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The latest website: After gaining a general understanding of the Empire's intelligence and the affairs of the Greco family, Lin asked about another matter that he was very concerned about—the empress, St. Alegria.

According to the steward of the chamber of commerce, the Empress succeeded to the throne in 726 Aram. Exactly ten years ago. And the reason why she wears that crown is not so much that she is excellent, but that other people who have the right to inherit are dying, or are making great strides towards the road of dying, so she was given up.

The first female emperor died of a sudden illness, and she did not specify the candidate for the crown prince during her lifetime. In a situation like this, it is natural for those who are qualified to inherit to have a luxurious version of the dance of demons!

But what I want to explain first is that in most areas of Midi, as well as most Homo sapiens races, including humans, the inheritance rules for power, in order to maintain social stability to the maximum extent, adopt the 'primogenarian inheritance system'.

Simply put, no matter if you are stupid or stupid, as long as you don't make a big mistake, you will win everything if you are born first, there is nothing to discuss. At most, there is another division of concubine and concubine. The advantage of doing this is that people who want to stand in the team can easily determine who to support, and it is unlikely that there will be investment errors. Unless the original owner has no biological children, or these people have made an unforgivable mistake, things will be complicated.

But the Karlsruhe Empire is different from other places. The inheritance patriarchal system here is the 'virtuous son inheritance system'. Simply put, as long as there are basic inheritance qualifications, no matter whether they are born first or born later, the most outstanding person will take the position. And this inheritance qualification is not limited to biological children, including siblings, collateral nephews, and even in-laws.

The reason why the succession rules of the Karlsruhe Empire are so special is that the way the nobles of the empire are produced is also very special. As long as they can attract people and enclose land to a certain level, the empire will grant corresponding noble titles.

In the era when the empire had not yet become an empire, the eldest son was still the first to inherit here. However, there have been too many situations in which non-princes and nephews have achieved better development after the separation of the family, and finally counterattacked and returned to the original family. The whole society has gradually evolved a system in which the best children inherit everything. Anyway, if you don't give it to him, someone who is capable will still grab it.

Inheritance patriarchal clan will evolve in this way, and the nobles of the empire will be produced in that way. The root cause is the topographical characteristics of the Karlsruhe Empire, that is, there are many mountains and rivers. It may be easier to understand another way of saying it, that is 'easy to defend but difficult to attack'.

For terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, instead of risking your life to conquer it, it is better to rely on political means to talk about mergers. So 'properly' showing strength, and then everyone sat down and talked, became the political game of the Karlsruhe Empire.

If you want to stand out and become a master, you must naturally follow the consensus rules of the entire society, try your best to get the approval of the vast majority of people, and then support yourself. The rules of inheritance will also change from the eldest son inheritance system that emphasizes social stability to the virtuous son inheritance system that pursues the maximization of benefits.

It is true that the virtuous son inheritance system has its flaws, that is, it is easy to focus on internal fighting; Take advantage of the opportunity.

so what? If the person occupying the latrine doesn't fall, how can others have a chance to squat?

Even if there are vested interests who want to guard their own one-acre three-point land, they are unwilling to communicate with the outside world. The mountainous and watery terrain of the Karlsruhe Empire means that the empire can use water transportation to achieve smooth information exchange and cargo breeding. Making good use of these two will make it more powerful. But as long as it communicates with the outside world, it means that conservative forces and radical forces have lost for a while in the confrontation.

With the entire society in a radical atmosphere, the wish of the conservative forces to live a peaceful life is simply out of reach. Even if they really do that, the end result is that they will be eliminated by the society, and they will not live in peace.

Generally speaking, such societies can easily go down the road of self-destruction. But when external pressure becomes the direction of release of internal pressure, the whole situation is completely different.

The Karlsruhe Empire has existed since the founding of the country, and there are two old rivals that cannot be eliminated: Dragon Island and the Haider Empire.

Although they have maintained peaceful coexistence with Long Island, everyone knows that this is just an illusion. Midi may not have a complete theory and concept of the food chain, but they can also understand that it is impossible for humans, who are regarded as one of the food, to achieve true equality with the dragon race, the top hunters. Occasional special cases, can not represent anything.

The reason why the Empire and Dragon Island maintain peace and rely on transactions to obtain each other's needs is because the Empire does not have the ability to destroy each other without injury; and Dragon Island cannot completely destroy human beings, just let themselves be cut off from food, regardless of whether the other party sends food , It doesn’t matter if you use it as your own food. As long as there is a way to break through the status quo, the two sides will definitely tear each other apart, and the human (dragon) brain will play out the dog's brain!

The situation of the two empires of Karlsruhe and Haider is even more complicated.

The five Midi empires basically do not border each other. There will be some small countries in the middle, or natural moats separating each other. Only the Karlsruhe Empire and the Heidel Empire meet on the plain of Oz.

The plain of Oz is surrounded by mountains. Although it is not unique in the mountainous and watery terrain of the Karlsruhe Empire, it is quite rare. The plain terrain has two meanings. First, it is an important grain-producing area. Second, this place is easy to attack but difficult to defend.

