The northwest end of Leif Continent is an azure sea. The San Carlos Empire is here. There are always forty countries, large and small. Just wait for the country.
Forty countries are divided into four strata, four special countries, eight high countries, twelve middle countries, and sixteen low-level countries.
The San Carlos Empire is one of the sixteen low-level countries, and it is still the one in the bottom four. Its territory is only a section along the northwest coast, about 180,000 square kilometers.
Shen Qi measured it with a map of the modern world, and it was about the size of Guangdong Province.
This is a world where magic and force coexist, but it is also a world ruled by religion and aristocracy. The resident races are basically humans, and the elves, dwarves, orcs are all legendary things. Few people have seen the existence of these creatures. Even if there is, in this age without cameras, cameras and mobile phones, no one will believe it.
Religion and aristocracy rule this world. The identities and classes are distinct and cruel. The commoners can only be commoners for almost their entire lives, while the aristocrats continue to maintain the nobles from generation to generation. Unless they have outstanding qualifications and are appreciated by the upper class, even magic Geniuses who are full of affinity, or geniuses who are naturally suitable for martial arts, can only rest.
One identity blocks everything.
Reading and literacy is a privilege only possessed by the nobles and the upper class. The commoners have no chance and will not go to study at all. There is no imperial examination and no examination. It is better for farmers to work hard at home than to study, at least they will not starve to death.
There are no schools in this world for children to study at all. Colleges are only available in the four high-level empires, and only nobles, celebrities and people with status are allowed to enter. In other countries, only the Royal Library, so once there is a talented seedling, All of them flowed into the four high-level empires. Over time, the four high-level empires became more and more powerful, and the other countries became more and more mediocre.
If common people want to read and read, they can either find other common people who can read and give money to study, or go to church and become a formal churchgoer. However, the former needs to pay too much money, and the tuition fee for one year is almost half the income of the whole family. The latter has harsh conditions. , it's not that easy to get the church to accept.
As a result, civilians are becoming more and more ignorant and ignorant, completely obeying the leadership of the upper-level people, and have no sense of resistance at all.
The royal family rules the country, and the holy religion affects the entire continent. The two complement each other, and of course sometimes overcome each other, but for thousands of years, I have not heard anything unpleasant between them.
Of course, this unpleasantness refers to major events such as the subversion or demise of the country. As for trivial matters such as the sudden death of the king and the replacement of people, there is no way to spread it to the outside world, and the king of each country knows a little bit of news, what about the commoners at the bottom? Do not know at all.
These are what Shen Qi has learned on and off for the past month.
This is the shortest time for him to enter the mission. In the past, it was at least two or three years earlier. In the last world, it was even twelve years. This time it was only one month.
Moreover, this time, he has no one.
He is Shen Qi, from appearance to personality to temperament to hobbies, it's just Shen Qi.
The price is that he can only replace the identity of the selected person, but cannot have his memory.
This was chosen by Shen Qi himself. Since he was sure that Jiang Changshen, Lu Zhuo, Zhao Huaiyu and Qin Huan were all alone, he didn't want to pretend any more and use his original face to complete the task.
Anyway, no matter how he assumed the character, the other party would fall in love with him.
Yes, he is so sure. Not only this, but he can almost guess the identity of the other party. He is not stupid. If he likes him and can set up a situation to do such a thing, who else can be except that person.
Although it was a little uncomfortable to be calculated, not to mention that he didn't hate each other at first, and now he is even more moved, and put this unpleasantness aside for the time being, and then talk about it after everything is over.
This time, his identity was a prince. In the last world, Qin Huan was a prince, a crown prince. This time, he became a prince.
Of course, the prince's name is not Shen Qi, nor is his surname Shen, he is called Augusta, but he is ranked seventh, and the first six princesses are sisters. Father Henry VI became more and more disappointed with her, and turned to hook up with the queen's sister. After the queen died in childbirth, her sister quickly ascended the throne and gave birth to his daughter when Augusta was half a year old. Brother William.
The king was fascinated by the new queen, as if he understood what love was overnight, and he was obedient to her. As the saying goes, if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. , if it wasn't for the six sisters taking turns to take care of her, she would have been poisoned by her stepmother long ago.
But he still couldn't escape, otherwise Shen Qi would not have appeared.
The San Carlos Empire is close to the sea, and there has always been the custom of offering sacrifices, and the object of this sacrifice is not a river god or a sea god, but a dragon.
Yes, a train.
Although the elves and dwarves in this world have become legends, the existence of dragons is indeed real, and there are more than one, some in the glaciers and some in the mountains, and their appearances vary, and they do not often appear in front of people. It is quite mysterious, and because of its huge body and powerful force value, it makes human beings deeply fear.
This dragon sacrificed by the San Carlos Empire is in the deep sea.
It is said that a long time ago, about three hundred years ago, this dragon appeared here. When it appeared, it roared fiercely, plunged into the sea, and turned up huge waves.
