Chapter 40: The King of Kings
Spring and March of the 6th year of the magic calendar.
Located in the temperate subtropics, the continent of Eminole ushered in spring again, the ice and snow accumulated for a winter quickly receded to the north, and the army of colorful flowers spread out from south to north. If there is no war, it will be the beginning of a better year for the people of Eminore.
Beginning in the spring and March of the 6th year of the magic calendar, the Holy See, the representative of the gods on earth and the symbol of power and honor, suddenly announced a decree that shocked the world--the Book of Crowns.
"The world is not the world of one person, the virtuous, the people of the world in their hearts, and those who can benefit one party, why can't they become the king of the world?" This is the first paragraph of the letter of the king--the decree delivered by the Holy See is not written in the usual form of a doctrine, and the content of the text is even more unexpected by all the nobles.
"From the beginning of the creation of all things in the world, God the Father provided a stage for the survival of thousands of species in the world, adhering to the will of the Lord God, and the Holy See only hoped for the unity of the world from the day the Church was born. However, for tens of thousands of years, due to the greed of the monarchs of the continents, the Holy Dao world, which was first founded by the main god, was replaced by the royal world and the domineering world in turn. In the end, the world became a world of one person and one family, and in order to compete for the world of one person and one family, millions of soldiers waited for the day, countless Li people were bumpy and displaced, and the blood of the children and grandchildren of the father and God was spilled on the earth countless times. ”
"Hearing the past and knowing the present, when the chaos first opened, the saint was born, and the saint imperceptibly established the rules of all things, and all the people in the world, up to the stars, down to the grass and trees, were all affected by it, and they were thrived and edified, but even if they were the neighbors of the saints, they did not know why the saints were, and they were as good as the sages, and they did not know the laws of the saints. The sage lives in the central country, unarmed, and rules the world with virtue. The world is divided into all countries, and all countries have the lords of all countries, and between the thrones, they accept each other with Zen, and those who have the Tao occupy the throne. ”
"The saint collapsed, the world was in turmoil, among the kings, there were strong people absorbing the weak, the sea embraced all rivers, governed the people with the way of kings, and treated neighbors with the way of friends and friends, and the people of the world all felt the generosity of the royal road. Princes submit to the king. ”
After that, the world was declining, and people's hearts were not ancient. For thousands of years in the world, the royal road is gradually gone, the domineering is rampant, to the neighboring countries, the sword and soldiers are often used, the king flag points out, the soldiers are famine, hungry for thousands of miles, and the holy road and the royal road govern the country and the country, mostly because of the weakness of the armament, the ancient royal family withered. ”
"Since the hegemony has been governed, it has been ten thousand years. ”
"Six years ago, hundreds of millions of souls died in the war disaster, moved by the main god, the magic elves were prosperous, the main god calculated, the complete reincarnation has passed, and the world will return to the holy way, and the divine will be on the family of the king of ten thousand years, the 'Western Emperor', to rule the continents of the world again with the holy way. ”
"The Western Emperor reigns over the world, lives in the center of all nations, divides the territory into the continents, and the virtuous and benevolent people in the world can be kings, feel the grace of the sage, and rule the Quartet. ”
Immediately after the decree of the king, there was a large-scale canonization of the throne book stamped with the ancient seal of the Western Emperor's family and the great seal of the Holy See. The inhabitants of Scambrai were deeply touched by the number of canonization books, and every day from morning to night, there were constantly knights in brocade clothes and angry horses in the puppet palace (as the residents of the imperial capital said) galloped out of the eight city gates holding high the golden dragon banner of the Burmese Yang Empire, encouraging the princes from all over the country.
The Western Emperor Reynolds XIX divided the kings of the world into four classes. Those who own 100 acres of land, 10 noble knights, and 100 armor warriors are the county and the king of the county, without legislative power, and inherit the will of the holy monarch (of course, the Western Emperor himself) to benefit one party.
Those who have thousands of acres of land, 100 noble knights, and 1,000 armor warriors are for the principality, set up a prince, be cautious, and be a political party.
Owning 10,000 acres of land, thousands of noble knights, 10,000 armorers, crowned princes, holding heavy troops, guarding one side, and solving problems for the sage.
With 10,000 acres of land, 10,000 noble knights, 100,000 armor-clad warriors, he was crowned the king of wisdom, commanded all the princes and kings of the department, and defended the holy king.
According to the historical records of the War of the Gods and later historians and military historians, during the War of the Gods, there were more than 3,400 canonized thrones issued by the Western Emperor and the Holy See, and this number is only an estimate. At the same time, how many people were crowned kings and canonized by emperors such as the Red Stone Emperor in addition to the official canonization? Hence, this period is also known as the King of Kings.
What the world can't see through is that in the large-scale canonization of the king's decree, not only the civil and military generals in the Western Emperor system, but also all the major forces of the empire on the Eminole continent have been rewarded. Even the Red Stone Emperor, the number one enemy of the Western Emperor, was canonized as the King of Northern Wisdom, ruling over 158 princes and kings in the northern region of the Eminole Continent (including the Flower Language Plain).
During the same period, the people who were canonized as outwitting kings were as follows: Prince Tiedu of the Extreme North Outwitting King of the Red Stone Emperor (Brother of the Red Stone Emperor)
Saddam Hussein, the Eastern Outwitting King (former Great Chieftain of the Sacred Desert, Supreme Ruling Chief of the United Empire)
Prince Xizhisheng Prince Xiamad (the fourth brother of the former king of the Hughes Empire)
Duke of Iron Hat, the Outwitting King of the Holy Continent (of unknown origin, and the only nobleman in the Phanos Continent who has been canonized above the rank of Prince)
Duke of Nan Zhisheng Wang Chi Datong (Uncle of the Red Stone Emperor)
Even Amy and Daqingshan enjoyed the title of prince - but the relevant master of ceremonies did not have the means to send the canonization order to the two "princes" who were drifting on the sea.
