blackstone code

Chapter 1262 Testimony
Sitting in the dock, the eldest prince looked at the prosecutor's constantly flipping lips, and recalled the initial appearance of this matter.

A landlord who came from a remote country had some money in his hand. He heard from somewhere that money in big cities was more profitable, so he hooked up with some kind of businessman from the imperial capital in a short time.

There are no "capitalists" in Gefra, at least officially.

All merchants are like lambs bred by God. They are not dangerous at all. When the nobles need them, they will shave their wool.

These lambs have tried to resist at different times, and the outcome has never been unexpected. All the lambs have become roasted whole lambs.

So the lamb learned to be low-key and obedient.

In this power-based country, capitalists will never be able to make waves.

So there are no vicious capitalists here, only meek lambs—businessmen.

The country landowner soon used his stupid and hypocritical face to deceive many people and win the friendship of some people.

He was offered a job, a thankless job, building tenements.

There are also low-cost apartments in Gafla, but the low-cost apartments are very different from the low-cost apartments in the Federation.

Tenants in federal low-cost apartments only need to pay no more than 50.00%, and most of the time they only need to pay 20.00% to 30.00% of the rent to live in.

The rest is paid by various financial subsidies, such as the low-cost apartments in Sabine City, where people only need to pay one-third of the rent to allow the family to live well.

The city treasury pays the remaining 60.00%.

Of course, when discussing this issue, there is no need to consider how the federal capitalists use low-cost apartments to transfer benefits and obtain wealth. At least it solves the problem of food and clothing for many people.

In Gafla, tenements are like a kind of... surface engineering.

The very important link of capitalists is missing here, so that local governments are not so interested in building tenements.

After all, the more people live there, the greater the pressure on the city's finances. It is the most correct choice to build as little as possible.

Moreover, the profit of this kind of project is not much, far less than the 200 million profit that the prosecutor said.

Heck, after the landlord finished the project, he lost hundreds of thousands!

He undertook this project, in fact, to build relationships with the nobles.

The reason why this matter was related to the First Prince was because at that time the First Prince was actively establishing a positive image of himself.

He is the destined heir to the throne, a irascible single husband who ascended to the throne by killing his brothers and sisters actually killed each other for the sake of the children, and set up a system of eldest son succession.

The grown-up eldest prince has to establish his image as a "wise king" in front of the people of Gafla.

Some charitable projects and rescue projects are obviously very good choices.

He doesn't need to spend any money to get some benefits, and he can spread his reputation as a wise and compassionate person. Why should he refuse?

He has "named" many similar projects, and of course the country landowner got what he wanted.

Although he lost money.

The eldest prince's eyeballs rolled slightly, and there was a kind of mockery in his eyes looking at the prosecutor, as if he was mocking a person who should have told the truth, but started to lie just because of political reasons.

At this time, the eldest prince's brain was spinning very fast, so fast that he began to perceive the world with a very clear feeling.

The prosecutor was a little uncomfortable by his eyes, he turned his head and glanced at the chief prosecutor from the corner of his eye pretending to be inadvertent.

The chief prosecutor had a cold and stern face, his eyes were downcast, and he didn't notice his gaze.

"I can call a witness, the businessman, if you want."

The eldest prince still had a disdainful expression on his face, "He can betray and frame me, and he will betray you and you both in the future."

"Today you stand on the beheading platform to question me from the perspective of an executioner, and one day in the future, you will stand by me and accept the trial of others."

What he said made the prosecutor a little frightened and a little angry. He felt that he was underestimated.

To overthrow the royal family is the unanimous will of all nobles, and no one can easily change this process.

He put on a vicious look, and pressed, "It seems that the eldest prince does not admit the mistakes he committed. I request the judge to summon witnesses."

The prosecutor turned around, looked at the justice and bowed in salute.

In Gafla, the justices are also held by nobles.

The justice nodded and granted the prosecutor's request, and then a chubby businessman appeared on the witness stand.

"He doesn't look like he has been beaten." Lynch, who was sitting in the gallery, came to this conclusion after careful observation.

"There is nothing wrong with the posture when walking, and there is nothing wrong with the expression and eyes. The eldest prince is in serious trouble."

Lynch learned a lot of interesting knowledge in the small room, such as how to judge a person's state through the details of his expression.

