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Chapter 896: Quel'Thalas Long-Term Goals

Remember [New] in a second! Kael'thas had always been aware of Dar'Khan's rebuilding of private scouts, but he chose to turn a blind eye.

On the one hand, he intends to take this opportunity to show weakness to Darkan, making him think that he is just an immature young king who has relaxed his vigilance towards Darkan after the most dangerous period.

On the other hand, Kael'thas deliberately leaked Sharlayan's identity to Dar'Khan in order to make him feel more apprehensive before taking bold actions.

Darkan is still not sure at the moment, if he takes action against Sharlayan, whether he will offend his dragon mother who sees no dragons, or even... the entire dragon family.

If with so many debuffs, Dar'Khan still intends to go his own way, it means that he has been confused by his obsession with ascending to power, and Kael'thas will no longer covet his ability to govern, and act first Just kill it directly.

It is helpless to say that, at least so far, Kael'thas has not discovered a talent who is more suitable for the prime minister than Darkan in the country.

Today's Quel'Thalas is still a dual system in name, but in fact the center of power has long been concentrated in the hands of the Sun King.

The cabinet ministers only assisted the Sun King in governing, and they were no longer able to stand up to the king as before.

Dar'Khan, the prime minister, has long been unable to cover the sky with one hand. No matter what suggestions he proposes, as long as Kael'thas can find even a little loophole in the plan, he can justifiably veto it with one vote.

After several years of development, hundreds of officials at all levels have been recruited into the cabinet, but in fact there are only a few key ministers who hold the core power.

What frustrates Darkan is that, except for himself, all these powerful elders are Kael'thas' supporters. No matter how he operates, Kael'thas' ruling foundation is still as stable as an old dog.

Recently, Darkan received definite news that the Sun King intends to divide the increasingly bloated cabinet, incorporate elite officials at the core of power into the newly established Senate, and delegate those lower-ranking cabinet members to the House of Representatives.

According to the vision of Kael'thas (actually Sharlayan), the Senate will still hold the core ruling power, and the officials who are eligible to join the Senate are political elites with many years of political experience.

The House of Representatives will be open to the general public of Quel'Thalas, and each noble and lord's jurisdiction will elect noble representatives and civilian representatives to obtain parliamentary seats.

In principle, the seats of noble representatives would fall to the lord, unless the lord himself was unwilling to take the position. This would ensure that the existing foundation of the feudal aristocratic system in Quel'Thalas would not be easily overturned.

But at the same time, the representative seats assigned to the common people will allow Kael'thas to fully listen to the real voices from the common people. The selection requirements and transparency of the common people's representatives will be much higher than those of the formal noble representatives.

In the words of the barrage, these civilian representatives are the real important part of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives convenes all representatives to participate in the discussion meeting every year, which is essentially the People’s Congress mentioned by the barrage.

After taking over the throne from his father, with the full assistance of many confidant ministers, Kael'thas' governing skills became more mature and sophisticated.

The new reform plan drawn up by Kael'thas seems not as sharp as before, and will no longer easily threaten the status of noble lords, but in fact he has never given up his determination to reform the social system.

For Quel'Thalas, which has a population of 20 million, the number of nobles standing at the top of the pyramid is too small, only tens of thousands in total.

It is true that the children of nobles who have received elite education all year round are more likely to give birth to talents.

But from the moment these noble descendants become sensible, they will begin to receive all education that prioritizes family interests, and many of them will even put family interests above national interests.

This kind of person obviously does not meet Kael'thas' selection criteria.

Under Sharlayan's suggestion, Kael'thas boiled frogs in warm water and gradually established enlightenment education for civilians, secondary education that produced a large number of social backbones, and advanced talent education for thousands of troops to cross the single-plank bridge.

In the process of fighting wits and courage with the nobles, Kael'thas learned to compromise and adapt.

The feudal aristocratic system of Quel'Thalas has been maintained for more than 6,800 years, from the founding of Dath'Remar to today.

It is unrealistic to want to abolish the privileges of the aristocracy in one step, after all, the king is essentially a part of the aristocratic system.

Kael'thas really wants to rejuvenate the lazy Quel'Thalas through reforms, but he can't just change his life in a hurry, right?

