Arthur looked around, and he teased, "I thought I would see the new members here when I came back." ”

"What new members?"

Alicia, who came out with a big calf and threw it in front of Sonny, asked.

"I've been here for two or three years, and it's just the two of you in the castle." Arthur's words stopped here.

Char and Alicia also understood what Arthur meant.

Alicia thrust her waist.

Char smiled and teased, "I don't have a throne to inherit." ”

Arthur shrugged.

"Do you have someone you like?" Char asked.

Arthur was silent for a moment and said, "My heart has been given to this country. ”

"But you always have to get married, and the royal family will find you the right person." Alicia walked over and sat down, "Political marriages are something that every member of the royal family goes through, and even you can't call the shots. ”

Arthur was silent for a moment, he didn't seem to want to answer the question, but continued, "Let's talk about it then"

Arthur is indeed a lot more mature than in the past, and his tone of voice is not as immature as in the past, and his speech is a little dignified.

But it's normal, after all, he is now the emperor, and he does have to maintain some majesty, but just because of the slight influence of habits, it is still very relaxed to talk to them.

But all in all, they had a good conversation, the food was delicious, and Alicia sprinkled the rest of the ingredients on the grilled fish, even if she had eaten it all, and some noodles on the soup.

The charcoal fire is constantly heating and you don't have to carry the food to cool down, so it's perfect for drinking and chatting.

They talked about life and interesting things over the years, and Alicia also told him about the existence of the magic school, about the beauty of the island in the sky, and about the funny things about fighting wits with the naughty students.

Char tells Arthur some advice on future internal affairs, and Arthur tells him about Britannia he learned during this time.

On one side, the Serim Lake ripples with the breeze, the waves are undulating, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance stretch out, and winter is approaching, so it is a little chilly.

They gathered around the warm stove, ate food, drank fine wine, enjoyed the beautiful scenery, and chatted with their families who had not seen each other for a long time, which was really very comfortable and cheerful.

They talked until Lake Serim was reflected in the fiery glow.

Arthur also said goodbye to Char and Alicia, and left the castle with Sonny.

Although the war ended, it was also at this time that the most government affairs in the country were in place.

Another longer journey has just begun, and Arthur's fate will go in another direction today.

Whether it is more brilliant or gradually declining, at this moment, even Char is not 100% sure.

However, what is certain is that Arthur has a certain belief in his heart at this moment, and he has made some kind of consciousness and decision

However, Char is not sure what this decision is for the time being.

Alicia ordered the dishes to clean up and jump into the sink to wash herself.

Char, on the other hand, lay down on the hanging basket with a full meal and drink, lazily watching the sunset in the distance, the sunset continued to turn red, the clouds and mist on the horizon and the undulating mountains turned red, and the sunset on Lake Selim dyed the calm lake into a colorful and magnificent world.

Alicia climbed into the basket after packing up, and lay on top of him, resting on his shoulders to enjoy the sunset.

Char tilted her head sideways and rubbed her face against her hair, but her eyes remained on the view.

Food can heal people's hearts, but Char feels that beautiful scenery is something that heals people's hearts even more.

When you are depressed, all the mountains, lakes, meadows and sunsets in front of you are asking you with a vitality that is more vigorous than anyone else: "What are you sad about?"

While gazing quietly at these beautiful scenery, you will feel that your soul merges with the mountains and lakes, and plays a silent rhythm of life with them.

It was an indescribable emotion.

"Char." Alicia whispered, "Do you want children?" ”

"If there is a blood relative, it will bring more entanglements of fate." Char whispered, "But the problem is not very big, I should be able to handle it well." ”

"What if. If you really want to, I know a secret technique that can increase a certain probability. ”

Hearing this, Alicia raised her head to look at him, looking at him with some expectation.

"What?"

Since the last time she had seen Helen, Alicia hadn't actually mentioned anything about it.

Char always felt that Alicia didn't care, but now it seems that she is still looking forward to it.

Of course, Char knows Alicia well.

She didn't have a traditional idea of "passing on the lineage" to the next generation, not because she wanted a child.

They are all immortals, they don't need these things, and they don't need such descendants to support their old age.

It's just that if such a life with their common blood comes, she will feel joy and happiness.

It is the miracle of life, born of the instinctive joy of life.

Of course, she won't force it, but she will always retain a sense of anticipation.

Char raised her hand and fumbled through her sleeve for a moment, then took out a box from it and placed it on the ground.

Char set up a space expansion technique in the sleeve of his magic robe, which was the kind of magic used in Tony's chest, causing some kind of effect similar to that of the sleeve.

"What's that?" Alicia straightened up and sat on the edge of the hanging basket, her bare feet hanging naturally.

"A precursor to this secret technique." Char said.

He opened the box.

Alicia looked over and saw that there were some clothes in the box, but the style was completely different from the clothes of this era.

