Chapter 213 Why is Noxus fighting? (Please subscribe~)

Why did the Noxians fight?

Of course it's for Noxus!

Marit came up with this idea instinctively.

"For Noxus", "For the glory of Noxus", these are the lines that every Noxian soldier will shout.

Noxians fight for the Empire.

So what is the empire fighting for?

As if Levi anticipated Marit's thoughts, he titled it "Noxians", but in fact, from the very beginning, he focused his perspective on the Noxian Empire as a whole.

"As a political entity, why has Noxus continued to wage war for hundreds of years?"

Livy raised this question at the beginning.

This made Marit and Riven read on with some concern.

Because they have long wanted to know the answer to this question. What is the reason for the empire's continuous wars, especially the attacks in recent years?

The empire has given them answers. But as long as a smart person thinks carefully, they will know that those answers are not reasons, but just excuses for war.

What is the root cause of Noxus’ crazy expansion?

"It's to divert conflicts." This was Li Wei's answer.

What kind of contradiction is being transferred? Of course it is class contradiction.

But the situation in Noxus is different from that in the Twin Cities. Here Levi writes: "The class contradiction that the rulers of Noxus care about, or in other words, the 'class' they care about, is different from the Twin Cities."

Huge difference.”

The class conflicts in the Twin Cities can be roughly seen as conflicts between workers and business owners.

However, Noxus workers and business owners account for a small proportion of the population, and there are many farmers and landowners.

Will the class conflict that caused the Noxian rulers so much trouble and had to launch a war to divert it be the conflict between farmers and landowners, slaves and nobles?

"This is not the case." Levi wrote: "Many readers who are already familiar with Janna's theory will subconsciously regard Noxian farmers and slaves as the main force of class struggle in Noxus over the past hundreds of years.

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"But in fact, in Noxus, the rulers have never been worried about farmers and slaves."

Because Noxus is too powerful and has too many extraordinary beings.

In the Twin Cities, as long as there are enough workers in riots, the Alchemist Baron and the law enforcement officials will have more or less headaches.

Because those gangsters and law enforcement officers themselves are not that strong. And the workers in the Twin Cities, especially the workers in Zaun, almost all of them are masters of bazookas and homemade Gatling weapons, even biological and chemical weapons.

You can find dozens of different ones.

It's really difficult to deal with too many people. Even if they can be suppressed, they will have to pay a huge price.

This is why Piltover gives preferential treatment to local workers.

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Your farmers want to fight? Your slaves want to revolt? You want to give it a try?

Try it and you'll die.

No matter how many mortals there are, they are just ants that can be crushed to death by the Noxian army with one kick.

Just like playing a game, the more minions on the opposite side, the happier the heroes will be at clearing the line.

"So when the Noxian rulers consider class conflicts, they never consider the farmers and slaves who make up the vast majority of the empire's population and should theoretically be the cornerstone of the empire."

"In Noxus, farmers and slaves are not considered human beings. They are weak and do not even deserve to be a class in the eyes of the ruler. They can only be regarded as living resources that can be taken by the 'Noxians'."

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Seeing this, Marit, who was born into a noble family, may not have much reaction.

But Riwen, who had been a serf and later became a soldier, had many deep feelings. Serfs were not considered human beings, and she had deep experience with this saying.

Looking further down, Li Wei wrote:

"Since the main contradiction in the eyes of the Noxian rulers is not the contradiction between farmers and landowners, slaves and nobles, then what kind of contradiction is it?"

"It's a conflict between aristocratic families and grassroots extraordinary people."

Although the talent of an extraordinary person is related to his bloodline, it is not strongly related.

Not only the children of your aristocratic family can be trained to become warriors or awakened as mages.

So could farmers and slaves.

Although farmers and slaves are individually weak, they can't stand their numbers.

Almost 90% of the population of the Noxus Empire were farmers and slaves.

