After Lu Cheng sent away the assassin named Loli, he got some interesting data from the upper city ship.
The content title of the data is a general analysis of the current situation in the Far South.
The investigation team spent half a month compiling this data.
First of all, there are currently 72 cities in Far South, among which the largest city, Far South Royal City, has a permanent population of 3.72 million and a floating population of about 1.2 million.
Secondly, the research team believes that the Far South is a typical "oligarchy", that is, a small number of organizations hold the vast majority of power in the Far South.
In terms of business, the two major chambers of commerce in the Far South monopolize domestic trade. In terms of military, the Eye of Conquest is directly under the emperor. Even the nobles appointed by the emperor must join this organization, and the children of the nobles must undergo training by the Eye of Conquest to be eligible for inheritance.
This is all general intelligence, but the really interesting part of the survey team's report is...
"Considering the current situation in the Far South, how many nobles are planning to rebel?"
This part of the report clearly states that there are now four dukes and six earls in the Far South, and each of these ten nobles controls one-fifth of the fiefdoms in the Far South.
The two dukes and three earls are the most likely to rebel now, and nearly half of the nobles who own noble territories are planning to defect.
The reason why they planned to rebel was very simple, that is, they were afraid that the emperor in the far south would send troops to eliminate them.
These restless nobles are basically those who have been stained with dragon blood. God knows to what extent the Pure Church has infiltrated the Far South in the past ten years.
What really made this group of nobles unable to contain themselves and turn to rebellion was that one of the two rebellious dukes, the Blackwing Duke, was captured by the troops sent by the emperor of the Far South before he could even raise the banner of rebellion.
Fear, uneasiness and suspicion, these three emotions intertwined together, making the upper class nobles in the Far South feel uneasy, and a chain of suspicion called "Who is the little dragon man" began to spread rapidly.
The report also analyzed that if the Emperor of the Far South did not take effective measures to curb this chain of suspicion, it would likely develop into something as horrific as the witch trials in the Middle Ages on Earth.
That is, no matter whether you are a little dragon man or not, if I say you are a little dragon man, then you must be a little dragon man.
What? You're a dragon too? Fine... Go to the stake!
Today is the day when the Emperor of the Far South publicly executes the Duke of Blackwing. This execution is open to the whole country and the projection can be seen in the mage tower in every city.
Lu Cheng was honored to get an opportunity to broadcast live on the Internet. The front-line photographer of the live broadcast was of course Zhou Hua, and there were also members of the investigation team who mixed in to conduct a multi-camera shoot.
Zhou Hua lived up to the expectations of the inspection team and joined the Eye of Conquest under the recommendation of Earl Lionheart. He is now Earl Lionheart's right-hand man.
The execution site was the Colosseum in the far south. The entire Colosseum was built with gray-brown stone bricks and could accommodate more than a thousand people. The fighting area was covered with sand and mud.
The geographical location of the Far South Royal City is not as good as Lu Cheng imagined. It can even be said to be somewhat barren. The royal city is completely built in the harsh environment of the Gobi Desert.
The place where Zhou Hua was sitting was just close to the center of the Colosseum.
There are still about ten minutes until the execution, so it is not appropriate to eat popcorn or crack melon seeds while watching this kind of scene.
Lu Cheng calculated the time. The shadow on the execution platform gradually "disappeared" as the sun reached noon. Logically, the execution should have started long ago, but the center of the Colosseum was still empty.
The emperor from the far south once again played the role of a dove and postponed the execution.
Another five minutes passed, and Lu Cheng could hear the discussions from the audience beside Zhou Hua, but the next moment the door on one side of the Colosseum slowly opened.
The discussions in the Colosseum disappeared, and everyone was looking at the two figures walking slowly towards the center of the Colosseum. One of them was the Duke of Black Wing, who was much younger than Earl Lionheart.
He was not wearing any prison uniform, but instead a set of pitch-black armor, and even had a sword on his waist.
The person next to the Duke of Black Wing is the current Emperor of the Far South, Persif Lepsik.
The emperor was also fully armed like the Duke of Blackwing. This outfit should not appear on the execution ground, but on the battlefield.
The audience in the Colosseum was in an uproar. They initially thought that the Emperor of the Far South intended to carry out the execution himself. After all, the Duke of Black Wing could be considered a friend and distant cousin of the Emperor.
"My people!"
The emperor from the far south walked up to the execution platform and cut off the guillotine with one sword. He used this action to tell his people that the execution ceremony was postponed.
"I know you are afraid, afraid that I will execute the Duke of Black Wing." The Emperor of Far South swept his eyes across the audience seats in the Colosseum in front of him.
This scene will be reported to nobles across the country through the Mage Tower at the same time.
"Because I hate traitors." The emperor said in a murderous voice, "Anyone who betrays the Far South is not worthy of living in this world, but the Duke of Black Wing is not a traitor!"
The Colosseum was eerily silent because no one dared to speak, for fear of being beheaded if they said something wrong.
As for the nobles who were watching in the Mage Tower, they were probably in an uproar.
Because the fact that the Duke of Blackwing drank dragon's blood was already known throughout the Far South, otherwise the Emperor of Far South would not have called him for tea and specially announced the execution live across the country.
Is it possible that the news that the duke drank dragon's blood is false
"The Duke of Blackwing did drink the alchemical potion called dragon blood. It was an alchemical potion from the enemy."
The words spoken by the Emperor of the Far South directly eliminated the possibility that the Duke of Black Wing was misunderstood.
"But the Duke himself did nothing wrong." The Far South Emperor raised his voice at this point. "There is nothing wrong with pursuing power in our country!"
The Colosseum, which had been in a state of deathly silence, was suddenly filled with cheers. The words of the Emperor of Far South gave a huge boost to the morale.
"The enemy is trying to use this magic potion to divide our country and control our people, but they are the ones who should be afraid!" The emperor of the Far South drew his sword and loudly announced the coming of war. "You don't need to pray to them for the dragon blood you desire. We now have enough power to snatch everything we want from them. The war has begun!"
"You're still quite capable."
Lu Cheng listened to the declaration of Emperor Yuannan on the screen. It was Lu Cheng's expectation that Yuannan would declare war on Shenghui, but the Emperor Yuannan not only pardoned the user of dragon blood, but also sent it to the battlefield of Shenghui, which was a bit beyond Lu Cheng's expectations.
Didn't the emperor ever consider why the people of the Pure Church... sold dragon blood so easily to the upper echelons of the Far South
No... He should have thought about it before making such a decision. If the Duke of Black Wing was executed, Far South would probably collapse directly from within. This way of handling it would directly boost the morale of the army.
All the Celestial Empire needs to do is watch the fire from the other side of the river, destroy the blood crystal beast and see if it can gain any benefits.