?After receiving the orders of the Grand Duke and the Selected One, several guards retreated and closed the door of the conference room heavily again.

Everything returned to silence.

Robin's eyes fell on the dagger on the table and said nothing.

Everyone looked at him, waiting for his reply.

After about three minutes, he raised his head and asked calmly, "If I become king, what is the content of the pledge?"

"We respect you as the king, but the king must abide by the Haoyue Code and shall not tamper with the code at will. The territorial autonomy of the Duke and the king shall not interfere.

We will also abide by the agreement and will not betray the king.

Once the oath is violated, the person who makes the oath and his bloodline will be cursed and fall into hell, and will never be restored."

Oga answered.

"We can start right away as long as you agree."

This is Matida's tender voice.

"Of course, you can choose not. Then when nothing has existed tonight." Oja looked at Robin coldly with her arms in her arms, "But we will eliminate your memory of tonight so that what happened here will not be leaked."

"What does this mean?" Robin was stunned and leaned against the back of the chair and looked at Oga in disbelief.

It was at this moment that the youngest Grand Duke Matida took out a small light blue glass bottle from somewhere and held it in his hand.

"It's mermaid tears." She stared at the liquid in the bottle calmly.

In the dim light, Robin saw the crystal liquid in it glowing with a light blue light, as if holding a star in Martyda's hand.

The color and light, for some reason, were like a vortex, sucking Robin's gaze tightly in.

Mysterious, dreamy.

Fascinating.

It's frightening.

"It will give you a sleep, and the side effect is that you will have a headache when you wake up, like a hangover. But you will forget everything you've experienced before."

Martida said calmly.

Robin took a deep breath and his eyes drooped slightly.

He lowered his head and silently kept his face in the shadow of no one.

No wonder.

I said they were so brave that they dared to openly discuss such things in the imperial city.

It turned out that it was prepared.

Mermaid tears.

This was the first time he had heard of such a thing.

...

Everyone was waiting for breath.

The interior was silent.

Robin's eyes flashed and darkened, thinking for a long time.

His fingers gently pressed onto the metal scabbard of the dagger as if pressing against the hearts of everyone.

Even everyone's heartbeat is clearly heard.

It took a long time.

It seemed as if time had stopped.

"No."

Robin's voice sounded softly.

His fingers were taken back from the dagger.

Everyone's hearts hopped.

The grand dukes widened their eyes and looked at the Lord Selected in disbelief.

"Master Robin, maybe you haven't experienced it before, and you don't understand what that supreme power means..."

Duke Gwen spoke with difficulty, she could not imagine that anyone could reject such a great temptation.

You know, that is the supreme authority that many people dream of.

The unique opportunity in the history of the kingdom was to be recorded in history by the dictator, so easily rejected by Robin.

"No, Duke Gwen, I know what that means."

Robin answered her lightly.

"The supreme power, divine power and kingly power are combined into one, and no one can restrain me from then on, and I will become the master of the kingdom. In Itnair, I am God.

As long as I want, the people of the kingdom will satisfy me.

And I just need to comply with maintaining your autonomy over your territory.”

Robin smiled indifferently, "I think no one can refuse such a powerful temptation."

"Since that's the case, why are you..." Old Duke Gwen looked at Robin with a confused look, completely unable to understand what he did.

"It is not my greatness that comes to history. If I choose the path you give me, then I will be the sinner of Ittenel, and then be crushed and crushed by the wheels of history."

"What... means?" Several dukes looked at him in confusion.

"That's because - productivity determines the relationship of production. The law of development of things is a spiral upward process." Robin sighed.

The grand dukes looked at each other, not understanding what he was saying at all.

A smile appeared on the corner of Robin's mouth.

“In simple terms, you can understand the ability of the general people of the Kingdom to create new wealth.

To give a simple example, at the beginning of the birth of the Kingdom, our annual grain output could only provide less than 200,000 people, but to this day, the population of the Kingdom has grown to 40 million. The tools we cultivate have developed from the hoe made of stone to the iron plow today. We also know how to use animals and magic to help us complete too much heavy work.

The main grains of the kingdom have been single wheat and barley, and now there are oats and rye, with beans including peas, broad beans, etc.; forages include red 3 leaves, alfalfa, etc.; vegetables include vine, cabbage, lupine, etc.; fruit trees include grapes, olives and figs.

These are actually manifestations of the development of productivity.

Our ability to create wealth is getting stronger. In the past, 200,000 people needed more than half of their population to work in agriculture to feed so many people, but now we may only need 5 million people to support the entire kingdom.

This is progress and an inevitable result of historical development.”

Speaking of this, several great masters understood a little about what the Tianxuan person said about [productivity].

"But, what does this have to do with us?" Duke Aiden looked at Robin with a confused look on his face.

"The level of productivity development is the result of the aggregation and matching of the system composed of productivity factors with the political, economic, social, cultural, ecological environment in which it lives.

Simply put, the power composition of a country is not something we can decide. If the development of the kingdom cannot be adapted to, then this system will be eliminated by history."

Robin frowned. Human beings began in primitive society, and because of the need for productivity, they became slave society, and then feudal society...

He still can't figure out what stage of the feudal society the Kingdom of Yitnair was in, whether capitalism was invaded, or other more advanced production factors could be incubated...

At least from the history of Yitnell that he knew, the feudal system of the Grand Duke had begun to become an obstacle to social progress.

The conflict between the king and the grand duke became increasingly intense, and has now become an irreconcilable peak.

"Maybe Olivia conquered power because of her own desires, but concentration of power is not a good thing for the development of the kingdom.

The ultimate form of feudal system is centralized, which will bring more efficient management and more efficient allocation of resources, thereby promoting the development of productivity.”

Robin paused when he said this.

Olivia's firm face appeared in his mind.

"Of course, the premise is whether the king is wise."

The biggest drawback of the feudal empire is that the leader's influence on the entire country will be very huge. A wise ruler can bring prosperity and prosperity, while a foolish ruler will lead to social decline and people's livelihood.

Later, it was overturned by the people and buried under the wheel of history.

This is the objective law of the development of things.

No one can escape this.

"So is Olivia a wise king?" Robin asked softly.

He shook his head mutteringly, his eyes fading away.

"I have no idea."

Robin looked at the grand dukes with firm eyes, "But if I want to be king, I will inevitably do the same thing."

Everyone was slightly stunned, and their hearts were numb by his cold gaze without any emotion.

"Either conquer power, weaken the grand duke and lords, and promote the development of the entire kingdom. Or civil strife caused by separation, wealth could not meet the needs of the people, and was eventually overthrown by the people of the kingdom, or captured by other more powerful and advanced countries, resulting in the demise of the kingdom..."

Every word of Robin's words was like a sword, which made everyone's hearts drop by blood.

"No matter which result it is, I'm afraid that people here today will not be able to get what they want."

There is another sentence he didn't say—

The contradiction between the king and the grand duke is irreconcilable, which will inevitably lead to their fight to the death.

He didn't want to be the puppet king of the great dukes.

Therefore, this blood oath cannot be made no matter what.

Robin's fingers pressed gently onto the dagger and pushed it back towards the far end of the table.

"So, I refuse."
Chapter completed!