Chapter 2698 The boat is difficult to turn around, bad intentions
Of course, in this case, there is another possibility, which is to hide until the family gives birth to a high-level mage, but even so, it is not considered a truly high-ranking family.
Because this is just an example, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is luck. A truly high-ranking family needs a stable inheritance and a continuous succession of high-level mages from generation to generation.
If it is just one generation, although it can attack the upper-class families, once the only high mage passes away, it is probably inevitable that they will be divided up.
The so-called "If virtue is not matched, there will be disaster", this is nothing more than this.
Therefore, the real rulers of the elf world are not individual countries, crowned kings, parliaments, etc., but each high-ranking family.
No matter what kind of reform is carried out within a specific country, as long as it cannot reach the upper-level families, it will basically be a change of water without changing the medicine. This is the main reason why Chateau is not very optimistic about Everesca's reform.
Because there are so few high-ranking families in Evereska, there are so few that there are not many variables, let alone any misjudgments, and they can sit down and make candid transactions.
Moreover, Evereska's base is too small, so small that even if just one family is dissatisfied, all high-ranking families may be dissatisfied. In this case, it is very easy to reach a compromise.
The same is true for reform, but Ye Erlan's situation is different. There are enough high-ranking families, and Ye Erlan's base is large enough. Even if someone wants to overturn the chessboard, the worst is to fight. As long as the enemy is killed, the broken base is enough to survive.
The family was divided.
In addition, there are enough high-ranking families, and it is extremely difficult for all families to have the same interests. In this case, forming gangs is almost an inevitable choice.
But once the camps are separated, it will be very difficult to bridge the gap. Not only will the opponents be worried, but those in your own camp will also not be happy.
Ye Erlan's successful reform was all due to seizing the most critical moment in the development of the situation, such as the demon crisis, the rise of Nese, etc.
But even so, Yerlan Mianwang failed to achieve full success because of the discourtesy of the Sluvende War. Centralization of power was centralized, but only externally. Internally, there were still opposing camps - Mianwang and the Gaoshu Council of Elders.
This is the difference in the difficulty of reform in countries of different sizes. In fact, it is also the difference in the difficulty of the birth of emerging high-ranking families.
Everesca is too small, and there is no extra room for development for the emerging high-ranking families. In this case, even if the Bactrian Code is introduced, it will be difficult to produce qualitative changes - popularize education or create new high-ranking families.
On the contrary, big countries like Yeerlan still have ample room for development and can accommodate more high-ranking families.
Of course, this only refers to the present, there may be new opportunities in the future!
From Shado's perspective, universal education may create more high-ranking families to seize the current Everriska's interests, but popularizing education also means that Everriska's overall national strength has become stronger.
It is completely possible to expand externally to add new development space. In addition, development space is not either/or, but exists in various parallel fields.
As long as a new field is opened up, it will be a brand new development space, enough to accommodate more than one high-ranking family.
If the current high-ranking families in Evereska can figure out the development opportunities, it may be the opportunity for Evereska to truly rise.
Of course, rising is one thing. If it wants to surpass regional powers such as Yeerlan and Irfalan, Evereska's own size is still too small.
Perhaps the alliance of small countries is their real path to development.
Of course, Xia Duo only reminded them deliberately. After all, if a new field appeared, he would also want to get a share of the pie. Not only he, but also Yeerlan and other countries could not get around it. It might not be Everest's turn.
Cards arbitrarily occupy development space.
As for now, the Northland Alliance takes the supreme inheritance as a reward. In fact, it is giving a high-level family access certificate endorsed by the alliance!
Xia Duo felt that there must be someone with bad intentions here. Perhaps he felt that he was close to Everriska and wanted him to leave this certificate in Everriska, thereby disrupting Everriska's normal life.
The pace of development.
Small families in big countries can get this certificate, but big families in small countries cannot get it. Once they get it, they will either leave the small country and go to the big country to develop, or there will be civil strife in the small country.
If someone really has such thoughts, then this guy's heart is really dark!
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After sighing, Sha Duo weighed the Secret Scroll of the Supreme Heritage of Elf Magic in his hand, and then asked Doom tentatively: "Do you know what this is?"
"I don't know. I have never handled this remuneration, but as a rule, the Northland Alliance generally only provides standard mithril as remuneration for temporary invitations. If you become an employee of the alliance, you can get additional internal benefits of the alliance."
Doom briefly introduced the compensation mechanism of the Northland Alliance. The reward given to Shado this time was actually a pile of standard mithril ingots worth more than 100,000 gold coins. As for the extra, Doum also had an explanation——
"The extra amount should be the compensation given to the alliance by the country concerned, and the alliance will generally share this part of the compensation with the corresponding parties."
The implication is that Doom does not know what the extra compensation the Northern Alliance gave Shado is, but it is certain that the extra compensation comes from Yeerlan, and what Shado is getting now is only a part of it.
"Who has the right to decide what additional compensation to give?" Xia Duo asked again.
"Normally, the director of the corresponding agency involved in the incident, such as me, has the authority to adjust the additional compensation for you, but this time I am a party involved and I am from Netheril like you, so I avoided it."
"That means that one of the other two directors of the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory is the one who selected these extra rewards for me this time?"
"No, Brad was also an eyewitness to the incident, and he should have avoided it. The one who really made the decision should be McGlor, or of course it could be the director or even the representative above."
After finishing speaking, Doom added, "Any decision made by the Northland Alliance will leave a record. This is easy to check. Does Lord Shado need me to check it?"
"Then if you go to check, will you leave a record?"
"Me too."
"That's not necessary!"
In fact, Xia Duo already had the answer in his mind. If nothing else, it should be McGlor, one of the three directors of the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory. This guy is from Ye Erlan. Based on this alone, he can roughly judge.
But no matter what, this incident shows that the Northland Alliance is not as harmonious as outsiders imagine, and there will always be some discord.
However, Shado also had a bolder idea - that McGlor might be a demon and was trying his best to sow discord within the alliance.
This time, he seized the opportunity to give him extra rewards and gave away the supreme inheritance. But if you think so, there will definitely be demons in Ye Erlan who are cooperating with him.
Anyway, regardless of whether it is true or not, Xia Duo has already written down this matter, but he will not deliberately pursue it, because he has more important things to do, and it is more important to grasp the key points.
As far as the Northland Alliance is concerned, the main task is to promote timeline-related research as soon as possible. The demon is hidden so deeply that it would be too passive to continue to pursue it.
To hit a snake, you have to hit it seven inches. If you have to figure out the issues related to the timeline, no matter how deep the demon is hiding and unable to complete the ritual to subvert the timeline, it is still in vain.