The New Great Yan Empire adopted a system of elective kings, which is of course not uncommon, and the Kingdom of Poland once had it.

Many times, the New Great Yan Empire adopted a dual monarchy.

This does not seem uncommon, as the city-states of Sparta also had a dual monarchy for a long time.

But the situation of the new Great Yan Empire is different, the ruling king is elected by the Senate, and can only be held by the descendants of Yan Xinzong, and other families are not qualified to become kings. In other words, only the Great Yan Imperial Bloodline is eligible.

The reason why the dual monarchy system was adopted was because the new Great Yan Empire adopted a policy of both civil and military affairs.

The so-called literature is not a poetic article, but a new science, or science, advocated by Yan Xinzong.

In the New Great Yan Empire, as long as you are a member of the Great Yan Imperial Family, no matter which subject you study, medicine, arithmetic, or martial arts, as long as you have amazing achievements, you may be elected as the king.

Can a new student who learns such a profession still govern the country?

Of course, yes, sometimes the results of governing the country by science are more significant.

The New Great Yan Empire, whether it is a provincial governor or a consul of each realm, must have graduated from a professional academy and have very good grades in order to be eligible to become the chief official.

Retreat is not popular in the New Great Yan Empire, and the imperial examination system has been criticized as shit.

Because these people who established the new Great Yan Empire back then were expelled by the conservative forces of the Great Yan Dynasty.

The other king must be born in martial arts, and must have great military achievements and prestige in martial arts in order to be elected as the king of martial arts.

Moreover, the ruling king is not hereditary, nor is it for life.

Generally, the term of office of a consul does not exceed twenty years, but the previous consul is eligible to nominate a new one.

Of course, sometimes, there is only one ruling king in the New Great Yan Empire, and that is because this ruling king is all-round in civil and military affairs, and his prestige in any aspect is very high.

And the previous generation of ruling kings, this was the case, and the civil and military power was shoulder-to-shoulder.

When the ruling king is strong, the Senate is naturally weak, so the period of the previous ruling king is also the time when the royal power of the New Great Yan Empire is at its strongest.

However, the last generation of ruling kings was not in good health for the next ten years, so the queen helped him take over the power of the Great Yan Empire.

Therefore, this Queen Tussaud has also become the most powerful woman in the Great Yan Empire, and she is actually the second wife of the ruling king of the previous generation.

But even if she has power, she can't be the king as a woman.

The previous ruler died before his term ended, and two new kings took the throne.

And it is precisely these two new kings who were in a sense jointly nominated by Queen Tussauds and the previous generation of kings.

So the two new kings respected her very much and invited her to stay in Dì Dū, but Queen Tussauds decided to return to her hometown anyway.

In order to pay their respects to Queen Tussauds, the two new kings and the Senate spent several years building the Tussauds Palace in her hometown.

And the officials or generals generally elected by Queen Tussauds, the two new kings will not refuse.

So even though her husband has died, she is still the most powerful woman.

After entering the gate of the palace, he came to a square, and the crane in the clouds saw the black crowd.

They are all waiting in line for an audience from Queen Tussauds to ask for a promotion.

So, the cranes in the clouds are lining up!

His grandmother's, when is this going to be in line, there are at least hundreds of people in front.

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"Zhu Bachelor, can anyone come and meet this queen?" asked Yun Zhonghe.

"Of course not, only those who have been invited can come to see the queen. Zhu Yuyan said: "Tussauds Palace is open every other month to welcome guests, so this invitation is very precious. ”

The crane in the cloud said, "Do you know Queen Tussaud?"

Zhu Yuyan said: "I know her, because she is my fellow villager, and my teacher is the governor, and my father is the county governor." ”

Zhu Yuyan is really the daughter of a wealthy family.

Then, she laughed at herself, "Of course, Queen Tussauds probably only knows my name." ”

Then, she turned to the crane in the clouds and said unpleasantly, "Do you know how much this invitation is worth in the market? ”

Yun Zhonghe said: "I didn't mean that, I mean that I finally made up my mind to sell myself for the sake of my goal, but I didn't expect that there are so many people who sell their souls, and I don't think I may be qualified to sell myself." ”

Yun Zhonghe saw that most of the people queuing up in the square in front of the entrance of the palace were carriages.

A lot of people stayed inside the carriage, while some stood outside.

"Those in the carriage were intent on selling their bodies and souls. And the one standing outside the carriage is an official or a military general, just wanting to take refuge with Queen Tussauds and find a backer. Zhu Yuyan said: "And you are in the carriage, planning to sell your body and soul." ”

The crane in the cloud counted dozens of people staying in the carriage.

