"If hanging those ignorant people can correct all mistakes, then this world is too kind," Gao Wen couldn't help laughing and shaking his head when he heard Luo Peini's words, "They are just being encouraged, or It’s just an accomplice who took advantage of it.”
"But they are more hateful than the main culprits," Ropeni Glenn said coldly, "My husband fought against tradition and rules for them, so that those who could only roll in the mud all their lives have a decent life However, they were deceived by a little lie, or bought by a little money, and turned into a mob, who came to rob the castle and attack their lord!"
Amber heard this from the side, and finally couldn't help it at this time, she looked at Gao Wen and Luo Penny dumbfounded: "Wait a minute, what do you mean, most of the mob who stormed the castle back then were actually attacked by Viscount Roman? Helping people?!"
"Of course, this is the inference I made based on your investigation results," Gao Wen nodded, "and it is also similar to what I expected at the beginning. After knowing the specific actions of the Viscount Roman and the incident of the mob attacking the castle later, Afterwards, I knew it was going to go that way.”
Luo Peini looked at Gao Wen in amazement. She had calmed down a little from the excitement of recurring old wounds, and couldn't help but wonder what Gao Wen's real purpose was today: "Why do you say that?"
Gao Wen didn't directly answer the question of the Countess Luo Penny, but raised a new question: "Do you want to know why your husband failed?"
Luo Peini was stunned, and took a deep breath slowly. She wanted to regain the dominance of the topic: "Why should I discuss these past things with you?"
"If you can understand the laws that Cecil is currently implementing, you probably won't have this problem," Amber next to him said, "Cecil... is currently gradually emancipating serfs and slaves, and land distribution It's also going on in sync..."
"My husband has already failed at this once, I didn't expect someone else to do the same thing," Ropeni Grant stared at Gao Wen, "Now you have learned what happened here a few years ago, so the last It's better to stop in time, this deviant move..."
"There is nothing wrong with this deviant act. Your husband's failure lies in the fact that he did three other things wrong." Gao Wen shook his head and interrupted Luo Peini's words directly. "First, he took too big steps. Second, he The fist is not hard, and third, he keeps the people ignorant."
As he spoke, he turned to the wall behind the desk, looking at Viscount Romain Gülen who was smiling faintly in the oil painting on the wall.
"He was a pioneer, a pioneer of reform, but like many pioneers, he made a very serious mistake. He tried to correct the mistakes in the current Ansu system and unleash the power of the people, but he failed to do so. He came up with a reasonable plan, and he directly put all the reforms together, but he didn't think about the mutual influence and interaction between these decrees, and he didn't think about the gradual nature of social transformation, so his reforms would make the order messy— If I am not mistaken, those serfs and slaves who were suddenly freed caused confusion at the first stage, because they had neither land nor property, so your husband had to carry out land distribution without preparation, and This leads to even greater confusion.
"Secondly, he didn't have enough power to resist those rebounding forces. He didn't first ensure an armed force of his own, and he didn't think carefully about how much the traditional nobles affected by him would resist after their interests were damaged. .
"Finally, and most fatally — he didn't tell those who got their freedom and their land, 'why.'"
Gao Wen stopped at this point, and turned his head to Luo Penny Grant: "The arrogance of the nobles still constrains his eyesight, so he didn't take a close look at the lowest-level commoners at all, and he didn't understand the thoughts, knowledge, and thoughts of those people. Instead, he took it for granted that those people would understand this great cause as well as himself. His original intention of handing over the land and many rights to the people was to let the people live a better life, but in the eyes of the people at the bottom, this was nothing more than It's another 'giving' by the high-ranking nobles—if the lord gives alms, others can give alms;
Luo Peini muttered to herself: "...how could they think like this..."
"Why can't they think like this? Isn't that how it happened in the past few hundred years? Thunder, rain and dew are the rewards of the nobles, and the untouchables don't need to think about it, as long as they bear it silently. For hundreds of years, this society ruled by the nobles is That’s how I taught them,” Gawain snorted softly, “so I’m sure that when they were bewitched and stormed the castle, they wouldn’t feel any guilt at all—but after the liquidation, you send them When they go to the gallows, they will not feel that they have been wronged!"
The study room fell silent. For a long time, Luo Peini, Gao Wen, and Amber did not speak.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that the Viscountess broke the silence: "So, you came here this time to talk to me about this? To let me understand how a disaster that broke out a few years ago happened?"
