Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1435 Prussian Skylight
Hans sat down in his seat.

At first he was like a runaway kid who occasionally came home to show off his power. But now his father has put him on the throne.

Instead, he didn't know what to do.

[Hmm, you're back? ]

Shangluo had just gone to the toilet. When he came back, the surveillance footage had already reached the end.

"He completed the task?" Although Shangluo did not see the whole process just now, Apollonia sent him good news.

[Yes. He has already got the dragon-headed stick. The Germanic people used something like a scepter to transfer power. The pharaohs of Egypt and the kings of Mesopotamia also used something like a scepter to represent power, sometimes called a scepter. But here, this scepter can also be used as a seal.]

In the picture, Hans has informally received the king's scepter in front of everyone - it is informal because there is no ceremony in this process. However, the handover of the scepter itself can actually complete the transfer of power.

"Prussia has a bureaucratic system. Once the seal is handed over, it is done. However, he is indeed my son. He handed it over as soon as I said so."

[Why does this remind me of Cao Cao? By the way, if Cao Cao's last name was Liu and he was a relative of the Han Dynasty, how would the story develop? ]

"Hmm," Shangluo thought for a while, "there are no ifs in history. If Cao Cao was a relative of the Han Dynasty, he probably wouldn't have been able to get the resources to start his career. But if he really was, you can look at Cao Cao's early years. Cao Cao was a romantic man, and he wanted to be the general of the Han Dynasty's Western Expedition in his early years. But he lacked a primitive sense of security - this primitive sense of security was the surname Liu. He was different from Liu Bei. With the surname Cao, he could never reach a final reconciliation with the court, because no matter how he struggled, he would always be an outsider, and sooner or later he and the Liu family would break off completely, just like a person who knows that he will die. Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei has much more sense of security than Cao Cao."

【By the way, why is this? 】

"In fact, I just discovered it recently. Tell me, what do other people want from following you? Not just for wealth and honor in this life, but also for wealth and honor for thousands of generations. Imagine if Cao Cao really had no intention of usurping the throne, how could he maintain his hegemony? Why did all the civil and military officials have to be loyal to him instead of directly to the court? So Cao Cao had to do something. Even if he didn't do it himself, he would act as if his son would 'do something' in the future. Otherwise, he would not be able to gather his own hegemony. Otherwise, after following you for a lifetime, if you gave up and returned the government to you, wouldn't that be a betrayal to your old brother?"

[Indeed. This is why Zhao Kuangyin was crowned with a yellow robe. The time has come. If you do nothing, someone will do something for you. But then again, what have you discovered recently?]

"I found that I am not restricted by this rule. Because now no one will die, you understand? Many of these political ethics in the past were based on 'everyone must die'. Because people will die, there must be a generation. And the power center must be transferred when the generation is passed on. But here, people don't have to die, and power doesn't need to be passed on.

"That means I don't need to make promises about the future, I can just share the present with everyone. No one needs to urge me to 'do something' for their descendants, because the present is the future and the present is eternity. They can now take care of their own descendants, and they don't need my descendants to take care of their descendants."

[Ah! So that's what you were thinking about? You've really considered rebelling, right?]

"Who can help but want to do this? If you stand on a tall building, wouldn't you also want to jump down? That's the reason. Although I haven't thought about doing it, in order to prevent myself from being crowned with a yellow robe, I have to think about this process. After thinking about it, I found that there is nothing to worry about."

Before this, Shangluo had indeed thought about how to deal with the relationship between him and Zhu Xianxun in the future.

Because recently, Shangluo has not only been working on the mysterious side, but has really started to interfere in the affairs of the world. He has more and more military forces in his hands, and now he has a Lianshan ship that can suppress the conventional forces of the entire world.

This level of power cannot be maintained by trust alone - although he and Zhu Xianxin do have a good relationship, it is precisely in order to maintain this good relationship that he needs to avoid unnecessary suspicion.

