Changes in the Star Luo Empire, Bibi Dong's Mission Completed
(In the previous chapter, the Hell White Tiger's level was downgraded to First-Level God- level)
However, Amona never offered an explanation for this.
Because she also knew that as long as the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce remained powerful, such public opinion would always exist.
Just as Sixth Son's innocence couldn't be proven even by dissecting her own belly, her explanations would only make things worse and lead to more conspiracy theories.
Amona immediately chose to attack.
Anyone who spreads public opinion that is unfavorable to their rule, even if they have not violated imperial laws, will be arrested and tried for serious crimes.
Anyone who disobeys will be punished even more severely, and will be executed by Lingchi slicing.
Such commands are naturally unlikely to be executed absolutely.
Amona had only recently come to power and relied on external forces to do so; her authority had not yet diminished.
Not to mention the lower-level enforcers, even many of the royal guards she had just taken over felt that her methods were too cruel, and thus they outwardly obeyed but inwardly disobeyed.
As the process goes down layer by layer, the execution efficiency is not very high.
The entire empire was waiting to see the new emperor make a fool of himself.
Amona then waved her hand and executed all the officials and guards who were unwilling to carry out her orders, and then installed people from the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce in their positions.
The name of the tyrant began to be sung throughout the empire.
A noble Soul Master disguised himself as a wandering knight and planned to punish these newly enthroned emperor's tentacles, thus obstructing the emperor's orders.
However, even if these talents from the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce are not strong enough, their equipment is more than an era ahead of the Douluo Continent.
The Beast Soul Alliance Research Institute is no pushover.
Looking at the entire Star Luo Empire, the generational transition of technological products is not very smooth, but rather quite abrupt.
Because the Research Institute's products are developed as system products, they have been influenced by the technology of each era.
This situation is similar to the simultaneous invention of the steam engine and the generator, or the coexistence of steam trains and electric lights.
Even though we have LCD monitors in the capital city, which is part of the information age, electric lights aren't even common in the countryside.
This situation will likely persist in the Star Luo Empire for at least several more years.
However, the elites within the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce naturally enjoy the most advanced technological equipment.
Some high-ranking officials already have smart devices in their hands.
Those members dispatched by Amona to carry out her orders in various remote areas were each equipped with a personal intelligent shield robot and a high-tech mobile rifle.
The former allows these members, even ordinary people, to automatically defend themselves against surprise attacks and assassinations by Soul Master, while the latter allows them to hit Soul Master even with mediocre marksmanship through the intelligent calibration of their rifles.
The Douluo World is similar to the world of martial arts, Soul Master are equivalent to martial arts masters.
In the martial arts world, martial arts is only limited to a small circle of martial arts. Although it is very lively in martial arts novels, most people just listen to it as legends. In the martial arts world, some corrupt government rulers even think that martial arts masters are just more powerful with their fists and kicks, and can fly over walls and walls, but they can be blinded when faced with the siege of five or six people, which is not worth mentioning in front of the army.
The status of a formal Soul Master in the Douluo World is unmatched by the martial arts masters in Wuxia novels, but for ordinary people, the level of mystery is actually about the same.
In the typical martial arts worlds of Jin Yong and Gu Long, there are only about ten thousand martial artists on the entire continent. An ordinary person might not see more than a few martial artists in their entire life. The number of Soul Master in the Douluo Continent is only one or two hundred thousand. If it is ten times more, then it is naturally very rare.
Amona's subordinates, even ordinary people, could kill Soul Elder and even Soul Ancestor. All the Soul Master and their retainers from those noble families combined couldn't handle Amona's many subordinates.
In this round, Amona naturally won by a landslide.
However, this approach brings new hidden dangers.
With the advent of firearms, the relationship between the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and the former SkyNet could not be hidden from those who were interested.
Assassins and assassination organizations have a terrible reputation in any world, and they are considered low-class even in the Douluo Continent.
If it weren't for the fact that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and Amona are currently at their peak, it would have dealt a huge blow to the guild's reputation.
If a chamber of commerce gets involved with an assassination organization, people will naturally worry that cooperating with you might lead to their demise, making it difficult to build a good reputation and credibility.
Fortunately, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has already risen to prominence. After this worry turned into apprehension, the partners dared not easily withdraw.
