I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Why only nobles? That's because only nobles can make Ardashir merciful. People from other classes who expressed different opinions have already become fertilizer at this time, so how can they be qualified to appear in front of him.

But Dennis and others are different. They are generally the second sons or relatives of the major nobles in the empire. They have no title to inherit, so naturally they have to join the army and fight for themselves.

However, some of them are gold-plated.

Just like Denis, and like Medea before him, he is also the first heir of a border marquisate, and he is more idealistic in being loyal to the emperor and serving the country.

It’s just that the means of war in reality are far from what he imagined.

They followed the empire in invading Surya, where they came into contact with all kinds of new things, new weapons, and new ideas.

Bustling streets, a wide variety of goods, and passers-by whose social status cannot be determined by their clothing.

Even the nobles of Surya were quite different from them. They were all used to living in such a class-blurred environment.

It turns out that if people are allowed to speak, the sky won’t fall.

When Dennis was a child, he was learning horse riding, archery, driving a mecha, learning magic and martial arts, and exercising his body to wear exquisite heavy armor.

The muskets in the distance began to gradually come into view. At that time, he was still laughing at the ordinary people's arrogance. The time it took for the other party to fire a shot was enough for him to chop off the other party's head five or six times.

When they set out to attack Surya, they still hoped to give these Surya people who were bewitched by new ideas a little shock to the empire. However, the more time went on, the more they found that they seemed to be educated instead.

Not only from the enemy, but also from one's own comrades.

Those ordinary people who were transformed from cannon fodder servants equivalent to slaves into musketeers who could influence the war situation after the popularization of muskets were no less patriotic and had the ideal of sacrificing their lives for the country than them.

Many noble lords were the first to run away when they heard the enemy was coming, but the line infantry phalanx composed of most ordinary people still maintained the required discipline and combat effectiveness, more like nobles fighting for their motherland.

Perhaps their abilities are limited and their lives are very fragile, but they are comrades-in-arms who share life and death on the battlefield, and this friendship has transcended the constraints imposed on them by class.

With the intervention of the Alliance, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse. The large-scale application of artillery and machine guns and the appearance of new tanks at the end of the horizon gave them a great shock.

Most of the things they learned since childhood are of no use now. Their machines were destroyed by artillery fire from afar before they even touched the enemy.

Their lances and their proud riding skills seemed ridiculous in front of the 20-30 ton tanks. Although they still had magic, magic had lost its dominant position just like them.

When they see the strength of the alliance, they will naturally want to find out the source of the alliance's strength. Their countries should be the same, or they should be stronger than the alliance.

The source of the alliance's strength is the miracle created by ordinary people. Their country has no shortage of population or resources, and they also have their own cultural confidence.

If Surya's trip only planted a small seed in their hearts, compared with the alliance that advocates equality, justice and fraternity, the ignorance, backwardness, corruption and rigidity of their own country made them feel ashamed and sad.

The only thing they still have to be proud of is their former chivalrous etiquette and virtues, and this is also the last thing they can never give up.

After returning home, Dennis held various banquets to invite friends who had participated in the Surya War. He had a very bold idea that he wanted to share with these friends. Of course, the prerequisite was that under his guidance they could give him the answers he wanted.

His idea was very simple, which was to start an uprising and a coup to save the country!

However, unlike the riots that are now spreading everywhere, Denis's idea of ​​a coup is to let the emperor make concessions to them and hand over some power so that they can promote reforms in the Britian Empire.

Only by following the will of the people and actively carrying out reforms can the frequent riots within the empire be quelled, which is far more effective than bloody suppression.

As for how the emperor should deal with her, he just needs to treat her like the queen of the alliance, and the two sides can coexist.

As for why they only look for aristocratic friends, the main reason is an unavoidable issue, that is, they themselves are aristocrats.

They want to reform but do not want to affect their family and friends. If they incite the people to revolt, it is very likely that things will get completely out of control. In this case, the alliance nobles hanging on the street lamps will be the future of their family.

Therefore, this reform must have a red line, that is, it can only be done by these people ourselves, the army and the nobility, not civilians.

As a result, just as Dennis had gathered a few friends to form a makeshift team, the rules and regulations he came up with appeared on the emperor's desk that night. Not only did he get a copy, but he also got the list of all the participating noble children.

emperor:"......"

Chapter 312: National Salvation Alliance

Emperor Babak I looked at the name in the secret letter, his slightly turbid eyes showing a very complicated expression.

