Chapter 358: Overseas Distant Country: The Dream of the South Island (9) The outside world has ended, and the civil strife has begun

In Zla's heyday, it was also a vast territory.

First of all, the core area of Zla's rule, the heartland, the Shami region, which traces its roots to the plains of the southern part of the former Manada Mountain Region, is more suitable for the gathering of people and the development of land than the rugged mountain corridors, and is now the most fertile area of Zla.

To the north of the novice region is the main part of Manada's once mountainous region, from south to north are Sostora, Se and Glendor, flanked by towering mountain ranges, with only a valley in the middle, along which dozens of towns are scattered in the valley floor corridor.

After Zla's independence, the Manada Mountain Region lost more than half of it, so Glendor and Se were placed in the camp of the second-class frontier regions (before Zla Shami's reform, Manada's so-called region was just a customary name), and then after many battles with Zla, the land was almost slaughtered.

Zla came and killed those who refused to surrender, Manada came back and killed the leading party, Zla took it back and killed the grass on the wall again, Manada took it back and killed the traitors again.

Oh, dear fellow mountain people Glendor, do you want Manada's butcher's knife, or Zla's butcher's knife, or both?

Killing and killing like this, the aborigines of Glendor, Ah Ba, who were the first to slaughter the original Mayana tribe, and the Manada people who moved here were almost slaughtered, leaving only the marginal areas still surviving. By the time Gross arrived at Maz Island, there was one on Glendor's side, and all of them had been relocated later.

Thus, during the time of Gross to Maz Island, Zla divided Glendor and made Glendor and Se together to form the Glendor Mountain Region, which is located in the northern part of the Shami Region.

The Glendor Mountain Region is located in the northwest corner of the island of Maz, to the east of the mountain region, which is the origin of the Manada people, the frontier region, which is now in the hands of the Zla people because of hundreds of years of political changes and facing the front line.

However, the people of Zla still have a fantastic affection for the frontier region, after all, the ancestors of the past went to grab the good times of the frontier region when they had nothing to do, which is mentioned in various documents of Zla. Seven out of ten of Zla's ancient poems praise the richness of the frontier region and give the illusion that the frontier region is the homeland of the Zla people.

So do you think the Zla people will treat the frontier region well? No, I just want to tell you that the Zla people still feel comfortable treating the frontier region as the frontier region of a hundred years ago, at least in terms of tax standards.

If anyone dares to question the tax standard, those nobles will be furious and take out the poems of their ancestors praising the richness of the frontier region, and then ask you bitterly, you don't even believe the words of your ancestors, and say, Is your conscience greatly broken!

When Zla first became independent from Manada, the east was only the land of the present-day Seni, but in the thousands of years of development, the Zla people have long since crossed Seni and established a series of cities in the east of Seni, but they are still vassals of the Shaini region.

The same is true in the south, where the Zla have inherited the unfinished business of the Manada and continue to colonize and expand south across the Hursan River, while the land in the south is significantly more fertile, attracting countless Zla, and now the South has officially established a region, which is simply called the Southern Region.

The trouble began in the Southern Region, the only enemy of the Southern Region was the unsuccessful Zlai barbarians, who were defeated by the Zla settlers, and did not have to bear too heavy labor, and the Southern Region developed very rapidly, so quickly that it soon had the ability to be self-reliant.

What is self-reliance? I can live without your central tax collection, so why should I still collect taxes for you every day under your rule?

Not to mention, in the early days, Zla was fond of deporting the losers of political struggles to the south, which quickly grew into a concentration camp for those who disgruntled with Zla's central government.

As early as 1525, less than a month after the death of Shami V, the Southern Region almost just heard of the death of Shami V and used a rebellion to bring condolences to Zla.

Although it took 7 years for the Southern Region rebellion to be put down by Zla, the consequences were endless, and the most direct consequence was that Zla lost Glendor, and it was not until 18 years later that the head of the Bouben family recaptured it again, and it was with this credit that the Buben family successfully forced the palace to get the position of oligarch leader.

The mad Zla naturally couldn't just leave it at that, and some nobles offered crooked ideas, saying that the reason for this rebellion was that the southern region was too large and needed to be split to weaken his power.

Zlawidow of the Cloth family felt that it made sense, so he did so, and then specially sent an oligarchic family of the trioliarchic family to reside in Zla, so Zlawidow ingeniously chose the Hughes family.

You must know that the Hus family is a Zihi people, and they have always been the representatives of the Zishi people in the political arena of Zila, and the Zishi people are the descendants of the Zila-Manada people, and there are no more than one-fifth of the Zihi people in the whole Zla, and ninety percent of the Zihi people are all concentrated in the north.

When Zlawidow was first transferred to the Hughes family, the abacus was crackling, but the result was a big surprise to Zlawi, and the Hughes family quickly mingled with the locals in the southern region, and the two sides cooperated closely, and the (new) southern region and the Haxiahu region split from the southern region not only did not go further and further, but were more closely combined.

