Because it's fun? What a ridiculous reason, but it seems to be taken for granted by His Majesty.

When the hundred officials of the empire gather in the council hall to discuss state affairs, His Majesty is dignified and solemn, when enemies or rebellious ministers and thieves appear in front of His Majesty, His Majesty is terrifying, and when he gets along with himself and the Holy Son, the Holy Son's godmother, His Majesty is so casual, like a wayward child, thinking of one play is another, how to have fun.

Such a contradictory combination makes it impossible to see through whether this is real or fake.

From this point of view, His Majesty is really an inscrutable being, just like Lord Shengbai, who has a magical ability that makes other people of the same race never guess their thoughts. Angel thought to herself, maybe she also had to exercise such an ability to control the courtiers in the future. Because a king who is incomprehensible is a king who can make his courtiers do their duty.

This is the case of the ancient emperors of China, who rarely went out in the palace, and were not born otakus, but only by living in the palace could they reduce their meetings with courtiers and maintain their own sense of mystery. Otherwise, an emperor whose personality and temper are all penetrated by his courtiers will not be able to dominate hundreds of officials, because the emperor is easily toyed with by powerful ministers after being seen through by hundreds of officials in the court.

"Xiao An, don't you think I'm weird? A casual and playful individual, even if he is powerful, how can he be an emperor? Why didn't he become a faint king after ascending to the throne? Wen Yan suddenly stopped, looked at Angel with a smile and asked.

Angel immediately bowed her head and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, don't dare." ”

"Oh, I just don't dare, so I still have this thought?"

Angel neither nodded nor shook her head, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

The close attendant who followed him stepped forward to relieve the siege: "Your Majesty, the hundred officials have gathered in the council hall, you ......"

"Let them wait." Wen Yan glanced at it, without the slightest hint of anger, but it frightened the soul of the close waiter to fly out of the sky.

Angel knew why hundreds of officials from the court and the central government gathered in the council hall, because the largest military conference since the founding of the People's Republic of China was about to be held there, and it stands to reason that she should persuade His Majesty to give priority to state affairs, but thinking that after this meeting, His Majesty is likely to drive the expedition in person and never return, Angel did not speak.

"Such contradictions have always existed, but at the same time they are not irreconcilable, and if you don't understand them now, you will understand them later." Wen Yan raised his head and looked in the direction of Huaxia Shangjing, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said while recalling, "A long time ago, before you were born, well, I mean before Angel, who is a saint clan, was born, Bai said this to me, I didn't care about it at the time, but when I actually ascended the throne, I realized that his words were not all nonsense. ”

"Your Majesty, I don't understand." Angel was even more puzzled.

"My ability to express myself is not as good as white, just rely on me, you will never understand, let's change the way." Wen Yan showed patience that he had never seen before, "Are you familiar with Yang Xiaoqian's life?" ”

"Very familiar." Angel nodded affirmatively.

During the Yuanjiang War, when Angel was not yet born, Yang Xiaoqian and Liu Yuanzhou were regarded as the great enemies of the Holy Clan by the predecessors of the Holy Clan at that time, and Lord Shengbai even asserted that if human beings could defeat the Holy Clan or even eliminate the Holy Clan in the future, then the person who did it must be one of the two.

Now it seems that Lord Shengbai's prophecy is very accurate, Liu Yuanzhou has defeated the Holy Clan, and in the future, under the premise that the peace treaty has been signed and written into the core code of strong artificial intelligence, if the Holy Clan has a 1 in 100 million chance of being wiped out by humans, then this possible name must be called Yang Xiaoqian, not only because he has combat power that surpasses other human beings, but also because he has a firm determination that others cannot match.

Every Holy Clan believes that interests can impress the vast majority of human beings, except for the Yuanjiang people, and Yang Xiaoqian is a diehard Yuanjiang faction, even if the Holy Clan takes out great benefits, I am afraid it will not make Yang Xiaoqian shake a little - this has been verified by Lord Shengbai himself.

Therefore, the study of Yang Xiaoqian has become a compulsory course for every high-ranking member of the empire, although the Chinese authorities deliberately blocked and blocked Yang Xiaoqian's life experience, but with the memory of Lord Shengbai, the scholars of the Holy Clan were able to sort out a life trajectory of Yang Xiaoqian, from elementary school to junior high school, to high school, and finally to the dome descending, establishing the Far Rescue Society, ascending to a high position, holding power, and every stroke is very clear.

