Chapter 531: I have time to take care of cats and dogs, but no time to take care of people
The office building of the Noble Court is quite luxurious, and each office is equipped with air conditioners imported from the Principality of Wesson.
Reno is no stranger to air conditioners. When he was working, his boss wanted to buy one, which gave him many ideas.
Today he came to Sir Javert's office again and saw the assistant judge stepping on the chair, taking off the air conditioner cover and studying the magic circle inside.
Reno forced a smile and asked the assistant judge: "Sir Javert, can our case go to trial?"
Sir Javel replied perfunctorily: "Not yet, still queuing up."
"You know we are very busy, there are countless cases to be tried every day, please be patient."
< br>Reynold looked at Javert expressionlessly as he studied the magic circle in the air conditioner. He was about to ask how many cases there were ahead, when a court employee walked in with documents.
"Sir Javert," the clerk reported on work matters, "the case of Baroness Daleb and Baroness Bianchi has been moved to three o'clock this afternoon."
Ya Weir suddenly wailed: "God of Light, isn't it arranged for next month?!"
The clerk said: "Baroness Daleb is urging me very urgently."
Javert got down from the chair helplessly and said to Renault when taking the file: "You see, this is the job of the court. There is an accident that disrupts your plan.”
Seeing this, Renault had no choice but to leave.
He asked the clerk in the corridor, why is this case so urgent?
The clerk shrugged and said: "Baroness Bianchi's three-headed dog scared Baroness Dalebe's two-tailed cat."
Renault was stunned for a moment after hearing this.
When he returned to the tavern, Guiyum and the others were stunned when they learned about it.
“It’s been a month!” A student pounded the table angrily. “They’ve been delaying it for a month in different ways. They would rather file a lawsuit against cats and dogs than look at us. We don’t even have cats and dogs. Isn’t it better?”
Another student said in a deep voice: “I think they want to delay it until we graduate and leave Barris City.”
Everyone thinks they are right. It stands to reason that the current case is being supported by more than a dozen of them.
If it is delayed until only one-third of the people are left after graduation in the summer, and everyone is forced to leave to find a job due to their livelihood, the remaining people will be unable to support themselves, and in the end they will have to give up.
Giyoum has now vaguely become the top leader among the students because he got back a large amount of money and solved the problems that troubled everyone.
He gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and asked the others in a low voice: "Do you still remember the last words the Duke of Lukang said when we blocked the road that day?"
Everyone nodded.
Someone asked worriedly: “Do you really want to do that?”
Guillaume said categorically: "This is necessary!"
"Do you still remember the salt tax riots in the Principality of Aquitaine?"
The salt tax in the Kingdom of Gaul is not low. It is a kingdom tax, and it is mandatory for everyone to buy at least a certain amount of salt every ten days. You must buy it regardless of whether you eat it or not. It is illegal to buy less.
The Principality of Aquidam in the southwest of the kingdom is close to the sea, so salt is very cheap, but it still requires people there to purchase the high-priced official salt in full, which eventually led to riots throughout the principality and gradually expanded.
For this reason, it took Old Louis several years to put down the riot. Finally, he negotiated with the local nobles to use a quarter of the salt production as a salt tax in kind, and they did not care how they collected the salt tax internally.
Now the salt tax is very low in the areas that participated in the riots, while the salt tax in the adjacent areas without the riots continues to be high.
Guillaume said to everyone: "If we want to regain what we lost, we must resist."
The next day, Sir Javert went to Count Ferret's office to report yesterday Case status of the two Baronesses in the afternoon.
In this kind of case, both sides have to fight for face, and the attorneys are all quarreling with each other. The actual verdict depends on private operations.
Javert forwarded to Ferret the prices privately proposed by the lawyers of the plaintiff and the defendant. The price of the plaintiff Baroness Dalleb was higher than that of Baroness Bianchi.
