"A certain genius knight developed the Guardian Chain, an ability that can be called a plug-in. The Guardian Chain allows the knight to have the ability to fight beyond the level. More importantly, it can extract the ultimate power of ordinary cavalry and increase the total energy of the knight.
Gained a huge increase, broke the balance among the apostles, and stood out in the city-state era.
The knights believed that ordinary people were very valuable, so they selected cavalry from ordinary people, knights - knights' retinues - cavalry - farmhands. This huge system accommodated a lot of ordinary people, allowing ordinary people to have a stable life for the first time.
Ordinary people are no longer slaves to the knights, but become tools that can increase the knight's combat effectiveness, and all knights benefit from this.
With the addition of the extreme power of ordinary people, the knight's total energy is much greater than that of other apostles, and the other apostles are no match for the knight at all.
Under the leadership of high-ranking knights, the cavalry regiments attacked city-states one after another. At the end of the city-state era, no one was the opponent of the knights. The knights carried the lords of the city-states on their spears, and they killed the apostles in the city-states.
, and rescued the ordinary slaves there.
Ordinary people were driven into the knight's territory to cultivate land for the knight, train for the knight, and become the knight's cavalry, making the knight stronger.
For knights, whoever has more ordinary people will be stronger. Knight empires are established one after another, and they use better conditions to attract ordinary people. Population becomes the key to whether the empire is strong or not.
The lives of ordinary people have been greatly improved. The knights formulated a series of rules so that the farmers can continue to provide them with extreme power. These rules eventually became the knight's moral code, kindness, forgiveness, respect for women, etc., the knight himself
Call these 'chivalrous virtues'.
When the battle is most critical, knights sometimes turn ordinary cavalry into mummies. This is certainly a criminal act, but compared to the city-state era, the combination of knights and cavalry is so advanced that it has completely changed the production structure of the mainland.
The knights put an end to the melee among the apostles in the city-state era and brought order to the continent for the first time."
Blanca and Aruman looked surprised. They also knew the legends of the ancient city-state era, but they never thought that the lives of ordinary people in the city-state era were miserable.
The fighting method of knights is actually very cruel, but according to the teacher's description, knights seem to be better than apostles in the city-state era?
Rudolf continued:
"The most glorious period of the knights was the God-Slaying War more than two thousand years ago. With the support of the entire continent, Emperor Alek defeated the evil god, killed three evil gods, and drove the evil god to the southern continent.
Of course, this involves some secrets of eternal life, and wizards play a disgraceful role in it. I will tell you about it later.
No matter what the final result was, the knight's explosive fighting power made the evil god have no choice but to give way.
From that time on, for a long period of time, the life of ordinary people was very simple. They farmed the land for the Lord Knight, tried to build a strong body, and then became the Cavalry of the Lord Knight.
It's not the knights who rule the continent, it's the knights who found a way to extract energy from ordinary people. It's the knights and ordinary people who rule the continent.
This state lasted for a long time, until the alchemists achieved a breakthrough in technology during their long-term theoretical accumulation, bringing the second major change to the mainland."
As Rudolph told them, Aruman and Blanca kept thinking about the situation of ordinary people in the past, and they really wanted to know what changes the alchemist had made in the relationship between the apostles and ordinary people.
"Alchemists have found another way for ordinary people to survive: leave the land and enter the alchemist's factory.
On a mature production line, dozens of ordinary workers can produce a large number of powerful weapons in a short period of time, as well as a large number of daily necessities.
In the hands of knights, ordinary people are farmers who cultivate the land, and they are consumables that have been sucked dry on the battlefield. The utilization efficiency of this method is too low. In the alchemist's factory, the value of ordinary people further increases, and the powerful mass production capacity
, making the total energy of the alchemist much higher than that of other apostles.
A volley of multiple rocket launchers can easily defeat the knight's charge. The knight may not die, but the ordinary cavalry behind the knight will definitely die.
The disparity in strength between the knights and the alchemists became increasingly large. Until the Constitutional Movement more than two hundred years ago, the alchemists relied on saturation artillery fire to defeat the knights on the frontal battlefield.
The knight was defeated and the alchemist gained the right to rule. The underlying reason is that ordinary people are more willing to work in factories and live in cities with complete municipal facilities. Take the simplest need of going to the toilet, for example.
The toilet is much more comfortable than using a dry toilet on a farm.
Compared with lying on the ground digging soil, working in the city is much more comfortable and the income is higher. Assembly line factories have made materials abundant, and living with alchemists is better, so ordinary people have turned against each other, and the strength of alchemists and knights has emerged.
With the flip, the alchemist becomes stronger and stronger, and the knight becomes weaker and weaker.
Except for the Mogwen Empire in the north, which is still a knightly empire, the other kingdoms have either become constitutional monarchies, or they have abolished the knightly monarchs and become the United States.
In the alchemist's factory, ordinary people go to work at nine in the morning and get off work at nine in the evening. They work six days a week. It is quite miserable, but it is much better than the life in the Knight Empire.
The farmers in the knight's territory fled one after another to the alchemist's territory, greatly reducing the number of knights' cavalry, and they were even more devastated on the battlefield.
The alchemist did not defeat the knight and became the ruler, but the alchemist found a more efficient mechanism to utilize ordinary people, which made the alchemist's overall energy much greater than the knight. Therefore, the alchemist and ordinary people defeated the knight.
The essence of these two major changes is that whoever can use ordinary people more efficiently will become the most powerful apostle on the continent.
The difference in strength among the Twelve Apostles is not that big. The addition of ordinary people allows knights and alchemists to widen the gap with other apostles.
I can easily defeat the Alchemy Council of Fabro City now, and even the County Council may not be my opponent, but I will never be able to become the king or the master of Fabro City, because I cannot give this place
Provide people with better job opportunities and better food sources.
I can think of no effective means of governance other than fear.
After avenging Claude, I no longer have any obsession in my heart, so I can look at the Alchemy Council more rationally.
If I really want the people of Dordo District to live a better life, I find that I have only one choice, which is to turn around and protect the Alchemy Council instead of continuing to attack the Council."
Blanca and Aruman finally understood why the teacher had to compromise with the city council and avenge the teacher's friends. The teacher behaved more like a police officer than the police chief and more like a witch hunter than the director of the judicial department.
Rudolph thought of another thing and frowned:
"I used to take in a beggar Zac in Laimang Town, and he unfortunately became the Priest of Pain.
If both knights and alchemists have merit in treating ordinary people, then the evil priests are at the other extreme. They rule believers and ordinary people with fear."