Chapter 628: It's better to be the emperor
Chapter 628 is not as good as being the emperor
But soon, from the serious expression on Moriel's face, Chen Jian realized that his wife-to-be was not joking with himself, but serious.
After a closer look, Chen Jian appeared again, whether he married a wife or not, whether he had children or not, these two things that seemed to have nothing to do with politics, but in fact, because he was the ruler of the alliance, he had invisibly had such an inseparable relationship with the survival of the alliance.
Because for a feudal country that implements a centralized system, whether the ruler has a successor is indeed the most important thing related to whether the country can maintain long-term peace and stability.
Because a nation can exist for hundreds or thousands of years, and its founder cannot live for hundreds or thousands of years, unless he has a magical immortal body like Magnus and Tanan.
In the case of the Erathia Empire, the continent's most powerful state has been a thousand years, and in this long time, the ruler of the empire, the emperor with supreme authority, has changed a lot.
And the people of the empire have also shifted their allegiance from the original founding emperor Rienzinghardt to the Geffenhardt family, who are now the imperial family of the empire.
Although among the emperors of the past dynasties, there are not many Ming monarchs like Ryan, most of the emperors are just mediocre people, and some are even more unreasonable, but it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the existence of the Gffenhardt royal family that the empire can continue to this day, even after Catherine left, the empire has been declining, no longer the glory of the past, but it has never perished, because the hearts of the imperial people are still towards the royal family of Geffenhardt, and what the people of the empire are now loyal to is the empire itself represented by the royal family. Instead of Catherine personally, her loyalty to the empire allows countless imperial people to fight for the empire and the royal family, as long as the policies of the rulers of the empire do not make major mistakes, even if there are a few faint monarchs, the empire can be maintained if they are not too outrageous.
The opposite is true for the league today.
Chen Jian almost single-handedly grew the alliance to its current scale.
It is undeniable that in the process, he has received the help of his followers, but it is important to note that all of his followers have been impressed by his charisma and the ideas he proposes, and they have followed and pledged their allegiance to him.
And these capable followers, so far, the object of allegiance has always been Chen Jian, for them, Chen Jian is the alliance, the alliance is Chen Jian, loyalty to Chen Jian is allegiance to the alliance, allegiance to the alliance is loyalty to Chen Jian, there is no difference between the two.
Chen Jian is the foundation of the alliance and the soul of the alliance.
And in the situation of this world, if Chen Jian has a family, a wife, and offspring, there is no doubt that these Chen Jian's followers will also offer their loyalty to Chen Jian's family, but the problem is that Chen Jian has not had a formal, nominal family so far, because Chen Jian is a traverser, he has no relatives in this world, although he has a woman, he has not officially married into the door.
Therefore, if Jian Chen is gone, these followers who are the pillars of the alliance will immediately lose their allegiance.
Therefore, although Morriel seemed to be suggesting that Chen Jian marry a wife and have children, he was actually suggesting that Chen Jian transform the object of the alliance's allegiance from a specific individual into a larger group, a strong family with Chen Jian as the core who can rule the alliance for a long time.
In this way, the importance of Chen Jian's personal safety is not so prominent, because even if Chen Jian is gone, his family is still there, his followers still have objects to be loyal to, and people's hearts are not easy to disperse.
And putting aside the belief of Chen Jian's followers in their own pursuit of racial equality, now, the vital interests of these Chen Jian's followers have been tightly tied to the alliance, and for the new aristocratic class that is rising in these alliances, their interests can only be protected if the alliance exists, so of course they will choose to continue to support Chen Jian's family or descendants in case of emergency, form a new ruling class, and continue to hold high the banner of the alliance.
And when those opponents, both overt and covert, realized that assassinating Jian Chen in such a situation would not do much to their goal of subverting the Alliance, they naturally abandoned this rather risky and thankless practice.
As a result, Chen Jian's safety has been guaranteed, and the rule of the alliance has been further consolidated, and Chen Jian's personal problems have now become a good thing that is quite beneficial to both public and private, killing two birds with one stone.
After thinking about this relationship, Jian Chen was extremely depressed.
With his personality, he is quite disgusted with this kind of thing, in his opinion, private affairs are private affairs, public affairs are public affairs, and it is really a very unpleasant thing to affect his personal life because of political reasons.
He also hates his current life situation where there are a large number of soldiers of the Presidential Guard who are hugging each other no matter when he goes in and out, and even eat and sleep are guarded by special personnel, and his personal ** is seriously violated, but he also understands that his identity has determined that he cannot be as free as before.
What you gain will lose something.
He was given power, and because of it, he succeeded in doing many things that he would never have dared to think of before, but he also gave a lot.
This is the sorrow of being a superior person, and their status has made them lose a lot of fun that only ordinary people can experience.
What made Chen Jian even more depressed was that he was originally self-reliant because he wanted to protect himself, but he didn't expect that today, after having the strength of Nuoda, he still had to worry about his personal safety.
"I X"
Frowning and depressed for a while, Jian Chen finally couldn't help but pop out of such a dirty word to express his current terrible mood.
