"Your Highness, on the Silk Continent, these Divine Beast sects and gangs, without strong official influence nor unified guild registration management, are allowed to develop unchecked. Aren’t you at all worried about this?" Liu Zhenhuan nodded to Xiao Kong and looked up at the Fifth Highness. He didn’t quite understand what the Fifth Highness was trying to say, but it didn’t stop him from voicing his opinion: "Your Highness, in our Aegean, any large-scale event with combat or competition elements must be under official control. Otherwise, it is an illegal gathering! Your ’Hero Conference’ is entirely organized spontaneously by the grassroots, with large-scale armed clashes. It’s utterly ridiculous! It’s an open challenge to the state’s machinery! It’s a destabilizing factor, and it should be abolished or formalized as soon as possible!"
"I really want to abolish it, but it’s impossible." The Fifth Highness said with a bitter smile: "The ’Hero Conference’ on the Silk Continent has a long history, deeply rooted in the hearts of the grassroots, as sacred as their totems! If our government rashly abolishes it, it might incite a rebellion! Formalizing it is also challenging; they are Divine Beasts, and we are humans. The racial divide naturally exists, and these guys are actually quite insecure. The more insecure they are, the more defiant and lawless they become!"
Liu Zhenhuan dared not speak carelessly.
Aegean’s humanoid beasts are not as rampant as on the Silk Continent, so Aegeanians have no experience or voice in this.
In detail, the pressures on the Tang Zang government are considerable, especially since these humanoid Divine Beasts are indistinguishable from normal people in appearance, making it incredibly easy for them to integrate into society!
Based on the current systems Liu has encountered, making these humanoid Divine Beasts fully comply with state regulations seems challenging—if Aegean Magical Beasts could also transform into humanoid forms en masse, the states on Aegean might be more troubled than the Tang Zang Empire.
This world is much more dangerous than Earth. The ultimate power here is hardly under state control. If some lunatic masters a Forbidden Curse and becomes a bit more violent, it’s akin to some madman on Earth creating an atomic bomb.
Liu Zhenhuan personally feels that the Tang Zang government is actually doing well, acknowledging the humanoid Divine Beasts as a minority is a huge leap; in the Aegean Continent, even those with a little insight know that Magical Beasts are indeed intelligent, but except for the Beamon priests, who looks at Magical Beasts with equality?
Nobody! Traditional arrogance and prejudice form an insurmountable chasm!
From information gathered during past exchanges with Yi Tiao, Liu Zhenhuan also felt the Fifth Highness was slightly exaggerating.
The Prince is speaking from a ruler’s perspective. However, in Liu’s view, the humanoid Divine Beasts on the Silk Continent aren’t deliberately disrupting the social balance. It’s true they are defiant, but it’s not certain they’re lawless.
Who would want to live in a mess of smoke and fire?
Every environment has its unspoken rules; those who randomly break these rules are public enemies, and public enemies don’t live long.
"For the past few years, our Tang Zang Empire has become more prosperous and stronger. We’ve been planning to take military action against the Juerong Barbarians in the Western Regions, but the domestic destabilizing factors are truly bothersome. The disputes among the martial fraternity sap a lot of our high-end resources. Take the annual Hero Conference, for instance; our Geyue Court must attend and take appropriate preventive measures because this openly gathered force really catches our eye!" The Fifth Highness sighed: "If only it were like in Aegean, where all the Divine Beasts obediently stayed in the deep forests and mountains, never dreaming of entering the bustling world to stir up trouble." Content originally comes from ⓝovelFire.net
"There is no way around it, the situations on our two continents are quite different." Liu Zhenhuan shrugged, implying that he was also helpless. Dealing with Divine Beasts is like dealing with the bandit robbers of the Donau Wasteland; purely relying on killing will never end them. The stick is needed, but so is the carrot; the key is striking the right balance to maintain stability.
"Here’s my plan, I’m preparing to set up numerous foreign legion recruitment posts across the country. Isn’t there grudges and vendettas among the humanoid Divine Beasts? No problem! No matter who one is, once they flee into a recruitment post, it means they voluntarily join the foreign legion! As foreign legion soldiers, no matter how great their previous offenses were, they are granted official protection and immunity!" The Fifth Highness smiled at Liu Zhenhuan and proposed his well-prepared suggestion: "However, voluntarily joining the foreign legion also means obtaining dual nationality of the Bimon Kingdom and the Tang Zang Empire. As foreign legion soldiers, they are obliged to go to the Aegean Continent and guard the Tang Zang concessions in the Bimon Kingdom!"
"Wha-wha-wha...what? A foreign legion? For me?" Liu Zhenhuan was dumbfounded by the Fifth Highness’s leap of thought.
"By doing so, the Tang Zang Empire can significantly reduce vendettas, stabilizing the security environment! Meanwhile, Your Majesty will acquire an Eastern Divine Beast army." The Fifth Highness chuckled: "Your Majesty need not worry, once these humanoid Divine Beasts go to a foreign country, it’s as if they’ve cut off their retreat. They will only be wholeheartedly devoted to serving you! Isn’t Aegean about to go to war with foreign invaders? Let them serve as cannon fodder!"