If it was just a unilateral goodwill from the Dragon God, it might not be too surprising. After all, given the relationship between Dragon Island and the Empire as friends and foes, it would not be a big news that senior officials from both sides exchanged gifts.
On the surface, they are brothers, but behind the scenes, there are many secret assassinations; or when they cooperate in transactions, they also use sarcastic words, these are the daily life of Longdao and the empire.
The reason is that only those who have a deeper understanding of Dragon Island will know. There are two distinct forces on Dragon Island. If one party cooperates, the other party will definitely be hindered. Or else they are disdainful of the arbitrary changes in the empire's position.
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The Dragon Emperor and the Dragon God behind him were in the same camp, and the Dragon Mother of All Things was in another camp. Although the confrontation between the two sides did not break out into an actual conflict, various stumbling blocks and small tricks emerged one after another.
Generally speaking, when the Dragon Emperor and Dragon God show good intentions, the Dragon Mother of All Things should jump out and sing the opposite. But this time, as soon as the Dragon God's gift came, the gift from the Dragon Mother of All Things caught up.
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What was sent was a young female dragon that had been born for some time. The golden dragon race, in terms of blood relationship, also belongs to the aristocratic class among the dragon clan of Long Island.
The growth curve of dragons is completely different from that of humans.
If human beings are used as the standard, the current average lifespan of Midi is about fifty years, and an adult is considered to be fifteen years old. Dragons have an average lifespan of 500 years. Doesn’t it take 150 years to become an adult dragon? In fact, dragons have an average lifespan of 500 years.
The childhood period is not that long.
Babies are the weakest among all living things, so they need their parents to take care of them at all times. The longer the baby period is, the longer the baby will be weak.
As a creature at the top of the Midi ecosystem, how could the dragons have such a long period of weakness? Not to mention that the parents of the dragons are extremely irresponsible examples.
In fact, this is also the norm for oviparous animals. The responsibility of parents only lasts until the children hatch from the eggs. Even for birds, once the young birds can fly, it is time to live in separate nests.
Due to various factors, the infancy period of dragons is destined not to be too long. Because if they remain weak for too long, they will be easily killed by other creatures.
Under normal circumstances, after dragons hatch from eggs, their juvenile stage will last for about twenty years. Then they will enter the youth stage of more than one hundred years, the adult stage of more than two hundred years, and then the last hundred years of life.
Old age.
If you hadn't taken that crucial step, you could have gone into the dragon's tomb and waited for death.
The Mother of All Dragons sent her, a female golden dragon who was nominally the prince's guard. She was just over ten years old. Theoretically, she would be out of infancy at about the same time as the prince.
Judging from Jin Long's status and her time as an adult, everyone felt that the Dragon Mother of All Things was not sending a bodyguard, but a hostage and a child bride.
The attitude is the same. If the two get along in the future, let them become husband and wife. If they don't get along, then they can become guards or followers. Anyway, they will not accept returns.
This is no different from forming an alliance between two parties.
Moreover, the two major camps on Dragon Island showed favor to one at the same time, and there was no hostility or competition between the camps. This is an unprecedented situation.
No matter whether the magician who was driven away might turn around and become a sharp blade in the hands of the empress because of the child. The attitude of Longdao as the empress' backer is very obvious.
Under such circumstances, because they were afraid of the possible consequences of constitutional monarchy, the nobles who planned to overthrow everything had to consider another thing.
That is, when the empress loses the restraints of the constitutional system and regains power, will she still be the vase that was tied up hand and foot a few years ago and played with by the nobles but unable to do anything. Lan
Compared with the dangers of the lower council, the empress who has regained the power of life and death, and has the support of Dragon Island and the magician as her backer, is not only more dangerous, but the danger is more likely to be immediate and fatal.
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On the one hand, if you fight, you may still have a chance to win; on the other hand, you can only kneel down unconditionally or bury yourself. So it seems that it is not difficult to decide which way to go.
The status of the empress is considered to be immovable. Now that the constitutional monarchy is being successfully promoted, no one hopes or dares to invite the emperor who has been placed in the pavilion to come down to earth again.
The name of the emperor has not become a thing of the past, but has become an existence like a sleeping lion. No one dares to disturb it easily.
A small incident that not many people took seriously. The late emperor's son, Duke Behar, died suddenly in the tower where he was imprisoned not long after the empress crowned him.
What was claimed to be an emergency was actually an act of goodwill voluntarily shown by members of the royal family. Because if a member of the royal family died, their territory and title would of course return to the emperor.
Such an ending was not what the empress wanted to see. However, others acted smartly, thinking that they had shown their loyalty. Such behavior not only left Alegria speechless, but also most of the nobles who knew the truth.
So.
