Aya obviously has her own ideas about changing people's hearts.
Is it wrong to change hearts? If so, why does the world need education? Wouldn't it be okay to just let things go? But not to mention the Xiyi Continent, even in Kyushu, kingly education is an indispensable part of any ruler. Isn't it natural to infect and educate people with chivalry
But she wasn't going to argue with Wang Lu, because it was impossible to win the debate, and even if she won, it would be meaningless.
And Wang Lu didn't say much, he just said it, some things are far more powerful when seen with eyes than with words.
This small city doesn't have enough people to accommodate, so the next stop is Dragon City.
Choosing Dragon City meant that this month's journey was finally coming to an end. Aya wanted to come at this time, but she was also reluctant to part with a sense of relief. She already vaguely understood what Wang Lu was going to do.
However, she believed that after arriving in Dragon City, the real Bretonian knight would let him understand that chivalry is not illusory, and she believed that Bedivere, the former Knight of the Round Table, would not disappoint her.
However, after rushing to Longcheng, what she saw and heard made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
Everything seems to be a replica of that remote town, except that the scale of things is larger and the surface looks more orderly, but the greedy people are still greedy, the rotten people are still rotten, the past order is broken, and the newly established order Putting on the cloak of chivalry, but what he does is not too different from the Holy Light Cult.
In Bretonia in the past, the church suppressed all over the world, and the believers were superior to others. Now the superiors have become knights. The regime has just been restored not long ago, and the strict class barriers have been vaguely formed. The knight class and the commoner class are clearly defined, and the knights are divided into different levels.
And different levels mean different interests. High-ranking knights occupy the most affluent land, own groups of servants, and have overwhelming power, just like a hegemon.
To some extent, the new Bretonia is better than the Holy Light’s rule, but in some respects, the situation is actually worse, because in the past, in order to consolidate the regime, the Holy Light used resources from other dioceses , subsidized Bretonia, but many newly appointed knights simply started to exploit.
The replacement of old and new regimes and the redistribution of interests are inevitable phenomena, but everything should be fair and just and beneficial to the country and society. Aya fought in all directions in the past and tried her best to maintain the justice of this process. She had graciously released an opponent who had posed a great threat to her and lost in the end, and gave him the respect he deserved. She once severely punished those subordinates who tried to show off their power and plunder after the victory, and she even set an example, being the supreme king, and still maintaining a simple life.
The knight's spirit enabled her to set off a storm like a prairie fire, and quickly set off a storm in Bretonia, establishing an unprecedented unified regime. Although due to various reasons, the knight's kingdom fell apart shortly after its establishment, but she believed that Bretonia Tonya's future has already found its direction, at least she and those who accompany her in the struggle should be very clear about this.
"Why?"
In the middle of the night, Aya quietly entered Bedivere's study. The city lord of Dragon City who had just finished a day's work—and also the current regent of Bretonia, was shocked when he heard this, and immediately stood up from the desk.
"Aya?"
Aya didn't show her figure, but asked in a cold voice: "Why?"
She didn't say a word, but Bedivere knew exactly where Aya's anger came from. Just now, he finished interviewing a well-known rich man in Bretonia, and promised to give him a piece of land once controlled by the Holy Light Cult, together with the people on the land... Compared with the Holy Light Cult, the greedy The cruel rich will only make life worse for the people on the land.
There are many similar things, and Bedivere doesn't know how much Aya has seen, but he doesn't intend to cover it up.
After a long silence, Bedivere spoke.
"Because those are necessary compromises."
"Compromise?" Aya's voice was full of loss and bewilderment, "You... shouldn't be the one to say the word compromise so easily."
Bedivere laughed at himself: "Isn't it? A person who has survived for more than a hundred years under the monstrous weather of the church is probably best at compromise. Otherwise, I should have followed the king more than a hundred years ago. "
This time it was Aya's turn to be silent.
"The spirit of chivalry required me to resist until the last moment, but I couldn't bear to lose everything about the former king, so I compromised, and it was a continuous compromise. I surrendered to opponents who shouldn't surrender, fell in love with the The woman I fell in love with gave birth to a child who shouldn't have been born, and today, compromise seems to have become an instinct of mine."
Bedivere was full of emotion, but at the next moment, he changed the subject and said in an unexpectedly tough stance: "However, over the past hundred years, I have also realized that compromise is an indispensable quality for a politician. Without my compromise, there would be no Dragon City today, no Bretonia today! Aya, you are the daughter of the King of Knights, tell me, is my compromise wrong?"
Aya's voice was a bit astringent: "It was then, and now..."
