LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Why did the Noxians fight?

For Noxus, of course!

Marit instinctively came up with this idea.

"For Noxus", "For the glory of Noxus", these are the lines that every Noxus soldier will shout.

The Noxians fought for the Empire.

So what is the empire fighting for?

As if Li Wei had anticipated Marit's thoughts, he took the title as "Noxus", but in fact, at the beginning of the article, he locked his perspective on the Noxus Empire as a whole.

"As a political entity, why has Noxus continued to wage war for hundreds of years?"

Levy raises this question at the beginning of the chapter.

This made Marit and Riven read on with some concern.

Because they have long wanted to know the answer to this question. What is the reason for the empire's repeated wars, especially in recent years?

The Empire gave them the answer. But as long as a smart person thinks about it carefully, he will know that those answers are not reasons, but just an excuse for war.

What is the root cause of Noxus' crazy expansion?

"It's to divert the contradiction." This is Li Wei's answer.

What contradiction is transferred? Of course it's a class conflict.

But the situation in Noxus is different from that of the Twin Cities. Here Li Wei wrote: "The class contradictions that the rulers of Noxus care about, or in other words, the 'class' they care about, have the same existence as the Twin Cities. Huge difference."

The class contradictions in the Shuangcheng can be roughly regarded as the contradictions between workers and business owners.

On the other hand, Noxian workers and business owners account for a small proportion of the population, and there are many farmers and landowners.

Could the class conflict that caused the rulers of Noxus to suffer so much that they had to launch a war to divert it be the conflict between peasants and landlords, slaves and nobles?

"That's not the case," Levy writes: "Many readers who already understand Janna's theory will subconsciously regard Noxus peasants and slaves as the main force of class struggle in Noxus for the past hundreds of years. "

"But in fact, in Noxus, the rulers have never worried about farmers and slaves."

Because Noxus is too powerful, and there are too many superhumans.

In Shuangcheng, as long as there are enough rioting workers, the alchemy baron and law enforcement officials will feel headaches to some extent.

Because those gangster thugs and law enforcement officers themselves are not that strong. And the workers in Shuangcheng, especially the workers in Zaan, are almost all experts in making rocket launchers and self-made Gatling weapons. If they are in a hurry, they can even produce dozens of different types of biological and chemical weapons.

It's really hard to deal with too many people. Even if it can be suppressed, it will have to pay a huge price.

This is why Piltover treats local workers preferentially.

Available in Noxus...

You farmer want to fight? Slaves want to revolt? You come to have a try?

Try and die.

No matter how many mortals there are, they are nothing more than ants that can be trampled to death by a Noxus army.

Just like playing a game, the more minions on the opposite side, the happier the heroes will be in clearing the line.

"So when Noxus rulers consider class conflicts, they never consider the peasants and slaves who account for the vast majority of the empire's population. In theory, they should be the cornerstone of the empire."

"In Noxus, farmers and slaves are not considered human beings. They are weak and not even worthy of being a class in the eyes of the ruler. They can only be regarded as living resources that are allowed to be taken by the 'Noxus'."

"..."

Seeing this, Marit, who was born in a noble family, may not have reacted much.

But Riven, who was a serf and later became a soldier, has a lot of emotions. Serfs are not human beings, she has a deep experience of this sentence.

And looking further down, Levi wrote:

"Since the main contradiction in the eyes of the rulers of Noxus is not the contradiction between peasants and landlords, slaves and nobles, what kind of contradiction is that?"

"It's the contradiction between the aristocrats of the aristocratic family and the grassroots extraordinary."

Although the talent of a transcendent is related to blood, it is not strongly related.

It is not only the children of nobles in your family who can be trained to become warriors and awakened to become mages.

So did farmers and slaves.

Although the peasants and slaves are small and weak, they can't stand their numbers.

Almost 90% of the population of the Noxian Empire are farmers and slaves.

And this also means that about 90% of the Transcendents born in the Noxus Empire every year are not from noble families, but from farmers and slaves.

So, here comes the problem...

These grassroots extraordinary people have extraordinary power, will they still be willing to be farmers and slaves?

In the extraordinary world, strength is more important than seedlings. In other words, strength itself is a more valuable seed.

It is not difficult for grassroots extraordinary people to get rid of poverty and become rich. And they have economic status, of course they will go further to seek political power.

"And this political power can only be claimed from the Empire."

"If the empire cannot meet the requirements of these grassroots transcendents, they will become an extremely unstable risk factor that accumulates in society."

"But if their demands are to be met, where do they get the political power they want?"

Of course those aristocrats.

The cake is only so big, if the newcomers want to share it again, they can only grab it from the old seniors.

But can the old nobles tolerate their own privileges, to be more specific, official positions and fiefdoms, being taken away by these grassroots transcendents?

of course not.

"Whether it's breaking the monopoly of the old nobles or curbing the rise of grassroots transcendents, it's not an easy task."

"So, in order to prevent the empire from being overthrown, Noxus adopted a very 'smart' approach—"

"War, endless expansion war!"

First, war requires the mustering of large and powerful armies.

The army needs talents, and the battlefield is just right for extraordinary people to play.

As a result, those grassroots transcendents who were regarded as unstable factors in society were unknowingly "recruited" by the empire into the army and became part of the Noxus state machine.

Second, war can plunder resources and land from other countries.

These newly plundered lands and resources can just be used as rewards to those meritorious grassroots transcendents, allowing them to be promoted from grassroots to a new generation of military nobles.

This not only satisfies their desire for political power, but also allows more folk masters to see a fair and effective upward channel.

At the same time, this method of expanding and plundering to make a big cake and then divide the cake did not affect the interests of the old nobles.

So in the past few hundred years, with the continuous and smooth expansion of the Noxus Empire, the empire has been very united and stable (if serfs and slaves are not counted as people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a prosperous age)

"But the problem is... the desire to expand can be endless, but the map of Runeterra has boundaries after all."

"What's more, the Noxus Empire has not hit the border of the map yet, and has already encountered the limit of strategic expansion."

"To the north, the endless ice plains of the Freljord. To the west, the fortified city of the Demacia Alliance."

"To the east and south, the bloody sea of ​​Ionians and Shurima."

Noxus can't move anymore.

If you can't move, you won't be able to grab new land.

Without new lands, the new generation of military aristocrats has no place to claim.

They have made military achievements but have no land to claim, so they will naturally have huge conflicts with those old nobles who occupy a large area of ​​land.

"As Noxus is getting deeper and deeper into the quagmire of fighting on four fronts, the old land nobles occupy high positions and stay away from the front lines, and the new military nobles hold the military power but are not rewarded. This kind of contradiction is still accumulating..."

"In today's Noxus, the old land aristocracy and the new military aristocracy seem to be two incompatible forces."

"It is foreseeable that in the future, or even in the near future, a complete liquidation of the new military aristocrats against the old land aristocrats will surely break out in Noxus."

"..."

To a Noxian, Levi's words were shocking.

And he finally wrote:

"When Noxus is expanding smoothly and the country's fortunes are booming, the interests of grassroots transcendents and the empire are indeed the same. As new members of the ruling group, they can happily share the endless feasts that the empire has plundered from all over the world. "

"But the current Noxus is no longer a paradise for grassroots transcendents."

"If you are a new generation of extraordinary fighters, middle and lower class soldiers of Noxus, then you have only one mission to fight now:"

"Go to the front line to consume and die, and help the old nobles who are in power at the center of the empire remove the unstable factor in their eyes-that is, yourself."

"Yes." The words stabbed Riven's heart hard:

"You are no different from the slave army—you are all just cannon fodder!"