"It's something Tony synthesized with alchemy." Char said.

After Char helped him refine the Philosopher's Stone, he gave Char this box and said that Char would definitely like it.

But Char never took it out.

"Clothes?" Alicia said.

Char nodded, and he said seriously.

"You should be able to understand that you need to wear certain clothes for some special ceremonies, right?"

Alicia nodded, "Some of the druids I've seen have similar rituals. ”

She got down from the hanging basket, came to the box and squatted down, and took out something from the box, which looked like pants, but the material was thin, transparent, and felt good.

"These are the pants?"

"It's pantyhose." Char said, "To be precise, it's called stockings. ”

Alicia suddenly realized that there were stockings in this era, but they were not as long as they were, they looked like pants, and they were so thin. It's almost as if it's non-existent.

She thought about what this thing looked like, and her earlobes couldn't help but turn red.

"Can this thing really be worn?"

"Of course you can't just wear this." Char said, "There are still skirts." ”

Alicia nodded, and she reached out and pulled out a pleated skirt with a blue and white checkered pattern from the box.

She compared the skirt to her body, and found that the skirt was so short that it could barely cover some of the more critical places, and her thighs were barely blocked.

"Should. And the rest of the clothes, right? Alicia asked.

"Of course." Char took out a short-sleeved white shirt from the box, the style of the white shirt was also thin, but clean, "This is a top." ”

"No, I'm talking about," Alicia's cheeks flushed, "isn't this dress too short?"

"It's called JK, an abbreviation of an otherworldly creature, and it's something that must be prepared for the ceremony." Char said seriously, "Of course, if you don't want to wear it, you can do it." ”

Char took the dress from Alicia's hand and put it in the box to put it away.

"Wait." Alicia spoke, and she was silent for a moment before saying, "There should be no one else in this ceremony, right?" ”

"It's just me and you." Char said.

Alicia let out a breath of turbid air and said, "That's fine, where should this ceremony be held?"

In the Druid's sacrificial texts, I've seen a lot of rituals that require going to special places, such as some sacrificial pillars used to communicate with the gods. ”

"Don't be that troublesome." Char closed the box, holding it in one hand and holding Alicia's hand with the other, "Just follow me upstairs." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Alicia upstairs directly.

After sealing the god of sleep, the power of fate on his body was completely consumed, and the several fates he weaved basically entered a quiet period, and nothing big would happen in the world in a short period of time.

So Char can only wait for time to pass, and then do some other things to kill time.

By the day Hypnos came out, Char believed that the power of fate he could recover should be very large.

After all, it is the fate of a god, so it is needless to say.

However, during this time, Char was also keeping an eye on Arthur with clairvoyance.

The imperial capital of the Western Empire was reduced to ruins after the last great war, but Thanatos restored it to its original state and resurrected all humans who had died as a result of the war of the gods.

After Arthur attacked the imperial capital that day, the defenders inside the imperial capital asked for help, and the nearby defenders rushed over as fast as possible, some of them were affected by the divine war, and the other part also saw the brilliance of the holy sword released by Arthur.

As the light of the holy sword fell, it was not only the lodge of Hypnos that was shattered, but also the will of the country's army.

Next, the Western Empire declared defeat and surrender, signed a surrender agreement, Arthur exempted the Western Empire from compensation, but in order to give an explanation to the country, Arthur asked for several Caribbean islands.

The following year, the Spanish Empire was dissolved due to internal conflicts and was divided into three countries.

The front-line war was dealt with, and Arthur gradually shifted his goals to the country.

So far, the power structure in Britannia is still very complex, and can be roughly divided into four types, one is the large aristocratic class with fiefdoms, and the other is the gradually rising bourgeoisie and imperial power.

Arthur also needs to consider the balance between the people of this country and these forces, which is still very laborious.

The aristocracy of Britannia is similar to medieval Europe, presumably because they originated in Britain.

Some of them were simple nobles who had no fiefs and only names, and some of them were big nobles who owned a lot of land.

These great nobles are also lords, and their domain is not just a piece of land, but a combination of property, rights, income, and power.

By taking possession of most of the land, they supported their political and economic influence in the local area, and sometimes even used it to compete with the central imperial power.

The peasants or serfs on the land were required to pay rent to the nobility, money for hunting and collecting firewood in the nobility's domain, as well as the cost of using tools such as mills, and various feudal obligations.

In the early days, these nobles even had the power to collect taxes.

But because these nobles did not have to work, they were only concerned with collecting land rent, and most of them did not care about how to manage the land and improve technology, but simply increased the burden on the peasants.

The fundamental reason for this is that Britannia's land is too vast to be managed without being divided.

In the past, the royal family relied heavily on the nobility, and in case of war, the nobles had to be summoned to lead their soldiers into battle.

And at that time in the territory the nobility had absolute power, loyal to the pope, and put the state second.