"You're useless" Moryl smiled, smiling very happily, she has been with Jian Chen for a long time, of course she knows what the word in Jian Chen's mouth means, and she also understands why Jian Chen is in a bad mood, she already has a full enough understanding of this man, "Temple and Esrena's side, I will talk to them, you are ready to do it, I believe that when you are ready, when everything is ready, things on Tertagria's side should be relatively on the right track, and it should not be a problem to let Acerena come back for a few days."
As if remembering something, Morriel added: "If Fowler knows that you are going to get married, you must die of happiness, you just wait to see how he can help you do it, and then I am afraid that not only you, but even I will have a headache for a while." ”
Chen Jian became more depressed when he heard this.
Because he suddenly thought that since he was hooked up with politics, in order to increase his influence, his wedding was absolutely impossible, and an old butler full of ** feudal ideas was even more terrible.
He could almost imagine the level of red tape he would face on his wedding day.
However, depressed to depressed, Chen Jian still had to start seriously thinking about how to operate this matter in order to achieve the greatest and best effect.
Chen Jian felt that his wedding was best held in the autumn, when it was the season of crop harvest, after years of war, it was once again ushered in a quiet and peaceful harvest season, and it was likely to be a bumper harvest season.
Because of this mentality, if Jian Chen held a wedding at that time, it would definitely have an unexpected good effect in gathering people's hearts for the alliance.
Then Chen Jian realized that from a purely political perspective, the three wives he married were really of great help to consolidate the rule of the alliance.
His eldest wife is Tempe, who has advanced to the rank of Fire Magic Master.
Due to Jian Chen's operation, the atmosphere of the alliance magic world is quite good, in the alliance magic academy, all kinds of magic exchanges are endless, and the alliance magicians have benefited a lot from this, and even the exchanges and discussions between magicians outside the magic academy have gradually increased.
As a genius magician who is quite young but has advanced to the grandmaster, Temple is naturally highly respected by magicians in this atmosphere, coupled with her good relationship with the water magic master Tren, and as the main person in charge of various magical affairs of the alliance and her beauty, Temple now has a very high status and popularity in the alliance magic world, and what is more interesting is that some magicians have successfully broken through their own bottlenecks and advanced in a short period of time after referring to her magic notes and magic experience. This made Temple a figure similar to a spiritual leader in the alliance's magical world, with great influence.
In a sense, Temple represents the magical world of the Alliance, and magic is a decisive force in the world where the continent of Erathia is located.
Jian Chen's marriage to Temple is equivalent to his control over the magical power of the Alliance, which is once again strengthened.
Jian Chen's second wife is the Queen of the Dragon, Moriel.
As a strong woman who once ruled Negan, and even tried to dominate the continent, the Dragon Queen Moriel has quite amazing energy, not to mention her high influence among the dragons, the dragons who support her, due to the rise of the alliance, now account for at least one-third of the number of Negan dragons, including those who are forced to surrender to the alliance, she has an amazing number of supporters.
What's more, Moriel's influence is not limited to the Negan Dragon Clan, her great deeds back then made her have a large number of supporters among the Negan clans, when Chen Jian used troops in Negan and showed enough strength, the Dragon Queen's old department responded to the call and swarmed up, which has already illustrated this problem.
Similarly, among the Negan civilians, Morrill also has no shortage of supporters, after all, no matter how she ruled Negan, she still brought a short but peaceful good life to the Negan people in some areas, and there are many good Negans who miss her.
It can be said that Chen Jian's plan in Negan can go so smoothly thanks to Moryl's help, without Moriel, his Negan strategy will not know how much more time it will take to realize.
Therefore, Chen Jian married Moryl, the benefits are self-evident, from Moryl's side, he will get more powerful support from the Negan Dragon Clan and other races and all aspects, and the Negan people's recognition of him will also increase again.
Jian Chen's third wife is the angelic beauty Esrena.
Chen Jian of the Angel Clan must be accepted, such a powerful race, Chen Jian has no reason to let it go, and Esrena is the granddaughter of Howard, the former patriarch of the Angel Clan.
Because of this relationship, as long as Jian Chen has a way to make the Angel Clan agree with the matter between Esreina and him, then there will be such an intimate marriage relationship between the Angel Clan and the Alliance.
Having such a powerful race behind him is of course of course of great benefit to Jian Chen to consolidate his dominance, of course, the premise of all this is that Jian Chen can smoothly dig the Angel Clan from the empire into the alliance.
In addition, because of the combination of different races between President Chen Jian, who defied the world's condemnation, and Acerena, the alliance has also made its position on this issue public from an official perspective, which is not without benefit to break the traditional thinking inherent among various ethnic groups and further promote the concept of racial equality in the alliance.
While Jian Chen was thinking about it, Morrill spoke again.
"Actually, there is another thing that I think is necessary to consolidate the rule of the Alliance."
"What's the matter?"
Suddenly interrupted from his thoughts, Jian Chen was a little unable to adapt to this kind of jumping topic.
Morrill smiled, "I've always felt that if you change the name of the alliance to the empire, and change the title of your president to the emperor, maybe the Negan people will identify with us a little higher."
