Chapter 638: Observing History and Knowing the Present (Second Update)
After leading Wang Yan to the library of the palace magician's residence, Wizard Chloe said that his mission had been completed, and that the library was where he had been staying every day, and Illya was very surprised when she entered the library, especially when she saw the elven literature in the library with several shelves.
"Those are the records of the elves, which were found by my king from the ruins of an elven race, but I don't know where the elves there went, the above records are very obscure, and most of them are what happened in the elf race."
Seeing Elija standing in front of the bookshelf and staring at the elven documents stored on them, Chloe explained the origin of these documents.
"I am the knight of the elves." Elija looked at Chloe, "Can I look through the documents?" ”
"Of course, anyone who enters here can look through any book here, as long as you can read it, knowledge needs to communicate with each other, and if you cherish it, the documents of ancient times will not be handed down to the present."
Wang Yan smiled and nodded, Chloe Magician's words also made Wang Yan understand the other party's thoughts, it seems that the other party agrees with the concept of knowledge exchange, this concept cannot be said to be right or wrong, but people who can have this concept are definitely not bad people.
After walking around the library for a while, Wang Yan found some documents about the Borodin Kingdom under the prompting of the mage Clowe, which contained a complete record of the beginning of the establishment of the kingdom.
Looking at history and knowing the present, we should think about advancing and retreating.
At this time when King Borodin was still alive, these historical records should be authentic and reliable, and they are valuable documents that will never be seen by later generations.
The kingdom of Borodin rose to prominence about sixty years ago, before the kingdom was established and Borodin was not king, and the land was even more chaotic than it is today, with all parties separating themselves as kings, a situation that had been maintained for hundreds of years before the emergence of King Borodin.
In the beginning, the humans of this land formed tribes to defend themselves against the attacks of wild beasts, and the tribes were far apart, they were the prototype of territories and kingdoms, and some of the tribes that occupied the fertile land began to grow and their numbers began to proliferate.
After clearing the beasts, the human race began to expand, especially after the continuous expansion of the territory of the various tribes, and finally intersected, under the impetus of this **, the war between the tribes broke out.
There are always victories and defeats in wars, the defeated side becomes a slave, the victorious side occupies a new territory, and the territory expands again, and so on for hundreds of years, the tribe has evolved into the princely realms of all sides, which is the first prototype of the kingdom.
At this time, the princes of all parties have understood the importance of the army, the real army is not productive, they need a long time of training and selection, and the elite from the people is selected to gather in the army, so the number of the population of the territory limits the proficiency of the army, and the end of the army is very miserable, which is the result of some princes at the cost of destruction.
Born in a princely domain, he was neither a slave nor a descendant of a lord, he was just a common man, and if it weren't for his incredible charisma, perhaps Borodin would have died in the war and his body turned to dirt.
But there will always be heroes in troubled times, Borodin showed a super personality charm when he was still an adult, not only civilians, but even some nobles of the princes were attracted by the presence of Borodin, they couldn't suppress the impulse of admiration in their hearts after seeing Borodin, and chose to elect Borodin to become the new king of the princes.
Wang Yan didn't find a detailed record of what happened to the original lord, but it certainly won't be too good, that is, Borodin, who became the lord, began to expand his territory with the knights who had completed the establishment, even if the slaves who had always wanted to take their freedom became extremely brave under the light of the king, and they were even proud to be able to die for Borodin.
There is such a charismatic existence with incredible personality, just ten years of hard work, Borodin has already laid a large territory, the king's knights have set foot on all the places on this continent, from east to west, from south to north, where the sun can shine, it can be said that it is the territory of King Borodin.
Even the barbarians in the north, who lived in the snow-capped mountains and were known for their savagery, bowed down to King Borodin, and at this time the kingdom was naturally established, and in the following decades, people enjoyed the long-lost peace, and all kinds of intellectual cultures began to appear at an explosive rate, and if there were no accidents, it would not be a problem at all to maintain the kingdom for hundreds or even millennia.
When did the accident occur? Almost as soon as King Borodin was showing his old age, the once incredibly charismatic King Borodin had grown old, his blonde hair had turned pale, and his formidable body had become rickety.
The last thing that should be done is that King Borodin did not centralize the power of the kingdom into his own hands, but gave the knights who fought in all directions a large and small territory according to the previous custom.
The first knight to stand up against King Borodin was named Belou, who was once the head of Borodin's 10,000-strong Knights, and one of the local lords who chose to join Borodin when he expanded his territory.
In the first few decades of the kingdom's existence, Belou had been very obedient to King Borodin's rule, and no one knew what had happened to him, and at a meeting within the kingdom, the usually obedient Belou suddenly openly questioned King Borodin's decision.
Since then, the other lords have suddenly discovered that the once dazzling king has suddenly become no different from normal people, and perhaps decades of obedience to the king have made them afraid to openly question the king's decisions like Belou, but since then the various decisions of the king of Borodin have been constantly blocked.
Perhaps it was nostalgia, or perhaps for other reasons, that King Borodin did not reclaim the territory of Belo at first, because it had been decided at the beginning of the kingdom that the local knights would enjoy three generations of autonomy, a right that even King Borodin could not take away.
When the fangs that had been hidden for decades finally opened, the territory around Belou was attacked and soon overcame by the knights under the name of Belou.
At this time, King Borodin declared that he regarded Belou as a rebel and sent troops against him, but the result was surprising, the Knight of the King, who had always been invincible, actually suffered a defeat at the hands of the local knights of Belou that had not been encountered for decades.
What is the reason for this result?
Probably because peace has come for too long, the Knights of the King, who have no external troubles, neglect to train, even if the weapons are still sharp, even if the armor is still strong, but after the knights have experienced two generations of peace, the newly selected knights have long lost their original bravery.
I have to say that the power of time or the power of habit is really terrifying, and the once prosperous Borodin Kingdom has since revealed chaos. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~