Chapter 367 (1/2)

Chapter 367: Unexpected Visitor

Translator: ih up in the air Small countries would usually have no aerial defenses, but casually entering athat country’s air defenses and aerial knights

But the e tower’s defense zone Even a dragon could die against a well-prepared e toould be capable of th by ten tih-circle spell would easily reach the scale of a ses to be able to slay dragons This was also why dragons would still es

To e, the capital city of each major domain in the Bardi Empire had such anti-air defenses In fact, the es to construct anti-air ainst external threats Powerful doa-empire would have wealth comparable to that of small countries and could afford to maintain a sizable amount of aerial cavalry

Just as how royal authority and religious authority were forever at odds with each other, royal authority and domain lord authority would be forever in conflict

If it was a time when the royalty was very weak, the local do each other’s territory and forcibly kidnapping citizens for population Perhaps they would use ridiculously flimsy excuses such as “You dared to not invite me when your son was born,” or “Your wife tried to flirt with my uncle” But if the royalty’s poas at a nadir, then such excuses that not a single person would believe were h

A weak royal authority meant that internal chaos was unavoidable If a particular doed with the support of more than half of the factions in the country, then a new royalty would likely be established

Since the newly-born royalty used their concrete power to obtain that position, the new royalty would naturally have great authority The royalty would thus enter a period of great authority But no dynasties in any world lasted forever It would be impossible for a royal fa as the feudal system and bloodline hereditary royal authority continued, it would only be a ain

Obviously, this wasn’t exactly a beneficial cycle as this type of society would h ordinary citizens would always suffer when there ar, such a cycle had its contributions to society, too At the very least, it was a natural opportunity to shake the syste

I had researched about political syste probable future develop a “Co their lands,” or anything like that In fact, I didn’t even intend to bring a revolutionary change to society apart fro the Concept of Law That was because in this world, where lands ide, production capabilities were low, and wild ly backwards society where do their citizens was actually the best fit

“Everyone belongs to the royalty? Everyone should listen to the king? Since you all belong to the royalty, then look to the royalty for protection”

Domain lords owned every part of their territory and their citizens, and were also the anize into in of the knightly spirit was fro loyalty to their doinated fro one’s possessions was only natural But as adjusthtly over this line couldover this line even more would make one into an idiot ould be burned at the stake

If sorator truly arrived and created a major country with centralized authority and provinces instead of doovernreat harvest All that awaited him would be the collapse of his country

With centralized authority, one little governht take several years to reach the farther districts in a major country By the tied into? Also, centralized authority meant that the population would be overly concentrated into denser areas With the current generation’s technological level, that would be i in a single place would cause plagues or fae It would be easy to come to a conclusion that densely populated cities were actually a bad thing here This would be a coood intentions

Of course, smaller countries like ours could try this on a sy had developed to a certain extent—slowly developing the size of cities and radual iriculture, and industry All these fields would be raised by several levels as ht about an industrial revolution Society would naturally change even if I didn’t do anything… Oops, I ht have accidentally revealed my plans here Yep, I ades But overhauling the feudal society for an entire world wouldn’t happen overnight

Of course, there were rare exceptions, such as extreious and royal authority were unified, or countries always at ith their neighbors For these and various other reasons, few exceptions had excellent political stability that lasted over one thousand years

Couch—cough—let us stop discussing political syste, what did it er? I had no intentions of spreading philosophies like “All men are created equal” or “Wealth should be equally distributed a so like that would only make me into public enemy number one I could only do what I could and focus on the present

The Bardi Empire was in a zenith of royal authority So of course the local dost each other; instead, it was the opposite They would teaainst royal authority Since absolutely centralized authority was impossible in this society, the conflict between royal and do, which would reset only each time a new royalty was born

The current Bardi Eest it had ever been in its long history Orloss was even capable of forcing his domain lords to hand over their eldest sons to come over to the capital for “education” He even strictly controlled the amount of soldiers per every domain lord obedient would require several centuries without internal or external chaos That would be i h the Bardi E it was more like each individual do a country’s overall coth would typically refer to the royal are scale warfare, one would have to include the do their king’s su out their private armies to participate in national warfare would be one of the most basic duties of a domain lord

Don’t underesti techniques and equipeneration Certain specialized equipment and troop types would often become local specialties There were plenty of private arer than the royal army Since the royalty restricted the number of soldiers allowed in the domain lords’ armies, the major nobles focused on the quality of their troops It was actually quite common that an individual soldier in a doe soldier in the royal knights

The number of troops permitted to a domain lord would typically be related to that domain lord’s noble rank But there were still ways to circue h none of the do thee amount of soldiers several times the size of the royal army Only that would help the amok From a certain standpoint, in a feudal society, the royalty theest domain lord of the country

Well, this was the situation for ordinary domain lords As for the major domain lords of border domains, it would be impractical and impossible to restrict the number of soldiers they possessed These major nobles were usually the ones who found it easiest to become a new royalty dynasty

On our way, I witnessed just how truly ath was