Chapter 1399: Institutional Change
"What's the difference?" "What's the difference?" asked Musis, 50,000 merits, for him now, it's not that he can't afford it, and he won't even feel pain, but he can't let the main god exploit him, he has long realized that he can bargain with the main god.
"You've read a lot before, haven't you? These Taoist priests are the same as the ones in the middle. ”
"Same!"
"Fly to the sky and escape to the earth, slay demons and subdue demons. ”
"That Asra, what's the matter!"
"Can't say. ”
"How many merits?"
"Thirty million. ”
Muscis is silent, the more merit points are needed, the more dangerous the other party is. The target of 50,000 merit points has already killed Marduk. 30 million merit points, that's not enough to put yourself in.
"I see. "Musis quit voluntarily, not wanting to talk nonsense with the Lord God anymore.
Legend has it that the apostles were set free when they grew up to the end. But he didn't believe it. It's like a casino, where there are always people who have made a fortune in it, making countless gamblers blush, hoping that they are also the lucky ones.
Actually, it's just a casino routine.
But what choice did he have? Would he rather die than do it?
Fortunately, I finally got some free information this time, there are outsiders in Baicheng, and they have some common sense about the origin of the apostles, and they will kill them when they see the apostles.
I heard that there are many Taoist priests in Asla's Red Sea City.
Could there be any connection between the two, but there is no way for Asra to collude with Bai Cheng, just as he can't collude with the gods. Asking him for trouble with the affairs of the three goddesses is just a temptation.
Is it really only possible to develop oneself first and slowly think of a way to deal with Asra?
But if you grow by yourself, Asra will also grow, and according to past experience, the other party's growth speed has always been faster than your own. To make matters worse, Asra is also more capable of cultivating talents than himself.
The demigods under his own hands are all cultivated by the main god. Send from the Ten Thousand Worlds Passage to different worlds and grow by killing.
These bastards, who have reached the peak in one world after another, all think that they are the pride of the sky, and there is no one in their eyes. If it weren't for the suppression of the main god, it might have rebelled a long time ago.
Don't they know that the Lord God doesn't care about everyone's life or death?
The "Demigod Pact" has gradually expanded within the Arcane Empire, and from top to bottom, nobles and commoners, as long as they have come into contact with it, feel that this pact is very good.
The individual strength of the nobles is stronger than that of ordinary people, but in the face of demigods, they are still lambs to the slaughter. If the Demigod Pact had come out earlier, there might have been more people seeking refuge with Her Majesty.
However, there is another problem with this, if it weren't for the conflict between Rhode Island and White City, which allowed the power of the demigods to be displayed in front of ordinary people, many cities would be affected, and maybe the nobles would not be so endangered.
The five academies that oppose Angelina are simply helpless at this time, and not recognizing the Demigod Pact is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of everyone.
Even the nobles who support them are afraid that they will be killed by the demigods.
The demigods tried to kill them, but they had no resistance. Originally, when the empire was calm, this was not a problem. At that time, the demigods were all hidden, and there were not many of them, and they would not appear in front of people, let alone participate in the wars of the country. Even if a strong person gets out of control, His Majesty the Emperor will say a word, and everyone will attack it in groups, and it will soon be over.
Now that the old emperor has become a god, and the new emperor is engaged in the division of the country, there is not a single voice that can prohibit it.
Everyone is in danger, which is the portrayal of the nobles now.
The five academies knew very well that if they did not pass the Demigod Covenant, many nobles would go to the empress. If demigods are not bound, what is the difference between demigods and Juno III?
Everyone opposes Juno III, isn't it because he became a god?
After becoming a god, Juno III is on high and you are no longer a courtier, you can only be a believer. Believers are tantamount to losing themselves and being controlled by the gods.
For the nobles of the empire who advocate freedom, it is better to go to Asla, although Asra does not give you noble status, you can obtain the status of a high-ranking citizen through dedication. In the eyes of many nobles, high-ranking citizens are nobles in disguise, but they are not as powerful as the current nobles.
However, identity and status are still not comparable to those of civilians.
The nobles below Rhode Island, they also have a lot of secret communication, and they are not looking for a way back. A high-ranking citizen is a nobleman who has been deprived of military power, but in terms of taxes, it is not necessarily higher than the original noble. The original nobles had to raise soldiers, and that was not for you, but for the empire.
Rhodes abolished the nobility, but without depriving you of your property, you have mines, forests, arable land, and trading houses, which can still bring you rolling profits.
Rhodes is much gentler than Musis, and won't come up and take half of your stuff, and the most infuriating thing is to rob you of your property in the Empire and give you the same size in the New World.
Can that value be the same?
