"The Phantom Prophecy Instrument? What is that?" Yue Guanchao and the others had never heard of the Phantom Prophecy Instrument. Now that they heard Gu Hengxi talking about this thing, they immediately became curious.
Seeing that they didn't understand the situation, Gu Hengxi explained the origin of his phantom prophecy!
The so-called phantom prophecy instrument is actually a device used by illusionists to create large-scale illusions. This device can only appear because of Queen Shanshan of Shanshan Kingdom.
At that time, after Queen Shanshan came to rule Shanshan Kingdom, she claimed that her jade pendant had mysterious power and gradually stabilized her rule.
However, the people in the city-state have only heard that the jade pendant has mysterious power. They have never known what this mysterious power is. No one has seen the mysterious power being activated with their own eyes. As time goes by, there are more and more doubts about the mysterious power. .
Some people with ulterior motives began to pander to this suspicion, claiming that the jade pendant was a scam that deceived all the people and was only used to maintain rule. In fact, what the queen got was just a useless stone.
This statement was very noisy and intensified the resistance of some opponents against Queen Shanshan!
To put it more simply, they won't shed tears until they see the coffin, and they won't regret until they hit the wall. As long as they don't see the queen's power to activate the jade pendant, they think it's a huge scam.
Of course, the Queen sees this kind of suspicion and questioning, but the power of the jade pendant is more sensed by the operator himself, rather than manifested in front of others. She can't prove anything about the people's doubts about her. After all, she What can be sensed cannot make other subjects feel the same.
If it was just the people who doubted her, the queen could bear it. What she was more afraid of was that some people with good intentions would take advantage of the people's suspicion of her to form a conspiracy, do things here and there, and finally threaten the foundation of Shanshan Kingdom's rule.
The fact is that just as Queen Shanshan expected, these people have indeed begun to make some troublesome actions through the voices of the people and subjects. When these actions are initiated by the old nobles, it will be more difficult to deal with.
At the beginning, when the royal family of Shanshan and the royal family of Abolu merged, there must be some negotiation and trade-offs. In other words, the interests of some people were destined to be sacrificed. These people used to be the royal family or nobles of Shanshan Kingdom, and it is very likely that they would be involved in the merger. Under the succession rules of Shanshan Kingdom, he became the king or the regent noble.
It is completely unfavorable for them for the Ambara royal family to rule Shanshan. On the one hand, it makes them lose the inheritance qualification to become kings and the right to become a regent. On the other hand, it also transfers more benefits to the Ambara nobles, which is equivalent to saying, In addition to retaining their noble status, the Shanshan nobles may completely lose all their rights in the future, and even lose their noble status while they are still alive.
No one wants to watch the benefits they have gained suffer, and even their noble status cease to exist. They have their own little calculations in their hearts. Of course, they do not want the Shanshan royal family and the Aboluo royal family to merge into legal systems. During the negotiations, they repeatedly obstructed and refused to compromise.
Against the background of the depletion of the oasis in the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, any objections from anyone were suppressed by the Shanshan royal family. There was no place to complain and protest. The two royal families finally completed the legal merger and became the new Shanshan Dynasty. The era of the queen's reign.
Although Shanshanguo's objections were suppressed, because these opponents were old nobles, there was no way to severely punish them. When the trouble became serious, they could only reprimand and punish them, but they could not kill them, so they were left as the queen's regent. Hidden tail.
Later, most nobles have accepted the reality, leaving only a small number of nobles who are unwilling to give up their interests and still choose to resist. They have also learned a lot smarter. On the surface, they respect the royal family, respect the law, and behave like other nobles. There is no difference.
Secretly, he bribed the homeless beggars of Shanshan Kingdom and began to spread rumors about Queen Shanshan, mainly focusing on the fact that Queen Shanshan's jade pendant has no divine power, and is just a divine object deliberately created by the old royal family in order to promote the unification of law. , which is actually useless.
This idea was quickly accepted by some rabble-rousers, who used it to attack the Shanshan royal family when life was not going their way. They even used this rumor to rise up in an attempt to split the country and seal the territory, seek autonomy, or simply be less promising.
The chaos of these common people was used as a bargaining chip in exchange for an official position in the imperial court.
There are countless such things, and they happened more than once during the queen's reign. In the end, they even developed into civil riots that openly opposed the queen's rule. Queen Shanshan saw that more and more such things happened and had shaken the foundation of her rule, so she made up her mind. To put an end to this chaos.
As the old saying goes, to catch a thief, you have to catch a thief in his guts. The royal family knew that these common people were following some old nobles to cause chaos, so they decided to attack the old nobles first, giving the old nobles two ways.
One way is to intermarry with the Aumbaru nobles, and from then on become like a family and merge their interests. The other way is to resist the imperial court to the end. The queen will directly cancel their titles, demote them to common people, and then punish them according to the law.