When a person can make a decision to betray without undergoing any severe torture, it means that the betrayal will be very thorough.

Even this businessman hopes that the royal family will be completely finished than the nobles, otherwise he will be the one who will be finished!

There was a smug smile on the prosecutor's face that was not so carefully hidden. He used the process of turning around to clean up his expression again.

He walked up to the businessman and asked, "Please put your hand on the Bible and swear that everything you said is true and there are no lies."

The businessman almost covers the bible with his chubby palm, and swears that he will never lie.

The prosecutor was very satisfied with his expression and attitude when he swore, and then asked, "Tell me about the deal between you and the First Prince..."

Following the businessman's narration, there were exclamations from time to time at the end of the auditorium.

Don't be curious, those are ordinary people, commoners, citizens of the empire, call them whatever you want, in short, they are not nobles.

Only civilians would exclaim, and the nobles sitting in front of them knew that everything the businessman said was false!
Yes, everyone knows, because the rules of the game have been practiced in Gefra for hundreds of years.

There are people like this around every noble. They try their best to curry favor with the nobles, but they just hope that when they run into trouble in business, they can say "I have worked with..." to avoid risks.

For this reason, they are willing to take some profits. After all, they also know that it is impossible to use the prestige of the nobles for free.

Everyone knows that the First Prince was framed, but the person who knows the truth is precisely the one who framed him. This is very... sad.

The sorrow of the eldest prince and the royal family.

"enough……"

When the businessman talked about stripping his sister's daughter and sending it to the eldest prince, the first prince interrupted him.

A contradictory, embarrassing, and cowardly smile appeared on the merchant's face. When the eldest prince looked at him, he humbly lowered his head, not daring to meet the eldest prince's gaze.

"Continue to read my next crime." There was no expression on his face, only disappointment and numbness.

Disappointment represents his immaturity, and numbness represents his immaturity.

When the prosecutor wanted to continue asking the eldest prince if he admitted to the first charge, the chief prosecutor gave him a sideways glance.

Humans, like many animals, are not always good at static vision, but better at dynamic vision.

Just such a slight change in an instant was caught by the prosecutor.

He skipped this question and began to read the second crime of the eldest prince.

For most of the day, except for the lack of witnesses for a few crimes, almost all others had witnesses to testify against the crimes committed by the First Prince in these cases!
When he left, Lynch could already imagine what the whole Gafla would look like after a new day came!
The collapse of belief may be a bit exaggerated, but there is only one point. In fact, many people do regard the royal family as their belief.

After a group of scientists failed to prove the existence of gods in various ways and atheism flourished, even the faith of the royal family collapsed. What a terrible time!

Just as the public opinion in the entire Gafra community began to ferment quickly, Lynch sat opposite the Prime Minister again.

Only this time, he was not as a nobleman, but as a federal diplomat.

"When I saw you coming in just now, I was thinking, after today's negotiation is over, I must call Mr. Truman and ask him to replace him!"

The prime minister was smiling, not strong, but a little lighter than a smile, "I thought my opponent didn't know much about the issues we need to talk about, but I didn't expect to meet my own people!"

Lynch knew the current Gafla very well, and he had many noble friends, which meant that the prime minister could not hide any information from Lynch during the negotiation process.

The amount of profit in the negotiation is often related to the amount of information in hand. As the "landlord" and the person who gave the purpose of the negotiation, the prime minister should obviously have a certain advantage.

But these advantages disappeared after facing Lynch.

Lynch was playing with the pen used to record the text in his hand, and his eyes met the prime minister, warm, reserved, and strong.

"Isn't this just right?", he asked rhetorically, "I know enough about Gafla and the Federation, and I can eliminate some misunderstandings between us that shouldn't exist, and let alone exist. The most suitable person!"

Your Excellency the Prime Minister laughed twice, very perfunctory, and could hear counterattacks like "Fuck your mother" from these two simple utterances.

Lynch also heheed twice, roughly meaning "the brain is a good thing", as if no one knows how to do it.

The perfunctory smile on the Prime Minister's face narrowed. He said sorry first, then put on his reading glasses, looked at the documents in his hand, and then took off his glasses and looked at Lynch, "We need food..."

(End of this chapter)