Master of Thermodynamics

Thousand Lakes Republic, The Hague Fort.

This small coastal city close to the "Star Blue Sea" was just one of the many territories owned by the Oceanus family in the original Thousand Lake Kingdom.

It's not very famous, except for the people in the surrounding area, not many people in the entire kingdom know about it.

However, since the Oceanus family, who ruled this land for nearly a thousand years, was wiped out by someone overnight in the "Sapphire Fall" incident, the fate of The Hague Fort ushered in a 180-degree change. Great turning point.

In order to unite many nobles and prevent the country from falling apart, Renault "creatively" put forward the "republic".

According to this system, the governing body of the entire Republic is the "Parliamentary Council", and any major affairs require all members to decide by voting.

Regardless of whether the parliamentarians are big nobles or small nobles, and no matter how strong their wealth is, they all have only one vote, and no one is much more than anyone else.

Only the leader of the parliamentary council, the "supreme speaker", enjoys certain privileges.

But this "privilege" is nothing special.

The voting power of the Speaker is only 5 votes, which is equivalent to 5 MPs. This advantage is completely negligible when it is placed among thousands of MPs.

No longer like before, the power is in the hands of the king and a few big nobles, and a large number of small and medium nobles can only choose to take refuge in that side, without the slightest right to speak.

Of course, this set of plans quickly won the heartfelt approval of the small and medium-sized nobles.

Even if the great aristocrats have the intention to oppose, but under the violent deterrence of a certain crown, they are powerless and can only watch the assembly of the parliament quickly set up.

Renault, as the promoter and the biggest fist, successfully won the election and became the first Supreme Speaker of the Thousand Lakes Republic.

The tenure is 10 years!

During the campaign, no one even dared to compete with him.

After all, everyone knows that the God of War regards the highest speaker as something in his pocket. For a mere 5 votes, is it worth it to face a super power who can squeeze the Profound One to death?

Of course not worth it.

As a result, Renault was the only candidate who signed up to run for the highest speaker.

Others have shrunk their eggs.

However, when the parliamentarians sat down to discuss where to set up the parliamentary council, the newly released Lord Speaker encountered the first setback.

Renault proposed to place the parliamentary house in the northern town of Chaka, which drew opposition from most parliamentarians.

In the eyes of many nobles, Lord Speaker’s power is already strong enough. If the Council of Parliament were to fall into his nest, Chaka Town, wouldn't it be that the members of the Council of Parliament would be completely controlled every minute?

Due to too much resistance, Renault had to compromise.

After a fierce debate, more than 2,000 parliamentarians put forward more than 30 proposals.

Subsequently, in the formal voting, the Hague Castle, which was reduced to the land of no owners due to the destruction of the Oceanus family, unexpectedly received the highest number of votes.

In this way, the little Hague Fort was transformed into the nominal capital of the Republic.

...

Standing on the viewing platform on the second floor of the famous "Circular Auditorium" of the House of Representatives, Arrietty gazes quietly through the transparent glass wall like a giant sword in the sky, standing in the center of the "Republic Square" "The Monument of Innate Human Rights."

Despite the sporadic snow in the sky, there are still many tourists braving the cold wind to roam around the monument.

Arrietty could even hear their laughter faintly.

For tourists, a 55-meter-high monument with a total weight of 20,000 tons is definitely a rare thing.

To be able to see its true colors in the present close distance, and personally feel the terrifying power brought by this behemoth, is enough to make people forget about it.

After returning to their hometown, this experience was enough for them to brag for a long time.

In contrast, what is such a bit of cold wind?

"Your Excellency, the meeting of the Supreme Disciplinary Committee will begin in 15 minutes... Makeup artist Ms. Mosha is waiting in your exclusive dressing room... In addition, your secretary, Ms. Mary, has something to say. You say……"

A maid hurried over, lifted her long skirt and paid a lady's gift to Aliette, and said anxiously.

However, Arrietty remained unmoved, still looking at the "Innate Human Rights Monument" standing still in the wind and snow.

"Amida, do you believe in the term'innate human rights'?"

Arrietty asked without looking back.

Called "Aimeda" for a moment, I don't know how to answer.

Arrietty did not wait for Aimeda's reply, and murmured:

"In my spare time, when I look at this monument, I often think, in fact, there is no talent for human rights... The low-level civilians of the Republic don't have this concept in their minds. This is clearly the bad guy who forcibly endows the rights of the civilians. ."

"This is human rights given to ‘people’, not natural human rights..."

Speaking of the character "person" for the first person to give human rights, Arrietty deliberately increased her tone.

To her surprise, Ameida suddenly raised her delicate face and replied seriously:

"Your Excellency, the civilians do not know now, but this does not mean that they will never know... as long as someone tells them, they will definitely be willing to fight for their rights!"

Arrietty gave a chuckle:

"So, Ameda, tell me, what are the civilians fighting against?"

Aimeda flushed her face and said quietly and firmly:

"Although the nobles are very powerful, the Lord Speaker will definitely help the civilians and get their due rights..."

"Oh." Arrietty sighed and touched Aimeda's small face. "Your most beloved Speaker, once said, "All conflicts must be based on interests, and they can only be interest'."

She turned around, Shi Shiran walked to the entrance of the viewing platform, and said lightly:

"The speaker's approach to helping the civilians is essentially an exchange of interests...'Innate human rights' are just a contract between the speaker and the civilians. The civilians can get more rights, or benefits, but this is not without cost. ."

"In exchange, they need to be loyal to the Speaker, and at the same time create more value for him... In this transaction, the only loser is the nobleman."

"In addition, an important prerequisite for the transaction to occur is that the civilians have the value of being exploited... If they are useless, do you think the Speaker will create this talented human rights monument?"

Aimee opened her mouth suddenly.

...

locker room.

Arrietty closed her eyes and allowed the makeup artist to smear her face while listening to the secretary's report:

"Your Excellency, the'Marquis of Fisher' is arguing again to win over members of the Supreme Disciplinary Committee, trying to prevent the committee from depriving the title of'Viscount Hilton'..."

The "Viscount Hilton" in her mouth was the nobleman who hindered the army from rescuing the victims during the floods.

This unlucky guy was also madly criticized by "Tide Current Affairs" and became Renault's agent, Arrietty, the next target.

Miss Secretary's next words made Allietty frowned.

"From the current situation, we may not have the advantage...According to the information from the Intelligence Department, the opposition led by Marquis Fisher has won at least 110 members of Parliament, which has occupied 200 members of the Supreme Disciplinary Committee. More than half of the total number of people."

"A large part of the reason is that over this period of time, too many nobles have been deprived of their noble titles. In the last month, 12 nobles, large and small, have been exiled... This has caused a considerable number of nobles to feel sad. ..."