Out of fear, people listened to the words of the holy religion and chose young girls to sacrifice, but the boy disappeared and the girl came back. According to the girl, His Majesty the Dragon God loves handsome boys and doesn't like women, so he let her go. return.
People were skeptical, but the boy who was sent to him never appeared again, and nothing happened after that. Even after going out to sea to fish, they all returned safely.
People believed the girl's words, and they believed even more in the judgment of the holy religion. The dragon god is very scary and needs sacrifice, and only sacrifice can be safe.
So the custom of offering sacrifices every ten years was established.
And according to the records, none of the teenagers who were sent came back.
And this year happens to be the year of sacrifice once every ten years. Every time the sacrifice is made, the most handsome boy in the country must be selected.
In the past, those sacrifices were to select beautiful boys from the commoners early. There will be about ten or so. After ten years, the most beautiful one will be selected, and in order to look good, a noble will be sent to take this one. When a boy is adopted as an adopted son, the Holy Church will baptize him and become an official parishioner. This kind of death will never fall on the nobles.
But this time, the queen's stepmother was the troublemaker. The empire is a system of direct succession. If the seventh prince does not die, the throne will definitely fall to him in the future. For her son, she persuaded the king and even bought the church to let that man be stationed there. The cardinal of the San Carlos Empire showed off mysteriously, and then pointed out that this time the Seventh Prince had to go.
The reason is very simple, who made the Seventh Prince the most handsome boy in this age group, what if he sends others to anger the Dragon God.
As soon as the Sacred Church spoke out, and the king was the first to support it and no one opposed it, the seventh prince was taken into custody, waiting for the sacrifice activity a month later.
Five of the Seventh Prince's six sisters had already married off, and the stepmother had married them all to other countries for her son. It was too late when she got the news. The stepmother threatened the sixth princess with her marriage and her life. The Seventh Prince can only accept his fate.
However, after the sixth princess learned the news, she ran to save the seventh prince overnight, but was caught by the guards and fell down the stairs accidentally.
The seventh prince felt that he had harmed his sister, and was mocked by his younger brother William. He couldn't think of it and hanged.
So Shen Qi took his place. From then on, when everyone thought of the Seventh Prince, only his face came to mind, and he would not feel any sense of disobedience. For example, why everyone has a Western-style face, and he is Oriental face this kind of problem.
The reason why Shen Qi chose to replace the Seventh Prince was because, by coincidence, his target this time happened to be the object he was about to sacrifice, the giant dragon entrenched in the deep sea.
To be precise, it is a giant dragon who is depressed because he can't find a target for impotence.
Shen Qi was very embarrassed for a moment after reading the outline.
Different from the dragons in the east, the dragons in this world are more like the dragons in the Western Fantasy games. Shen Qi used various excuses these days to send people a lot of books, especially the books about dragons.
According to the above records, the dragon entrenched in the San Carlos Empire was a red dragon with flames. When he appeared, a layer of flames burned across the sea. He circled and roared, and then plunged into the in the water and never came out.
With the propaganda passed down from generation to generation by the Holy Religion, and the youngsters who disappear every year as evidence, no one in ordinary people doubts that this dragon has left.
Of course, in fact, the dragon did not go.
The nobles were skeptical about this, but Shen Qi knew through the outline that this red dragon had been entrenched at the bottom of the sea until it died.
The dragons in this world have a lifespan of five hundred years. After each dragon breaks its shell, it will be thrown away by its parents and let them survive on their own. They are solitary creatures, and they are used to a dragon entrenched in a corner. Only when adults are in heat, Only then will I go to Longgu, choose the object I like, and reproduce the next generation.
For dragons, there are only two things in this world, treasure and reproduction.
Dragons that cannot collect treasures or reproduce the next generation are waste dragons and will be ridiculed by the whole clan.
After the red dragon became an adult, he went to the Dragon Valley, and soon found the object of his eyesight, a female red dragon who also collected money and was powerful.
The mother dragon rose up, kicked him away, and yelled out angrily about it. Suddenly, the entire dragon clan knew that there was such a waste dragon.
The red dragon was ridiculed by the whole clan, and the pain of being unable to vent when the estrus season came, made him only plunge into the sea, on the one hand to escape, and on the other hand to suppress his estrus.
"puff-"
Shen Qi couldn't help laughing after reading the outline.
Impotent dragon or something...
Even seeing the red dragon die because he suppressed the estrus time and time again, and finally failed to vent his pain, he couldn't make him stop laughing.
In fact, this contrast is too happy.
Ahem, he tried his best to calm himself, um, can't laugh, what's funny, impotence or something, it's really a big thing, a very big thing, think about it in a different position, if you change him, maybe you will be depressed too.
But it doesn't matter, he won't dislike it, impotence is impotence, the big deal is this time back to a Plato, it's not interesting to always do it.
We need to focus on spiritual communication.
It's just a pity that his Longyang Daquan can no longer be updated. He was still a little excited about interracial things.
Alas, what a sad story.