Chapter 368: The Choice of the Famous Officials

Prime Minister Shaun, who knew everything, suddenly felt sad. Duke Naisen had already planned it. In short, for the continuation of the Grizzly Bear Empire, Shaun, in his capacity as prime minister, personally conducted diplomatic negotiations with the representative of the duchy, Nathan's third brother, under the auspices of the Holy Church.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, Shao En heard the other party's request for the body of his second brother and sister-in-law. This made Shaun even more embarrassed. He was the "culprit" who secretly let go of the Naisen couple and allowed them to assassinate the Queen Mother Siya and her family. As the couple lit a fire at the crime scene and jumped into the flames together, Queen Mother Siya ordered that the remains of the couple be crushed and ashes scattered into the moat of the palace.

Even though Shao En felt sorry for them at that time, he knew their purpose. He also shared with many officials who secretly knew the truth about the assassination of the former queen, former queen mother, and even the crown prince. They were more sympathetic to their experience and wanted to collect the bodies of the couple. But he had no way to snatch the body from the hands of the Guards at that time, so he could only let Queen Mother Siya humiliate the body as she wanted.

Therefore, Shaun was not polite and directly asked whether the other party's actual condition was to kill the little emperor of the current Grizzly Bear Empire. As a result, it was exactly as Shao En guessed. The reason why Naisen voluntarily embarked on the road of killing another great noble was to ensure that the crown prince's orphan, the crown prince, could inherit the throne. In response, Prime Minister Shaun, a group of members of Congress, and the generals held up signs of agreement after internal discussions, and chose to poison the little emperor in public in exchange for the Grizzly Bear Empire not facing a second war. After all, the Grizzly Bear Empire no longer has the ability to continue fighting, and it is really difficult to maintain the current state of the country.

Especially when half of the country's territory has been reduced to a war zone, countless people need relief, and there are even a large number of demon creatures lurking in the empire's territory.

In short, the Dukedom of Nessun officially got rid of its past status as a vassal territory of the Grizzly Bear Empire, and formally established its independent country as the Republic of Brakada with public compensation from the Grizzly Bear Empire and the guarantee that it would never form a monarchy. , and establish an agreement on diplomatic and trade relations as soon as possible. At the same time, the Grizzly Bear Empire welcomed back the crown princess who had been wandering for many years, and her pair of children to return to the country and succeed to the throne. However, Shaun's usurping behavior has never been recognized by the traditional aristocratic factions in the Grizzly Bear Empire, even though Prime Minister Shaun tried his best to maintain the existence of the Grizzly Bear Empire and ensured that there was only one excellent empire in the Aisha continent at that time. Reputation was later written in the history textbooks of the Iron Fist Empire, and he was the first to be called a first-class official who turned the tide.

As a result, thirty years after the death of Prime Minister Shao En, when the Grizzly Bear Empire entered its first hundred years, these noble forces, together with the remnant members of Queen Mother Siya's party who had escaped in the past, launched an assassination attempt on the royal family and Congress. As a result, the royal family of the Grizzly Bear Empire, the Xiong family, lost all registered male members in this assassination, and the nobles who fought back were completely wiped out. At this time, for the continuation of the empire, the Holy Church and the National Assembly joined forces to welcome back a young prince who had been sent to the Tie family in his early years to the royal family, and re-erected the banner belonging to the royal family.

From then on, the Grizzly Bear Empire officially changed its dynasty and became the Iron Fist Empire, which later became the dominant industrial power and military power. The Tie family, the family of Duke Neisen, has transformed into a new royal family. As for the original Xiong family... of course it didn't really die. Without the male members, there are still ways in the world to promote female members to recruit husbands to rebuild the family.

Even in practical terms, this method of recruiting a son-in-law to rebuild the family is not very effective.

However, in fact, no matter whether the surname is Tie or Xiong, the two families are actually mutually exclusive. If we have to trace the origins, in fact, the royal family of the Grizzly Bear Empire and the Xiong family have never cut off their inheritance.

