Chapter 773 The Two Eyes of the Shadow World

Rome has the Knights Templar.

Midwinter has the Knights of the Round Table.

The total number of the Knights of the Round Table is not large, only about 100 in total.

It is usually not full.

There are a total of 12 chiefs of the Knights of the Round Table, and their origin is King Arthur in Celtic mythology.

In fact, no one knows whether Midwinter has ever had King Arthur.

The historical origin of Midwinter is not particularly early, and it probably appeared on the historical stage in the semi-god era during the founding of Rome.

There are rumors that the current residents of Midwinter are a group of people who migrated there before the founding of Rome, and then fought fiercely with the local indigenous people and intermarried to form a fusion nation.

The interesting thing is that Midwinter's own cultural history originated late, but it has been inherited quite well.

It is like a person who picks up leaks from Rome.

In the process of unification of the Roman Empire, wars were inevitably launched, because war is the inevitable process of civilization growth and annexation, and in wars, there are always some nations and countries that are unwilling to be assimilated... So some nobles and royal families will seek political asylum.

But on this continent, the Roman Empire was invincible, and the only object they could choose was Longdong across the sea.

So Longdong became a treasure land for political asylum. Compared with being exiled to an isolated island in the Mediterranean, staying in Longdong was at least decent.

Moreover, these refugee royal families and nobles brought quite valuable things to Longdong, such as their own blood, family heritage, wealth, books, and even various historical secrets...

The Longdong royal family would also actively marry these refugee royal families and absorb these bloodlines to strengthen themselves.

Although Longdong is just a small island country, it is indeed a place where crouching tigers and hidden dragons are hidden. The history of many families here can be easily traced back thousands of years ago. A seemingly ordinary noble may have been crowned king by his ancestors.

The glory of the ancestors belongs to the ancestors, but Longdong has formed a strict aristocratic hierarchy.

This is a thorough aristocratic feudal kingdom.

It is a kingdom, not an empire.

Bai Yu also initially imagined Longdong as the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, but in this world, since there is no so-called maritime hegemony at all, the development speed of a naturally closed island country must lag behind that of a continental country.

A better example is Longdong, who constantly sucks the blood of the European continent, relying on the fairy world and Rome, and maintaining his own rule with the aristocracy as the foundation;

A worse example is Fuso, which lacks sufficient resources to feed everyone and has no war potential for external expansion, so it can only continue to consume internal energy, split into various countries and attack each other, and has remained in a substantial state of division until today, with the shogunate and the royal family respectively ruling the north and the south.

"Don't overestimate Longdong."

"Longdong, as a kingdom, lags behind Rome in terms of culture and thought."

"Rome can support more than a dozen giant-level group capital monsters, but Longdong has none, and even rejects these capital groups."

"Nobles naturally look down on businessmen."

"In other words, in Longdong, the nobles themselves occupy the position of group capital...so they are afraid of huge capital groups and do not allow them to enter Longdong."

"Although Victoria is an amazing queen, she is only the king of the royal family and is pushed out as a political symbol."

"The actual control of the country is still the aristocratic group and the aristocratic parliament...The king needs to select a prime minister from the nobles to govern the country."

"Although there have been some powerful princes in history who can Served as prime minister, but still a minority. Most of the time, the royal family could not suppress the aristocracy. "

When Lyudmila said this, Bai Yu raised his hand and asked: "Is there no citizen parliament in Longdong?"

"No, Longdong is too small, with a population of only 20 million, where can it accommodate the citizen class?"

"What about the common people?"

"Civilians?" Lyudmila was puzzled: "Civilians originally do not have the qualifications to participate in the governance of the country. This is the case in Rome and Longdong. Is it different in Daxia? Elites of various countries tend to monopolize power, right?"

"Daxia is developing very fast... Rome also has a world network. At least development can solve people's livelihood problems and let the people share the cake, but what does Longdong have?" Bai Yu asked. He had been in Fuso himself, so he knew very well that Fuso's internal friction was internal friction, people eating each other, and big fish eating small fish.

This internal friction gave birth to the social environment of Fuso, which is first-class bad. Ronin dared to kill people in the street, and grassroots security relied on extreme gangs.

Longdong doesn't sound good.

Lyudmila said calmly: "One is the fairy world; the other is the trade wealth of the ghost fleet... But these two have long been occupied by the nobles, so the third is the most important - that is, the way of chivalry."

"The way of chivalry?"

"Well, I am a knight myself, so I slightly beautified it." The icy Valkyrie sneered, and her coldness became stronger: "In fact, it is a complete set of domestication programs. The knights of Midwinter are all brave and good at fighting, but they are also instilled with the idea of ​​loyalty without exception."

Bai Yu realized that he had asked a stupid question.

