Chapter 942: The Kingdom Guild is really hardcore
"Then the Kingdom Guild collects so much money every year, what do they usually do? I feel that they don't have to do anything, just wait there for the kingdom below to make offerings. ”
Grandpa said: "There is no pressure to make money, so they can improve their strength with one mind." Only when their strength is improved can they ensure that the kingdom below will not be coveted by other guilds or psychic halls. Different levels of each other, life is also different. People at the bottom spend their lives in pursuit of making money to support their families, just struggling to survive. For them, survival has long been no problem, and how to better fulfill the historical task explained by the psychic god is the goal of their lifelong struggle. ”
Seeing that Gu Tiancheng was so interested in the Kingdom Guild, his grandfather simply told Gu Tiancheng everything he knew about the Kingdom Guild.
Kingdom guilds are allowed to be kings and establish kingdoms at will, but they must not allow a kingdom to be too powerful and threaten the status of the kingdom guild. So, all along, there has always been only a kingdom, not an empire. Because kingdom guilds do not allow empires to appear.
But as long as the kingdom guild lets it go, the kingdoms below will attack each other, and eventually an empire will be formed. Therefore, from time to time, the Kingdom Guild must intervene in disputes between kingdoms to prevent one side from getting bigger.
Historically, there have been several kingdoms that had the opportunity to touch the threshold of the empire, but they were all suppressed by the kingdom guild at the last moment.
Later, the kingdoms also knew about the hand of the kingdom guild, although they still had imperial dreams in their hearts, but they no longer blatantly touched the imperial red line.
Now the kingdoms have formed a consensus that if they want to expand and attract the suppression of the kingdom guilds, they only need to divide the feudal system.
By dividing the feudal system, it is possible to successfully avoid the imperial red line. Take the Han Dynasty as an example, below the Han royal family are the four major hou clans, and the territory obtained by the four major hou clans through external expansion, the Han takes half of it, and the Hou clan itself takes half of it. When the Hou clan expands to a certain extent, the Han Dynasty will take the initiative to invite the Hou clan to be the king and file it with the Kingdom Guild.
So, on the Sanhedrin side of the Kingdom, there are two kingdoms. In fact, the Han Dynasty's control over the four marquis clans below is still very strong. In this way, through the feudal system, those powerful kingdoms can indirectly hold the power of no less than the empire.
Then again, don't the people in the Kingdom Guild know about the tricks played by the Kingdom underneath? Of course not! It's just that they don't care because they believe in human nature.
No one can always bow down to the old lord after registering as a kingdom independently, and after passing it down for generations, there will always be a day when conflicts erupt and fight. At that time, even the strongest forces are bound to fall apart.
Moreover, the Kingdom Guild collects 30 percent of the revenue of all kingdoms every year. As long as the money arrives on time, the Kingdom Guild has nothing to worry about.
It is basically difficult for any kingdom to wage a large-scale war against the outside world after deducting 30 percent of its revenue.
Even if some kingdoms were able to raise enough money from various sources, it would be impossible to build an empire with the money raised by those "sideways".
After all, the most profitable industries are almost all concentrated in the hands of the major guilds, and if the kingdom wants to compete with them for money, they must not do it, and they will definitely be happy to tell the kingdom guild.
Therefore, although the Kingdom Guild is generally not known to the public, the basic market is very stable, and it is too difficult to shake the Kingdom Guild.
In recent years, due to the application of teleportation arrays, the major kingdoms have generally strengthened their control over the territory, and the strength of the kingdoms has generally increased by a notch. In terms of strength, there are naturally not a few who seek to build an empire.
Don't say anything, although the Han royal family hasn't skimmed the eight characters yet, a sentence from the Han Empire still comes out of their mouths from time to time. It can be said that the empire is the ultimate dream of every kingdom, and no matter how severely suppressed by the kingdom guild is, it will not change its nature after all.
It is also because of the teleportation circle that the psychic hall and the major guilds can see the kingdom at the bottom in the future, and generally strengthen their control over the kingdom.
Although due to the existence of the kingdom guilds, they did not dare to blatantly and directly establish the kingdom, but they could control the kingdom by establishing branch guilds and halls in the major kingdoms.
In this way, the kingdom has another huge income in addition to the traditional financial revenue: the income from the major guilds and branches.
Not to be outdone, the Kingdom Guild also set up offices in each kingdom and stationed personnel to monitor the financial revenues of each kingdom.
The convenience of teleporting is reciprocal for all parties, and the Kingdom Guild also has enough convenience to strengthen its control over all guilds.
Anyway, after a game, the basic plate of the Kingdom Guild is still strong, and it is difficult for other guilds and the Psychic Hall to encroach on the basic plate of the Kingdom Guild.
As soon as Grandpa said this, Gu Tiancheng couldn't see through and understand a lot of things before, but they all suddenly became clear. As a result, Gu Tiancheng admired the psychic god even more, his wisdom alone was even better than so many top brains in the drill camp of later generations: no matter how they tried to expand their power in the pattern set by the psychic god, they would always be suppressed by all parties and failed.
The psychic god is really amazing, so it seems that if all parties want to achieve dominance, the only way to completely break the pattern set by the psychic god is to do so. But they are all vested interests in this pattern, and they do not have enough incentive to break this pattern.
Gu Tiancheng, who has studied the history of his previous life, knows that after a long period of operation, any kind of system will always go against the original intention of the founder, become full of holes, be fragmented, and finally perish.
Unexpectedly, the psychic god actually did what countless heroes and heroes in his previous life failed to do. Where did the psychic god come from? Could it be that the psychic god really came from another civilization just like himself?
Gu Tiancheng couldn't help but have such a thought in his mind, and then forced himself not to think about it. After all, it's useless to think about it.
Gu Tiancheng stretched his waist in satisfaction, "I didn't expect that the Kingdom Guild would still be such a hardcore existence. Before, I thought that whoever had the ability to be the king would be the king, and that it would be managed in disorder. Unexpectedly, there is really such a Jade Emperor in charge. Well, I'm not going to go out of the big man anyway, so let's leave it at that. ”
Grandpa said solemnly: "That's not the case, you have to find a way to convince the Han royal family that you have to be loyal." ”
Gu Tiancheng was puzzled: "Why? We have you and my father, when will it be my turn to be loyal to the big man? Even if I become the head of the family in the future, it will be decades later." ”