Not only these people, Xia Lian was also slightly stunned, at least, in his past twenty years of life and these eighteen years of freshmen, he had not experienced systematic swordsmanship training.

But everything is so natural, like a battle-hardened warrior.

However, he soon reacted, and Athena's gift gave him the world's best martial arts and wisdom, and the combination of the two allowed him to defeat enemies who were faster and stronger than him to a certain extent.

There was only a moment of silence, and the leader seemed to realize something and shouted.

"He's a stand-in! Fall back! It's a trap!! It's a trap!! ”

After shouting, those people reacted quickly, and quickly retreated towards the darkness, while the rest of the guards did not chase after them because they were concerned about Xia Lian's safety.

Hurley..... Os? ”

Xia Lian pondered the name, and memories of the past gradually surfaced in his mind.

Charian Helios, this is the name of his life.

As the group said, he was the only son of Archduke Helios and belonged to the Empire of Cidor that exercised monarchy.

The Guidor Empire has more than 200,000 member stars in the galaxy, more than 300,000 planet colonies, protected territories, and local governments, and is one of the main political powers of mankind in this era.

The Helios family is one of the founding feats of the empire, but the family is not surnamed Helios, but Xia.

Helios is a title given to a family by an empire, like an honor, a symbol of identity and status.

This should be a way of naming for this era.

This is not surprising, the way of naming is different in each era, during the Qin Dynasty, the surname and the surname were separated, Yingzheng was the winning surname Zhao, as well as the table characters, etc., but later they were all simplified.

Helios is the ancient Greek word for "Ἥλιος", the name of the sun god in ancient Greek mythology.

The original meaning is sun, which is derived from the Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥, which is cognate with the Latin sol, the Sanskrit सूर्य, the Old English swegl, the Germanic sunna, and the Welsh haul, all of which mean the sun.

Because of the cultural purge of intelligent machines, this era is a cultural desert.

The more people lack something, the more they like to show something, which is also the source of this title.

The name was given in the hope that Xia Lian's family would shine like the sun, shining on the empire and dispelling all darkness and injustice.

As Alaya said, Hera's gifts did affect his rebirth.

In Xia Lian's memory, the Grand Dukes of the empire had vast territories, and each Grand Duke's principality was self-governing and had a high degree of autonomy, which was only political unity.

If Xia Lian inherits the title in the future, the territory he will gain will be tens of thousands of times that of the most extensive country on earth.

Of course, this is if he can inherit the title normally.

The explosion and the people who wanted to kill him were a sign that this was an abnormal situation.

Six months earlier, the Emperor of the Guidor Empire had decreed that the Helios family and the Bahram family, who were also Grand Dukes, should exchange a territory called the "Blue Star" on the grounds that the Helios family had better researchers.

It was not a suitable planet for survival, 99% of the planet's surface was covered by seawater, but it had a very special mineral - Bach crystals.

Whether it is the particle beam fired by the starship gun, or the Helios force field, or the particle vibrating knife, this crystal is needed and is a vital material in the military industry.

It brings up to 400 billion yuan a year to the Bahram family!

Although the planet replaced by the Xia Lian family is also a resource planet, it is obviously not as good as this planet.

The Helios family had a feud with the Bahram family, and this incident became the key flame that ignited this fuse.

Three hours ago, Cangxing was attacked by the fleet of the Bahram family.

Unfortunately, Xia Lian and his father are on this planet, and according to the convention of the rules, as rulers, after gaining new territory, they must come to inspect and speak in front of the people of this planet.

Half an hour ago, Xia Lian's father was assassinated by the renegade guards.

Cangxing was far away from the real main force of the Bahram family, and Xia Lian's father obviously didn't notice in advance that the other party would suddenly appear in the sky above this planet.

There is obviously a shadow of the empire behind this, and they have lent the Bahram family the wormhole that belongs to the royal family and can teleport over long distances.

The emperor and the nobles of the feudal feud were already in a state of opposition, because the latter controlled the resources and private soldiers, and it was too easy to influence the imperial power.

Obviously, this is a ploy to drive away the tiger and the wolf.

[I can understand the emergence of aristocratic families, but why did such a political system as a monarchy appear more than a hundred centuries later?] Xia Lian couldn't help but complain in his heart, [It's okay to see such a thing as cutting Pan civil strife in the future, or is Hera's gift so powerful? 】

After thinking about it, a strange and familiar memory suddenly popped up in his mind, he seemed to have asked similar questions in this life, and at that time, the person he asked gave him a very clear answer.

The words still seemed to be echoing in his ears.....

"There is no backward system, only the most suitable system.

