Chapter 589: Ending: The Old Order and the New Order
Chapter 589 Epilogue·Old Order and New Order
As the Noxian army collapsed, the defeated soldiers retreated to Tobitsia Fortress and were trapped in the isolated city. The victory of this war is about to end with Demacia's victory, even if the Gate of Mourn is still controlled by Noxus at this time , but as the main army was dumped in one pot, Noxus no longer had the strength to fight.
However, the outcome of this victory was imperfect for Jarvan IV.
Because at the last moment, the dark descendant who took away the German Governor and the black mist that besieged Xiongdu appeared again, and this time, he took away the Winged Sisters.
It seems that Jarvan IV, with the war over and his growing reputation, no longer needs the Winged Sisters, but in fact, at this time, Jarvan IV needs the Winged Sisters' endorsement even more - without the Winged Sisters around, Jarvan IV's control over the Illuminati is not direct enough!
In the past, Demacia's power was passed down in layers, from the king to the nobles, and then from the noble clans to the branches, and then to the magistrates, thus ruling the entire Demacia. The royal family wanted to control the entire Demacia. , we must rely on the help of the nobles, because the nobles are the most important part of this ruling system.
According to Jarvan III's vision before his death, if the royal family wants to consolidate its power, it must open up another channel in the ruling system to compete with the nobles, so that the royal family can control the overall situation as an arbiter and leverage its strength.
Although Jarvan III has passed away, the idea he proposed is still very meaningful. After fully understanding it, Jarvan IV has been acting in accordance with this idea.
However, there is a very big problem here, that is, the Illuminati can take advantage, but if they are directly used as a part of the rule, these charitable, religious, and artistic guys are completely unqualified. The emergence of the two-crop tax has already explained this.
The Illuminati, which should have had an easier time grasping grassroots public opinion, did not help the royal family at all, causing Jarvan III to completely misjudge the situation.
After the unremitting efforts of several generations of kings, the political strength of the Illuminati in Demacia is now very weak. If he wants to support them to compete with the nobles, Jarvan IV must start from two aspects.
On the one hand, he needs to strengthen the political attributes of the Illuminati, giving them the power to influence grassroots governance in a legal and rule-based manner.
On the other hand, he also needs to strengthen the control of the Illuminati to prevent the Illuminati from simply colluding with the nobles and fighting against the royal family.
The former needs to be solved through political means, and Jarvan IV already has an idea for the specific method; while the latter requires the support of the Winged Sisters.
After all, even if Jarvan IV returns from the summit and has a status equal to that of an envoy, he does not have the power to directly command the Illuminati; instead, the Winged Sisters, who actually have no interest in mortal affairs, He is the legal supreme leader of the Illuminati.
Therefore, Jarvan IV hopes to confirm his status within the Illuminati after his victory. With the support of the Winged Sisters, he can become the first pope in the history of the Illuminati!
After that, according to Jarvan IV's plan, after the war is over and the follow-up arrangements are completed, he will use the power of victory to promote those meritorious warriors who come from the private armies of various nobles to join the Illuminati and let them go to the grassroots level. As a priest, the royal family can directly contact them through the Illuminati and ignore the actions of the nobles on some issues, thus weakening the influence of the nobles and achieving the effect of shrinking power.
But now with the disappearance of the Winged Sisters, Jarvan IV found out awkwardly that he seemed to have no good way to directly appoint grassroots priests, and needed to go around the Illuminati bishop!
This greatly weakened Jarvan IV's control over the Illuminati. After much thought, Jarvan IV could only settle for the next best thing, giving up the opportunity to become the pope and instead serving as the cardinal of the Illuminati.
Only in this way can he directly and completely control the Illuminati and achieve the complete unification of supreme power from both the perspective of the Illuminati and the feudal government!
But doing so has great disadvantages. After all, the cardinal is only the "most important bishop" and theoretically has no direct jurisdiction over other bishops. Within the Illuminati, the cardinal system has always existed, whether it is a cardinal or a cardinal. Even a cardinal priest has the same status as an ordinary bishop or priest. If Jarvan IV presides over all work as a cardinal, it will inevitably cause a lot of trouble.