March 28, 6th year of the magic calendar.
At the Northeast Small Hotel in Cristo Town, at the eastern foot of Messis Peak, the two dwarf shop guys had just removed the door panel, and the regular customers who had been waiting outside for a long time laughed and entered the house to find their favorite position and sat down, starting a long day of waiting.
It was just 10 a.m., and the dwarf hotel was already bustling with customers. On the contrary, in such a rare large-scale war, the demand for Christo ore has increased dozens of times, the price of raw ore has quadrupled, and the price of refined raw essence has turned upward, one price a day, and there is no market, and more weapon merchants stay in hotels near the mining area, trying to buy ore by all means.
It's just that after thousands of years of mining, the large ore veins have long been mined, and even a natural mining master like a dwarf is difficult to cook, and the occasional appearance of a fist-sized ore is enough to make the merchants excited for a long time.
The people in the hotel were chatting, and suddenly they saw dozens of freshly dressed horse knights holding high the golden dragon flag outside the hotel, and the merchants immediately changed the topic.
"Guess, who will be crowned king today?" said a middle-aged businessman with a hint of mockery on his face, and said with a smile to the twenty or thirty customers in the small inn.
"His grandmother's, who could have guessed this? The Western Emperor family wants to be a holy king and wants to go crazy, and they will be crowned kings every day when they have nothing to do, and there are already seven thrones in the Christo mining area that I know. A young man at the same table spat into the ground.
The merchants have a very good impression of the Redstone Emperor, even far more than the ordinary nobles and ordinary people, not to mention the Redstone Emperor's 20-year cultivation and recuperation policy, which has made the entire continent unprecedentedly prosperous, at least during the reign of the Redstone Emperor, he will not be unable to buy an ordinary ore in Christo for two months, let alone talk about the magic armor that the dwarves have forged. And even if they were bought, the wars all over the continent cut off almost all the mainland roads, and the wars led to thieves everywhere, and the hired small mercenary groups did not dare to travel far at all, all of which led to a sharp increase in the cost of merchants and a significant extension of the business cycle. Profit margins...... Alas...... I know it without saying it.
"Yes......" A businessman who had just arrived from other places picked up the conversation: "In our town, the mayor of the town was canonized as the king of the county, and an eighty-year-old man in the town was canonized as a prince, and the legend is that there is a descendant of the emperor of the West, alas...... That old man's family has been in the family for several generations, and there has never been any leading person, and such a person is also a descendant of the Western Emperor...... It can be seen that the bloodline of the Western Emperor is excellent. "Anyway, this is the territory of the dwarven kingdom, even if you scold the ancestors of the Western Emperor, they are not bound by the law, and of course the merchants are not stingy with vicious language.
"I really don't understand why the Western Emperor wants to be crowned king on such a large scale. An old white-haired businessman hesitated to ask his question.
"Uncle, you don't understand this yet. A young businessman next to him had a wicked smile written on his face: "Think about it, what kind of people live in the Fanos Continent, it is all beasts, orcs, and half-orcs, and people there do things without using their brains at all." Didn't the greatest merchant, Lord Amy, say that they even have * anytime and anywhere, what is the name of the child Yamamoto Isorochi...... Think about it, is the rest okay?"
"You kid knows nonsense, the Western Emperor family is a human being, and it has a long history, and the history of Christo Town is not as long as the history of the other family. ”
"Hehe, come on, think about it, even if the ancestors are humans, but the descendants live with wild beasts, this, it is inevitable that the close to Zhu is red and close to the ink is black, in our hometown, I heard that someone's child was raised by a dog, as a result, that child is 20 years old, and has lived with people for many years, and still can't change the habit of eating. I'm thinking about it, I guess the children of the Western Emperor Jun family were also raised by wild beasts. ”
"You kid is. I'm also curious, what is this Western Emperor family doing? With so many princes, how much does it cost to pay the salary every year? And give dividends at the end of the year. Won't they settle accounts? Analyze it, who has a point, I invite him to drink. "A man in the prime of life who didn't look like a merchant had a heavy tin pot on the table.
"Boss, bring your best 'Underground Flame Knife'. Another young man patted the table: "Whoever says it makes sense, I will also treat you to the most expensive wine." ”
It seems that there are really people who dare to make money, why is this hotel so hot, isn't it because of this wine? It is said that the old dwarf boss of this hotel knows that there is a hot spring flowing from the vicinity of magma underground, and all the brewing is made with hot spring water. When you smell this wine from afar, there is a strong smell of flames, and when you take a sip, a hot breath instantly warms the whole body from the mouth to the stomach, and the taste is absolutely unimaginable to ordinary people. Unfortunately, the price of this wine is the same as that of the same volume of gold, which is not affordable for ordinary people.
Most merchants go in and out of the northern snow-capped mountain area, they carry a small pot with them - not to drink, but to save their lives, if someone is buried or frozen by snow in the snow-capped mountain area, as long as the person is not completely dead, even if there is only a trace of heat in the chest, a flaming knife entrance, the whole body immediately warms up, and absolutely cannot die.
As soon as the flame knife came out, everyone immediately felt a burst of hot air in the store, good thing, many people have begun to crack their mouths.
The guy had just taken two steps with the wine in his hand, and the table next to him stretched out his hand, grabbed the tin pot and put it on his table.
Before the guy and the person who ordered the wine spoke, a few people who came up from the wine worm next to him were anxious first: "Hey, you...... What is this for...... Grab it!"