leonardwarren 0134: He's Only Sixteen Years Old, So It's Not Easy To Seal Him In The Future.
0134: He's Only Sixteen Years Old, So It's Not Easy To Seal Him In The Future.
Night.
The triumphal hall of the royal palace is the place where the Golden Eagle Empire holds a great council to discuss national policy, military and political affairs.
It is also the place where nobles, scholars, ministers, and foreign envoys met the emperor.
At this time, the triumphal hall was lit with candles, but there were only a dozen people inside.
Sixty-nine-year-old Oppei Atete the Great sat on the throne, full of white hair, his face covered with deep wrinkles, and his two golden eyes a little cloudy.
His hand rested on the armrest of the throne, his skin wrinkled and wrinkled, a bit like tree bark.
"Ahem..." Opai covered his mouth and coughed softly.
He looked up at Theon, Kao and the others standing at the bottom of the throne steps below, their eyesight was a little blurry when they were old, and he couldn't see the expressions of several people clearly.
"Your Majesty, pay attention to your body." Tion shouted with concern.
All princes and princesses were to call the Great His Majesty in public, which was an order given by Emperor Opai himself.
"Humph! Pay attention to your body?"
Opai snorted coldly, his old voice full of anger, "How do I pay attention to my body?" Someone actually dared to kidnap the imperial princess, or the imperial viscount nobles instructed.
Fortunately, the little princess Yulafi was saved.
Otherwise, the Great Emperor Du quickly issued an order to let the city defense army enter the imperial capital and sweep it up one by one.
Generally, the city defense army is stationed outside the city, and they are not allowed to enter the city without an order.
"......." Silence.
397 No one dared to touch the wrath of the Emperor.
"Tiang, you say." Opai directly named names.
"Your Majesty, it doesn't have to be Viscount Haiba who did it.
The eldest prince Tiang said humbly, "It may be a coincidence. ”
"That's not how the report of this Qiao Ji knight was written." Opai the Great ripped a few pieces of parchment on the table.
He held up the parchment and suddenly threw it at the people below, angrily reprimanding, "You all see, there will be such a coincidence?"
"Yes."
The princes and university scholars present stepped forward to pick up the parchment, looked down one after another, and their faces suddenly darkened after reading it.
"Viscount Haiba is also too bold, right? In order to return to the title of count, he actually dared to hook up with a cult to kidnap the princess.
"Be bold, Your Majesty, please order to remove the title of Viscount Haiba and sell the whole family into slavery."
"There are not so many coincidences in the world, this is clearly premeditated, fortunately the patrol knights found out, otherwise everyone will be deceived."
"Not necessarily true, Viscount Haiba may have been framed."
The university scholars were very angry and spoke out against the Haiba family.
"Ahem.........."
The king (bacg) son Tion coughed lightly and said, "Everyone, Ndin Haiba's confession says that he accidentally found the trail of Xiaomei, but he did not expect that the cult people would follow a strange one, and fifty or sixty horsemen died. ”
"His Royal Highness the Grand Prince, is you exonerating Viscount Haiba?"
The second prince, Kao, asked loudly, "Have you ever considered Xiaomei's feelings?"
"I will judge things as they are, and I will not wrongfully convict anyone who has given their blood for the empire.
The eldest prince Tion said with a serious face, "There are too many doubts about this matter, and it cannot be determined that the nobles have colluded with the cult because of the reports of a few people."
The people present were all smart people who knew that the eldest prince mentioned the Starry Tavern last time.
There was no use for Hardson's confession, the evidence was not very sufficient, those abnormal potions were all drunk by cult believers, and no potions were found in the hands of the Haiba family, and at most ten minor crimes of hanging on the cult were sentenced.
Emperor Opai was like this, which made the Haiba family lower their title by a level.
Otherwise, there is really clear evidence, and the Haiba family may have a baron title.
"Well, the Haiba family failed to rescue and obstructed other knights from rescuing the princess."
A cold light flashed in the cloudy eyes of the Opai Emperor, there was no exact evidence, but it was enough to have doubts.
He felt that eighty percent was true, so he directly made a heavy hand, "Judgment: Viscount of Haiba 1st class was demoted to 3rd class viscount, 15 towns were cut, and 60,000 gold coins were fined." ”
"Shhh..." the nobles present looked at each other.
Unexpectedly, Viscount Haiba was demoted again, and the excuse he found was to obstruct other knights from rescuing the princess.
This shows that the Great Emperor has believed the report of the patrol knights.
If it weren't for the heavy casualties of the Haiba family, there would be no too definite evidence [Song was afraid that the Haizhong family would have been reduced to slavery and sold.
"This patrol knight named Qiao Ji saved my little daughter."
Emperor Opai asked lightly, "What do you think is a better reward?"
"Your Majesty, it is enough to make a third-class baron."
"It's ridiculous, saving Her Royal Highness the princess to make a baron, do you want to make all the knights chill?"
"Directly make a third-class marquis, so that it can show that the empire values the glory of the knights."
Everyone present understood that a baron was a real nobleman, while a marquis was a false lord.
"What do you two think?" Opai the Great looked at his two sons.
"Your Majesty, it is enough to be made a first-class earl."
The eldest prince Tion said in a deep voice, "He is only sixteen years old, and he will not be happy in the future." ”
He remembered the boy named Qiao Ji, so he wanted to make him a first-class earl of the virtual lord.
"Your Majesty, Qiao Ji saved Yurafi, and it is enough to make a third-class viscount." Kao wanted the boy to be given a real title.
When the time comes, he will win over the other party, and he will have a horse pawn to use.
"It seems that you all think differently."
Emperor Opai waved his hand and said in an old voice, "I think for myself, you guys go down." ”
The crowd bowed and retreated.
"Tread..."
The group left the triumphal hall and walked towards the palace gate.
The eldest prince runs parallel to the second prince.
"Big brother, the third viscount of Haiba really wants to thank you."
The second prince, Kao, said strangely, "However, there is only one small town left in their territory, and there are a few villages, but there is no way to provide you with money." ”
"Second brother, I don't understand what you're talking about." Because Prince Tiang's eyes were filled with gloom.
His important supporters, in less than half a month, were demoted from a third-class earl to a third-class viscount, which was really too much of a loss.
"Pretend." The second prince Kao sneered and strode away with meteors.
"..."The eldest prince Tion looked very ugly, got out of the palace and got into a carriage and went to his mansion.
When the princes came of age, that is, at the age of sixteen, they would leave the palace and go to live outside the palace alone.
And some princes are directly made princes and rush directly to live in the territory.
Such a prince is just a false lord, does not have much power, and stays in the territory to eat and wait for death.
The eldest prince and the second prince are special.
Both are in their forties, have not been named princes, and have been staying in the imperial capital.
In fact, everyone understands that the Great Emperor wants to choose one of the two to be the future Great Emperor, but he is still observing.
“ Qiao Ji........ I hope you are a person who knows the times. ”
The eldest prince, Tiang, squinted his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
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