For the sake of their own interests, Xia Feng and Marenleg became "friends".

In the face of the person who once lured him into danger, to be honest, Xia Feng did not have any hatred and psychological barriers, maybe this is growth.

He became more concerned about winning or losing than about personal feelings.

Of course, there is an important condition in this, and that is that Marenleger has only hurt himself and not his friends from beginning to end.

....

Moments later, the staff of the Yuan Council came to the break room and informed them that the meeting was about to begin.

Although Marenleg is not the head of the Maren family, he is the heir to the Maren family, and as a first-level nobleman appointed by the royal family to manage the Royal Academy, there is more than one seat in the Yuan Council.

...

Marenleg was also a member of the Yuan Parliament, of course, he was just an ordinary member.

The Imperial Parliament, composed of members of Victoria's major aristocracy, has the power to participate in the formulation of laws and regulations, participate in the decision-making of the development of the empire, and in special cases, even jointly veto the wrong decisions of the royal family.

The membership levels are divided into ordinary members, permanent members, collegial officers, and president members.

This is very easy to understand, ordinary councillors refer to Xia Feng, who is not in Lentinium, but is called over because of the meeting, the number of ordinary councillors is the largest, but the right to speak is also the weakest.

Permanent members, on the other hand, are those who live in the vicinity of Lentinium all year round and participate in the various daily tasks of the Yuan Assembly in addition to meetings.

The collegial officer refers to the core members who have the right to convene a meeting for a certain decision, and the current collegial officer is the head of the family of the first-level noble, with a total of 12 people.

As for the final president, he is elected by voting to preside over the meeting, and in terms of authority, he is almost the same as the collegial officer, and the only special feature should be to shout "start" and "end" at the beginning and end of the meeting.

The current Speaker of the Yuan Parliament, whose full name is Marenleffre, is the head of the Maren family, a first-level nobleman in the north, and the father of Marenlaig.

....

Led by the staff, Xia Feng walked into the hall where the council was held.

At this time, there were already many people sitting inside, and as far as the eye could see, there were old guys over half a hundred years old, some were talking in low voices, some were smoking and drinking tea, and some were closing their eyes to recuperate.

Xia Feng took a look, except for Marenleg, none of these noble lords he knew.

Finally, he found a random seat in the corner and sat down.

Naturally, this kind of guy like Marenleg is not as autistic as him, and after entering the door, this leader of the younger generation began to all kinds of "high socialization", chatting happily with some fat-headed and big-eared families.

And some nobles who looked serious-looking completely ignored his "enthusiasm".

After a circle around the hall like a courtesan, Marenleg finally returned to Xia Feng and sat down.

....

People walked into the conference hall one after another, and Xia Feng looked at the time, and it was already time for the staff to start the meeting.

"Bang!"

As the last old man entered, the door to the conference hall was slammed shut by the guards.

This old man has gray hair and a thin face, and in terms of temperament, he has no dignity of a great nobleman at all, but Xia Feng recognized his identity from the name tag in front of this person's table.

【Chairman】

That's right, this person is Marenleger's father, the president of the Imperial Yuan Council, Marenleffre.

....

In the conference hall, seven or eight people sat on each side of Levle, and they knew without asking that they were collegial officers.

There are 12 collegiate members of the Yuan Council, and it seems that several adults did not come today, but this is normal, according to the style of the Yuan Council, since its establishment, there has never been a normal attendance of all members.

Among the collegial officers who are absent today is the head of the Capetian family, the Imperial Inspector General Capewamy.

...

The meeting begins.

Marenleffle took a sip of the tea on the table to moisten his throat before speaking.

"My lords, please be quiet, the regular meeting of the Yuan Council, from now on, I would like to introduce a new member to you before I bring up a few items for today."

Speaker Lever looked at the seats below.

"Lord Xia Feng, a level 3 nobleman in the south, where is Lord Xia Feng sitting? Raise your hand, please. ”

Hearing his name being called, Xia Feng, who was sitting in the corner, stood up directly and said to Levle without humility or arrogance.

"I'm here, Lord Levle, you're an elder, so don't call me an adult, just call me by my first name."

Because he knew Xia Feng's friendship with his son Marenleg, this elder was deeply appreciated by Leffre.

He nodded, straight and said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this young man is Xia Feng, I believe everyone here should have heard of this young man, from today onwards, he is a member of our Senate, everyone is a nobleman awarded by the royal family of the Victorian Empire, and we must take care of each other in the future."

At this time, a slightly chubby middle-aged man next to Levle snorted coldly.

"Xia Feng, I've heard of this name, as far as I know, he's an infected."

Hearing the words "infected", there was a slight surprise in the hall, and it seemed that even though more than a month had passed since this incident, some ill-informed members of the Yuan Council still did not know that he was infected.

Hearing this obviously prickly sentence, Xia Feng's humble expression disappeared.

Noticing the change in his mood, Marenleg, who was sitting next to him, reminded in a low voice.

"Xia Feng, this person's name is Luo Da, and he is a level 1 nobleman in the north, calm down."

Of course, Xia Feng would not be uncalm, his identity would be questioned by the Yuan Council, which he had long expected, to the point that it was better to say, but at this level, he would not care at all.

Xia Feng lowered his head slightly.

"Lord Loda, right, you're right, I'm indeed an infected, but that doesn't prevent me from appearing here, although I'm only a level 3 noble, but my nobility is also a royal award, which is the same for us, do you have any questions?"

The collegial officer of Luoda snorted lightly, not even wanting to answer.

Perhaps in his eyes, a small role like Xia Feng is not even qualified to raise a bar with him.

....

In fact, Xia Feng was indeed an insignificant little role in this meeting, and after introducing him, the meeting began as usual.

Picking up the information that had been sorted out in advance, Speaker Levle first raised three topics.

First, the adjustment of import and export tariffs for several commodity types.

Second, the increase in grain reserves in the state treasury.

Third, the discussion on the possibility of disarmament of the four major military regions.

Xia Feng has no concept of these three so-called issues at all, and the only thing that concerns him should be tariff adjustment.

However, the main business of the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce at present is smuggling, and as for the normal freight business of taxation, it is completely for the sake of superficial work, and it doesn't matter if he adjusts it or not.

And the grain reserves and disarmament in the back have nothing to do with him.

....

It's just that, although there is no direct relationship, just from the literal meaning of these two nouns, he faintly smells something that makes him a little uneasy.