"To excuse the tyrant's deeds and glorify Stella's tyrannical rule, just to cover up your ugliness."

Salom gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth and smiled.

"What you just said, the biggest loophole is that in order to do all this, the manpower, material and financial resources required are extremely large, why do the lords support Alya, and why can López mobilize so much power?"

"Very well, you finally got to the point." Olivia's hands were slightly folded, and her eyes suddenly became fierce.

"What...... Meaning? Salom looked at her strangely.

"Why do you think she got the lords to agree to do these things? Is it just a simple benefit? Or is it glory? ”

Olivia asked rhetorically, "If I want to build a road from Bright Moon City to the Frost Fortress, and this road will inevitably go straight through your jurisdiction of the Yuyan Territory, but I will tell you that after the construction is successful, the wealth income of the Xiyan Territory will increase by 20%.

What would you think? Would you agree? ”

"It's ......" Salom opened her mouth, she was tempted to say yes, but reason and instinct made her shake her head.

"It's so hard to convince me of an extra 20% income just by one sentence. And ......"

She muttered, "It's a double-edged sword for the Yuyan Collar. Building this road may increase our transportation capacity, but correspondingly, the Yuyan Territory is narrowed down by Bright Moon City and the Frost Fortress. A better road means a faster troop arrival.

As a member of the kingdom, I am very much in favor of building such a facility.

But as the lord of the Yuyan Lord, I can't agree. “

"Look, this is the contradiction between me and you, and between me and all the Grand Dukes, including the lords of all classes." Olivia simply sat on the steps, holding the scepter and pestle to the ground.

Make a crisp sound.

The rain trickled down her clothes, to the ground, and gradually to Salom.

"From the day I ascended the throne, I had the whole country in my heart. And the Grand Dukes pretended to be their own land. Sometimes some sacrifices have to be made for the good of the whole. ”

Her gaze was calm and gentle, looking straight into Salom's heart.

The other party was stunned for a moment, and his expression was extremely sad.

"We are the ones who were sacrificed?"

"No, it's us." Olivia emphasized, "I'm just like you, a Grand Duke. ”

"Olivia......" Salom tilted his head sideways, looking at her resentfully, "this is unacceptable. Unacceptable. ”

"So you understand, how did King Arya promote López?

Her behavior is not gentle, nor is it weaker than that of Stella the Spitter.

In a sense, she is more brutal.

It's just covered up by a few things.

48 years ago, the lord of Miral City, the kingdom of López, died of illness at the age of 47, still in the prime of life.

Forty-five years ago, under national pressure, King Arya launched a war against the Frost Giants, killing Archduke Vader Davide in the northern icestorm city along with her two children.

After this, the lord of Icestorm City became Belinda Nelson.

40 years ago, at his own banquet, Grand Duke Didley of Lionheart City fell from the balcony on the second floor and broke his neck due to excessive drinking.

Thirty-eight years ago, Arya officially announced a change in the system of the Council of Powers of the Grand Duke-King-Oracle, and replaced it by the Council of Hundred.

At this point, after several rotations and more than twelve years, King Arya finally gained the true right to rule the kingdom. “

"You mean...... The death of those grand dukes, and the subsequent appointments, the rotation of candidates...... Everything is Arya's conspiracy? ”

"It has to be done.

As you said, even if Arya negotiated with them to explain the meaning and benefits of building and changing, the Grand Duke and the lords would not necessarily agree to it for the sake of their own territory.

So she had no choice but to centralize power.

Only in this way can the development of the whole kingdom be promoted, and only in this way can the kingdom be held together instead of being scattered and fighting on its own.

In true history, Arya has been no more merciful than her mother.

And the reason why she was able to make these achievements was entirely because of the tyrant who was spurned by everyone-

Stella Hill the Spitter, the solid foundation she laid for it.

During Stella's time, she killed excessively, but if you think about it, the people she killed were actually paving the way for Arya.

Even if the road is bloody.

Even if the road is full of infamy.

Even if she is going to be doomed.

This is what we are ashamed of, and ridicule and spurn -

Despot! “

"......" Salom took a deep breath of cold air, and her heart shook violently.

In retrospect, what Olivia just said was not true.

Stella, tyrant.

Is that really the case?

"There is only one criterion by which people judge whether a monarch is good or bad—

Whether the national strength is strong.

The strong are bright, and the weak are violent.

Started with a tyrant and is stronger than a Ming monarch.

That's what history has taught us.

Pain leads to change.

López had a hard lesson, they made changes and they grew.

We are now repeating their mistakes.

If I could, I would like to make this painful period as short as possible.

At the very least, we'll have to carry the wolves from the north when they arrive. “

……

Salom's face turned pale, and his right hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

From a long time ago, Olivia had been an outlier among their group of Grand Dukes, unbound by habit, deviant, pompous in manners, and restless in her body.

According to her mother's words, the child was nothing like a duke.

But only after getting in touch with her, she will find that there are too many shining points in this peer who doesn't seem to have the appearance of a grand duke-

She is unfettered because she can always discover something new and discover profound truths that they cannot understand.

She deviated from the norm because her heart was full of curiosity, breaking with tradition and thus forging new paths

She is restless because she has the courage to put her ideas into practice.

It was because she was so different that she could become a king and sit on that high throne.

……

"Aha......"

Shalom laughed uncontrollably.

"I finally understand why you were able to mediate and save the kingdom from danger in the face of our attacks by López and Sekorid, and why you were able to turn the tide from the forces of the Windwings and not only save us, but also sign a pact with them."

Shalom took a step back and shook his head with a bitter smile.

"This is the most powerful thing about you, as long as you speak, you can always convince others, and you can always ignite the frenzy in us, so that the soldiers will follow you desperately.

It's terrible, Olivia, you're the most terrible king I've ever seen. ”

……