Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 240 History of the Old Empire

Before writing back to the King of Anjou, Linde had one more thing to take care of.

“Are the remains of the old empire really worth developing?”

Although Lucanus constantly promoted himself as a descendant of the old empire, to be honest, Lind had no real feelings about the old empire. His only knowledge of the old empire was that after the great collapse, the remaining people established two new kingdoms on the basis of the old empire.

It is hard to imagine that Anjou and Capet were once brother countries.

It's not that Linde hasn't made up for his lack of knowledge about the Old Empire, but to be honest, humans' records of the Old Empire are not as detailed as the elves' records of the Old Empire.

However, the elves recorded more about the power and customs of the old empire. As for the technology, there are not many records, or if there were any records, the technology of the old empire would not have been lost.

However, upon hearing this question, Lucanus seemed to have turned on a switch and began to chant poems praising the power of the old empire. He even took out a harp from somewhere and started to compose music.

However, in Lucanus' description, the old empire mentioned by Lucanus seems to be a little different from the historical records. In the records of human history, the old empire seems to have been very powerful from the beginning, so powerful that the power of the old empire itself seems to be a matter of course.

Moreover, the old empire was quite friendly and harmonious, and had very good relations with the surrounding small countries. The surrounding small countries and other races all voluntarily offered gifts to the old empire, which was a bit like a tribute system.

It can be said that in human records, the Old Empire represents peace. Its development process was only due to the fact that it was beaten down because it was too peace-loving, and then it was beaten back. It was forced to exterminate that race only then.

As for why those who were Tutu happened to be non-human races, Shi Shu said: "I'm not there!"

But in Lucanus' description, the things that the old empire did included but were not limited to directly rushing into the palaces of other races and killing their kings, or pointing at the noses of other kings and scolding them, kidnapping the mother of the other king, and then reading out non-existent decrees of attack in the other palaces the next day.

As everyone knows, the imperial envoys and the imperial center have a special magic of information transmission. Perhaps the empire has also mastered some kind of jump technology. After all, the envoy had just announced the intention to attack, and the imperial army appeared in front of the gate of the rebellious country.

The speed was so fast that it made people feel that the order to attack was not non-existent, but the envoy was just allowed to act freely. The army had actually been prepared for a long time.

It can be heard that the Old Empire at that time was indeed very powerful. Those races that were neither human nor human-like were really not regarded as human by the Old Empire. They were not even qualified to stay as slaves and were slaughtered completely. This shows that the people of the Old Empire at that time were not only arrogant, but also had no shortage of labor, and had a strong exclusivity towards non-human races.

When facing those non-human races, the Old Empire could have sent troops directly, but it still sent envoys to find an excuse. He really made me cry.

If the old empire had not launched a large-scale sweep against non-human races on the continent, the continent would probably still be in chaos.

Lucanus was even somewhat envious of the envoys of the old empire at that time, and a look of longing appeared on his face more than once.

It's a pity that when the epic progressed to the later part, Lucanus rarely started to lose control of his emotions, and even began to choke up, and even skipped the collapse of the empire. It can be seen that these bards did not like this period of history.

After all, the emperor's most trusted adopted son who held a large number of troops launched a rebellion. In the words of the bards, this was really undermining the dignity of the emperor.

But this also shows that it was difficult for natural disasters alone to defeat the old empire. In the end, civil strife broke out among humans themselves, and the combined efforts of natural and man-made disasters ended the rule of the old empire.

But even so, humans are still one of the most powerful forces on this continent.

Finally, Lucanus stopped plucking the strings. The whole epic was equivalent to helping Lind review the history of the Old Empire. In general, what Lucanus narrated was similar to what the elves recorded. However, in the elves' records, the Old Empire was not so brutal. It can be seen that the elves even covered up for the humans of the Old Empire.

Perhaps the relationship between elves and humans was indeed quite good at that time. After all, information from all sides shows that humans are very friendly to the so-called sub-humans who look similar to themselves, especially elves.

However, after saying so much, Lucanus still did not get to the point, which is, are the ruins of the old empire really worth mining?

The old empire might have some high-end communication magic. After all, the bards responsible for transmitting intelligence had close ties with the old empire. But the technology to teleport troops definitely did not exist, otherwise there would not have been a major collapse caused by the rebellion at that time.

Lucanus quickly adjusted his mood and said to Lind respectfully: "My king, the technology of the old empire must be very valuable to the countries on this continent now, even to you. This is not my selfish motive."

"But I also have some concerns, because compared to the technology you are developing now, the technology of the Old Empire is actually closer to the development path of the Kingdom of Anjou."

Linde crossed his legs, stroked his chin and thought, does that mean the old empire also took the route of quickly training professionals and training certain types of specialized professionals?

Lind looked up at Lucanus, suspecting that bards like Lucanus were trained under this system, and even the bards under Lucanus might have used this training system.

To be honest, this route is not incompatible with the route Lind is trying now, and the technical exchanges with the Kingdom of Anjou are indeed very meaningful, but Lind decided to slow down the development of the ruins of the old empire.

"Are there any remains of the old empire in Capet?"

"Naturally there is."

Lucanus bowed and said, "Both Capet and Anjou were kingdoms built on the remains of the old empire. The number of ruins in their territories is no less than that of Anjou, but most of the ruins are in the hands of the nobles below, or hidden by the nobles, so the number of ruins in the open is much less than that of Anjou."

After that, Lucanus sighed: "Originally, Capet also had the hope of integrating the entire kingdom like Anjou."

Lind nodded and continued Lucanus' words: "It's a pity that Augustine III died on the way."

In addition to handling government affairs, Lind also made up for the situation in this world and some modern history.

It takes several generations of effort to consolidate power. Even though Anjou had several generations of wise kings, Alberto still had to carry out another violent reform and shed enough blood before he could complete the centralization of power.

Capet originally had a chance. At least Augustine III did a good job in the early years and even kept several powerful dukes in the royal capital. Moreover, his successor, Clan, was not a incompetent ruler as shown in his short reign.

That is to say, if everything went well, Capet could have completed the centralization of the king's power with even less bloodshed. Unfortunately, Augustine III not only targeted the North like a madman in his later years, but also died suddenly before he had time to clean up the mess left by his father. Clan was even shorter-lived, and died before he could clean up the mess left by his father, leaving behind a widow Lilith to barely hold on to the situation.

"Don't send the letter to the queen yet. I need to revise it a little. We can start by cooperating with the capital to excavate the remains of the old empire."

Anjou is too far away. If they were to develop the ruins of the old empire together, Alberto would have countless ways to deceive Linde. But it would be different with the ruins in Capet. At least if Linde really chose to cooperate with Alberto in the future, he would have a reference first.

As for what the King of Anjou said at the end of the letter, that he wanted to marry the widowed Queen Capet in the future, Lind did not take it too seriously this time. The last warning was only because the other party wanted to use this matter to get involved in the North, and now there is no such problem.

Although this tactic was indeed somewhat unethical, Capet knew it was a provocation but had to respond.

But what does this have to do with Lind? At most, he can comfort her when negotiating with her Majesty the Queen. After all, it's not him who is being provoked.