From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 261 The final countdown to elfization and related thoughts

When food is no longer scarce, when labor is no longer in short supply, and when the number of witch doctors is no longer limited, a new era will naturally come.

However, just as every stage in the old era had its own problems that must be overcome, the new era also has new problems that need to be faced.

At present, how to form a new balance within the Republic based on the overall advantages of the tree elves due to their qualifications will be the most unavoidable and difficult to deal with the "citizenship" issue.

At least from a short-term perspective, trolls will still be the main force in the "population" of the Republic;

Even if we zoom out a little further and focus on the mid-term scale of tens or nearly hundreds of years, there is still a gap between the acquired elves such as "pure warriors" and "war witches" transformed from trolls, and the innate tree-born elves.

There are differences that can be exploited.

In such a situation, pure mechanical balance will inevitably make the status of the tree elves higher and higher, and at the same time, there will also be a lot of resentment over time;

However, if a flexible soft balance is applied, there are also complications in scale control. If you are not careful, the tree elves will suffer from "policy discrimination" due to too good qualifications.

At this stage, the number of trolls who are the cornerstone of the former is about 67,000, and there are still about 300 new ones every year. If calculated based on the ten-year cycle of the birth of the tree elves, there are about 3,000 new ones added every cycle.

Remain;

Looking at the tree elves again, the current number of people is 2001, and the number of new people per cycle is 1000.

Three thousand versus one thousand, the former has an advantage in the short term, but from the perspective of expected changes in new numbers, the result is exactly the opposite.

After becoming an elf, the time required for natural gestation is twice as long as the tree growth cycle in the embryonic stage alone.

The most critical factor is actually the birth of tree elves;

The existence of a batch of tree-born elves that are born every ten years makes the previous model no longer appropriate, and as time continues to go by, things like "witch doctor qualifications" have a tendency to become more widespread.

The most important thing now is to use this as a basis to clarify and implement the spiritual and intellectual equal status of all citizens within the country, and to strive to achieve equality of opportunity in the social division of labor.

The qualification for meritorious service has been temporarily set at a level greater than or equal to the 'Fourth Class Grand River Medal'.

In the future, as an extraordinary professional witch doctor, it may be just one of many labels on citizens, and its holders will not be the same as warriors, scholars, war witches, traders, etc. in terms of personality.

What essential differences arise between

Looking at the latter, due to the birth of two new mother trees, the number of new additions will inevitably equalize or even surpass it after one or two cycles. With the capture of more advanced creatures in the future, the gap will also increase irreversibly.

trend.

The determination of academic qualifications is temporarily set as a Central School graduation, or a knowledge reserve level equivalent to the Central School graduation level;

Among them, the former is the average level of the new generation when they enter society. Every troll must pass the assessment and be allowed to leave school after receiving a certificate.

Among them, in addition to some long-term and fundamental attempts, in the short term it is mainly aimed at those tree elves.

Similarly, even if the individual is not a witch doctor, as long as he has made certain contributions to the ethnic group and passed the corresponding academic assessment, he will be qualified to become a member of the parliament.

As mentioned before, the difference between ‘acquired spirits’ and ‘innate spirits’, as well as the resulting equality of various elements of citizenship, is one example of this.

It is true that the witch doctors overcame obstacles for the tribe to embark on the road to civilization during the wilderness period, and made contributions that cannot be ignored, but this does not mean that they should always have exclusive helmsmanship.

This trend cannot be countered without the use of force;

The result of using force is likely to make all existing efforts in vain.

At that time, equality will no longer exist, fairness will no longer exist, and the country that has finally emerged from the wilderness will become a primitive society in another sense, covered with a layer of civilization and driven by force.

For example, among the various races on the mainland, the superior ones have usurped most of the rights by force and have monopolized most of the knowledge, while the inferior ones eat the resources leaked from the fingers of the superior ones and have to be grateful all day long.

The country belonging to the Black Forest is diverse now and will be diverse in the future. Among the people there are warriors, traders, scholars and other different identities. They have faded away from the wilderness and gradually have enough knowledge to support their own judgment.

Knowledge does not need and should no longer need a certain group of people to take care of them like they treat babies.

