Chapter 1023: Fluctuations
The reason why Nicholas was so emotional was because they had returned to the Wizard Empire and reported to the Rainbow Council about the current situation, and at the same time, Nicholas also learned about the preparations for the Wizard Empire. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The archmages of the Rainbow Council are really not stupid, they have long known that reform is inevitable for the Wizard Empire, don't look at what Jenn said nicely, and he also signed a fate agreement. But he has the support of the ancient gods behind him, which in itself shows that the ending of this matter will definitely not be as good as described in the agreement.
In other words, no matter what the outcome of this duel is, the Demon Empire actually has to change. Therefore, what they can do is to protect the interests of their side as much as possible, so that they have enough negotiating capital before the other party shows its fangs. After all, the relationship between the two sides has always been good, and no matter how greedy Jenn is, he won't be too ugly.
But when they got the report from Chris and Nicholas, everyone couldn't sit still.
Archmages are not fools, they are very clear to understand that the reform proposed by Jenn is not just to change the application of magic technology, but to completely overthrow the current social structure of the magic empire!
As a result, the problem suddenly changed from a purely technical problem to a complex social problem.
At first, the archmages of the Rainbow Council thought that it was simply a technological dominance, like the question of whether to use the steam engine as the main power or electricity as the main power. The disagreement between Jenn and the Wizard Empire was only there—at least that's what the archmages thought.
But after reading the reports of Nicholas and Chris, the archmages realized that this kind of technological revolution was to completely overthrow the existing ruling foundation of the Magic Empire!
The ruling class of the Wizard Empire is also a structure that continues thousands of years ago, to put it bluntly, the higher your spell casting ability, the higher your level, the higher your position, and the higher your social status. Therefore, the social pyramid of the Magus Empire is equivalent to the structure of the commoners, the mage apprentice, the low-level mage, the middle-level mage, the high-level mage, the legendary mage, and the legendary peak mage. Therefore, what kind of social and political status a mage has in the Demon Empire can be known by looking at his mage level.
Of course, it doesn't mean that every mage will handle political things well, and many things will be handed over to ordinary people who specialize in politics to do, but those ordinary people in this social hierarchy are basically equivalent to the butlers of the aristocratic lords, who may have a bit of status, but they do not have the power to make their own decisions.
And with such a political structure as the Magic Empire, it is naturally easy to understand what kind of existence the ruling class standing at the top is. Only those famous families with many mages can stand in this position, and have the ability to control and monopolize the magic empire. For a long time, the entire magic empire under this system has been quite stable, because a person's magical talent is innate, and any step that can be done is which step, so those with magical talent are standing tall, and those without talent are not good, and everyone accepts this judgment.
However, Jenn's reform has filled the gap between the two, and if it is really according to Archmage Nicholas, then according to this development in the future, there will be no difference between mages and ordinary people at all -- no, it should be said that there is no difference between ordinary people and mages!!
How does this work?
After receiving the report from Archmage Nicholas and Archmage Chris, the Rainbow Council immediately summoned all the large forces and families in the Wizard Empire, and then talked about it, and everyone immediately exploded. If they really want to do it according to Jenn, then is there still a way for them to live?
Hearing the news at this moment, those big families and forces are as if they were born in famous families, and they have finally worked hard to get into the Ivy League, just waiting for graduation to go out and make a big difference as graduates of first-class elite schools, only to be horrified to learn that this school is going to be transformed into a public university where even the gangsters in Brown District can enter and exit at will...............
Why!! Why should those ordinary people be on an equal footing with us!
We're mages! After going through countless hardships and tests, I finally became a mage! Do you know how difficult it is to become a mid-level mage? And high-level mages! How much effort it took us to climb to this position!! And now, do you want us to be on an equal footing with that group of civilians?