And Angel, who takes the study of Yang Xiaoqian as her daily homework, is not only familiar with Yang Xiaoqian's life, but it should be said that she is reciting it backwards and reciting it like a few treasures.

"Yang Xiaoqian has gone from a human high school student to the first person of the Awakened today, how many obvious changes have he undergone?" Wen Yan asked.

Angel replied without hesitation: "Four times, it is the first time that the human original body who killed Lord Shengbai with his own hands is the second time, the Ginza Mansion encounter is the second, the international trade war against His Majesty is the third, and the new Yuanjiang Armageddon is the fourth, since then, Yang Xiaoqian has changed very little, or rather, it has been temporarily fixed." ”

Wen Yan nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, um, so the four changes have nothing to do with Yang Xiaoqian's awakening at all, right?" ”

"Huh?" Angel had never thought of it that way, but when she thought about it, it seemed to be.

This is really a strange thing, in the cognition of the Holy Race, there are two things that are most similar to the Holy Race: first, endless greed, and second, changes in mentality and perspective are often directly related to changes in strength.

"If it wasn't for the ability to awaken that changed Yang Xiaoqian, then what made him change from a ghostly human boy to a veteran and serious leader of the awakened? Don't be in a hurry to answer it first, before answering this question, you should think about another question, in just over a year, will it really make a human being who is less than twenty physically age rapidly age in terms of mental age and become middle-aged in forty or fifty years old? ”

Angel was speechless, human emotions are always more complex than the Holy Clan, although she has tried hard to understand, although she is also an emotionally rich High Saint Clan, a natural king, but in the face of Yang Xiaoqian's unreasonable changes, she can't find an answer.

"If you can't answer, then think about another question: What caused Yang Xiaoqian's change?" Gentle words are kind and intimidating.

This question is not difficult, the answer can be obtained by elimination, Angel blinked, and replied: "It's position, not status, it's position." ”

"Yes, it is the change of position that has caused Yang Xiaoqian's change, ascend to his position, accept his responsibility, when an individual goes to a position that can determine the life and death of other similar people, he will spontaneously be responsible for this position, maybe Yang Xiaoqian is still the child who has not grown up in his heart, but the naïve child can't stand in this position, so he has changed."

Angel suddenly said: "So you have also changed, so I will also change in the future, not necessarily a real change, but an inevitable change, the difference is only to become a qualified emperor, or an incompetent faint monarch, right, Your Majesty?" ”

Maybe it was because Angel didn't answer all the questions, or because Angel would find the answer on her own sooner or later, Wen Yan didn't answer her question, patted her little head and turned around and walked to the council hall.

As he walked on the road, Wen Yan muttered in a very low volume.

"Speaking of which, Yang Xiaoqian should have arrived in Mongolia a long time ago, and he didn't dare to come to me for so long to catch up with the old days, it's really a coward."

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In the council hall, the hundred officials of the empire are divided by high and low status, each in his own position, and each has his own thoughts.

After Wen Yan and Angel entered the council hall, they walked straight to the dragon chair facing the gate, and more than a hundred high saints and dozens of human beings bowed in unison and curtsied.

Immediately afterwards, the twelve cardinals formed a long line into the council hall, stood in the area dedicated to the Holy Church, bowed their heads to the dragon chair, and then sat down in their seats, except for the crown prince, the Son and the godmother of the Son.

"War in the North, let's talk about it." Wen Yan pointed at Ronaldo and went straight to the point.

Angel glanced at Wen Yan in surprise, today she even threw aside the bad taste of "Zhong Aiqing's flat body", which shows the tension of the war on the northern front.

During the Yuanjiang period, Ronaldo followed Lord Shengbai, and there was only one elder of the Holy Clan left at the same time. Kaka believes in the Lord of Evolution and is the head of the twelve bishops of the Cardinals, while Ronaldo is now a general, holding a dragon and tiger seal, and assuming the duties of a senior military commander or even the supreme military commander in large-scale battles.

Not long ago, Ronaldo rushed back to the council hall from the barracks of the imperial border army, bringing back a bad news that was enough to shake the government and the opposition: three hundred kilometers south of the empire, there was a huge demon tide heading straight for the empire.

