Chapter 1025, Dulong City and Enfeoffment System

Chapter 1024 , Dulong City and Enfeoffment System

As the name suggests, the Dark Rolling River was dug out by the dwarves of Dulong City to connect the underground river secret passages in the North Bay of Norsca and the South Bay of Norsca. The dwarves of Dulong City can communicate with the outside world through the secret river, trade and even dispatch The army, this river channel deep in the Norsca mountains has become the lifeline for the Norsca dwarves to contact the outside world.

However, this lifeline cannot be used all day, because it is easy for the Norsca or Skaven to know, so the solution of the Dulong City dwarves is to choose a safe time period and reduce the frequency of use to maintain concealment.

The dark rolling river is extremely dark, and there are only a few rune stones of the Norscan dwarves and the torches on the passenger ship to illuminate and provide the way forward. The complicated and changeable rivers even have different dwarf rune marks, which need to be identified. Once you make a mistake, it is either a dead end or a trap, or even a deep pit where you don't know where it leads.

The result was that Ryan got up early in the morning, only to find that it was dark outside, with stones on both sides, a stone on the zenith, and a stone in the distance.

Little Solgreen and his good friend Jed are still staying on the deck. The two mustaches like the cave environment the most. Needless to say, the dwarf's special preference for this environment, for the dwarf Said that they were born to love mines and caves, and little Thorgreen muttered about what he would do if he were the great king of Dulong City, and how he would build this place. The High King of Zhifeng takes it seriously, and the mustache is a bit swollen just like his father Belgar. Anyway, without the help of the High King, wouldn't we take back Mount Bafeng?

"Oh, it's His Majesty Ryan." The mustache was very happy to see Ryan appearing. He gave Ryan the courtesy of a dwarf, and then said to Ryan: "Have you had breakfast? Would you like some?"

The two mustaches ate breakfast right on the deck, and the dwarves' breakfast was beer, sausage, goat cheese, and dwarf lye bread.

Ryan thought to himself, are you going to fix this kind of hard food early in the morning? The King of Knights quickly shook his head: "I have already prepared it. I am not used to eating such hard food in the morning."

"Aha, it seems that His Majesty Ryan has better food." Jed - the honest man smiled, this mustache respects Ryan very much, he is combing his beard, although Jed's beard only reaches his chest, but the dwarf I have always regarded my beard as a symbol of status and qualifications. It needs to be brushed and washed frequently to be beautiful and smooth. The two mustaches are naturally backward, and they wash their beards every day on the passenger ship.

"Huh? His Majesty Ryan, why did you shave your beard clean again?" Jed immediately found that Ryan had shaved his beard clean again, leaving no stubble, so he complained: "Your Majesty, you don't care about anything." Ok, but why is there no good habit of growing a beard? I know that humans and dwarves have different habits,

But don't you humans grow beards when you get old? "

"Eh..." Ryan touched his bare chin, thinking that I can't tell you that the fairy in the lake is afraid of pain and tickle, right?

Speaking of being a goddess, it’s really a bit too much. If you want to make out with her now, you have to make her comfortable first, but she really knows Ryan’s weakness too well, and the two parties have already established a relationship. Shamefully obeyed.

After thinking about it, Ryan could only laugh and said, "It's easy to deal with, just like many people in the empire like to shave their heads."

"Your Majesty Ryan, we will arrive in Dulong City in two days. I had a conversation with Maharaja Torgard when I was supporting Erengrad. After two years, there is already a big difference in culture and customs, and when you get there, no matter what the Maharaja Tolgard asks, as long as it is not too excessive or too strange, please do what he said first." Little Solgreen held a piece of lye bread in his hand, and he added: "It shouldn't be difficult for us, the defense of Erengrad and the operation of Bagration in Dulong City have all participated in it, and I will also send you I have told the majesty about the deeds."

"It seems that the High King's law doesn't work in Dulong City?" Ryan understood what little Solgreen meant.

"We've been separated for too long." Little Thorgreen shook his head, "We should be thankful that the Norscan dwarves are not like our Chaos-like cousins. It can be said that we are lucky."

Ryan nodded silently.

The enfeoffment expansion system that many people admire has similar problems. It is true that the enfeoffment system is the fastest way to control some remote and backward areas and newly recovered areas, but the enfeoffment system is most likely to cause two problems. The first is the localization of vassals. The second is that the tail is too big to drop.

The issue of annexing territories has already been mentioned above, so I won't repeat it here.

Ryan has always been opposed to some people's views, that is, a large number of immigrants, enfeoffment can promote their own culture, spread their own racial blood, expand their own legal principles, and don't care whether they can really control it, as long as they admit that they are a person of a certain race, Just use your own culture and system, everyone thinks so, and thinks that the meat will rot in the pot in the end.