Most of these benefits go to the judge, and the assistant judge gets a commission, and there are even extra parts, otherwise the conditions will not reach the judge's table. Ferret had his own considerations. The hunting dog at home was old, and Baroness Bianchi's natal family produced good hunting dogs, so he planned to use this as an opportunity to get a new hunting dog.
Javert left Feret's office after reporting his work. On the way back to his own office, he felt that his memory was a bit full. He had just drank a lot of tea and needed to release it.
There are public restrooms on each floor of the office building of the Noble Court. Last year, a batch of ceramic toilets were imported from the Principality of Wesson. They also made partitions and installed exhaust fans according to the public restrooms there. It is better than before. A row of hollow wooden stools is much more comfortable.
However, Javel found that the bathroom on this floor was full of people standing outside the bathroom today, and their eyes were on fire when they saw him.
A judge pointed at him and roared: "Javert, look at the stupid things you have done, believe it or not, I came to your office to shit!"
Javert was confused and was unhappy with being scolded for no reason, but The other party's family was powerful, so they had no choice but to endure it.
The anger could be tolerated, but the bladder could not. He squeezed into the public toilet while yelling and cursing, and found that there were people in all the cubicles.
An old judge slammed the door hard and shouted: "I order you to come out!"
A young voice inside: Answer: "His Majesty the King has issued a decree that people who are going to the toilet Has the privilege of refusing all requests to leave - including those of the King."
The old judge turned around and asked: "Is there really such a law?"
Here are professionals, and someone immediately said: "That's true. This law has a history of two hundred and thirty-three years. I last year It was also cited in lawsuits."
Everyone present was speechless. The king was famous among the nobles for being ridiculous and issued many ridiculous decrees, such as prohibiting putting pigs on their heads to keep out the rain. , It is forbidden to use mice to pull carriages and so on.
The old judge asked again: "What are the consequences of violating it?"
The old man couldn't hold it in any longer. If the cost of crime is low, he doesn't mind breaking the law.
The person who just answered hesitated for a moment and then replied: "The territory of the land nobles will be reduced by 20%, the palace nobles will be reduced by two levels, and the common people will be fined the same amount of silver as their weight."
Many people present remembered that at that time it was In an era when the conflict between the royal family and the nobility intensified, the power of the royal family began to dominate.
Behind the seemingly absurd laws, the royal family tried every means to weaken the power of the nobles.
The old judge asked the person in the cubicle: "What do you have to do to come out?"
"I will give you twenty livres, is that enough?"
The trousers he is wearing now are worth forty livres. If he peed on them, they would be ruined, and the loss of face would be immeasurable in gold coins.
Twenty livres was just the benefit he received today, so he treated it as lost on the road.
The young man in the cubicle replied: "I want to go out too, but I'm just halfway there."
"No way, Judge Javert said our case hasn't been heard yet. I was so anxious that I couldn’t even breathe.”
Under the murderous gazes from all around, Javel almost peed on his pants.
For others, who wins or loses in this case has nothing to do with them, but not being able to go to the toilet has something to do with them.
Javel was speechless. He couldn't clearly say that he was asked to delay time by his superiors.
In addition to helping his boss to make extra money, the assistant judge also helped to take the blame. If he sold Ferret at this time, he would no longer have to hang out in the Kingdom of Gaul.
Javer is not a fool to become an assistant judge. He was so anxious that he thought of a way: "Let's go to the restaurant opposite. There is a toilet there!"
"Are you a fool? ? ” Someone yelled, “That’s His Majesty Louis’s property. You didn’t spend two livres just to go to the toilet. What does your Majesty think?”
Javert couldn't refute that. That restaurant was extremely expensive. The minimum purchase was two gold livre coins. It wasn't worth spending so much just to go to the toilet.
He was at a loss for a while and cursed in his heart the person who came up with this idea.
But it was useless to curse in my heart. The current problem still had to be solved. I didn’t know who was responsible. Everyone hurried to the back garden.
(End of this chapter)