Chapter 1945: The Wheels of Change of the Times Roll Forward
Having a walk in the back garden, Saljan doesn't know what Valera and Stella Gousa are talking to in private, or what the two siblings are up to behind their backs, Sylvanas and Lyras, and he's going to take some time to go back to Unicorn City to check it out.
Although Salaan has moved away from Quel'Thalas, Unicorn City was built by his own hands and has watched it develop step by step.
From a national perspective, it is a bit too much to say that Unicorn City is the private property of the Deep Shadow family.
After all, this important trading town near the southern border of Quel'Salas pays taxes to the central government every year on time and in full, and there has never been a case of tax evasion.
However, the high-level Quel'Salas, including the Sun King Kael'thas, actually knew in their hearts that in Unicorn City and even in the entire Grand Duke's Domain, the name Saljan Deep Shadow had a greater influence than the Sun King and the Cabinet.
For modern people like barrage netizens who were born under the red flag, this kind of situation where they only know the lord and don't know the king is difficult to accept, but in fact, this is the norm in the feudal kingdom.
There is a saying in the world where the barrage is located that is very suitable to describe here - the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals.
Sarayan has no intention of splitting the country, and this is due to the combination of many objective factors.
With the development of communication technology and means of transportation, the exchanges between the north and south of the Yongge Forest will become more and more frequent, and this old feudal system with a high sky and a distant emperor will sooner or later be swept into the garbage heap of history.
Sarjan has no intention of blocking it, and there is a saying in the barrage that says it well, the wheels of history roll forward, and anyone who wants to use the mantis arm as a car to obstruct it will eventually be ruthlessly run over.
With the opening of people's wisdom and the rapid progress of magic technology, the influence of the central government on the fiefdoms of the major nobles will become stronger and stronger, which is the trend of the times, and will not be transferred by the will of the people.
Of course, this does not mean that the nobility that is losing power will sit still.
However, it is unfortunate that under the repeated suppression of the tacit understanding between Sarian and the two generations of Sun Kings, the nobles of Quel'Salas have long been knocked out of their backbones, and the old nobles have almost all declined, and the nobles have all united around the royal family under the leadership of Sarian in the early years.
Thanks to a complete set of education mechanisms, more and more civilian talents are entering major government departments in an orderly manner.
The aristocratic lords who were boiled frogs in warm water themselves knew that the central government, headed by Kael'thas, was cutting their influence and privileges little by little, but it was a pity...... By now, they have more than enough to do.
Neither Sarren nor Kael'thas had any intention of artificially accelerating the change of Quel'Thalas's social system, and now the Sun King and the cabinet ministers need to go with the flow, and the inertia of the times will force those who are facing the transition to make a choice.
"The next stage of the feudal era is the capitalist era......"
Salian hooked the corners of his mouth with a smile: "No matter what era it is, the powerful always exist, and absolute fairness is only an illusion after all." ”
"Kael'thas and I have given you a chance, whether you can grasp it and adjust the direction of the family's development in time depends on your vision."
With Sarren, the helmsman with the eyes of the sky, the Deep Shadow family has already begun to transform in advance, from a traditional aristocratic lord who sits on a large area of land to a capital group with a lot of wealth and resources.
With the heavy bargaining chip of the oil industry chain in hand, the transformation of the Deep Shadow family is not difficult.
The Windrangers are the most closely related to the Deep Shadow family among the many nobles in the southern part of the Yongge Forest.
Wen Leisa, who is in charge of family affairs, has long been accustomed to following in the footsteps of Sarren, and Wen Leisa did not hesitate to follow up as soon as the Deep Shadow family began its tepid transformation.
For the foreseeable future, no matter how Quel'Thalas changes, the Windranger family will continue to thrive.
From the Sun King's standpoint, Kael'thas is also optimistic about the transformation of the Windranger family.
For thousands of years, the Windranger family has been steadfast in their allegiance to the Sunseeker royal family, and the interests between the two have long been deeply bound, and Kael'thas does not have to worry about the Windranger taking the lead in revolutionizing his own life one day.
Unlike the world in which the barrage is located, the High Elves have a lifespan far higher than that of humans in the other world, so they cannot directly copy their mature experience.
According to the barrage, absolute monarchy is a kind of dog-and-gamble form of government with a high ceiling but a low lower limit, and the bet is on whether the personal ability of the incumbent monarch is online.
In contrast, a constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch gives certain powers to cabinet ministers, is a stable form of government with a guarantee mechanism, and the ceiling is not too high, but at least it will not be corrupted by the recklessness of some unscrupulous monarchs.
During the reign of Kael'thas the Emperor, Quel'Salas can rest assured and bold to continue to adopt the absolute monarchy, as for the future...... We'll talk about that later.
Kael'thas has been promoted to a demigod and has an infinite lifespan, and as long as he doesn't want to retire, Quel'Thalas can theoretically be ruled by him forever.
However, Kael'thas personally did not intend to do so.
Demigods do have an immortal lifespan, but that doesn't mean they can't die.
In the unlikely event that Kael'thas dies in a future war, Quel'Thalas is likely to fall at the speed of light with no successor, which is clearly something that Kael'thas does not want to see.
As a result, Kael'thas had discussed this with Salian a few years earlier.
He will not always stay on the throne, but will follow the normal process of raising offspring like previous generations of Sun Kings, and when the time is right, he will give the throne to his son, or grandson, or even great-grandson.
Don't doubt it, it's not uncommon for four or even five generations of the High Elf family to live together.
If all his sons' ability to govern is not satisfactory to Kael'thas , he will postpone the priority of succession to his grandson, or even great-grandson and great-great-great-grandson, and he will not leave a mess and pat his ass and leave.
If a suitable successor could not be chosen, Kael'thas would have to adopt the constitutional monarchy proposed by Sarren.
Unlike Quel'Thalas, who actively sought change, the other kingdoms of Azeroth, including Lordaeron, struggled with feudalism, even the nominally democratic Republic of the Night.
It's not that Malfurion deliberately wants to sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, but that the entire Dark Night Republic is not ready to enter the next era, and the forced transformation will only be pulled by the egg because the steps are too big, and the gains outweigh the losses.
The current queen of Lordaeron, Galia, was raised by Sarrean as a child, and she certainly wanted Lordaeron to keep up with the changing times, but ...... Lordaeron isn't up to the Minahires.
The constraints of the nobles and high-ranking officials at all levels prevented her from making drastic reforms like Quel'Thalas, who had already cleaned up the nobility several times.
After officially joining the Deep Shadow family, Jialia has already begun to plan to train her successor to give way.
But the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, and she hasn't conceived a child yet.
In the foreseeable future...... Even for decades, Jialia will continue to sit on the throne.
She does not intend to believe in the wisdom of future generations as ridiculed by the barrage, but is ready to solve the problem of social change in Lordaeron by herself before the official succession, leaving a more stable and open Lordaeron to her and Sarjan's children to inherit. (End of chapter)
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