When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 697 The Black Snake Bay Wizard Federation is established!
Three days after the assassination at Tiannv Palace, the originally scheduled Black Snake Bay Federation Wizard Conference was postponed for one day.

On this day, the guards relaxed their control a little, and the parades of floats and displays of prisoners of war diluted the bloody atmosphere of the past few days.

The residents spontaneously left their homes and houses and followed the floats and the wizards who were reading the proclamations. Every few minutes, fireballs wrapped in paint would explode into the air.

After the proclamation was read, there was a parade, a review and tributes, and the jubilant people of Black Snake Bay gathered at a temple outside the city.

The temple will later serve as the meeting place of the Black Snake Bay Federal Parliament and government offices.

Standing on the high platform of the temple outside Tiannv City, Otatila walked out in a blue robe, followed by 171 councillors from the entire Black Snake Bay and a group of high-level officials including Horn.

Facing the mountains and valleys filled with spectators, even the usually aloof Otatila couldn't help but get excited.

The Witch Council worked hard for hundreds of years before it managed to unify the central counties and form a loose alliance.

And now, the entire Black Snake Bay has united together and will be established as a real country as a whole. Although it can only be regarded as a vassal state of the Holy Alliance, it is already the best way out.

Taking a deep breath, Otatira took a step forward. With the blessing of countless sonic spells, she raised her right fist high: "I declare that today, the Holy Axis Alliance Black Snake Bay Federation is officially established!"

Although they almost didn't care whether the Black Snake Bay Federation was established or not, the residents were infected by the music and the atmosphere and cheered.

At least they know that they will have cheap food to eat in the future, which is somewhat of a good thing, right?

Regardless of the gradually dispersing crowd, the first Wizard Council of the Black Snake Bay Federation has already begun in the temple.

Wearing the silver olive crown given to her by Horn on her head, Otatila began the first important motion of the parliament as Speaker.

"...This assassination at Tiannv Palace is shocking and unforgivable. It is an attack that violates the dignity of the Black Snake Bay Federation..."

"...This not only injured our great leader, His Highness Horn, but also resulted in the death and injury of up to 20 people. This is because there are still secret parties colluding with the church. Some wizards and witches, such as Veronica, are actually spies of the church..."

"...The establishment of our Black Snake Bay Wizard Federation means the nationalization and normalization of Black Snake Bay. Our secret party exists to oppose the church, not to commit crimes..."

"...However, Black Snake Bay is in a state of disrepair and it is difficult to organize a crackdown on internal spies and criminals. Therefore, I propose to establish a gendarmerie with independent case-handling, investigation, and judicial supervision powers to focus on cracking down on similar criminal activities..."

The so-called independent power to handle cases means that the Black Snake Bay Federation has no jurisdiction over and appointment power over the military police’s handling of cases, and may not obstruct or interfere with the military police’s handling of cases in any form.

The power of investigation means that the gendarmes can lead the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases and bring public prosecutions.

The power of judicial supervision means that the military police can provide supervisory opinions on the judgment or execution of the Black Snake Bay Federal Court, and even forcibly suspend the trial of the case or request a retrial.

In addition, the Gendarmerie has the sole power to prosecute criminal cases, meaning that the Gendarmerie can choose to prosecute or not prosecute in any criminal case.

It is basically the police, prosecutor, and judge in one, and their only check and balance, or reliance on which to exercise such broad power, is Horn himself.

This gendarmerie corps is directly connected to Horn, who has almost unlimited power over personnel appointments and financial allocations.

But the wizards were all smart people, and they immediately realized that this meant that the military police could arrest and prosecute anyone with almost no reason, and then repeatedly use their supervisory power to force the judges to make the decisions they wanted.

"I disagree, this is outrageous."

"This military police has too much power. Unless they allow us to join, I won't agree."

There were immediate voices of opposition in the temple, especially from the secret party, which was a gang-like organization in the urban area, and they even stood on the table and shouted.

But in the final voting stage, to everyone's surprise, the bill was passed by Parliament with more than three-quarters of the votes in favor.

