Chapter 1622: The Fault of the Present World

Okay, didn't expect you to really find the crux.

Looking at "Prince Vernon," who stopped talking after finishing his own philosophy and stared at him with eyes like torches, a hint of amazement appeared in Hearing Li Ang's eyes, and he couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

Although the two sides have not directly shown their cards yet, "Prince Vernon's" series of remarks just now are no different from showing their cards directly. The true face of this "Prince Vernon" must be the former Ophiuchus Director of the Bureau of Cleanup.

According to the situation he heard from Director Taurus, this Ophiuchus Director seems to be a standard "mixed person." Although he is outstanding in talent and can be called the most outstanding Ophiuchus Director in thousands of years, he seems to be slightly lacking in IQ... intelligence... um... brain.

It's just that there is a saying that a fool can have a thousand thoughts and must have one gain. Although the proposed solution is extremely unreliable, the Ophiuchus Director still successfully found one of the roots of the problems in the present world—the Bureau of Cleanup.

In a sense, the Ophiuchus Director's judgment is correct. The reason why the present world is rotten is that the Thirteen Kingdoms and the Bureau of Cleanup have existed for too long, basically losing the ability to "regulate" themselves.

If there were no Bureau of Cleanup pressing on their heads, normal human kingdoms would operate for hundreds of years, and after the vested interest groups divided everything they could divide, they would begin to reach down without a bottom line, and those who were plucked bald by them would think of ways to pluck others down to supplement themselves.

After the bottom layer with nowhere to pluck had nowhere to go, they would use the most direct violent means to lift those riding on their heads and fall to their deaths, and then the city head would change the king's flag. Either a relatively human-like person would emerge from the vested interest groups, or the brave would become evil dragons, and everyone would come again one, two, three, four.

Theoretically, it should be like this, but this world happens to have one more Bureau of Cleanup.

Recalling the pair of robber siblings he escaped from the floating crystal mine of the Kingdom of Kroke, and the royal ship full of torture instruments and cages in the lower cabin of the Dead World, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

In order to maintain the effectiveness of the Watch Palace and ensure that the most important front line against the Outer Gods does not have problems, the Thirteen Royal Families can be said to have been kept by the Bureau of Cleanup semi-forcibly. The sharpest part of the contradiction has always been suppressed and has never been thoroughly vented.

So although the Bureau of Cleanup did not do it directly, the Kingdom of Kroke's bottomless bloody exploitation of the floating crystal mining area, the Kingdom of Thousand Sails' looting that has been maintained for at least a thousand years, and other kingdoms' blind operations that do not treat people as people, actually have a share of the Bureau of Cleanup's big pot behind them.

Under the protection of the Bureau of Cleanup, the Thirteen Kingdoms have been holding on for I don't know how long, until two less in recent years.

One is the Kingdom of East Calevin, which was harmed by the Ophiuchus Director, where all citizens were taken away in one wave and could not be rebuilt. The other is the Kingdom of Kroke, which itself pursued "elite" and led to too few citizens, and finally merged into the Kingdom of Travel-Thrush under his... help.

As for the other kingdoms that were forcibly kept by the Bureau of Cleanup, they are indeed as the Ophiuchus Director said, mostly rotten and stinking. If you have to say which one stinks lighter, it is the Northern Kingdom, the Kingdom of Witchcraft, and the Kingdom of Travel-Thrush where he is located.

Without paying attention to the opposite "Prince Vernon," glancing at the relief on the flying buttress below, where the Bureau of Cleanup helped the Calevin brothers build the country, Hearing Li Ang's train of thought suddenly began to go crooked uncontrollably, pondering these three countries that were also established with the help of the Bureau of Cleanup but were relatively harmonious.

Among them, the reason why the Northern Kingdom is relatively human-like is because they are a "tribal" system. The King is less of a King and more of a leader of the largest tribe. Power itself is not concentrated, and the exploitation ability is relatively limited.

