Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
When the three sages from Suao Marina, the northernmost point of human influence on the east coast, were fully prepared and finally embarked on a long voyage, the west coast, which they had been away from for a long time, also quietly changed.
The seeds that were planted took root and sprouted, and in the hands of a promising monarch and the people who supported him wholeheartedly, the flowers that bloomed from the land of eternal spring took root everywhere.
It is 1331 in the divine calendar, 1530 in the new Padrosi calendar, and the beginning of the month of Avenella, on the west coast, which has just entered winter.
A decisive step was taken.
The Avenirian calendar, which lasted less than 200 years, ended on December 3.
Under Edward I and Catherine I, the union was also underpinned by the efforts of Princess Isabel of Avenella.
The full name of this new country is "The United Kingdom of Avenella, Loan, Civalier and Maximilian", commonly known as the "United Kingdom of the West Coast".
Founded.
A new star is rising. With the reborn United Kingdom of Avenella and Loan as its heart, the energetic and energetic West Coast talents and resources are quickly concentrated on the continuous plains of Ecasta and Inznir. . Countless schools and workshops for training apprentices were established. As never before, not even the Lamanites had been able to do so, most of the west coast, except for the southern region, formed a whole.
The divided and constantly fighting West Coast cannot pose any threat and can only become a vassal of the great powers.
But the combined West Coast is different.
This incident immediately caused political unrest in the East and West. The Otolo Empire, which was still theoretically in alliance with the United Kingdom, was only separated by a rift valley, so it naturally felt threatened. On the other side, the Padrosi Empire in the east was wary of this rising star.
There are countless people who are acting secretly, and there are also people who are investigating, thinking, and formulating plans to try to divide them from within. But if you think about it carefully, the reason why this country can take advantage of the opportunity to rise is because it is closely related to the distrust between the two empires and their own internal relations.
The antagonistic relationship between Padrosi and Otolo is destined to make it impossible for either party to take action easily. In addition, the two empires themselves are also full of contradictions.
Although the Otolo Empire is at its peak, its borders are constantly shrinking and expanding. To the southeast of her, there is a tribe of orcs in the Kursimu region. These alien warriors, whose physical abilities far exceed those of humans, use the special environment of the forest to make the Otolo people emerge from the modern infantry of the Laman heavy infantry and the famous The mainland's dragoons have nowhere to play.
In addition, in the southwest, there is the Rumanato Empire, whose territory has shrunk a lot and has even split into several principalities and kingdoms, but it is still not to be underestimated.
Although this country, dominated by the Lamanites who migrated westward, has long been in decline, the lean camel is larger than the horse. For Otolo, it is still an opponent that cannot be underestimated.
The Otolo people face threats from many sides, as is the case with any growing empire. On the other side, the situation faced by the Padrosi Empire in the east is much more complicated.
Unlike Otolo, who had just become an empire and was very cohesive. Within the old Padrosi Empire, the rising merchant class has indeed brought prosperity to the entire country, but their money worship and liberalism have also disrupted the upper-lower class relationship in the empire.
"Businessmen and nobles" became "merchant nobles" or "noble merchants". The mixed cauldron disrupted tradition. The rise of humanism caused the influence of the church to decline significantly. Although it still has the name of an empire in general, the appeal of the royal family and the church is completely different from what it was two centuries ago.
The influence of the church and the royal family, the foundation of the empire, was declining day by day. Many conservatives in the empire who have lost their binding force say that the world is in decline and they are greedy for pleasure. Although they will inevitably unilaterally beautify the past history of the empire when mentioning these things, they cannot. What is denied is that if this trend is allowed to continue, chaos, division, and even the demise of the imperial royal family itself will not be so surprising.
But this is also the reason why these conservatives feel depressed all day long because they feel they have no talent.
Unlike Suomir in the north, which is still tottering, Padrosi's commercial prosperity is a foregone conclusion. Not only the people and most of the nobles, but also the royal family grew up in this environment.
Therefore, in the eyes of these conservatives, the current emperor is a "foolish emperor who only knows pleasure." Although he made great contributions to the empire in literature and art, "as a human being, he only knows how to recite poems and make music, and eulogize the beauty of love, which is really unqualified."
