After hearing Tax Official Dickga's general account, Su Xiao's eyes showed confusion. In his view, this was no longer a struggle for the throne among the Royal Family, but open slaughter between members of the Royal Family.
Su Xiao had experienced struggles for the throne more than once or twice. Back in the Xiya World and the Black King World, he had helped people seize royal power.
In the previous struggles for royal power he had witnessed, there had always been a fig leaf. Take the old lion in the Xiya World, for example. With the old lion around, no matter how much his sons and daughters hated one another, they would never act openly. The main reason Su Xiao had not slaughtered all those princes and princesses was his fear of the old lion. Even until that old bastard's death, Su Xiao had never figured out what he had really wanted to do.
This time was different. The customs of the Taling Kingdom were extremely savage. No matter how many successors there were, only the one who survived in the end could wear the crown and be crowned king. Everything was done in the open.
From the kingdom's left and right prime ministers down to the commoners, everyone knew this. Old King Edri Lucas naturally knew it as well, and maintained an attitude of both permissiveness and encouragement.
It seemed that, regardless of whether the victor had the talent to govern the country, as long as they survived to the end, they could be crowned king. No matter how one looked at it, that was abnormal.
Aside from the throne, the Edri Royal Family definitely inherited something else. In fact, compared with the throne, that other thing passed down from generation to generation was even more important. To inherit