The competition for soft rice is so fierce, so many people want to be the queen's face?

"She's the queen of the ruling king, her private life is so messy, no one cares?" Yun Zhonghe couldn't help but ask.

Zhu Yuyan said: "The more chaotic her private life is, the happier and more relieved DìDū will be. ”

This is too clear to the crane in the clouds.

"And this is the new Great Yan Empire, women can get divorced, and after being widowed, they have the freedom to marry and love, which is like yours, rotten and old. Zhu Yuyan said disdainfully.

Yun Zhonghe said: "That's why there is someone at your age who has not yet married and fallen in love." ”

These words suddenly made Zhu Yuyan jump up in anger, and aimed at the waist of the crane in the cloud is a punch.

"Hmm......" The crane in the cloud was so painful that he almost twitched over.

I...... Damn, this girl specializes in autopsy, but she knows how to beat people the most.

"Next time, if you talk cheaply, I won't hit your waist. Zhu Yuyan threatened.

"Understood, understood......" The crane in the cloud raised his hands and begged for mercy.

Zhu Yuyan said: "Yunzhong Crane, you have also seen that you have a lot of competitors. ”

yes, at least forty or fifty.

"Moreover, these people are all kinds of beautiful men, each of them is talented, or they are strong in martial arts, and your competitiveness is not very strong. Zhu Yuyan said: "Have you ever thought about what to do next if you fail?"

Yun Zhonghe also found out, because some young men with high self-confidence were not in the carriage, but stood outside openly, each of them was a beautiful man who was unique in ten thousand, and there were all kinds of styles.

It's as if the most handsome young men in the entire New Great Yan Empire have come to compete, which can be called the group of death.

"Although my father is a county consul and a high-ranking official of the empire, my father's official position is still a little lower for your ambitions, and if I dare to marry you, he will probably kill me, and if I don't know how to be your lover, you won't get my family's resources. Zhu Yuyan said: "In this world, not everything can be successful. ”

The crane in the clouds said: "After becoming the face of Queen Tussauds, can you soar into the sky?"

Zhu Yuyan said: "At least this is the shortest shortcut to power. ”

The crane in the cloud said: "This is the shortest shortcut, is that the best shortcut?"

Zhu Yuyan said: "The best shortcut, then don't think about it, it's even more difficult than climbing to the sky." Become the face of the queen, at least there will be a gain of power. ”

Yun Zhonghe said: "How long do you need to stay by her side to be her face?"

"The shortest day was kicked out of the palace, and the longest was a month. Zhu Yuyan said.

The crane in the cloud said: "Do you like the new and hate the old so much?"

"Nonsense, I might like the new and hate the old, and I'll be disgusted with you in three days. Zhu Yuyan said angrily.

Then, she said: "But even if she only accompanies him for one day, she will give this face an explanation, and she will arrange a real power official position, or give a good background." ”

Yun Zhonghe said: "Then she has to go through more than a dozen men in a year?"

Zhu Yuyan said: "Dream, although her face is the most handsome and excellent, she is not qualified to sleep, you don't want to be so beautiful, her appearance and body will not be cheap for you little white faces." Her taste is very strange, and the request for the face is also very strange, so I said this is a fire pit, and if you insist on jumping into it, I can't help it. ”

Suddenly, a lot of strange pictures appeared in the crane in the clouds, and then he trembled.

It was as if I felt the temperature of the flame, or the sharpness of the whip, or the sharpness of the steel brush.

"Then this Queen Tussaud, does she have nicknames like the Queen of Snakes and Scorpions, the Female Demon King, etc.?" said Yun Zhonghe hoarsely.

"Yes. Zhu Yuyan sneered: "Are you scared?"

Next, a two-meter-tall female samurai walked out.

"Twenty-five. ”

Suddenly a man stepped out of the carriage, the door to the palace opened, and the man entered.

Zhu Yuyan quickly lifted the curtain of the carriage and went to see the young man.

"Wow, that's handsome. Zhu Yuyan said: "Crane in the clouds, he is taller than you, more powerful than you, stronger than you, and more heroic than you." ”

Yun Zhonghe also saw that the man who went in just now was indeed handsome, and people would not forget it at a glance, as if they wanted to be engraved in their minds.

He's so handsome, isn't it?

In recent years, the competition for eating soft rice is so fierce, it's like a rush.