Monarchy.... In other words, the reason why centralization existed in ancient times was that the means of communication and transportation were limited at that time, and it could take months or even half a year to transmit information from the north to the south.

If democracy were to be exercised in that era, it would take years or even decades just to collect votes, and the enforcement of government decrees would be extremely inefficient.

In ancient times, when a natural disaster could produce a famine, this inefficiency was almost fatal.

Only the efficient form of government, such as centralization, was best suited for that era.

In the interstellar era, once human beings colonized hundreds or thousands of planets, transportation and communication problems could not be overcome at a distance of thousands or even tens of thousands of light years.

Whether it's faster-than-light, wormholes, or Arsebo communications.

The gap in the flow of goods and information cannot be completely bridged, and the connection between the different colonies of mankind will be more similar to the state of the twentieth century or even before the industrial revolution, which we know very little about, and it is difficult to say whether it will even be possible to form a unified finance.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that many of the planets colonized by humans at the edge of the galaxy are still in a state of independence.

Under these conditions, the use of democracy would be as inefficient as in ancient times, and self-government, with only a politically and militarily unified empire, would be a more viable mode of governance.

Over the past 10,000 years, human technology has developed rapidly, but the rule of leading the largest number of people with the least number of people has never actually changed.

The so-called democratic system seems to be democratically elected, but in the end it is meritocracy.

The elite controls political, economic, and military dominance, manipulates the state apparatus, formulates rules and regulations, grasps the trend of public opinion, dominates commercial companies, and exercises various privileges.

In the context of partisan competition, the elites have always limited mass political participation to a narrow area, and voters can only vote among those elected by these parties.

For ordinary voters, who come and go at the time of the election and linger after the election, most people are just "extras" in the election game.

"Rule by the people" is very difficult to reflect in political practice.

The so-called advanced system left to us by our predecessors has made the entire human kingdom extremely bloated.

The democratic process is fragmented and lengthy, with a large number of veto points, and individual veto actions can affect the action of the system.

The so-called separation of powers, which is a presupposition of "mutual checks and balances implying the ability to correct deviations", is becoming more and more out of shape in practice.

Politicians are ambitious, faithless, and devoid of the people, and become refined egoists, bent on political capital and opportunity for themselves.

Party friction has become commonplace, but people's livelihood is not cared for.

This phenomenon is especially obvious in the interstellar span, where officials are selfish and cowardly, corrupt and incompetent, and only think about suppressing rather than solving problems when something happens.

Therefore, I simply tore apart the camouflage of this people's rule directly, and took the perspective of pure practicality, trinity, and centralization.

The advantage of such a system is that those in power have unlimited responsibility.

They can't retreat like ordinary politicians, or blame everyone on another party, because the country is one with it, and failure is death, so they must also give it their all.

When the empire was first established, we achieved unprecedented unity; We owe allegiance to only one person with one goal in mind.

Our Sector Governor will no longer just seek the abundance of the core world, but will improve the quality of life for the people of every sector and system.

We ensure the safety of space routes, maintain smooth and convenient communications, and ensure that tax revenues are appropriately collected and distributed to the improvement of infrastructure.

In the same way, the members of the parliament will no longer be bent on their own interests, but on the planets they represent. ”

In front of him, there seemed to be the figure of the person who answered his question, he was wearing a double-breasted slim dress, his body was straight, and his hair was meticulously groomed.

He was much shorter than him, because he was only about eleven years old at that time, and he asked the second question in a green voice.

"But, father, although it is true that centralization will be more suitable for humans in the interstellar age, it does not mean that the imperial system must be used, right?

We can't guarantee that a hereditary prince will be good enough to lead the empire forward.

Once one or two faint monarchs appear, then the foundation created by the hard work of the previous generations of Ming monarchs will soon be lost. ”

"Why hereditary?" The man said.

Xia Lian was stunned for a moment, but then, he seemed to think of something, and his eyes widened a little.

"That position, it's never changed?"

The man turned around and looked into the distance through the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him, and in the depths of his eyes, there were some subtle and complex emotions hidden.

"Now, you understand what we're up against, right?"

That was the first time he saw fear in his father's eyes, and it was also the first time he knew that the emperor of the empire had never changed, an absolute dictator.

The advancement of science and technology has allowed people to live longer, but the longer people live, the more difficult it is to accept new things.

The empire grew older and older with the eternal youth of that emperor, and the political arena was like a pool of stagnant water, without the injection of fresh blood, it lost its upward momentum.

In order to maintain his rule and re-unify humanity, the emperor has become more and more violent in recent years.

Perhaps, the reason why my father showed that expression was because the empire had completely deviated from the original purpose of the ancestors who created this country.....