My Weakest Little Brother Has Become A Demon King After Being Sealed For 1000 Years

2022-03-13

Chapter 68 Elder’s Council Meeting

The White House Meeting on the 24th morning of the morning hall.

Senator Albert, dressed in a purple-golden noble robe, pushed open the silver door embossed with dragons and swords and walked into the hall.

In an instant, the originally noisy conference hall fell silent, and everyone sitting around the long white marble table turned their attention to him at the same time.

He stopped awkwardly where he was, and after a few seconds, the man on the towering throne at the end of the long table spoke.

“You’re late, Congressman Albert.”

“Sorry…I thought it was…”

Albert immediately lowered his head road.

“But luckily it’s just the beginning, let’s sit down first.”

Albert was relieved by that man’s words, and he hurried to his seat and sat down.

“Then the motion to relieve the stench of the sewers caused by the New Year’s Eve feast in the city through the use of ebony perfume also passed, and the next motion was proposed by Emerald Province Ambassador Gareth Wolfyan.”

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Sitting on the right hand of the throne, York, the Prime Minister and Speaker of the Parliament, who presided over the meeting, turned over the parchment file with the Imperial Dragon Sword emblem printed on it and said.

Emerald Province Ambassador? at this time?

A forest elf wearing wolf skin woven clothes with rough skin like tree bark and wolf face tattoos on his face heard this immediately.

He first bowed respectfully to the man on the throne, and then began talking about Emerald Province’s wine offerings this fall.

The congresswoman sitting next to Albert looked at the elf dressed as a barbarian, covered her nose with obvious movements, and then poked his shoulder, motioning him to look aside.

On the other side of the long table, it wasn’t just the ambassadors of Emerald Province, but seven or eight guys in what he thought were fancy clothes were sitting there, and most of them seemed to be at a loss at the moment.

“Storm Province, Cold Rock Province, Quicksand Province, Dragon’s Breath Province, and Broken Tooth Province. Except for Blackwater Province, only Awa Province has not sent an envoy. Of course, that one has lived for more than a thousand years. It seems that the old fart of 2000 has not sent anyone since the founding of the empire.”

The congresswoman leaned over and whispered to Albert.

Not just provincial envoys…

thought Albert.

Looking around the entire round table, there are quite a few big people present today.

The Patriarch of the Eighth Order, the Deputy Speaker of the Star Council, the Advisor of the Imperial Family of the Platinum Circle, the General of the Second Army, the Chairman of the Imperial Family Chamber of Commerce, the Chancellor of the Empire…

It can be said Today, half of the dignitaries in the center of imperial power are here. This Elder’s Council meeting is far beyond the usual monthly meeting specifications. It seems that it is not just a simple advance of the time.

Thinking of this, Albert was secretly annoyed for a while that he was late for remembering the wrong time today. Being late in front of so many big people will have a lot to do with his future political career. hit.

But by comparison, the elf ambassador from Emerald Province, speaking in front of so many high-ranking people, is somewhat more out of place to talk about reducing the wine supply.

“…Combined with the loss of last year’s Dead and Blood Year of the Wild Hunt, and considering the changes in the stars this year, we have entered a year of starvation and rot. At the beginning of the year, many places such as Patu have appeared There is a sign of a large area of blight. This year, Emerald Province cannot guarantee the wine supply to the Empire as in previous years. I implore the Council of Elders to temporarily reduce the supply of wine by 30% this year. This part of our Holy Tree Duke guarantee will be in next year. To make up, the above is the motion put forward by Emerald Province, I hope you…”

He said and looked around, no one of the big people on the long table gave a response, and everyone was not a pair of a The expression of matter of no concern to oneself is an attitude of indifferent and on the sidelines.

The silence in the whole venue made him a little restless.

The elderly and rickety Speaker York didn’t even directly announce the motion to the voting stage, but turned his attention to the barbarian-dressed ambassador of Emerald Province, and said with a genial smile and a full-bodied voice:

“Can’t you think of some other methods? You must know that most of the wine imported by the Empire from Emerald Province every year does not enter the wine cellars of the nobles of Platinum City, but is sold to the East through the White Sea. Daemon Continent, this is the important foreign trade of the empire every year, and it is also an important agreement with them in the armistice agreement, but this matter can’t be sloppy.”

The ambassador of Emerald Province heard this gritted his teeth. :

“The first wave of fusarium wilt epidemic in the middle of this year has caused the first batch of grape seedlings planted last year to wither in large numbers. This is still the Duke of Holy Tree who made the forest sacrifice in advance. Under the circumstance of protective preparations. Mr. Speaker, under the influence of fusarium wilt, this year’s grape production will be reduced by at least 50%, but the request to reduce the supply by 30% is already the result of our best efforts.”