Gao Wen smiled lightly, and shook his head slightly: "I just came to see a friend I have never met."
He was referring to Patty, but Luo Penny Grant would obviously understand it as Viscount Roman, but these were not important.
Gao Wen turned around again, and seriously looked at the smiling Viscount Roman Glenn in the portrait.
Just as he thought before, the world doesn't revolve around him as a traverser.
There will always be people who wake up, and there will always be people who will do some deviant things, just like the wild mage who studied the essence of magic decades ago, and Viscount Roman Glenn who initiated reforms ten years ago.
That reform failed. Due to lack of experience, limited vision, and ideological constraints, Roman Grant's New Deal failed in just a few years. He himself was branded with many negative marks and became a devil A typical curse, if it weren't for the aristocratic system to maintain its own face, Viscount Roman's fate would have been even worse-and his short-term change has become a solo of a romantic utopian reformer, which no one can understand , and no one even wants to record it.
But the pioneers did exist after all, and before he, Gao Wen, unmasked his coffin, there was indeed such a pioneer.
That's why Gao Wen came here and talked so much with Luo Penny Grant.
His original purpose was just to confirm the existence of Patty Glenn, and to confirm whether this land was also polluted by the Sleepers, but after Amber investigated the events that happened in Glenland many years ago, he changed temporarily. A little planning.
He retracted his gaze and nodded slightly to Countess Luo Penny: "Ma'am, if you really want to hang the murderers who killed your husband, then you should put the noose away and wait for the right time to put it around the neck of the right person." superior."
Viscount Luo Peini looked into Gawain's eyes quietly: "But I'm afraid I don't have such a noose."
Gao Wen and her looked at each other for a moment, the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "That's right, I have it."
Then he didn't wait for Luo Penny's answer, but continued: "Can I go and see Patty?"
"Of course." Luo Penny Grant nodded, "She has always admired you."
"Then I can't keep my little admirer waiting too long," Gawain laughed, "Take me there."
Guided by the Viscount, Gawain and Amber came to the door of the little girl Patty's room.
"Her spirit has not been very good a few days ago, but she has suddenly improved in the past few days," Luo Peini said as she went to open the door, "I probably heard the news that you are coming, so I am very happy... My husband is still alive He used to tell Patty stories about you when he was here."
The wooden door decorated with yellow and white tassels was pushed open, and Gawain walked into the room, and he saw Patty's chair in the middle of the room, and the little girl was looking out of the window ecstatically—through a large crystal door Through the window, she looked at the starry sky outside the castle.
There are many large windows in this house, and the castle wall has obviously undergone drastic renovations in this part—near the roof, Gawain even saw a skylight that is rarely seen in traditional castles, the skylight Allows the midday sun to flood the interior with ease.
"The doctor said she needs more sun exposure—the magic power in the sun can relieve her itchy skin." Luo Penny said softly.
Gawain remembered what Patty had said to himself in the City of Dreams: She needs to enter the dream world to sleep well, because her body is itchy and painful.
There is no sunlight at night.
At this time, Patty finally heard the movement at the door, the little girl shook her head, turned towards the door, and then a bright smile appeared on her face: "Uncle Gawain!"
Luo Peini stepped forward quickly, turned Patty's chair around, and corrected: "It's Duke Gawain."
"It's the same as being called uncle, so I feel like I'm more than seven hundred years younger." Gao Wen smiled and waved his hands, indicating that he didn't care, and then he came to Patty, "Look, it's like about All right, I'm coming to see you."
The little girl blinked happily: "Yeah!"
Then she asked curiously: "Uncle, are you really resurrected? I heard from the maid that the founding hero of the country has been resurrected from the grave..."
Gawain turned his head, glanced at Amber with a half-smile, then nodded to Patty: "Of course."
"It's really possible to be resurrected!" Patty looked pleasantly surprised, "Then dad can do it too? Dad likes to tell your stories! He must really want to see you too..."
At the edge of Gawain's line of sight, Ropeni Grant's fingers gripping the back of the chair suddenly turned white from the force.
"I don't know if your father will come back like me, but all of us will meet somewhere someday," Gawain stroked Patty's hair lightly, "if he knew you were so early If you meet me, he will definitely envy you."