I walk in the past, continue the future

Chapter 11 Kidd
Not only these people, Xia Lian was also a little bit surprised, at least, in the past 20 years of his life and the freshmen in the past 18 years have not experienced systematic swordsmanship training.

But all movements are so natural, like a battle-hardened warrior.

But soon, he reacted, Athena's gift gave him the unparalleled martial arts and wisdom in the world. The combination of the two allowed him to defeat enemies faster and stronger than himself to a certain extent.

There was only a moment of silence, and the leader seemed to realize something and shouted.

"He's a stand-in! Retreat! This is a trap!! This is a trap!!"

After shouting, those people's reaction speed was also very fast, and they quickly retreated towards the darkness, while the rest of the guards did not pursue Xia Lian's safety deeply.

"Heli Oss?"

Xia Lian pondered the name, and memories of the past gradually emerged in his mind.

Charien Helios, this is the name of his life.

As the group said, he was the only son of the Archduke Helios, and he belonged to the kingdom of Kidd, which exercised the monarchy.

The Kiddor Empire has more than 20 member stars in the Milky Way, and colonies, protected territories, and local governments of more than 30 planets. It is one of the main regimes of mankind in this era.

The Helios family is one of the founding exploits of this empire, but the family members are not surnamed Helios, but Xia.

Helios is a title given to a family by the empire, like a kind of honor, a symbol of status and status.

This should be a way of naming this era.

This is not surprising. The naming method of each era is different. In the Qin Dynasty, the surname was separated from the surname.

Helios is the ancient Greek word for "λιο", the name of the sun god in ancient Greek mythology.

The original meaning is the sun, derived from the Proto-Indo-European *sóhwl, which is homologous to the Latin sol, Sanskrit, Old English swegl, Germanic sunna, and Welsh haul, all of which mean sun. .

Because of the omnic's cultural purge, this era is a cultural desert.

The more people lack something, the more they like to show something, which is also the source of this title.

Given this name, I hope that Xia Lian's family will be like the sun, shining on the empire and dispelling all darkness and injustice.

As Alaya said, Hera's gift did affect his reincarnation.

In Xia Lian's memory, the grand dukes of the empire possessed a vast territory, and each grand duke's principality was autonomous and possessed a high degree of autonomy, which was merely a political unity.

If Xia Lian inherits the title in the future, the territory he will acquire will be tens of thousands of times that of the country with the most extensive territory on earth.

Of course, this is under the condition that he can inherit the title normally.

The explosion just now and those who wanted to kill him foreshadowed an abnormal situation.

Six months ago, the emperor of the Kidor Empire ordered that the Helios family exchange a territory with the Bahram family, who were also the grand dukes, on the grounds that the Helios family had better researchers. Cang Star".

That is not a planet suitable for living, 90.00% of the planet's surface is covered by sea water, but it has a very special mineral - Bach crystal.

Whether it is starship guns emitting particle beams, Helios force fields, or particle vibration knives, this crystal is required, and it is a vital material in the military industry.

It brings as much as 4000 billion in benefits to the Bahram family every year!

Although the planet replaced by the Xia Lian family is also a resource planet, it is obviously not comparable to this planet.

The Helios family had a feud with the Bahram family, and this incident became the key flame that ignited the fuse.

Three hours ago, Cang Xing was raided by the Bahram family's fleet.

Unfortunately, Xia Lian and his father are both on this planet. According to the established rules, as rulers, after acquiring new territories, they must come to inspect and speak in front of the people of this planet.

Half an hour ago, Xia Lian's father was assassinated by the renegade guards.

Cang Xing was far away from the true main force of the Bahram family, and Xia Lian's father obviously did not notice that the other party would suddenly appear in the sky above this planet.

There is obviously the shadow of the empire behind this. They have lent the Bahram family the wormhole that is solely controlled by the royal family and can be teleported over long distances.

The emperor and the enfeoffed aristocrats were easily in a state of confrontation, because the latter possessed resources and private soldiers, and it was too easy to influence the imperial power.

Obviously, this is a trick to drive away tigers and devour wolves.

[I can understand the emergence of aristocratic families, but why did the monarchy appear after more than 100 centuries. 】Xia Lian couldn't help complaining in his heart, 【Is it okay to see things like cutting pans and civil strife in the future, or is it that Hera's gift is so powerful? 】

After thinking about it, a strange and familiar memory suddenly appeared in his mind. He seemed to have asked similar questions in this life, and at that time, the person he asked gave him a very clear answer.

The words still seemed to echo in his ears
"There is no backward system, only the most suitable system.

The monarchy. Or the reason why the centralized system existed in ancient times was because of the limited means of communication and transportation at that time. It may take several months or even half a year to transmit information from the north to the south.