The disadvantaged ethnic groups are truly in a layer of hell, oppressed by various sovereign races above and oppressed by their superiors in the middle. The people at the bottom have no status and no way to rise;

The judgment that can be made at the moment is that even if the number of new additions on both sides varies, both will be an indispensable part of society for at least the next five to six hundred years, or even longer.

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In a sense, this change has opened a small gap in the era of "Witch Doctor Tutoring". From then on, more compatriots will surely enter the wheelhouse with different identities and jointly participate in the progress of the Republic.

In making decisions about direction;

As for the good and bad

Since society is jointly constructed by multiple units, its subsequent direction should naturally be reached by multiple units through mutual compromise;

But the situation here is different from it. Let alone backlash, the country has not even shown any signs of dissatisfaction. The people are still at a very high level towards the witch doctors and the Rune Council controlled by the witch doctors.

Trust level.

As for concerns about efficiency and so on, the witch doctors feel that now that they have a certain ability to protect themselves, this is not the first thing that should be considered in the development of the country.

Some things are clearly reflected in Freya. The little girl inexplicably became a member of the Rune Parliament while she was in school without making any contribution to the Republic and without having any awareness of it herself;

Therefore, they made concessions to the future and decided to "progressively diversify the Rune Council" and "desanctify the witch doctor profession";

And we are preparing to control the process through this independent change before possible backlash that cannot be suppressed without the use of force.

And this is especially true now, after "citizenship" was formally proposed. This approach is completely out of date.

Think about it.

In the next few years, the first thousand tree elves will gradually become witch doctors;

The second batch of thousands of tree elves are also in their respective teenage stages of growth at this time;

This decision was not the result of Nesta's vigorous promotion, but a conclusion jointly completed and agreed by the vast majority of witch doctors. They did not feel worried about the gains and losses due to this change.

As of now, only a very small number of non-witch doctor groups such as Big Tusk can use this rule to enter the parliament. However, diluted by a larger number of witch doctors, their opinions cannot have any substantial impact.

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Therefore, just as the membership qualifications of soldiers have been opened up, the career paths of future generations of witch doctors will no longer be limited to scientific research and parliament, but they will be free to join the army or do other things according to their interests.

With the number of new additions on both sides showing such an ebb and flow, the number of tree-born elves will equalize with the acquired elves in about 30 cycles, or even shorter, and will achieve rapid growth in the following time.

Go ahead and truly become the mainstream in the social structure.

Of course, certain limitations still exist.

In principle, public positions such as government officials, active military personnel, members of the Law Office, members of the Tribunal, members of the Rune Council, and other social service positions are not allowed to hold part-time jobs. Any individual can and can only have one of these identities.

This model is actually somewhat similar to Nesta’s previous ‘royal cabinet’ in the late Qing Dynasty. However, the backlash faced by the upper class in the late Qing Dynasty has formed an unstoppable momentum like a wave under the influence of various factors;

And controlling the ‘balance’ between them must be something that society must face as it develops.

As for the latter, they are full of slavish thoughts, teaching them obedience and contentment.

When the knowledge is filtered through layers of layers and finally reaches their hands, only the lowest production-related content is left, which is mediocre in terms of individual strength and philosophy.

Second, Juya and a few other warriors have qualified for seat evaluation due to their respective merits.

Therefore, the decision made by the witch doctors is only to prepare for the future and to explore "citizenship" and "human" equality;

Therefore, under this background, each prime-age interest school has gradually acquired the ability to cultivate professional talents. In terms of cultivating comprehensive talents, it also has a stable cooperative relationship with the central school;

But unlike interest schools for the prime of life, which are compulsory for all people to choose subjects under the policy of Shangfeng, the latter are more about giving opportunities. But even the old generation trolls, as long as he has the mind to make progress, as a comprehensive

The Central School of Sex Education will completely open its doors, allowing them to have the same learning opportunities as the new generation and get exactly the same diploma.

After several generations of reproduction, the former will naturally disappear completely, and the disputes that arise based on the differences between the two will end without a problem.

Of course, small changes also exist;

Undoubtedly, this is by no means a healthy way of dividing power.

Not to mention, the third and fourth batches will be born one after another;

Under the new tone, 'witch doctor' is no longer a necessary and sufficient condition for becoming a member of the parliament. Only by meeting the restrictions of both merit and knowledge can an individual be qualified to become a member of the parliament.

Soldiers can become parliamentarians, sergeants, and members of the ruling government, and the same can be said for witch doctors.

