Chapter 238 (1/2)

Chapter 238: New East Mist

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav

The current Eastern Mist Coer that former weak and poor small northern country With new residents, new ares, this country had essentially changed at its foundation

Its citizens ray elves There was no census to count the population ratio, but no matter what the ratio was, there shouldn’t be too eneral power ranks After all, the forest of the four northern elven kingdoer than the weakest northern country of East Mist Not to mention that the elves’ individual power ranks were far above that of huh-ranked coth and potential, either

In order to avoid conflicts fro-ter to coh a eether in the sa, this would cause conflicts and trouble, but over the long ters and differences creating larger and larger conflicts over ti in explosive conflict under the influence of those intentionally sowing discord or those with ambition

The People of the Mist was a tribe of in with It was a cultural product of the citizens co with this, I could get this to beco voice

In the north, the Eastern Mist Communal Country was probably the only country withup its core But as more unique about it was the absolutely special makeup of the country’s upper-level leaders

The original Eastern Mist Communal Country was established as a codom, because when it was established, it indeed borrowed so Charles was even the archduke of the strong country Yintanlo, and even made a promise to appear as Yintanlo’s dependant state, at least on the surface

Charles had the status of a knight that developed a new land for some major country The fact that he received material resources and power to back hiht and swore fealty to the original country were all a normal course of events for any newly-born country

However, it wasn’t long before East Mist truly became a country of its own Charles tore apart the ned Yep, that guy was fooling everyone from start to finish; he had actually requested and received assistance from more than ten countries, as well as swore fealty to them

Of course, all of those major countries were in no way happy to discover that they had been fooled However, the result of Charles playing around with so many countries at once was that all of these countries checked and balanced the the Eastern Mist Communal Country to become truly independent Actually, this was a difficult and co in a distant location, and so poor that there were few financial benefits to be gained here) also helped tremendously

However, the consequences were likely that Charles’s personal reputation was in the pits, and this affected East Mist’s reputation right from the very start of its creation All the hu more than barbarians, not to mention its trustworthiness was at rock bottom

This was also the historical reason of why all the rulers of East Mist were kings and not archdukes In fact, even though there were still two archdukes within the Eastern Mist Communal Country, East Mist’s nobility system basically had no more connection with the nobility system in the plains It was common that East Mist was treated by the other countries as “barbarians playing house gahts, the noble donificant private ar their own citizens and domains They were indeed the backbone of this country But now, from my standpoint, they now posed an obstacle

At the very least, they had gotten in the way of my policies multiple times already I knew that they were difficult to deal with, with bucketloads of reasons and excuses against ainst centralization Especially after I intentionally began to centralize policy and political power; I becaet, and every month Reyne would receive several local do that a dishonest official (ossip

And this time, I put the elves into the new city areas under construction and the royal demesnes, as well as into territories of nobles ere friendlier with the royalty This caused many complaints from various major nobles, since everyone knew that apart froreat resource

This was also why I didn’t dare to completely disperse the elves The lands were vast and the ruler was distant, so the doest authorities in their own lands I couldn’t count on all the doray elves were already afraid after having so many incidents happen to the bad to befall theo up in smoke

But this situation, where the dos, couldn’t be allowed to continue Perhaps it was because of otten used to centralized authority gathered in one place, but I was dissatisfied with this feudal system from the very start

When I merely wanted to open up free movement within the Mist Alliance for all its citizens, it caused a huge aainst me, which made me all the more determined to utterly overhaul this syste the political system would affect all these nobles’ personal benefits, which would be no different fro an internal civil war That hy I could only take the slowone at a time, step by step

The newly-born Eastern Mist Communal Country was a country that was unified with its church; it worshi+pped the Law God Wuhest-ranked leaders in nahness Reyne, who had civil authority, while the other one was the highest-ranked priest Xueti, who of course had religious authority… just thinking about how this country’s highest-ranked leaders were actually a naughty child and a bastard that was often surrounded and beaten up by Town Securitya heart attack

Yep, after saying all this, perhaps souessed hoas that I intended to decrease the local doious authority was an endless one in any country, and the unstoppable force of divineit

Since the Church of Laas the national church, it wouldn’t be too e temple and local church branches to be constructed in each domain noould it?

Since the Church of Law has been recognized by the citizens, then having Judgehts of Justice patrol around the entirety of East Mist and spreading the church’s teachings wasn’t too much to ask for, was it?

Since the divine job class members of the Church of Law are humble yet skilled in battle, and were excellently viewed by all sections of society and welco term into consideration, it was only natural to expand their forces, and recruiting people from your domain wasn’t too much to ask for, was it?

Since…

Under that series of “sinces,” when the Church of Law continuously expanded in each local domain, there could only be one result

“Since the Law God’s teachings stipulate that everyone should be equal under the law, since you committed serious crimes just because you were a noble, then it wouldn’t be too much to ask for to cut off your head, noould it!?”

By that tiious authority, I would naturally be able to decrease the dooal of centralizing power

In my plan, if the Mist Alliance could be coiant, then the Eastern Mist Coiant’s critical spot, its heart, as well as its fist, as it was the first country that recognized the Law God as its national church As the main headquarters of the Church of Law, every step the East Mist took would surely be imitated by other places, and it definitely had to beco with new develop airshi+ps for citizens’ use and transportation technology for traveling between cities will become a reality sooner or later After transportation beco military forces will become more convenient as well, which will cause the do The systedoless”

Of course, it was still a long way until that could be realized, but wasn’t it nice to have some expectations?

What I had to do was simply plant my seeds, and patiently wait for the day of harvest

“Yep, it’s definitely not because I want to slack off or anything like that”

But, from a certain standpoint, my status was quite aard