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"We must find a way." said the goddess of wealth Mannis.

"Yes, we must find a way." said Sui Xiong.

Then, they stared at each other.

If they could come up with a solution, would they still be in a daze like this?

The rumor hit the crux of the problem: for the nobles, the inheritance of the family, the continuation of power and glory, is one of the fundamental goals of their lives. So once it involves the issue of "hindering family inheritance", even the originally enlightened nobles will often become old-fashioned and conservative.

Of course, there are people who don't take family inheritance seriously. There are even progressive people who think that the noble inheritance system is very unreasonable and that the nobles should not have the privilege of being passed down from generation to generation. However, as the saying goes, "there are individuals who betray their class, but there are no groups that betray their class." As a whole, the nobles are extremely sensitive and opposed to things that may hinder inheritance.

Although it is said that "rumors stop at the wise", but... what if it is not actually a rumor?

Sui Xiong suggested that the goddess of wealth set up a great council mainly to divide the noble group, to separate the great nobles from the powerful nobles and the small nobles, and to add clergy and civilian representatives to weaken the power of the noble group and destroy their unity.

As for merchants... can merchants unite? Sui Xiong doesn't believe it! When he was in school, no matter which teacher said that the merchant group lacked long-term vision and unity. One or two teachers may have limited knowledge or may be talking nonsense, but it is impossible that every teacher is ignorant and talking nonsense!

And the rumor mentioned that "if there is a great council, the cost of noble inheritance will increase in the future, and the noble group will be continuously weakened", at least as far as Sui Xiong's prediction is concerned, it is indeed true.

So it is really hard to refute this rumor - this world is not the earth, and lies cannot become truth no matter how many times they are repeated. It is easy to judge the truth with prophecy magic. Especially for this kind of thing involving the evolution of the national situation, which will take a long time, basically as long as there is a clear reference, most of the mid-level mages who have a certain attainment in prophecy spells can make an accurate judgment.

After the rumor spread, at least twenty mid-level and high-level mages tried to verify it in various ways. And every mage who successfully cast the spell proved its correctness.

Because of this, the nobles reacted so fiercely.

A soft knife cuts people without feeling death, but what if the other party already knows it clearly?

It’s better to throw away the soft knife and pick up the steel knife, and everyone will kill with real knives and guns!

So, Sui Xiong is now thinking about this problem very seriously.

It seems that he can’t fool around. Since he can’t fool around, he might as well fight.

If he takes the initiative, at least he has the upper hand!

So he told the goddess of wealth his suggestion.

"Let the merchants take the initiative?" The goddess of wealth was stunned. "Wouldn't that be a betrayal of the nobles who have believed in me for many years? No, no!"

It's really not his fault that he is indecisive. Even in his kingdom of God, there are a large number of believers of noble origin. If he really turned against the noble group, he would definitely suffer a heavy blow, and might even fall from a powerful divine power to a medium divine power.

"But besides this, do you have any other good ideas?" Sui Xiong asked back.

The goddess of wealth had a bitter face and was speechless.

If there was any good idea, he would have used it long ago!

"But, this battle cannot be fought!" But He was still very stubborn, "If we fight, no matter who wins or loses, the Gold Coin Federation will definitely be finished."

"No destruction, no construction. Only by winning this battle can we truly establish a merchant country."

"But...what if we lose?"

Sui Xiong was speechless. He was silent for a while, and then said unhappily: "Why do you have the illusion that you may lose?"

"Although the merchant faction has money and can recruit a large number of mercenaries, the mercenaries always lack cooperation, and lack the determination to fight to the end at the critical moment. Relying on such an army to compete with the private army accumulated by the noble faction for many years, it is impossible to win!" The goddess of wealth said without curiosity, "Don't think I don't know how to fight. "I still have some basic common sense about war!"

"Not only that, merchants' wealth comes from trade. Once a war breaks out, trade routes are cut off and trade stops. No matter how much wealth you have, you will just eat it up. It won't be long before you can't even pay the mercenaries. In contrast, the nobles' army only needs military rations, and they will never be short of food, and they can fight for three to five years. "The goddess of wealth sighed and said, "At least from my point of view, the merchants will definitely not win. Alas! If they really could win, how could they retreat twice in a row?"

Sui Xiong was silent. He hesitated and considered whether to use those big killers that had set off a red wave on the earth.

But after thinking it over again and again, he gave up that plan.

It's hard to lock up a tiger after it's out of the cage. He really wants to promote progress in this world, but he definitely doesn't want to do it in such a cruel way.

There was a king on earth who said, "After I die, I don't care if there is a flood." Sui Xiong didn't object to this open-minded attitude, but he couldn't die...

If he lived, he would see the spark he ignited turn into a prairie fire, sweeping across the vast land, using blood and life as fuel to burn the sky red.

Damn, just thinking about this makes people feel a little hairy, absolutely not!

So he finally said: "If necessary, the Northwest Republic can send troops to help the Merchants fight."

The Goddess of Fortune was stunned, hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded.

"Maybe... this is also good." She said, "Let the Merchants migrate to the north and establish a republic adjacent to the Northwest Republic... or simply merge into the Northwest Republic. There is nothing wrong. Just tear the Gold Coin Federation into two, so that at least the Nobles will not fight so hard..."

"... Is it really okay for you to simply split the country that believes in you?" Sui Xiong was stunned and asked.

"What's the problem?" The Goddess of Fortune asked back, "For us, the country is nothing more than a passing cloud. As long as the various forces that believe in me can avoid serious damage and even have further development, what does it matter if the Gold Coin Federation is split?"

Sui Xiong was speechless. He felt that he couldn't keep up with the Goddess of Fortune's thinking.

After a while, they put this suggestion on the meeting of the gods for discussion.

"This is a good idea." Lord of War Wenner nodded and said, "The situation of the Gold Coin Federation is now very clear. The merchant faction and the noble faction can no longer tolerate each other. Either they fight to the death, or they split up and go their separate ways. If they split up, at least they can avoid civil war."

"Can civil war really be avoided?" Sui Xiong asked doubtfully.

"Of course it is impossible to avoid it completely, but the scale and intensity of the war will definitely be much smaller than if both sides fight for the entire country." Lord of War said, "Since war cannot be avoided, at least we can make it smaller."

"Or, do you have a better way?"

The gods looked at each other, and none of us could think of a better way.

So, the matter was settled.