The Speaker of York didn’t reply, but a young councillor beside him preemptively interjected:

“That’s not because you have too little arable land, Ravenwood in Emerald Province is obviously the entire Vic continent. The land with the strongest breath of life force, as a result, all of you have used it to plant trees. If you want me to say that you cut down half of the trees in the forest, the extra land can at least increase your annual output of grapes by three Fan, when the time comes, what are you afraid of?”

“Ilael, be careful!”

The Speaker of York heard this hurriedly to shut up the other party, Albert on the side couldn’t help holding his forehead and felt that the other party’s speech was too reckless.

The forest elves do not have the concept of death as other mortal races, but after a long period of time, their bodies will gradually “treeize”, their skin will become rough and tenacious like tree bark, and their hair will also become tenacious. As branches and leaves grow, the speed of reaction and action will become slower and slower.

And after each forest elves have reached a certain stage of tree formation, they will walk into the Holy Tree forest of Ravenwood by themselves, until they really turn into a tree in the forest. .

So to the forest elves, the meaning of those trees in Ravenwood is not only trees, but also their surviving clansman, many of which may be their ancestors.

And this proposal by Senator Eliel, asking them to cut down half of the forest to grow grapes, is tantamount to asking them to kill their clansman to make room for the Empire to farm.

For a while, the ambassador of Emerald Province, whose surname was “Wolf Yan”, stared at the rude member of parliament with cold eyes and said nothing.

The wolf face tattoo on his face, he slowly opened his mouth to reveal his fangs and let out a low roar, the wolf head kept squirming, as if it would break free from his skin at any time.

Just when the latter was frightened by this posture and retracted into his seat, his lips trembled slightly and was about to explain something, the Platinum Circus advisor who was sitting closest to the left-hand side of the throne spoke up.

“Enough, Gareth, this is in front of the bronze crown seat.”

His voice seemed to have the power to shake the soul, and the deep wolf roar instantly stop. Garley also took a deep breath and calmed down, and the wolf face tattoo on his face also changed back to its original shape, as if it were all hallucinations before.

He bowed his head to the advisor of the Platinum Circle:

“Not good means, I am rude, I am willing to accept…”

“No, This is a disrespect to Senator Eliel, Mr. Ambassador, please forgive him for his ignorance of the forest elf tradition.”

Speaker York took the words like a peacemaker and continued:

“Irael, you will stay alone after the meeting. I have to teach you the etiquette of various races.”

Speaker York tilted his head.

Speaker York immediately understood, he smiled at the Emerald Province ambassador:

“But the joke of Mr. Elier gave me some inspiration, Mr. Ambassador, You can indeed try to increase the arable land for grape cultivation to offset the impact of the fusarium wilt on the yield this year.”

Garay heard this stunned for a moment, and then replied with an ugly face:

” Speaker, you wouldn’t say…”

“Of course not.”

The Speaker looked the head:

“Like the one who made Balano. Green grass, and the main food of the forest elves, berries, are suitable for growing grapes. You can change about half of the land to grapes, which will be enough to make up for this year’s The output has been reduced because of the blight.”

“But, Mr. Speaker, what should I do with the reduced production? The grain reserves in Emerald Province over the years can’t make up for this missing half of the loss… …”

After hearing this suggestion, Ambassador Gareth replied with an embarrassed expression.

“It’s very simple, just use the money you earn from exporting wine to buy grain from the Empire Chamber of Commerce. We don’t have green grass here, you can keep some more relevant arable land, pulp The annual surplus of wheat nuts and wheat is enough to supply half of the Emerald Province needs, and we can guarantee to meet your food supply at a price that is 10% lower than the market price.”

The Imperial Family on the side The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce suddenly opened the mouth and said.

York Speaker heard this also slightly nodded with a smile: “If this is the case, it would be great, what do you think of this proposal, Ambassador Garay?

“This…”

10% lower than the market price, which means that the money earned from wine exports will be used to buy food and there will be a surplus. This condition sounds very good, but intuition tells Garay that this is definitely not a good idea. Proposal.

But at the moment he couldn’t think of a reason to refute it. Just when he was hesitating how he should answer, the queen on the throne spoke.

“ 70% of the land is planted with green grass, and 30% of the land of berries is planted with grapes. Balano is basically a luxury for the nobles and the royal family. We eat a few meals less. The key is to ensure the Emerald Province. The people’s rations, and then…”

As the clear voice of the silver-haired scarlet-eyed queen on the throne sounded, everyone in the hall stopped and whispered, looking towards her.

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Although her body, which was slightly emaciated due to her long-term sickness, looked very incongruous on the towering throne, everyone in this hall did not dare to neglect the woman wearing the bronze crown in the slightest.

Irene Riel is only twenty-four years old and the youngest female emperor in the history of the Riel Empire.

