Hearing the verdict, Xu Yi did not show any surprise. Instead, he laughed happily.
Seeing Xu Yi's reaction, Basa Count and the other councilors were stunned.
Basa Count frowned and shouted, "What are you laughing at?
This is the sacred Royal Parliament. You're not allowed to be so presumptuous! "
Xu Yi shook his head, "I just found it funny.
It's so difficult to obtain a noble's status, but it's so easy to be stripped of it.
So it turns out that you can just ask a few questions and announce that you're stripping me of my noble status.
Haha, don't you think that's too hasty? "
Basa Count's face darkened, "This is the parliament's decision after careful consideration.
Letting you participate in the council was just to give you a chance to explain, but you didn't do anything just now. You completely admitted that you violated the rules. Do you think there's a problem with receiving such a punishment? "
"No, no, no. I don't think there's a problem. I just wanted to laugh."
Xu Yi waved his hand and smiled, "When I was notified to participate in the council, I was still a little nervous. I didn't expect the process to be so simple. Even the outcome had been decided long ago.
If I'd known, I wouldn't have come at all. It's a waste of time. "
"Presumptuous!" Basa Count shouted angrily.
"Xu Yi, I'm warning you again. This is the sacred Royal Parliament. You're not allowed to be so presumptuous here!"
Xu Yi gave a shrug, "Sir vice speaker, you seem to have forgotten something.
You just said that the parliament has decided to strip me of my noble status. So I'm now a commoner.
Since I'm a commoner, the Royal Parliament can't control me, right?
Deputy Speaker, if you're dissatisfied with me, I'll have to trouble you to complain to the parliament or the police. "
Basa Count pointed at Xu Yi, trembling with anger. However, he could not find any fault with Xu Yi's words.
This was because according to the rules of the Royal Parliament, although the Royal Parliament had the authority to manage the nobles, it was only limited to the nobles and had no authority to deal with the commoners. This was because the commoners were under the jurisdiction of the Royal Parliament.
Xu Yi was right. Now that he had been stripped of his noble status by the Royal Parliament and became a commoner again, it meant that the Royal Parliament no longer had the authority to control or restrict him.
If Xu Yi had been a commoner, the Royal Parliament would have found ten thousand ways to deal with him.
However, Xu Yi wasn't an ordinary civilian. On the contrary, he had a bunch of powerful bigwigs backing him. This time, the Royal Parliament, under the instructions of certain people, had to deliberately set up a council to deal with Xu Yi. At the very least, there wouldn't be any mistakes on the surface.
The other councilors looked at Xu Yi with their mouths agape.
They thought that Xu Yi would definitely fight to be stripped of his noble status and strongly oppose the decision of the Royal Parliament.
However, they didn't expect that Xu Yi had no intention of denying or defending himself from the beginning to the end. After hearing Basa Count's sentence, he didn't show any signs of agitation. Instead, he accepted it with unusual indifference.
In fact, their original intention wasn't to strip Xu Yi of his noble status directly. This was because directly stripping a noble of his noble status would have a huge impact, and the Royal Parliament wouldn't make such a decision easily.
Their original plan was to hope that Xu Yi would defend himself. Then, they would be able to take advantage of the situation and reduce the punishment on Xu Yi to achieve their real goal — to weaken some of the benefits that Xu Yi had obtained through his noble status, such as territory, tax exemption, policy benefits, and so on. This would indirectly weaken the New Flyer.
However, Xu Yi didn't make any excuses now. He directly accepted the decision and showed such an attitude to Basa Count. Even if Basa Count wanted to follow the original plan and withdraw the decision to strip Xu Yi of his noble status, he couldn't say it out loud.
Looking at Xu Yi, who was standing in the middle of the venue with a smile on his face, Basa Count and the other councilors were speechless for a moment.
Xu Yi looked around and saw that everyone was staring at him blankly. He smiled and said, "Is there nothing else?
If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave.
I still have a lot of things to do, so I won't play with you guys here. "
Just as he was about to turn around, Basa Count roared, "Stop!"
Xu Yi stopped and turned his face to the side. He frowned and looked at Basa Count. "Sir Deputy Speaker, please pay attention to your demeanor as a noble.
Don't you think it's rude to yell at a commoner like this? "
Basa Count almost choked to death on his saliva. He was so angry that he coughed a few times. Then, he panted and said, "You can't leave yet. There are still some procedures to be done."
"Oh?"
Basa Count composed himself and took out a pile of documents that had obviously been prepared long ago from under the table.
"Since you have been stripped of your noble status, then some of the privileges that you enjoyed as a noble should also be taken back.
Here are some relevant documents. You have to sign them before you can leave. "
Xu Yi took the documents from the hands of a young member of parliament and looked over them. He found that there were some things related to taking back Xu Yi's private territory from when he was a Viscount.
Xu Yi wasn't surprised by this, but there were some details in the documents that Xu Yi objected to.
"Sir Deputy Speaker, according to the « Private Territory Taking Back Agreement », wouldn't I have to hand over the entire Falling Rain Valley outside Banta City?
