Since you are going to attend the king’s dinner, you need to know something about the top brass of the Quinta Kingdom.
Old Bodie imprisoned the two agents, and Annan also took this opportunity to learn some information about the Kingdom of Quinta from Old Bodie and the two agents.
The Kingdom of Kunta is a closed country, and it is difficult for the outside world to have information about it. Anderson, as a reporter from the East China Sea, knows some general information, and Old Bodie, as a local garrison, also knows a little about it. The two agents, as insiders, have a lot to say.
Secret.
Through the collection of information from these three parties, Annan had a rough idea of the situation here.
It is mainly divided into two periods - the old king's period of seclusion, and the new king's period of joining the world government.
When the old king was on the throne, the Kingdom of Kunta did not join the World Government. When the old king was young, he was still a model of a good man. Not only was he very economical in food and clothing, but he also often reduced taxes for the people. This made the residents of Stone Island live a better life.
A fairly human life.
But the old king had one disadvantage: he lived too long.
He ascended the throne at the age of eight, took charge of the government at the age of fourteen, and lived until he was ninety years old.
When people get old, their brains always become less bright, and the same goes for the old king. He fell in love with dancing and making money.
Of course, he is not dancing by himself, but watching others dance.
In order to enjoy various dances, the old king rarely developed a port and hired many dancing girls from outside the stone island.
Of course, it is not making money by itself, but letting others make money.
Oops, it’s so tiring to make money yourself. Isn’t it better to let others make money and then be filial?
Therefore, in the later period of the old king's reign, he had no interest in government affairs. He allowed the royal family and nobles to exploit ordinary people at home, and smuggled specialty weapons abroad, accumulating a large amount of wealth and causing widespread resentment among the people.
The old king's response to all this was: I don't care.
After being a good king all your life, can’t you still enjoy it when you are old? Keep playing music and keep dancing!
Soon, due to excessive exorbitant taxes and successive natural disasters, the people in the Kingdom of Quinta revolted one after another, and the entire country was plunged into war.
If the Kingdom of Kunta were a small island country, these rebels would be easily wiped out.
But the boundary of Kunta Kingdom is the coast of Shidao, so the kingdom is as big as Shidao is.
Stone Island is not big, but it is not small either. It is about one-third the size of the Kingdom of Alabasta.
Although the equipment of the royal army is much better than that of the rebel army, most of its main force is concentrated in the capital. Facing the rebel army all over the country, there is a feeling that water from far away cannot quench the thirst of the nearer.
Moreover, their main focus is on protecting the palace nobles, and they can only watch the rebel army gradually expand in power.
During this period of time, the old king also died in bed for some reason.
After the old king died inexplicably, his son, the only descendant, became the new king.
And this new king is a bit miserable.
As mentioned before, the old king succeeded to the throne at the age of eight and took charge at the age of fourteen. When did he give birth to his son? He was twenty years old.
In other words, the new king has been a prince for seventy years. In Annan’s memory, the longest time he has been a prince is sixty-nine years, and now it has set a new record.
Is there such a thing as a seventy-year-old prince in the world?
Now we understand why the new king likes to hold succession ceremonies. It has no other meaning than revenge consumption.
His name is a bit long, called Pachet Sesai Seke Kuku Embendu Wa Za Ga Bon Monto, or Monto for short.
Although there was an abbreviation, he still ordered all personnel working for the government to remember his name, so the two agents could pronounce Monto's full name word for word.
Unlike the old king who lost his mind when he got old, King Monto was old but did not lose his mind.
His rule is very skillful.
After succeeding to the throne, he granted greater rights to the nobles in the country and made them all stand on his side. By recruiting traitors and bribes, he successfully incorporated all the major armed forces in the Kingdom of Quinta, and also sent people to apply to the World Government to join. He knew how to prescribe the right medicine for those who were unwilling to compromise. Not only did he hold a meeting of tens of thousands of people and execute those who opposed him in public to frighten others, he also adopted tough and bloody methods to rid the areas of resistance of chickens and dogs. p>
Of course, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes still have to be collected.
Therefore, despite Monto's brilliant methods, there are still constant popular resistance incidents in the country.
Through the narrations of several people, Annan found that in the early days of Monto's succession, the country had always been peaceful. But after the Kingdom of Quinta joined the World Government, the frequency of people's uprisings became higher and higher, and it was even more frequent than during the old king's period.
Difficult to deal with.
This makes people doubt whether there are some forces secretly taking action, such as the revolutionary army.
The conditions for joining the World Government basically include the condition of founding a country, and according to the information provided by the two agents, the Kingdom of Quinta was initially open to the whole country, which gave the Revolutionary Army the conditions to intervene.
When Anderson went with the team to the Kingdom of Quinta five years ago, he did hear some news about the revolutionary army. However, the order issued by the World Government at that time was to keep these things confidential, so the reporters did not write them in the newspaper.
Annan did not understand the failed actions of the revolutionary army in the Kingdom of Kunta.
At least in the South China Sea, it is easy for the revolutionary army to overthrow a country.
This is also related to the fact that the CP in Nanhai are basically a group of iron trash who have little success and more than failure. They often have to shake down a revolutionary army when they catch them.
Just blame it on the Navy. How can the Navy take such a thing seriously? If I get the credit for you, I will take the blame if I can't. Therefore, when the navy in the South China Sea encounters such a thankless task, they will find some people who are not strong but tactful.
The young navy came to deal with them, such as Annan.
Annan never refuses this kind of paid fishing task. What does your CP arresting the revolutionary army have to do with our navy? If you see a man firing two shots at the sky, you can be considered worthy of the salary given by the world government. p>
Yes, the organization in the world government that handles revolutionary military affairs is not the navy, but the CP.
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Obviously, when it comes to dealing with lifeline issues, CP is obviously more reassuring to the world government than the navy.
Just like the old king's period, in the most serious case, the rebels almost reached the gate of the palace, but in the end they were miraculously suppressed.
Maybe the World Government has secretly acted, or maybe the Kingdom of Quinta has some secret weapon. But it doesn't matter. The key is that Monto's dominance in the kingdom is still stable.
Once the internal pressure was gone, Monto had an accident as expected.
He didn't watch the dancing. He preferred making money than dancing.
But now, after the old king had exhausted his efforts in his later years and suffered from years of wars, ordinary people have become poor and have no money to squeeze out.
To be fair, Monto is a few steps ahead of his father when it comes to making money.
People's fat and people's ointment are all small shrimps. You can't squeeze out much even if you squeeze them to death.
And he has a clear understanding of making money. To make money, he can make money wherever there is more money.
For the Kunta Kingdom, a resource-based country, the biggest fat in the country is the items made of various special stones on the stone island, such as the explosive rocks mentioned earlier, such as stone weapons and decorations.
Monto sold a large amount of specialties from the Quinta Kingdom outside the island, and suddenly gained a lot of wealth.
He built many stone processing factories across the country and canceled all small private workshops.
He also summoned ordinary people to the capital for systematic training as masons, and then asked these people to work in his processing factories. He paid them a salary that was only enough for basic living.
I really didn’t expect that a kingdom would go from the feudal era to the streetlight era in just five years. It’s really jaw-dropping.