I weave fate in parallel time and space

"My name is Ramses Meliamon."

Ramesses said calmly.

"However, you should be more familiar with another name."

After a pause, he continued.

"Ramses II."

The moment they heard this, the pupils of Mycroft and Rob below shrank slightly.

Rob almost thought he heard wrongly and asked tentatively.

"Isn't this name the name of your founding emperor?"

Ramesses' eyelids closed, revealing a playful smile.

"Why, doesn't it look like Yu?"

Although there was a smile on his face, the aura of a superior person exuding from his body made Rob hesitate to look into his eyes for a while.

"The Mr. Tesla next to you used to use his airship to come to Egypt, and he also met Yu." Ramesses said slowly, "Yu never told him Yu's name, but I think he should Already guessed it."

He looked at Tesla and said, "Is Yu right, Mr. Tesla?"

Tesla bowed politely to Ramses and said, "I have met Emperor Ramses."

"So, you have been ruling the Egyptian Empire from behind for hundreds of years?" Mycroft asked directly.

"Since you already have the answer in your mind, why bother asking?"

Ramses II said quietly.

Mycroft didn't answer, just stared at him, and so did Rob on one side.

Ramesses looked at Rob and said with great interest, "The look in your eyes is telling me that in your eyes, I am an authoritarian dictator who is greedy for power."

Rob panicked and quickly shifted his gaze.

Mycroft raised his eyebrows, "You misunderstood. Britannia respects the sovereignty and independence of every country. What kind of political power a country should have is the free choice of the local people."

"You Britannia have exported revolution a lot in the past." Ramses joked.

After a pause, he continued, "There is no advanced point in any political power, only whether it is suitable or not. The origin of democratic politics can be traced back to the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece. At that time, the people made public decisions through assemblies and votes. affairs, and elect leaders. The core idea of ​​this system is that political power comes from the people and is accountable to the people.

The parliamentary democratic system implemented by the Roman Republic was also partly influenced by this. The Roman Republic was a "democratic parliamentary" regime of nobles + citizens. Unlike the city-state system of Athens, Rome implemented a federal parliamentary system.

In the Roman Republic, nobles and commoners could participate in parliament and jointly decide on national affairs. Although the nobility had more power and wealth, the common people were also able to participate in decision-making through their own representatives. In addition, the government institutions of the Roman Republic also included institutions such as the Senate and the Citizens' Assembly, which all had certain decision-making and supervisory powers.

But then, why did the Roman Empire turn to a monarchy? "

He smiled and said, "You might say it was because of Augustus' ambition. But in fact, I want to tell you, it was because the democratic system was no longer suitable for the country with a very large territory at that time.

The means of communication and transportation at that time were limited, and it might take several months or even half a year to send news from the West to the East in such a huge country.

If democracy were exercised in that era, just collecting votes would take several years or even more than ten years, and the efficiency of executing decrees would be extremely low.

In ancient times when productivity was low and a natural disaster could cause a famine, this inefficiency was almost fatal.

Therefore, only an efficient government system such as centralized power was most suitable for that era.

You can go out and look around you. In this barren land, it is very difficult to create wealth with your own hands. "But you have the resources," Rob said.

Ramses smiled and said, "So, tell me, do ordinary people have the opportunity or ability to exploit oil?"

Rob fell silent.

“Resource-based countries are very prone to the problem of capital concentration. The extraction and processing of resources often require large amounts of capital investment. This is a game that only the rich can play. It will only exacerbate the polarization between rich and poor and social inequality.

Therefore, I chose to concentrate these resources in my own hands and make secondary distribution by me.

I wouldn't say it's the best option, but I would say it's the best option for this country. "

Ramesses spoke very calmly, and was not even angry at all because of Rob's questioning. This was completely different from the monarch in many people's impressions.

"The disadvantage of the monarchy is that the quality of the successor cannot be guaranteed, and there is no guarantee that every successor will be absolutely fair." Mycroft said slowly.

He raised his head and looked at Ramesses, with an unknown light flashing in his eyes, "Unless this fair monarch can live forever and remain fair until the end."

"Yu is not immortal." Ramses II looked into the distance, "It's just that the people in this country still need Yu's existence for the time being."

"You could have been hiding forever." Mycroft continued, "Why did you appear in front of us?"

After a pause, he whispered softly, "It's because of the "abnormalities" that have happened in the world in recent years, right?"

Ramses looked at Mycroft with admiration, "You are really sharp."

He said half-jokingly, "How much salary did Brittania give you? Come to Yu, I can give you double, and I can even make you a prince. I can give you everything you want." .”

Rob couldn't help but look at Mycroft on one side.

"If I want wealth and power, I can get more in Britannia." Mycroft said.

"That's right." Ramesses nodded, "People who are truly wise usually disdain these things."

He stood up slowly, walked to the throne, and came to front of Mycroft and others.

He was very tall. Even though Mycroft was over 1.8 meters tall, he was not as strong as the young man in front of him. Especially his sun-like eyes gave people a great sense of oppression.

"Come with Yu, Yu will take you to a place." He looked at Tesla and showed a mysterious smile, "This is a place you have never been to last time."

Tesla raised an eyebrow.

Then Ramesses took them behind the throne, where there was a relief of Olysis on the wall.

He slowly raised his hand, and the lines on Orisis's body lit up with a faint blue light. Finally, Orisis began to crack from the middle and moved to both sides - it turned out to be a door.

Behind the door is a cylindrical space. There is a pattern on the ground that looks like a magic circle, with many words engraved on it.

Ramesses walked into this space, and then looked at Mycroft and others who were still hesitating at the door.

"Are you scared?" he teased.

Mycroft walked in first, followed closely by Rob, followed by Tesla.

Then, the lines on their magic circle on the ground were lit up little by little, and the entire disk slowly slid downwards - it turned out to be an elevator.

The disc took them slowly downward. At first, this dark, narrow space was filled only with magical radiance on the disk.

But as they gradually entered a larger space, what they saw in front of them made everyone's pupils shrink slightly. (End of this chapter)