After getting a definite answer from Evenson, Melinda was completely stunned. Reform? What right did Asgard have to carry out reforms?!
Back then, Qin State had endured six generations of chaotic rule, been driven out of the Central Plains by the Six States of Shandong, and fallen into barbarian lands. The feudal lords despised Qin and refused to ally with it. Only when it stood on the brink of national extinction did it resolutely implement reforms. What the hell was Asgard messing around with reforms for when everything was fine? Were they facing some life-or-death crisis too?
Wasn't Asgard supposed to be incredibly powerful, calling itself a cosmic divine kingdom with an unbroken lineage for ten thousand generations? (They really were gods, and Odin's reign of over five hundred thousand years truly did count as an unbroken lineage for ten thousand generations.) Their most recent crisis had only been the Dark Elves' invasion, right? You couldn't just define their ships as black ships forcing their way through the gates because they happened to be pitch-black!
And even if they had too much time on their hands and absolutely had to stir things up, couldn't they learn something better? The Green Sprouts Law, the Single Whip Law—weren't those good enough? Why did they have to copy the Qin and Han legal system?!
Melinda kept mentally cursing Asgard for messing around, not because Asgard's reforms were unsuitable, but because they were far too suitable.
Asgard was a hybrid political system: a feudal kingdom retaining remnants of clan and Horde structures, while also showing the beginnings of an empire. Aside from Odin being constrained by his own holy reputation, the more important reason for this situation was that he simply could not be bothered to govern.
In Asgard, Odin possessed absolute violence. Anyone