These people are either the sons of local lords or the sons of the empire's key ministers. This power is the foundation of his rule over the country. These young family heirs are also the core team of the future new emperor of the empire.

Moreover, most of them are royal relatives and have close ties with the royal family, otherwise their elders would not have been able to enter the core power center of the empire.

When Babak I was young, the Kingdom of Britian was on the verge of collapse. The power of the local lords was extremely strong, and they were almost able to break away from Britian and work on their own.

The heirs to the throne, supported by different lords, were in a mess. It was not so much that the princes were fighting for the throne, but rather that the great lords behind them were competing to support their puppets to take the throne.

Babak, who was serving in the army at that time, made friends with a group of noble children.

There is no shortage of patriotic young people in every era. For a country to exist, there must be a group of people in some corner working hard to protect it.

They reached a consensus during the discussion that they must have a strong country to rely on no matter what. Otherwise, even if they are local tyrants, they will inevitably become prey to other countries after the decline of their country.

In this case, handing over the military power of various places and adopting a unified military system will allow Brittian to have the strength to expand outward and ease the conflicts in various places through external expansion.

This does not prevent them from continuing to have absolute voice in the local area, and in fact they have not lost anything.

They helped each other gain the upper hand in the family feud, and later with the help of this group of friends, Babak successfully ascended the throne.

With their joint efforts, Britian completed the first reform of military centralization. Local lords and nobles were no longer qualified to command armed forces and train private soldiers on a large scale, and all military power was transferred to the emperor.

Citizens who meet the age requirements must participate in military training, enlist directly when the country needs them, obey orders during wartime, and farm in their spare time.

In addition, there is a professional army directly under the central government of the kingdom, which specializes in training and combat, and its armed forces are directly supported by the kingdom's finances.

Ordinary soldiers who are part of the local military and part of the farming community are used to maintain local public security, while the main elite troops are the kingdom's troops directly under the central government.

It was basically an easy task for a professional army with years of training and excellent armor and weapons to bully the private armed forces of local nobles, which naturally formed a governance model that relied on a strong army to drive and control local lords.

As more power is taken back and becomes more concentrated, the number of professional armies that can be supported will become larger and their combat effectiveness will become stronger.

This gave Babak I an advantage in the early days of foreign expansion, and almost no enemy lord could withstand the iron hoof of the Britian army.

It also allowed Brittian to change his previous weakness, successfully counterattack in a few decades, and complete the magnificent transformation from kingdom to empire.

The group of noble children who had been with Babak voluntarily gave up their absolute power over the finances of the local lords, allowing Brittian to reach the peak while also successfully completing their own transformation.

They occupied major general positions in both local garrisons and the elite regular army of the central government. The two sides were intermarried and their families were completely integrated into the empire.

It was their fathers who found a way to put Babak on the throne, but Babak did not expect that their next generation would also want to influence the change of imperial power.

The silly and crude methods used by these young boys were equivalent to shouting loudly in an open square. The family elders didn't know that it was absolutely impossible, but they let them go on. Obviously they had some other considerations.

Babak I certainly felt angry and dissatisfied, but when it came to really trying to do something about it, he didn't know where to start, and he himself was conflicted deep down.

Not only is there uncertainty about the future of the empire, but there is also uncertainty about the choice of successor.

The strength of the alliance made him feel breathless. The riots in various parts of the empire caused by the broken things used by Ardashir had a tendency to shake the foundation of Brittian's rule, which made him very dissatisfied with his son's short-sightedness.

Although these boys have a lot of messy ideas in their heads, their loyalty to the empire and him is unquestionable. He has watched many of these kids grow up since they were young, and their admiration and fanaticism cannot be faked.

Given his age, it is basically impossible for him to have anything to do with any real reforms. That is a test for his successor.

Babak can only comfort himself in this way. Their birth determines their buttocks, but sometimes the buttocks will also appear on the neck~

Denis' plan was simple, which was to organize a national salvation alliance and find a way to change the monarchy into a constitutional system, where the imperial power would no longer be above everything else, but would govern the country strictly in accordance with the constitution.

Adhere to the three core concepts of equality, fraternity and justice, abolish the slavery law, eliminate racial barriers, and rebuild the empire's legal and just system.

If these three points can be achieved, then the empire will naturally burst into new vitality.

