Chapter 6: The Princess of the Blood Clan (Part II)
After the girl said this, she fell silent, and Mo Li opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say for a while. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He didn't ask Rogie why she didn't use the power of the bloodline to control everyone, because he could already roughly guess why.
Rogie is the most enlightened figure in the Blood Clan, and since she took over as acting head of the house, the most famous change has been to split the Blood Council into two houses, the upper and lower houses, so that even ordinary family members can enter the House of Commons if they have enough supporters or enough credit. In addition to this, Rogie also pursued a number of policies that reduced the privileges of the nobility.
But such a leader who is committed to reducing the power of the upper echelons has been found to have the power of blood, I really don't know whether to say it is irony or tragedy.
"You don't have the power to use the power of the bloodline. Mo Li said that this was not a question, but just a confirmation.
Luo Ji nodded slowly: "Not once." I can control the parliament, control all the divisions, and control all those who oppose me, but if this happens, the blood clan will no longer be the current blood clan, and the parliamentary system that was built up with great difficulty two thousand years ago will collapse, even if I can maintain a stable rule for hundreds of years, when I die, the blood clan will fall into chaos again, who knows if there will be someone to re-establish order at that time? I still prefer the current blood clan and my ...... to the position of the head of the family People. ”
"I don't understand politics. Mo Li said: "But in the magic carving stone left by the sorcerer, I have read something like this, which mentions that the so-called people are often unreliable, even if you think about them, when the division unites to betray you, maybe they are secretly shouting, okay?"
The girl smiled and said, "No matter what my people think, I will still make the choice I should make." However, in the eyes of those divisions, even if I don't use the power of the bloodline now, there is no guarantee that I will not use it when there is a disagreement in the future. Maybe they don't have a choice either?"
"Wait......" Mo Li suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't grasp the key point for a while, so he asked, "How did the so-called bloodline power in your body be discovered?"
"When the power of the bloodline appears, the subordinate will have a sense, that is a sense of resistance from the body's instinct, this time it is mainly felt by the heads of several major families, as for the others, because the bloodline is relatively distant, there is almost no feeling. Rogie said.
"The head of several major families...... Will their senses be strong and clear?" Moli asked.
"This ...... Probably not, but I'm sure I have the power of blood. Luo Ji thought that Mo Li was suspicious of this, so she explained to him: "At that time, the heads of several major families came to me together and said that they sensed that I had the power of blood, although I didn't believe it at the time, but I still agreed to their request, took a drop of blood from my finger, and tested it with blood magic on the spot, and then found that it was indeed the case. ”
"And then?" asked Mo Li, frowning.
"Then the families of the great families told me that they would submit a bill to the parliament tomorrow to impeach me, and that I would have a day to consider whether or not to suppress them - of course, there was no need to use force, and since I had the power of blood, I could just use force to control them. I thought about it for a night, and several times I wanted to use the power of the bloodline, but in the end I said to myself: I can't do that. The next day, several major divisions jointly submitted a bill to the parliament to impeach me. ”
"That's not right...... It's not right......" Mo Li frowned, and couldn't help muttering in his mouth, but he still couldn't grasp what was wrong.
"What's wrong, what do you think is wrong?" Rogie couldn't help but ask when she saw his expression.
Mo Li recalled that the carved stone he had seen before recorded a large number of examples of political struggles, some of which were complex and terrifying. At first, he thought it was just stories made up by some magician when he was bored, but the more he looked at the back, the more he realized that it was real history—but it wasn't the history of the Morningstar Empire, let alone the history of the Bloodline, and he didn't know where it came from.
Then he finally remembered the story, a story very similar to that of Lottie: a powerful prince stumbled upon the empress of their country who had a serious problem with her blood, so the upright prince presented the empress with a showdown, giving her two choices: one was to find an excuse to abdicate the throne with dignity and let another member of the royal family inherit the throne, or else he would reveal the secret to the whole country, and the empress would not be able to keep her throne again. But the story ends in the face of the fact that the empress ostensibly agrees to abdicate voluntarily, but when she turns around, she sends someone to assassinate the prince, and then announces to the whole country that the prince has rebelled and mobilizes the army to slaughter his entire family.
Moli recounted the story to Rogie as succinctly as possible, and then said, "The sorcerer commented later in this story that the princes in the story are typical negative examples, and if they encounter similar situations, there are only two correct choices for the princes: either pretend not to know, or reveal the secrets in their hands, occupy the moral high ground, stage a coup d'état, and prop up the puppets to power." All in all, don't try to negotiate with the emperor. ”
"Therefore, when the major divisions found out that you have the power of bloodline, knowing that you can easily control them and turn them into puppets, they still have to negotiate with you, and take the initiative to give you enough time to make decisions, this can no longer be described as stupid, it is a bit ...... Uncanny. Mo Li said slowly.
Luo Ji frowned, at that time, she found that the power of the bloodline hit her deeply, coupled with a series of changes after that, she had not been able to think about this matter properly, and now that Mo Li proposed it, she immediately discovered the problem.
However, after all, the blood clan is different from humans, and it has been unified through the power of blood in the past, and Andrea has established a parliamentary system for less than two thousand years, that is, the rule of four or five family heads, so the political environment of the blood clan is relatively simple. If this is a conspiracy, then this kind of conspiracy is not experienced by Rogie, and perhaps no previous head of the family has experienced it except Andrea.
"Is it possible that these families are like the righteous princes in the story? Although Luo Ji herself felt that it was unlikely, she still said this possibility, and then briefly explained to Mo Li that the political environment of the blood clan was relatively simpler than that of humans.
Mo Li thought about it, and finally shook his head and said: "There is still a problem, because of two reasons: first, the division that made this matter is not one, but all, even if a certain division trusts you very much, how can all the divisions have the same idea?
Luo Ji's expression moved, and she suddenly said, "You're right. At that time, I did think about denying to the outside world that I had the power of blood, sending my Red Iron Knights to wipe out one of the splitters by force, and then announcing that the other party had rebelled and made an example of the monkey. If the other divisions have any objections, I will do a little tricking with blood magic to prove that I don't have the power of blood, although the division can't believe it, but as long as the council and the lower families support me, they are helpless at all. I didn't end up doing that, but how did they know I wasn't going to do that? Actually, I was just a fine line away from making that choice!"
"So, I feel like it's a conspiracy. Moli said.
"If this is a conspiracy......" The girl looked up at Mo Li. Mo Li suddenly noticed that his bright red eyes were regaining their vigor, and the gray shadow in his eyes was disappearing, and that shadow was like an ember after a fire had been extinguished, and now, this ember was rekindled.
"If this is a conspiracy, then I will definitely regain my lost throne. Even if I'll eventually give it to someone more suitable, I'll be sure to get it back into my hands before I do that. ”
Her voice was not loud, and her expression was calm, but Mo Li suddenly had a feeling: it was only at this moment that the girl had truly become the princess of the Blood Clan and the leader of the Vimilia family.