In short, Amona's actions successfully eliminated many dissidents and placed her loyal subordinates in various positions throughout the country.
During this process, many people outside the Beast Soul Alliance were also impressed by Amona's ruthless methods and joined the team.
The original ruling class, including nobles, naturally felt more dissatisfied with Amona's ruthless methods.
At first, the people thought the new emperor was too tyrannical because of the large number of people. However, as Amona's control over the country increased and her decrees were successfully implemented, the people found that they had to pay less tax and their quality of life improved. Many officials and nobles who had previously used them as tools were punished, and they naturally began to praise Amona as a benevolent and virtuous ruler.
In the Douluo World, ordinary people who are not Soul Master are basically destined to be beasts of burden for their entire lives, with almost no path to upward mobility.
In addition, commoners have extremely low social status, and nobles and Soul Master can bully them at will, but no one will punish them.
Evil Soul Master who massacre villages at will will be wanted, but if they only bully without killing, even the Spirit Hall won't care much.
If you have some connections or your methods are discreet, occasional plundering and kidnapping of civilians will only be tolerated with a blind eye.
Amona's decrees do not completely eliminate human trafficking, which has been legal in this world for over a thousand years, but simply making life slightly better for ordinary people and ensuring that the punishment of crimes committed by the powerful is more effective is enough to earn the gratitude of many commoners.
Simply put, the common people in Douluo are similar to those in ancient times. They basically work seven days a week without rest, and there is no labor arbitration. If they are oppressed, they can only find connections on their own. Now, Amona makes the common people work 996 every day, but she decisively and cleanly kills all those who do not abide by the law or exploit legal loopholes, including those with connections and even high-ranking officials. Naturally, the people shout that a just and upright official has arrived.
In fact, it is not difficult for most regimes to enable the majority of their people to live a happy life. With the development of productivity in modern times, it has already exceeded expectations, and feeding a large population is no longer a problem. The difficulty lies only in implementation and redistribution.
Historically, many government decrees have been well-intentioned and indeed beneficial to the country and its people when implemented. However, the process involves many stakeholders, and those responsible for implementing them often fear being killed or having their career advancement blocked, making them hesitant to carry them out. In other words, there will always be those who dare not implement them, and once this number exceeds a certain percentage, the decree becomes nothing more than a piece of paper.
A small number of people control the vast majority of wealth, and then use this wealth to win over some of the remaining people while suppressing others, thus controlling the rest. This is why most people have to work non-stop to make money.
The productivity of the Douluo World has not yet developed to the point of overproduction, but this phenomenon is more obvious because of the existence of Soul Master, who are born as Celestial Dragons.
Simply cutting back some of the rentier class and circulating their wealth would greatly reduce the burden on the country's operations.
It is foreseeable that as Amona completes the upgrade of production materials through the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, the Star Luo Empire's productivity will quickly surpass that of the Heaven Dou Empire. If it can be ensured that this wealth is not intercepted by the noble elite class, the Star Luo Empire's national strength will reach several times or even more than that of the Tiandou Empire in a short period of time.
This would naturally lead to a larger population. However, the number of Soul Master brought about by a larger population base was secondary; You Chen didn't care about that.
What he cares about is the power of faith that these people can bring him in the future.
It is precisely because Amona and the Beast Soul Alliance understand this that they are so concerned about governing the Star Luo Empire.
Otherwise, they wouldn't care about the living conditions of ordinary people at the bottom of society, nor would they care about whether a country is powerful.
But that's all in the future.
Amona's reputation among the common people rose, but her reputation among the upper class declined, and she faced more and more impeachments from officials.
However, Amona remained defiant and did things her own way.
Her people have begun to infiltrate various departments of the empire, and she has people available.
Impeachment and coup attempts by officials could not change Amona's decision, and because Amona had available manpower, they could not obstruct Amona's decrees by influencing their own factions.
Most importantly, they cannot cross the line as long as they want to play within the rules.
If he were to force the emperor to abdicate, he would truly lose his official robes, since Amona has no shortage of manpower.
Even those who wanted to deal with Amona lacked the necessary force.
As a result, many powerful and influential people were furious with those who suggested using public opinion to attack Amona.