So later, several emperors of Britannia began to weaken the power of the aristocracy.

For example, the church was turned into an organization under the orders of the imperial power, the power of the great nobles was weakened, the standing army was established, the military power of the imperial power was strengthened, and the power of taxation was mastered, which effectively guaranteed internal rule and external expansion.

An absolute monarchy is established, that is, a monarchical dictatorship, in which the monarch has the largest and, in general, supreme rights.

The era of absolute monarchy was an era in which the nobility was gradually deprived of their military power and the standing army loyal to the king developed.

However, despite the unusually strong standing army, Britannia did not cut off the hidden danger of rebellion by nobles and mercenaries in autonomous cities.

Even if the monarch established a standing army to fight against the great nobility, the system of the nobility acting as intermediaries to recruit and command the army did not fundamentally change.

The emperor needed to appease the nobles with sufficient funds, privileges, and personal prestige to ensure that the military power was in his own hands.

Later, in the Moriaan period, he also embarked on the recovery of aristocratic power.

He planned to emulate the county system in the East, take back the administrative power of the aristocracy, strengthen the centralization of power, and intend to put all the nobles in the imperial capital and become a special group that received a fixed salary.

However, he did not carry out this reform at the outset, but first reformed the military power, and the legislation did not allow the aristocracy to organize armies in non-war times.

Only the nobles who were "allowed" could organize armies and garrison the frontiers, and the Marquis of Oss was one such one.

The aristocracy of Britannia was basically required to serve, because they or their parents had become nobles on the basis of military honors in the past, and in this era when quality education was not yet widespread, they were rare generals.

In fact, the aristocracy did not reject this, because many nobles could not afford to raise an army because of the fact that their feudal income in the past was so low that they could not afford to raise an army.

After the repossession of military power, Moria was ready to embark on the repossession of administrative power.

However, this news was leaked by Victor, and the nobles naturally did not want to lose their power and become a group of mascots, so he united the rest of the nobles to rebel against Moria.

The country fell into civil strife, and Moria used the army to quell the rebellion, but it still could not be solved, Britannia was too big for the army to manage.

There were even some big nobles who had a vague intention of declaring independence, and Moria obviously couldn't agree to it, so he chose to make a partial compromise with the nobles.

This is also the reason for the existence of today's aristocratic councils.

Yes, Britannia actually has a parliament, and enjoys a certain amount of legislative and executive power, and even a certain right to recruit troops, similar to a constitutional monarchy, but the power of the nobility and the emperor is divided.

However, this parliamentary system was imperfect, which led to partisan politics, and the tendency of the aristocracy to cling together became more serious, and the increase in the power of the aristocracy also made the people more exploited.

But it is also undeniable that with the formation of the aristocratic council, the contradictions before the aristocracy were resolved through internal strife in the past to solve the problem through rules, reducing the violent turmoil in society.

And because of the establishment of the noble council, Moria's revised county system was also implemented, and the power was recycled, although it was recycled into the hands of the noble council.

However, it has also succeeded in implementing the "one country, one law", that is, one country uses one set of laws, and the justice of justice has been promoted, and at the same time, it has also increased uniformity and reduced the possibility of division.

However, after the failure to regain the power of the nobility, Moria did not do nothing, but carried out a series of economic and military reforms, and promoted the professionalization of the army.

The reason why Arthur was able to fight with the West Francis Empire and the West Tooth Empire for so long at the same time was because of his ability on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was the family wealth left by Moria.

After Arthur succeeded to the throne, he began to reform this parliamentary system, adding a commoner House of Commons to the aristocratic parliament.

The main purpose is to give civilians a voice and compete with the House of Lords.

Of course, the commoners here do not refer to those workers and peasants, but to the non-aristocratic class.

Most of them are the newly rising bourgeoisie, who have a higher education and have wealth comparable to that of the aristocracy, which is the basis for competing with the aristocracy.

Initiating the rule of the people at a time when universal quality education had not yet become universal would undoubtedly produce a mass politics, which was the lesson he had learned in the West Francis Empire.

And at the same time, Arthur also strengthened his imperial power on this basis.

The monarch is the head of state and has real power, the monarch appoints cabinet members, the government is accountable to the monarch, and the parliament exercises legislative power but the monarch has the right of veto.

In this form of government, although the state also formulated a constitution and established a parliament, the monarch still maintained the authority of the feudal autocracy, held the state power alone, and was the center of power and the highest de facto ruler.

Constitutions are often made and are a reflection of the will of the monarch; Parliament is the advisory body of the monarch, and the legislative power is formal, and the monarch not only has the power to veto the legislature of parliament, but also controls the parliament by appointing or appointing members.

The Cabinet is the body by which the monarch exercises executive power, and the Prime Minister is appointed by the monarch.

This system is known as a dual constitutional monarchy.

(End of chapter)