After passing the test of the Tower of True Flame and officially wearing the crown, the next step in the ceremony is to accept the allegiance of the lords. The truth lords of the kingdom will step forward in turn to swear allegiance to the new queen. On behalf of their loyal gifts, they drank a glass of sacrificial wine mixed with drops of the Queen's blood. In the past, this sacrifice usually consisted of the territory's output plus a certain number of Force Stones, but this time due to Gu Hanhan's special request, all the sacrifices were replaced with fragments of energy devices, also known as "sacred artifacts." It was because of these fragments that Gu Hanhan had to stand here to attend this ceremony.
As you can imagine, this is a hard job. There are 3,592 Mantra Lords in the kingdom, and theoretically all of them must be present at the enthronement ceremony. Of course, they must be absent today, but even so, the majority are present. According to the report given to Gu Hanhan by someone who was said to be a palace minister before the ceremony started, more than 70% of the Mantra Lords had caught up with the ceremony, which meant that there were at least 2,500 at the scene. 2,500. Just by looking at this number, you can tell how much trouble Gu Hanhan has to put in.
In the end, the whole day was spent on this, which was terrible. Even in the Acropolis, Gu Hanhan had never stood for such a long time. The unreasonable punishment of standing made her calves lose weight. Three? Two. Fortunately, after dusk fell, this hard work finally came to an end. The officiant announced that all the Mantra Lords present had completed the oath ceremony and offered their offerings. Of course, the details of the recovery of the fragments will not be known until the statistics of the ceremony are complete, but in any case, Gu Hanhan finally does not have to stand still.
After this came a series of celebrations, starting with a royal dinner in the White Tower, followed by grand fireworks and parades. Then starting from the next day, there will be continuous banquets and garden tours. The Lords of Mantra will stay in the royal capital for a month. During this period, the new prime minister and ministers will be announced. The queen will give out rewards during this month. She will reward the lords at every banquet and take the lead in donating money during the activities of the association. At the same time, the lords will spend more in this month. They will spend money like water in the royal capital, not only for themselves, but also for the God of the Force. In addition to the fixed blood tax, they need to offer more sacrifices to the Force God, and they also have to sponsor the great magicians in the academy city - of course, the latter has been razed to the ground because the magician academy city has been razed to the ground. Since all the teachers were locked up and had to do hard labor putting together jigsaw puzzles, they could save a fortune.
Of course, Gu Hanhan did not participate in any of these banquets and activities. After the oath-taking ceremony, she picked up the True Flame Tower and left directly. During the ceremony, Gu Hanhan guessed that it might be the power system of the spacecraft. One of the main parts, of course, has to be taken back and put together.
Therefore, the only practical thing Gu Hanhan participated in in this carnival of power games in the indigenous world was to pay. Of course, she has no money, but she is rich in energy. To be precise, she is the energy porter of nature.
When General Sono took the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to find the ruins of the academy city late at night, Gu Hanhan learned that the royal family's rewards to the lords at the banquet were mainly Force Stones, and the savings in the palace treasury were due to the redemption and replacement of fragments of the ruins. After consuming too much, they were now in the embarrassing situation of not being able to issue any rewards, so they drew out a burst of energy and filled the 100,000 empty stones. It is said that there are several warehouses of used up dimensional energy storage bodies like this in the capital, and they cannot be used up at all. Therefore, Gu Hanhan looked very generous after being filled with emotions.
"Take it first and use it first. If you don't have enough, come back later." She said, "It's just money. As long as they obey me, it doesn't matter how much reward they want."
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and General Sono, who had already suffered many miracles, were once again shocked. Although gifted people who were ordained like empty stones with exhausted Force can recharge by chanting spells, but if they are fully charged, If it were easier, there wouldn't be many warehouses piled up in the royal capital, and the Force Stone wouldn't be as valuable as it is now and only used as important rewards. In fact, both the official talents of the royal capital and the castle's own private soldiers have been working hard to replenish the empty stones. Unfortunately, the speed of their replenishment can never keep up with the consumption. With Gu Hanhan's ability to fill a hundred thousand empty stones with her wave of hands, one can only think that she is the God of Force herself.
The beliefs of the ministers and generals were severely impacted by this, and they stumbled away with the money to carry out Gu Hanhan's order for the lords to "obey?"
The so-called "obey? Listen?" Gu Hanhan only meant one thing, which was to ask the lords to hand over all the sacred weapons in their possession. But the lords of the kingdom obviously understand "everything" more than what's on paper. They believe that the new queen wants more, and handing over the sacred artifact is just the beginning. This is really a huge misunderstanding, but it is regrettable that it can never be solved. Cognitive misalignment is the greatest pride and prejudice in the world. People only see the world from their own position. Neither Gu Hanhan nor the lords of the kingdom are immune to this.
And even if they just hand over the sacred weapon, the lords actually can't accept it. "Sacred Artifacts" have occupied an important position in the kingdom since its recorded history. Regardless of the royal family, lords, magicians, or ordained sword bearers, all social orders, including politics, economy, culture, and beliefs, revolve around Bloodline and sacred artifacts come into existence, and all power and hierarchy are developed through sacred artifacts. If the sacred weapon is lost, will the royal family still be the royal family? A magician or a magician? A lord or a lord? Why can they rule their territory and become the kings of their people? It seems that the only ones who benefit are the talented swordsmen. But the distribution of the sword holders as a group is so broad. Royals can be sword holders, magicians can be sword holders, and lords can also be sword holders. From the dragon blood guards of the royal capital, to the lord's personal soldiers, to the wandering swordsmen, who is not a sword wielder? In fact, to be granted a castle, be given a holy weapon, and then become a Lord of Truth is the highest pursuit of all sword holders in the kingdom. Gu Hanhan's attempt to take away all the sacred artifacts was tantamount to removing the cornerstone of this social order, disrupting all classes in one fell swoop.
