Chechen and Natalie slept soundly after they mingled. When the door was opened, Pedro stepped down from the carriage. His fat but martial figure made pats recognize the extraordinary identity of the newcomer.

Pedro got out of the carriage. He looked at all the people in front of the hotel and looked at himself. Then he put his hands on his hips and said, "aleval Pedro, Lord of vidava."

The crowd gave a cry of surprise. They are not to blame. Because the Lord of vidava has really been in the limelight these days.

First, the king\'s Chamberlain ukovsky went to vidava to welcome the Lord\'s return; Then a Russian of thousands went to Pskov under the protection of the Lord\'s private army. It is said that he rescued them from the Tatars in Crimea; Then, according to a less reliable grapevine, even queen ludwiga went to vidava.

Together, these news made the identity of Lord vidava more mysterious and unfathomable. Today, they saw the Lord.

Pats crossed his chest: "I count this day as my luckiest day."

With that, pats couldn\'t help but pull Pedro into the hotel.

Pedro was greedy for a drink. Now he is even more unscrupulous when someone treats him.

After three rounds of wine, Pedro asked about the hospitable pats. Isn\'t it fair that there are so many people in the city today?

When Patz saw that Pedro didn\'t know, he told him that today was the day of the holding of the Rotz Parliament. Everyone, including themselves, came to the parliament.

With that, pats also sincerely invited Pedro as a distinguished guest to attend the opening of the parliament.

Pedro wanted to refuse, but he couldn\'t stand pats\'s repeated invitation. He thought that he would waste half a day at most, and he couldn\'t miss anything, so he half agreed.

On the way to the parliament hall, Pedro also knew that Patz Brest was not a small man. His family was a famous family in Rhodes. Patz\'s father once served as the flag officer of count kasmir teshkovic.

When they arrived at the parliament hall, because Pedro "inadvertently" mentioned that he had participated in two Warsaw battles and set out for Crimea, the Rhodes nobles, landlords, priests and some other dignified figures in the parliament hall respected him and warmly invited him to sit in the best position to listen to the convening of the Parliament. And pats was firmly bound by Pedro\'s hand and didn\'t leave him for half a minute.

Pedro sat in the innermost circle as a distinguished guest. In order not to lose face, he went back to the carriage, put on his most gorgeous silk clothes, and wore a valuable mink hat.

Although he was dressed with such jewels, Pedro looked like a steamed stuffed bun at this time. Because he had never seen such a parliament.

In Pedro\'s eyes, this Parliament has two oddities: first, there are many people; The second is miscellaneous.

Today, there are four or five hundred people in the church, which is almost one tenth of the population of vidava. Pedro never thought that there were so many people in a Rhodes regional parliament. In addition, except for those who sat in the inner two circles dressed like Pedro, the other participants were basically dressed in rags and rags, and some were barefoot. They were a group of mud legs.

Pedro has never heard of or seen it. Farmers and the poor can enter parliament. In Pedro\'s consciousness, parliamentarians should be the privilege of the nobility and the rich.

Pedro pestles pats beside him. At this time, Pedro can only ask pats, a new friend.

"Hey, pats. Why are so many irrelevant people in Parliament today?" asked Pedro.

"What irrelevant person?" Patz wondered about Pedro\'s statement.

Pedro raised his finger and drew a circle, basically including everyone inside and outside the church.

"It\'s those people outside the third row. Shouldn\'t the members of Parliament be aristocrats? Why are there so many mud legs."

When Pedro called the others mud legs, pats realized it, and then he laughed.

"Dear Pedro, those mud legs in your mouth are also aristocrats," Patz explained with a smile.

"Impossible!" exclaimed Pedro. How can there be a poor aristocrat in the world who doesn\'t even have shoes? Is it good to say that he is an aristocrat when he is so poor?

"My friend, it is true that they are all aristocrats. Although they are poor, they are also aristocrats."

Then pats began to talk.

According to Patz, there are so many nobles in Poland. They are all the pots of the king, because the king sometimes gives the title of nobles directly to those who should not have the title of nobles for various reasons. For example, after annexing Livonia, in order to maintain stable rule, the then Polish king waved his hand and sealed tens of thousands of civilians as nobles. (Pedro understands that Patz\'s statement can perfectly explain why there are so many poor nobles...).