From the perspective of the earthlings, feudal rule will come to an end sooner or later, because of uneven distribution of wealth, land annexation and other reasons, there will definitely be uprisings.

But here, on the contrary, it will be a fairly stable system.

Because of the extraordinary system, its inheritance has a natural monopoly.

Without the corresponding resources and knowledge, it is difficult for a person to become a transcendent, let alone a knight.

Bai Yu had fought to the death several times in order to reach the first level of Transcendence.

At that time, his talent was still average, but later he improved so quickly that it was as if he could reach three levels in one step.

All beginnings are hard.

For children from ordinary families, it will only be more difficult.

At this time, it was Melusina's turn to begin to share her knowledge and insights.

"Midwinter has a strict knight selection system. In every household, as long as the boy is twelve years old, he must take the qualification test. Before the age of fifteen, he can take three assessments. If he passes, he can become a knight apprentice."

"There will also be a complete set of knight training tutorials in the future. The goal is to select the top knight seeds."

"And these knights will either be absorbed by Midwinter officials, nobles, or become mercenaries. No matter what, they will not return to the countryside to become farmers, let alone become a force that subverts Midwinter's existing system."

The female CEO had a serious expression, but she secretly held Bai Yu's finger and fiddled with it subconsciously, as if unconsciously.

"Most of the knights are in the hands of the aristocracy... They eat the king's salary and die for the king."

"Everyone has been tamed by this selection system. Every Midwinter thinks it is fair. If there is a problem, it is a problem of his own lack of qualifications; and every Midwinter knight maintains a high degree of confidence in his own knighthood. Honor and pride are spiritually tamed by chivalry.”

Bai Yu was thoughtful, and he held Shirley's restless little hand.

In his impression, there was indeed a European country in the history of the earth that was highly similar to the midwinter at this time.

That was Prussia in the era of Frederick the Great... The two emperors before Frederick spent two generations transforming the entire country into a military base. Eighty percent of the national tax revenue was military expenditures. All promotion rules for nobles are related to military merit.

The Junker nobility also entered the historical stage during this period.

Bai Yu asked: "But the knights are not engaged in production. So many knights are supported by the nobles, and Midwinter is too young to participate in the war. Can they afford to support so many knights?"

"Or is it that Midwinter already has a target for swinging his sword? He has been sharpening his sword for so many years just to kill it?"

Historically, Prussia took action during the generation of Frederick the Great. Just after the death of his godfather, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, he launched a war to seize Silesia and started a war with his childhood sweetheart Maria Theresa. The script of lifelong enemies.

The final result was that Prussia obtained the province of Silesia, the textile center of Central Europe, expanding its territory by one-third and doubling its population. Until the German period, this place was an important industrial center... It can be said that it became fat in one bite and laid the foundation for The foundation of national strength for hundreds of years.

That's why Bai Yu asked who he wanted to kill after spending so many years sharpening his sword in the middle of winter.

Are you going to kill Rome?

I'm afraid I won't be able to do this in the middle of winter.

This question received an approving look from Lyudmila.

"This is an excellent question..."

She did not answer in a hurry, but said to herself: "From the age of thirty to fifty, I did not deliberately practice Buddhism. Instead, I traveled all over Europe. The most common occupation I had was that of the heir of nobles and wealthy businessmen. personal trainer.”

"I have seen too many nobles and businessmen. They often inherited the wealth and status of their ancestors, but they did not have the vision and prejudice to match their status."

"The Bai Potian I saw when I was twenty, when I was thirty, forty, fifty...including the Bai Potian I saw three years ago, he gave me the same feeling as ever."

"Bai Potian is a pure businessman. He is too shrewd and lacks political acumen. He does not know how to assess the situation, so he cannot gain a foothold in Daxia."

"And it is inevitable that you can reach a higher position than him at a young age. This is because you are born with high political talent."

"There are very few people who are less than twenty years old and can see the essence to this point."

After complimenting her, she continued.

"The current depth of winter is like a gleaming sword that will pierce out sooner or later."

"The knights' desire to make achievements cannot be satisfied by just staying where they are and eating offerings."

"If this sword can't cut out, it will stab itself."

"And it's an island country in the middle of winter, so there is a lack of suitable targets around it."

"A few centuries ago, there were Viking pirates who came to harass the coast, but now the Nordic pirates and even the Danes have become history, buried under the ice, snow and frozen soil."

"Just think, who else is suitable to be its enemy?"

Lyudmila asked and answered herself.

"the answer is……"

"The Kingdom of Shadows."

She said, her eyes lowered to the gem.

"The entire shadow world of Europa is almost concentrated in midwinter."

"If there are two intersections in the shadow world of this world, then..."

"One is the Taiyin Demon Realm in the east."

"The other is the Kingdom of Shadows in the middle of winter."

"They are like two eyes, staring at the earth and staring at the stars."