In the past, the real reason why kings of kingdoms divided lords among themselves was to facilitate their rule. Magisters in the mainland have done research on this.
The maximum range of an emperor's rule is the furthest distance his army can reach in a week.
If you rely solely on the speed of knights, the maximum distance is only the distance of one province.
Nowadays, magic wave communication is enough to ignore the distance of existing continents. 1 speed of light = kilometers/second, which is a speed measured in seconds, not hours.
In the past, when the emperor got the news that the lords of a remote province were rebelling, even if he used magic to send a message over a long distance, it would take at least a week. One week would be enough time for the rebellious lords to do a lot of things, not to mention the time it would take for the troops sent by the emperor to reach the rebellious lords.
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Taking Mero City as a standard, it is located in the westernmost part of the empire and is more than 5,000 kilometers away from the farthest eastern province. This is still a straight line. If we rely on the existing road network, it is not impossible to reach 10,000 kilometers.
After all, there is only one mountain tunnel like Copeland Mountain in the empire for the time being.
Most roads require detours to avoid mountains.
With the Air Mage Force, which can fly in a straight line and ignore obstacles, the current fastest speed of the Air Mage Force is 900 kilometers per hour, and it takes less than a week to travel between the two places. In this case, distance is no longer a problem for control.
The original feudal lord system was a system in which the ruler in the domain, in order to ensure the stability of his political power, often built a bridge between the emperor and the lower-class people in the aristocratic territory through a retinue composed of "reliable people who relied on him".
For this reason, the emperor granted loyal nobles lands as fiefs from the land jurisdictions under his control; and the emperor's direct vassals 'often divided their own fiefs into small pieces and granted them to members of their retinue'.
This kind of enfeoffment of land was initially a process in which the rulers tried to incorporate the framework of personal relationships into the running governance structure, with the ultimate goal of establishing a country as an alliance of individuals.
As the territory of the country grew larger and larger, the emperor began to entrust his cronies to newly developed areas in various places so that they could expand their territory and assist in their rule.
In fact, this kind of feudal aristocracy can only appear in a country as vast as the Kingdom of Cleveland or a superpower like the three major powers.
For example, there are currently more than a hundred countries of various sizes in the southern part of the continent, including the Magic City.
The Eastern Gods Church rules the countries below based on religious beliefs. The rights of the country's emperor and nobles still remain, but their military power is all controlled by the Eastern Gods' Church.
The Maxim Empire can be regarded as the first superpower with a centralized system, but its area is too huge. Counting the Yadong subcontinent, its territory is only slightly smaller than the Magic City and the Eastern God Sect.
Their centralization of power is to establish an administrative unit of a state after the provinces. Each state has at least five provinces under its rule, and can reach up to eight. There is no governor in the state, only an administrative office.
The governor is the largest, but the governor cannot control the military. There are six deputy governors at the lower level. As long as four deputy governors disagree with the bill, the governor has no power to exercise the bill.
The military is independent among the states. Each state has established an independent military region and only obeys the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. The local security department is under the responsibility of the police force.
It is precisely because of this centralized system of restrictions that the Maxim Empire has the confidence to go to war with the two superpowers, simply because the Maxim Empire can mobilize the entire country's manpower and material resources.
Compared with the other two superpowers, it is a bit difficult, and there are even conflicts between the two from time to time.
After the development of magic wave communication, the Magic City and the Eastern God Sect built magic wave signal towers, and on the other hand began to mobilize troops to clear out the disobedient nobles and emperors, and began to carry out centralization reforms.
Therefore, these two forces began to slow down their offensive in the central plains and switched from offense to defense.
The Maxim Empire also took the opportunity to capture more than half of the central plains.
Compared to the raging war between the three superpowers, Aslan used the Ottoman Kingdom's magic wave signal tower to contact the empire, and asked Guinevere to bring Merlin's working group to Woland Island, and at the same time, the warehouse was
All the two hundred oscillating float wave energy devices prepared for production experiments were taken and put into production.
Merlin is now the Mage of Industrial Equipment Research in the Merlox Empire, mainly engaged in the research, development and production of equipment.
Nigel has completely become a weapons developer.
The two began to develop in their respective fields of expertise. Guineaville combined the strengths of both families, coupled with the memories of her previous life, and was good at all aspects. The only shortcoming was that she was mixed but not perfect.
However, Aslan was very capable when he was assigned to the local area to take charge of technology development and production.
More than half of the Merlox Empire's current military-industrial system was developed under the auspices of Guinevere.
Mrs. Sharon had just contacted Aslan, and before she had time to be surprised, she heard Charlie's report.
"Madam, they have entered the territory of the Ottoman Kingdom."
When Mrs. Sharon heard this, she immediately beamed with joy.
"Let's go pick them up."
Xia Li hesitated for a while and then said: "What about the material tasks His Majesty has entrusted to us?"
"Don't worry, just leave it to Angel." Mrs. Sharon waved her hand and said.
Charlie nodded, but she was also very jealous of Angel.
Angel and Charlie were both dragon slayers at the same time, but Angel's talent was far inferior to hers. Now he is only a half-step mentor-level expert, and has always been a transparent figure in Mrs. Sharon's bodyguard team.
After Mrs. Sharon accidentally discovered her business talent and sensitivity to numbers, Mrs. Sharon entrusted her with the management of the company she founded in the Ottoman Kingdom.
In just two years, the company is on the right track. Recently, it is building and installing meat processing equipment flown from Merlo City in a super large meat processing facility. It is said that the slaughterhouse will be opened next month.
Now Angel has vaguely become the third person in Mrs. Sharon's small team.
The number two figure is naturally Tiev, the tribal leader. Tiev has now become the strongest tribe under Ott, even surpassing the Ott tribe at one time. It is the first tribe in the Ottoman Kingdom to be fully organized and equipped with thermal weapons.
Under the escort of a thousand elite cavalry, Mrs. Sharon headed directly to the border rendezvous point.
Linda and Elena gathered reclusive or wandering former members of the Inquisition along the way. Originally, the team only had six people at the beginning. By the time they passed the border of the Merox Empire and entered the Ottoman Kingdom, there were already more than 20 people, including mentors.
There are eight strong ones, and the others are intelligence veterans with varying levels of strength.
The group of people was hiding in the woods at the meeting place to rest. They were on their way one after another during this period, and everyone looked tired.