This is actually a very wishful thinking. Take the dwarves as an example. The two largest branches of the dwarves during the great geographical discovery of the Mountain Kingdom are the dwarves of Dulong City and the chaotic dwarves of the Dark Realm. The strange state of disobedience, the latter simply succumbed to chaos, abandoned the belief of the ancestor gods, and became a subject of Hasut, the father of darkness, the secondary god of chaos.

This is true of dwarves, not to mention humans, who place great value on tradition and the glory of their ancestors.

These are the two problems most likely to arise in enfeoffment. The first one is that the tail is too big to lose. Taking Dulong City as an example, the dwarves here have formed their own culture and social organization after they came to Norsca. Don't want to go back to the Kingdom of the Mountains, so the two sides can only maintain the status quo after the negotiation between the High King and the Maharaja.

Who wants to have multiple masters on his head?

The second problem is even worse, that is, like the Chaos Dwarves, after they were far away from the border and lost contact with the central government, the Dwarf Expeditionary Army quickly localized, abandoned their original culture, and gradually turned to worship Chaos, and the Kingdom of the Mountains have become outright enemies, and claim to be orthodox.

Then someone will definitely say that this is only after the contact has been broken. What if the contact has not been broken? What if it is only enfeoffed outside the national border? Assuming that the blood of the Supreme King guarantees legal rationality?

Taking Ryan’s previous Celestial Dynasty as an example, there were only enfeoffments outside the country’s borders, most of which were ruled by Jilin, but there were also real seals, but once this started, there was a precedent for real seals, then seals and seals would begin gradually. Sealed within one's own core area, for example, the Jiedushi system gradually took shape in this way.

As for the seal of royal blood, it is easier. Old Zhu with Ming has already explained everything with the Sai King system. When the central government changes, all these royal blood have the right to inherit. Guess they got the news. Are you willing to continue to live a hard life in the desolate and backward fiefdom, or take the army back to the central government to fight for your own status or even the throne?

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings is a warning, but it is difficult to warn Feng Tianjing.

As mentioned above, as time goes by, the central government will definitely have problems.

Furthermore, even if the fiefdoms are linked together, the divided regimes can easily be gradually "localized". Except for the Yuan Dynasty, the four major khanates of the Mongol Empire were completely greened within a hundred years.

why? Because the enfeoffment population is small, there are only two ways to control more with less. The first is to kill all the locals. For example, the US emperor did this to the Indians. The four khanates gradually became localized soon.

Of course, there is a third option, that is, the central government continues to provide massive blood transfusions, giving money and resources to others.

Regardless of the long-term large-scale blood transfusion is the way to subjugate the country, but the large-scale blood transfusion is only entrusted to others instead of bureaucratic management. What is the central government trying to do?

So it's very difficult, close-range enfeoffment is death, and long-distance enfeoffment is not conducive to expansion. If you don't plan to do what the US emperor did to the Indians, you must have a large and sufficient population, otherwise you will either be killed. Drive away (such as the Yuan Dynasty) or gradually localize like a chaotic dwarf (such as the Four Great Khanates).

However, Ryan doesn't think enfeoffment is worthless at all. For example, if enfeoffment is far away and cannot return, and there are no locals, let him be self-reliant and keep some seeds of hope, then there is still room for manipulation. Yes, such as the Eastern Song Dynasty in Australia, the Ming Dynasty in North America, and the Third Rome, similar to this is possible, and there is room for manipulation.

It’s like saying that Brother Guilliman’s Five Hundred Worlds established the Second Empire at the critical moment of the Horus rebellion, resolutely took on the burden of revitalizing the human empire, and claimed to be the orthodox empire! At least there is some hope of revival.

In fact, according to Little Solgreen, Dulong City even retains more traditional rune technology and ancient forging techniques than the Dwarf Mountain Kingdom, but because it has not experienced the era of cataclysm and faced the destruction of green skins Attack, the Dulong City dwarves are very backward in civil engineering and firearms technology.

Ryan thought a lot, until the fairy of the lake appeared on the deck. Today, the goddess is wearing a bright mint crystal blue bright colorful layered silk dress, and her long bright golden hair is coiled behind her head like a high elf lady hairstyle and then falls like a waterfall It hangs down almost to the ankle, a pair of beautiful feet wrapped in white ultra-thin lace back seam thin line pantyhose wears a pair of pumps with golden iris embossed fish mouth high heels, revealing the beautiful toes wrapped in stockings, painted Wearing green nail polish, she was bathed in the platinum light rain. Seeing Ryan in a daze on the deck, the fairy in the lake called him: "Ryan, what are you still doing on the deck? Come here. "

"Breakfast ready?" Ryan noticed that except himself, no one on the deck noticed the appearance of the goddess, it should be her illusion.

