Chapter 475: A Golden Opportunity
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Simon Blowing Snow won, but it was also a miserable victory!
There are dozens of fractures all over the body, and many muscles and veins are damaged, even if it is rescued by the best medical team under Gu Yi, it will take nearly a year to recover as before!
Of course, Ximen Blowing Snow also gained a lot of benefits!
After experiencing this real life-and-death struggle, the door to Ximen Chuixue's future martial arts path has been opened! Although it is not as good as Ye Gucheng, he has crossed the final threshold, and he can become a supreme grandmaster with only the accumulation of time, and he has also stepped into it with one foot!
With Simon's crushing victory, the Terran team that followed him in the northern barbarian region retreated!
As an excellent team with great achievements, from the first day of withdrawal, many forces launched an offensive to win them over. Reading clan Shanchuan Hall, Qianlong Society, Shangguan Clan, Gongsun Clan....... have given a very heavy commitment, and strive to bring these masters under their command!
The result?
This team soon 'bowed' under the sincere pull of all parties, and joined the forces of all parties. Except for a few people who have a belonging, the vast majority of people have changed from scattered people to guests of all forces!
On the Barbarian side, the clouds were gloomy, and they felt very angry and helpless about the death of Hakbas.
The war in the northwest has ended, after all, the orc empire is no longer in danger of extinction for the time being, and the resistance of the 'mountain and river hall' is too strong, so Salton decided to retreat.
If you continue to fight, the gains will outweigh the losses. As for the food support for the Orc Empire, it will be done secretly after the war!
After all, there are still many trails in the northwest that can lead directly to the north and south, as long as it is not wartime, the 'Shanchuan Hall' will not be too difficult!
As for whether transporting past grain from the trail can really alleviate the food crisis in the Orc Empire, that is not something that Salton can consider!
When the news of Hakbath's death reached Saltton's ears, he was both relieved and full of resentment at Simon Blowing Snow who killed Hakbas!
These are two completely different emotions, and they also clearly reflect the contradiction in Salton's heart!
As the king of the barbarian race, Salton wants to say that he has no ambition at all, and no one believes it!
It is impossible for a person without ambition to come to this point!
As the king of the barbarians, Salton was naturally very worried about the change of the king of the barbarians. Especially after Hackbass showed excellent ability and clear ambition, Salton still had a strong sense of crisis about his throne!
It's just that as the king of the barbarian race, he can't go against the tradition of the barbarian race for thousands of years, let alone challenge the internal order of the barbarian royal family!
Although in his youth, Salton had similar ambitions to Hakbass. But after actually taking charge of the barbarians, Salton knew that his ambition was nothing more than an extravagant hope! Therefore, although Salton was still very reluctant in his heart, he was still honest like the kings of the barbarian race, personally guiding and teaching Hakbas!
This time, Hakbass carried out the elimination of the Terrans who broke into the territory, which should have been a task to add honor to Hakbas. Once Hakbass succeeds in driving out or exterminating the invading Terrans, then Hakbas's reputation within the Barbarians will skyrocket!
Compare this to the fact that for so many years, Salton's foreign wars have achieved nothing. One is not good, Salton will face the pressure of the entire royal family, and finally have to give up his throne!
But now that Hakbass has been defeated and died, there is no longer a threat to challenge Saltton's throne! Salton is naturally relieved!
It's just that as the king of the barbarian race, Salton faces another problem: there is no successor!
In the past, each generation of the barbarian race would have excellent children to be cultivated as the heirs of the barbarian king. In the end, the victor became the new barbarian king, and the loser either became a priest or died.
This leads to another scenario: a bitter struggle for the throne.
They are all excellent children, each of them has extraordinary power and personal strength, and no one will easily admit defeat!
So, for the sake of the throne, the heir began to attack his rivals. From the beginning of the stumbling behind the scenes, to the later open war, for a time the entire barbarian race fell into chaos, seriously damaging the interests of the entire barbarian race.
