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For Aya's sincere questioning, Wang Lu took off his usual calm expression, and became a little embarrassed instead.
"Actually, I can't talk about giving advice. I have never been omniscient and omnipotent. It just happens to be in the situation you are in... I have witnessed a similar situation with my own eyes, so I can refer to it for reference. What I said may not be correct. But it should be of reference value."
Aya listened carefully.
Wang Lu said: "Bretonia doesn't need you now. It's the same as when your kingdom fell apart. The country and society are a complex whole, composed of many different people and different classes. Ruler, it is impossible for you to directly implement your influence to each specific person. You have led troops to fight, and you should know that no matter how wonderful a strategy is, it must be implemented through subtle tactics. In war, the implementation Your intentions are the officers, but in governing, it is the bureaucracy that executes your intentions. What you really have to deal with is not everyone in Bretonia, but the bureaucrat closest to your class."
Aya couldn't help but retort: "There shouldn't be such an obvious distinction between people..."
Wang Lu said: "I know that you are the founder of the Knights of the Round Table system. You have always advocated equality for everyone. But even in the heyday of the Knights of the Round Table, how many people were there? There are thousands of qualified knights in Bretonia Wan, how big a table do you have to accommodate all the people? In the end, you only have direct contact with the hundreds of people in front of the round table, they are your right-hand man to rule the country, but you don't care about their interests too much."
"People's hearts are profit-seeking. Knights follow you, although they have the cohesion of faith, but they are not gods, and they cannot live by faith alone. They also want to live and enjoy. In addition, as professionals, they need a lot of resources. It is human nature to make yourself stronger. Of course, I know that you are a king with a nearly perfect personality, but you can’t ask everyone to be like you—if that’s the case, there will be nothing edible in this world something."
Rarely did Aya not respond to this burden, but listened silently and earnestly.
Wang Lu continued: "The knights follow you because they hope to gain benefits from following you. They desire honor, desire to make meritorious deeds, and at the same time desire the treatment commensurate with their deeds."
Aya interrupted: "I have never hindered them from pursuing proper interests, and I have never demanded that they live an ascetic life."
"Yeah, you didn't force it, so your regime can persist until the first unification of Bretonia, otherwise you can't even pull up the most basic team." Wang Lu said, "Your problem lies in your You have not set an example. You are the king of knights, the king who is at the top of hundreds of millions of people. If you live a life of poverty and poverty, what do you let the people below do? You, the king, get one thousand silver coins a month, those Can the ministers get 10,000 a month? They can only grit their teeth and get 800 or 500, but this is not enough to live on
Aya laughed: "Do you want me to be extravagant because of this?"
Wang Lu said: "Except for a few cases, which king have you met who is not extravagant? Those poor kings are either emptied by their subordinates, or they will soon become kings of subjugation. A poor king means that the entire bureaucracy The system is broken."
"Then according to your inference, there is no noble king in this world?"
Wang Lu said: "Accurately speaking, a person with high morality is not suitable for a king, because the concept of morality is not suitable for different classes. At the same time, chivalry is not suitable for guiding a king to rule a country.
Aya has actually been moved a lot by Wang Lu, but when he mentioned chivalry, the girl was dissatisfied immediately: "Are you going to veto chivalry as well?"
"It's not a veto, but a right position for chivalry. If a thing is in the wrong position, even if it has no flaws, it will only have a counterproductive effect. It's like making fish head pancakes to look up at the stars, that is **Naked tragedy."
Using this example to illustrate, Aya felt a little easier to accept: "Then where do you think the position of chivalry should be?"
Wang Lu said: "It's very simple, put it on the altar. The justice, dedication, and bravery emphasized by chivalry are all beautiful qualities. They are nothing more than the model idols set up when they educate and guide the people. But idols belong to idols." , Reality is reality.”
Aya said: "You mean to deceive everyone? You say you are fair and just, but you are actually selfish and greedy?"
"Cheating?" Wang Lu smiled, "No promise is not cheating, as long as you don't claim that Bretonia has fully realized the popularization of chivalry, and the people can use chivalry to strictly demand all the ruling classes, then you will not be cheated." It is a deception. It should be said that chivalry does not exist in reality and has been realized, but a goal that requires us to constantly strive for it. Isn’t it enough to explain this? In fact, we are indeed working hard for it, although the reality It’s still far away from the ideal, but a unified Bretonia is always closer to the ideal than Bretonia exploited and divided by the church, isn’t it?”
