Chapter 1151: The Rotten Tang People
Unlike their own people, those ordinary high elves live their own leisurely and contented little lives.
Because the High Elves dominate a continent, they have no enemies on this continent. Except for those elves who go out on adventures, they have not yet abandoned their martial arts and various fighting skills. Most of the elves have long since abandoned their martial arts, and I don't know how long it will take.
They were like mortals, or at least like most mortals, no longer thinking about wars and the like. The High Elves, on the contrary, consider themselves strong enough. At least, so far, no one has dared to challenge them.
This has never happened so far, and the High Elves themselves have become accustomed to it, after all, they are the most powerful people in this vast world. Humans, dwarves are just their students. As for the orcs, they are nothing more than their legendary kings, the servants of a group of gods.
Therefore, most of the High Elves, who have never had the idea of sorrow, live their little life leisurely every day. And other than this, they don't care about other things.
Therefore, the ability to fight martial arts and battlefields is naturally and gradually abandoned. In addition to the High Elves, except for the army that must detect the outside world, the High Elves who were all over the clan back then, with a strong martial atmosphere and a sense of distress, have gradually degenerated.
This point, for the upper ruling class of the High Elves, is almost the same idea. Except for a small number of people, they are worried about the current state of the High Elves. The vast majority of the High Elves, like their people, don't care much about the changes from the outside world. And the only bit of care and precaution is only because after the invisible barrier surrounding the High Elf realm disappears. The elven country that is longed for and longed for by human beings is exposed to the eyes of countless people, and because of the huge power of human beings.
As a result, today's high elves have to admit that they are powerful for human beings.
Therefore, the meagre armament, the watchtowers and guards guarding the various places, are only used to guard against direct threats from the human side. In addition, among the High Elves, there are still no majority of people who recognize what kind of crisis they are facing now.
Unlike them, who are gradually enjoying themselves in peace and pleasure, the nations of mankind are catching up, and the vigorous voyage has not only not dissipated the heat. On the contrary, from the beginning to the present, it has maintained an enduring trend.
The era of great navigation and colonization here is not as uneventful as in countless parallel time and space. On the contrary, everything in this world is filled with a lot of incredible places.
Among them, demons and monsters are everywhere, and various unknown realms and unknown events also appear frequently. The human race, which threatens the safety of all life at all times, is a powerful human being, and in this threat, it always maintains a trembling sense of fear. Although they are more numerous than the demons scattered all over the world, they are not as large as those demons. And the frequent occurrence of various supernatural events also makes the whole world present a strange atmosphere.
On the one hand, human beings are busy with navigation and colonization, and on the other hand, they have to organize armies and all kinds of strange things to eliminate demons and supernatural events that often appear in various places and special spatial realms.
Their colonization and exploration of the New World still did not penetrate deep into the hinterland.
There are many, many more dangers in the New World than in the Old World. To this day, all the colonial powers, their colonial territories, remain in the coastal areas. Those who can go thousands of miles inland and thousands of miles are the world's leading powers. During this time, they shed enough blood and killed enough people to cut off any great river.
Because of the inability to penetrate deep into the hinterland, the colonization activities here are undoubtedly very mature compared to the movements in parallel time and space. A large number of people are piled up in the coastal and slightly inland areas, making the scale of local development extremely mature. As time passed, the degree of development in the area was no worse than that of the Old World. Even the wealth created by a colonial territory is equal to the tax revenue of a powerful country in a year. However, hundreds of years have passed, and those colonial territories that have long since developed and become powerful still have not yet given birth to a sense of independence.
Although they are wealthy, their population is growing in size.
However, they are well aware of the difference between themselves and their home countries. I also know that the strength of my mother country is far from being able to resist by myself. In addition, the dangers in the New World make them need to be guarded and protected by troops from their home countries in all aspects. Therefore, even if they have a sense of independence, they still do not choose to be independent under the trouble and interference of various reasons.
However, these signs of independence were perceived by the countries of these colonial territories.
These rich colonies contribute so much wealth and resources each year that they cannot easily abandon them. After perceiving these signs, it was only natural to send a large number of troops and fleets to garrison important colonial territories. Although these colonial territories were well aware of the purpose of the mother country's actions, they had to acquiesce in this fact under the threat of danger across the continent.
Because they really lack the determination to confront the mother country, they are even more worried that once they break with the mother country, they will be under the direct threat of all kinds of dangers and demons in the New World. Whether they can live safely without the protection of their mother country is something they should care about. However, they have not faded the independent thought in their hearts, but now this thought is hidden in the deepest part of their hearts. At the same time, they began to make a series of preparations, such as guns, artillery, and the help and support of hiring wizards, which were also under their consideration.
Unlike these colonial powers, which still maintained a fairly strong sense of initiative, the Tang people were entrenched in the Mediterranean, occupying Gibraltar and controlling Egypt, and mastering these two major transportation routes and strategic areas. Itself is still in chaos, although this chaos has improved a little now. However, the entire vast ancient kingdom has not yet returned to its former normal state.
Corruption was rife among the Tang people, and the upper class was already rotten, as was the middle class. They use their financial resources to constantly seek benefits and power appeals for themselves. And the lowest class of commoners have long since been reduced from the state of 'rich peasants' hundreds of years ago to the bitter untouchable class! The real rulers simply ignore these and choose to turn a blind eye to all of them. They are drunk and dreaming of death, controlling the whole country and seeking more personal interests for themselves. And those who really want to change all this and restore the glory of the past are looking at the closed passages and sighing in vain.
The entire kingdom, at least the upper classes of the kingdom, enjoyed the protection of the beast that protected the country.
Because, with the Protector Divine Beast, no country can land on their territory. Even if it was a bloody battle with the coalition forces of the European continent, the result was a fiasco. Because of the relationship between the Protector Divine Beast, the European Coalition Army has not been able to land on the mainland of the Tang people. Therefore, the upper rulers lived a drunken life with peace of mind, and no longer paid attention to all changes in the country.
And these make those capable people who really want to change everything in this country feel heartache.
The obstacles they face are enormous, and it is impossible for them to stand up to the entire rotten ruling class by one person. Both the upper and middle levels are the obstacles that these people who want to reform and change all this must face. Although there will always be capable people in this country who can turn the tide, so far, there has not been a strange person who can transform the country with his own strength.
The Tang people waited in pain, waiting for the appearance of the Ming Jun, and waiting for the birth of the virtuous minister.
Before that, they had to prepare for the imminent war and a new round of carving-up feasts. This is because the countries of the European continent have long been displeased with this decadent country that guards the two major transportation arteries and strategic areas. Nor do they want the vital Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal to remain in the grip of the decaying country, and to share in the staggering profits of trade every year.
There is nothing easier for nations determined to change all this than with a war.