But now I think that this is not necessary. Because when everyone is immortal, everyone can take a long-term view. The decisions that used to require saints to make can now be made by ordinary people.

Although it is unknown whether Cao Cao's hegemony problem can be solved, if Zhu Biao had not died, then Emperor Taizu Gao would obviously have no need to kill meritorious officials. Because the meritorious officials were originally on the side of the prince, and the prince himself was the common denominator between several meritorious officials factions, the common denominator between the nobles and the princes, and the common denominator between the emperor and the court officials. If Zhu Biao had not died, many tragedies that followed would not have happened. Because Emperor Taizu Gao knew that he would die one day, and after his death, Zhu Yunwen would not be able to suppress those princes and meritorious officials.

Fear comes from the unknown. But if you don't die, nothing in the future is unknown, because everything that happens will eventually be fulfilled before your eyes.

As a result, many decisions that were previously only made by true saints can now be made by ordinary people. This is indeed a blessing.

Shangluo is not a saint. Neither are the people around him. If immortality cannot be achieved, then sooner or later he will have to face the choice of wearing a yellow robe. He doesn't even want to think about that kind of occasion. Because destroying beautiful things in front of people is a complete tragedy.

And now, everything is just right, just like two mortise and tenon joints that fit together perfectly.

He and Zhu Xianxi will be close in the foreseeable future, because there is no conflict between the two, and there is no difference between working for him and working for Zhu Xianxi. Because neither of them has any personal interests, their greatest hobby is to do the greatest good in the world: bringing everyone to a higher level, which is indeed a great good. Even the saints of the three ancient dynasties may not be able to compare with this unprecedented achievement.

After all, this is not a literal virtue, this is true salvation. Even if the saints of the three ancient dynasties were present, they would praise it together.

[The story of the Red Emperor and the White Emperor may be recorded like the story of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. As long as you can succeed.]

This was a small script that Daozu had leaked earlier, and it was also his arrangement for Shangluo and Zhu Xianxun. Under Daozu's arrangement, Shangluo and Zhu Xianxun would rule the Heavenly Court as the White Emperor and the Red Emperor. Among them, the White Emperor would lay the foundation of the Heavenly Court with his achievements in killing and conquering. And the Red Emperor would establish achievements comparable to Shennong to save the world.

The two of them have almost completed half of this journey. Shangluo is trying to kill, and Zhu Xianxun has been working hard on the road of merit. If the war in Shangluo is fruitful and his refining is successful, then the Heavenly Court will be established here.

[By the way, he always urges you to get along well with Zhu Ling. Is he also trying to build your 'ultimate sense of security'? ]

"Maybe. So I can't refuse and can only let it go. What bothers me about this matter is Zhu Ling's attitude. Her attitude towards me is really unpredictable and hard to guard against."

[Your attitude is unpredictable to me, and I can't defend myself. Well, I don't think you and her can get along without 100 years of struggle. After all, you are both immortal now, so you can slowly build up the relationship. It's great to be an immortal.] "However, even immortals have limitations. For example, I'm too lazy to invest too much energy in the things here. They were able to properly resolve the matter between father and son, which saved me a lot of trouble."

Although for Shangluo, this ultimate uneasiness has been far away from everyone around him, but for these Germans, these short-lived species have not yet gotten rid of this distress.

The succession and continuation of power was extremely important to them. If the person chosen by Shangluo was not their prince, then this matter would not be so easy to resolve.

[So, can we withdraw? ]

"I originally wanted to use coercion to complete the whole thing in the end. Now it seems that there is no need for this, as they have resolved most of the conflicts themselves. Well, my final coercive measure was actually to demonstrate the 'Rod of God' to them."

Although the "Rod of God" that Shangluo knew, the idea of ​​dropping a tungsten alloy rod from space to the ground has been proven to be false - because a group of people really did drop one, and it only created a 9.4-meter-wide and 2.4-meter-deep crater, which was no better than a rocket exploding directly on the launch pad.