Just wait for the call!

"How long will it take?" asked the crane in the clouds.

Zhu Yuyan said: "Generally speaking, everyone is received for no more than half an hour, so we will wait for two more hours. ”

Then, there was the long wait.

"Yunzhong Crane, in case you succeed and borrow the army of the New Great Yan Empire to go east and destroy the Great Xian Demon Kingdom, what do you want to do?

Yun Zhonghe said: "I listen to your tone, as if I stay in the eastern homeland to be the emperor, there is a feeling of a cat and a dog?"

"Isn't it?" said Zhu Yuyan.

The crane in the clouds was speechless, the people of your New Great Yan Empire have too strong a sense of superiority.

There is a feeling that I would rather be an otaku in modern times than go back to ancient times to be a rich man.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The New Great Yan Empire is very powerful, but you also underestimate the Great Salty Demon Empire, they are also very powerful, much stronger than you imagined. ”

Zhu Yuyan looked at the crane in the clouds, pursed her lips and smiled, and it was a very exaggerated smirk.

About half an hour later.

The door of the castle opened again, and the majestic warrior stepped out again.

"The master is tired, so this is the end of the day, please go back. ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd exploded.

There are still so many people who have not been received, and they have driven people away?

Many of them don't know how much they have spent to get invitations, and even their entire family savings have been used.

The productivity of the New Dayan Empire is too developed, there are many colleges at all levels, so there are too many talents, if there is no backer, it is too difficult for both civil and military forces to get ahead, and Queen Tussauds is a shortcut.

Not everyone has Zhu Yuyan's family background and can get an invitation.

There are many young talents, and even through loans, they got this invitation, and they had the opportunity to be received by Queen Tussauds for half an hour.

Suddenly, many people present knelt down and said, "The queen is gracious, for this invitation, we have taken out the family's savings." ”

"Queen Kai, I used the mortgage of the house and the land, and the money I borrowed was the invitation I bought. ”

Yun Zhonghe frowned and said, "What's the situation? Could it be that she has already picked the face, the handsome and beautiful man just now?"

"I don't know. Zhu Yuyan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Perhaps, this is the will of heaven to prevent you from falling willingly." ”

Then, after a moment's hesitation, she said, "If I just want to live a good life here, I'm ...... I can arrange you a job as an experimental assistant, albeit with a low salary, but ...... I'm kind of rich. ”

Everyone stayed in the palace square and was reluctant to leave, and suddenly a group of samurai came out of the palace, directly picked up their weapons, and were about to be expelled.

This Queen Tussauds is really ruthless, and she will turn her face when she says it.

But this is nothing, when she was in power, killing people was nothing.

Suddenly, the whole square screamed again and again, these are young talents who study literature. And those young people who practice martial arts, no matter how high their martial arts are, they don't dare to resist.

After a while, another female general came out and said, "The master has an order, and all the rest are summoned together." ”

Dozens of people were summoned together, which can be regarded as perfunctory, and there is no chance at all.

"Have you figured it out, do you want to go back with me, or enter the palace and be picked?" asked Zhu Yuyan.

The crane in the cloud got out of the carriage directly.

Dozens of people present got out of the carriage and walked towards the castle of the palace together.

All beautiful men, it's simply the Imperial Men's Beauty Pageant.

It's not one in a thousand, one in a thousand, and they are not eligible to participate in the audition.

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Come to the main hall of the castle.

The crane in the clouds is extremely emotional, what a hell of gold, what a grandeur.

This is even more magnificent than the consul's hall in the east, and she really deserves to be the most powerful woman in the empire.

This huge hall, with dozens of people standing, is particularly empty.

For these beautiful men, this is an opportunity to change their fate, a chance for the carp to jump the dragon gate.

And for the crane in the clouds, this is the opportunity to get closest to the power core of the New Great Yan Empire, an opportunity to change the empire's decision-making.

We must let the empire send troops to the east to destroy the Great Xian Demon Kingdom.

Of course, although the army of the New Great Yan Empire is very strong, for Yun Zhonghe, this army does not have a particularly great advantage over the Great Xian Demon Kingdom, and he needs to transform this army.

After the transformation, equipped with a new weapon of his design, this army has a crushing advantage over the Great Salty Demon Kingdom.

But now can the crane in the clouds come up with the design of his guns, can he come up with the incredibly powerful method of making explosives?

Of course not!

If you take it out now, you can only be taken away by someone for nothing, and you will even lose your life.

