If he hadn't personally experienced and seen it with his own eyes, even with the memory of Gawain Cecil, Gawain would probably have a hard time understanding why this world is mired in the mire of civilization retrogression, why after so many years, civilization has not Without the slightest recovery, it showed signs of ossification and retreat.
A research manuscript, with four previous masters, decades of accumulation, study, and summary, produced results that could shake up the world structure, but it was almost destroyed in the hands of the ancient powerhouses of this era. Jenny and her predecessors Perhaps they are rare talents, but their encounters are not uncommon in this world.
Here is a typical example: on the land of a nobleman, a serf suddenly thought of a good way to manage the land, or discovered a problem with the tax collector. He decided to tell his lord what he found, and the result would be what is it
Many people would think that the serf would be punished for touching the lord's property, or slandering the tax collector, but this is often not the case because they never get in front of the lord, and never have time to speak their minds.
The punishment they face is often another thing How dare you tread on a nobleman's courtyard with your bare feet that have stepped on horse manure!
What if he was wearing shoes
Then they will also be dragged away by the guards You have shoes? ! What a steal!
Obviously, no one cared what the serf discovered from the beginning to the end, and no one knew what he really wanted to say. As a serf, he was not convicted for his words, but for his breath.
Serfs were not yet qualified to be convicted of crimes for speaking.
This is a social ecology that is difficult for people from modern civilized society to understand. It is absurd, stupid, weird, sad but true.
Did Jenny and Ravencrest's research work? Of course, although those rough and primitive theories have not been sorted out, there will still be situations where they cannot explain real phenomena, and even cause major practical errors, but at least most of the time, those formulas are effective, otherwise Jenny would not Possibly becoming a fourth-level runemaster: As a runemaster with only apprentice-level spellcasting ability, all she can rely on is the formulas and logic summed up by three generations of predecessors.
Is Jenny's mentor really stupid? Of course not, at least in terms of intelligence, it is impossible for a great magician to be stupid. A stupid person cannot master complex spell models and rune calculations, so that great magician must be a person with high intelligence.
What led to the final tragedy was neither that there was something wrong with the notebook, nor that Jenny's "mentor" was so stupid that he couldn't see the value of the notebook, but that the latter didn't pay attention to the notebook at all, and he didn't even pay attention to it. But Jenny, all he cares about is that his slaves are transgressing the rules, just like the nobleman in the story who whipped his serfs for stepping barefoot into the courtyard.
Walking on the road, Gao Wen kept thinking in his mind. He found that the situation was indeed as he expected: the world has reached the time for change, and both technological and ideological breakthroughs have accumulated a lot. In a small number of low-class groups, this kind of change is happening, and it has even happened. They came into being quietly, and then ended quietly. The powerlessness of the change group makes it impossible for those things that should be epoch-making to spread upward. The so-called change There is no way to talk about the times, and this is the crux of the world.
But the situation did not make him happy as he expected.
God knows how many other geniuses like Jenny are being crushed in that stale quagmire, buried, wasted, and sacrificed, just like Ravencrest!
And before his plan comes true and completely changes the status quo, how many people will not wait for the day when they see the dawn
He returned to his tent with a slightly heavy heart. As soon as he entered, he saw the little maid Betty squatting next to his desk: the little girl should have just finished cleaning here, and her clothes looked dusty, but But she didn't notice it, she just squatted quietly on the ground, using the twig to draw on the ground and practice writing.
It wasn't until Gao Wen approached that Betty woke up. She looked up and hurriedly got up: "Master!"
Looking at this innocent little girl, Gawain inexplicably felt that his depressed mood slowly eased. He gently stroked Betty's hair: "Didn't I give you a set of stationery? Why are you still using branches here?" writing?"
Betty blinked her eyes, as if a little shy: "I... can't write well, always make mistakes, and worry about wasting ink and paper. I want to practice on the ground first, and then use ink and paper when I can write the letters correctly. Paper… "
Gao Wen opened his mouth a little unexpectedly. He wanted to tell the other party that although the territory cannot produce paper and ink yet, it is actually not short of money at all. After the completion of the wharf along the Baishui River, it is much more convenient to purchase things from Tanzania Town than before. But after thinking about it, he just smiled and shook his head, and found a small wooden stick from the side, squatting down beside Betty.
"You're holding the pen incorrectly. Although writing with a stick on the ground is different from writing with a pen on paper, if you want to write well, you still have to practice holding the pen first."
