Chapter 437: Lordship

The system has existed for a long time on the continent of Erathia. It is impossible to verify why this system must be produced and spread in this land, and it is only known that there was already a lordship system as early as the Brakkat Empire, which unified the continent.

The liege system was adopted by various nations on the continent, with the exception of the defunct Kerrigan kingdom of Ofer.

However, the system of lordship varies from country to country.

The most typical lord system is of course the Negan Kingdom, where there are countless large and small lords, and they are so powerful that even the Negan royal family cannot control them, which directly leads to the existence of the Negan royal family.

The most successful lordship was the kingdom of Krurod, which, like Negan, was divided among the barbarians and ruled by the lords, who then fought for the throne every thirty years to decide who would rule the rest of the lords, and the winner would control the entire country and receive the allegiance of the other lords for thirty years.

The Kingdom of Krurod is also the only country on the continent that does not have a regular army, and the military machine of this country is made up of the private armies of various lords. Whenever there was a war, the lords would gather under the king's banner with their armies to resist foreign enemies or invade other countries. The post-war profit sharing was also linked to the military strength of each lord and their performance on the battlefield, as well as the martial culture in the country. The lords of Krurod all have extremely powerful private armies.

The most peculiar lord state, of course, is the strongest country on the continent and the largest country on the continent, the Erathia Empire.

Although there are lords in this country, the lordship system has actually existed in name only.

Since the founding of the country, the imperial family has been trying to reduce the real power of the lord in the military, although the empire recognizes and allows the lords to have a very high ruling power in their territory, but in the military aspect is given a great restriction, the role of the lord's private army is limited to protect the safety of the lord and his property, the number is also controlled within the range of a few hundred people, if the lord wants to join the emperor's ** team, he must also return the territory, and as the ruler of the country, the imperial royal family, but also formed a strong imperial regular army, as an armed force to maintain its rule.

This was a disguised centralized system, with lordship within the Erathian Empire. But it became a means for the empire to reward the nobles and let the nobles use the territory for profit, so as to get the nobles to support the royal dominance.

The Erathia Empire has been able to stand on the mainland for many years, and it has a lot to do with this fundamentally changed lord system, the strong regular army ensures that the will of the royal family can be fully implemented in the country, and the disguised centralized system that is more advanced than the lord system also makes the overall strength of the empire far better than other countries on the mainland, and the combat effectiveness of the unified equipment and well-trained professional army has made a qualitative leap.

It is precisely because of this that the Erathia Empire has always been able to occupy the throne of the strongest country on the continent.

Under the influence of the Erathian Empire, several countries on the continent have begun to change the state system, such as the Elven Kingdom, the Bracada Mage Kingdom, the Tetaria Kingdom, and even the undead kingdom established by the necromancers in Qiya, all of which have begun to want to imitate the imperial system and reform the domestic lordship system.

But this change is undoubtedly very difficult.

At the beginning of the establishment of these countries, in order to obtain support from all sides faster and more, the founders chose a time-saving and labor-saving lord system, rather than the wise founding emperor of the empire. From the very beginning, he firmly carried out his own ideas and limited the power of the lord.

So after the state is established and solidified. The interior of these countries is naturally dominated by large and small lords, and once a system is formed, it is difficult to change it.

Of course, those lords who are a small king in their respective territories will not sit idly by and watch their power and interests be weakened, and the royal family is desperately trying to retract power, and the two sides naturally launched all kinds of open and secret battles, so the regular armies subordinate to the royal family within these countries have been established, but on the contrary, the lords are desperately expanding their forces in order to protect themselves. And they united with each other and became a deformed freak in their respective countries.

These lords have land, food, money and soldiers in their hands, and they are all in the same spirit, and the royal family does not dare to force each other too much, and many countries on the continent of Erathia stand side by side, and they are eyeing each other, once a civil war between the lord and the royal family breaks out in the country. Every minute will be taken advantage of by other countries, and if you are not careful, it will be the end of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species.

And the lords of these countries also understand this truth, although they are powerful, they must also be attached to the kingdom to exist, otherwise. They are in a precarious position under the threat of powerful foreign enemies, so they are happy to maintain the status quo as long as the kingdom does not interfere with their interests.

As a result, in these countries, there was a strange phenomenon of the coexistence of a strong national regular army and the private army of the lords, who were also not weak, and the division and instigation of these lords became one of the means of attacking these countries, but it was only due to the relationship of the racial problem, and this means was not easy to succeed.

