Chapter 461: Grand Blueprint

"Win-win?" Harry's tone still carried a hint of doubt.

"Isn't it?" Ge Xuan explained patiently. "This power of yours, and the power of Saber, which was carefully designed to help you avoid losing control, are both invincible powers in the wizarding world. Even if Dumbledore or Voldemort were resurrected, you and Luo En could easily defeat them. Moreover, after transformation, no one can defeat you, and before transformation, you can use Apparition at will. Isn't this the wizard deterrence you lack?"

Harry considered this matter thoughtfully. Indeed, the existence of the knight system brought him and Luo En to a very high height. At his age, he shouldn't have possessed such strong strength, and this is not replicable, because under Ge Xuan's advance arrangement, he and Luo En had firmly occupied the ecological niche of the strongest knight.

"Besides this power, the dissipation of fate is also a very meaningful thing. For example, Neville's progress. In fact, Neville was always suppressed by fate before that. At this moment, he can develop freely, including Hermione. Your lives should not be limited to Harry and Voldemort."

"Then according to what you said," Hermione raised her hand to ask, "does it mean that our lives before were restricted?"

"Yes, my feeling is the most obvious. There is a special power affecting me," Neville answered for Ge Xuan. "Whenever I want to do some 'things that fate arranged for Harry to do', I always encounter various coincidences and mistakes, making me have many difficulties in these things. You should be able to empathize, right? I'm talking about the experiences in the first year."

"Yes, that was just when Death was at her strongest, and she was briefly synchronized with our timeline," Ge Xuan added for him. "Later, Harry followed fate to solve Quirrell, she stopped paying attention and turned to the future instead."

Harry felt a strange feeling that couldn't be described, as if Ge Xuan doing so much was really for their own good. He couldn't help but ask: "However, sir, you spent so much effort, is it just to help us simply?"

"Hehehe, if I say yes, I'm afraid you won't believe it either," Ge Xuan laughed unnaturally. "Then I also admit that I have my gains, and that is these powers of fate."

"But what do you want the power of fate for?"

"I want to build a Heavenly Dao. Perhaps you don't understand it either, but since you are here, I will talk about it a little bit. Harry, do you remember last year you asked me what kind of system can best help us realize an ideal society? And this Heavenly Dao is the answer I got after a century of exploration."

"I still remember, that was the end of the Wanli era, I accidentally awakened my spiritual roots and stepped on the path of immortality..."

The four little British wizards born and raised were at a loss at this moment, their eyes full of big doubts.

Ge Xuan coughed and changed the way of saying it.

"I was detected to have magical talent when I was eleven and entered a magic school in the East to study."

In the curious eyes of the children, the old man also unconsciously raised the interest in telling stories. His eyes revealed a look of nostalgia, and he told it in a slow tone.

"When I graduated, although the magic world was still peaceful, the Muggle world in the East had fallen into chaos at that time. There were rebel armies everywhere, and there were barbarians in the north eyeing the Central Plains. I spent some time hesitating, and finally, I decided to ignore the persuasion of my friends in the magic world and go to the Muggle world to help them. It was also at that time that I realized the existence of Death for the first time because of this act of despising the Statute of Secrecy."

"At that time... no, let's talk about this later. In short, after a series of ups and downs of adventure, I successfully helped the Muggle emperor at that time stabilize the situation. The barbarians were repelled, and the rebel armies in various places also surrendered one after another, and the country entered the right track. At the same time, I also used the reputation of the Muggle world to arrange a large-scale ritual magic to obtain powerful power to fight against Death."

"But this is not without a price. What I used was the power of national destiny, so once the country perishes or changes dynasties, I will not only lose my power but also age and die quickly. Therefore, for these two hundred years, I have been maintaining the stability of this feudal imperial country and trying different systems little by little."

"At first, I helped the Muggle emperor maintain the rule of the empire. At that time, I was still relatively naive to think that even if the feudal system was still adopted, as long as the economy and society continued to develop and people's lives were improved, then the feudal system had no absolute disadvantages. But soon, the disadvantages of the feudal system were exposed one by one. Although the emperor was wise and I also reformed the official and financial systems for him, we finally failed to handle the increasingly serious land annexation. Forced by necessity, we could only start to try to promote the reform of land nationalization and transfer the economic center of gravity. At that time, the Industrial Revolution had not yet begun, and industrial transformation could only be explored by ourselves, and the craftsman registration system seriously hindered scientific and technological development, and the clan problem was imminent, so..."