Since more than 7,000 years ago, the barbarian generation of the 'Holy King' Pinis and the current high priest Uton decided to change all this and prevent the barbarian race from decaying due to internal strife, so they changed the training system for heirs.
Among the new generation of barbarian children, select the best, and everyone will do their best to cultivate them!
In this way, there is no suspense in the succession to the throne, and there is no strife. Whether it is the barbarian king of the previous generation or the high priest, they will do their best to cultivate this person, and finally make the new generation of barbarian kings the most convincing king of the entire barbarian race!
For more than 7,000 years, each generation of barbarian kings was chosen through this process. Under the joint supervision of the priest group and the entire royal family, the succession of the barbarian king is still very optimistic. Whether it is the abdicated barbarian king or the new barbarian king who inherits the throne, they can carry out the policy they made at the beginning!
But the smooth succession situation made all the upper echelons of the barbarian race forget about one of the fatal flaws: once the heir dies before he can become the barbarian king, he will face a situation where there is no successor!
As the best son of the new generation of barbarians, Hakbass has been the heir to your barbarian king since very early on.
Whether it is the barbarian king Saltton or the high priest Oakes, as well as all the royal members of the barbarian race, they are all trying their best to cultivate Hakbas, and even build a framework for the future rule of Hakbas!
And Hakbass has never disappointed them, and has always shown extremely high ability, becoming the only heir to the future Barbarian King!
Up to now, the same batch of barbarian newcomers is very different from Hakbas, not to mention the forces they control, even their personal strength and mentality are far inferior to Hakbas!
Can ....... now Hakbass is dead!
This made Salton and Oaks, as well as the entire barbarian royal family higher-ups, a little dazed!
The heir is dead, what happens next?!
"High Priestess, what now?!" Salton asked, looking at Oakes, with a bitter look on his face.
"......." Oakes' face was cloudy, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
Oaks basically knew about Hakbass's death.
According to the customs and ideas of the barbarians, Hakbass died without complaining!
As a nomadic people, the barbarian race is very open to the fact that Ximen Chuixue led the Terran team to invade the north. The northern steppe desert is so big, and everyone feels normal when someone comes in and does things like barbarians. Aside from being terrified of Simon Blowing Snow and the team he led, there wasn't much hatred!
As for the battle between Ximen Fuxue and Hakbas, it is a real and fair battle! Both sides do their best, the winner lives, and the loser dies! It echoes the barbarian race's definition of the strong!
Therefore, in the minds of ordinary barbarians, for the death of Hakbas, it is more of a fear and admiration for Simon Blowing Snow, and there is no other emotion. Even the vast majority of barbarians have no idea of avenging Hakbas!
But at the top of the barbarians, this is a very tricky matter!
Although the barbarian race Salton is still at its peak in the Spring and Autumn Period, according to the rules of the barbarian race in the past, the barbarian king only has a power period of two hundred years. And now Salton has been the Barbarian King for more than a hundred and seventy years!
Hakbass was born when Salton succeeded to the throne for 100 years, and subsequently participated in the selection of the heir!
After more than 70 years of training, Hakbass has definitely become a candidate for the future barbarian king, and as long as it takes more than ten years, Hakbass can succeed to the throne normally!
Can ...... now Hakbass is dead! If you look at the rest of the people who are the same generation as Hakbas, they are naturally too far behind!
After all, Salton is only a dozen years away from abdicating, and there is simply not enough time to train a new generation of heirs!
But if you choose a new barbarian king from among the people of Hakbas's generation...... That's even more difficult!
Faced with Salton's question, Oakes fell into deep contemplation.
The succession to the throne of the barbarian kings has been in the hands of a group of priests in the royal family since more than 7,000 years ago.
Although the Barbarian King has supreme authority over the Barbarians, the royal priests can do the abolition of the throne, and they can also dominate the trend of the throne!