It can only be said that it was not without reason that these people were deprived of the right to inherit the throne. They acted so recklessly, leaving no room for anything, and did not know how to do it self-righteously after saying hello first, and then took credit for it at the end.
When other old nobles saw it, they all thought that if there were such idiots in their own family, they would definitely strangle them to death on the spot so as not to cause trouble to the family and leave clues to other families.
The empress didn't do this, she didn't even look at the clowns. Alegria just admired how deep a group of people would fall into despair when they lost power and therefore gradually lost control.
Originally, the young Duke of Behar would have been one of them, and his life was even more difficult. Because he was under house arrest, no one was willing to provide assistance. Even the vassals in his territory happily became
One of the perpetrators. And then the person died.
Another thing happened in the Karlsruhe Empire. Although its influence has not spread to other places yet, many people are paying attention to it. The Lord of Justice has changed his job!
It's not quite right to say he changed his job, but the Lord of Justice has an additional title of Protector.
What method of protection?
Constitution of the Karlsruhe Empire.
The empress didn't know about this matter at first, because the Lord of Justice followed the advice of a certain magician and went directly to the grand dukes to discuss it.
The situation is similar to what someone predicted.
The grand dukes hold the principle that they would rather die together than let this happen when a god jumps on their head. But if they are on equal terms and become colleagues in the name of protecting the law, everyone will not be so repulsive.
Some people may worry that it will be like boiling a frog in warm water. If the gods have an excuse to intervene in politics, then they will have other reasons to intervene step by step, and in the end they will return to the old path of divine power over imperial power.
But those who do those things have always been the church of the gods in the mortal world, and the gods themselves are very principled.
This was also a religious war more than two hundred years ago. The reason why the secular regime could win was because the gods could not stand what the church was doing and allowed them to defeat. If the gods had really intervened at that time, even if the secular regime had not failed
, the war may continue to this day.
In any case, theocracy changed from being isolated from the political arena.
The Upper Assembly, that is, the aristocratic assembly that can form a cabinet, certainly has no room for divine intervention. This is one of the reasons why the Grand Dukes agreed that people with church status can stand for election as members of the Lower Assembly.
No matter how the power of the church expanded, the administrative power of the empire was still in the hands of the nobles.
Just like parliamentary candidates with outstanding military achievements, people with religious backgrounds can easily win the favor of regional voters, especially if they have the same beliefs, or at least belong to the camp of good gods.
Compared with other divine churches, the Lord of Justice, one of the Three Holy Light Churches, is the most active and has the clearest direction.
While other congressmen are still hesitating about why they are running for election and why voters should support them, the priests of the Lord of Justice have already learned to use the slogan of "ensuring that the law can be enforced fairly and fairly" to win the majority of people.
consent and support.
In this era of confusion, people are still unable to distinguish between good and bad laws. In other words, after each law is enacted, in what direction it will guide people to develop, maybe even the people who formulate the laws themselves do not know.
But the law is not enforced fairly, but this is what happens everywhere.
The Church of the Lord of Justice has reached out into the political circle. They have not created some positions themselves and started to promote the doctrine in a witch-hunting style. It is like setting up some law enforcers and adjudicators.
Everyone in the Three Holy Lights Church is very careful not to go beyond the legal regulations that have been established and announced. This is the general principle of cooperation between theocracy and political power.
However, those who become members of parliament and have church status at the same time will always come forward to communicate and negotiate with the noble lords when they encounter injustices against civilians.
At the beginning, of course, I didn't get a good response. Even those high-ranking people and superiors were not taken seriously by the common people or the church at all.
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But as these MPs 'ran votes' in the House of Commons, the lords found that their influence was declining. Only then did they realize that something was wrong.
Members who came from a certain territory were not legally required to obey the orders of their lord!
So it is only reasonable for legislators to make the best and most correct choice for the voters they elect.
In someone's plan, the process of depriving power from the nobility would have to wait until the constitutional government became more mature and the people became more familiar with using the power in their hands before it would happen naturally. Unexpectedly, with the help of the church, the entire process would
It happened so early!
It is not that there are no capable people in the church. The priests and bishops who can operate within a diocese are not idiots who can easily rise to power by relying on blood ties.
In the past, they just didn't have the opportunity to intervene in the political arena. Now that they have the opportunity, who knows how to win people's hearts better than them!
Not to mention that the Lord of Justice still maintains contact with a certain magician. As a messenger of justice, the Pandaren Bibi often travels between the southern empire and the holy city of Estari in the north-central part of the country.
In the past, a year would have passed with such a journey back and forth. Although the teleportation magic circle can be used, the high price cannot withstand frequent use.
However, the popularization of fast airships has improved this problem. Nowadays, it can be said that Midi has skipped railway personnel transportation and directly adopted the method of flight transportation. This is another major change in the past twelve years.