Li Xiang did not answer Ma Jun's question, but looked at Yang Qianyu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

To be precise, it was to look at Yang Qianyu turning over the roast magpie meat roasted on the bonfire.

Of course, Yang Qianyu noticed Li Xiang's gaze, and saw him cut off a magpie leg with a dinner knife and put it on the dinner plate, and then handed the dinner plate to Li Xiang.

"Ah, thank you." Li Xiang didn't immediately take the plate and didn't immediately make a big chunk of Duo Ying, but continued: "According to my guess, the main reason why the royal family has to summon the noble lords of the whole country to send troops to participate in the battle every time they fight against the demons is to find out and weaken the lords in various places. ”

"Thoroughfare? Cripple? "Ma Jun's brain is just turning slower, but Li Xiang said this, even if he is as dull as he reacts to it somewhat." Are you saying the royal family is on the lookout for these lords? ”

Li Xiang raised his eyebrows and did not speak, but concentrated on dealing with the roast magpie meat on the plate.

"What's so strange about that?" Fu Bin on the side continued: "In a monarchy, it is not strange for the monarch to be wary of courtiers, not to mention that these courtiers to watch out for are a group of powerful courtiers who want land, money, and soldiers. ”

"Binzi is right." Yang Qianyu carefully cut the roast magpie meat on the skewers into pieces of meat of similar size and distributed them one by one. At the same time, he explained: "The kingdom of Tristram, where we are now, has been established for more than 600 years. The royal system of government is a joint government system in which the royal family is mainly supplemented by the aristocracy, which can be regarded as a relatively loose power system. Among them, the power of the royal family occupies an absolute dominant position in the kingdom. ”

However, as time went on, the strength of the local noble lords began to gradually increase after years of accumulation, and the power balance between them and the royal family began to gradually narrow. Although the royal family is still dominant, its strength advantage has changed from the previous 'absolute advantage' to a 'relative advantage', and it is no longer able to suppress all the noble lords at the same time. It's just that there is no way and almost impossible for the nobles and lords in various places to work together, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the royal family. ”

Even so, the royal family could not reassure these noble lords, and every king in the past tried to weaken the strength of a small number of noble lords without arousing the alarm of most of the noble lords, and divided some of them into close to each other, co-opted those who were deferential to the royal family, and suppressed the growth of power beyond the bottom line...... In short, the royal family can be said to have tried their best to seize every possible opportunity to suppress the development of the power of these local lords under their command. ”

"If dividing, suppressing, and co-opting these practices are classified as balancing measures that cannot be put on the table, then the grandiose demand that the noble lords 'fight for the country' is a balancing act that can be put on the bright side - and the demon invasion in the 'Year of Darkness', which began more than a hundred years ago and once every ten years, was used by the royal family as the best means to weaken the powerful subordinates under his command."

"A clear plan to kill people with a knife." Shi Jinxin's dissatisfaction at this time calmed down somewhat. "But are those lords willing to be calculated by the royal family like this?"

"How can you be willing?" Fu Bin responded when he heard this: "Those lords are not stupid, of course they can see the purpose behind the royal family's use of this means. But what about that? After all, this is a ploy, the most invulnerable stratagem - it's like knowing that there is a fire pit under your feet, but the best choice you can make is to jump in. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement. For those noble lords in the kingdom, unless the royal family officially issued an order to deprive them of all rights, status, property and even life, if they want to openly and openly resist the order issued by the royal family, the only way is to pull the flag and rebel - as for the former case, the result of rebellion/rebellion or not is a dead end or worse life is worse than death, and in the end it does not matter whether it is a rebellion or not.

In the more than 600 years of history of the kingdom of Tristram, there have been many unpleasant incidents of local lords rebelling/rebelling, but these rebels have not succeeded in the end, and the vast majority of rebels have finally been killed and wiped out, and everything they have has has naturally been taken back by the royal family. However, there were also a small number of rebels who did not fall to the royal family, of course, this did not mean that they succeeded, but because they were wiped out by the surrounding noble lords before the rebel army sent by the royal family arrived. Of course, it was not the royal family that took over all that had fallen from the dead, but the noble lords who participated in the encirclement - this was the most reasonable way for the noble lords to expand their territory.

After such a thing happened a few times, even the local nobles who were dissatisfied with the royal family did not dare to directly point the finger at the other party when the royal family took the lead in tearing their faces, and could only use various methods to disobey the royal family's orders and protect their own interests to the greatest extent. Of course, the royal family does not dare to persecute the local lord excessively, as long as the other party openly follows the orders of the royal family and actually copes with it, it will be considered to have passed. It is in this delicate situation that the two sides tacitly maintain the survival of the kingdom with each other.

Just like in the previous 'Wars of the Demons', the number of troops ordered by the royal family to be sent by the local lords was at most 20% of the total number of troops under the command of the local lords (on the surface) - beyond this ratio, there would be a void of strength within the lord's domain, which the local lords would never agree to.

Even so, the local lords will still use various methods to avoid weakening their own strength. They tend to send only a small number of elites into battle (mainly to protect the security of the conquering lords in wartime), and the rest of the army is a militia of serfs with little training (which has the advantage of being cheap and easy to gather) or a team of mercenaries (which has the advantage of guaranteed combat power).

Of course, the royal family can see the calculations of the local lords, but it is not easy to take advantage of this, because almost all the lords do this, even if the strength of the royal family has an advantage for the lords, they can't fall out with almost all the lords at the same time.

"I even think that the royal family, in the 'Battle of the Demons', seems to be happy to see that the local nobles are not doing their best." Fu Bin suddenly said such a sentence.

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If Li Xiang's previous speech that caused the topic was shocking to everyone, then what Fu Bin said at this time made people feel frightened.

"Almost finished eating the roast magpie meat? That's just right. Seeing that most of everyone's dinner plates were empty, Yang Qianyu pulled out a wild boar that had been dehaired and disemboweled and split into two from the cloth bag next to him, and one of the wild boars was put on the fire and began to continue the barbecue operation. At the same time, as if greeting his companion, he seemed to say to himself: "Now that the appetizers have been eaten, it's time to dinner." ”