In fact, there was no change of barbarian king every two hundred years from the beginning. In the past, the barbarian king could have been able to die unless he abdicated for sin!
But since more than 7,000 years ago, after the priests gradually grasped the power of the throne, they began to stipulate the number of years of the reign of the barbarian king!
You must know that the vitality of the barbarian race is extremely strong, and if you are successful in cultivation, it will not be a problem at all to live for a thousand children for 800 years! If you control the throne for a long time, the priests will lose control over the change of the throne, and naturally it will not be allowed!
Know that more than 2,000 years ago, the priests relied on the fatal mistakes of that generation of barbarian kings to depose him, and finally formed the current throne change situation!
Now that Hakbass is dead, and his contemporaries are doing nothing, and a new generation has not yet appeared, only more than ten years have passed, and the succession to the throne of the barbarians is indeed a big problem!
As the high priest, Oakes naturally represents the interests of a group of priests!
Seeing the change of the barbarian throne, Oakes was even more anxious than Salton!
In today's situation, there are only two ways: one is to prolong Saltton's throne, at least until a new generation of barbarian kings grows up! This time is close to a hundred years, not to mention that it will not only challenge the authority of the priests, but also allow Salton to consolidate the power in his hands, so that he may compete with the power of the priests in the future!
The second is to choose one of Hakbas's generation. With the supreme authority and support of the priests, he forcibly resisted the doubts and dissatisfaction of all parties in the barbarian clan, and became the barbarian king as a puppet. Until the new generation of barbarian king heirs grows up, and then use 'inaction' or 'incompetence' as an excuse to complete the change of throne!
There are pros and cons to both approaches, and both are a blow to the authority and impartiality of the priesthood!
"Rest easy, the barbarian king, I will go back at once, and consult with the priests to find the best way to come out!" said Oakes, bowing to Salton, without humility or arrogance.
"That's the best!" Saltton's eyes flashed, and he smiled mildly at Oakes.
Salton is also a generation of heroes, and he naturally quickly coped with the current situation by himself!
The most in line with Salton's interests is naturally to prolong his throne!
Salton, who had been in operation of the barbarians for more than a hundred years, had established his own power and authority. It's just that these forces and authorities are far from being able to challenge the priests!
At the age of two hundred years, Salton would have to rely on these forces for the rest of his life.
But now it's different!
With Hakbass defeated and the remaining heirs all scrapped, Salton felt his chance!
Salton is confident that he will only give himself a few more decades. Then the power in his hands will be greatly strengthened, and at that time, he may be able to break the control of the priests on the throne of the barbarian king for more than two thousand years, and exist as a real barbarian king!
Of course, Salton couldn't show that ambition so quickly! he knew very well how much the priests cared about the power in their hands, and even more so how they guarded against themselves!
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! For this reason, Salton not only quickly abandoned his resentment against Simon Blowing Snow, but also secretly rejoiced in his heart.
"Barbarian King!" After Oakes left, a henchman came to Saltton's side and said in a deep voice, "My subordinates think that the priests should not agree to the extension of your reign by the Barbarian King!"
"I know. Salton smiled, not paying much attention to it, "It's just that some things aren't up to them!"
"What do you mean?" the henchman asked, looking at Salton suspiciously, for some reason.
"If this king doesn't prolong his reign, then they need to push out a puppet!" Salton chuckled, and said indifferently, "A puppet is in power, how can he control everything of the barbarian race!
"Barbarian King, since the 'Holy King' reformed the inheritance method more than 7,000 years ago, the restoration has never happened again......"
"This time, that time!" Salton did not blame the henchman's question, and said with a smile, "The current situation is very different from before! This king has an absolute advantage, and as long as he seizes the opportunity, he can definitely succeed!"
"But the High Priest's side ......."
"Don't worry!" Salton shook his head unconcernedly, "Oakes is a smart man, and although he cares a lot about power, he knows how to advance and retreat. If the king is in control of the situation at that time, when things cannot be violated, Oakes will compromise!"
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