Only after mastering the power of this empire can these things be taken out and the most powerful army can be built.

Moreover, the New Great Yan Empire has the best foundation, because the productivity here is amazing, and the matter has developed to a very high level, there are biogas lamps, the most advanced forging technology, advanced materials, and even various steel machines, powerful warships, and medicine that is much more advanced than the eastern homeland.

It's just that because their personal strength is very strong, they didn't light up the technology tree of guns, but developed to the extreme in cold weapons.

Therefore, the crane in the clouds is a perfect match for this new Great Yan Empire, and he can make the national strength of the New Great Yan Empire grow by leaps and bounds.

But first, he had to get power.

Arm yourself with power.

And the shortest way to get power is this Queen Tussauds.

A female official said: "This time, the master wants to recruit a family painting teacher, so everyone prepares a painting, and I will pass it on to the master, and she will decide which one can stay and become a teacher in the palace." ”

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The bullshit painting teacher is obviously the first face.

But Queen Tussauds can't say publicly, I want to recruit men/pets, and beautiful men will sign up.

Each time under various names, such as gardener, carver, painting teacher, music teacher, and so on.

It's better to have a fig leaf than nothing, isn't it?

And before, Queen Tussauds had to meet and choose in person, but now the connection has been canceled.

Could it be that the man who entered the palace before was so good, so handsome, that Queen Tussauds gave up meeting other beautiful men?

Now the so-called asking everyone to contribute paintings is completely perfunctory, and there is no chance at all.

This month's face, Queen Tussauds has already been chosen.

As soon as the female official's words fell, dozens of beautiful men present took out their picture scrolls and offered them.

Is everyone a senior artist?

Of course not, in the New Great Yan Empire, art is just an embellishment, not the mainstream.

When everyone's new attainments are the same, or the martial arts are the same, the embellishment of art becomes precious.

So art is not a necessity, but a luxury.

If you want to become a high society, you must master such an artistic skill.

Most of the paintings presented by these beautiful men were bought from well-known painters at great prices.

Most of them are portraits of themselves, and some of them are portraits without clothes.

It was to let Queen Tussauds see how handsome, strong, and gifted they were.

And there are some beautiful men with good family backgrounds who will spend a huge price to buy paintings from master painters.

And most of these paintings are portraits of Queen Tussauds.

In short, all of them were carefully prepared, and most of them were the works of master painters.

After all, the name of this recruitment is to recruit artists.

Only the crane in the cloud was not prepared, because the time was too rushed.

Zhu Yuyan felt that recruiting painters was just a gimmick, and it didn't matter at all, the key was the feeling of Queen Tussauds when she met the crane in the clouds.

But now, I don't even give the opportunity to meet.

All hope was pinned on an ethereal portrait.

Yun Zhonghe looked at the portraits offered by these people, and there were two words in his heart: My day.

These painters are too good, aren't they?

The crane in the clouds was originally used as a killer color sketch and three-dimensional photo, which is not a skill at all here.

Even if you draw people as realistically as they do in pictures, it's useless, because everyone has the ability to do it.

Every painting presented by these people is a masterpiece of art, far beyond the level of the crane in the clouds itself.

The crane in the clouds once used Leonardo da Vinci to copy the "Yuan Night in the Imperial Capital", which is called a painting saint work, and deceived millions.

But it's useless here, because it was once expelled by the conservative forces of the Great Yan Dynasty, so all the art about the East here has been denied.

What kind of landscape painting? It was not appreciated at all, it was completely defeated.

Even if you take out such immortal masterpieces as "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and "Toyama Spring Residence", it is useless.

But Yun Zhonghe also discovered that the painting trend of this new Great Yan Empire was roughly equivalent to the Renaissance in Europe.

The mainstream is oil painting, similar to the Mona Lisa, which is biased towards realism and classicism, and also has a certain romanticism.

But post-impressionism has not yet been enlightened.

However, since their painting art is this path, it seems inevitable that they will move towards post-impressionism.

Because no matter how similar the painting is, even if it is the same as the photo, there will be aesthetic fatigue.

Therefore, impressionist paintings may be like lightning, tearing apart the artistic sky of the old era.

It's like Picasso's realism is actually super strong, but he can't get out of it, so he turned to cubism.

Yun Zhonghe felt that this Queen Tussauds had seen too many realist and classical paintings, and she had long been aesthetically fatigued.

A post-impressionist painting at this time is sure to give her a strong stimulus.

Which Post-Impressionist painting to choose?

