Kael'thas had been watching Dar'Khan's re-establishment of private scouts, but he chose to turn a blind eye.
On the one hand, this was done to take this opportunity to show weakness to Darkan, making him think that he was just an immature young king who had relaxed his vigilance towards Darkan after the most dangerous period.
On the other hand, Kael'thas deliberately leaked Sarlayan's identity to Dar'Khan in order to shock him and make him have more concerns before taking bold actions.
Darkan is still not sure whether if he takes action against Sarlayan, he will offend his dragon mother who has never seen the dragon before its end, or even... the entire dragon clan.
If Dar'Khan still intends to go his own way despite so many debuffs, it means that he has been deceived by the obsession of ascending to power, and Kael'thas will no longer covet his ability to govern and strike first. Just kill it directly.
It is helpless to say that, at least so far, Kael'thas has not found a talent in the country that is more suitable for the position of prime minister than Darkan.
Today's Quel'Thalas is still a dual system in name, but in fact the center of power has long been concentrated in the hands of the Sun King.
The cabinet ministers only assisted the Left Sun King in governing and were no longer able to stand up to the king as before.
Dar'Kan, the Prime Minister, could no longer cover the sky with one hand. No matter what suggestions he made, as long as Kael'thas could find even a little loophole in the plan, he could justifiably veto it.
After several years of development, the cabinet has recruited hundreds of officials at all levels, but in fact only a few key ministers hold the core power.
What makes Darkan feel frustrated is that, except for himself, these powerful bosses are all supporters of Kael'thas. No matter how he operates, Kael'thas's ruling foundation is still as stable as an old dog.
Recently, Darkan has received definite news that the Sun King intends to divide the increasingly bloated cabinet, integrate elite officials at the core of power into the newly established Senate, and transfer lower-level cabinet members to the House of Representatives.
According to Kael'thas's (actually Saryan) vision, the Senate will still hold the core power of governance, and the officials qualified to join the Senate are political elites with many years of political experience.
The House of Representatives will be open to the general public of Quel'Thalas, and each noble lord's jurisdiction will elect noble representatives and civilian representatives to obtain seats.
In principle, the seats of noble representatives will all fall to the lord, unless the lord himself is unwilling to take the position. This will ensure that the existing feudal aristocratic foundation of Quel'Thalas will not be easily subverted.
But at the same time, the representative seats allocated to civilians will allow Kael'thas to fully listen to the real voices from the people. The selection requirements and transparency of civilian representatives will be much higher than those of aristocratic representatives who follow a formality.
In the words of Danmu, these civilian representatives are the truly important part of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives convenes all representatives every year to participate in a discussion conference, which is essentially what Danmu calls the People’s Congress.
After taking over the throne from his father, with the full assistance of many close ministers, Kael'thas's governance skills became more mature and sophisticated.
The new reform plan drawn up by Kael'thas seems to be less sharp than before and will no longer easily threaten the status of the noble lords, but in fact he has never given up his determination to reform the social system.
For Quel'Thalas, which has a population of 20 million, the population base of the nobles standing at the top of the pyramid is too small, only a few tens of thousands in total.
It is true that children of nobles who receive elite education all year round are more likely to produce talents.
But from the moment they become sensible, these descendants of the nobility will begin to receive education that prioritizes family interests. Many of them will even put family interests above national interests.
This kind of person obviously does not meet Kael'thas' selection criteria.
Under Sharlayan's advice, Kael'thas boiled frogs in warm water and gradually established enlightenment education for civilians, secondary education that produced a large number of social backbones, and higher talent education that allowed thousands of troops to cross the single-plank bridge.
In the process of battle of wits and courage with the nobles, Kael'thas learned to compromise and adapt.
The feudal aristocratic system in Quel'Thalas has been maintained for more than 6,800 years, starting from the founding of Dath'Remar and continuing to this day.
It is unrealistic to eliminate the privileges of the nobility in one step. After all, the king is essentially part of the aristocratic system.
Kael'thas really wants to reinvigorate the lazy Quel'Thalas through reforms, but he can't just kill himself in a hurry for quick success, right?