Seeing that Aya was silent, Wang Lu added an explanation: "Still using the way of military formation that you are good at as a metaphor, suppose you encounter an enemy who is invincible, and you have to rush directly to fight him. Or step by step, accumulating advantages little by little until the final decisive battle? During this period, there may be victories or losses, and it is inevitable that there will be compromises and retreats."
Aya asked wearily, "But how long will it take to truly realize the prosperity of chivalry?"
Wang Lu asked back: "If I say ten years is enough, will you believe it?"
"I know you can't wait to see that day, but you have to realize that you have done all you can do. You have created an unprecedented foundation for Bretonia, but your role is only here So far, doing more is counterproductive.”
Aya nodded slightly, as if she had accepted Wang Lu's suggestion.
Wang Lu didn't urge her, and walked quietly with her in the alleys outside the Dragon City. The hustle and bustle of the city was isolated by layers of high walls, creating a small silence.
After an unknown amount of time, Aya sighed with some relief, as if she wanted to say something.
However, at this moment, a muffled cry suddenly sounded in front of her. Aya's eyes froze, and then her body flickered, and she arrived at the source of the sound in a blink of an eye.
Wang Lu sighed, followed quickly, and saw a young girl crying helplessly in a dilapidated residential house. The reason for the incident is very simple. They used to be businessmen who provided snow mountain spring water for the church. Later, when the church was expelled, they suffered a catastrophe. Their parents were tried as traitors who supported the church. Almost all the accumulated family property was plundered, and the two made extreme choices in grief and anger, leaving only a young daughter and a little property that was barely enough for her to live on. It's a pity that the young woman has never been familiar with the world, her parents' inheritance was quickly cheated out, and now she can't even survive.
"Wang Lu, is such a crime something that must be tolerated on the way forward?"
Wang Lu didn't answer, because Aya actually didn't need an answer.
"Wang Lu, I think there is always something I can do in this country. Maybe as you said, I am not suitable to be a king, but I am still a knight, and I can do what a knight should do .”
Wang Lu asked: "Single-handed, do you act chivalrously and righteously? Roaming in Bretonia, despite the injustice in the world, beheading all the unrighteous people in the world? With your status as the Knight King, or the daughter of the Knight King, come Fighting against the strict system? Aya, this is not chivalry, but a ranger who uses martial arts to break the ban. Once or twice is fine, sooner or later, you will find that the sword in your hand is right, and you have established it with your own hands. The huge country. And the knights who still respect you will unknowingly stand on the opposite side of you, do you... really want to see that scene?"
Aya trembled all over, extremely unwilling: "Do you want me to do nothing?"
"You can do anything, as long as you can accept the consequences, from your point of view, this is the country you built, you can do anything to it, but I guess you will not be satisfied no matter what you do As a result." Wang Lu said helplessly, "So, do you understand why in the Nine Provinces Continent, most of those cultivators don't have too much experience in the world? In Nine Provinces, there are very few monks above the Golden Core Realm directly involved in mortal things, Because I can’t afford it. The number of monks in Kyushu is already one ten-thousandth or even less than that of mortals. The Ten Thousand Immortals League has created so many shit-like things, and the mortal world will only be 10,000 times more chaotic. Ah. A large part of the reason why cultivators seek transcendence is that the chaos in the world of mortals is really unbearable. You see, I have established a wisdom religion, and I am the leader, but it is only a remote command. The executive deputy leader, because the involvement is too deep, I, a professional adventurer, will continue to cut it and make a mess."
Aya didn't speak any more.
Wang Lu patted her on the shoulder and didn't say anything more. Aya was never an idiot. When she became famous, she knew better than most people in the world what she was going to do.
Wang Lu actually didn't think he was much better than Aya, his biggest advantage was detachment. Aya has fallen into Bretonia's obsession and cannot extricate herself. Otherwise, with her extensive knowledge, she doesn't need to be reminded of these truths. But now, everything that needs to be said has been said, and next, I can only wait patiently for Aya to figure it out.
Next, Wang Lu didn't stick to Aya's side anymore, but left her enough time and space to think about some things that needed to be left alone. However, three days later, when Wang Lu finished his short-term trip and returned to the inn that he had agreed with Aya, he found that Aya had disappeared.
Standing at the door of the bedroom in the inn, Wang Lu was dumbfounded.
"Is this... abducted by human traffickers?"
After finishing speaking, Wang Lu felt dejected for a while, and couldn't help but put down the travel souvenirs in his hands: the mead that Aya loves to drink very much - the wine has added special elixir, it is Wang Lu's last resort for Aya, this silly girl If you can't figure it out, then you have to let her know about other places.
It's a pity that the world is really unpredictable, maybe Aya really belongs to Xiyi, and she can't be brought back to Kyushu no matter what? RU
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