Bedivere shook his head: "It's the same, in fact, it's all the same. Although the rich man you saw just now is tyrannical and greedy, he has great power and strength. He has made great contributions to the fact that Winterring City can be captured without bloodshed." , and what he wants is just a small piece of land and a few hundred laborers, but what he wants in exchange is the lives of thousands of soldiers. So, what can I do? For my own observance, let my subordinates Soldiers risking their lives? Mercy is also the basic tenet of chivalry."
Aya said: "You should try to change him and influence him."
"People's hearts can't be changed." Bedivere said wearily, "Unless we use spells to turn everyone into puppets, we must admit that people's hearts are not as beautiful as we think."
Aya was surprised that Bedivere would say something similar to Wang Lu, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
After a long time, Aya tried to say: "That's just because we are not strong enough..."
But Bedivere became excited: "Not strong enough? That's right, I'm just an ordinary Knight of the Round Table, and indeed I can't be called strong enough, but isn't your father, the King of Knights, not strong enough? He never compromised in his life, so what happened? Is it just the reason for the infiltration of the Holy Light Cult that everyone betrayed their relatives?"
"How can you talk like that!?" Aya became furious like never before, "Do you want to say that my...our obedience is all in vain?"
Bedivere took a deep look at her, and then said dejectedly: "Of course it's not in vain. Without the struggle of the King of Knights, Bretonia would still be in a state of disunity, with endless infighting and bullying. But these are completely different things. "
"The strength of the country lies first in the strength of the people's hearts, the hearts of the people are broken, shameless, greedy..."
However, before Aya finished speaking, Wang Lu patted her shoulder.
"That's enough, don't be hysterical like a literary freshman."
Aya glared at Wang Lu, and the pressure of the legendary level rushed towards her face. Wang Lu swayed slightly, but he refused to give an inch: "Why, are you going to swing your sword at me? Just like you once did to the people around you. like that?"
Aya's anger condensed instantly, and a deep chill spread all over her body: "No, I..."
"Let's go, let's talk about it when we go back."
Wang Lu said, pushed Aya, then turned and left.
After the two left, Bedivere went to the study alone, and after a long time, he bowed deeply in the direction of Aya's departure.
"Farewell, my king."
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"You got one thing wrong."
On the way back, Wang Lu said to Aya: "He is no longer your subordinate. In the past hundred years of your absence, he is the real pillar that supports Bretonia's chivalry spirit. The leader who took control of Bretonia and brought the country back from division to unity in just a few months."
"..."
"And you, you are just the daughter of the King of Knights, what right do you have to speak out in front of him? Don't you understand the principle of respecting the old and loving the young?"
Aya was a little dumbfounded, and even more speechless, perhaps it was really as she said, the changes of more than a hundred years made it difficult for her to adapt.
"Maybe Bedivere has found his way, and maybe his approach has his reasons, but that has deviated from the spirit of chivalry."
Wang Lu said: "Of course, because he is no longer a knight under your command, but a ruler. And as a ruler, he is far more qualified than you. At least the Bretonia I saw, although other The spirit of chivalry has been distorted, but inspired by this slogan, people's hearts have indeed been united, the country has indeed been revived, and unprecedented prosperity is in the near future."
"It will also be accompanied by unprecedented decay."
"This is the normal state." Wang Lu said, "People's hearts are inherently black and white. Heinous people often have humanity shining, and saints also have unbearable selfish thoughts in their hearts. Complicated people form a complex society. Objective reality and laws, such as sunrise and sunset, don't be so obsessed with cleanliness."
Aya thought for a long time, and she could see that the confusion in her heart was like a knot: "Maybe it's just because I'm not strong enough?"
Wang Lu almost cried because of her stupidity: "So many strong are strong? According to the legend in Xiyi Continent, in the era when gods walked in the world, were those gods considered strong? But I have never heard of anyone who can educate the people and make everyone feel better." You are all immortal. Then do you have to break through the legend, be promoted to the gods, and then break through the holy world from the god world, and then enter the highest world from the holy world, so that you can return to the mortal world to deal with the problems of people's hearts?"
Aya was a little confused: "What do you call the Holy Realm and the Supreme Realm?"
"Oh, that's only available in expansion packs. It's too early to tell you... But in short, don't you think it's ridiculous to do something that requires you to become infinitely powerful?"
Aya was even more confused: "So... I have been doing useless work all these years?"
"How could it be useless work? Without you, there would be no Bretonia today, but Bretonia no longer needs you." Wang Lu smiled, "I know you don't understand, so I will Seriously explain it to you. In fact, the reason is very simple, but you would not listen to it before, but now... "
Aya asked seriously: "Please advise."