Chapter 1,476 Accelerated Progress
If it was just a unilateral goodwill from the Dragon God, it might not be too surprising. After all, given the relationship between Dragon Island and the Empire as both enemies and friends, it is not a big news that senior officials from both sides exchange gifts. Lan
On the surface, they are brothers, but behind the scenes, there are many secrets; or when they are cooperating in transactions, they are also making harsh words in their mouths. These are the daily life of Longdao and the empire.
The reason is that only those who have a deeper understanding of Long Island will know. There are two distinct forces on Long Island. If one party cooperates, the other party will definitely be held back. Or else he was disdainful of the arbitrary changes in the empire's stance.
The Dragon Emperor and the Dragon God behind him are in the same camp, and the Dragon Mother of All Things is in another camp. Although the confrontation between the two sides did not break out into actual conflicts, various stumbling blocks and petty actions emerged one after another.
Generally speaking, when the Dragon Emperor and Dragon God show good intentions, the Dragon Mother of All Things should jump out and sing the opposite. But this time, as soon as the gift from the Dragon God came, the gift from the Dragon Mother of All Things caught up with it.
What was sent was a young female dragon that had been born for some time. The golden dragon race, in terms of blood relationship, also belongs to the aristocratic class among the dragon clan of Long Island.
The growth curve of dragons is completely different from that of humans.
If human beings are used as the standard, the current average life span of Midi is about fifty years, and an adult is considered to be fifteen years old. Dragons have an average life span of five hundred years. Doesn't it take one hundred and fifty years to be considered an adult dragon? In fact, the dragon's infancy period is not that long. Lan
Babies are the weakest of all living things, so they need their parents to take care of them at all times. The longer the infancy period, the longer the period of weakness.
As a creature at the top of the Midland ecosystem, how could the dragon clan have been weak for such a long time. Not to mention that the parents of the Dragon Clan are super irresponsible examples.
In fact, this is also the norm for oviparous animals. A parent's responsibility probably only ends when the child hatches from the egg. Even for birds, once the young birds can fly, it is time to live in separate nests.
Various factors make the dragon clan's infancy period destined not to be too long. Because if it remains weak for too long, it will be easily killed by other creatures.
Under normal circumstances, dragons will remain young for about twenty years after hatching from eggs. Next, we will enter the youth period of more than one hundred years, the adulthood period of more than two hundred years, and then the old age of the last hundred years.
If he hadn't taken that crucial step, he could have gone to the dragon's tomb and waited for death.
The Mother of All Dragons sent her, a female golden dragon who was nominally the prince's guard, a baby that was just over ten years old. Theoretically, she would emerge from infancy around the same time as the prince. Lan
Judging from Jin Long's status and her adult time. Everyone felt that the Dragon Mother of All Things was not sending a bodyguard, but a hostage and a child bride.
The attitude is also that if the two little ones get along in the future, let them become husband and wife. If you don't get along, you can just be a guard or a follower. Anyway, we don't accept returns.
This is no different from forming an alliance between two parties.
Moreover, the two major camps on Dragon Island showed favor to one at the same time, and there was no hostility or competition between the camps. This was an unprecedented situation.
Regardless of whether the magician who was driven away might turn around and become a sharp blade in the hands of the empress because of the child. Longdao's attitude as the empress' backer is very obvious.
Under such circumstances, because they were afraid of the possible consequences of constitutional monarchy, the nobles who planned to overthrow everything had to consider another thing.
That is, when the empress loses the constraints of the constitutional system and regains power, will she still be the powerless vase that was played with by the nobles a few years ago with her hands and feet tied? Lan
Compared with the dangers of the lower council, the danger of the empress who has regained the power of life and death, and has the support of Dragon Island and the magician as her backer, is not only more dangerous, but the danger is more likely to be immediate and fatal. .
On the one hand, if you fight, you may still have a chance to win; on the other hand, you can only kneel down unconditionally, or bury yourself. So it seems that it is not difficult to decide which way to go.
The status of the empress is considered immovable. Now that the constitutional monarchy is being promoted smoothly, no one hopes or dares to bring the emperor who has been placed in the pavilion back to earth again.
The name of the emperor has not become a thing of the past, but has become an existence like a sleeping lion. No one dares to disturb easily.
A small incident that not many people take seriously. The late emperor's son, Duke Behar, died suddenly in the tower where he was imprisoned not long after the empress crowned him.
It was claimed to be an emergency, but in fact it was an outpouring of goodwill from members of the royal family. Because if a member of the royal family dies, their territory and title will of course return to the emperor.
This kind of ending is not what the empress wants to see. However, others acted smartly and thought they were showing their loyalty. Such behavior not only left Alegria speechless, but also most of the nobles who knew the truth. Lan
It can only be said that it was not without reason that these people were deprived of the right to inherit the throne. He does things so recklessly and leaves no room for anything, and he doesn't know how to say hello first and then do it self-righteously, and then take credit for it at the end.