However, the "Rod of God" that Shangluo lost is genuine and has the power of the Creator.

They used mass accelerators and the three laws of magic to throw the alloy scepters, and three triple-mounted salvos were fired at the same time. Each impact could create a devastating impact on the ground, and a salvo hit could directly physically change the local terrain.

The earth's crust is a thin layer of rock with an average thickness of 17 kilometers. Under the power of this creation, even blasting the crust is not a problem. At least the mathematical calculations support this result. However, if you really want to blast through the crust, you need to hit the same point with all three triple-mounted missiles, and you also need to find a place where the crust is slightly thinner.

Because the thickness of the continental crust is not 17 kilometers, but 33 kilometers, which is quite thick. However, there are some weak spots in the crust around it that can be used to create this man-made wonder.

If they really intend to resist, Shangluo will really lose once.

“Hmm,” Shangluo thought for a moment, “But just because they don’t resist doesn’t mean I can’t lose once.”

[Still throwing! You have a nail in your hand, so everyone looks like a piece of wood, right?]

"Since we are here, how can we know the effect without testing it? Let's pick a place. I will send a letter to him. It's not that I want to hit them on purpose, but it's really unreasonable not to hit them after all the preparations have been made. If I don't hit them, how can they believe that I have the power to destroy them directly?"

"Wait a minute! Father!"

As he was about to leave the throne room, the king looked back at Hans.

"Zhendan. Zhendan sent a letter! They said they want to show us the Rod of God!"

"What Rod of God?"

"they said"

The next morning.

"Nice to meet you, Your Excellency Chieftain." Shang Luo nodded to the King of Prussia. "I called you here to tell you the good news. Since you have agreed to be selected for the Einherjar program, I must show you Ragnark."

Einherjar and Ragnarok are both native myths of North Germanic people like them.

The Romans recorded this story as follows: "They carried black shields and painted bodies, chose the dark of night to fight, and the terrifying means and shadows of the ghostly army would cause panic, for no enemy could endure such an unexpected and hellish sight."

This actually originated from a Germanic tribe called the Harii that the Romans encountered, who were good at night combat.

The deified Herjar is the Einherjar.

Einherjar, transliterated as Enheriya, literally means "lonely army". Because in mythology, the Einherjar will be the last army in the world. They will follow the God King into the battlefield of Ragnarok, and then fall with the gods. In the end, they will fight alone until they witness the end of the world.

As for what happened later, the myth stops here. There are no stories about them in the New World, because the stories of the Romans covered them. The story of Ragnarok was not completed by the northern bards, and the end of the world is still going on, just like the story of Zeus, the king of gods in Greek mythology, also stopped at his generation.

But now, the employees of the Night Service will once again live out the ancient legends, for now they will actually fight at night, and will be more shadowy than the armies of the Wild Hunt, and more terrible than elves.

In order to ensure the establishment of the Night Shift Bureau, Shangluo decided to show them what would happen to the rebels.

"My promise to you is the same as that of the God King Odin." Shang Luo said, "I will recruit warriors from among you. I will send my Valkyries to recruit them and grant them immortality in battle. As long as they keep fighting, they can maintain their immortality. However, since we are talking about Odin, I have to show you the omen of Ragnarok."

"What you are going to show, Your Excellency, is the Staff of the Creator?" This was the name the King of Prussia heard yesterday.

"Maybe there is something wrong with the translation. I am not talking about the Rod of God, but the Rod of Demeure - the Rod of the Creator. You should know this name. This is the name given to the Creator by the Gnostics. They doubted the kindness of the Creator and believed that the real God was not the true God who created this world. This world is just a cage of the Creator. So here in the Roman Empire, this weapon is named 'Rod of the Creator'. It is not kind, it belongs to the great power of the Creator. It will not bring salvation, but only destruction."

(End of this chapter)