Just what did Olivia want to do?
Many people wanted to know the answer to this question.
However, as someone close to Olivia, he knew what Olivia was thinking.
In the end, this was because of the changes he had brought.
Olivia viewed Chen Heng with great importance.
This was not just in terms of martial arts but also in other areas.
As such, over the past few years, the two of them often discussed various things, including the Kutu Principality's system.
The Kutu Principality's system was a typical feudal system. The Kutu King was the head of the country, and the King divided his subordinates into rulers.
In actuality, the Kutu Principality was not a complete country but a military alliance with the King at the head.
Apart from the territories directly under the royal family, the other rulers did not have to pay taxes to the royal family. They only had to send troops to help out and respond to calls.
However, even these kinds of obligations could not be fulfilled at all times.
When the Kutu Principality's royal family was powerful, the rulers would naturally be quite obedient and would not do much.
However, once the Kutu Principality's royal family weakened, the rulers would not be so obedient. When that time came, it would already be good if they did not make trouble for the royal family; how could they still be loyal to the royal family?
Even though having many rulers reduced the cost of ruling, it also increased the number of hidden dangers.
When the royal family weakened and was unable to suppress the rulers, the rulers would merge with each other, forming a massive faction that would even attack the royal family.
In actuality, there had been many such examples in the Kutu Principality's past.
The current royal family seemed to have been established like this.
As someone who had transmigrated, Chen Heng could naturally see the hidden dangers of such a system, and he had told Olivia about it.
Olivia had been influenced by him, and it was not strange for her to want to weaken the rulers and take away their territories.
In actuality, every King would do something like this after ascending to the throne.
After all, expanding one's own power was an instinct of those in power.
It was just that even so, Olivia had gone too far, and her methods were a bit too violent.
However, looking at Olivia's actions, Chen Heng could not help but frown.
There was nothing wrong with wanting to weaken rulers and take away their territories.
However, the prerequisite for doing so was to find suitable reasons and excuses, as well as having absolute power to suppress them.
If she did not have a good reason or excuse, many nobles would feel great disgust and fear, and they would even view her with enmity.
If there wasn't an absolute suppression of power, it would easily lead to further changes.
When things reached an extreme, they would move in the opposite direction. In this era where lords controlled territories, those lords were extremely powerful and could not be underestimated.
If they were forced into a corner, the power that they would unleash would be unimaginable.
Olivia did not have a suitable reason or excuse.
Otherwise, it would not have developed to the point where Chen Heng frowned.
As for absolute power …
Chen Heng sank into his thoughts.
Olivia's power mainly came from three sources.
First, it was her original territory.
This was given to her by the previous King Kutu, and she had managed it for many years. It was her foundation and was quite stable.
The second was inheriting the Kutu Royal Throne and obtaining the royal family's power.
This power was quite powerful, and it belonged to the Kutu Royal Family.
The final portion was the power of followers and vassals like Chen Heng.
This power was mostly made up of the nobles who had followed Olivia and supported her ascension to the throne.
It was just that as time passed, the power that followed Olivia gradually disappeared.
There were many reasons for this, but the main reason was that they had not received enough rewards.
The reason why these people had followed Olivia and supported her to become the Kutu Royal Throne was naturally because they wanted to receive great rewards.
However, after Olivia became the Queen, she did not satisfy their requests.
Apart from a small portion of people, even though most people had been given territory, they had been sealed near the desert.
This was the same for Chen Heng.
Wasn't his territory, Sordar, a barren land near the desert?
Even though Chen Heng had relied on his own efforts to develop Sordar over the past five years, others did not have such good conditions or abilities.
Most of them were bitterly struggling in this region, and many of them had died in battle with the Outlanders.
Those who were lucky would not feel much gratitude towards Olivia because of this.
Back then, when Chen Heng had suggested developing territory, Olivia had carried it out quite well.
Thinking about this, Chen Heng could not help but feel a headache coming on, and he rubbed his forehead.
Back then, when he had suggested developing territory, he had suggested to Olivia to let those nobles who did not have any land or the second sons of nobles who did not have any inheritance rights go to the northern side.
These people did not have anything to begin with, and being able to obtain a piece of territory was already enough for them.
Moreover, going to the northern side was their own choice, and even if they died, they would not blame it on Olivia; it had nothing to do with Olivia.
However, these followers were different.
These followers had followed Olivia to battle, and they had undoubtedly made great contributions.
On the way to Olivia's victory, they had paid a great price, so they naturally had their own requests.
Their desires and expectations were obviously not for the barren land of the Northern Lands, but for an even more flourishing territory.
However, Olivia's actions had left them disappointed.
Over the past five years, Olivia had continuously gotten rid of those who opposed her and confiscated the territory of nobles. However, she did not give the territory to her followers and instead kept it for herself.
As for her loyal followers, they were sent to the Northern Lands to develop new territories that had never been explored by others.
No matter who it was, facing this situation, they would not feel good.
As such, the final portion of her power had gradually dissipated over the past few years.
Moreover, if Olivia did not change what she was doing and continued on like this, sooner or later, these people would be forced to leave and become her enemies.
As for Olivia's own territory and the royal family's power, they were still quite stable. However, if this went on, there would be problems sooner or later.
After all, from how Chen Heng saw it, Olivia's rule was quite violent.
Thinking to there, Chen Heng could not help but sigh. He turned and picked up the letter in his hand and started to write.
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