They also don't want to do anything to the current Babak I. Having grown up under the glory of Babak I, they naturally won't have any hostility towards Babak I.

In front of Babak they are the most loyal royal guards.

But the empire had reached a precarious point and had to seek change, so they set their sights on the next new emperor. Before this, they were united around Ardashir, but now they had new ideas.

Previously, the most likely successor was Ardashir, who was not fond of studying but was very passionate about military affairs. While serving in the army, he had demonstrated his coldness and rationality more than once.

Noble children from military aristocratic families will naturally prefer such leaders. In a sense, the preferences of the heir to the throne also represent the country's inclinations after he succeeds to the throne in the future.

The second prince, Vologases, usually handled government affairs diligently in his territory. When the wave of industrialization was in full swing, he had already purchased a large number of primitive steam engines for production in the territory. He also carried out certain reforms in order to maximize the efficiency of the machines. It can be seen that his thinking was relatively open-minded.

If they felt that the Britian Empire was at its peak of growth, it needed a strong emperor who could expand the territory and give them the opportunity to achieve success.

After the rebellions and riots in various places and the repeated beatings of failures in external wars, they still feel that a reformist emperor who can stabilize social order and ensure that the empire completes its reforms is more appropriate.

Not to mention the distant past, as one of their old rivals who had always been suppressed by them, the Roshek Dynasty, they were very familiar with it, but they were very unfamiliar with the new Ernesto regime, and at the beginning they only had some superficial contempt for it.

Chapter 313: Sea Strike

The fact that the coalition forces that later restored the Tsar were once unstoppable in the early stages of the war further deepened their stereotypes. Even if these serfs stole state power, they were still not allowed to be in the limelight.

But as the war continued to deepen, Ernesto's burst of fighting power in the later period that pushed back the coalition forces made them feel a strong sense of crisis.

The endless sea of ​​people, the seemingly constant morale, and the increasing number of fighter planes and artillery.

It is impossible to explain by miracles that a ruined country with a population of only tens of millions, which has just experienced a brutal war and cannot even solve the problem of food and clothing, can burst out with such combat power.

As for them, the country could not bear the pressure just when they were about to go to the battlefield in reserve. Which aristocratic officer who was well-versed in military books and received a good education would not doubt his life after seeing this?

The military nobles of various countries in the coalition were all thinking about the source of Ernesto's combat effectiveness. They could not accept most of Ernesto's ideas, but some of them could be used as reference, so they also thought about reform.

And Dennis was just bringing the vague ideas in their minds to the surface.

If we go by the old days of the civil and military factions, there is no doubt that the entire military aristocracy would prefer to let Ardashir, who has military experience, ascend to the throne.

Even if such an emperor does not further increase the allocation of resources to the military after taking office, he will most likely not cut resources too much because he has sufficient awareness of the importance of the army. As they hold military power, they will not suffer much loss of interests.

If the emperor wants to expand his territory, their power will expand rapidly and the family will begin to reach a new peak.

As long as there is war, there will be a need for generals. These children of military nobles can always get a good position with their multiple identities and win honor for themselves and their families on the battlefield.

It can be said that the exclusivity and aggressiveness shown by Ardashir naturally won the favor of the military nobles.

However, after the Alliance's industrialized steel torrent appeared on the battlefield, they saw a new path.

Reforms will release the population and promote industrialization, and will not cause much loss or negative impact to them, because industry provides a very good foundation for the large-scale expansion of the army.

If the alliance develops like that, the demand for military talents in the Brittian Empire after the reform will only become stronger and stronger, and the proportion will become higher and higher.

In this regard, these families have a natural advantage. In the reformed constitution, their power and status will not be diluted much.

The most important point is that the calls for change from the people in various countries have become a trend, and change is basically inevitable. It is far better for them to lead the reform themselves than for others to lead the reform one day.

This is also the reason why no one intervenes to control young officers like Dennis even though they stumble and leak information everywhere.

This in itself was a kind of tacit approval, or it could be said that they were being used to test the emperor's attitude.

If nothing happened, they would continue to make trouble. If the emperor was furious, the severity of the situation and the intensity of the punishment and aftermath would be controlled within a range that everyone could accept.

The sacrifice of some children is bearable for every family.

The reason why Babak tolerated it was even simpler. First, the outrageous actions of these noble children were all carried out under his nose. Instead of blindly eradicating them, it would be better to see what they were thinking and keep the situation under control.