For commoners or for lords
Sui Xiong found that he seemed to have not thought about this issue for a long time.
This should be a matter of course. Whether it is his moral values as an earthling or the need to promote the development of the world, he should think and act from a civilian standpoint.
But in recent years, especially with the demise of the Mysterious God System and the various churches of the Masked Void God System launching full-scale missionaries in the Mystic Tower Federation, he has paid more and more attention to the missionary work and gradually shifted the focus of his work.
Even...even the focus of thinking has changed.
Why does he want to help the lords survive? Is it just to expand influence and spread the church
In that case, why did he put restrictions on the life-extending potion invented by the slime alchemist Wendy? Wouldn't it be better to just launch an unlimited quantity of potions that can continuously renew your life? As long as he has a firm grasp on that potion, which of those old men would dare to go against him
He is not the same person now, he is very confident. At least in the main plane, he is not afraid of any challenges and is fully capable of guarding the benefits brought by the life-extending potion.
So should he change course and change direction
Of course not!
How the hell those old immortal lords are doing is none of his business!
It’s good for them to support their own church, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t support it. At worst, they have to wait ten to eight years, and they have stood up to the sky for thirty to fifty years. How can they still live forever
When they die, the next generation of lords may not support the Church of the Mask of the Void. Even if the next generation doesn't support it, then just wait for the next generation.
Maybe after a few generations, the lord family itself will be wiped out. On the mainland, the average lord family only lasts for five or six generations. In one hundred to two hundred years, it is almost finished.
There are various reasons for death, the most common being war, followed by political struggles and the like. More than once, several heirs of a certain lord fought openly and secretly. In the end, the conflict intensified to the point of killing each other. Then all the direct heirs died. The king was furious and let the remaining nobles who were related to his family inherit the territory.
Generally speaking, the king cannot dictate the inheritance rights of the lords. This is a rule and an unspoken rule recognized by all lords. But in a situation like this where the heirs are making a fuss, or even cutting off the direct line, the king, as the leader of the lords, has the right to mediate and punish the family that goes too far and breaks the rules - this is also a rule, and it is also a rule. Unspoken rules recognized by various lords.
Therefore, generally speaking, the battle for aristocratic inheritance rights will follow the rules, and some kindness will be left to the loser, and lives will not be harmed. However, as the family inheritance goes longer and longer, more and more conflicts accumulate, and in the end they often cannot hold back. As a result, a large family with a long history has almost come to an end.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with Sui Xiong. Anyway, he doesn't care whether the noble lords are prosperous, unlucky, have descendants, or have their families destroyed. As an immortal god, he had no need to pay attention to these lords.
The most important thing is that he doesn't want to pay attention to these people.
In his view, lords are, to put it bluntly, similar to parasites. They only rely on civilians to suck blood and make no indispensable contribution to society. Just look at the earth. Places without lords generally develop better than places with lords. Even if the former has oil at their feet, they have not developed a democratic and prosperous society. Instead, a large number of weird and anti-human things have emerged.
The source of the terrorist organization that has entered the 21st century but still maintains the values and morals of the 7th and 8th centuries, and eradicates all those who do not accept this rotten and rotten theory, lies on the ocean of oil. The carefree noble lords.
Of course, among the lords of this world, there are also some who are enlightened and progressive, and some who work hard to benefit their people. But they are unable to establish their own practices and ensure that their ideas and practices can still be followed after their death, passed down from generation to generation, or even promoted. On the contrary, it is normal for people to die and government to stop.
In the eyes of the descendants of those wise lords, other people's lords live in debauchery, other people's lords are relaxed, other people's lords are rampant... Why should I be subject to all kinds of restrictions? Why should I restrain myself from having fun? Why should I work so hard
So bad money drives out good money.
Sui Xiong felt that this kind of thing was unsolvable. Anyway, he never learned the solution either from textbooks or from the Internet. Even when I was in college, those professors who were knowledgeable about ancient and modern times couldn't think of any solution - oh, there is a solution, and their solution is revolution.
By the way, when Sui Xiong was in college, the two professors who had the deepest influence on him were one a thorough humanist and the other a resolute Bolshevik...
Sui Xiong didn't want to make a revolution in this world. He felt that he was really not the material. But he couldn't force himself to accept and like those guys who stepped on other people's heads and indulged in drunkenness and domineering.
That's why he established a republic somewhat untimely, and almost single-handedly created perhaps the first republic in the world, and promoted its continuous progress.
So now, does he want to change
Of course not!
Thinking of this, Sui Xiong couldn't help laughing.
"I've been taught a lesson..." he said with some self-deprecation, "I thought I was a discerning person, but in the end I was just a commonplace."
After laughing, he saluted to the infinite darkness of the underworld, thanked him, and turned around to leave.
The next day, all the temples and altars of Masked Void Church received oracles.
The oracle reminded them not to ignore the core of His Majesty's teachings just because the missionary situation was so good. We must keep in mind that only by making people happy can we achieve real development and progress, and this is the foundation for the Church of the Mask of the Void to stand in the world. If priorities are reversed for the sake of proselytizing, then no matter how widely the faith is spread, it will be a failure.
This oracle shocked many of the chief priests, and many of them decided to shut themselves up and think about their mistakes. Due to the changes in the situation, many chief priests were gradually shifting the focus of their work towards the noble lords. They thought that as long as they could convince the lords to believe in His Majesty the Mask of the Void, the church could spread quickly, but they never thought that faith comes from identification. It is not easy for a superior lord to truly identify with the concepts of development and progress!
Even if this lord agrees, will he not change his mind in the future
Even if he doesn't change, what about his descendants
In contrast, it is much more reliable to get people to agree with this concept.
After all, people will always have needs in this regard.
Suddenly, the entire Church of the Mask of the Void began large-scale adjustments...