The royal family wants to weaken the lord's army. The lords also hoped that the regular army of the kingdom would be weaker, and at the same time, due to the large number of rivers. The huge cost of maintaining the army made them have to increase the inventory of the people, all kinds of contradictions converged, and they also needed a goal to diverge, and foreign wars were undoubtedly a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone, so wars occurred frequently, and the continent of Erathia. It is also becoming more and more chaotic, and small wars occur from time to time, and major wars between countries also break out from time to time.

Why has the Erathia Empire been hostile to other countries on the continent, and it was once besieged by five countries outside the Holy Alliance in the last war, and now the Elven Kingdom, which is an ally of the Empire, was once the life and death enemy of the Empire. Among them, the empire's rejection of foreign races has a great relationship, but the fact that it took the lead in weakening the power of the lord on the continent and touched the interests of too many people is also a very important reason.

To this day, the lord system is still reluctant to disappear on the continent of Erathia, and all kinds of interests make all the people who have great interests from this system try their best to maintain the survival of this system, even in the Erathian Empire, where the lord has the least power, there are also a considerable number of nobles who want to restore the military independence of the lord, and the above-mentioned countries, except for Magnus, the immortal king of Bracada, use his immortal body and strong strength, Slowly weakened the lords of the country to the point where they could no longer threaten his dominance, and successfully transformed into the disguised centralized system of the Erathian Empire. In the other three kingdoms, Diya has gone to the other extreme, the domestic lords continue to grow, there are many factions, and the previous war has ruined the original royal family, but now the country has become similar to Negan's situation, the three most powerful undead lords have joined forces to control the domestic political situation, and these three undead lords are also known as the three giants of Qiya.

On the Terorian side, the swamp kingdoms of the former colonies of the Erathian Empire have been under the shadow of the threat of imperial war, and have spent most of their years dedicated to maintaining their independence, but have done little in terms of institutions. At home, the regular army and the lord's private army coexisted, but the huge external pressure made them unusually united, and they were unusually peaceful.

The Elven Kingdom is still trying to eliminate the influence of the lordship on the rule of the Elven royal family. In the generation of the elf king Palson, the current elf king, who is good at using yin tricks, finally succeeded in taking advantage of two rare opportunities to get rid of the biggest lords in the country.

When the dragon queen Morriel led the dragon army to invade, and later in the last war, the Cregans also attacked the forest of Turalion, although these two wars in the elven kingdom made the elven kingdom very bad, but Parson was shrewd to make full use of these two opportunities, not only finally defeated the invaders, but also successfully indirectly caused a lot of intermediaries. The elven lord was accidentally killed in battle or lost his strength, and then took back a large area of fiefdom from them, enhancing the strength of the elven royal family and consolidating the dominance of the elven royal family.

Now that the Elven Lords are in danger within the Elven Kingdom, if nothing else, Parson may use his skills to make the Elven Kingdom the third highly centralized state on the continent in the near future, after the Erathia Empire and the Bracada Mage Kingdom.

But Parson's luck had obviously been bad, so the accident happened.

As a person who always likes to boast of being resourceful. In fact, it is the ruler who likes to calculate and play with intrigues, and the elf king Parson has such an excellent spy agency as Moon Shadow in his hands, what is it? The extremely secretive spy agency is not only a powerful weapon for his foreign espionage war, but also an effective means for him to monitor domestic developments.

In Palson's hands, the role of this spy agency was played to the extreme by his ambitions. And he, who has been committed to weakening the power of the leader and concentrating power in his own hands, will certainly not forget to use this spy agency to spy on those lords in the country who he considers to be a threat.

Not long ago, when Parson was overjoyed by the bold idea that the Immortal King Magnus would use the necromancers to invade Tytalia, and that the three Holy Alliance countries could take the opportunity to join forces to attack Diya and help the Elven Kingdom recover Tya, a bucket of cold water was poured directly on his head.

The leader of the Moon Shadow had reported to him that the lords of the country had been feeling a little uneasy lately.

Although there is no definite intelligence yet. But there is evidence that there must be someone among the lords who is secretly planning a rebellion.

At the critical time, someone in his own country was pulling his hind legs and hindering himself from recovering Diya. To realize the strategic concept of the Great Elf Empire, the Elf King Parson was furious. But he didn't dare to take such a big risk to attack Diya, so he had to reluctantly refuse Magnus's proposal, and everything had to focus on the overall situation.

"Check, give me a careful check, which guy is so bold that he dares to jump out and stir up trouble for me at this time!"

In the elegantly decorated special study, Parson's face was distorted and he snarled inhibitedly into a dimly lit corner of the study.

In that corner, the leader of the Moon Shadow bowed respectfully to him and whispered in response. Then he quietly withdrew. Yi Xunshu is a fine concave and said that he shook off a different body clam