Wanting to take back military power and hereditary territorial management rights from the noble lords who controlled private soldiers, Kael'thas could only patiently train civilian-born military and civilian officials, allowing them to infiltrate into various noble territories little by little.

Even Sharlayan, who took the lead in setting an example and employing a large number of civilian officials, cannot tell how many years it will take to accomplish this goal.

Fortunately, the lifespan of the high elves is long enough, and Kael'thas has plenty of time to spend time with the nobles.

The Sun King intends to use a hundred years as a yardstick, and looks forward to the birth of a talent who can replace Darkan as the prime minister among ordinary students.

Different from the private education of the nobles for their own children, the colleges at all levels established by the Sun King himself have "brought private goods" into the patriotic education.

Prior to this, commoners had no stable avenues for rising status.

Only a very small number of gifted children can be accepted as apprentices by master mages, and maybe they will have the opportunity to enter the upper class of Quel'Thalas when they grow up.

Kael'thas broke this rule. Although he offended many nobles, he gained incalculable gratitude and loyalty among the common people.

Under the double loyalty and patriotic education at home and school, at least until the privileges of the nobility disappeared, officials from civilian backgrounds would support Kael'thas wildly.

What? No privilege class at all, an era of absolute fairness?

The kind of thing that only exists in the ideal is impossible to realize.

Not to mention the family of civilian officials that will be formed sooner or later, even if they are also civilians, children from rich families will be ahead of children from poor families from birth.

is this fair And who is to blame? The previous generation of poor children's families didn't work hard enough? Lack of talent?

So how can the things brought out of the womb of talent be fair?

The social justice that Sharlayan and Kael'thas want to achieve is relatively fair.

Absolute fairness is basically impossible to exist, and even the world where the barrage is located has never heard of any country that can achieve this level, and it can only be regarded as a lofty ideal that inspires future generations to strive for it.

According to the barrage, their world has only human beings as an intelligent species.

The intelligent creatures in Azeroth are all kinds of strange things, the innate abilities of different races are also very different, and absolute fairness is impossible to talk about.

Just like Darkan, as a high elf, he was born with a longer lifespan than short-lived races.

But he is still not satisfied with this, the ambitious Dar'Khan wants to obtain eternal life and eternal power.

Sharlayan, who has the blood of the dragon, was destined not to be limited by his natural lifespan from birth. His life is the end point of Darkan's lifelong struggle. It's strange that Darkan, who is jealous, doesn't regard Sharlayan as a thorn in his side.

Before Kael'thas carried out this baiting plan, he specifically asked Sharlayan's opinion on this matter.

Sharlayan didn't care about Dar'Khan's jealousy and hostility. He had many things to consider, and most of them were related to the survival of Azeroth.

He really doesn't pay attention to a mere Dar'Khan who is secretly doing things in Quel'Thalas.

Of course, this is not to say that Sharlayan will relax his vigilance against Dar'Khan.

The Sun King has always been watched by people, but if there is any trouble, the Backlight Blade will immediately tell Valeera the relevant information.

Moreover, there are senior officials in the cabinet who have a good relationship with Salayan, such as Li Reza, Calpurnia, Solanlian, and Thalerville~lightnovelpub.net~ Unless Darkan can hide it from them with great powers For everyone, it is more difficult than ascending to heaven to assassinate Sharlayan, who is already a marquis and owns his own territory.

As the first lord who began to promote civilian officials, Sarlayan had an extremely detached position in the minds of his own people.

To put it bluntly, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, the Sun King Kael'thas may not be as good as his own lord in the eyes of the people of the Marquis of Deep Shadow.

Fortunately, Kael'thas and Sarlayan have been close friends for a long time, knowing that he has no interest in power, and only regards power as a tool to achieve the goal of saving the world. Plant a thorn.

Before the closed cabinet meeting ended, Sharlayan received a small task from Kael'thas.

The underwater combat force was too long to read, and Kael'thas asked Sarlayan to follow the Quel'Thalas practice to give this newly formed force a casual legion name.

"The name of the legion?"

Sharlayan pondered thoughtfully for a few seconds: "Underwater warfare...how about calling it the Flood Dragon Legion?"