In order to take back military power and hereditary territorial management rights from the noble lords who controlled private soldiers, Kael'thas could only patiently train officers and civil servants with civilian backgrounds, and let them penetrate into various noble territories little by little.
Even Saryan, who took the lead in setting an example and employing a large number of civilian officials, could not say how many years it would take to complete this goal.
Fortunately, the lifespan of high elves is long enough, and Kael'thas has enough time to spend time with the nobles.
The Sun King plans to use a hundred years as a benchmark and hopes that talents will be born among civilian students to replace Darkan as prime minister.
Different from the private education provided by nobles to their own children, patriotic education was added to the academies at all levels established by the Sun King himself with "private goods included".
Prior to this, civilians had no stable channels for rising status.
Only a very small number of children with extraordinary talents can be accepted as apprentices by master mages, and they may have the opportunity to enter the upper class society of Quel'Thalas when they grow up.
Kael'thas broke this rule, and although he offended many nobles, he also gained immeasurable gratitude and loyalty from the common people.
Under the double loyalty and patriotic education of family and school, at least until the apparent privileges of the nobility disappear, officials of civilian origin will support Kael'thas crazily. They never want to return to the dark age where there was no way to rise.
What? An era where there is absolutely no privileged class and absolute fairness?
That which exists only in ideals is simply impossible to achieve.
Needless to say, a family of civilian officials will be formed sooner or later. Even if they are both civilians, children from wealthy families will be ahead of children from poor families from birth.
Is this fair? Who is to blame? Did the previous generation of poor children’s families not work hard enough? Not talented enough?
So how can talent, something brought out from the mother's womb, be fair?
The social fairness that Sharlayan and Kael'thas want to achieve is relative fairness.
Absolute fairness is basically impossible to exist. Even the world where the barrage is located has never heard of any country reaching this level. It can only be regarded as a lofty ideal to inspire future generations to strive for it.
According to Danmu, there is only one intelligent species in their world: humans.
The intelligent creatures in Azeroth are all kinds of strange, and the talents and abilities of different races are also very different. Absolute fairness is impossible to talk about.
Just like Darkan, as a high elf, he inherently has a longer lifespan than short-lived races.
But he is still not satisfied with this. The ambitious Darkan wants to obtain eternal life and eternal power.
Sarlayan, who has dragon bloodline, is destined not to be limited by natural lifespan from birth. His starting point is the end of Darkan's lifelong struggle. It would be strange for the jealous Darkan not to regard Sarlayan as a thorn in his side. .
Before Kael'thas implemented this bait plan, he specifically asked Sharlayan's opinion on this matter.
Sharlayan didn't care about Dar'Khan's jealousy and hostility. He had many things to consider, and most of them were related to the survival of Azeroth.
He really didn't look down on Dar'Kan, who was just secretly causing trouble in Quel'Thalas.
Of course, this does not mean that Sarlayan will relax his vigilance against Dar'Khan.
The Sun King has people staring at him all the time. If there is any sign of trouble, the Backlight Blade will immediately tell Valeera the relevant information.
Moreover, there are also senior officials in the cabinet who have a good relationship with Sarlayan, such as Leleza, Calpurnia, Solanlian, and Talaver.
Unless Darkan could hide it from all of them with his extraordinary powers, it would be even more difficult to plot against Sarlayan, who was already a marquis and owned his own territory.
As the first lord to start promoting civilian officials, Sarlayan has an extremely transcendent status in the hearts of his people.
To put it bluntly, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, the Sun King Kael'thas is probably not as good as his own lord in the hearts of the people of the Marquis of Deep Shadow.
Fortunately, Kael'thas and Sarlayan had known each other for a long time and knew that he had no interest in power and only regarded power as a tool to achieve the goal of saving the world. Otherwise, such a powerful nobleman with great achievements would inevitably be in the heart of the king. Bury a thorn.
Before the closed-door cabinet meeting ended, Sarlayan received a small task from Kael'thas.
The underwater combat force was too long to pronounce, so Kael'thas asked Sharlayan to follow Quel'Thalas' practice of giving this newly formed force a smooth Legion name.
"Regiment name?"
Sarlayan pondered thoughtfully for a few seconds: "Underwater combat... Otherwise, let's call it the Dragon Legion?"
