been observing the whole time, subconsciously looked up at the throne.

Here it was.

The King said in his heart.

He knew better than anyone how much pressure he had exerted on the nobles during this period. And these nobles who had taken root in Legrand for a long time would definitely not allow themselves to be tied up and accept the deprivation of power from the King. It was now time for the counterattack from the nobles.

The Royal Forest.

This was a word that waa easy to give people a misconception. On the surface, it seemed to be just a small forest belonging to the King himself, but that was not the case. The area of ​​the Legrand Royal Forest was extremely vast and it could be said to cover a large area of ​​the Legrand countryside. Furthermore, it was not only the woodland that was classified as the “Royal Forest”. [1]

All this depended on how the King himself and his forest officers defined the term.

During the Pureland period, the royal family’s forest area expanded indefinitely, and now it was indeed as the Earl of Consett said in his admonishment——unprecedentedly vast.

The nobles were putting pressure on the King.

When the King sent commissioners to the counties, they were also not idle. The nobles were also trying their best to collect evidence of the King’s violation of the “Forest Charter”, and also attached a rigorous indictment——the forest officers who sued the King.

The evidence might not be as detailed as the King’s tax book, but it should not be underestimated.

The letter of admonition was sent to the King.

The nobles were ready to immediately make trouble on the judgement of the county lords earlier as soon as the King threw the letter on the floor.

Whispers broke out in the entire great hall.

The King flipped through the admonishment letter. People peered subtly at the King, unfortunately they couldn’t tell from the King’s expression what his mood or thoughts were.

The nobles sat in silence and refused to participate in other discussions as wordless persecution.

Amid the tense atmosphere, the King finished flipping over the entire letter. He didn’t fly into a rage, but laughed: “Did you personally write this admonition? Earl Consett.”

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AN: King: The guillotine was prepared for you early. Aren’t you touched?

[1] In the medieval period, the royal family forest covered a wide area, and the relevant regulations were extremely strict. According to the records of the “Doomsday Judgment”, in the period of William I, nearly two-thirds of the 30 territories were classified as royal forests. The parliament and the royal family often had conflict over the royal forest. During the time of King John and Edward I, the nobles once asked the king to make concessions on the royal forest.

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Blood, strangeness, and wind that seemed to have come from nowhere.

The Devil stood on the black ground. It was a pity that there was nothing behind the gates of Purgatory. Contrary to his expectations, there were no old friends he could say hello to. Their etiquette had gotten worse and worse, maybe this time he should knock on the doors of these Lords of Hell and help them to reaffirm what exactly was “propriety”?

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The butterflies of the departed flew and danced up and down in front of him, guiding his path.

The Devil walked with light springy steps across the scorched earth.

The sky here——if it could even be called the sky——was an uneven dark red, as if the sky was bleeding at all times. The blood dripped down, turning into a dark red rain of sulfur and fire. The fiery rain fell down to the ground, and a huge lake immediately appeared on the scorched earth. White, acrid mist rose up from the lake, and fire like molten lava slowly flowed within.

This was a place where humans would never want to step in.

The huge ridges of rugged peaks rose up from the ground, the peaks in weird and bizarre shapes, like a fearsome jagged sharp knife. The corpses of countless dead people hung on the blades that protruded out of the mountains, swaying in the wind. They were either wrapped in long pall or yellowish white clothing.

The sluggish long river of Hell was like the blood vessels of the sick and dead, meandering and zigzagging into the distance. The long river of Hell was still, but at first glance, one would think it was flowing. However, if one looked carefully, one would find that it was not the river water that flowed, but the countless souls of the departed crowded in the river water. Some of them were intact, some were missing fragments, and some even merged with other souls, all squeezing forward in their trek.

The Devil walked slowly forward, completely unscathed despite passing by those boiling lakes of sulfur and fire. He passed through rows of hung corpses, and finally arrived at the long river of Hell.

The souls of the departed in the long river of Hell silently parted left and right, shuddering as they made way for the Devil, opening up a wide path.

He finally arrived in front of a castle that could only be described in the most crazy of legends.

The black megalithic castle rose up sharply from the ground. The castle was built on a sharp and steep mountain. The spires of large and small towers were fused with neighboring black stones, and it was difficult to distinguish between the top of the tower and the peak of the rocky cliffs. The pale bones of a humongous snake winded around the entire mountain peak, connecting the castle with the earth, and providing the steps of the castle.

