Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 494 - 048 The So-Called Aristocrats

In fact, if Princess Sarah’s doubt was known to Austin, he would probably scoff.

The notion of innate nobility is merely self-praise by a group of beneficiaries to maintain their own interests.

There’s no such thing as a country perishing without nobles; it’s just that the nobles monopolize knowledge, leaving the lower class peasants as ignorant farmers who know nothing.

A group of clueless peasants, once free from noble rule, naturally have no way to survive in the wilderness.

This world is unlike the ancient Hua Country in Austin’s previous life, where the imperial exam system was implemented nationwide, allowing even commoner scholars who failed the exams to have a certain reserve of knowledge, hence enabling at least some management talents during historical peasant uprisings.

In this world, due to the manifestation of Extraordinary Power, class structure is extremely rigid.

Knowledge is monopolized by the upper nobles, resulting in the ignorance of the common masses.

Mercenary Adventurers are better off, as their travels expand their insight considerably.

But the eighty to ninety percent of peasants, the foundational stones of nations, who have lived their lives under noble rule never straying more than twenty to thirty kilometers from their villages, understand nothing beyond farming.

Even well-traveled Mercenary Adventurers are utterly ignorant of the nobly monopolized knowledge of managing people.

As a result, the historical Herculean crowds of refugees that gathered like snowballs inevitably collapsed due to the absence of welcomed noble administrative talents.

Historically, countries established through refugee resistance mostly flickered out quickly due to the lack of management personnel.

Noble bloodlines monopolize knowledge of governance and administration.

This knowledge is a closely guarded core secret passed down through noble bloodlines, generation after generation.

This inherited transmission makes nobles the sole representatives of the ruling class possessing management knowledge on the continent.

Without management talent,

regardless of states founded by refugees or kingdoms expanded snowballing their populations through the might of Giant Dragons, they ultimately collapse due to internal conflicts.

As for the Giant Dragons who historically attempted to establish kingdoms,

for those proud dragons, the greater the number of Clans beneath them, the grander their presence; as for what the clans eat, how they fill their bellies,

What does it matter to me if these lowly insects can eat enough?

Hence, in the early expansion phases, those Dragon Clans established by dragons could still rely on war dividends for continuous growth.

But once they develop to a peak, unable to continue growing, such crises naturally arise internally, and even the most powerful dragon cannot rescue from the clan’s collapse.

The same fate befell historical refugee resistance forces.

Inevitably collapsing after forming great momentum, driven by the oppression they suffered, even when lucky enough to rise rapidly.

Without management personnel, ignorant of managing production or mediating internal strife...

Such forces might conceal everything in the rapid initial expansion, but cannot sustain once reaching their peak. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

The nobles’ governance knowledge, though still in the crude oppression phase,

at least organizes a certain level of production capacity, ensuring a force is like living water continuously flowing to sustain its existence.

This reveals the truth of so-called innate nobility.

The term noble merely indicates monopolizing upper-class knowledge to remain in a special privilege class position.

Additionally, in this world of Extraordinary Powers, the peasant difficulty to revolt presents an impassable barrier, establishing the special necessity of nobles.

Once knowledge spreads widely, kingdom management via noble political systems becomes nothing but a joke.

However, such profound reasoning is not something Princess Sarah, who grew up in this world, can comprehend.

Despite,

During her strolls over the past few days, Princess Sarah saw the existence of schools, beheld the huge central library, and witnessed various aspects.

But it’s impossible for her to understand everything under the tremendous impact she received in mere days.

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While Princess Sarah toured the Dragon Nest Tribe Main City, Austin was organizing various progress aspects of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Since a few days ago, after Austin left Princess Sarah alone to hear the secrets of the Ireland Kingdom, he had determined to journey to the Central Earth Continent.

The Central Earth World is a place he must visit.

At the very least, he needs to find the secret of time and the path after Legendary.

Despite feeling far from Legendary’s pinnacle, and facing a long path before breaking through to the Epic, potentially taking decades or centuries.

Err, but waiting for his breakthrough to gather this stuff would change circumstances dramatically by then.

The current situation of the Central Earth Continent, though turbulent with hidden currents, remains in a covert, unmanifested state.

Waiting a few more years or a decade, gods might revive, stirring great wars again, ruining Ireland Kingdom, leaving no way to scheme for Epic’s knowledge.

A journey through the Central Earth World, though dangerous,

but in this Epic-less era, Austin faces no fatal threats.

Hence, the journey to the Central Earth Continent is imperative.

Still, Austin remains a cautious dragon.

Otherwise, he would not have grown to this level within mere ten-plus years.

Although determining to go due to the Ireland Kingdom’s Plantis royal secrets, he must prepare beforehand.

For example, letting Dragon Nest Beastmen at Kawa Great Forest’s borders collect information on the Central Earth Continent.

Concerning the impending storm, ongoing battles within the Central Earth, circulating rumors on the continent...

All types of information are gathered by Dragon Nest Beastmen spies, analyzed and sorted by the intelligence department, then delivered to Austin.

Particularly focusing on news concerning the Ireland Kingdom.

The gathered information, although delayed due to transit by a year and half a month, holds substantial relevance for Austin.

Preparing for the Central Earth journey includes crucial handling of Dragon Nest Tribe matters.

Austin doesn’t want to return achieving his goal from the Central Earth World to find the Dragon Nest Tribe he painstakingly built has mysteriously vanished.