The Northern Continent has been unified twice, and then gradually divided, the most recent one is the heyday of the Guarte Dynasty, the first king with ten heroes swept across the continent, laying a hundred years of glory.

But the Guart, which suppressed the tribes by force and torture, had a glorious period of glory for hundreds of years, and after the death of the first king and his grandson, the whole dynasty began to fall into trouble. The suppressed tribes began to compete for power for freedom under the increasingly corrupt royal court, and in order to ensure that the dynasty did not fall apart so quickly, the rulers of the time could only begin to canonize a few nobles of non-Guarte blood, including the Duchy of Olex.

After the fall of the Guartes, the Duchy became its own king, and the Ogdins did not oppose this, but responded positively to their measures, and completely suppressed the traces left by the Guartes.

The head of the Duchy of Olex is called Hazlet Olex, in which many titles are omitted, and the abbreviation is Hazlet. He looked to be in his sixties, with silver-white hair, a chubby build, well-maintained, at least a red face, and no wrinkles on his face. In the capital of this small country, he received Durin, he already knew that Dulin had come with money, and when he saw Durin, he was very cordial, and took Durin's hand to trace the relationship between his ancestors and the Gualts, as if forgetting that his ancestor Olex was not a loyal nobleman at that time.

"We all have the same cultural heritage, and even have Gualt blood in my body!", Hazlett said very kindly, "My ancestors' companions are Gualt nobles, and we are also a family, you don't have to be restrained, you have to be as free and relaxed here as if you were back at home." For the sake of the money in Durin's hand, Hazlett can be said to have said these words shamelessly, which made some of the ministers around him look elsewhere.

In fact, in the final analysis, the Principality of Olex is poor, the country is not big, but it is close to the Federation, how can it be rich?

There are almost no heavy industry enterprises in the Principality of Olex, and there are very few light industry enterprises, most of which are to meet the manufacturing of more common daily consumables, and there are many industries that have been replaced by industrialization in the empire and the federation still retain pure handmade workshops, which is definitely not to preserve any civilization heritage, but poor and backward. In order to let Orex continue to go on in agriculture and animal husbandry, the Federation also issued a "high-quality agricultural and animal husbandry products" to the Principality of Olex, identifying their products as high-quality products, and the purchase price was slightly higher than the normal price.

This small increase has made the citizens of the Republic of Olex very satisfied with their present lives, and they can import from the Federation at relatively cheap prices what they cannot produce themselves, some of which are even equal to the cost. Then I was able to sell my things to the Federation at a higher price, and there was nothing easier than my life now, in short, whether I bought or sold, I would not suffer a loss.

The people don't know, but Hezlett clearly knows that the Federation seems to be a very good neighbor, but they have been controlling everything in the Duchy of Olex through such despicable means. If they are not allowed to develop science and technology, they are not allowed to industrialize their industries, and they are kept in a relatively primitive social production system, and they are like animals in captivity. Of course, there is no second way to go except to pinch his nose and admit it, as long as Hezlett has any fresh ideas, the federation adjusts tariffs and then changes the policy, and the people of the Principality of Olex will be in an uproar.

Is it the stupid king and the evil ministers who have angered the benevolent federation that makes our lives difficult, or just referendum!

The forced "free", "civilized" principality of Olex has become the biggest joke!

The financial tsunami of the Confederation was a super disaster for the surrounding small principalities that depended on the federal economy for their lives, and almost all orders were delayed, and these small countries no longer knew what to do. At this time, not to mention financial assistance, even if it is a donation of three or five million, it is a good thing for them and can solve a lot of trouble.

In such a situation, Hezlett's enthusiasm can be imagined.

Led by Hazlett, Durin visited the royal palace and visited Olex's only university - more and more talented young people would choose to go to the Confederation to pursue higher degrees, and those who stayed in the country became the representative of the people who were not motivated. Of course, the universality of education for a population of less than 20 million is also a problem, and sometimes the only national university enrolls less than 300 new students in a semester.

After that, Hezlett also held a press conference, highly appreciating that at the critical moment of the Principality of Olex, an entrepreneur with an internationalist spirit came to the Principality of Olex, which may bring more new changes .......

