Time flies, months go by in a flash. It's really a new year in the blink of an eye.

And so far, it has been sixty-five years since Liang Tianchuan encountered this world. However, at this time, he was still asleep and had not woken up, so it didn't matter whether it was the tribe, Xihe or the distant orc kingdom. Everything is developing freely with the passage of time.

Let's talk about the orcs first, it took a few months before and after, and the eastern fortress made entirely of stone was finally built by the orcs.

Therefore, when this fortress rose from the ground, and 5,000 heavily armed orc warriors were stationed in it, and more than a dozen easy-to-defend and hard-to-attack watchtowers were built around the fortress, the black sword and others in the mountain couldn't help but be frightened by the orcs' generosity.

I don't dare to go down the mountain as unscrupulously as at the end of last year.

However, after such a long time, the original small cottage has grown to a scale of several thousand people. Today's orcs naturally know about the existence of Black Sword and others. But because Heijian and the others are entrenched in the mountains, the terrain is too dangerous.

Therefore, after feeling that the strong attack would outweigh the losses, the orcs ignored the black sword and them. Therefore, in this territory of the orcs, the black sword and others in the mountains also took root.

But if you ignore the threat of Black Sword and others, on the whole, the current orc kingdom is gradually on the right track.

The civil war is over, and there are no more people like Lynch in the country. Although there are still a lot of cyclops in the southern mountains where the Starbow tribe is located, these cyclops have also suffered heavy losses last year, and they obviously don't have the courage and ability to go out of the mountains in a short period of time.

When the general social environment is stable, the level of productivity will naturally rise.

Then let's talk about the tribe and Xihe, and this year will end up in a triennial election year. That is, the Templars and Tribal Warriors were selected from among the pious young men through jousting contests.

Among them, the Templars of Xihe have 500 quotas every three years, and the warriors of the tribe have 200 quotas every three years due to the population.

Therefore, every time we enter this kind of election year, it will attract everyone's attention. Because there are thousands of people who sign up every time, the scene can be described as lively.

It's just that many ordinary people don't know that compared to usual. This year, however, the powerful religious side will be paying more attention to this matter. Even before the tournament began, the archbishop Bell personally intervened in the matter.

The reason for this was that the bell knew that Liang Tian was already asleep, and secondly, because the Templars and Tribal warriors had suffered a lot of losses from the successive battles last year. Nowadays, Templars and Tribal warriors are in need of good fresh blood.

Before the start of the conference, Bell couldn't help but emphasize to the witches who were in charge of the selection: "This selection must ensure fairness, justice, and openness, and those who are not qualified must not be allowed to get away with it, thereby tarnishing the reputation of the church." That's the most important thing, you know?"

"Yes!"

All the witches in charge were naturally awe-struck by this. In fact, there is no need for the bell as an archbishop to emphasize again and again, and no one dares to do anything about this kind of thing nowadays.

Because of the previous few times, Liang Tian has also been paying attention to this kind of selection. There have also been cases of cheaters who are lucky enough to take bribes, and even religious members who take bribes. Then these people were punished by him in broad daylight.

This kind of favoritism and fraud undoubtedly offended Liang Tian's scales, and the contestants and witches who cheated were burned from the inside out by the flames of faith.

With such an example, whether it is a contestant or a host, naturally they don't dare to play any smarts. Even though Liang Tian is now asleep, he doesn't know anything about the outside world. But apart from the bell as the archbishop, no one knows about this matter.

Therefore, this time, the selection is still as usual, and the fairness, justice and openness are ensured as much as possible. Therefore, in the end, some people are happy and some are worried.

But through the comparison with previous years, this year, the bishop Lime who is in charge of Xihe True Religion can't help but clearly notice, "The number of nobles participating in the selection this year has increased compared with the previous three years, and many of them are still the eldest sons with the right to inherit!"

However, with the increasing strength and influence of the Divine Servant Sect, the relationship between the nobility and religion in Xihe has become closer and closer. In the earliest days, the aristocrats who regarded themselves as superior were not willing to compete fairly and impartially with ordinary people.

But later, some noble children who did not have the right to inherit were forced by real life to take the initiative to participate. Then these aristocratic children who took the initiative to participate found that even if they were fair, just and open on the same stage, people like them, who had been guided by famous teachers since childhood, had to occupy a lot of advantages congenitally.

This is true in the armed forces, and even more so in the written exams.

Those ordinary believers can't compete with them at all. Therefore, even for the children of the nobility, fair participation in the selection is indeed a good way out. Therefore, as time went by, more and more children of the nobility participated, and their status became higher and higher.

Originally, they were all children of the nobility who had no inheritance rights, but later some of the children of the nobles who had the right of inheritance also participated.

These people don't care about the good salary that comes with becoming Templars, but they crave the power of rebirth, the longevity that comes with it, and the blessings that come with being a servant.

This coincides with their aristocratic status, which makes these nobles who are not ordinary even more noble. After all, in the case of only aristocrats, both the king and the church could punish them.

But if they are blessed, the only thing that can punish them is the church. However, in this way, these nobles could not hold official positions in the king. However, even if you can't hold office, the status of nobility will not become.

After all, the nobility was honored because of the wealth and land they had, not because of their position. Therefore, the general election every three years is also a religious encroachment on the secular royal power.

Those young people who are capable are directly picked out by the triennial selection.

It can be seen that with the passage of time, on the Xihe side, the secular royal power is afraid that it will be completely swallowed up by religion. Some of the sons of the royal family also became Templars through election.

This trend is already irreversible.

So much so that many long-term people can't help but predict that if this trend continues to develop consistently, Xihe will slowly follow the path of the tribes on the other side of the mountain. Even the king will be blessed as a servant of the Templar gods. From this time to equality to complete relegation to religion.

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