Irene suffered from severe Innate asthma since childhood. When she was eight years old, she was sent to Holy Tree City, Emerald Province for recuperation. She didn’t return to the White House until after her coming of age, and less than two days after her return, the late Emperor was attacked by the Broken Sword Brother Society. She was seriously injured.

After that, she had never been involved in politics since she was a child, and she had no basic skills in the White House. After returning to the palace, she won the support of the Platinum Circle and the Eighth Order in just one year. .And shortly after the death of the late emperor, he forced his two brothers who had been operating in the palace for many years to ascend to the throne of the Dragon Sword King, crowned with a bronze crown to become the current Queen Irene.

And her After her coronation, one of her two brothers was exiled to the far north of Cold Rock to be the Duke of Ice Dragon, and the other was arrested for conspiring to expose the palace. After that, she ignored everyone’s pleas and ordered her own The elder brother was hanged.

It is also because of her ruthless means to blood relatives that many people in the people quietly call her Unknown Irene, or Unknown Queen.

I heard At the words of Queen Irene, Ambassador Garley hurriedly lowered his head, not even daring to let out the air.

Queen Irene paused for a while, then continued:

“…then , All lands that are replanted with grapes will be exempted from tithing this year, and the tax will be halved for the next three years. Garay from Emerald Province, I think such conditions should satisfy the Duke of Holy Tree, right? “

“Queen Your Majesty, thank you so much.” ”

Garay quickly replied.

One year of tithing, half halved for the next three years, plus the ability to get a one-year discount from Chamber of Commerce No matter how you calculate it, this is more favorable than the conditions that the Duke of Holy Tree asked for a 30% reduction in the export volume of wine.

The Speaker of York on the side saw this laughed remark :

“Well, the motion of the Ambassador of Emerald Province can now be voted on, although I think it is almost the same whether or not to vote in the current situation… Then please raise your hand if you agree with this motion …”

Congressman Albert raised his hand hesitantly, and then he looked all around and found that this motion was basically passed by unanimous vote.

But he really said Is it that easy? Fusarium wilt affects not only the yield of grapes. Taking the initiative to reduce the cultivated area of Young Master grain in a year of starvation and rot is definitely not a wise move in his opinion.

Previous In the year of famine and rot, he was still serving under the Minister of Agriculture, and he clearly remembered that in his statistics, even in the most developed province of agriculture, there was still a small-scale famine spread in the countryside.

Will the Imperial Family Chamber of Commerce really have as many grain reserves as he promised? If so, would they really provide it to Emerald Province?

Not when the time comes Emerald Province, there is really a situation of starvation and death…

Albert thought, and suddenly realized that Queen Irene’s eyes were on him at some point.

“Mr. Albert, do you have any objections? “

“Huh? No no! “

In the face of the Queen’s sudden question, he answered quickly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

It is said that the Queen Your Majesty has a person who can see a person’s inner thoughts at a glance. Innate talent, usually it seems to be just a court legend, but now it really surprised Albert.

The queen stopped talking, and sat next to her, the Speaker of York opened the mouth and said :

“Since the change in the use of cultivated land in Emerald Province is to be promoted, I think the Empire still has to send envoys to supervise and advise, Albert, I remember that you were a secretary under the Minister of Agriculture before. experience, right? “

“Ah… yes…”

Albert’s heart sank.

Being watched.

“How about you being the envoy to supervise the change of farmland in Emerald Province? “

Speaker York asked with a smile. Although it was an inquiry, there was no negotiation in his tone at all.

It really deserves the title of his smiling lion.

“I…”

Albert thought about trying to struggle, but when he saw Speaker York’s grinning expression, he was immediately discouraged .

“I accept…”

He made his voice sound as flattered as possible.

“Okay, then the next motion, Proposed by General Wei of Platinum City Ban. ”

“We have found three suspected Broken Sword Brother Association strongholds in Platinum City, we hope…” Albert was not in the mood to listen anymore, he fell into a kind of trance state, just followed the congresswoman beside him and raised his hand mechanically.

And his mind kept thinking Why would it be him, because he was late at first? Or the hesitant look on his face after Queen Your Majesty made that offer?

No matter what, in the next few years, he will bid farewell to the prosperity of Platinum City, and live in a tree hole with the gang of wild elves wrapped in animal skins and drinking sap.

Now he just wanted to get out of the meeting and go home and get drunk.

Or not to drink? After all, the thing he’s going to deal with the most in the next few years is that damn wine.

“…Then, the next report will be reported by Patriarch Adrian of the Eighth Order.”

The old man with gray hair and beard stood up majestically. , he did not take out the dossier or other documents, but took a silver Holy Spirit Kane icon from his neck.

A torn icon.

He cleared his throat and said:

“Everyone, what I want to explain next is about the Holy Spirit Kane Apparition a week ago, and the priest’s opinion on this Apparition. Interpretation.”

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