The presence of a foodie like Dragon Island means that the Karlsruhe Empire cannot easily give up such a high-quality grain-producing area. Even if the terrain is easy to attack and difficult to defend, it is destined that the Karlsruhe Empire must firmly hold the Oz Plain even if it is filled with human lives.

As the other side of the hostility, the Held Empire used the fortress of the mountain passes—Jiantian Pass as a bridgehead to invade the Oz Plain. Behind the mountains is the territory of the Haider Empire, a large desert known as the Sea of ​​Death. That is to say, Jietianguan and the Oz plain occupied by the Haider Empire can be regarded as enclaves.

It stands to reason that the difficulty in supply and support in the enclave separated by the great desert would easily make rulers with a medieval education level like Midi choose to give up. But the Haider Empire has airships, which are used to transport supplies, which completely ignore the terrain.

A well-known thing, the ace airship corps of the Haider Empire was originally established with the intention of transporting Tianguan, an important enclave fortress city. And the original transportation and replenishment team has gradually expanded to form the combat group that is now organized.

The reason why the Haider Empire tried its best to ensure that it won't lose is also very simple. The great desert after Tianguan is connected to the hinterland of the Haider Empire, where grain, minerals and other important outputs are produced, and the ethnic group is too numerous to carry.

So from the perspective of imperial strategy, is it easier to defend a strategic point connected to Tianguan, or to deploy the entire desert; or is it easier to hope that the desert can become a barrier, and then deploy all the hinterland cities?

Under the premise that the supply route is unblocked, the generals of the empire and the successive emperors all chose to defend the Tianguan! Instead of using a hundred times more troops to deploy in areas where the hinterland becomes the front line, I hope that I can give a head-on blow to the exhausted army that has passed through the desert.

The former is easy to focus on defense, while the latter is easy to be broken through by focus, and then collapse across the board. Defense is more than ten times, a hundred times more difficult.

Since Jietian Pass is firmly guarded, there is a plain area that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the output is very important in any era. Food, how can the defenders of the Haider Empire stay in the fortress obediently, Watching your old rivals happily farming?

Plowing and setting fire in the spring, harvesting in the autumn and harvesting, feeding on the enemy, reducing the pressure on the rear supply, is the daily life of the Tianguan defenders.

As far as the Karlsruhe Empire is concerned, it is not that it has not thought of occupying Tianguan and driving the forces of the Haider Empire back to the desert. In fact, the Karlsruhe Empire did accomplish this feat, laying down that impenetrable fortress.

If it is other countries, once such an important checkpoint falls, it may be accompanied by a series of domino reactions, and it is unknown how many cities supported by the rear will fall.

But after Tianguan, there is a large desert, and if you step into it rashly without complete preparation, you will die in vain. And as much as you give, you will die. So at that time, the army of the Karlsruhe Empire gathered to meet the sky, preparing for the invasion of the Haider Empire.

Then, because of the assembly of the army, it became the best target for the bombing of the Haider Empire by the airship corps. The entire battle fortress city became a huge trap, and all the troops stationed in it, together with the fortress, were burned under the blow of the airship. The Karlsruhe Empire was hit hard!

Fortunately, the Haider Empire did not have the strength to take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Although the airship corps achieved an unprecedented victory, the disastrous defeat in the early stage of the war still weakened Haider's strength, preventing the empire from creating greater results.

In short, the Plain of Oz has been in constant war since the two empires bordered each other. To this day, it has not stopped.

This is also the current Lost Land, one of the few areas that is still in a state of war. It's just that there is no big war like in the past. Compared with the past, the intensity of the current war is just a small border conflict. Of course, the daily burning of fields and harvesting are still indispensable.

After tasting the massing of the army and then being hit head-on, the defense of the Karlsruhe Empire transformed into a distributed defense. Once the defensive force is dispersed, it is inevitable that some places will be broken.

Fortunately, the Haider Empire's Jietianguan Fortress has a small number of standing guards, and it has captured a few manors and villages~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and there is no way to expand the results of the battle to the entire plain. At most partially occupy, and then farm!

For things like food, the more the better. Of course, defending the neighbors from stealing food is also a daily routine.

Today, the large granary in the Oz Plain has become the military base of the two empires, and not many ordinary people live here. The forces on both sides are intertwined, from time to time one loses here and another takes over, and the teams of both sides come and go. There is also no battle aimed at killing, and it is all about food.

Seriously speaking, the current Plain of Oz is like a training ground for the two empires, and a place where young people gain meritorious service. For the Karlsruhe Empire, the Plain of Oz has become the best place to settle disputes within families, nobles, or family-to-family, noble-to-noble disputes.

Rather than negotiating or infighting, it is better to determine the outcome by the amount of meritorious service obtained on the battlefield. It can be said that the existence of the Oz Plain has released the pressure that may exist within the Karlsruhe Empire. Let the empire maintain a healthy development in the overall situation.

Although I don't know how long this balance can be maintained, at this stage, it seems that it is a healthy development for the Karlsruhe Empire.