As a ruler, Jarvan IV obviously cannot ignore the old order - all his status comes from the old order and tradition of Demacia, and what he can do is only brought about by climbing mountains and winning battles. personal prestige, and then mend it on this basis.
There is no way around it.
It is foreseeable that after the war is completely over, Jarvan IV will consolidate political and religious power, but this consolidation process may not take effect in three to five years.
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On the other hand, Lux's situation in Forsbarrow was completely different.
At the beginning, Lux came to Forsbarrow as a local lord.
However, unlike the traditional local lords of Demacia, her power almost entirely comes from personal prestige, whether it is for the Forsbarrow people or her direct line of law-enforcers and Northern Walkers.
The people of Fosbyro supported Lux, not because she had the king's commission and the title deed of Fosbyro, but because she truly changed Fosbyro and the lives of the people of Fosbyro.
Lux was indeed the lord of Fosbyro appointed by Demacia, but for the people of Fosbyro, Lux's governance of Fosbyro was not based on her status as a lord.
Other lords collected taxes, such as land tax, business tax, toll tax, and head tax, with various forms, and how much they collected depended on the nobles' consciousness.
But Lux did not collect taxes - or in other words, she would not ask the people of Fosbyro for even a penny for no reason.
Although more than half of the income from Fosbyro's trade, planting, mining, and fur handicrafts fell into Lux's hands, don't forget that these new industries were completely built and operated from scratch by Lux after she came to Fosbyro with the Law Guardians!
Lux, the labor of the Archons, did not get anything for free. She taught the Archons the most orthodox magical knowledge inherited from the Shurima Empire in exchange for these people working for her.
It is precisely because of this relationship that is completely different from the old order of Demacia that Lux can not only act arbitrarily, but also does not need to care about additional resistance to action. If Jarvan IV knew about Fosbyro, he would be surprised at the solidity of Lux's rule.
But in fact, the source of this solidity is that Lux has a clear purpose of governance, and this purpose is consistent with the interests of the people of Fosbyro and the development direction of advanced productivity.
From the perspective of the ruler, Lux is the owner of the highest legal principle of Fosbyro and a leader recognized by all Fosbyro people; from the perspective of the people, Lux is the creator of a better new life. Only by following her can you have a better life and a more promising tomorrow.
If Lux, Ino and Sona were like three little mares pulling Fosbyro's broken cart when she first came to Fosbyro, then now, as Fosbyro's thoughts gradually became unified and her work showed results, she has changed from a cart puller to a helmsman who controls the direction of Fosbyro's progress.
Unconsciously, she has established a new order in Fosbyro.
If Lux relied on excellent theories and strength to integrate the already advanced Zaun workers and build a new Zaun in Zaun, then in Fosbyro, she really did it down to earth, step by step, and created an order completely different from the original situation in Demacia in the remote north.
For Jarvan IV, the Battle of Tobysia was his battle to establish himself.
On the banks of the Tobysia River, the young king led the army to victory, not only taking military power from the nobles, but also truly gaining prestige and the foundation for the subsequent drastic reforms.
When he returns victorious, he can tell the kings of all generations that he defended the glory of Demacia and the glory of the Light Shield family!
In Fosbyro, Lux, who has completely unified her thoughts and restructured her system, has completely completed the weaving of the new order and is ready to expand it further to the entire Demacia.
After she starts the next step, perhaps all Demacians, whether nobles or civilians, will have the opportunity to usher in their own glory.
Is it to revive the glory of the kings of the old era, or to enter the new order where everyone is like a dragon?
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Looking at the entire Runeland, except for this corner of Demacia, it is not peaceful elsewhere.
After Noxus lost the power of the Black Rose and Swain commanded the overall situation, perhaps a complete split is imminent. Even if Darius is still there, without Swain's help, it is still unknown whether this Noxian hand can lead the severely injured Noxus out of the predicament.
Without the suppression of armed forces, the military nobles from all over the country will inevitably make a comeback. Whether to launch a new round of conquest or compromise with a bottom line will be the most serious problem facing Darius.
With the further decline of Noxus, the struggle between the hawks and doves in Ionia will probably become more intense, which is undoubtedly an extremely severe challenge for Irelia, who has barely established a unified government.