Then what about the factories and other facilities of our New Flyer in the Falling Rain Valley? "
Hearing this question, Basa Count and the surrounding members let out a sigh of relief.
Basa Count revealed a proud smile as he said, "How to take care of the factories and other facilities is unrelated to the parliament.
If New Flyer can't hand over the territory in the set time, then according to the rules, everything in the territory will be handed over along with the territory. "
"This means that the parliament is planning on chasing our New Flyer out of the Falling Rain Valley?" Xu Yi asked.
Basa Count revealed a righteous appearance, "Xu Yi, I'm warning you, you are slandering the parliament.
I reserve the right to complain to the Royal Parliament. "
Xu Yi gave a laugh. This Sir Deputy Speaker was clearly shameless, so there was no meaning in saying anything to him.
After looking over the contents of the documents, Xu Yi casually threw the documents to the side and said to Basa Count with a serious look, "Sir Deputy Speaker, I think I have to remind you.
The Falling Rain Valley, including the area around the Falling Rain Valley, doesn't actually belong to me that much. The most important part of it is directly rented from the royal family.
Although the Royal Parliament can take away my status as a noble and take back my private territory, the Royal Parliament has no right to meddle in this rented land. "
Basa Count snorted coldly, "Do you think the parliament will make such a decision without investigating the situation?
The parliament obviously won't clean up the part of the land that New Flyer rented from the royal family, but you have to hand over the nearly ten square kilometers of private territory in the Falling Rain Valley! "
Xu Yi had a look of astonishment, "Sir Deputy Speaker, who told you that I actually have a private territory of nearly ten square kilometers?
I'm only a Viscount, how can I have such a large private territory?
You must have made a mistake somewhere! "
Basa Count waved his hand, "Don't be unreasonable, the parliament has a record of the size of your private territory. How could there be a mistake?"
"No, no, no, I only applied to His Majesty for a private territory of at most a few thousand square meters in the hope of building a private manor for living. How could I request for a private territory of nearly ten square kilometers?
Even if I requested it, His Majesty obviously wouldn't give it to me.
So you must have made a mistake, if you don't believe me, please ask His Majesty for confirmation. "
Basa Count chuckled and was sure that Xu Yi was making a last-ditch effort. He said coldly, "There's no need, the parliament will only make a decision based on the information in the parliament. Besides, why would we bother His Majesty over such a small matter …"
Basa Count suddenly paused in the middle of his sentence and stared straight behind Xu Yi with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
The other councilors also had interesting expressions on their faces as they all stared blankly behind Xu Yi.
Xu Yi turned around and saw a middle aged man with a normal appearance who wasn't that tall, looking to be around forty years old slowly walking into the side hall.
The middle-aged man nodded at Xu Yi before turning to Basa Count and asking, "Deputy Speaker Basa, has Xu Yi's parliament ended?
Are the results out? "
Basa Count's expression turned extremely ugly. He hesitated for a long time before answering, "It's already over, as for the results …" Basa Count glanced at Xu Yi and his expression turned even uglier.
"Viscount Xu Yi has been stripped of his aristocratic status in accordance with the regulations because he deliberately violated the relevant regulations of the parliament."
The middle-aged man nodded and then turned to ask Xu Yi, "Chairman Xu, are you now a commoner?"
"Yes."
Xu Yi recalled in his mind and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen this middle-aged man once in the palace when he had an audience with His Majesty the King.
And from the respectful attitude that Basa Count and the other councilors had towards him, it was very likely that this middle-aged man who didn't look special was a trusted aide of His Majesty the King in the palace.
"Very well, since Chairman Xu is now a commoner, then I'll now read out His Majesty's appointment for you."
Seeing the middle-aged man take out an order with His Majesty the King's seal, Basa Count's heart skipped a beat and his expression turned extremely gloomy in an instant.
"In view of Xu Yi's great contributions to the kingdom, His Majesty has decided to specially promote commoner Xu Yi to the status of a baron as a reward."
While Xu Yi was still in a daze, the middle-aged man took out another order that was exactly the same and continued to read it out.
"In view of Baron Xu Yi's great contributions to the kingdom, His Majesty has decided to specially promote Baron Xu Yi to the status of a viscount as a reward."
Apart from the way Xu Yi was addressed at the beginning of the two orders, there was no difference in other aspects.
From this, it could be seen that the middle-aged man had been prepared long ago and had made a special trip for Xu Yi.
When Basa Count heard these two orders, he said with a pained expression, "This … Supervisor Dema, Xu Yi has just been stripped of his noble status by our Royal Parliament. For His Majesty to promote him to a noble at this time … I don't think it's too good?"
Supervisor Dema glanced at him and said calmly, "I don't care about this.
Anyway, I'm here on His Majesty's orders.
His Majesty said that as long as Xu Yi is stripped of his noble status by the Royal Parliament, then I'll read out these two orders.
Also, these two orders will be effective forever. "
Hearing Supervisor Dema's words, Count Basa and the other councilors' faces instantly turned ashen.