In addition, the North is vast and sparsely populated, people live very scattered, and there are terrifying disasters that affect the whole territory from time to time. For several months of the year, they are blocked by heavy snow and cannot get out of the door, so going to exploit others is actually a dangerous job, and it is easy to die halfway if you are not careful.

In short, it is not that they themselves want to be human, but rather that they truly lack the ability not to be. The situation in the Witch Kingdom is somewhat special; the lineage of the Great Witch King is basically passed down through a single heir, and each generation possesses a level close to that of a True God, capable of wantonly peering into the time of the past and future, with little interest in the power and wealth within the kingdom.

When he went to engage in... help in the past, he specifically observed that the life of the Great Witch King's lineage is actually quite simple. The so-called palace is just a courtyard that is still elegant, and usually almost never interferes in any government affairs.

And as the actual power organization of the Kingdom of Witchcraft, the seventeen major societies and many small and medium-sized societies are groups gathered because of practicing the secret techniques of the Great Court, and their interest in materials and secret techniques is far greater than wealth and power.

Therefore, the "ecology" of the Kingdom of Witchcraft is very strange. If you want to control power, you have to enter the seventeen major societies, but you can't learn the secret techniques if you can't learn them, and if you can learn them, you are easily addicted to them, losing the excessive desire for wealth and power.

Even if there is a chosen bastard, with good secret technique talent and not treating people as people, and can resist the temptation of the secret technique itself, after successfully taking the position, he will probably be slapped to death by the Great Witch King's lineage.

And even if he hides it from the Great Witch King who can see the future, his children and grandchildren may not necessarily inherit the talent, and may not necessarily inherit his exuberant desire for power. Wealth and status basically will not be inherited across generations, so the upward channel has always been open.

Therefore, apart from the loose organization, god-god-whispering, and the fact that the efficiency of doing things is really frighteningly low, the internal situation of the Kingdom of Witchcraft is surprisingly healthy, and it is unique among the Thirteen Kingdoms. The only place where big problems might occur is that it is easy to be ineffective in rescue after encountering large-scale disasters.

However, the Kingdom of Witchcraft is not short of various prophets, and there is even a Great Witch King who can directly see the future. Often, before the disaster appears, people have already moved away cleanly, using fortune-telling to save lives, relying on computing power to make up for the lack of action.

So on the whole, except for the lack of upward channels without secret technique talent, the Kingdom of Witchcraft can even be called a peaceful and prosperous country, which can be regarded as a rare paradise among the major kingdoms in the present world.

As for the last relatively human-like Kingdom of Travel-Thrush... it's mostly because it's too weak.

Recalling his younger brother's "Kingdom History" textbook, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but sigh slightly.

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The history of the Kingdom of Travel-Thrush is basically a series of beatings, bullied by the poor and hungry Northern Kingdom, bullied by the Kingdom of Seao wandering on the sea, bullied by the Kingdom of Thunderstorm that has always had territorial disputes. If it weren't for him, it would be bullied by the Kingdom of Kroke that has its eyes on the volcano in the future.

And the royal family of Travel-Thrush, flowing with the blood of arrogance, is naturally proud and arrogant, how can they bear this kind of cowardice? Therefore, basically every generation has the intention of working hard to do a big job, and then bullying back.

Although the predecessors of the royal family of Travel-Thrush generally have poor abilities, and their own problems are a lot, they often can't change to the right place.

But with a breath of arrogance in their hearts, they have indeed done a lot of practical things, at least stirred up the stagnant water-like country, and barely gave the bottom-level people who were suffering a lot of relief...

Hehe, in the end, it's still a bit tender!

Looking at the opposite side, whose expression changed again and again, and within a few seconds, emotions such as surprise, thought, disgust, helplessness... appeared on his face, the corners of "Prince Vernon's" mouth couldn't help but rise, and he quietly took back the broken half of the reins in his hand.

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