The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 647 Hidden Dangers of the Empire

Richard lowered his bloodline to the limit that this world could bear, and then separated a trace of power from himself, and the surrounding elemental energy actually began to gather here. Aleiya, who was very sensitive to magical energy, naturally felt this movement.

"This is this"

"This is our child!" Richard said with a smile.

A look of surprise appeared on Alia's face, and when she heard that this was 'our child', she was completely overwhelmed with great surprise.

She knew long ago that it would be difficult for her to have offspring after she knew she was a witch. Her later experiences made this even more true, and even the blessing of reproduction from the gods was ineffective for her.

But just when she was disheartened, she actually had another child, and this child was Richard's, the future king of this country.

The huge surprise made her so excited that she couldn't express it in words, but she recovered quickly. At this time, she also reacted.

Just now, this force was so strong that she had never seen it before. What's more important is that His Majesty actually has such great power. This is simply the power of a god.

"Your Majesty, you..." Aleyya seemed to want to ask something, but when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them back.

Richard had not used this power before, obviously not wanting others to know, so Alea stopped again.

Richard smiled and said nonchalantly: "This is naturally my power."

"It's good for you to know. The world today is no longer the ancient era when humans and gods coexisted. The world does not allow gods to appear in the world anymore, so this child can only be human."

"But I have endowed him with extraordinary abilities. He will surely become a wise ruler in the future."

"And his children will be extraordinary."

Hearing Richard's words, Aleiya's eyes lit up. This child was really the son of God. He was born extraordinary, and everything she thought was true.

"But don't be too happy too soon." Richard said with a smile: "Although the descendants are extraordinary, sometimes being too smart is not a good thing."

Richard has seen too many of these things. In the thousands of years of history of Dongda University, what has not happened? The child is smart, but will the final outcome be good?
Let's not talk about others. Take Gan Luo of the Qin Dynasty. He was appointed as Shangqing at the age of twelve. He was extremely smart. But what was his final fate? He died quietly.

For example, Yang Guang, his talent and intelligence were absolutely extraordinary and his ambitions were lofty, but what did he do in the end?

Emperor Wen of Sui had accumulated wealth over decades, millions of soldiers, mountains of food and fodder, and a strength that was rarely seen in the world. However, such a powerful empire was completely destroyed by him in just over ten years.

His degree of squandering was even greater than that of Qin II Hu Hai, after all, when Hu Hai came to power, the Qin State had already begun to decline. However, Hu Hai's reckless behavior stepped on the accelerator of the Qin State, causing it to fall into the abyss.

Another example is Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, who was described in history books as "intelligent enough to reject remonstrances, and eloquent enough to cover up mistakes." His intelligence, as well as his high political skills, made the officials of the Song Dynasty play with him.
It can be said that he was one of the most powerful emperors in the Northern Song Dynasty since the founding of the Song Dynasty. The only ones with more power than him were probably Emperor Taizu of Song and the God of War on a Donkey Cart.

What did he do? He completely destroyed an empire. Although the Song Dynasty he had just taken over had many problems, it had recovered a lot of national strength after the reforms of Emperor Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty. As a result, he went crazy after he ascended the throne.

Prime Minister Zhang Chun was absolutely right when he said that Prince Duan was frivolous and unfit to be a king.

In the end, the Northern Song Dynasty suffered the Jingkang Incident, and he and his entire family of concubines and princesses were all killed. Later, he even held a naked sheep-leading ceremony.

It can be said that he lost all face, but he was able to survive in Wuguo City for another seven or eight years. He was really thick-skinned.

This man has pushed the emperor to the lowest level, and only Ming Baozong can be compared with him.

Can these people be said to be unintelligent? They are all too smart.

Although Richard left a bloodline inheritance for his descendants, he also drew on the dragon's inheritance ability of the dragon and created a bloodline inheritance.

Some knowledge can be passed down through bloodline as they grow up, but who knows whether future generations will listen?
You know, the dragon heritage carries much more knowledge than his bloodline heritage. But how many dragons can survive to adulthood?
The Supreme Arcane Council also conducted research and statistics on dragons in those days. Among the five colored dragons, the green dragons had the largest number of dragons that could survive to adulthood, while the red dragons and white dragons had the lowest survival rate.

Although white dragons have the lowest survival rate, they give birth to the most babies in a litter of all true dragons, usually eight to ten cubs, and about 30% of them survive to adulthood.

The main reason for this is that there are too many enemies on the ice field that can kill them. Whether they are frost giants or other creatures, they all have the power to kill underage white dragons.

Why is the survival rate of the red dragon, the strongest of the five colored dragons, so low? A big reason is the red dragon's arrogant character.

Red dragons are masters who dare to run out and plunder when they are underage. Doesn't the dragon heritage obtained by these red dragons warn them? Of course there is.

But they have to listen!
The result is that the survival rate of the young red dragons, which is the strongest, is less than 30%.

Richard left behind a bloodline inheritance for his descendants, which contained a lot of knowledge, allowing them to understand many things and know a lot of knowledge from an early age, but it would also make these descendants become arrogant.

One may even have the illusion that one's blood is noble and that one is no longer a human being but a god.

Once this problem occurs, if you really think too highly of yourself, you will be too smart and do a series of stupid things. Richard never doubted it.

But he still left behind these inheritances and bloodline abilities. After these inheritances, he also left various messages of persuasion, but in the end, whether these descendants are willing to listen or not, that depends on themselves.

"Your Majesty, I will educate the child well!" Aleyya nodded heavily.

