"Could it be that this Anguo is the predecessor of the Ewen Empire? What's next on the continent? ”

Atlas shook his head and denied Zhou Xin's opinion, "Anguo is Anguo, not the predecessor of the Eun Empire, and it was still very early for the emergence of the Eun Empire at this time." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhou Xin nodded, and then motioned for the little girl to continue, "Brother Captain, do you remember what I just said about Anguo dividing his companions at the beginning of its establishment?" Before Zhou Xin could answer, she continued, "It was this decision to divide the seal that laid the foundation for the final destruction of Anguo and became the main reason for the final demise of Anguo. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, and after thinking about it for a while, he seemed to understand something, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face at the same time. Atlas didn't see Zhou Xin's expression, she continued: "After unifying the southern continent, Anguo is actually an empire with Gatun as the leader in name, but the control of the place is in the hands of the more than 200 orphans who started with Gatun before. As the leader, Gatun only needs to manage the more than 200 orphans, and those orphans, as the leaders of various regions, have all the management rights of the territory under their rule, and only when they encounter something that cannot be handled, they will report to Gaton. Of course, this doesn't happen very often, so Garton doesn't have to deal with much on a daily basis. In addition to the more than 200 orphans, Gatun was left with only a personal guard of more than 100 people for him to drive, but later he simply disbanded this personal guard. ”

Actually, this kind of management was not problematic in Garton and during the lifetime of the more than 200 orphans. After all, the friendships forged on the battlefield are hard to wear away over time, and they do. During Garton's reign, the people of the southern continent were well recuperated. According to the way Garton had arranged the work at the beginning, although the land was still the barren land, the people's standard of living did improve significantly. Even after his death, the method was preserved and improved over time, but as the ancestor who invented it, Garton was respected by future generations even in the distant future. ”

But it wasn't this way of working that was at problem, it was Garton and the heirs of the orphans. Believing in his comrades-in-arms, Garton let those regional leaders choose their own heirs, and at this time, selfishness emerged. While most of the regional leaders chose to have their next leader elected by the people, as was customary during the previous partition period, some chose to pass on the position to their descendants, while deceiving the people that they were the successors chosen by Gaton. Due to the relatively closed transportation conditions at that time, the extremely slow transmission of information, and the trust in Gatun, those people had little doubt, and even if a few people doubted, they did not know where to go for verification, so these descendants of those who fished in troubled waters also succeeded in inheriting the position of leader. ”

"The heirs at the beginning were okay, because of the deep relationship between Gu Nian Garton and more than two hundred heirs, so there was no big mess. However, after two or three generations, there are more and more selfish people, and more and more leaders begin to pass on the leadership position to their descendants. At the same time, because the succession of national and local leaders is carried out independently, and because of the lack of transportation, the leaders' meeting is held only once every five years. After four or five generations, there is no way for national leaders or even local leaders to know everything. In this way, the entire management of Anguo was barely passed down to seven or eight generations. ”

"But that's when the problems started to arise. The leaders of this generation, apart from being able to meet at meetings, can be said to have almost completely unknown each other, and under such circumstances, many people have begun to disagree, and they are no longer satisfied with the size of the territory under their current jurisdiction and want to expand outward. At the same time, although the entire southern continent is relatively barren as a whole, there are still slightly richer areas, which leads to a disparity in the living standards of the people. Looking at these rich regions, not only the leaders of the adjacent regions, but even the people felt a little red, which also led to an increase in regional contradictions. And because after so many generations of recuperation, the people's living standards are no longer comparable to those in the period when the People's Republic of China was founded, and on the premise of satisfying food and clothing, they have also begun to consider other things. From this time on, the whole country can be said to have existed in name only, even at the regular meeting once every five years, some people began to excuse themselves from attending. ”

But at the beginning, although many leaders began to have ambitions in their hearts, it may be because Garton's legacy is still there, or it may be because no one wants to be the first bird, so no one dares to act rashly. However, as time went on, more and more people began to have this kind of thinking, and at the same time, the contradictions between different regions began to accumulate year by year. When the succession of leaders reached the tenth and eleventh generations, suddenly in a short period of time, this contradiction suddenly broke out. At first, only a few regions declared independence, but as the news spread, more and more regions began to declare independence, and some regions even launched direct attacks on neighboring areas at the same time as independence. And at this time, as the nominal leader of Anguo, he has long been unable to prevent this from happening. The territory of Angola began to shrink at a rate that was visible to the naked eye, and perhaps one area declared independence today, and the next day two territories were no longer under Angolan rule. ”

"In just over a decade, the glorious empire that originally occupied an entire continent came to an end. The unified country suddenly fell apart, becoming more than 200 countries that were not subordinate to each other, and returned to the chaotic situation that existed before the unification of the mainland. Since then, Angola has completely disappeared from the southern continent, and even none of the small countries that have split off have a name or recognize it as the inheritance of this country. As the last ruler of Angola, he disappeared before the last nominally part of the country declared independence, and no one knows exactly where he went, leaving only one name in history. ”