While talking, he held Betty's hand, guiding the little girl to hold the "pen" in her hand in the correct way, and write letters one by one on the ground.
"Don't use too much force. Writing is different from working. You can't write well with great strength. Too much strength will make you tremble."
"It doesn't matter if you write slowly, you are just learning, take your time."
Betty was engrossed in studying, her eyes were shining brightly, this little maid who was always known as a clumsy and reckless image seemed to be a different person seriously at this moment, she was so devoted that even the tip of her nose leaked tiny The sweat beads didn't bother to wipe.
Gawain let go of his hand, watching the little girl slowly complete the letters, and wrote a few crooked words on the ground: "Betty... likes... here."
After finally writing a complete sentence, the little girl looked very happy. She raised her head and looked at Gao Wen with sparkling eyes: "It's finished."
Gawain looked at the little girl's bright eyes: "Do you like this place very much?"
"Well," Betty nodded vigorously, then thought for a while, and nodded vigorously, "I like it."
"Why?"
"Because everyone is a good person, Miss Rebecca is, Mrs. Hetty is too, and you, my lord, and Miss Amber, and Knight Philip and Byron, and everyone who works outside, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Hammer, Norris..." Betty said as she wracked her fingers, as if she wanted to mention everyone whose name she could remember, and finally she couldn't count, so she stopped, "Everyone It’s great, and everyone loves the place.”
"Does everyone like it too?"
"Well! Everyone said it when they finished their work and chatted. They said that the master is... how to say, a powerful and upright noble master. As long as the promises made are fulfilled, and he can go to the battlefield to protect everyone, And the most important thing is to keep everyone fed.”
Gawain didn't take it up.
The food in the territory is not self-sufficient. Nowadays, whether it is food, meat or other non-staple food, it actually comes from the purchase of Tanzan Town. In other words, they don't see any difference in it.
According to Norris, as long as they wait until the Frost Moon, the first batch of fast-growing crops can be harvested quickly under the ripening of druid spells, and then the food in the territory will not be a problem.
Letting everyone have enough to eat is enough to gain loyalty in this era.
Betty didn't hear Gawain's reply, but she didn't care, because she had already lowered her head and started to practice writing. Looking at the little girl with a devoted face, Gawain suddenly asked seriously: "Betty, do you want to write?" Do you go to school?"
The little maid didn't realize it all at once: "Go to school? What do you study?"
"Reading and writing, calculation, history, maybe even... runes and magic circles," Gao Wen said slowly, "there are runes and magics that ordinary people can learn, believe me, there will be."
Betty thought about it carefully, then lowered her head: "I can't learn, they say I'm stupid."
"Then do you want to learn?"
"...yes, but who's going to cook?"
"You can study when you are free, such as two hours before going to bed at night," Gao Wen laughed. "As long as you want to study, there will always be time."
This time, Betty could only nod.
However, the two did not continue on this topic, because soon it was time to prepare dinner. As the cook, Betty heard the sound of a brass bell ringing outside, so she quickly got up and put away her twigs, and followed Gao Wen bowed and ran out quickly.
It wasn't until Betty's figure disappeared outside the curtain of the tent that Gawain turned his head slightly and said to the seemingly empty tent pillars, "Come out, how long do you plan to stay there?"
The air there twisted slightly, and Amber's figure emerged out of thin air. She leaned on the pillars of the tent, her face full of surprise: "How did you find me? How long have you found me?"
"I've seen it since you leaned on the pillar and secretly made faces at me," Gawain gave the half-elf an annoyed look, "I know you are confident in your stealth skills, but you don't open them in broad daylight." It's a bit insulting to my IQ to just stand in a place less than three meters away from me in the shadow cover, okay? Do you think the knight's perception ability is poor?"
"Tch, I thought you were totally concentrating on teaching that little girl to write just now, and you wouldn't even notice this." Amber curled her lips and muttered, and then sat down on the desk next to Gao Wen with a flick of her figure, and continued He just sat there without saying a word, but stared straight at Gao Wen, and after a while, he looked at the latter with a hairy look.
"What are you looking at?" Gawain couldn't help asking, "Is there something on my face?"
"You are such a strange... nobleman." Amber said out of nowhere.
"ah?"
"It's nothing," the half-elf lady waved her hand, "I'm just curious, you said before that you want everyone to be able to read and write... so you were not joking?"
"Why are you joking?" Gawain laughed. "Not only is it not joking, but I want you to call Heidi and Rebecca right now, and I want to talk to them about this matter."