Become a high-ranking citizen, the tax is high, but you don't have to raise troops to defend the land, and when you go to war, the state will protect your private property. As for the need for donations, doing good deeds, etc., the nobles did not resist. No one forced it before, and the nobles would also do some of this, so that the people in the territory could feel the warmth of the nobles.
This is a practice that has both face and the support of the people, and Metatrin rules in the south like an iron bucket, and if he does not pour water, he is skillful.
Xia He also wanted to see how the five major academies dealt with Musis.
After Anna withdrew from Nether, he had nothing to worry about. For example, Anna Li and Lynn, if they go one step further, they will basically not be plotted against by others. It's just as safe to stay on your own turf now.
Musis is about to become a mad dog now, and it's still good to let it out and bite people.
Since sleeping in Xia He's bed once, Angelina's temper has improved a lot, and I don't know what principle it is based on. The team walked slowly, and it didn't matter if it seemed that they would never get to Metatrin College.
On Xiahe's side, I thought I was stable, but I didn't expect that something happened again on the northern side.
There were some nobles who tried to take refuge in Rhode Island through the side of Little Sun City.
This is disgusting, because the territory of these nobles is located between the city of Juno and Nether. In this location, there is a Gaode College. Needless to say, the relationship between Gaode Academy and Rhode Island is that the two demigods of the family were killed above the Golden Rose, and their faces were slapped.
Don't be kidding, if you take people in yourself, will you be like Muses and move these people to the New World?
If they don't move, the original land will be left to them, what if they are beaten down by Gaode, and they won't be able to send troops?
Sending troops is a bird, looking at the lively things of Musis, it is impossible, and he has to face up to Gaode Academy. Then there is Gaude in front and the city of Juno in the back.
Do not accept surrender?
What will be the impact on himself? Xia He felt a little embarrassed.
But he was embarrassed for less than an hour, and news came from Rhode Island. Those nobles who took refuge in Xiahe collectively donated their land to the country, and they didn't want the previous territories, and only asked to be converted into the rank of citizens. Of course, private property such as castles will not contribute, and everyone still has some farms and hunting grounds, and the rights and interests of the mines are still their own.
But the huge territory, the taxation of the people of the territory, is abandoned.
Xia He went to confirm with the Sith and confirmed with the life construction, it was indeed spontaneous below. There was no one to guide at all, no one to persecute it, not even a hint.
Xia He thought about it carefully, and he understood that these people were very shrewd.
The aristocracy will definitely be abolished, and Rhodes has already completely solved this problem on the island. The reason why it was not implemented externally was because of everyone's mood and whether they could accept the citizenship system.
Now the whole country is very nervous, those nobles are settled in Rhode Island with their whole families, and only a few people are arranged in the territory to be in charge of operation, but they dare not go back.
In the event of a war, they simply cannot hold the territory.
Xia He was really overjoyed and directly approved these requests, and since then there have been no nobles in Rhode Island except for himself, the duke. However, Xia He's side also immediately worked out a plan.
The nobles lost their power and gave up their domains, but they would retain their nobility.
The name seemed meaningless and didn't give any bonuses, but Rhode Island admitted. This represents the continuation of the bloodline, and the history of the family is preserved.
It sounds ridiculous, but it's something that Rhode Island has been simulating for a long time, and it's just one of the options.
Now the Duke of Asra rules internally in the name of the supreme administrator of Rhode Island. And as a duke of the empire, he has legitimacy in the empire.
Dukeship, no longer works internally.
It must have been a temporary excesse, but there was a cheerful atmosphere in Rhode Island. Because of the defection of many nobles, the area at the southern tip of Rhodes facing the coast of the empire also became the territory of Rhodes.
The territory of Rhode Island has expanded so much that it can be said that it takes the southern tip of Rhode Island as a line and reaches the city of Juno all the way west.
The size of Rhode Island's domination was already a bit overwhelming for the Empire.
However, does Xia He still have scruples now?
He gave orders to build a city southwest of Rhodes, across the Imperial coastline, and a new type of city across the Strait. The two cities were less than a hundred miles apart, and artillery could be used to blockade the strait. And then this strait, after all, is privately owned by Rhode Island.
The strait leads to the north, all the way to the frozen North Sea.
There was no pressure to build a city on Rhode Island, and there was a small fortress in that location, which was combined with the Great Wall to form an integrated arrangement. On this side of the Imperial Coast, there are no cities, so they can only be built from the white ground.
Even if these two cities were not built, Rhode Island would be able to quickly deploy troops along the entire East Coast. In doing so now, we are actually using the entire calm strait as a port. The location of this place is far better than the original Sanxing Town, although the sea route has become farther away, but it is also an ice-free port directly from the mainland of the empire.