The snake bone was amazingly long, with curving arcs that made for a terrifying kind of beauty. Those twisted joints seem to still be soaked in the soul of a certain cold-blooded and cunning creature, the slender bone spurs protruding out obliquely, forming the exquisite decoration of the castle. The skull of the giant snake hung low, pressing down against the ground and performing a posture of submission.

The entrance to the castle was the mouth of the snake.

“Long time no see.”

The Devil spoke briskly.

When his voice fell, countless flapping sounds erupted in the air. Flocks of strange bone birds fluttered from the shadows of the black stone castle. They hovered in the sky, the sound of their bone wings colliding against each other could even be considered a rather beautiful melody. Though the tune was absolutely beyond the reach of the human world.

The snake bones began to move one by one, as if a giant snake was currently resurrecting at that moment!

“It’s time to wake up!”

He said lightly, in a rare moment that lacked any disguise of frivolity.

The Devil spread his hands, and tens of thousands of black butterflies spewed out across the sky. They looked so fragile as if they could rip apart from a gentle wind, but in fact their dance struck up a powerful wind.

The world was suddenly thrown into an uproar.

Imperceptibly, this Hell that seemed to have been dead for a long time began to celebrate.

……………………

The bell of St. Wyth Cathedral rang.

The penetrating sound of the bell echoed over half of Metzl Castle. The pale sun rose up the cold sky from the horizon and the sunlight spread out over the earth. The ice crystals and white snow reflected the sunlight, and the night was mercilessly dissipated.

Enough time had passed since the King issued the call, and the parliamentary representatives from all over Legrand had all gathered in the city of Metzl.

Today, the largest parliamentary meeting was officially held.

The representatives arrived at the main entrance of the Rose Palace in the early morning, standing patiently in the open space where Eleanor, the warrior queen, had carried out the first massacre of nobles. The accumulated snow had been cleared, the red carpet spread out, and the guards of the palace wore all donned in armor, their hands resting on the hilt of their swords while standing at attention on either side of the front door.

The last morning bell rang deeply, and the doors of the palace opened on time.

At this moment, the greatest power and supreme splendor of the entire empire opened its door to everyone. At that moment, there seemed to be an intangible wave of energy rising from the palace, enough to make everyone dazzled. The representatives glanced at each other and stepped into the heart of the empire under the guidance of the attendants who filed out.

The scarlet royal flag of the Rose family flew in the uppermost towers of the royal palace, flapping in the wind.

The opening ceremony of the parliamentary meeting was held in the Bright Room of the Rose Palace. Unlike the previous temporary meetings, all the candles in the Bright Room were lit at this time, and the entire huge room appeared as glorious as if it had been plated in gold. The fireplaces were also all lit, and the raging fire filled the room with domineering heat, relentlessly expelling the cold.

Excluding the big nobles, the minor nobles and the representatives of the common people met their King for the first time.

He sat in the center of the conference hall.

The throne that symbolized supreme authority was extremely gorgeous, but the King himself was even more gorgeous than the throne. All words used to describe dignity and luxury could be used on the King.

This was a formal ceremonial occasion. The King wore the crown that had been passed down for thousands of years. The crown was inlaid with red rose-like gems. Under the crown, the King’s face even surpassed the son of God described in all legends. His ice blue eyes looked coldly down at everyone, and yet it only made people feel that this was natural, he should be like so.

The King wore the royal ceremonial attire.

The scarlet cloak with intricate rose patterns embroidered with gold thread draped over his shoulders, and the golden tunic under it was also covered in gorgeous embroidery. He held the golden scepter in his hand, and the symbol of the Rose family was worn on his cold white finger.

Under the candlelight, he was simply brilliance itself.

Beside the King, on the left, the secular aristocrats with the Duke of Buckingham as their representative seated according to their titles, and on the right, the church aristocrats headed by the Archbishop of St. Wyth were seated according to their positions.

The long table where the King sat was the table of power in the entire Legrand Empire today.

Everyone sat down, and the Lord Chancellor stood up and began to preside over the opening ceremony. Legrand’s Lord Chancellor was older than even the Duke of Buckingham. He wore a heavy wig and an iron rose badge pinned on his dark red robe, which showed that he was a firm member of the Royalist Party in the “Rose Crisis”.

The elderly Lord Chancellor stood upright, his wrinkled hands holding a long scroll, trying his best to speak clearly and loudly.