The last name is not important. The key is that the bloodline inherited by their two families has not undergone major changes. What is more important.

Even with its long reign and numerous branch family members, its influence for more than 1,400 years cannot be said to be weak. And, the origin of the royal family, that is, the common ancestor of the two families, that is, the first emperor of the Grizzly Bear Empire was a warrior blessed by the gods.

Especially in the Holy Church, there are many members who are from the royal family, but do not have the right to inherit the throne, or have low inheritance rights.

Or in order to better win over the major human forces, such as the republic of Brakada, the Tie family, or more precisely the Xiong family, many of their members have not disclosed their royal status.

Even now, 1400 years later, most members of the royal family are no longer able to cast various spells like the original generation. But this does not mean that there will not be warriors similar to the first generation in the future of the royal family, let alone warriors more powerful than the first generation.

As long as the blessed blood continues to spread, the human forces in the eastern part of the Aisha continent will not panic.

Of course, some people may find it unreasonable why Prime Minister Shao En did not directly seek to usurp the throne.

But this only shows that the guy who asked such a question does not understand the significance of the inheritance of a monarchy, and what does it mean once a monarchy changes its dynasty?

This is not just as simple as changing the name of the country, the law and even the overall system must be changed!

Not every country can easily bear the pain of change!

And as for the royal family of the Grizzly Bear Empire, this royal family is like a sapling. As the sapling grows vigorously, who can ruthlessly chop down the sapling they planted with an axe?

What's more, the Grizzli Empire at that time had already encountered the demons, and was also facing the fact that the vassal states would seek independence at any time. If the Grizzli Empire suddenly made a big change and the country was unstable, how could it deter the vassal states that were ready to move?

The vassal states were not idiots, and their selfishness was no less than that of the ambitious people in history.

Even the later Iron Fist Empire had been trying to make the vassal states of the former Grizzli Empire become vassal states in the modern sense one by one.

In other words, although the royal family changed their surnames, their bloodline did not change at all, and the vassal states below still had to follow the path of modernization according to the past historical traditions.

At the same time, it was precisely because of Shao En's stepping forward that the royal family of the Grizzli Empire at that time was forced to sign the agreement of constitutional monarchy and establish a parliamentary meeting and bureaucratic rotation system, so that the royal family could continue to multiply.

After all, since that era, the emperor did not really and completely control the ruling power of the country. Even for 1,200 years, the emperor and even the entire royal family were puppets, or a cultural symbol of the imperial system. The actual role of the emperor is like a legal certificate. Whoever owns him has the legitimacy to rule. So from a realistic point of view, the emperor never has much power. Since there is no power, who would covet the throne of the emperor?

At the same time, coupled with the improvement of the parliament and the rotation system, the prime minister has always been the one who truly holds power in the Iron Fist Empire. In the environment of virtual monarchs and real things, ignorant people will naturally listen to the emperor's orders, and bureaucrats and nobles who know a lot of things will naturally know how to control everything that belongs to them. Even when the whole people accepted compulsory education and adapted to the golden age of industrial development, the Iron Fist Empire did not have too serious a crisis because of the traditions formed in the past, and even repelled two consecutive invasions of the demons and officially became the first overlord of the Elsa continent.

So it is precisely because of this reason that the Akitsu Empire later took the initiative to send special envoys to the Iron Fist Empire to learn the way to strengthen the country. As a result, as everyone knows, the Hundred Years War between the Akitsu Empire and the Orchid Republic broke out, and ended with the Akitsu Empire's disastrous defeat. In this regard, Koji really didn't know how to evaluate the Iron Fist Empire and the Holy Church, which had been planning for the Iron Fist Empire and even providing various technological products.

Especially the Holy Church, which is probably the most hated church by all non-human forces in the world. Because all the military equipment and weapons of the Iron Fist Empire came from this terrible church...