"Yes, Morgiana is ready." The fairy in the lake beckoned Ryan to come over quickly.

Ryan heard the words and returned to the cabin. He shrugged and smiled at the goddess: "Look, Lilith, it's black everywhere. I almost thought it wasn't breakfast, it was dinner!"

"Dinner? Dinner is good. After the dinner is over, we can just do a little exercise, so that our knight king will not lack of exercise!" The fairy in the lake skillfully took Ryan's arm, and pressed her plump softness directly on Ryan's arm superior.

"Eh..." Ryan's face turned green suddenly. During this period of time, he dealt with Lilith and Morgiana alone. These two women are both powerful users of psychic powers. Morgiana was carefully selected as a fairy in the lake. The supernatural power generator and storage can absorb Ryan's spiritual energy almost unlimitedly, and Morgiana has recently begun to try to hit the peak of the sanctuary because she can absorb a large amount of spiritual power from Ryan.

This was originally impossible, because since accepting the inheritance of the lake god witch and the power of the lake fairy, the high-level strength of the Sanctuary of Morgiana has basically been nailed to death, and it is impossible to break through.

But this is Ryan, a man who can make the impossible possible.

It's just that the process is a bit tiring... Ryan thought so.

Entering the cabin, Morgiana was obviously in a good mood. Today, the Witch of the Lake God was wearing a white tulle blouse and a pink skirt with hips. Under the skirt was long flesh-colored pantyhose. With an apron tied on her chest, she put the last fried egg on the plate, then lifted the plate with one hand, and pressed the skirt of the short skirt with one hand embarrassingly: "Lian, you are back Ah, breakfast is ready."

Ryan couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth. He took the plate from Morgiana, untied her apron, and sat down with her. The fairy in the lake still only ate some fruit as usual.

While eating breakfast, the two chatted about other things. The fairy in the lake looked at the way Morgiana leaned on Ryan to eat, and said with some discomfort: "Oh, by the way, about what you arranged before, that Jia Councilwoman Lan? It's called Catherine, isn't it?"

"Well, yes." Ryan thought for a moment: "But that matter passed?"

"The controversy is not small." The fairy in the lake nodded: "In the end, the knights and nobles saw such great achievements in Karad, coupled with the approval of Suria and the fact that she had given birth to a child. Finally recognized her new identity."

The Fairy of the Lake was talking about Veronica's personal disciple Catherine. After Catherine was lucky enough to conceive and gave birth to a boy, Callard asked Ryan to make Catherine his countess.

This is a very troublesome matter. It is not without precedent for a witch to become a noble lady, but this is really the first time in Brittania. Fortunately, it was finally settled.

"Very good, but she won't be the countess soon." Ryan smiled and put down the fork: "She will be the marquis soon, and I have already planned to confer Carrad as Britannia after returning home." Marshal, and at the same time he was crowned Marquis of Gallament."

Lane is already planning to go back and continue the pace of centralization.

"There is a second thing. Emperor Karl Franz took this opportunity to send some Reick guards to regroup the army in the northern provinces of the empire, and at the same time establish Rick fortresses in some key towns." The Fairy in the Lake said The second news came out: "At the same time, the emperor announced the Rick standing army system, and planned to bring a small number of local provincial elites that the electors could not control well and suffered excessive losses to the imperial court to reorganize and establish a new guard army. He's in direct control."

"Normally, the current situation in the empire is in turmoil, but the emperor's army has not suffered too much loss. This is the best time to further strengthen the centralization of power and establish a new army." Ryan nodded slightly: "It seems that Karl learned a lot from me. Less."

Regardless of Kahuang's current financial difficulties, Rickland now has a population of 6 million, and the entire country of Britannia is only more than 8 million people. With such a large population base and tax sources, Kahuang wants to relax Come fast.

After the two things were finished and breakfast was finished, Ryan was holding Morgiana in his arms and was about to say something, but the King of Knights immediately noticed that the fairy in the lake had gone to close the door of the cabin, and he hurriedly wanted to get up: "No! Lilith! Not now!"

"You can't say no, my champion! I believe in you, you can do it!" The fairy in the lake held Ryan down, and the goddess smiled and said, "Mogiana, come, let's go together!"

"Okay." Morgiana nodded shyly, and she suddenly put her arms around Ryan's neck, gagged his mouth, and prevented him from getting up.

"Well……"

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