If democracy was exercised in that era, it would take years or even a dozen years just to collect votes, and the efficiency of exercising decrees would be extremely low.

In ancient times, when a natural disaster could produce a famine under productivity, this inefficiency was almost fatal.

Only the efficient regime of centralization was best suited for that era.

In the interstellar era, once human beings colonize hundreds or thousands of planets, at a distance of thousands or even tens of thousands of light-years, the problems of transportation and communication cannot be overcome.

Whether it is superluminal, wormhole or Ansaibo communication.

The gap in the flow of materials and information cannot be completely bridged. The connection between different human colonies will be more similar to the state of the twentieth century or even before the Industrial Revolution, which we know little about, and even whether a unified finance can be formed. Hard to say.

In fact, it is for this reason that many of the human-colonized planets on the edge of the Milky Way remain independent to this day.

Under such conditions, the efficiency of using the democratic system will be as inefficient as in ancient times. Autonomous regions, with only a unified political and military empire, is a more feasible governance model.

For thousands of years, human technology has developed rapidly, but the rule of leading the largest number of people with the least number of people has actually never changed.

The so-called democratic system seems to be elected by the people, but in the end it is still meritocracy.

Elites hold political, economic, and military dominance, control state machinery, formulate rules and regulations, grasp the direction of public opinion, dominate commercial companies, and exercise various privileges.

In the context of partisan competition, elites have always restricted mass political participation to a narrow range, and voters can only vote among those elected by these parties.

For ordinary voters, they are called at the time of the election and lingering after the election, and most of them are just "extras" in the election game.

"The rule of the people" is difficult to reflect in political practice.

The so-called advanced system left to us by our predecessors has made the entire human kingdom extremely bloated.

Democratic procedures are fragmented and lengthy, with a large number of veto points, and individual vetoes can affect system action.

The so-called separation of powers, the presupposition of "mutual checks and balances implying the ability to correct deviations", is increasingly out of shape in practice.

Politicians are ambitious, have no faith, and have no reverence for the people. They have become refined egoists, and they wholeheartedly pursue political capital and opportunities for themselves.

Infighting within the party has become commonplace, while people's livelihood has been neglected.

This phenomenon is especially obvious in the interstellar span. Officials are selfish, cowardly, corrupt and incompetent. Once an accident occurs, they only want to suppress rather than solve it.

Therefore, we simply tore off the pretense of the rule of the people, and took the perspective of pure practicality, trinity, and centralized power.

The advantage of this system is that those in power have unlimited responsibility.

They have no way of retreating like ordinary politicians, or they can blame everyone on another party, because the country is one with it, failure is death, so they must also go all out.

When the Empire was first established, we were united as never before; our allegiance was to one man and one purpose in mind.

Our Sector Governors will no longer just seek to enrich the core world, but will improve the quality of life of the people of every sector and every planetary system.

We ensure the safety of space routes, maintain the smooth and convenient communication, and ensure that tax revenue is properly collected and allocated to the improvement of infrastructure.

Likewise, the members who make up the Council will no longer be focused solely on their own interests, but on the interests of the planet they represent. "

In front of him, there seemed to be the figure of the man who answered his question. He was wearing a double-breasted slim-fitting dress, with a tall and straight body, and his hair was meticulously groomed.

I am much shorter than him, because I was only about 11 years old at that time, and he followed the man's words with a green voice and asked the second question.

"But, father, although the centralized system will indeed be more suitable for the human beings in the interstellar age, it does not mean that the monarchy must be used, right?
There is no guarantee that a hereditary prince will be good enough to lead the empire forward.

Once there are one or two faint kings appearing, then the foundation created by the previous generations of Mingjun's hard work will soon be destroyed. "

"Why hereditary?" the man said.

Xia Lian was stunned for a moment, but then, he seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes widened a little.

"That position has never changed?"

The man turned around and looked into the distance through the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of him. In the depths of his eyes, there were some complex emotions that were difficult to detect.

"Now, you understand, what exactly are we facing?"

That was the first time he saw fear in his father's eyes, and it was also the first time he knew that the emperor of the empire had never changed from beginning to end, an absolute dictator.

The advancement of science and technology allows people to have a longer life, but the longer people live, the more difficult it is to accept new things.

The empire grew older with the emperor's eternal youth, and the political arena was like a pool of stagnant water. Without the injection of fresh blood, it would lose its upward momentum.

In order to maintain his rule and reunite mankind, the emperor has become more violent in recent years.

Perhaps, the reason why my father showed that expression is because this empire has completely deviated from the original intention of the ancestors to create this country.
(End of this chapter)