Chapter 96 Finding a Father for You

After the judges of the Tribunal Plenipotentiary pronounced their verdict, a court official came out and showed everyone the decree issued by His Majesty the King - the Tribunal Plenipotentiary was responsible for judging all cases involving Vezinière.

People immediately burst into cheers again:

"Judgment! The Tribunal Plenipotentiary has the power to judge!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!"

"Long live France!"

"God bless the people of France!"

"Punish the shameless judges!"

The judges of the High Court witnessed all this in the building behind. If it were in the past, such a decree that interfered with the power of trial would definitely be protested by them, but at this moment, they could only pinch their noses and accept it.

The crowd outside was excited. At this time, whoever dared to object to the judgment of the Tribunal Plenipotentiary would be torn to pieces by the mob immediately.

Although there were hundreds of police officers guarding around, the judges knew that even if they were torn to pieces, the police would not care.

The Tribunal Plenipotentiary was very efficient. In one day, six old cases tried by Vezinière had been overturned. The victims were all crying and shouting "Thank God" and "Long live the king", and many of them even fainted on the spot due to excitement.

No one cared about the charges against Vesinier anymore, because there were too many to count anyway.

The next day, the Plenipotentiary Court retried all eleven cases involving Vesinier.

In fact, there were originally plans to retry more cases, but some of the cases were minor or the files had been lost. The judges of the Plenipotentiary Court strictly followed the request of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to close the case as soon as possible, and temporarily ignored such cases.

Eleven major cases were enough to impose heavy sentences.

In particular, in one of the cases, Vesinier was suspected of killing a witness in prison together with the defendant, and the murder was all counted on Vesinier.

The latter's lawyer did not express any objections from beginning to end.

At 4 p.m. that day, the oldest judge picked up the verdict, read a long paragraph of Vezinier's various crimes, and then shouted: "Sentence - beheading!"

The emotions of the citizens watching the scene instantly erupted like a volcano! The cheers and applause continued for more than ten minutes without stopping. Many people began to run along the streets of Paris spontaneously, spreading the good news as soon as possible.

Marat, who was sitting on the window sill of a shop in the distance, supported himself with his right hand, jumped down, patted his pants and snorted: "It's beheading? Humph! That kind of guy deserves hanging!"

At present, the guillotine is a less painful way of death, and only the nobles can "enjoy it". People of low status can only be sentenced to hanging.

At the Paris Business Newspaper, as soon as Denico received the news that Vezinier was sentenced to beheading, he took out the manuscript that had been prepared long ago according to Joseph's instructions in advance and began to ask the workers to print.

The front-page headline of the Paris Business Newspaper is "The High Court has too much power. Who should supervise it? 》

The front page of News and Pictures reads "The High Court's involvement in government affairs is extremely harmful!"

At the same time, Marat, Desmoulins and others were also writing press releases at the fastest speed, including details of Vesinier's case, discussing why the High Court was completely corrupt, and the positive role of the Royal Court of Plenipotence, etc.

These manuscripts were then sent to various newspapers-now that the High Court was in chaos, causing the news review agencies under its jurisdiction to stop, and newspapers were almost in a state of no one's control, and any news could be published.

In this way, under the overwhelming bombardment of public opinion, almost everyone in Paris was talking about the High Court.

The number of protesters at the door of the court has greatly decreased, but there are still nearly a hundred people gathered there, demanding a strict investigation of judges other than Vesinier.

Soon, even the Palace of Versailles set off a wave of discussions about the High Court and the Vesinier case.

After Joseph waited for public opinion to ferment, he went to Queen Marie with Briand to knock the last nail in the coffin of the High Court.

In the tea room, the Queen first praised Brian: "Archbishop Brian, your outstanding and fruitful work has brought hope to the national finances. I must thank you for your efforts on the tax bill."

She has met Brian three times recently, and she has praised him in different ways every time. It was really because she was too frustrated by the bill before.

Brian hurriedly bowed and said: "I am honored to do what I can for the great France. In fact, the passage of this bill is mostly due to the credit of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Queen Marie smiled and nodded, thinking that he was just flattering the Crown Prince.

She believed that her son should have played a big role in this matter, but he was still a teenager after all, so the real planner must be Brian, the old minister.

Joseph winked at Brian, who quickly handed the bill to the queen: "Your Majesty, this is a new bill drafted by me and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Please take a look."

Queen Marie took the pages of documents, opened them, and asked curiously: "What is it about?"

Brian quickly said: "Recently, public opinion has highly recognized the role played by the Royal Court of Plenipotence in the trial of the Vezynière case. I believe that the Court of Plenipotence can play a good supervisory role on the High Court to prevent similar cases from happening again."

Queen Marie looked through the bill in her hand and saw that the main content of it was to give the Court of Plenipotence the power to supervise the High Court, including: it can search, review, prosecute, judge and other operations on the High Court.

At the same time, it is suggested that the Royal Court of Plenipotence be renamed the Royal Supreme Court to show that it is the superior department of the High Court.

In addition, the bill also mentioned that because the High Court interfered too much in administrative affairs, its management of the news review agency would be abolished so that the court could focus on judicial affairs.

Queen Marie couldn't help but raise her mouth - the High Court had "bullied" her for so long, it would be great to assign it a superior department!

However, she immediately worried: "Archbishop Brian, your bill is also to be submitted to the High Court for registration. How could they agree to this arrangement?"

Joseph smiled slightly and said: "As long as you sign the bill, I guarantee that the High Court will pass it."

The queen looked at her son in surprise, and then at Brian. Seeing that both of them were full of confidence, she picked up the pen and signed her name, and then asked the clerk to take it to Louis XVI for signature and seal.

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Paris High Court.

In the meeting room on the third floor, five important members stared at the bills in front of them, most of them with gloomy faces.

This bill is like a noose around the neck of the High Court. The end of the noose is in the hands of the Royal Court of Plenipotence, oh, now called the Royal Court of the Highest Court. If the other party pulls it casually, you will suffocate!

Chief Justice Ruaud, who has a hooked nose, slammed the table hard and gritted his teeth and said, "This bill must not be registered!"