Gu Hanhan had only a fleeting understanding of this world, but he didn't know that it had completely disrupted the basic order of this world. Even if she knows, there is nothing she can do. It takes time and investment to deeply understand and enter an independently developing society. Breaking the original order of this society and re-establishing a new ruling order requires long years and perseverance. ? Tired of investment. But Gu Hanhan didn't have the time or energy. What she wanted was to leave this planet as soon as possible and leave this isolated world that completely imprisoned her.
She wants to escape from prison, but she is not the legendary Shawshank. It is impossible for her to truly sink into this world, and it is even less possible for her to spend dozens or even hundreds of years to find a reliable implementation of the new order. And complete the replacement of the existing old order, letting the fragments she needs fall into her mouth like ripe fruits? Then she would really be imprisoned in this era and completely out of reach. She could only do it by force, whether it was robbing or lying.
The truth lords of the kingdom are not stupid. Even if they are stupid, there are always sane people among the magicians around them. The new Queen's silver bullet method cannot fool them at all. They must clearly realize that if all the holy weapons in their hands are handed over, then no matter how many Force Stones they have, it will be meaningless. . They must find ways to resist, passively or actively. Many people just choose not to come because the distance is too far, the time is too short, the weather is bad, they can’t make it in time, etc., or they simply don’t come for any reason, and the vast majority of them are forced to do so. The lords who had to attend the enthronement ceremony to swear allegiance due to the pressure of politics, force, faith, etc. chose to surrender, casually taking out one or two broken sacred vessels and handing them over, as if they wanted to do so. Send Gu Hanhan away like a beggar. The prime minister, ministers and generals who were entrusted with important tasks by Gu Hanhan obviously did not talk about being loyal and dedicated. They maintained a secret but tacit wait-and-see attitude, waiting to see what Gu Hanhan would do next.
Gu Hanhan knew nothing about this. She was busy doing puzzles during the day and flowering at night. She maintained an optimistic and tolerant attitude, as if she had completely adapted to the inefficiency of this world.
But no matter how low the efficiency is, it has its limit. On the fifth day after the coronation ceremony, Gu Hanhan finally saw the list of tributes given by the mantra lords of the Kingdom to celebrate her becoming the queen. It said that a total of a large number of gifts had been received. There are 2137 holy vessels in total, big or small. At the same time, the list also indicated that there were 2,514 truth lords who attended the enthronement ceremony and swore allegiance. After excluding the others who did not attend but sent 115 sacred artifacts representing loyalty, the final number was 0.8 artifacts per capita.
Gu Hanhan probably knew that his bribery plan might not be too successful, so he could only resort to force and rob him.
Holding the list in hand, she instructed the Dragon Blood Guard to move more than two thousand sacred artifacts to the ruins of the school city, and then told the Prime Minister, ministers and generals that she wanted to crusade against the rebellion.
The lords who did not come to attend the coronation ceremony or present the sacred vessel to the queen and swear allegiance to the queen can probably be regarded as traitors by Gu Hanhan, but there are too many of them, there are about 900 of them, and they are distributed throughout the country. It would be very inconvenient to send troops to attack various parts of the kingdom. So Gu Hanhan asked the prime minister and ministers to select a big lord who had both strength and prestige, and preferably one who was close by, as the target of killing chickens and respecting monkeys.
"I actually can't walk away," she said, "but if I don't tell you and let you go by yourself, you probably won't be able to, so I'll pick one up first and give you a sample."
The Prime Minister was actually prepared, so he nominated one on the spot. But almost immediately he encountered vocal objections from the palace minister. Gu Hanhan didn't pay attention to the reasons for the objection. All in all, there were reasons. Then the palace minister proposed the candidate in his mind. And the Finance Minister and General Sono have something to say again? They said it...
The Prime Minister, the ministers and the generals each have their own calculations. They either have a horizontal line, a vertical line, or both a horizontal line and a vertical line. These are not important. In short, they put forward five or six things in their last breath. Seven or eight candidates were quarreling with each other and waiting for Gu Hanhan's decision.
It's really not important. Gu Hanhan waved his hand generously and said, "Then just put them all in and make a list."
As for the time of the expedition, it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun, and it is now. Gu Hanhan asked General Sono to mobilize 1,500 Dragon Blood Guards on the spot, then rolled up the 1,500 guards, took the Prime Minister, ministers and generals and ran to the first place on the list. Target.
The first target is located 1,700 kilometers away from the royal capital. Because it is daytime, it is not difficult to find it from the sky. It was a red stone castle, covering a large area. There was a dragon lying on the castle and a family flag painted in the shape of a heterochromatic dragon. Gu Hanhan simply didn't get off the ground and asked if the flag was correct, so he hit it with an energy wave.
The stone castle collapsed under the shock of the energy wave, burying the lord's family and the soldiers, dragons and horses he had raised. Gu Hanhan followed the magician's old skill of learning the city, threw the rocks into the air and dug three meters into the ground, and then let the soldiers go down to search.
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
Fifteen hundred soldiers unearthed a total of nine sacred artifacts from the ruins of the castle, as well as countless gold and silver treasures from the lord's family. Gu Hanhan gave all the treasure rewards to the soldiers, and named the first Dragon Blood Guard who found the sacred artifact as the new lord of this place. Then he waved to the frightened Prime Minister, ministers and generals——
"Let's go, next? One family."