Of these two paths, many old nobles chose the first one in the past. Most of them chose to intermarry with the Abra nobles in order to preserve their rights and interests. In the current situation where the legal system cannot be separated, in the end An excellent choice. .
As for the second way, basically no nobles would choose it. They made such a big fuss because they were unwilling to lose their rights and status. If they continued to make trouble, the imperial court would directly cancel their titles and take back all their property. Salaries, titles, titles, rewards, fields, manors, slaves, tribes, they were demoted from nobles to commoners, and in the end there was so much trouble that nothing was left.
Now that everything has come to this point, there is nothing to worry about face anymore. Of the two choices given to them by the imperial court, most of the old nobles chose the first option out of integrity. The remaining scattered old nobles did not. If you are willing to listen to the imperial court, you can only become a civilian according to the previously mentioned punishment methods and take back everything.
After these opposition old nobles are dealt with, the root cause of civil unrest will be eradicated. Without the support of these old nobles, the financial and material support of the rioters will be gone. Of course, the Queen will be able to deal with it more smoothly. .
Of course, facing these refugees, it is certainly impossible to be as tough as facing the old nobles!
They were able to be so tough on the old nobles because they knew that the nobles had a huge interest base in Shanshan. Their titles, homesteads, manors, fields, rewards, and salaries were all tied to the Shanshan Imperial Court. together.
If the skin does not exist, the hair will not be attached. If the Shanshan Imperial Court does not exist, then these so-called nobles will become stinky shit and nothing.
In the past, all their resistance was due to the loss of interests, rather than sincere opposition to the Shanshan Imperial Court, just to obtain greater benefits.
To put it more simply, these people are not out for justice or upholding the rule of law. They are just inciting riots to make greater profits. What they fear most is that the Shanshan Imperial Court will come with them and cancel their rights. All advantageous positions.
In other words, they simply cannot afford to lose. They only need to give them the benefits they want, and of course they will retreat. Facing these old nobles, the Shanshan Imperial Court can indeed deal with it this way, but in the face of the rioting refugees, this kind of treatment The method obviously failed.
There is an old saying that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. These refugees and beggars have fallen to this point because of shrinking trade and economic setbacks. They themselves have accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with the Shanshan Imperial Court. If a tough attitude is adopted , it can only make these refugees break down and cause more accidents and disasters. It may also push some people to oppose the royal family and alienate the people from the imperial court.
If you want to deal with them, Shanshan Imperial Court really has to put a lot of effort into it!
It is impossible for these people to be completely ennobled or given noble status, nor can they take over their lives and constantly give them money for them to spend. Even if the Shanshan Imperial Court is a big family, it is impossible for them to afford it. It causes all the refugees' disturbances in food, clothing, daily life, birth, old age, sickness and death.
In addition, there are more serious consequences of taking over everything - if other people see the benefits, the scale of civil unrest may expand, and the ban will be repeated.
Regarding this difficult situation, the civil servants of Shanshan Imperial Court also expressed their own opinions after discussion.
These refugees caused a lot of riots because they questioned whether the power of the Queen's jade pendant was fake. If you think about it carefully,
Do they really care so much about the authenticity of the jade pendant's power? If you think about it deeply, you may not realize that this jade pendant has nothing to do with them. In fact, these refugees are worried about their future.
They have lost all their money due to the deterioration of the oasis, and now they have reached the point where they have to move their whole family in precarious situations. Although the old royal family of Shanshan Kingdom told them that the Aboluo people can lead the people to find the oasis, there is no guarantee in the end, it is just empty talk.
If the Ambara people are unable to fulfill their promises in the future, the old nobles may be able to continue to maintain a superior life, but the lower class people like them will definitely live a very miserable life.
Worries about the future deterioration of the country's situation, despair about their own living conditions, and doubts about the life and death of the oasis are constantly lingering in the minds of these refugees. As time goes on, these refugees will of course lose more and more confidence in the imperial court. In the end, there was a riot caused by distrust in the power of the jade pendant.
To take a step back, even if no old nobles question the power of the jade pendant, there will be other things used by the refugees as tools to alleviate the fear and despair in their hearts. The royal family cannot give them any guarantee of survival, so of course they will be vague about this. Total distrust of the power. .
If this problem is not solved well, more people will become addicted and become such turbulent refugees. To put it bluntly, both ordinary people and these refugees have lost trust in the Shanshan Imperial Court, so they have to break the jar and die. One last time before going crazy again.
After learning of this situation, the top priority is to regain the people's confidence in the imperial court as soon as possible, and at the same time, to prove to the people that the magical power of the jade pendant is real and not a scam.
Heart ailments also require heart medicine. Since the people's heart ailments are caused by the power of the jade pendant, then as long as it is shown to these subjects and people that the jade pendant really has magical power, then they can regain their confidence and regain the hope of living. That is the only way. , can they dispel their suspicions and completely calm their inner anger.