On the snowy plains of Freljord, although the Claw of Winter has long been disintegrated, Ashe, who wants to take the opportunity to continue to expand her influence and unite the Freljord people in a more peaceful way, has encountered new difficulties. On the Howling Abyss, no one knows what the witch in the Frostguard Fortress is thinking.
Perhaps the only thing the ice travelers here know is that this year's thunderstorms are getting more and more intense and the Losers are getting more and more crazy.
At the same time, as the profits of Ionia's trade gradually became known, more and more merchants turned their eyes to the ocean and the unknown. As Bilgewater became more and more prosperous, some ancient kingdoms that were hidden in historical books might soon see the light of day.
In the southern continent of Shurima, all the city-states under the banner of the Shurima Empire claimed that they were the orthodox, but those forces that were closer to the Shurima orthodoxy were either watching coldly or preparing to clean up these heretics who claimed to be orthodox.
The city of Vazuan has further expanded, and the cultivation of rune trees has also entered the stage of promotion and planting. In order to protect commercial secrets and prevent the secrets of rune trees from being leaked, Vazuan held a secret meeting and decided to expand towards the depths of the rainforest and carry out large-scale planting of rune trees in the depths of the rainforest.
But the citizens of Vazuan obviously would not have thought that in the depths of the Kumanggu rainforest, an ancient and isolated magic civilization would have to show up because of these rune trees - the magic barrier used by Ixtal to hide himself will be the best nutrient for the rune trees. Once the magic barrier fails, they will inevitably have contact with the Vazuan people even if they are reluctant.
Also about to appear in the eyes of more people again is the Southern Shurima, which has always been as transparent as a little one. In this area isolated from the world by the desert and the ocean, the two people recorded in history as the last emperor of Shurima and the traitor will join forces again to make Shurima great again.
Under their shadow, the Void believers are planning a "surprising" big plan. This time, they set their sights on the demons recorded in ancient books and sealed in the depths of the sand sea, hoping to open the void passage again through the power of the demons.
Also coveting the power of the demons is a young girl who has just left Kamavia. She signed a contract with the Demon of Joy to collect the power of all other demons for it and melt the purest source of demons.
In her hometown, Ryze discovered the signs of the emergence of a new world rune. What's worse than the possible appearance of the world rune is that it seems that the Kamavia people are looking forward to the appearance of this world rune. They believe that this world rune will become their endless source of magic power.
But what they don't know is that in the long river of time, there is a pair of wise eyes always watching them. The time traveler found the only hope in endless regrets and tried to persuade everyone to let go of their grudges and get ready.
Also silently watching everything are the high and mighty giants. After many failures, they finally learned from their mistakes and planned to take more drastic measures to deal with the mortals who are becoming more and more difficult to fool.
Perhaps, Runeland will usher in an unprecedented era.
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The sixth volume [How Glory Was Born] is finished.
The next volume [Noisy World], please stay tuned.
The theme of the sixth volume [How Glory Was Born] is actually farming. It is that Fosbyro, under the leadership of Lux, truly developed its own order and the people of Fosbyro have their own glory.
From the author's own perspective, this is a volume that I am more satisfied with. On the one hand, it is because I personally like the content of this volume, and it also fills in many holes dug before - although I don't know if the readers can see it; on the other hand, it is because in the two or three months of writing this volume, the author himself also experienced a lot of troubles and confusion. He and his family went to the hospital dozens of times for various reasons, but except for the few days when Yang was really uncomfortable with the fever, he kept updating.
If the first two volumes are about Lux's growth, and the next two volumes are about Lux's experiences, then in volumes five and six, it is the beginning of Lux's transformation of the world.
Starting from the next volume, the plot may be a little complicated. The author wants to connect the situation of Runeland with the personal destiny of each hero to show a new era full of changes.
This writing method is more difficult, but after so many connections and foreshadowings before, I believe I can show this better.
Looking at everything in Runeland horizontally is society, and looking at it vertically is history - and the horizontal and vertical will be intertwined, and finally the entire Runeland will be presented.
PS. A free extra chapter will be updated tomorrow, telling about Vazouan after Lux left; and starting from the next volume, there will be more small stories about the scenery of Runeland updated in the form of extra chapters, so stay tuned.