If it weren't for this strategy, which gave Amona an excuse to execute a group of lower-level members and dismiss a group of officials on joint responsibility, Amona wouldn't have been able to so easily install a large number of her own people, and this snowball wouldn't have been able to roll so easily now.
The situation would not have developed so suddenly and unexpectedly.
Many people are now filled with deep regret.
This opportunity was clearly created by them.
However, although many management issues are not inherently difficult, Amona's team is not so perfect that everyone is flawless.
Moreover, most of the staff at the grassroots and middle levels are still the same, which poses a challenge to management.
Many officials from the emperor's faction still encountered problems in carrying out their duties, forcing Amona to make trade-offs and relinquish control of some regions.
On one hand, this is also the rule of the game; before Amona has the strength to completely overwhelm and fully control the empire, she must abide by it.
On the other hand, some people were indeed not capable enough to take their positions, and in order to maintain the stability of her rule, Amona also had to use some of the original local officials.
However, taking control of an empire can be done step by step.
However, Amona had to execute You Chen's orders with the highest priority.
Without any hesitation, she issued a decree to publicly publicize Bibi Dong's scandal in official media.
The authority and credibility of the emperor of a country were used to guarantee the public opinion that swept the world at that time.
This move caused an uproar throughout the entire Douluo Continent.
Even the neighboring Heaven Dou Empire was shocked and utterly dumbfounded, let alone the Star Luo Empire Kingdom itself.
But because of this, it generated a lot of buzz and spread much faster than it did a few years ago.
This time, everyone from eighty-year-old women to five-year-old children heard about it.
The stories about Bibi Dong are more widely sung than popular hits, and her popularity rivals that of the Spring Festival Gala.
Rather, discussing the interesting stories about this Pope has become a carnival in the Douluo Continent.
This decree, which could very likely provoke hostility from the Spirit Hall or even lead to war, was naturally unlikely to be passed smoothly from the outset.
"Your Majesty! Are you planning to initiate a war with the Spirit Hall?!"
"I did not mean that."
"Then why did you issue such an outrageous decree!?"
"Because my teacher is none other than You Chen, the former theoretical Grandmaster of the Spirit Hall! He once worked for the Spirit Hall, but was repeatedly ostracized and suppressed by Pope Bibi Dong! Now that I have become the emperor, I will naturally seek justice for my teacher! Expose Bibi Dong's true colors and ruin her reputation!"
This answer immediately silenced the assembled officials.
At the same time, I was also extremely horrified.
They had many guesses about the identity of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce's president, but they never expected it to be that esteemed person!
As Bibi Dong became a hot topic, the story of the emperor endorsing Bibi Dong's scandal on behalf of his mentor gradually spread.
The name You Chen also began to be discussed and mentioned extensively during this process.
After learning the cause and course of this turmoil, the entire Douluo Continent was shocked, and everyone was asking—who is You Chen?
Yes, although You Chen is the second most Da Ming in the Soul Master theory world, no one dares to say he is number one.
However, as mentioned before, the Soul Master community is a niche community, not to mention the Soul Master theory community within the Soul Master community.
Because the Spirit Hall took over the Martial Soul Awakening, the world only knows about the Spirit Hall, and even the Upper Three Sects don't know much about it.
Just like Tang San, in the original novel, he only learned about the Upper Three Sects through Yu Xiaogang's introduction.
Ordinary people know the Pope, but they basically only know that the Pope is a great figure who is on par with the emperor of the empire, and that's about it.
Now they know that an emperor, in order to stand up for a Soul Master named You Chen, actually took the initiative to publicize the Pope's scandalous deeds and even vouch for him. Of course, they were shocked and at a loss for words.
Even if they knew nothing about You Chen before, they now knew that this person was definitely a very important figure.
Amona certainly wouldn't dare to make such a decision on her own initiative as to proactively reveal her identity.
So this was actually something You Chen actively requested.
This is a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy.
The first thing to do, of course, was the mission. This time, the public outcry far exceeded that of the last time, and the mission, which had been stalled for a long time, was completed in no time.
The second bird is related to the power of faith.
This doesn't mean that You Chen is going to start collecting faith power right now.
However, one cannot suddenly make the people believe in him one day.
Building brand awareness is crucial before taking this step.