When other old nobles saw it, they all thought that if there were such idiots in their family, they would definitely strangle them to death on the spot. So as not to cause trouble to the family and leave clues to other families.
The empress didn't do this. She didn't even look at the clowns. Alegria just admired and admired how deep a group of people would fall into despair when they lost power and therefore gradually lost control.
Originally, the little Duke of Behar would have been one of them, and his life would have been even more difficult. Because he was under house arrest, no one was willing to assist. Even the vassals in his territory happily became one of the perpetrators. Then people die.
Another thing happened in the Karlsruhe Empire. Although its influence has not spread to other places yet, many people are paying attention to it. The Lord of Justice has changed his job!
It's not quite right to say he changed his job, but the Lord of Justice has an additional title of Protector.
What law does it protect? Lan
Constitution of the Karlsruhe Empire.
The empress didn't know about this at first. Because the Lord of Justice followed the advice of a certain magician and went directly to the grand dukes to discuss it.
The situation is similar to what someone predicted.
The grand dukes hold the principle that they would rather die together than let this happen if a god jumps on their heads. But if they are equals and become colleagues in the name of protecting the law, everyone will not be so repulsive.
Some people may worry that it will be like boiling a frog in warm water. If the gods have an excuse to intervene in politics, then they will have other reasons to intervene step by step, and in the end they will return to the old path of divine power over imperial power.
But those who do those things have always been the church of the gods in the mortal world, and the gods themselves are very principled.
This was also a religious war more than two hundred years ago. The reason why the secular government was able to win was because the gods could not stand what the church was doing and allowed them to defeat. If the gods had really intervened at that time, even if the secular government had not failed, the war would probably have continued to this day. Lan
In any case, theocracy changed from being isolated from the political arena.
The Upper House, that is, the aristocratic assembly that can form a cabinet, certainly has no room for divine intervention. This is also one of the reasons why the Grand Dukes agreed that people with church status could run for election as members of the House of Commons.
No matter how the power of the church expanded, the administrative power of the empire was still in the hands of the nobles.
Just like congressional candidates with outstanding military achievements, people with religious backgrounds can easily win the favor of regional voters. Especially if they have the same beliefs, or at least those who belong to the camp of good gods.
Compared with other divine churches, the Lord of Justice, one of the Three Holy Light Churches, is the most active and has the clearest direction.
While other congressmen are still hesitating about why they are running for election and why voters should support them, the priests of the Lord of Justice already know how to use the slogan of 'ensuring that the law can be enforced fairly and equitably' to win the majority of people. consent and support.
In this era of confusion, people are still unable to distinguish between good and bad laws. In other words, after each law is enacted, the direction in which it will guide people to develop may not even be known to the person who made the law. Lan
But the law is not enforced fairly, which is what happens everywhere.
The Church of the Lord of Righteousness has reached out into the political circle. They have not created some positions themselves and started to promote doctrines like witch hunts. It's like bringing in some law enforcers and arbiters.
Everyone in the Three Holy Lights Church is very careful not to go beyond the legal regulations that have been established and announced. This is the general principle of cooperation between theocracy and political power.
However, those who become members of Parliament and have church status at the same time will always come forward to communicate and negotiate with the noble lords when they encounter injustices against civilians.
At first, of course, I didn’t get a good response. Even those high-ranking people and masters are not taken seriously by the common people or the church at all.
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But as these MPs 'ran votes' in the House of Commons, the lords found their influence waning. Only then did I realize something was wrong.
There is no legal requirement for MPs from a certain territory to obey the orders of their lord! Lan
Then it is reasonable for legislators to make the best and most correct choice for the voters who elect them.
In one's plan, the process of wresting power from the aristocracy would have occurred naturally until constitutional government had matured and the people had become more familiar with the use of power. I didn’t expect that with the help of the church, the whole process would happen so early!
It is not that there are no capable people in the church. Priests and bishops who are able to operate within a diocese are not idiots who can easily rise to power by relying on blood ties.
They just didn't have the opportunity to intervene in the political arena before. Now that we have the opportunity, who else knows how to win people's hearts better than them!
Not to mention that the Lord of Justice is still in touch with a certain magician. As a messenger of justice, the panda Bibi often travels between the southern empire and the holy city of Estali in the north-central part.
In the past, it would have taken a year to go back and forth on this journey. Although the teleportation magic circle can be used, the high price cannot afford to be used frequently.
However, the popularization of fast airships has improved this problem. It can be said that the current Midland has skipped the railway personnel transportation and directly adopted the means of flight transportation. This is another big change in the past twelve years. Lan