The Lord Chancellor originally felt that he was too old, and he might not be able to undertake this important task. He wanted to give up this glorious opportunity to others but the King rejected his proposal.

——If anyone dares to laugh at the opening ceremony, then he can expect his head to fall.

The King spoke thus.

There was only silence in the great hall.

The people listened to the Lord Chancellor reciting the speech clearly and loudly, his voice old but powerful. But gradually, his voice became a little hoarse, and some frivolous noble representatives were just about to whisper among themselves, when they saw the King looking over coldly from the throne.

A poisonous chill crawled over their backs, and in an instant no one dared to make a sound.

In this utter silence, the Lord Chancellor described the purpose, content, schedule, and agenda of this parliamentary meeting. Finally, the Lord Chancellor announced that Legrand’s King would now officially declare the start of the meeting.

The Lord Chancellor closed his speech and after finishing the last sentence loudly he straightened his spine proudly.

“I declare——”

The King stood up and his gaze swept across the hall.

“This parliamentary meeting officially begins!”

His voice was clear, powerful, and suffused with irrefutable majesty.

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and then the people got up and bowed deeply to the King. Whether they were nobles or commoners, they all shouted at this moment: “God bless my King!”

The parliamentary meeting had begun.

………………

This time the parliamentary meeting was completely changed from the lengthy process before, and after the opening ceremony, it went directly to the most important part.

Representatives of all levels began to submit petitions and complaints to the clerks of the parliament in turn. Under the auspices of the Lord Chancellor, the parliament participants were divided into several groups and began to discuss the issues just submitted.

There was no cumbersome etiquette, no banquet, and no opera performance to enjoy.

This time the parliament had undergone a huge change, just like in the change of participants. From beginning to end, it was permeated with an urgent smell of gunpowder. There seemed to be an invisible battle front in the air.

Unlike in the past, when he directly left after attending the opening ceremony and didn’t make an appearance until it came time for the decision-making process. This time, the King sat in the top seat from beginning to end, and seemed determined to participate in the whole process.

Something different from usual was brewing in the air.

Soon, the people’s instincts were confirmed.

Because the representatives of the free citizens who were allowed to participate in the parliament for the first time began to submit their petitions.

——A petition calling for the removal of the local county lord.

They had quite the tacit understanding, each letter of petition was accompanied by a very detailed statement, carefully explaining the county lord’s dereliction of duty, and if according to the above, some of the county lords would even be thrown on the guillotine.

Many of the county lords on the removal list also participated in this assembly, and they paled after seeing these petitions.

Everyone looked at the King.

No one believed that these commoners could make such detailed and methodical statements. This was absolutely based on the King’s will. As everyone was aware, the King’s commissioners flew all over the land of Legrand like black wings some time ago.

The King, who suddenly became the focus, casually raised his eyes.

“Gentlemen, is there a need for me to remind you all that this is a parliamentary meeting? Please proceed in accordance with the procedures you have always adhered to.”

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The participants were speechless.

In the past, when the King convened a parliamentary meeting to increase taxes, they resisted by bringing out the fixed procedures of the parliament. No one thought that one day the King would also use this knife against them as well.

“Carry on.”

Said the King.

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Carriages with curtains emblazoned with the Rose emblem rolled over the thick snow on the road, beginning to return to the capital Metzl Castle one after another.

The people’s mood presented a polarization.

When the King’s commissioners first arrived in the counties, the civilians were as numb as a pool of stagnant water while the nobles busied themselves in preparing banquets and gifts for their reception. But when they left, the situation changed completely. The nobles gritted their teeth with hatred as they glared at the back of the carriages, but at the same time they also felt fear. Whereas on the other hand, the commoners watched the carriages leave with reluctance, a glimmer of hope rising in their hearts.

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This time, would it work? Would it change for the better?

They hoped that the King’s wrath could bring a little warmth to pitiful, suffering people like them while burning his enemies——even if that was not the King’s intention.

A kernel of hope began to burn in the people’s hearts. For the first time, civilians were looking forward to the convening of the parliament more than the nobles.

The King’s black wings brought back a thick pile of documents, and the King summoned his advisors and officials. The officials who thought they could spend a comfortable winter had no choice but to leave the embrace of their beautiful lovers and rush off to the palace.

This was probably the worst winter for these officials.