However, Freya still felt a little aggrieved after what belonged to her was suddenly deprived of her;

Fortunately, there were many predecessors who were willing to enlighten her, so after learning from the experience, she held back her energy and devoted herself more fully to the task of developing engineering engines.

Of course, this kind of change cannot be carried out quickly, and it has only just begun to "end the tutelage";

That is to say

Even if the individual is a witch doctor, if he or she has not made any contribution to the ethnic group, he will no longer naturally enjoy a seat on the Rune Council;

This kind of diversification attempt at the level of a "royal cabinet" is not only completely feasible for today's country, but will also make the people feel flattered.

Therefore, the number of new additions in the former will inevitably decrease year by year, and may even be reduced to 0 in the end.

After this change, the current structure of the Rune Council will not undergo major changes in the short or even medium term, because the dozens of existing members have basically obtained the qualifications for coordination through long-term research.

Those powerful tribes among them are okay, since there are enslaved tribes below to support them;

While facing many hidden dangers and difficulties, they realized that this seemed to be the best opportunity to make changes for the Rune Council, for the witch doctors as a whole, and even for the country.

And in the further future, once the mother tree with the advanced salamander as the core passes the verification of elf cultivation, the number of tree elves that can be born in each batch will increase exponentially than now.

Therefore, as the progress of elvenization of the entire population increases, the already low desire of females to have children may become even more sluggish than it is now.

The old trolls will be re-energized in this process. Judging only from the current cell observation, it is possible for them to live out the extreme difference in racial lifespan before and after evolution;

Not to mention the rest of the trolls who have completed their advancement in their prime. Based on rough calculations based on cell activity and the number of times they can divide, they should all be able to live for at least four to five hundred years, or even around six hundred years.

But on the other hand, opportunities often coexist with risks. The increase in tree elves means an increase in the number of witch doctors, and an increase in the number of witch doctors means the strengthening of scientific research foundation;

Of course, with the possible further differentiation of the professional system in the future, these tree elves may not regard witch doctors and scientific research as their goals, but will instead be willing to study warriors and other other projects.

But even if only some of them are willing and become research-type spellcasters, it is already a huge gain for this department.

And after she entered the second level, the witch doctors such as Coarse Tooth and Sharp Tooth showed a certain trend based on habit.

For example, guiding her to the most important standing seats in the parliament is a clear indication that she will be trained as a new core member.

Therefore, in addition to traditional witch doctors, warrior groups, civilians, and retirees from the military and the ruling government will all have the opportunity to obtain parliamentary seats in the future.

The current number of less than a hundred witch doctors alone has already enabled the Republic to advance by leaps and bounds in all aspects as if it has eaten fuel, let alone more in the future?

However, while welcoming opportunities, we must also control the corresponding risks.

Referring to the past and present of the tribes in the northern continent, and combining it with the current situation of the Republic itself, the witch doctors also came up with many valuable and transcendental thoughts.

In that era when thousands of people could only accumulate two or three qualified witch doctors, such a method of inheritance was understandable. All tribal witch doctors would look for outstanding apprentices and then carefully train them as their successors.

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After having advanced salamanders as a new force, through warrior training, and supplemented by culture fluid-based implant technology, it is conservatively estimated that it is possible to achieve the elfization of all people within fifty years;

Even most old-age trolls are in this "achieved" category, and only those in the dying stage, which account for a very small proportion of the total population, have completely lost the possibility of evolution.

The latter is a modification for the trolls of the old generation. They can also obtain this certification by independently signing up for the exam. As for how to learn

You must know that equal access to knowledge is something that witch doctors are extremely concerned about from the beginning to the end;

The witch doctors have no intention of enslaving the people, nor do they have the intention of kidnapping the people's thoughts, and they are even less willing to turn the country that has finally reached its current situation into a hierarchical society as common among all the ethnic groups in the mainland.

After completing the elves, the average lifespan of the population is estimated to be 600-650 years (the Earth's calendar is about 1500-1700 years, only laboratory speculation, there are no real cases of old age and death for reference);

In terms of individual strength, the knowledge that can be obtained is almost nothing, and at most it is just cannon fodder for fighting with natural strength;

But the other witch doctors who also came out of the tribal era did not pay attention to this.