This summary is almost universally known in conservative circles. Even the soldiers and nobles at the bottom did not take the emperor seriously in private and often made fun and sarcastic remarks. But even if someone reported such situations, because of the emperor's indifference, the people below began to let them spread over time.
From a personal perspective, this is indeed a sign of being generous and carefree and not caring about trivial matters. But as the monarch of a country, as the emperor, he no longer represents more than just himself. The royal family must have majesty to maintain its rule. Being slandered without any punishment will only make the imperial power less and less important, and eventually it will become an existence where ordinary people can speak out and slander boldly.
The flow of people's hearts is very scary.
If the subordinate soldiers have dared to express their contempt for the emperor in every word and deed, how can we ensure that they will take the instructions from above seriously?
Behind the incomparable prosperity of the Padrosi Empire is the fact that nobles from all over the city-states have second thoughts. The more business develops, the more they admire the liberal profit-seeking atmosphere of the Southern City-State Alliance. This is like a scale. The heavier the weight in this aspect, the lighter the imperial power and theocratic power.
And this is what many traditional and conservative imperial people do not want to see.
Times make heroes.
If a country as a whole has shown a certain atmosphere of ideological conflict, then it is only a matter of time before a character who meets people's needs and wants to do something appears.
Rigal calendar year 1332, Padrosi new calendar year 1531, West Coast United Kingdom calendar year 1 January 1st.
Padrossi, wait for this role.
The cloak was flapping, and his tall figure and short curly hair gave him the courage to command an army at a glance.
The experience he had deliberately accumulated in the Thoradin region on the west coast came in handy. Since the end of 1330 in the divine calendar, he has been traveling around for more than a year. Get rid of stubborn diseases, reuse talented people regardless of their status, and cultivate their own confidants. By the time people reacted, they had already accumulated considerable power.
The conservatives saw hope, and he seemed to be responding to their hopes. Not only was the imperial power revitalized, but the church also began to develop vigorously again with his support.
This is not a blind emphasis on one's own power, but a reform initiated to cater to the current situation that has changed and cannot be turned back.
"If you can't stop the trend, then you should dare to be the first to be the first."
The transformation of the Padrosi Empire has been completely completed, and the reason for the decline of imperial power and divine power is that they have not kept pace with the times. They still retain the concepts of the past two centuries, and they do not know what the people who want to change need.
And he knows.
The situation in the empire began to change, centered on this man with the same gray-blue eyes as a certain figure two hundred years ago.
The prophecy that "the man with gray-blue eyes will bring about the destruction of the Sekesiyutu family" has now disappeared with the wind, and time has ironically turned everything into the opposition it was in the past. He became the hero who guided the way forward in people's hearts. Whether it was the church or the nobles, many people who held the same ideals as him naturally gathered under his banner.
Gathered under the banner of lilies of the valley and daisies.
Constantine Seksiyutu.
The prince, whom almost no one had heard of before, did not emerge until he was in his twenties, and quickly became a very important figure in the imperial political circles.
The reason for his obscurity was quickly discovered. Constantine was the thirteenth prince. This number was the number of a "sinner" in the traditional beliefs of the White Church. Due to unlucky reasons, he cannot claim to be a member of the Sekesiyutu family. He must enter the army and serve in the church. He cannot return until the sins of his previous life are washed away.
His legendary life experience adds drama to his behavior, and being a soldier and having a church background also makes members of these two organizations feel familiar with him.
In just over a year, very suddenly, the frequency of this name appearing in the eyes of senior officials around the world increased more than 20 times.
This wonderful treatment here, if you look closely, was done by Prince Constantine.
There is an excellent manuscript on the reform of the church, and the signature is also clearly written as Constantine Sextus.
More and more people in the political circles of the empire are paying attention to him, and Constantine's activity does not only exist in the political, military and religious circles.
Troops led by his trusted knights frequently appeared in the forest areas in the southern part of the empire, and they were performing some actions that no one knew about. There are only some rumors that the knights have captured people who were infected by demons in the previous disaster.
The cold gray-blue eyes overlapped with another pair of calm eyes of the same color far away in the northern sea.
What he was looking at was this vast world.
And all he saw was land to be conquered, and enemies who would resist to the death.
Volume 3, end.
