"Miss Helen." Lear greeted with a smile. "Senator Lear, I see you are here. Speaker Lareina has already started preparing for the ceremony to confer the title of Senator, and she is looking for you now!" Helen came to Lear. "I came out for a walk." Lear shrugged. After talking with Lalena yesterday, they moved into the sixth floor of the tower, which was used to entertain guests. As for the election of the Speaker, it has been temporarily put on hold. Everything will have to wait until the ceremony of enthroning new members is over. "Who is this?" Lear looked at the woman next to Helen. He was about twenty years old, with strong magical fluctuations on his body, probably at a high level. He wore black-framed glasses on his face and looked like an academic wizard. "I forgot to introduce you. This is the mentor of the academy's arcane school, high-level wizard Rosie Foster, and a student of Chancellor Lareina." Helen introduced to Lear. Li Er raised his eyebrows. He didn't have much impression of this name. "Senator Lear, please come with me. Speaker Lareina also wants to discuss with you the ceremony of enthroning members of parliament." Helen continued.
Li Er nodded and did not refuse, and followed Helen and Rosie back to the Arcane Tower. Arriving at the fourth floor of the tower, this is where members of parliament and high-level mages handle government affairs. Larena usually works here as well. Although she says she works here, she actually just looks at the reports brought up by the mages below. Most of the reports are related to the Arcane Academy, while the important events that really concern the kingdom will be transmitted directly through the transmission channel inside the tower to Larena's "Palace" on the eighth floor of the tower. Arriving at the door of Lareina's office, Helen knocked on the door and walked in with Lear and others. In addition to Lareina, Mena, Maya and Erwin, Lear also saw many unfamiliar faces in the office. A long table was placed in the middle of the room. Lareina sat at the head, with about a dozen people sitting on both sides. After Lear walked into the room, many people looked at him, with different expressions. "Senator Lear, you're here." Seeing Lear, Larena smiled. Li'er also smiled and glanced at the empty seat next to Lareina, which was obviously prepared for him. Lear walked forward and sat down without hesitation. "Your Majesty, is this the Senator Lear you mentioned?" After Lear sat down, a tall and handsome man on the other side spoke. Lear looked over and saw the man in front of him with sharp features and a sturdy build. He felt that he looked like someone who came from the army. The man called Lareina the Queen. Li Er raised his eyebrows. The mages in the parliament should call Lareina the Speaker. As for the Queen, probably only the nobles loyal to the royal family would call her that? "I'm Lear Stuart." Lear nodded politely to the man. "I've heard of the Stuart family. The Duke of Stuart is known as the Lion of Stuart, stationed in the Decision Mountains on the border of Brayfield..." The man looked at Li Er and said quietly, his eyes calm but with a hint of sharpness. "I'm Russell Field, commander of the Kalia Night Blade," the man introduced himself. Lear looked at the man in front of him, and he had some impression of him in his memory. Just like the Arcane Council has its own mage legion, which is divided into three major legions: Arcane, Frost, and Fire.
The Kalia royal family also has its own legions, also three in number. Different from the legions of the Arcane Council. The parliament's legion is not large in number, all of them are mages above the beginner level, and there are only about a thousand of them. The three legions of the Kalia royal family have more people, each with tens of thousands of people, and some even have hundreds of thousands of people. Of course, the large number of people also means that the average strength of the three major legions of the royal family is much worse than that of the parliament's legions. Most of the three major legions of the royal family are only apprentice-level wizards who know few spells, and most of them major in the combat school of enchantment spells. "It's an honor to meet you, Commander Russell." Li Er stretched out his hand towards the other party. He could sense that the other party was a powerful man of extraordinary level. Looking at the hand that Lear extended, Russell was silent for a few seconds, then he also extended his hand, "It's an honor for me too, Senator Lear." "Okay, Russell, I told you that Senator Lear is not an ambitious person like Joseph. Yesterday he helped me cut off one of Joseph's arms." Lareina interrupted their conversation with a smile. Lear and Russell let go of each other's hands, and neither of them said anything else. "Lear, I plan to notify all departments of the parliament this afternoon and announce that I will hold a ceremony to confer you the title of member of parliament in three days. Do you have any ideas?" Lareina looked at Lear. "I'm fine with that. Just follow the rules of parliament." Lear shook his head. "Since you have no objection, I will arrange it." Lalena nodded, and then she looked at the others below, "I called you here today to introduce them to you." "Everyone here is a noble who is loyal to the royal family of Kalia..." Lareina pointed at the people below. Except for Legion Commander Russell who had just introduced himself, the others were all from the Kalia royal family and did not belong to the Arcane Council. They coordinate many affairs of the Royal City of Kalia, including personnel management of major cities and taxation of the Kingdom of Kalia. Li Er listened quietly, his eyes falling on one of the mages. The wizard wore glasses, had brown hair and a hooked nose. His name was Egon Hayes. He was responsible for assigning outstanding students from the Royal City's Arcane Academy to work in other parts of the kingdom. Lear remembered the news he heard in the academy, that as long as he gave money to Joseph, he would be assigned a good job. He originally thought that it was Joseph himself who arranged it, but he didn't expect that the one who assigned the personnel was the wizard in front of him. I wonder if this wizard has any connection with Joseph’s case? Li Er withdrew his gaze and did not linger on the wizard for too long. It wasn't long before Lalena introduced everyone present. "In addition to them, there are two more legion commanders, but they are stationed at the border, not in the royal city. I'll introduce them to you if I have a chance." Lalena continued. One of the middle-aged men with a big belly looked at Li Er. "It's an honor to meet you, Senator Li Er. I'm Hubert Nelson, who coordinates the kingdom's commerce and taxation. If you need anything, please tell me and I'll do my best to help you solve it." As the middle-aged man spoke, the other nobles also greeted Lear. Everyone was very enthusiastic, but there was also a hint of fear in their enthusiasm? Maybe it’s because of cutting off Joseph’s arm yesterday? After everyone had been chatting for a while, Lareina coughed lightly and the room fell silent. "Okay, today I'm just introducing you to each other. If you want to continue communicating, you can wait for the coronation ceremony in three days. Now I have other things to discuss with Councillor Lier. You guys go down first, Russell stay." Faced with Lareina's order to leave, everyone stood up obediently and left one by one. After everyone left, Lalena sighed, "Senator Li Er, what do you think of these nobles in the kingdom?" "What do you think?" Lear replied, pretending to think. "I think they are all very friendly." "Is that so?" Lalena looked at Lear for a while before saying, "But I feel that they are no longer the Kalia subjects who were once loyal to the kingdom." Lareina's expression darkened. She was the queen of Kalia. Although she might not be a good leader, she was not completely ignorant of the affairs of the kingdom. This included Joseph and the kingdom's nobles accepting bribes to assign kingdom positions to other nobles and merchants.
