The Sun King's Evidence

As the name suggests, the Dark Rolling River is a secret underground river dug by the dwarves of Dulong City to connect the northern bay of Norsca and the south bay of Norsca. The dwarves of Dulong City can communicate, trade and even dispatch with the outside world through the secret river. Army, this river located deep under the Norscan mountains has become the lifeline for the Norscan dwarves to communicate with the outside world.

However, this lifeline cannot be used all day long, because it will easily be known to the Norscans or Skavens. Therefore, the dwarves of Dulong City choose a safe time period and reduce the number of uses to stay hidden.

It is extremely dark in the dark rolling river. There are only a few Norscan dwarf rune stones and torches on passenger ships to illuminate and provide a way forward. The complex and changeable river even has different dwarf rune marks, which need to be identified. If you go wrong, you will either end up in a dead end or fall into a trap, or even a deep pit that you don't know where it leads to.

The result was that Ryan got up early, only to find that it was dark outside, with rocks on both sides, rocks on the ceiling, and rocks in the distance. The King of Knights looked bored and stayed on the deck for a while, finding that he had nothing to do.

Little Thorgreen and his good friend Jed are still on the deck. What these two mustaches like most is the environment in this cave. Needless to say, the dwarves have a special preference for this environment. For dwarves, Said that they are born with a love for mineral veins and caves. Little Thor Green babbled about what he would do if he were the great king of Dulong City and how he would build this place. He did not think about eternity in his words. The High King of the Peak takes it seriously. His mustache is just like his father Belegar's. It's already a bit swollen. Anyway, without the help of the High King, wouldn't we be able to take back the Eight Peaks Mountain?

"Oh, it's His Majesty Ryan." Mustache was very happy to see Ryan appear. He showed dwarf courtesy to Ryan, and then said to Ryan: "Have you had breakfast? Do you want some?"

The two mustaches had breakfast on the deck. The dwarf's breakfast was beer, sausage, goat cheese, and dwarf lye bread.

Ryan thought to himself, you guys are going to prepare such hard food so early in the morning? The King of Knights quickly shook his head: "I've already prepared it. I'm not used to eating such hard food in the morning."

"Aha, it seems that His Majesty Ryan has better food." Jed Honesty smiled. This mustache respected Ryan very much. He was combing his beard. Although Jed's beard only reached his chest, the dwarf They have always regarded their beards as a symbol of status and qualifications, and their beards must be combed and washed regularly to be beautiful and smooth. Naturally, both mustaches are in the back, and they wash their beards every day on the passenger ship.

"Eh? Your Majesty Ryan, why did you shave your beard cleanly again?" Jade immediately noticed that Ryan had shaved his beard cleanly again, without leaving even a trace of stubble, so he complained: "Your Majesty, you have nothing to do with it. Okay, but why don’t you have a good habit of growing a beard? I know humans and dwarves have different habits, but don’t you humans all grow beards when you get older?”

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

Speaking of herself as a goddess, she is really a bit too much. Now if she wants to be intimate with her, she must first make her feel comfortable. However, she is very aware of Ryan's weaknesses, and the two parties have already established a relationship. Despite the goddess's targeted dressing, Ryan is still Shamefully complied.

After thinking about it, Ryan could only smile and said: "This is easy to deal with, just like many people in the empire like to shave their heads."

"Your Majesty Ryan, we will arrive at Dulong City in two days. When we were supporting Erengrad, I had an exchange with Lord Tolgard. The dwarves of Dulong City are separated from the Mountain Kingdom by seven thousand Years later, there will be great differences in culture and customs. When you get there, no matter what Lord Tolgard asks, as long as it is not too excessive or too strange, please do as he says." Little Thorgreen was holding a piece of lye bread in his hand, and he added: "It shouldn't make things difficult for us. Dulong City has fully participated in the defense of Erengrad and Operation Bagration. I will also give you I have told the great king about my deeds.”

"It seems that the Supreme King's magic is not effective in Dulong City?" Ryan understood what little Sol Green meant.

"We have been separated for too long." Little Thorgreen shook his head: "We should be lucky that the Norscan dwarves are not like our chaotic cousins. It can be said that we are lucky."

Ryan nodded silently.

The enfeoffment and expansion system advocated by many people 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 lead to two problems. The first is the localization of vassals. The second one is that the tail is too big to fall off.

The issue of annexing territory has been discussed before and will not be repeated here.