This is something that will happen sooner or later, although the empire is located in a desert, but Mongolia's barren population and animal numbers can't satisfy the appetite of the demon tide monsters, plus after the Mongolian dignitaries fled to China and the Russian Federation to seek refuge, a large number of Mongolian refugees who lost the protection of the government and were unable to cross the border could only flee to the Shengyuan Empire in groups.

The fragrant meat is running this way, how can the demon tide not come here?

There have been several local battles of varying scales before, all of which have been caused by the Tide Monster tracking down fleeing Mongolian refugees all the way to the borders of the Empire.

After a few battles, the Empire's top brass realized that the strength of this Demon Tide was far greater than the last Demon Tide that landed in Los Angeles, and that these damn Demon Tide monsters were not only amazingly powerful and had amazing appetites, but also had very smart minds. Some monsters driven by powerful monsters will even deliberately drive away Mongolian refugees, let them replace themselves as cannon fodder to test the new world, and let them find their kind and find shelter in the process of fleeing.

It's just a long line to catch big fish, but those monsters didn't expect them to catch a shark and easily swallow them.

However, this time the situation was different, according to Ronaldo, the southern demon tide was so powerful that in the absence of heavy fire support, the Imperial border army could not stop them at all.

If it had the military strength of China or the Russian Federation, the empire could directly launch missiles after discovering the magic tide, and wash the ground from hundreds of kilometers of artillery fire. But the empire doesn't have those high-tech weapons and equipment, and the only few long-range cannons are biological cannons transformed from the high saints.

For human beings, money may be able to buy everything, but this is not the case for the Holy Family, you must know that the world's largest arms dealers are the five permanent members of the United Nations, as well as the first-class powers with developed military industries.

Superpowers like China, the American Federation, and the Russian Federation, none of them are fools with interests, and they will not be easily moved by the bargaining chips of the Holy Clan, so how can they sell the weapons of the country to the empire?

Perhaps the former U.S. Federation may have had interests, but after the signing of the peace treaty, the supporters of the Holy Race within the U.S. Federation have followed the Holy Family to the Gobi Desert and become a member of the Empire.

So the only choice left is independent international arms dealers, but a few months ago, the international arms market suffered a series of major changes, and the independent arms predators who were active on the front line and just retreated to the second line seemed to have become the downline of some mysterious organization, subject to extremely strict control, saying that they would not trade with the empire and sell high-end weapons.

As a result, the Empire's armies could only be equipped with tattered pieces that were decades behind modern military technology, and most of the time they relied entirely on physical bodies to fight monsters.

But now it has reached the point where the empire is unable to defend itself against foreign enemies, and the slightest carelessness will lead to the destruction of the country and the species, because there is no way to retreat behind them - the armored armies of China and the Russian Federation marched in two directions, almost enveloping the Gobi Desert, and everyone could see that they were not coming to support, but to block the retreat of the Holy Clan.

After hearing about the despicable and dirty practices of Huaxia and the Russian Federation, the people in the council hall were furious, the holy clans scolded one after another, and the human beings who stood on the same side as the empire were also pale.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Angel actually vaguely saw a little joy in the eyes of those high-ranking human officials.

These people have been abandoned by their fellow citizens all over the world, and any human who is not within the borders of the Empire will spit on them, plus the Templars will ensure that they retain their faithful faith and not spies sent by humans, so it is impossible for them to rejoice in the fall of the Empire.

After thinking about it carefully, Angel thought of the answer, these humans were not rejoicing because the empire was about to fall, they were rejoicing because His Majesty was about to go on an expedition.

The top of the empire understands the meaning of human beings very well, and it is nothing more than to let His Majesty, General Ronaldo, Archbishop Kaka and other elders of the Holy Race take the initiative to die, so as to appease the hatred of some people, and at the same time weaken the strength of the Empire, so that the development of the Holy Race will be suppressed and will always be under the control of human beings.

And the reason why these people rejoice in their hearts is because they know that the imperial power is about to usher in a great reshuffle.

Once Your Majesty and the Lords are gone, the core of power in the Empire will change hands, and the more Holy Clans who die fighting for the Empire, the more opportunities they will have.

Looking at these humans, Angel suddenly had a new feeling: vomiting.

These humans make her sick to her stomach.