But she couldn't make up her mind to get rid of these parasites in the kingdom. These nobles were almost all much older than her, and they were all subjects who had followed their father all the way. As a daughter who inherited the throne of Kalia, she now had to take action against these nobles, which made her very embarrassed. Lear listened to Lareina quietly without saying anything more. After finding out that Joseph accepted bribes to arrange noble officials, Lear knew that not only the Arcane Parliament, but also the royal family of Calia was corrupt. After all, he was only an extraordinary-level senator and did not have that much power. "The termites must be cleaned up as soon as possible, otherwise they will contaminate more places." Lear said lightly. After hearing what Li'er said, Lalena took a deep breath. She had indeed made a decision, otherwise she would not have called Russell back. As the commander of the most powerful Ebony Legion in the kingdom, Russell's strength is unquestionable. The Ebony Guards under his command are the elite among the elite, capable of dealing with any emergency. "So, Speaker Larena, do you want to accept my suggestion? Just kill all those termites once and for all." Li Er once again expressed his suggestion. He had suggested this to Lalena yesterday, but was rejected. Lalena fell silent again. After a long while, she struggled to say, "I hope to give them another chance. After the election of the Speaker of the Parliament is over, I will completely take over and supervise the parliament and the nobles of the royal city. If they can give up their power obediently, I will not pursue their affairs anymore." "If they resist..." Lalena didn't say anything else, but Lear and Russell understood. Li Er shook his head. People who are too kind are not suitable to be leaders. Lareina is such a person. He still remembered that in his previous life, after the coup in the Kingdom of Kalia, Lareina abdicated and handed over the position of queen to Maya. Compared with Lareina, Maya was a better queen. "I hope you can help me." Lalena looked up at Li'er and Russell. "I will always be loyal to you, Your Majesty!" Russell stood up from the chair and then knelt on one knee. He looked at the ground, with a sharp light in his eyes. The Field family guarded the border of the kingdom, bordering the Rhodes Empire. They had the most powerful army in the kingdom. Russell had also heard some rumors about corruption in the royal city, but he was a general guarding the border and had no right to interfere in the affairs of the royal city. But now it was different. Lareina gave the order herself, and he was willing to sacrifice his life for Lareina. "I will help you win the position of Speaker. This is our deal, nothing more." Li Er shrugged. "As for the affairs of the Kalia royal family, it is not appropriate for an outsider like me to interfere." "However, if Councillor Joseph and those nobles intend to rebel, I can help you resist them." "Then I would like to thank you in advance, Senator Li'er." Lalena thanked Li'er, and then she thought of something and said, "But before that, I need to win the Speaker election first. Do you have any good ideas?" "That's easy." Hearing this, Li Er smiled and said, "First of all, we have to ensure the fairness and openness of the vote! You said before that you have a 40% support rate. This data should not be obtained by yourself, right?" "Joseph placed the ballot boxes in the parliament, and then other members of the parliament counted the votes," Lareina replied. "That means the authenticity of this data needs to be verified." Li Er waved his hand and picked up the pen on the table. "So the first step we need to take now is to make the election process public and transparent." "How exactly should we do it?" Lalena asked. "Everything from voting to statistics must be open. Each wizard with the right to vote can only have one vote, and each ballot must be bound to the corresponding wizard. We can use arcane arrays to input the wizard's magic power into the ballot to make it impossible to falsify." Li Er planned quietly. Lareina and everyone in the room also watched Lear writing and drawing on the paper quietly. "As elects, you and Joseph cannot interfere in voting matters to avoid suspicion," Lear continued. After writing down the election process on paper, Lear suddenly found that everything around him was quiet.
He looked up and saw that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes. "What's wrong?" Lear frowned. "Senator Lear, is the election of the Pope of the War Church also based on a voting system?" Lareina said after a moment's silence. "Of course not." Lear shook his head. "Then how come you are so skilled?" Lalena blinked. "It's just an election. It's not a complicated system. You should be able to understand it if you think about it." Li Er smiled. "I have the power to supervise the entire War Church. How to make the system fair is also something I am good at," he added. Lareina didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, and Lear didn't say anything more. He quickly wrote down all the details of the election on the paper. After writing, he handed the paper to Lalena, "You can announce these things at my enthronement ceremony in three days. Also, you can use my enthronement ceremony to publicize the parliament's assessment system and the mage promotion system after you are re-elected as a member of parliament." "Let more mages know how the parliament will develop after you are re-elected as speaker, so that you can also gain more supporters!" Li Er gave his final suggestion. (End of this chapter)