Ryan has always opposed the views of some people, that is, large-scale immigration and enfeoffment can promote one's own culture, spread one's own racial blood, and expand one's own legal principles. He does not care whether it can be actually controlled, as long as he admits that he is a person of a certain race. Just use your own culture and system. Everyone thinks so and the meat will rot in the pot in the end.

This is actually a very wishful thinking. Take the dwarves for example. The two largest branches of the dwarves during the geographical discovery period of the Mountain Kingdom were the dwarves of Dulong City and the chaos dwarves of the Dark Realm. The former maintained a unique Disobeying the strange state of being, the latter simply succumbed to Chaos, abandoned the faith of the ancestor gods, and became a subject of Hasut, the father of darkness, the secondary god of chaos.

This is true for dwarves who place great value on tradition and the glory of their ancestors, let alone humans.

These are the two most common problems with enfeoffment. The first is that the tail cannot be lost. Take Dulong City as an example. The dwarves here have formed their own culture and social organization since they came to Norsca. He didn't want to return to the Mountain Kingdom, so after the negotiations between the High King and the Maharaja, the two sides could only maintain the status quo.

Who wants to have more than one master?

The second problem is even worse, that is, like the Chaos Dwarves, after they moved far away from the country and broke away from the central government, the Dwarf Expeditionary Army quickly localized, abandoned their original culture, and gradually turned to worship. Chaos, and the Mountain Kingdom became complete enemies, and claimed to be orthodox.

Then someone must have said that this happened after the contact was broken. What if the contact was not broken? What if the enfeoffment is only outside the national border? What if the seal was given by the bloodline of the High King to ensure legal rationality?

Taking Ryan's previous life as an example, the dynasty only had enfeoffments outside the country's borders. Most of them were under the rule of jisuo, but there were also actual enfeoffments. But once this was started and there was a precedent of actual enfeoffment, then the enfeoffment would gradually begin. It was sealed within its own core area. For example, the Jiedushi system was gradually formed in this way.

As for those with royal bloodline, it would be easier. Lao Zhu, who brought Ming Dynasty, has already explained everything with the King of Sai system. When the central government changes, these royal bloodlines will all have the right to inherit. You guessed what they will do after they get the news. Are you willing to continue living a miserable life in a desolate and backward fiefdom, or are you willing to bring your army back to the central government to compete for your status or even the throne?

Warning of the Eight Kings Rebellion, Fengtian Jingnan Warning.

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

Furthermore, even if the fiefdoms are linked together, it is easy for the enfeoffed regimes to gradually "localize". The four major khanates of the Mongol Empire, except the Yuan Dynasty, were all completely greened within a hundred years.

why? Because the enfeoffment population was small, and there were only two ways to control the large numbers with a small number, the first was to kill all the locals, which is what the American imperialists did to the Indians, for example, and the second was to simply localize themselves, like The four great khanates soon became gradually localized.

Of course, there is also a third type where the central government continues to inject blood on a large scale, providing money and resources to others.

Regardless of the fact that large-scale blood transfusions for such a long period of time are the way to the destruction of a country, but simply giving large-scale blood transfusions to others instead of sending bureaucrats to manage them, what is the central government trying to do?

So it’s very difficult. Enfeoffment at a short distance is a suicide attempt, and enfeoffment at a long distance is not conducive to expansion. If you don’t plan to do what the US imperialists did to the Indians, you must have a large and sufficient population, otherwise you will either be Drive away (like the Yuan Dynasty) or gradually become localized like the Chaos Dwarves (like the Four Great Khanates).

However, Ryan does not think that enfeoffment is of any value. For example, if the enfeoffment of immediate family members is far away and cannot come back, and there is no place for locals, let them be self-reliant and retain some seeds of hope, then there is still room for maneuver. For example, 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.

Just like Brother Guilliman's Five Hundred Worlds established the Second Empire at the critical moment of the Horus Heresy, resolutely shouldered the burden of reviving the Human Empire, and claimed to be imperial orthodoxy! At least there is some hope of revival.

In fact, according to Little Thor Green, Dulong City even retains more traditional rune technology and ancient forging techniques than the dwarf mountain kingdom. However, because it has not experienced the cataclysm era and faced the destructiveness of the green skins, Attack, the dwarves of Dulong City are very backward in civil engineering and firearms technology.