Chen Jian was stunned and said, "Why? ”
"The reason is very simple, if you think about it, what does the word empire mean to the people of the continent of Erathia?" Morrill smiled faintly, her eyes full of confidence, "Before the Age of Miracles, I didn't dare to say, after all, there wasn't much historical data to check, what kind of situation the continent was like at that time, we have no way to verify, but since the end of the Age of Miracles and the beginning of the Silent Era, every extremely powerful country has given itself the name of an empire as far as the Braccaton Empire, and the Erathia Empire is near, and you should also note that the major forces on the continent now, except for the Erathia Empire, It's all just calling itself a kingdom, have you ever wondered what that means? ”
Chen Jian couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "What does it represent?" Could it be that they don't have enough self-confidence to call themselves empires? ”
Morriel said: "Maybe you will think this is funny, but I want to tell you, this is the truth In the eyes of the people of the Erathia continent, the word empire has a very special meaning, if you don't have enough strength, you dare to call the empire in vain, and you will only make other people's jokes In the history of the continent, there have been such examples of self-indulgence, you should have heard of the Phinethia Empire, right?" ”
"The Phineas Empire? The ephemeral empire that called the magicians magicians? After a little recollection, Jian Chen remembered the empire in Moriel's mouth, "I remember that the crown in Temp's hand that can amplify fire magic was made by that empire."
Morriel nodded, and said: "Yes, it is this Phinethia Empire, this empire was once a number of powerful forces on the continent known for its strong magical power, it is rumored that this empire has obtained some magic technology from the Miracle Age, of course, their strength is far inferior to the Erathia Empire at that time, and the existence time is also very short, they finally fell at the hands of the elven kingdom, and this empire later became synonymous with people making fun of people who are not self-sufficient."
Hearing this, Jian Chen couldn't help but be a little confused: "What do you want to say?" If you persuaded me to change the alliance into an empire, then why do you give such a negative example? ”
Moryl said helplessly: "Why are you confused again?" Don't you realize that it is indeed unwise to call ourselves an empire when we are not strong, but how much good it will bring us if we are already invincible and call ourselves empires? I cite the example of Phinethia just to show you that if we don't fail like Phinethia and people have faith in us, the title of Empire will definitely be beneficial to us."
Being reminded like this, Jian Chen thought about it again and finally understood what Moriel meant.
Chen Jianxian, just as Morriel said, what alliances, presidents, and parliaments he spoofed did confuse the aborigines of this world.
After all, in this world, the alliance is used to describe the alliance of some countries, not specifically to a specific ** country, president or something, and no one has ever used it.
These unfamiliar names, at some point, will indeed make the aborigines of this world not so easy to accept, and thus affect the spread of the concept of the alliance and people's recognition of the existence of the alliance to a certain extent.
The titles of Emperor and Emperor do not have such a problem.
The unique culture and ideology of the continent of Erathia have made the monarchy deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in this land, in this world, people have long accepted the system of a small number of people ruling the majority of the people, when it comes to the empire, people will think of a powerful country, and when it comes to the emperor, people will think of the supreme existence.
In fact, the reason why Chen Jian implemented the centralized system in the alliance is also for this reason, it is not entirely his civic psychology that is at fault, Chen Jian of course feels that it is too tiring to be a great man who implements a more advanced democratic system, and it is not as easy and refreshing as being a leader, but he also realizes that on the continent of Erathia, there are no conditions for the implementation of democracy, at least in the era in which he lives, it is impossible to achieve it.
The change of every system requires a lot of prerequisites and long-term evolution, and on the continent of Erathia, what is now there is only the condition for the implementation of a centralized system that is more advanced than the lord system, because in this regard, the Erathia Empire has already begun to try and has achieved some results, so the implementation of this system is not so difficult to accept, and there are comparable examples, and what Chen Jian did was just to make this system more perfect, so to speak, in this regard, Chen Jian is stained with the light of the Erathian Empire, and it is not a fluke that he can successfully implement the centralized system in the alliance.
Then, as Morriel mentioned, the current situation of the alliance compared with the Phinethia Empire back then, has a unique condition, that is, the Negan where the alliance is located is across the sea from the mainland mainland, there is the natural danger of the Crescent Moon Strait, and the undersea tunnel like a labyrinth, it is really difficult for other forces to invade the alliance's current largest base, and even if the alliance is not conducive to expansion, it can easily divide one side in Negan and protect itself.
That's why Morrill said that the alliance is already invincible.
In this case, the alliance calls itself an empire, not because it is self-sufficient, but it still has considerable benefits to be gained, after all, the familiar name of empire is far more than any name like alliance to increase the sense of belonging of the natives of this world to the country created by Chen Jian, and it is also easier for people to have confidence in this country.
And Chen Jian, who claims to be the emperor, will also make it easier for his people to have a sense of awe and obedience to him.
"I X"
After figuring out these joints, Jian Chen couldn't help but burst into foul language again, but this time, of course, his mood was not depressed.
"It seems that I am not the emperor, I am really wrong"