plumnovel #702 - The Black Snake Bay Wizard Federation is established!
#702 - The Black Snake Bay Wizard Federation is established!
Three days after the assassination attempt at the Celestial Maiden Palace, the originally scheduled Black Serpent Bay Federation Wizarding Convention was postponed by one day.
On this day, the Guardian Monks slightly relaxed their control, and the atmosphere of the past few days of bloodshed was diluted by the passing flower parades and prisoner-of-war displays.
Residents spontaneously left their homes and houses, following the floats and the wizards who read out declarations, with fireballs wrapped in paint exploding in the sky every few minutes.
After the declaration was read, parades, military reviews, and tributes were held, and the jubilant people of Black Serpent Bay gathered next to a temple outside the city.
This temple would later serve as the meeting place for the Black Serpent Bay Federation Parliament and government offices.
Standing on the high platform of the temple outside Celestial Maiden City, Otadil stepped out in her blue robe, followed by all 171 members of the Black Serpent Bay Parliament and a group of high-ranking officials including Horn.
Faced with the spectators filling the mountains and valleys, even the usually aloof Otadil couldn't help but feel excited.
The Witch Council had been working for hundreds of years, barely managing to unite the Central County into a loose alliance.
And now, the entire Black Serpent Bay was united and would be established as a whole, a true country, although it could only be considered a member vassal state of the Holy Alliance, this was already the best way out.
Taking a deep breath, Otadil stepped forward, and with the blessing of countless sonic spells, she raised her right fist high: "I declare that today, the Black Serpent Bay Federation of the Holy Axis Alliance is officially established!"
Despite almost completely disregarding whether the Black Serpent Bay Federation was established or not, the residents were infected by the music and atmosphere and cheered.
At the very least, they knew that they would have cheap food to eat in the future, which was somewhat of a good thing, right?
Regardless of the gradually dispersing crowd, the first session of the Black Serpent Bay Federation Wizarding Parliament had already begun inside the temple.
With the silver olive crown that Horn had placed on her head, Otadil, as the Speaker, began the first important motion of the parliament.
"...The assassination attempt at the Celestial Maiden Palace was shocking, unforgivable, and an attack on the dignity of the Black Serpent Bay Federation..."
"...It not only injured our great leader, Lord Horn, but also resulted in as many as twenty deaths and injuries, because there are still members of the Secret Society colluding with the Church, and even some wizards, and even witches, Veronica, for example, is actually a spy of the Church..."
"...The creation of our Black Serpent Bay Wizard Federation means the nationalization and normalization of Black Serpent Bay. Our Secret Society exists to oppose the Church, not to commit crimes..."
"...However, Black Serpent Bay has a lot of things to be done and it is difficult to organize a crackdown on internal spies and criminals, so I propose to establish a gendarmerie with independent case-handling rights, investigation rights, and judicial supervision rights to focus on cracking down on similar criminal activities..."
The so-called independent case-handling right means that the Black Serpent Bay Federation has no jurisdiction or appointment rights over the gendarmerie's handling of cases and shall not obstruct or interfere with the gendarmerie's handling of cases in any form.
The investigation right means that the gendarmerie can lead the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases and file public prosecutions.
The judicial supervision right means that the gendarmerie can submit supervisory opinions on the judgments or executions of the Black Serpent Bay Federation Court, and even forcibly suspend the trial of cases or request retrials.
In addition, the gendarmerie also has the sole right to initiate criminal prosecutions, that is, the gendarmerie can choose to prosecute or not to prosecute any criminal case.
It is basically equivalent to the police, prosecutors, and judges being integrated into one, and their only check and balance, or rather, the basis for exercising such broad powers, is Horn himself.
This gendarmerie directly connects with Horn, and Horn has almost unlimited personnel appointment rights and financial allocation rights.
But the wizards are all smart people, and they immediately realized that this means that the gendarmerie can arrest and prosecute anyone for almost no reason, and then repeatedly use the supervisory power to force judges to make the judgments they want?
"I disagree, this is too outrageous."
"The power of this gendarmerie is too great, unless we are allowed to join, I disagree."
The temple was immediately filled with voices of opposition, especially the secret societies in the form of gangs in the urban areas, who stood on the tables and shouted wildly.