Ryan was thinking a lot until the Lake Fairy appeared on the deck. The goddess was wearing a mint crystal blue bright and colorful layered mercerized skirt today. Her long bright golden hair was tied up behind her head like a high elf lady's hairstyle and then fell like a waterfall. Drooping down almost to the ankles, a pair of beautiful feet wrapped in white ultra-thin lace back seam thin line pantyhose are wearing a pair of shallow fish-mouth high heels with golden fleur-de-lis relief, revealing the beautiful toes wrapped in stockings, painted Wearing green nail polish, her whole body was bathed in the platinum light rain. Seeing Ryan in a daze on the deck, the Lake Fairy called him: "Lian, what are you doing still on the deck? Come here." "

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

"Yes, Morgiana is ready." The Lake Fairy motioned for Ryan to come over quickly.

After hearing this, Ryan returned to the cabin. He shrugged at the goddess and smiled: "Look, Lilith, it's dark everywhere. I almost thought this was not breakfast but dinner!"

"Dinner? Dinner was good. After dinner, we can do a little exercise to save our King of Knights from lack of exercise!" The Lake Fairy skillfully held Ryan's arm and pressed her plump softness directly against Ryan's arm. superior.

"Um..." Ryan's face suddenly turned green. During this period, he dealt with Lilith and Morgiana at the same time. These two women are both powerful users of psychic powers. Morgiana was carefully selected as the fairy in the lake. The divine power generator and storage can absorb Ryan's spiritual energy almost unlimitedly, and Morgiana has recently begun to try to reach the peak of the Holy Realm 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 Morgiana Sanctuary has basically been nailed down, 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 in his mind.

Walking into the cabin, Morgiana was obviously in a good mood. The Lake God Witch was wearing a white floral gauze shirt and a pink butt-covering skirt today. Under the skirt were long flesh-colored pantyhose and a pair of cotton With an apron tied on her chest, she put the last omelette on the plate, then picked up the plate with one hand, and pressed the hem of the hip-covering skirt with one hand a little embarrassedly: "Ryan, you're back. Ah, breakfast is ready."

Ryan couldn't help but curl up his lips. He took the plate from Morgiana, helped her untie her apron, and pulled her to sit down together. The Lake Fairy just ate some fruit as usual.

While eating breakfast, the two of them chatted about other things. The Lake Fairy looked at Morgiana leaning on Ryan to eat, and said with some displeasure: "Oh, by the way, about the Jia you arranged before. Congresswoman Lan? Her name is Catherine, right?"

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

"The controversy is quite big." The Fairy in the Lake nodded: "In the end, the knight nobles saw that Kalad had made such a great contribution, coupled with Sulia's approval and that she had given birth to a child, they decided to Finally accepting her new identity.”

The Fairy in the Lake is about Veronica's personal disciple Catherine. After Catherine got pregnant by great luck and successfully gave birth to a boy, Callard asked Lane to make Catherine his countess.

This was quite a troublesome matter. There was no precedent for a witch becoming a noble lady, but this was really the first time in Britannia. Fortunately, it was finally solved.

"Very good, but she will no longer be a countess soon." Ryan smiled and put down his fork: "She will soon be a marquise. I have planned to canonize Calard as a Britannia after returning to China. Marshal, and at the same time created the Marquis of Garament."

Lane was already planning to go back to centralizing power.

"The second thing is that Emperor Karl-Franz is taking this opportunity to send some of the Reik Guards to reorganize the army in the northern provinces of the empire, and at the same time establish Reik fortresses to garrison in some key towns." said the Fairy in the Lake. The second news came out: "At the same time, the emperor announced the system of Rick's standing army, and planned to bring back a small number of elites from local provinces that were poorly controlled by the electors and suffered excessive losses to the imperial court for reorganization and establishment of a new Guards Corps. He controls directly.”

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

Regardless of Kahuang's current financial difficulties, Reikland currently has a population of six million, and the entire country of Britannia only has more than eight million people. With such a large population base and tax sources, Kahuang wants to take a breather. Came very quickly.

After the two things were said 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 quickly wanted to get up: "No! Lilith! Not now!"

"You can't say no, my champion! I believe you can do it!" The Lake Fairy held down Ryan, and the goddess smiled and said: "Morgiana, come, let's do it together!"

"Okay." Morgiana nodded shyly. She suddenly put her arms around Ryan's neck and blocked his mouth, preventing him from getting up.

"Well……"

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