Although from the point of view of the facts, high-level mages still have unique characteristics, but in the current environment, there is not much difference between high-level mages and mid-level mages, at least in terms of combat effectiveness, so this makes these big families full of insecurity. These days, there has been a riot in the Magic Empire, and they have experienced it. In the eyes of these people, the current group of ordinary people who don't know how to do magic are so energetic, so when they also master these magic machines, won't it turn the sky upside down? When the time comes, will we still have a way to live?
Jenn had expected this, and it was not surprising at all, that changing a social system was a very dangerous and drastic thing in itself. This is like the world he is in, before this, the landlord and the long-term worker, that has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, everyone is accustomed to it. You work hard for the landlord, and give away some grain during the New Year, that is also a matter of course. In the eyes of the landlord, the land here belongs to his family, and these long-term workers naturally belong to his family. No matter how the landlords themselves are, whether they are good for long-term workers or not, at least this concept, they will not change.
Therefore, if you want to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, this group of people would rather kill you to the death, and they will never agree.
In essence, there is no essential difference between the burning of Copernicus at the stake and the hanging of revolutionaries, because they were both suppressed for their desire to overthrow the existing and universally accepted order and rules.
Of course, whether this order and rules are reasonable or not is another matter. At least for the general public, it doesn't make much difference whether the sun revolves around the earth or the earth revolves around the sun, right?
Moreover, the landlord hires long-term laborers, which also has a history of hundreds of thousands of years, and if everyone thinks that there is no problem, isn't that it?
Naturally, Jenn didn't plan to learn about land reform so thoroughly, not because he was really benevolent, but as a devil, Jenn knew very well what kind of impact it would have on society if the old upper class stayed. It's just that he deliberately didn't disclose this matter to Nicholas, and Nicholas and Chris may be good at learning magic, but they don't know anything about this kind of social system reform, listening to Jenn talk about this, they are naturally a little similar to the Cold War when the capitalist camp was as frightened as when they heard that they were going to be "communist", as for what the essence of this "communism" is, what the idea is, and how it behaves, they don't care. For them, it's enough to know that this thing can kill them.
If there is no contradiction, the contradiction will be created, and if there is a contradiction, the contradiction will be intensified, only in this way will the enemy take the initiative to jump out, and when the time comes, Jenn will arrest a group, close a group, and kill a group. The next reform can be easily completed.
For a time, the upper echelons of the nervous Demon Empire, like the capitalists who heard that they were going to be "communist", burst out with a powerful force comparable to the Cold War, and all kinds of relations were mobilized, and they began to assemble and prepare for the decisive battle after that.
First of all, in terms of personnel composition, the Demon Empire has put a lot of thought into it. The total number of mages that Jenn had taken with him at that time was three thousand two hundred and eighty. Therefore, the Demon Empire also created a team of 3,280 people according to the same number of people. It's just that Archmage Nicholas knows that there is moisture on both sides. Of Jenn's 3,200 men, only about 1,500 were actually trained in combat, and the other 2,000 were doing other jobs, and had no intention of marching and fighting. This meant that Jenn would have to use 1,500 men against an army of 3,200 men. If it weren't for fleet warfare, I'm afraid there would be no need to fight at all.........
In terms of hardware, the Magic Empire has prepared the First Royal Fleet and the Special Advance Fleet, both of which are the treasures of the Magic Empire's pressure box, and this time they were all taken out, naturally because of the pressure. The trump card army is the unit that consumes the most resources, and if it weren't for the concerted efforts of the high-level forces within the Demon Empire this time, I am afraid that they would not be able to come up with enough resources and manpower to assemble it.
In Nicholas's opinion, the Magic Empire has really worked hard, and they have mobilized the most resources, the most manpower, and the best warships to fight for their own survival. But for some reason, looking at those mage apprentices who were working hard, Nicholas always didn't dare to relax -- he always felt that the efforts of the Rainbow Council and those high-level leaders couldn't be compared with the school city.
Of course, these are subjective assumptions, and the real result will only be known after the fight.
And the time of the fight is coming. (To be continued.) )