"Starry Night", "Sunflower"?

No, although these two paintings are classic, they are not very impactful.

Soon, Yun Zhonghe chose the target of plagiarism: "The Scream".

"The Scream", an immortal masterpiece of Impressionism, can cause a strong spiritual impact even after people who don't know how to paint look at it, distorted lines, and faces like skeletons.

That is, this painting, which was auctioned for a sky-high price of $199 million.

And this painting did not become famous after death, at the time of its birth, it was already hailed as a masterpiece.

In the entire history of the planet, this painting should be able to rank among the top few in history, an absolute masterpiece of the millennium.

Of course, the crane in the clouds does not have da Vinci's upper body now, but he has also been on the crane in the clouds for a long time, and he has left him with enough painting skills.

At this time, of course, it is impossible to let Yun Zhonghe independently copy a work like "Qingming Riverside Picture", it is too difficult.

But a painting like "The Scream", he can definitely copy it.

So, he started painting.

In just half an hour, the immortal masterpieces of the top few on Earth were painted.

The next step is to sign the payment, write your name directly, that's too low-level.

The crane in the cloud adopts another super trick, three-dimensional drawing.

On the surface, this kind of diagram looks like a repetitive color block plan. But as soon as you look away and adjust the focus, a three-dimensional image will emerge.

On the modern Earth, this is certainly nothing. But at this time, this is definitely a miracle skill.

And the signature of the crane in the clouds is: The crane in the clouds of the Great Yan Emperor.

As long as you align the focal length, these big characters will be golden and three-dimensional.

But on the surface, nothing can be seen.

Therefore, the skill of the crane in the clouds in this painting is completely dazzling to the extreme.

After the painting, Yun Zhonghe handed the painting to the female officer, and she had been waiting impatiently on the side.

After taking it, the female officer suddenly felt strongly uncomfortable, what kind of garbage is this painting?

"Everyone handed in their work, wrote down their addresses, and then left the palace and went back to wait. "The female officer began to chase people away.

Even if many beautiful men are unwilling, they can only leave the palace, such as mourning.

Almost everyone knows that this time the queen's face has already been chosen, and they have no hope.

The crane in the cloud was also expelled from the palace and returned to Dongzhou City.

Along the way, many beautiful men lamented and were extremely desolate. The opportunity to change one's destiny was lost.

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Inside the Tussauds.

Queen Tussauds lay lazily on the bench.

The figure is suffocating!

You don't need to look at your face, you're already hooked.

It can't be described as a devil's figure, every inch is full of magic temptation.

Every inch seems to ignite a man's hormones.

A real beauty snake.

A true Imperial Cleopatra!

Moving red face and troubled water.

A poisonous peerless stunner.

"Master, these people's paintings have already been offered, do you want to see them?" said the female official.

"Don't look at it, everyone has already been selected, let him accompany me in the palace this month. Queen Tussauds said, "It's rare to see such an artistically carved face." ”

"Yes!" said the female officer, "what about these paintings?"

Queen Tussauds said, "Burn them all." ”

"Yes!" and all these excellent paintings were thrown into the fireplace and burned.

Each of these paintings is the work of great painters, and some of them are even the work of great masters. Those beautiful men don't know how much it cost to get the paintings, and some even spent all their money to get them, just to amaze the imperial Cleopatra, but at this time they were burned down.

That's what it is...... Power!

Queen Tussauds was idle, and she didn't feel sorry for her at all when she was so lazy to watch every painting burned.

These paintings are really disappointing.

Either a self-portrait of these beautiful men, or a portrait of her Queen Poisonsha.

The paintings are very good, they are all masterpieces, but after looking at them too much, they are really full of aesthetic fatigue.

No matter how good anything is, as long as there are more of them, it is mediocre.

Soon, the female officer got the painting of the crane in the clouds and threw it directly into the fireplace and burned it.

Queen Tussauds didn't care.

But...... The first time she saw the painting of the crane in the clouds, she was mentally shocked.

I have never seen a painting like this, the lines are so distorted, the picture is so weird.

The sky is distorted, the ground is distorted, and the people in the portrait are like skeletons.

The all-pervading despair, the all-pervading terror, is full of death and loneliness.

This kind of painting has never been seen before!

"Save it, save this painting, and see who its author is?!" Queen Tussauds sat up sharply.

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Note: Again I wrote all night until six o'clock in the morning, woo!

Brother who has a monthly pass, how many can you support me? The ranking of the monthly pass list scares me, please everyone!