And this means that about 90% of the extraordinary people born in the Noxus Empire every year are not from noble families, but from farmers and slaves.

So, here comes the problem.

Now that these grassroots extraordinary beings have extraordinary powers, will they still be willing to be farmers or slaves?

In the extraordinary world, strength is more important than seed. In other words, strength itself is a more valuable seed.

It is not difficult for grassroots extraordinary people to get rid of poverty and become rich. And when they have economic status, they will of course further seek political power.

"And this political power can only be obtained from the empire."

"If the empire cannot meet the requirements of these grassroots extraordinary people, they will become an extremely unstable risk factor that continues to accumulate in society."

“But if we want to meet their demands, where can they get the political power they want?”

Of course, those noble families.

The cake is only so big, and if the newcomers want to divide it further, they can only steal it from the hands of the seniors.

But can the old nobles tolerate their privileges, more specifically official positions and fiefs, being taken away by these grassroots extraordinary people?

Of course not.

"Whether it is breaking the monopoly of the old aristocrats or curbing the rise of grassroots extraordinary people, it is not an easy thing to do."

"So, in order to prevent the empire from being overthrown, Noxus adopted a very 'smart' approach——"

"War, endless war of expansion!"

First of all, war requires the assembly of a large and powerful army.

The army needs talents, and the battlefield is suitable for extraordinary people to perform.

As a result, those grassroots extraordinary beings who were regarded as unstable factors in society were unknowingly "recruited" into the army by the empire and became part of the Noxian state machine.

Secondly, war can plunder resources and land from other countries.

These newly plundered lands and resources can be used as rewards to those grassroots extraordinary people with meritorious service, so that they can be promoted from grassroots to a new generation of military nobles.

This not only satisfies their desire for political power, but also allows more private experts to see a fair and effective channel for advancement.

At the same time, this method of making a bigger cake through expansion and plunder and then dividing the cake did not affect the interests of the old nobles.

So over the past few hundred years, as the Noxus Empire continued to expand smoothly, the empire was very united and stable (if serfs and slaves were not counted as human beings, it would be an exaggeration to say it was a prosperous age)

"The problem is. The desire for expansion can be endless, but the map of Runeterra has boundaries after all."

"What's more, the Noxus Empire has already reached its strategic expansion limit before it reaches the border of the map."

"To the north, there are the endless ice fields of the Freljord. To the west, there are the strongholds of the Demacia Alliance."

"To the east and south, there is a vast ocean formed with the blood of Ionians and Shurima."

Noxus can no longer be conquered.

If you can't conquer it, you won't be able to grab new land.

Without new land, the new generation of military nobles would have no land to claim.

They have made military achievements but have no land to claim, so they will naturally have huge conflicts with the old nobles who occupy large areas of land.

"As Noxus sinks deeper and deeper into the quagmire of the war on the four fronts, the old landed aristocrats hold high positions and are far away from the front lines, while the new military aristocrats hold military power but are not allowed to receive rewards. This contradiction is still accumulating."

"In today's Noxus, the old land aristocracy and the new military aristocracy have become two incompatible forces."

"It is foreseeable that in the future, or even in the near future, a complete liquidation of the old land aristocracy by the new military aristocracy will inevitably break out in Noxus."

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To Noxians, Levi's words were shocking.

And he finally wrote specifically:

"When Noxus is expanding smoothly and the country's fortunes are booming, the interests of the grassroots extraordinary people and the empire are indeed the same. As new members of the ruling group, they can happily share in the endless feast that the empire plunders from all over the world.

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"But now Noxus is no longer a paradise for grassroots extraordinary people."

"If you are a new generation of extraordinary warriors, a middle- and lower-class soldier in Noxus, then you actually have only one mission in fighting now:"

"Go to the front lines and die, and help the old nobles in power at the center of the empire remove the unstable factors in their eyes - that is, yourself."

"Yes." The words stabbed Riwen's heart hard:
Chapter completed!