Xuanjun's English was not very good, especially for some unique concepts in the East, he translated them completely randomly, which led to the look of confusion and incomprehension appearing on the faces of several listeners again.

"Cough, cough, in short, I planned to deal with the problem of royal expenses at that time, so I started the first institutional exploration and reform, which is to adopt the constitutional monarchy and multi-party system that everyone is familiar with, just as you have the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, there were also the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party in the East at that time. With their help, I completed the pruning of the redundant royal side branches, greatly reduced royal expenses, and saved a full quarter of money for the national treasury."

Harry nodded subconsciously, agreeing: "That's very powerful."

"Sigh, that just shows that the problem at that time was already very serious," Ge Xuan sighed. "You might not be able to experience it, but I must remind you that the multi-party system is not a panacea. In the decades of party strife, they went too far, not only causing political instability but also the discontinuity of local development policies, the mutual tilting of interest groups, various political contributions and collusion between officials and businessmen, etc., and I had to make up my mind to rectify the multi-party system."

"Thinking about it, I can only take back power, strengthen the prime minister's power through imperial power, and incorporate the representatives of all parties into the cabinet. I also endured a great turmoil, and finally formed an oligarchy similar to the parliament. The core figures of the original parties entered the cabinet to discuss affairs, but they still didn't speak for the people, only for the interest groups behind them."

"After reaching that point, I realized that the root of all problems is that people have their own selfishness. Compared with the good or bad of the country, they tend to prioritize personal interests. Helplessly, I must think about under what circumstances a person can put the country before himself. But that is impossible. The only exception is myself. At that time, I had lived past the natural lifespan of a wizard, and national destiny had become the only way for me to continue to maintain my life and magic."

"So I completely changed the original cabinet chief assistant to a prime minister, greatly strengthened the power of the central government, and changed my name and appearance to personally serve as the leader of the country. That period was indeed a rare period of high-speed development. Almost all social welfare policies, including basic education, medical security, pensions, etc., were implemented nationwide during that period. And by reforming the tax system step by step, I imposed great restrictions on local interest groups in a way of boiling frogs in warm water, and finally cleared away dark forces through the improvement of the rule of law. The little emperor who partnered with me was therefore called the emperor of the revival."

When it came to this, Luo En suddenly raised his hand to ask: "What does changing name and appearance mean?"

"I don't want to expose the fact that I have lived for a long time, so I fabricated a new identity," Ge Xuan shrugged and continued to tell his later things. "After one or two generations like this, I have almost identified a fact, that is, if there is a sufficiently selfless and smart leader, carrying out autocratic rule with him as the center is instead the best political system, which is the system of the holy emperor, or you can understand it as 'Philosopher King'."

"In the history of the East, which often adopts the autocratic system, there is no lack of several selfless and smart leaders. They each created a glorious moment for a generation or enough to pass on for several generations, but as mortals will eventually die, the glorious moment cannot last forever, and sometimes it doesn't even wait for the next generation, showing a decline in the old age of the holy emperor. But I am different. I have obtained almost permanent life through the ritual of defeating Death that year, so theoretically, I can always serve as this Philosopher King."

"But there are two disadvantages. One is that I gradually began to get tired of this work, always hoping that I could find one or more smart people to govern for me, so as to give myself some rest time; the second is that even if our high-level, and even middle-to-high-level can present a clear and prosperous situation, the corruption at the grassroots level still cannot be eradicated. Many officials in local areas also change from time to time. The central government can only treat the head when the head hurts and treat the foot when the foot hurts like a firefighter. How to solve such a problem, I have been deeply confused about it before."

"And these powers of fate are the solution I thought of. I intend to build a huge system that can monitor the whole country like Death, understand the resource reserves, personnel situation, and public sentiment in various places. If the central government can understand the national situation through an absolutely fair channel at any time, and can efficiently transmit government orders to the grassroots when encountering special situations, then this is undoubtedly a huge strengthening for the rule of the Philosopher King."

"So, my plan to plot the power of fate is also based on my starting point of being for the country and the people, after trying various political systems and hitting a wall, I made a new attempt by chance, and it is not for any evil private purpose." ===== CHAPTER 462 =====