But in the final vote, to everyone's surprise, the bill passed in parliament with more than three-quarters of the votes in favor.
According to Horn's analysis, the current members of parliament in the five counties of Black Serpent Bay can be basically divided into three factions: planters, merchants and workshop owners, and gangs.
Plantations are mostly operated by wizarding families that focus on real estate agriculture, while merchants are mostly astrologers, workshop owners are mostly alchemists in urban areas, and gangs are composed of a large number of combat mages and thugs.
This classification method is not particularly accurate, because almost all wizards and secret society organizations will simultaneously engage in plantations, alchemy workshops, and black market industries.
The only difference is the main source of income.
Due to the characteristics of the transcendent rulers of Black Serpent Bay, almost all ordinary industries operated by ordinary people are attached to these secret societies and wizards at all levels.
In other words, ordinary industry owners operated by ordinary people in Black Serpent Bay are not even qualified to be at the table.
The Witch Council and large urban secret societies such as the Joanne Party helped Horn win over workshop owners and small shop owners, while the sugar and grain trade and tariffs controlled by the Holy Axis won over planters and merchants.
Merchants and workshop owners who were annoyed by gangs and tax cards naturally agreed with both hands and feet, and they really did so.
Although the planters were disgusted, they thought about the "Child Slave Prohibition Act" and the "Slave Hereditary Prohibition Act" proposed by Horn, and it seemed that the establishment of the gendarmerie was also acceptable.
The gang faction's secret societies and wizards had a large number of key figures placed under house arrest and arrested in the previous assassination of the Holy Grandson, and the pressure was at its maximum.
Most importantly, the original intention of establishing the gendarmerie was to arrest assassins and internal church spies. Any member of parliament who dared to object would immediately be labeled as a church spy.
Helpless, they had to agree to the birth of this terrible monster in the Black Serpent Bay Federation.
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Of course, Horn promised that this was only a temporary gendarmerie, at most half a year, that is, by the end of the year, the parliament could vote again to decide whether the gendarmerie should continue to exist.
After this resolution was passed, even without a week, hundreds of Holy Punishment Army Saint Gun soldiers, dozens of gendarmerie notaries transferred from the Thousand River Valley, and hundreds of strong local recruits formed the gendarmerie.
Horn gave Black Serpent Bay some face for the head of this gendarmerie, appointing a local witch - Solan of the Shadow Society.
The Shadow Society is a secret society organization that is half merchant and half gang, and now they have basically successfully transformed into merchants, soldiers, or public officials in the Northern County.
They are the promoters of the establishment of the Northern County Council, so naturally they were assigned the fattest positions.
The first thing the gendarmerie did after its establishment was to take over the suspects in the Celestial Maiden Palace assassination case controlled by the Guardian Monks.
The doomsday of the gang secret societies around Celestial Maiden City had arrived.
The gendarmes in blue-gray uniforms walked through the streets and alleys with Saint Guns, kicking open doors and searching.
Those gang-type secret societies who relied on violence to collect rent and taxes were eating spices and singing at home, when they were suddenly arrested by the gendarmes.
In a few days, the sound of gunfire on the streets and alleys almost never stopped.
Spice, pearls, gems, and gold and silver stained with blood were searched from the mansions of these wizards, and boxes filled with wealth went in and out of the Celestial Maiden Palace, the gendarmerie, and the warehouses of the Holy Punishment Army.
Merchants and workshop owners naturally applauded, but the former gang wizards or hooligans on the streets of Celestial Maiden City were in danger.
Under the gendarmes' torture and trial, a large number of "involved personnel" and "church spies" were successively confessed, and the number of people arrested, exiled, and executed by artillery fire around Celestial Maiden City reached as high as thousands.
The ground of the execution ground outside the city was stained red with blood, and the gendarmes would invite suspects or members of parliament to watch the ceremony on site every day.
These suspects and high-level wizards went in with red faces and came out with white faces.
After making such a fuss until the end of May, Otadil, who could no longer bear it, had to find Horn and request a stop.
After listening to Otadil's request, the Holy Grandson smiled and brought up another topic: "I expect to return to Thousand River Valley in early June. I wonder when Your Excellency Speaker can arrange for me to meet with Ms. Cynthia?"