Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"Are you two from the Mirage Clan?"

The two nodded vigorously: "Our main body is in the cargo hold. The form here is condensed by mirage."

Shangluo stretched out his hand, wanting to give it a try—the other party also stretched out her hand and shook it with him. Sure enough, although their hands were physical, Shangluo could not feel the characteristics of carbon-based life from them.

"So do you agree or disagree with my idea?"

They both looked at each other, then at Otohime.

As the head of all the water tribes, Yiji is the daughter of Ao Zang, but she has the same status as Ao Zang. When Yiji is here, they dare not speak——

"Turn your head away." Shangluo gestured with his hand.

Otohime could only do as she was told and covered her ears.

As soon as she turned her head, the two of them jumped up and said, "Long live! Long live! We can become princesses too!"

"You're happy, aren't you?"

"Because we can now be selected for positions that originally had nothing to do with us! Lord Shang Tian, ​​please give the order. We can work 24 hours a day without rest!"

"Well, can you show us the abilities of the Mirage Tribe under normal circumstances?"

"Okay, okay!" The mirage on the left immediately stepped forward and took out a bubble circle and a pot of bubble water.

She blew gently at the bubbles, and a bowl filled with grass jelly came out.

"Same as before? But the taste is different?"

"For us, the Mirage Clan, these are customizable."

"Very good, very good. Then I will assign you two to not do other heavy work, just work in the kitchen. Except for mealtime, you can allocate your time freely and do whatever you want."

Chapter 1350: Reform of the Dragon Palace

"Okay, okay!" Ao Zang nodded repeatedly, "Let's do it this way. It should have been cleaned up long ago."

Ao Zang soon learned his plan from Shangluo.

Ao Zang agreed: "Finally someone is here to make the decision! Lord, you are acting lawless, it is really inappropriate! When Duke Huan of Qi held the Kuiqiu League, he said 'scholars cannot hold hereditary positions'. This means that officials cannot be passed down through bloodlines, which is unreasonable. I don't plan to pass my position as Dragon King to Xiao Yi in the future."

"Really?"

"Of course, the Dragon Palace should be thoroughly reorganized, and the ownership and management rights should be separated. During my lifetime, the position of Dragon King should be abolished, and I will let someone who can truly serve the court take over."

I didn’t expect him to be so aware.

"How can this be called enlightenment?" Shangluo replied in a low voice. "He is clearly stealing from the government, moving the clan property of the Dragon Palace to his own home. This step directly jumps out of the clan system."

This is not uncommon everywhere. For example, some places can collect rainwater through "old contracts", and some tribes can unite to form a chiefdom to gain absolute control.

The current situation in the Dragon Palace is actually very similar to that of some emirates. Although the Dragon Clan is the common leader of all clans, the Dragon Clan's ability to interfere in the internal affairs of other clans is obviously limited. As Shangluo just learned, the replacement of the Mirage Princess has its own set of rituals. They don't even accept the imperial edict, let alone the order of the Dragon King, who can't even control his own daughter.

But with this change, Dragon Palace can jump two steps. This is not approaching the emirate, but jumping over the emirate and entering the management model of a modern enterprise in one step.

Shangluo doesn't care about these.

This is similar to the fact that the imperial court did not care how North Korea governed itself. Previously, the more North Korea took the initiative to apply for annexation, the imperial court sent people to North Korea to reform it. After the reform, the imperial court did not retain a supervisory agency in North Korea, but simply handed everything back to North Korea itself.

After all, the court does not care about how power is distributed among the Koreans. The purpose of reforming it is to improve the efficiency of the Korean response to orders.

The same is true here. Shangluo does intend to take this opportunity to make some changes to the [Imperial Examination Republic] in the Dragon Palace. But after the changes, how the Dragon Palace distributes power internally is still something that the Dragon Palace should decide on its own.

Shangluo didn't care if there would be any conflicts in the Dragon Palace in the future. After all, if they had conflicts, they would eventually have to go to court to sue.

Since the Dragon King himself agreed, the matter was settled immediately:

"Don't worry, Lord Tian. I will immediately organize personnel to select a new Mirage Princess - the name of this position should be changed by then."

"It would be best to systematically send more people out. I found that the Mirage Clan is very suitable for working in space."

This is perfect. Because Shangluo has been dealing with the daily life of the operators who have just entered space for the past two days, and he didn't even notice the two Mirages in the space station.

This actually means that whether he manages or not, these mirages can work in the space station. They are as casual about their surroundings as light bulbs, just find a place to put them.

After hanging up the phone with Ao Zang, he asked the two Mirage people next to him: "By the way, where are your real bodies?"

"Ah? Uh..." The two people blushed, and steam began to come out of their heads, and even began to evaporate.

"Wow Shangluo, are you so bold?" Yiji shook her head, "How could you do such a thing in broad daylight?"

"What's going on?"

"If you see their true forms, they'll be very shy. After all, the mirage form is like being naked to them. Only in this transformed form can they be presentable to others."

【Tsk, tsk, tsk.】

"Why are you joining in the fun? I just want to show my concern for your lives." Shang Luo whispered, "Why don't you just talk about it? You have to tell me how to ensure your lives."

The two of them looked at it and nodded: "Okay. Then we said, you are not allowed to look. Our real body is in..."

They pointed to the south. "In a water tank over there. We brought it up with the warehouse."

"I see. Can you withstand the same pressure as in a warehouse?"

"Yes. Our bodies are very strong. And in the special water tank, we are completely soaked in a buffered nutrient solution."

"So what do you eat?"

"Just add organic matter once in a while, our bodies will filter the food themselves."

The shell body is similar to their internal organs. Although the internal organs need to digest the food after eating, they don't need to control it. In other words, it is just the function of the lower center for them. Their higher center has begun to deal with matters far more important than filter feeding.

"Can I ask you one more question? Although this question may be a little private, is there anything in your shell that is significantly related to your life form?"

"Yes." The two nodded, "There are dragon balls."

"Dragon Ball? Oh yeah, I almost forgot."

Mirage is also a kind of dragon. Although it is indeed a shell, the dragon can be big or small, can rise or hide. Although it has no physical form, as a dragon, they still carry the dragon ball. And the role of the dragon ball to the mirage is far more important than that of ordinary dragons.

Because even if Otohime turns into a dragon, she still has a developed brain and strong limbs. Once the Mirage loses the Dragon Ball, their true form will really be just a shell, and they won't even be able to think.

"Oh, right." Shangluo suddenly asked, "Let me ask you, if I take you out of the Dragon Ball and put you into some machines..."

“Ahhhhhh!” The two men took a few steps back in fear. “Why do you say that! What did we do wrong?!”

"No, I mean you guys to fly the spaceship. I just made a suggestion."

Shangluo was so anxious that he didn't know what to say. He really couldn't control the ethics of soft life, and he didn't know at what point he would scare them.

"Please don't take us out of our shells! Please don't. Everything else will be easy."

"Then let me ask it another way - I put your real body into the machine and drive the mecha, is that okay?"

"Yes. As long as the temperature and humidity are normal."

Shangluo nodded: "I actually learned something new. Even if their thoughts are in the dragon balls, as mollusks, they won't want to take the balls out."