What they were faced with was investigation reports that were so thick that they could be piled up to the ceiling. After sitting down, one would be immediately submerged in paper and the whole sky seemed to be full of flying documents…..The King gave them half a month to sort out the results of these investigations and compile them into a detailed and complete national tax and civil administration booklet.

Holy Lord! Was this something humans could do?

Tax officials, clerks, statisticians…..They all let out desperate moans when they got this order from the King. A few of them could not reconcile with the matter at first, thinking that the King was only joking, but reality showed them that the King was not joking with them at all.

The people who participated in the compilation were arranged to live together in the Rose Palace, and the guards of the palace told them politely, “Gentlemen, when you have finished your work, then you can leave. Before that, please make yourself at home in the palace.”

The dark period of working overtime began, the extent of which was comparable to the lords exploiting their serfs.

Someone refused to give up, and tentatively asked the guards of the palace if he could go out to relax. If he didn’t go to see his lover, he might never be allowed to step into her room again.

The guard shook his hand with deep sympathy, so sincere that he nearly seemed to tear up in the next second: “Too right you are, sir. My beautiful Miss Lisa is also waiting for me, if I allow you to take even half a step out of the palace, Miss Lisa could only go see me at my tombstone!”

At the end, he also sincerely asked, “Being in the same situation, you can understand me, right?”

Officials: …..Alright then, such a rogue with no sense of a knight’s chivalry was indeed the style of their Majesty.

They could only accept their fate.

During this period of time, the Master of the Households often ran back and forth between the officials and the King, constantly conveying the King’s will to the officials. He was known to be very amiable to others, but now when the officials heard the footsteps of the Master of the Households, they would reflexively feel their scalp go numb——because it only heralded what harsh requirements the King had put forward next.

“Such a truly terrible way of recording.”

While the officials were in the middle of great distress, the King had already begun to read through the completed parts of the compilation in his office. Occasionally he would also critique their work mercilessly.

The Duke of Buckingham sat opposite the King. He glanced sideways at the unprecedentedly neat and clear tax records and chose to remain silent in the end.

——It was winter, and there was nothing wrong with exercising the fingers on occasion.

The King ridiculed the tax records in a harsh and cutting tone while flipping through it quickly. During this period of time, his workload even surpassed those of the compiling officials as the King had to personally examine and approve each of the compiled parts, and when encountering ambiguities, he would throw it back and have them start over.

The King added the item “reform system” to his long-term plan. Oh, and there was also a need for further education for these court officials.

May the Holy Lord bless the court officials. One hoped that they were strong enough.

“What are you worried about? Your Majesty.”

The Duke of Buckingham noticed that the King did not immediately call the Head of the Households to come in after closing the tax records. The workload of the Duke of Buckingham during this period was also not small. He, the King and the advisory team had to analyze suitable candidates for the county lords based on these investigations.

“Five Port Alliance.”

The King replied.

The Five Port Alliance had special privileges, and their taxation fell under a separate system. The scope of the King’s investigation did not include the autonomous cities of the Five Port Alliance.

It was not difficult to guess just how many pounds of money slipped past the King’s pocket every year.

However, it was not because of this that the King thought of the Five Port Alliance at this time.

——It was because of the Black Death.

According to the information obtained from the Devil, Legrand was not the only country where the Black Death would show up in. Now that maritime shipping was a prosperous industry, maritime travel had also become an important way for the spread of the Black Death. If the customs could not be effectively controlled, then even if the Devil could solve the plague in Legrand in some way, the Black Death might still break out in Legrand again soon.

Even if not for the title of “Uncrowned King”, the King must still completely resolve the issue presented by the Five Port Alliance before the Black Death arrived.

The King sighed.

“Hold a parliamentary meeting.”

The King put down the tax records, having passed his review. He quietly looked out the window.

The Duke of Buckingham followed the King’s gaze and saw the land of Legrand covered with snow. The Duke sighed with gratification and other conflicted emotions in his heart:

How heavy was the burden of a country? This was a no-question answer, because only the person who wore that crown knew.

Not the crown worn on the head, but in the heart.

And people who wore the crown in their hearts disdained to speak out on how heavy the burden was.

“Follow your will, Your Majesty.”

The Duke of Buckingham said.

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When October was about to end, following the custom, the King issued a summoning order to the entire territory of Legrand. [1]

But what was different from the past was that the scale of this meeting was unprecedented. A total of nearly a thousand representatives had obtained the qualifications to participate. In addition to the regular local nobles, there was also the addition of representatives of the free citizens in cities and towns. Compared with the representatives of the free citizens who were allowed to participate in the parliamentary meeting, the representatives of the royal family of Ingres who were also qualified to participate were not so conspicuous.