The reason for Zla's miscalculation is very simple, the enemy of the enemy is his friend, and the nobles of the southern region really don't like to let the Zishi people ride on their heads, but what they hate even more is the Buben family who commanded the army to burn, loot and slaughter countless people in the southern region.

At this time, the Hughes family is quite good at being a person, and is willing to put down their bodies to reconcile the contradictions caused by the split of the two regions, so the two regions that already have a common enemy are immediately tightly united. Not to mention, the Hughes family is from Zihi, and they are customers in the southern region, and they are born with shortcomings, which makes the nobles in the south more at ease.

The south is making trouble, the north is not peaceful, and the emergence of a new aristocratic faction in Zila has left the Bomben family with no time to take care of the tandem in the south.

The so-called new aristocracy, of course, is not a new aristocracy that implements capitalized production, but refers to those new military aristocrats who have risen by war against Zla, these nobles were once the minor nobles of Zla, and in the era of Shami Ni V, because of the Zishi origins, they did not trust Zla's old aristocracy, and paid special attention to supporting the small nobles.

At first, the old nobles didn't pay attention, and only saw that the people promoted by Shami Ni V were all Zla, and there were some big nobles, so they didn't dig deeper, and when they found out that something was wrong, it was too late, and all the new nobles promoted by Shami Ni V were in the army.

These new nobles are basically ruthless people who started fighting on the front line, and their power is not comparable to that of the old nobles who live in their hometowns, and they demand more land when they have military power, but the Shami region is overcrowded, and there are still vacant ones reserved for the descendants of the old nobles, where will the land come from for you? Just right, haven't you hit the forest region? Then the forest region will be given to you, we will not fight, okay.

However, these new nobles occupied the forest area, and after they had fiefs, their power expanded even more, and they became a threat to the old nobles, and some people suggested that they should be cut down first, so that they could understand who was in charge of Zla.

However, Zlawidow considered that the plan to annex Manada was on the agenda at this time, and that he could get more benefits by swallowing Manada, and if he started a civil war at this time, the gains would outweigh the losses, so the old nobles could only pinch their noses and tolerate this group of rebellious new nobles for a while.

Originally, the old aristocrats thought that looking at the level of cultivation and the level of the master was clearly that the old aristocrats had the advantage, and after the outbreak of the War of Annexation of Manada, they would definitely be able to grab the most benefits. But this cultivation level has nothing to do with the military.

And an extremely humiliating thing happened to the old nobles, a master of the fire phosphorus level was rushed all the way into the command center by a Xuanhuang-level peasant soldier of Manada in the battle, and was killed by a set of Wang Ba punches. As soon as this news came out, it was hyped by the new aristocracy, and it was spread from the Golden Horn Region to the Southern Region for a while, and it became a beautiful talk for the ages.

As a result, as soon as the "Zlama Lanqi Declaration" was signed in 1590, the old nobles were dumbfounded, and most of the profits of the frontier region were actually eaten by the new nobles who were good at military affairs?

The old nobles and the new nobles quarreled because of the frontier region, and the residents of the frontier region also suffered, and they were often levied two taxes.

I can't afford to mess with the old nobles, but you and I can clean it up. I don't care about the affairs between their nobles, I just know that if I can't collect taxes, I'm going to get out, and it's better for you to die than for me to die, so do you pay taxes honestly or do you want to try my knife advantage?

The frontier region has just suffered a military disaster, and it has been tossed like this, the new nobles are watching indifferently, and the merchants of Maranqi are going around, and the Buben family sees that it is not possible to go on like this, it is a pill, and hurriedly called everyone to discuss.

In 1604, Zla issued the "Decree of the Change of Oligarchs", and the representatives of the new aristocracy, the Besno, replaced the Kano family as one of the three oligarchy, and the new aristocracy was finally qualified to enter the political arena.

In the final analysis, it has only been more than ten years since Manada was annexed, and the war dividends are still to be eaten, and the two sides don't have to be so tense, not to mention that there is still a Maranqi squatting in the east, if we fight, Maranqi will die of laughter.

Gross has never been to Zla himself, and has always been in Maranqi, so he thinks that Maranch talks about doing business every day, selling face to Zla to pray for peaceful trade, and even betraying Manada's compatriots is an act of death, and sooner or later it will become Zla's next target.

And the governor of Maranqi is much clearer, although he claims that his national attribute is justice, but in fact he is a businessman who is appropriate, and he behaves like this, only seeking business and not business, and Zla will tear himself up.

"Shami Ni V, the Zihi people, sacrificed a lot of things for the sake of the throne, and I think that in less than a hundred years, Zila will be in a mess by itself," this is the secret judgment of the top management of Maranqi.