"Is that so, why do I always feel like I'm being used again?", Durin smiled and looked out the window at the bright sunshine, which was already subtropical, and although it was still December, the climate was relatively pleasant and not so cold. Today's weather is good, cloudless, and the sun is shining warmly on people's bodies.

He was on the phone with Mags, who was aware of the press conference, and immediately made a phone call to the minister of the Duchy of Olex, who eventually redirected the call to Durin.

Maggs is still as simple and neat, "I'm using you, you're using me, and the effect is mutual." After a brief meeting with the Cabinet, he decided to use Durin's plan to "parade" and intend to push the Shining Star Empire on the path of an international superpower. In fact, the federal plan is very good, and now they don't need it, so why don't they take it and use it themselves? Good things don't have a sense of shame when they are plagiarized, just like copying the homework of those good students, do you feel ashamed when there is an A+ in the homework book?

Of course not, not only will I not be ashamed, but I will also tell my parents, look, I got an A+ on the horse again.

However, there must be some changes in the implementation process, and Doolin happens to be able to serve as a link between these countries and the empire, and it is more appropriate for Doolin to open up relations, and then talk about aid and diplomacy. Even if there is a problem in informal diplomacy, it is Duhring's problem, and Doolin does not represent the state, but the state can represent Dohrin. When there is a real need for the state to intervene, the empire will come forward. The advantage of this is that it is not very aggressive, and the Empire has just sunk in the financial tsunami, so it is not very good for the Empire to come out and grab the life, but this kind of informal diplomacy is more appropriate.

Durin doesn't have much of an opinion on this, just like Maggs said, the empire is using him, and he is also using the empire, complementing each other, and the benefits will only be more!

"If I get a knighthood or ......something here," Durin asked a very clever question, the people of the empire always talked about his peasant background, and always said that he was not a nobleman and could not give him the greatest assistance. In fact, he didn't refuse to become a nobleman, but the psychology of those people in the empire was too dark, and they were all calculating him, and he was not suitable for stepping into it for the time being. But if you can go off the rails from this side, can you open up a new situation?

Mags chuckled, "Country nobility is not recognized by the Empire, and no one will take you seriously unless you can get the title of Duke or Prince." ”

For the empire of the Huanghuang Kingdom, the small nobles of a small principality and a small country are almost the same as the relatives of the village chief's family, not even a cadre, let alone a minister or nobleman!

Durin hung up the phone helplessly, originally he thought that it might be a good idea to get a lot of nobles back, but Mags directly cut off this idea. Dukes and princes are simply impossible, and the founding ancestors of these small principalities are probably also nobles of this level, and they are not qualified to canonize nobles of the same level, or higher, even if their descendants shamelessly claim to be kings, they are not qualified.

At the evening reception Hezlett introduced Durin to all the famous bigwigs in the principality, yes, small countries have the benefits of small countries, at least the bigwigs can fit them all in one hall. The court still maintains the style of late middle and late Gualt architecture, and has begun to shift from rough and neutral to elegant.

The early architectural style of the Guarte dynasty was more straightforward, without a lot of carvings, and looked a bit barbaric and unreasonable. The pillar is the pillar, there is no yin carving and no yang carving, it is straight and straight, if you have to add a little decoration, then add a big grinding disc at both ends of the pillar, a little wilder. According to the artists, the Guarte dynasty was originally about efficiency and practicality, and the whole nation was condensed from top to bottom, and the first kings and the ten heroes never liked to enjoy a luxurious life, and almost all their lives were spent in battle.

However, in the middle and late dynasties, the court was corrupted, the nobility was corrupt, and there were continuous uprisings in various places, and the royal family became fond of luxury and enjoyment, and the architectural style was also changing rapidly. The pillars were carved with many exquisite patterns, and the design of the buildings began to change to beauty, and those scholars and experts claim that signs of the rise and fall of a dynasty can be found in the architectural history of a dynasty.

The Duchy of Olex, which was canonized in the middle and late stages of the Guarte Dynasty, canonized a non-Gualte nobleman in order to stabilize the situation here.