Because in the tribal period, the inheritance method of witch doctors and witch doctor apprentices was so extensive. They were also trained in this way, and after becoming witch doctors, they themselves did the same.

Under such a realistic situation, if this method is still used to select the qualifications of members and select the future core, then the future parliament will be dominated by some underage elves who have not even completed their studies and just want to play all day long.

Filled.

For example, as an important part of the expression of equal citizenship - 'membership qualifications', it seems that it is time to 'relax' and 'restrict' to a certain extent.

Under the combined efforts of the two, the people at the bottom were suppressed to the ground and could not stand up.

In addition, the ‘witch doctor placement problem’ that Nesta was previously struggling with has also been solved in disguise through this change.

After all, equality should be two-way. Previously, on the grounds of "protecting the stability and fairness of the country," he tried to impose restrictions specifically on witch doctors. Isn't it unfair?

And the "balance" usurped at the cost of "unfairness" is actually a kind of suppression that can only be maintained based on power, which is against his own wishes;

The restriction of the Fourth Class River Medal alone is enough to maintain the witch doctors' control over the Parliament and the general direction of the Republic for a long period of time.

In other words, within fifty years, all the trolls at this stage can be transformed into acquired elves with almost no loss.

However, the actual situation is not like this

It is known that the theoretical life span of trolls is 290-350 years (Earth calendar 760-920 years);

However, times have quietly changed, and witch doctor qualifications are no longer as scarce as they were then;

Regardless of the emergence of meditation methods and the emergence of ambiguous "war witches", although they have had some promoting effects on changes, they have not changed the scarcity of highly qualified people.

If elves are short-lived, then being cruel is actually not a problem;

Moreover, the witch doctors have seen and speculated on various possibilities in the future in the city-states of the northern plateau and the ethnic groups in the northern part of the mainland.

One day, either consciously or by force, the stern rudder of the big ship will be completely released and handed over to every component of society, and then we will move forward together in the compromise of all parties and the ups and downs.

The witch doctors headed by Nesta, Coarse Ya and others do not like that kind of future. Whether it is the internal stability maintained by the strong tribe through slavery or the oppression that the weak tribe is suffering, they are not willing to let their ethnic groups go.

experience.

And once Nesta himself dies, or is no longer in power for any other reason, then this kind of balance that has been forcibly reached without society's own compromise is likely to rebound in the accumulation of dissatisfaction, and even go to the extreme

The worse flip side.

First, Freya, whose merit level was not enough, plummeted.

Even the de facto lower-class citizens within it can enjoy a life without worries about food and clothing, and a seemingly superior status.

Regardless of Freya's talent and temperament, whether she can bear such high expectations;

Simply put, this method of selecting key training targets without any rules is contrary to many concepts such as 'equality', 'justice', and 'transparency' that have not been stated explicitly before but have always been the core elements of the founding of the country.

Of course, she didn't care much about such things as 'membership seats' before. She even ran away from meetings and was unwilling to participate;

It is precisely based on this concern that the decision of the Rune Council will no longer be limited to witch doctors as it was in the past, but will instead be based on merit and knowledge to determine the qualifications of members.

Among them, there are a few warriors who are very curious and are on the waiting list. They are also eager to learn. They became interested in the seats in the parliament and passed the academic assessment, thus becoming the first batch of non-witch doctor members.

This long lifespan, while bringing more possibilities to individuals, will also give many disputes that should have disappeared automatically with the passage of time, a chance to become stubborn diseases that stick in the hearts of the group;

The people at that time would naturally not be satisfied with such concessions, which were in the form of charity.

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Discussions on social issues such as citizenship rights and changes in parliamentary seats have actually continued in parliament for a long time;

However, these problems cannot take up 100% of the energy of the witch doctors. They still spend most of their time in laboratories, practice rooms and many other areas every day.

The Advanced Salamander Capture Campaign started in July and ended on the same day it started. On the contrary, the subsequent return journey, planting of mother trees, demobilization of conscripts, repatriation of mercenaries, etc., consumed a lot of time and energy from all parties in the headquarters;

So, after all this was completed, the time had reached December of the 55th year of the Rune Calendar, and the witch doctors were participating in various discussions in the council while working on the projects in their hands.

Among these, the study of the brains and magic crystals of advanced salamanders and the 80-meter-level salamanders below them is a relatively important one.

(End of chapter)