Then the entire southern continent was once again plunged into chaos, and the divided nations began to fight each other for their own interests. In the beginning, because they did not adapt to the new changes in the world, many hastily independent regions were directly wiped out by their neighbors before they became independent. Under the survival of the fittest, the number of more than 200 countries that split up quickly halved in a few decades before gradually stabilizing. ”

"Although the number is stable, the fighting has not stopped, and the few remaining are already war-hardened countries, and although they will lose in battle, it is difficult to completely destroy the country. Destruction of a country can only occur when it is besieged by several surrounding countries, but because of years of war, it is difficult for neighboring countries to trust each other, and it is even more impossible to join forces against other countries, who knows when they will be stabbed in the back by the united countries. So in the next 300 years or so, although there was constant friction between these countries, basically no one could help anyone, because the actual existence of the country was about a hundred, so their history called this period of 'chaos of the hundred countries'. ”

"In the time of chaos in the Hundred Kingdoms, although there were many people who wanted to restore the glory of the Garton period, no one was really able to do so. For there was no such charisma among these people as as strong as Garton, and more importantly, there was no new way of working that would go far beyond the way Garton had invented. Under almost the same way of working, it is basically difficult for the strength of each force to be improved beyond the ordinary, and it is also difficult to be able to sweep the entire continent with superhuman strength like Gatun did at the beginning. ”

After a pause, Atlas continued: "Then, after more than three hundred years of chaos in the Hundred Kingdoms, a figure like Garton finally appeared, and his name was Vati. This man, even if he did not become a ruler later, his name is enough to remain in history, because he was the first person in the southern continent to discover steam power and apply this power to life. ”

Since Vati's country still maintained the system of universal elections in ancient times, he became the next head of the country by himself, and he was only fourteen years old. Subsequently, his invention was quickly spread throughout the country, and relying on steam power, the country developed rapidly and grew rapidly. And Vati, although he does not have the same strong appeal as Garton, but he also has the support of almost everyone in the country with his affinity. ”

At the age of eighteen, he succeeded in combining steam power with weapons, and at the same time, after four years of development, the power of the country has long been comparable to that of the surrounding countries. As someone who had admired Garton since childhood, it was only natural that Vati launched a war to unify the continent. ”

"In just one month, the country of Wati wiped out the two surrounding countries, and it can be said that the plot that follows is almost a copy of Gatun. However, with the help of steam power, the speed at which Vati conquered the continent was far from being comparable to that of the Gatton period. Within three years, Wati had occupied more territory than it had been at the time of Gatun's founding, and for the administration of the territory, Wati had stationed a direct guard in each of its jurisdictions, led by the head of the state. As for the regional administrators, the previous system of the state was followed, and the local people themselves elected. Another five years later, at the age of twenty-six, he succeeded in unifying the southern continent. ”

Atlas then looked a little lamented, "But, alas, the country that Watty founded only lasted for three generations before falling apart again. The spark for the split was a brotherly rivalry among Wati's descendants, which, combined with a loophole in Wati's management style, gave local administrators the opportunity to collude with the troop leaders. In this way, the southern continent was once again divided into dozens of countries. ”

"For the next two hundred years or so, these dozens of countries were constantly at war with each other. During this period, many countries perished, and many new ones appeared, constantly dividing and merging, but never completely unified again. In the years of war, the military level of the entire continent has been rapidly improved. At the same time, some people who wanted to take on greater challenges began to sail by boat, and thus began the Age of Discovery. ”

"During this period, he was best known for his circumnavigation of the globe, and it is a pity that although his circumnavigation proved that the star was spherical, Karomper did not discover the northern continent."

"It was also during this time that airplanes were invented. As soon as it appeared, it was used in warfare, and the first country to use aircraft gained a huge advantage in warfare. With the spread of airplanes, wars began to spread from the ground to the air, and those countries that did not have time to build airplanes were quickly eliminated in the war. Eventually, only a dozen or so countries remained on the continent. ”

"With the mass production of aircraft, it was no longer just a tool for direct engagement, and different kinds began to appear. At this time, the reconnaissance aircraft appeared, and at first it was only used as a tool for observing the battlefield at high altitudes, but later it added the function of detecting the terrain. Eventually, someone finally remembered to use it to see what the planet was really like. ”

"After several failures, while also flying in the wrong direction several times, the pilot of a reconnaissance aircraft finally discovered the presence of the northern continent. At first, the people of the Southern Continent were still only concerned with the battle in front of them, and had no interest in the newly discovered continent at all. However, after many investigations, they found that the new continent was many times richer than their own, which surprised the countries that discovered it in the first place. Of course, they will not share such important information with other countries on the southern continent, but are preparing to develop this new continent behind their backs. ”

"Initially, things went very smoothly, and that country managed to establish a small outpost on the northern continent. However, when this outpost was discovered by the natives of the northern continent, the problem arose......"