In addition, as a special member of Legrand, the Five Port Alliance also had its own representative.

The Five Port Alliance had been too quiet during this period, but this quietness was the same as the King’s stance of non-commitment, both hinting at something unusual.

Finally, the representatives of the Five Port Alliance set off from the port of Koszoya.

On an unobtrusive little note, there was an addition of a low-key young man to the delegation.

Drifting winter snow enveloped the skies of the Legrand Empire, and people began to gather in the capital.

Tension, excitement, anxiety…..All kinds of emotions were surging under the ice of the empire, and only the one who was on the throne knew best the true purpose of this meeting.

The largest parliamentary meeting in the history of the Legrand Empire was to be held soon.

………………

“What a truly big gesture, my dear Majesty.”

A letter made of a material that was difficult to discern was unfolded by a pale and slender hand, and the Devil quickly scanned the content on it. He sighed.

A crow quietly perched on the black withered tree in front of the Devil. It had dark red eyes and cawed in seeming response when it heard the Devil’s words.

“Shut up, Mela.”

The Devil scolded without hesitation.

The crow known as “Mela” ignored his scolding and continued to caw at him, its tone harsh and short and urgent.

“Alright, alright, what’s the use of urging me?”

The Devil raised his hand, and the letter went up in flames in mid-air, turning into specks of ash, and then the specks scattered and turned into black, bizarrely beautiful butterflies.

“The Decree hangs over the earth, separating heaven and earth from hell…..The time has not come, we must wait.”

Perhaps it was the “Decree” mentioned in the Devil’s words that worked, and the crow calmed down.

The black butterflies danced slowly in the air as they flew forward.

The Devil raised his head. He looked at everything in front of him and sighed quietly: “…..You say, if I go in now, will those Lords work together to hunt me down?”

In front of the Devil stood the terrifying gates of Purgatory. The door seemed to be made up of the gathering of blood and dark colors, the vague sound of sorrowful crying welling out from behind it, like thousands of souls shattering or like thousands of evil spirits laughing nastily. An ancient text was inscribed on the side of the door:

From then on, I entered that miserable city.

From then on, I entered the abyss of pain.

From then on, I entered the crowd consigned to eternal damnation. [2]

Below were two lines of words that were scratched away with a blade by a person——let us call them a person for now——and were unable to make any sense of.

Immediately followed by:

Before me, there was nothing but eternity.

I exist along with heaven and earth; I live forever. [3]

“I hope no one will be guarding behind the door.” The Devil murmured, but his expression did not appear nervous at all, and even vaguely revealed a hint of expectation, “Know that I am here to clean the palace for His Majesty. Ai…..This is really a trivial, troublesome but sweet job.”

The crow cawed out angrily again.

“Oh, sorry, I forgot that you can’t serve His Majesty at the moment.”

The Devil apologized pretentiously, but his smile showed a hint of wanton impudence.

The crow flew up angrily, flapping its wings around the Devil, with the intention of pecking out the Devil’s eyes…..but it only stopped at intention.

Just as the Lords of Hell gritted their teeth with hatred for this guy, but still none of them truly wanted to really provoke him, the crow also cautiously drew a line in its heart to prevent itself from crossing the line and angering the Devil.

Because…..

In the whole of Hell, this guy was a complete lunatic.

“The thousand year kingdom is coming, and He told the seven angels to come down to the world with bugle horns in their hands. The rivers will turn into a sea of ​​blood, and the plague will swim to the mainland with the dead fishes…..”

The Devil gently hummed the ancient sacred hymn, stepping on the bones of unknown creatures as he walked forward. The huge gates of Purgatory stood before him, an ancient taboo blocking the connection between the human world and Hell.

“The seven calamities of the apocalypse will bring about the final judgment.”

The crow watched as the Devil stepped inside casually.

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AN: The most domineering and unreasonable Party A in history——Your Majesty the King.

The history of blood and tears of the court officials is now online √

[1] In accordance with the meeting procedures during the Edward III period, the parliament must be convened in the name of the king, and a calling order must be issued in advance.

[2][3] Quoting from Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”, the following setting for Hell will be adjusted to a certain extent based on various aspects of the material.

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