Chapter Seventy-Eight, If Qiu Chuji Didn't Pass by Niujia Village Back then......
For the next period of time, the atmosphere in the ancient kingdom of Trella in the Western Continent was a little tense, and from time to time it was rumored that the king's spies had found some evidence and "invited" a nobleman to inquire about it.
The vast majority of these nobles passed the test without any problems - complaining about the king was not a problem, as long as there was no real action. And those who really have real action generally die in the first round of strikes.
Although they were all frightened, and many of them were warned or ordered not to leave the king for the next five years, in any case, they were relieved that they did not die or be punished in terms of fiefdoms.
Somewhat strangely, His Majesty seems to have no interest in the traditional means of "fines". According to tradition, such aristocrats who are suspected of having problems, and many of them really have some big or small problems, are exempt from capital crimes, and living crimes cannot be escaped - living crimes, mainly fines. However, King Zion Trella was not only completely uninterested in this, but even gave a special order to this effect.
[Regarding the punishment for the crime of "rebellion", there is no option of "fine"!]
On the plus side, it is good news that His Majesty is not greedy for money, and a king who is not greedy for money is good for everyone, especially for the independent lords of the small and minor titles. After all, if the king wants to make money, they are often the first to suffer.
But from a bad point of view, it means that His Majesty is ruthless, and if he wants to clean you up, no amount of money will be offered to reduce the punishment. This news is a bit terrifying, the world of nobles is not clean, many nobles have committed crimes large and small, and there are only a handful of truly innocent nobles. This means that if His Majesty wants to clean up anyone, he doesn't even need to fabricate charges, just search for it.
In the past, the nobles did not worry about such things, because for them, there was no problem in the world that could not be solved by fines, and if there was, it was to fine more money.
But now, they have to worry about these things......
In this way, the king's authority was naturally greatly strengthened. While the effect may be temporary, at least until the aftermath of this is over, no one dares to defy His Majesty's orders or play the tricks of passive resistance.
The travelers who received the news were happy to hear this, and they did not mind the strengthening of Zion's authority, on the contrary, they were happy to see the royal power of the kingdom of Trera strengthened, which meant that the country's resistance to the great events of history, disasters and wars that would take place in the future would be greatly strengthened.
Democratic progress is a good thing, but for people who have problems with even survival, it is a little luxury. The time-travelers can rely on their own efforts to make life better for the people of the North, but they don't have a great desire to "help the world" - Locke has this idea, but according to the "list of life goals" he has listed for himself, even if everything goes well, it will not be until about two hundred years before he will start to promote this goal.
Someone scoffed: "Two hundred years...... Going back two hundred years from the time we crossed, Emperor Jiaqing has not died. You're aiming too far!"
Locke replied: "If the course of history could really be so smooth, of course I would be glad that I would not have to do it myself." ”
Rather than the traversers themselves, they would rather have someone do it for them - say, a smart, capable, sane king.
However, the current King of Zion is not qualified to receive such praise for the time being, although in the eyes of the commoners, this king is really young and talented, but not to mention the traversers, even the nobles, there are still many people who doubt his ability.
More than one nobleman felt that the old king's actions were the old king's help in his ideas.
When he first succeeded to the throne, he once used a crime of embezzlement as an opportunity to make a big case of smuggling weapons to the lizards of the swamp, and more than a dozen aristocratic families were almost bankrupt as a result, and some of them have not even been able to recover until now.
For the average person, that was decades ago. But for the strong people who have stepped into the high-level realm and can live to be a hundred years old or even longer, it is actually not far away.
Now, the King of Zion is doing things like his father's demeanor. It's just that compared to his father, this guy is more fierce and powerful.
...... Whoever is behind them will be full of power with a group of old antiques from the Second Age and even earlier eras.
Many great nobles often complained, complaining about the good luck of the Prince of Zion, complaining about the good luck of the Terrera family—how could those strong men who were immortal and immortal take a fancy to them? This is simply unreasonable!
Of course, they can't know that the time-travelers support the Kingdom of Trela because of the inertia brought about by the original game, and on the other hand, it is purely a good foil for "teammates".
Originally, they were likely to be scattered and seek refuge in different countries. But because Richard, a powerful enemy, jumped out and fought against the Thracian kingdom, they united and sided with the kingdom of Trella, and after several large-scale battles, they finally won.
By this time, most of them had turned the inertia brought from the game into reality, positioning themselves as Trellas.
In fact, if there had not been an incident in which the Thracian king had sought to rob the Edward family's windfall, and even if the panda had successfully become a Thracian nobleman and obtained the territory of Wolf's Den Lake, the traversers would probably have developed on both sides, and the situation would never have been so bad.
There is a famous saying on the Internet that it is all strange that Qiu Chuji passed by Niujia Village! All bad things start there.
Applied to this world, in fact, this statement can also be established - it is all to blame Richard for being greedy in the first place!
...... In fact, until now, the traversers didn't know that they had wronged the dead ghost Richard a little.
Richard did have ill intentions towards the Edwards, but at least he didn't intend to do it right away. The order he gave to the "Iron Prime Minister" was not to kill people and sell goods, but only to ask for money - he even "generously" left a tenth of that huge fortune to the Edward family.
However, Leopold, the Iron Chancellor, knew his lord's character very well and had full confidence that he would settle the Edwards, so he messed things up and cost his own life.
If the time-travelers had known the truth, they would probably have said -! Blame Leopold!
But who is to blame, in fact, it doesn't matter anymore, everything is in the past.
Except for Richard, Leopold and others who were "eliminated by the times", everyone must continue to move forward, and people must always look forward......