Patz also told Pedro that in Poland, the word for the aristocracy was "szlachta". The word comes from the ancient Germanic "slahta", which means "aristocracy or noble family". So the Polish aristocracy is also called the schlachta class.

Even if a schlachta is poor, it will not hinder their legal and political privileges and influence. Theoretically, the poorest schlachta enjoys the same rights as the richest schlachta. So even if your family is poor, you still have the right to express your opinions and vote in Parliament as a shirakata.

Pedro found that pats was an encyclopedia of nobility, and he could speak freely no matter what he asked. During the ten minutes of talking, Pedro learned several proper nouns. For example, aristocratic giants (i.e. giants such as pototsky and lubomatsky) are called magnates, and middle aristocrats are called magnates ś Redniaszlachta, and there is only a small village whose noble name is drobnaszlachta; Ordinary people with only noble titles are called okoliczna; There is only one farm called zagrodowa; Only one field is called zagonowa; Those who have to cultivate their own land are called hreczkosiej; Pretending to be rich, but actually very poor, his name is p ó ł panek； The most miserable proletarian aristocrat without land is called go ł OTA... Wait, wait.

At this time, Pedro also wanted to know more about the nobles\' views on the great reform of the king and queen, but at this time, the church priest in French clothes, who was also the convener of the meeting, picked up a wooden hammer and knocked on the table several times - which meant that the Parliament was about to begin.

The originally chirping parliament hall suddenly quieted down,

The parliamentary session is just beginning.

A middleman wearing a red Kaftan and a moustache came to the middle of the parliament hall.

Patz introduced to Pedro: "this is the Popovich knight, the captain of the count\'s guard."

Popovich said: "Distinguished nobles, you know, since the count led most of Rhodes\' troops to fight against the Swedes, the gangs near Rhodes have become more and more rampant. Many nobles\' farms and passing businesses have been robbed, which has seriously affected our trade and stability. Especially now, some gangs have mixed with the scattered soldiers of the Swedes to act as invaders So I hope the parliament will authorize me to have full power to suppress bandits! "

As soon as this remark came out, the people began to discuss it with each other.

A little nobleman in a green Kaftan cleared his throat and said, "it\'s certainly a good thing to suppress bandits, but my manor is also very short of manpower. If you are given young adults to suppress bandits, who will take care of the manor? I think mercenaries should be recruited to do this."

Other landlords nodded in agreement with him.

After another round of whispering discussion, a businessman stood up and expressed his opinion: "the chamber of commerce can pay, but the proportion will not exceed half of the total cost."

……

Finally, the priest announced the results of the discussion: "Popovich can choose to recruit a mercenary of 20-50 people to suppress bandits. At the same time, the local landlords, nobles and churches will give half of the money and the chamber of Commerce will give half of the money to hire the army. Can you be satisfied?"

Popovich was obviously satisfied. He strode to the podium, stood next to the priest, took off his hat and saluted the people around him.

Parliament entered the second agenda. A p ó ł Panek went to Popovich\'s original position and said, "God bless, there is a fruit tree next to my house, which was planted by my grandfather\'s grandfather. Our family will pick it every year. This year, my neighbor insisted that half of the fruit on the tree should be his, because the tree grows to his boundary,..."

When I said this, this p ó ł Panek\'s eyes rested on his neighbor.

The man was worried: "slander, it\'s definitely slander. That tree is the same as my grandfather\'s grandfather and his grandfather\'s grandfather. Of course, half of it should belong to me."

There were boos in the parliament hall.

"Come on, your grandfather\'s grandfather didn\'t complain at that time!" someone interrupted.

There was a burst of laughter around.

"It seems that this guy on stage can win the lawsuit," Pedro told pats

Patsy smiled mysteriously at Pedro: "it\'s not necessarily."

The meeting was in favor of the P ó on the stage ł The trend of Panek went away. Then the priest announced the beginning of the vote. Most people stood in the P ó ł On the side of Panek. Pedro saw that pats also voted for the P ó ł One vote for Panek.

When the vote was over, the priest knocked on the table with a wooden hammer, and then when he calmed down, announced the result.

"489 votes for and 1 against, not adopted."