According to Horn's analysis, the councillors of the five counties in Black Snake Bay can basically be divided into three factions: plantation owners, businessmen and workshop owners, and gangsters.

Most plantations are run by wizard families who are mainly engaged in real estate agriculture, while merchants are basically astrologers, workshop owners are mostly alchemists in urban areas, and gangs are composed of a large number of combat mages and villains. This classification method is not particularly accurate, because almost all wizards and secret organizations are engaged in plantations, alchemy workshops and black industries at the same time.

The only difference is the main source of income.

Due to the characteristics of the extraordinary rulers of Black Snake Bay, almost all ordinary industries run by ordinary people will be dependent on these secret parties and wizards.

In other words, ordinary business owners run by ordinary people in Black Snake Bay are not even qualified to sit at the table.

Large urban secret parties such as the Witch Council and the Joan Party helped Horn win over workshop owners and small shopkeepers, while the sugar and grain trade and tariffs controlled by the Holy Axis won over plantation owners and merchants.

The merchants and workshop owners, who were tired of the gangs and tax cards, naturally agreed with both hands and feet, and they actually did so.

Although the plantation owners were disgusted, when they thought about Horn's proposed "Child Slavery Prohibition Act" and "Hereditary Slavery Prohibition Act", it seemed that the establishment of the gendarmerie was acceptable.

The gang's secret party and wizards were under great pressure because a large number of key figures had been placed under house arrest and arrested in the previous assassination of the Holy Sun.

The most important thing is that the original purpose of establishing the gendarmerie is to capture assassins and internal church spies. Any member of parliament who dares to raise objections will be immediately labeled as a church spy.

In desperation, they had to agree to the birth of this terrible monster in the Black Snake Bay Federation.

Of course, Horn promised that this was only a temporary gendarmerie corps, and would last for a maximum of half a year, which means by the end of the year, the parliament could vote again to decide whether the gendarmerie corps should continue to exist.

After the resolution was passed, it took less than a week for hundreds of Holy Gunners of the Divine Punishment Army, dozens of gendarmerie notaries transferred from the Thousand River Valley, and hundreds of strong young men recruited from the local area to form a gendarmerie corps.

The head of the gendarmerie, Horn, still gave face to the Black Snake Bay and appointed a local witch, Solan from the Shadow Society.

The Shadow Society is a secret organization that is half businessmen and half gangsters. Most of them have now successfully transformed into businessmen, soldiers or public officials in the Northern County.

They were all the driving forces behind the establishment of the Northern County Council, so naturally they were allocated the most lucrative positions.

The first thing the gendarmerie did after its establishment was to take over the suspects in the Tiannv Palace assassination case who were controlled by the guards monks.

The end of the secret gangs around Tiannv City has come.

Military police in blue-gray uniforms walked through the streets carrying sacred rifles, kicking down doors and starting searches.

Those gangster-type secret parties who relied on violence to collect rent and taxes were eating spices and singing at home when they were suddenly arrested by the military police.

Over the next few days, the sound of gunfire in the streets and alleys almost never stopped.

Blood-stained spices, pearls, gems, gold and silver were seized from the mansions of these wizards, and boxes filled with valuables were moved in and out of the warehouses of the Palace of the Maidens, the Gendarmerie and the God's Punishment Army.

Merchants and workshop owners naturally applauded, but the former gang wizards and thugs on the streets of Tiannv City were all worried.

Under the torture and trial of the gendarmes, a large number of "people involved in the case" and "church spies" were successively confessed, and the number of people arrested, exiled and executed around Tiannv City reached thousands.

The ground of the execution ground outside the city was stained red with blood, and the gendarmes would invite suspects or parliamentarians to watch the ceremony every day.

These suspects and high-level wizards all went in with red faces and came out with pale faces.

The situation continued like this until the end of May, when Otatila, unable to bear it any longer, had to find Horn and ask him to stop.

After listening to Otatira's request, Sheng Sun smiled and brought up another topic: "I plan to return to Thousand River Valley in early June. I wonder when the Speaker can arrange a meeting between me and Ms. Cynthia?"

(End of this chapter)