Chapter 524: Falling apart
Even in the distant earth, in the long years of human history, the feudal era was the longest and most stable social structure.
Needless to say, the social structure and the productive forces are the last word, which boils down to the last word – land.
In the age of the knights of the earth, the monarch divided the land to the lords, and the knights took the fiefs from the lords and offered their loyalty.
The division of the land at each level, the loyalty at each level, and in the end, in which chaotic and orderly era, a kind of power, a ladder of rulers, was formed.
As the lowest and ninety percent of the members of this ladder, peasants, artisans, or other commoners, were bound to the land.
They work on land that does not belong to them, get paid to survive, and then give most of their income to their knights or lords, not to mention evenly divided, and in the vast majority of cases, they can leave two or three percent, thanks to the mercy of the nobles and lords.
Countless psalms praise the valiant knights and wise lords, and praise their great achievements in conquering everything in the war, but they never think that the people who were driven crazy by the tax of nine and ten of the taxes in the war, the civilians on both sides who were wantonly killed in the war, and the peasants who were forcibly conscripted, they seemed to have lost everything for the war, but they never got the rewards they deserved.
That's because...... They have nothing.
Yes, there is nothing, and under that kind of social system, they live in the land of the lord, and in order to survive, they must rely on the gift of the land, and over time, they become vassals of the land and the property of the nobility.
The reason why a legendary hero is a legend is because the odds are so small, the small ones can be ignored, and they are so small that they can't be seen in reality.
The son of a peasant is a peasant all his life, and the children of the nobility are destined to become nobles, perhaps the two children have the opportunity to play together by chance when they are young, but when they grow up, one party will become the property of the other, and it is impossible to meet and talk, which is the true portrayal of feudal society.
Of course, the environment of various countries and ethnic groups is different, the relationship between superiors and subordinates may not be so solid, and the identities of ruling and being ruled may not be so bloody and direct, but the two things that constitute the structure of this society - "land" and "identity" in the bones will not change.
Ash has been at this stage for a long time, and the society of the elves is also a representative of it, and even due to the will of the gods within them, and the differences between the sub-branches within them, this distinction in "identity" is becoming more and more obvious.
Even, obviously, to the direct distribution of jobs and futures by race.
The silver elves, who are "knights", who have mastered the power of the army and the army, are destined to be officers and lords by nature, and all the clansmen will receive military training from an early age.
The moon elves, are "sacrificial", or, but since the elves have been in a completely theocratic era for a long time, they are also politicians.
They are responsible for managing the entire elven race, conveying various situations and problems in the mortal world upwards, and conveying the will of the elven gods downwards, considering that most of the elven gods back then were born into the existence of the moon elf gods, they are the power holders of the elven race in all aspects, they are kings, and they are also the pope.
For quite some time, the Moon Elves and the Silver Elves were at odds, and in fact the natural mismatch between military power and regime/theocracy.
The Dark Elves, or now the Grey Elves, are spellcasters, scholars, assistants and apprentices of the Golden Elves, but unfortunately, due to some accidents along the way, these spellcasters who were the best at spellcasting in ancient times have become a naturally demon-resistant assassin race.
And because of a series of gods, most of these things have been buried in history, and even the dark elves themselves don't know about it, but among the four elves, there is always such a piece missing.
However, in a sense, they who seized the power of the magic elves and golden elves fell to the worst situation, and perhaps, this is also a kind of revenge of fate.
The last of the wood elves are gardeners, artists, singers, craftsmen, outliers among the elves, but they are also a special people who live in harmony with nature, from whom the oldest druidic teachings originate.
They have always been few in number, and they have always been on the fringes of the upper classes, and now, most of them are considered members of the natural camp.
The four high-ranking elves are responsible for all the heavy work, soldiers, politicians, clergy, researchers, and spellcasters, but they can only be called high-ranking because they have enough power.
Yes, power.
Different and similar to the earth, the nobles have armies and military forces, and the high-ranking elves of this world also have their own powers.
Not to mention the silver elves who are themselves the masters of the army, even if they believe in power, the moon elves who have mastered faith and power also have the mysteries of magic and magic, and the dark elves have been chaotic back then, but how can the caster be weak, and the last wood elf ...... Druids and Ranger are all derived from their standard combat positions, and it is not possible to become a high-level elf light to raise flowers and grass.
Elf society is like this, the four high-ranking elves have carved up all the authority and functions, and ordinary elves have no corresponding responsibilities, so they naturally have no corresponding rights.
The rest, agriculture, laborers, patrolmen, soldiers, and other jobs that the upper elves would not look at are their fate.
The higher elves are the lords, they are the lords, they are also bound to the land, bound to the jurisdiction of the higher elves, and provide various services to the superiors.
In every scattered kingdom of high-ranking elves, the royal family is the high-ranking elves, the nobles are also the high-ranking elves or subspecies that are close enough to the high-ranking elves, the commoners are ordinary elves, and the untouchable and anonymous are half-blood hybrid wild elves.
In fact, many wild elves mixed with dual bloodlines are amazingly gifted and have achieved quite unfamiliar achievements in all aspects, but they have always been rejected by the entire elven society, and even civilians can spit on them at will.
They have violated the traditions of the elves? Hehe, the real royal family of the golden elves has been overthrown, and the betrayers have ascended the throne, and these people still have the face to talk about tradition?
What really disgusted and even frightened the wild elves was that they broke the natural barrier between the elven bloodlines, so that the priest's son was still a priest, and the king's son was still the king's reincarnation, which shook the cornerstone of the social stability of this "identity".
If the Moon Elf and the Silver Elf had children, what kind of child was the child, and what should he do?
And if he is given a sacrificial job, then what kind of work should his children do, and if he is combined with the wood elves, then what kind of class is the half-blood?
Therefore, the combination of non-homogeneous species is always the first major sin of the entire elven society, and the wild elves are always mongrels, and they are dangerous goods that may shatter the entire elven ladder society, and they are to be spurned and excluded by countless elves, and they are born with the existence of original sin.
Ten years, a hundred years, and a thousand years.
If the nascent Northland Elf Empire is given a few decades of effort, they will also return to that stable and closed social form.
But someone saw that once-in-a-lifetime moment and stabbed the elf fiercely.
That knife is above the heart.
What did he do?
He liberated the ordinary elves from the land, he deprived the superior elves of their natural pride and duty, he gave the wild elves a completely equal identity and opportunity, and he gave all the upper elves a slap in the face.
He stripped away the natural nobility of the upper elves, let the times support batch after batch of "nobles" of the new era, and gave the entire elf clan a new master.
And in what era are the stupid superior elves still thanking him