"Don't force yourself." Richard smiled slightly.

In the following period, he handled state affairs while using various means to help the polytheism grow stronger.

In Italy, because Italy is not very suitable for farming and there are few people willing to farm, the polytheistic Druid faith does not develop quickly here.

You know, even in modern times, with the advent of technologies such as fertilizers and pesticides, Italy's grain production is not enough to supply the entire country.

Every year they import almost more food than they produce themselves.

Moreover, as a province directly under the empire, the people of Italy also had their own dignity. The Romans regarded people from other places as country folk, and the people of Italy also regarded people from other provinces as country folk.

Therefore, there are not many people willing to farm honestly. More people are willing to do business, or go to sea, etc.

This resulted in polytheism having no advantages in Italy.

However, in Gaul and North Africa, polytheism completely overwhelmed monotheism. For this reason, monotheism was also trying to please Richard. For example, monotheism selected a number of girls of noble origin from their devout believers, and after strict screening, these girls were also sent to the palace.

In fact, governors, nobles, polytheists and monotheists from all over the country are constantly sending various beauties here, just to make the women they send pregnant with Richard's child.

Because as long as she is pregnant, there is a high chance that she will become the queen of the empire, and this child will also become the crown prince of the empire, the future emperor of the empire.

This is very important to the nobles, governors, polytheists and monotheists. Especially for polytheists and monotheists, their importance is almost comparable to the future of the sect.

Once a polytheistic emperor ascends the throne, the position of polytheism will become more stable, and there will be almost no chance for polytheism to turn the situation around.

But if a monotheistic child is born, then for the monotheistic religion, this is their chance to return to the top and defeat the polytheistic religion.

Therefore, both polytheism and monotheism attach great importance to this child.

Richard was also very clear about the various intricacies involved. He accepted all women sent from all over the place. As long as they were pretty, they would be taken into his palace.

Then they would arrange a set order for sleeping with the emperor, for example, one, three, and five would be those people, two, four, and six would be those people. Every once in a while, they would come up with some new ideas.

All these things were created by the favorites of Valentinian III.

As the favorites of Valentinian III, these people can all be said to be typical arrogant ministers. They are well versed in various ways of enjoying themselves and can always find ways to please Richard.

But it is of no use to the government.

But Richard still kept these people.

Because it’s so useful.

The ability of these people to serve others is ingrained in their bones. As long as Richard has an idea or a look, these people will immediately help him do it.

Just don't be too considerate.

Richard can enjoy all kinds of eating, drinking and having fun. These people can do it well.

It's no wonder that the foolish emperors in ancient times favored these people because they were too useful and sensible.

How do others compare to them?
Richard didn't need these people to govern the country, so he kept them for his own amusement.

As for governing the court, it was not a difficult task for Richard. He established a cabinet system and then set up various departments under the cabinet to be responsible for specific affairs.

It is divided into several departments, including taxation, agriculture, finance, military, engineering and materials, which is actually equivalent to the three-province and six-department system of the Tang Dynasty.

The three provinces are the cabinet, and the six ministries are these departments.

After Richard's reforms, the number of officials needed by the Roman Empire increased several times. In the past, the number of officials in the Roman Empire was not large, and there were more Senate and nobles.

The management of the empire's affairs is very rough, but when it comes to Richard, he will not continue to be so lax.

He strictly stipulated the administrative system at all levels, which was divided into three levels from top to bottom: province, county and county. Provinces refer to the provinces of Rome.

Richard inherited the Roman provincial system, but made some adjustments to the provincial boundaries, no longer dividing them according to the trends of mountains and rivers.

Instead, they deliberately divided out areas with dangerous terrain, or transferred the original province's gateways and strategic locations to other provinces.

Although this increased administrative costs, it reduced the difficulty of rebellion in various provinces.

At the same time, the powers of governors in various places were divided in detail. Governors no longer had military power, and military power was directly under the jurisdiction of the empire.

The governors of various places only had provincial power. Of course, in order to maintain public order in various places, Richard gave them the right to form guards.

However, guards also have many limitations.

The governor was divided into various levels of officials, and counties on the other side were also divided out.

This administrative system is used by many more people than before. But it is necessary because power does not disappear, it only transfers.

If Richard does not increase the number of officials, his control over the empire will decline, and these local powers will be monopolized by local nobles and local tyrants.

Thousands of years of history have played out these things time and time again, so Richard is naturally aware of them. So he will definitely increase the number of these officials.

If the number of officials is not increased, the local areas will be controlled by nobles or wealthy businessmen.

In the farming era, local people had a weak ability to resist risks. Once any natural disasters or man-made disasters occurred, the nobles and merchants would easily obtain large amounts of land from these people.

And these original self-cultivating farmers would become their tenants. In fact, even if Richard used various systems to restrict them, he could not stop this trend, but could only delay it.

In the thousands of years of history of the University of Tokyo, countless smart and talented people have tried to solve this problem, but they all failed in the end.

This is an inevitable thing in the development of human society.

Richard promoted local official management in an attempt to slow down this trend.

The only way to solve this problem is to wait until modern times when productivity is sufficiently developed. However, although the problem of land annexation can be solved when productivity is sufficiently developed, it will also cause the problem of wealth concentrating in a smaller number of people.

In fact, the problem of land annexation has simply changed into a more covert form.

At the same time, he promoted this administrative system to give those honorary nobles an opportunity to participate in politics. If the number of officials is sufficient, enough talents can be won over.

This is very important for the empire. In this way, the academies he promoted in various places will also develop.

(End of this chapter)