Several guards retreated after being instructed by the Grand Duke and the Chosen One, slamming the door to the conference room behind closed again.

All was silent again.

Robin's gaze fell on the dagger on the table and did not speak.

All eyes were on him, waiting for his reply.

It took about three minutes before he raised his head and calmly asked, "If I become king, what is the content of the oath?" ”

"We all respect you as the king, but the king must abide by the Haoyue Code, and must not tamper with the code at will, and the Grand Duke's territorial autonomy shall not interfere with the king.

We will also keep our promise not to betray the king.

If the oath is broken, the person who made the oath and his bloodline will be cursed and sent to hell, from which he will never recover. “

Olga replied.

"As long as you agree, we can start right away."

This is Matilda's immature voice.

"Of course, you can also choose no. Then it's as if nothing existed tonight. Olga crossed his arms and looked at Robin coldly, "However, we will erase your memories of tonight so that what happened here does not leak out." ”

"It's ...... What do you mean? Robin snapped, leaning back in his chair and looking at Olga in disbelief.

It was at this moment that the youngest Grand Duke Matilda somehow found a small light blue glass bottle and held it in his hand.

"It's mermaid tears." She calmly stared at the liquid in the bottle.

In the dim light, Robin saw the crystalline liquid glowing with a light blue glow, as if holding a star in Matilda's hand.

That color and light, for some reason, was like a whirlpool, sucking Robin's gaze tightly.

Mysterious, dreamy.

Fascinating.

It's scary.

"It will put you to sleep, and the side effect is that you will wake up with a little headache, like a hangover. But you will forget everything you went through before. ”

Matilda said fairly.

Robin took a deep breath and his eyes drooped slightly.

He lowered his head and fell silent in the shadows of no one.

No wonder.

I said that they were so bold that they dared to openly discuss such a thing in the imperial city.

It turned out to be prepared.

Mermaid tears.

It was the first time he'd heard of anything like this.

……

Everyone waited with bated breath.

There was silence in the room.

Robin's eyes flickered and he thought for a long time.

His fingers pressed lightly against the metal scabbard of the dagger, as if pressed against the hearts of the people.

Even everyone's heartbeat can be heard clearly.

It's been a long time.

It's as if time has stood still.

"Nope."

Robin's voice rang out softly.

His fingers were withdrawn from the dagger.

The hearts of the crowd thumped.

Several Grand Dukes' eyes widened in disbelief as they looked at the Chosen One.

"Lord Robin, maybe you haven't experienced it before, and you don't understand what that supreme power means......"

Old Duke Gwen spoke with difficulty, she really couldn't imagine anyone who could refuse such a great temptation.

You know, that's the supreme authority that many people dream of.

There is a unique opportunity in the history of the kingdom for a dictator to go down in history as being so easily rejected by Robin.

"No, Duke Gwen, I know what that means."

Robin replied blandly.

"The supreme power, the divine power and the royal power are one, and no one will be able to restrain me from now on, and I will become the ruler of the kingdom. In Itnell, I am God.

The people of the kingdom will satisfy me as long as I want.

All I have to do is keep your autonomy over your realms. “

Robin smiled indifferently, "I don't think anyone can resist such a powerful temptation." ”

"In that case, then why are you ......" Old Duke Gwen looked at Robin with a misty look in his eyes, completely unable to understand what he was doing.

"It is not my greatness that will go down in history. If I had chosen the path you had given me, I would have become a sinner in Itnell and be crushed by the wheels of history. ”

"What...... Meaning? Several dukes looked at him puzzled.

"That's because the productive forces determine the relations of production. The law of development of things is a spiraling process. Robin let out a sigh.

The Grand Dukes looked at each other, completely unaware of what he was talking about.

A smile tugged at the corner of Robin's mouth.

"Productivity, in simple terms, can be understood as the ability of the people of the kingdom as a whole to create new wealth.

To give you a simple example, at the beginning of the kingdom, we could only feed less than 200,000 people a year, but today, the population of the kingdom has grown to 40 million, and the tools we use to cultivate have grown from the first hoe made of stone to the iron plough we use today, and we know how to use animals and magic to help us do too much heavy work.

The main grains of the kingdom were wheat and barley, which were simple at the beginning, to oats and rye, and beans such as peas and broad beans. forage grasses include red clover, alfalfa, etc.; Vegetables include cranberries, cabbage, lupins, etc.; Fruit trees include grapes, olives and figs.

In fact, these are the embodiment of the development of productive forces.

Our ability to create wealth is getting stronger, and now we may need only 5 million people to feed an entire kingdom where 200,000 people needed more than half of the population to be engaged in agriculture.

This is progress, and it is also the inevitability of historical development. “

Speaking of which, the Grand Dukes had a little bit of a understanding of what the Chosen One meant by "productivity".

"But what does this have to do with us?" Duke Aiden looked at Robin with a confused expression.

"The level of development of the productive forces is the result of the aggregation and matching of the system composed of the factors of the productive forces and the system composed of the political, economic, social, cultural, ecological and other environments in which they are located.

To put it simply, the composition of power in a country's system is not something we can determine. If it does not adapt to the development of the kingdom, then this system will be obsolete by history. ”

Robin frowned, human beings started from primitive society, because of the need for productive forces, became a slave society, and then a feudal society......

He still couldn't figure out where the kingdom of Itnel was in feudal society, whether capitalism was budding, or whether other more advanced factors of production were incubated......

At least from what he knew about Itney's history, the ecumenical system had begun to turn into an obstacle to social progress.

The contradictions between the king and the Grand Duke have intensified, and now they have become irreconcilable at their peak.

"Perhaps Olivia's restraint of power is due to her own desires, but the concentration of power is not a bad thing for the development of the kingdom.

The final form of the feudal system is centralized, which will bring more efficient management and more effective allocation of resources, thus promoting the development of productive forces. ”

Robin said this, and paused.

Olivia's resolute face came to his mind.

"Of course, the premise is that the king is wise."

The biggest disadvantage of the feudal empire is that the influence of the leader on the whole country will be very huge, the Ming monarch can bring prosperity and prosperity, while the faint monarch will lead to social decay and the people's livelihood will wither.

After that, it was overturned by the people and buried under the wheel of history.

This is the objective law of the development of things.

No one escapes this.

"So is Olivia a wise king?" Robin asked softly.

He shook his head to himself, his eyes confused.

"I don't know."

Robin looked at the Grand Dukes with a determined look, "But if I'm going to be king, I'm going to inevitably have to do the same thing." ”

Everyone was slightly stunned, and their hearts were numb when they saw his cold gaze without the slightest emotion.

"Either rein in the power and weaken the Grand Dukes and lords, thereby advancing the entire kingdom. Either it is divided and there is civil strife, wealth cannot meet the needs of the people, and finally it is overthrown by the people of the kingdom, or it is conquered by other more powerful and advanced nations, which leads to the demise of the kingdom......"

Robin's words were like a sword, piercing everyone's hearts with a drop of blood.

"Either way, I'm afraid it won't be able to make the people here today get what they want."

There was one more sentence that he didn't say -

The irreconcilable contradictions between the king and the Grand Duke will inevitably lead to their fight to the death.

He didn't want to be a puppet king of the Grand Dukes.

Therefore, this blood oath cannot be made under any circumstances.

Robin's fingers pressed lightly against the dagger, pushing it back toward the far end of the table.

"So, I refuse."

……

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