To regain the Holy Light
What Amber said was nonsensical, and if Gao Wen continued to ask, she didn't know anything. She only said that Wright had just returned to the territory and now he has returned to the church.
"Keep an eye on the construction side," Gao Wen hurriedly confessed to Rebecca, and grabbed Amber who was about to slip away, "Follow me to see Wright."
"Hey, don't pull me... I am the God of the Night, do you know... I am the God of the Night... I feel awkward entering the Holy Light Church..."
Amber's weak protest quickly disappeared into the air. She clamped the short winter melon under her arm, took a big stride, and went straight to the church. Not long after, the two came to the small church built by Wright himself. .
At the moment the church is not open, but the door is not locked either, on the half-hidden door of the church, a white death chrysanthemum is quietly inserted in the gap of the door.
Gao Wen glanced at the death chrysanthemum, then stepped forward and gently opened the door.
A tall and burly figure stood in front of the pulpit, with his back to the door, wearing a scarred Cecil magic armor. The sunlight coming in from the side window fell on the figure's shoulders, rippling in a hazy circle. glow.
He seemed to see something flashing away in that vaguely illusory glow, but when he looked closely again, what he saw was only the hazy spots of light brought up by the dust flying in the sunlight.
Gawain walked towards Wright, the sudden sound of footsteps echoed in the empty church hall, and the figure in front of the podium swayed for a while, Wright turned his head, bowed and saluted after seeing Gawain: "Lord, I am just now Going to report to you…”
"It's okay, I'll see you too," Gawain waved his hands, and then noticed that there was a shocking wound on Wright's face. The wound stretched from the left forehead to the cheek. I'm afraid that if it was deeper, it would take away the wound. Take one of Wright's eyes, and at this moment the wound has healed, but left a deep scar, "... It seems that you have experienced a lot."
"I... regained the holy light," Wright lowered his head and spread out his palms. A mass of clear light that seemed to have substance appeared and flowed out of the air almost immediately, gathering above his palms. This mass of light seemed to induce The holy energy in the air shrouded his whole body in a hazy halo, "I have never felt... the relationship between me and the Holy Light is so close, it turns out that it has always been by my side, in our Being around everyone is like magic in nature... ”
Gao Wen quietly watched the holy light flow in Wright's hand and slowly dissipated, and then asked curiously, "How did you do it?"
"I... don't know all the reasons behind this, but maybe I have found the true path of the Holy Light," Wright's voice hesitated at first, but then became firm and forceful, "Lord, do you still remember that you asked Is that what I said?"
Gao Wen had a feeling in his heart: "About your belief?"
"Yes, you once asked me, do I believe in Holy Light or the God of Holy Light," Wright said while turning his head, quietly looking at the back of the pulpit, Gao Wen remembered that the God of Holy Light was once placed there But now, there is nothing there, "I think I understand what you mean now..."
The disappearing icon, the regained holy light, and the quietly changed temperament of Wright, Gawain had already thought about the general situation of the priest regaining the holy light, but he didn't know how this amazing change happened How does a pious believer suddenly break through his own beliefs, break through the influence that is almost like a spiritual seal
He couldn't help asking, and Wright was silent for a long time after hearing these questions, and then he said quietly: "Lord, do you know what their defeated soldiers did after the nobles and priests of the Holy Light were routed?" ?"
"I can probably guess it." Gao Wen said in a deep voice.
"We passed a village, on the edge of the Cansco area...it was completely destroyed," Wright said calmly, his tone seemed very indifferent, but when he spoke, Gawain could feel the faint The power of the holy light floated up, "A dozen or so survivors in the village spent the night there..."
From Wright's mouth and Amber, I learned about the night that happened in Consco, the nobles who were crazy because of hunger and the knights of the Holy See, the little girl named Emily, and the story of Wright regaining the Holy Light. The whole process.
After listening to Wright's story, Amber inevitably showed a regretful expression on her face, which is always heartless and cheerful. She frowned, looked up at the gloomy Gawain, and then at Wright, In the end, I still couldn't help muttering: "The group of god-killing nobles... and the gang of magic sticks..."
After she finished speaking, she immediately patted Gao Wen's arm: "Gao Wen, I didn't mention you, you are still different from them."
"I know, you don't need to emphasize it deliberately," Gao Wen looked at Amber dumbfoundedly, and then looked at Wright, "Although you have regained the Holy Light, you should still have doubts... otherwise you wouldn't be standing here thinking about it like this." It’s been a while since I reported.”
"I'm just thinking about something... I don't know if I should think about it or not," Wright frowned and sighed slightly, then he looked into Gawain's eyes and asked in a particularly firm tone, "Lord ,I have a question."
"go ahead."
"Those nobles, as well as those priests and knights, they claim to be the protectors of the people, but in the end they are more robbers than robbers. Of course they deserve to die. We can kill hundreds of nobles in this war And priests, but... what on earth caused such nobles and priests? They have not fallen to this level hundreds of years ago, even decades ago... We wiped them out today, but tens of hundreds Years from now, will the people after us follow the same path of depravity?"
Amber looked at Wright's expression in disbelief, as if she didn't expect him to ask this question. In her impression, Wright was just an enthusiastic pastor who preached at ease and helped people everywhere in the territory, but she didn't expect him to come back This kind of question would suddenly be raised later. This question is almost questioning whether everything Gao Wen has done is meaningful.
And this question...
Amber couldn't help but glanced at Gao Wen, she thought of the plans that Gao Wen had said, about the disposal of the old nobles, about the future territorial laws, and she couldn't help asking: "Yes, when you I also said that there is always greed in human nature. Even the government affairs office that seems to be orderly and clean now, as the territory develops and becomes richer, there will always be people corrupted by power. If that is the case... "
Gawain looked at Amber and Wright, and he wasn't too surprised by the latter's question.
Transforming and establishing a kind of thinking is not a matter of one day, even in the case of constantly promoting new education and new ideas, even in the innermost circle around him, there are very few people who can fully understand his thinking, and It is quite normal for Wright to have such questions after seeing the battlefield with his own eyes and seeing the corruption of the old nobles and the old church.
This has nothing to do with personal thinking or understanding, it is simply the limitation of the times.
He asked the priest who had regained the holy light in front of him: "Wright, what kind of group do you think 'nobles' are?"
"Nobles..." Wright frowned, "They... are the owners and rulers of the land and the people, and at least in name, they are the protectors of all of this... They have great power, and this kingdom basically depends on them It worked."
"So do you think 'aristocratic' is good or bad?"
This time it was Amber who answered: "I have seen the bad Belet with my own eyes."
"I'm also a nobleman," Gao Wen looked at Amber with a half-smile, "and Viscount Glenn who liberated slaves eleven years ago, and now Viscount Glenn, who has accepted Cecil's law and is about to swear allegiance to Andrew ? Viscount Leslie, they are nobles."
"Um..." Amber was stunned for a moment, scratching her hair, "then there are good and bad."
"Yes, there are good ones among the nobles, but why is the entire group of nobles still corrupted like this?"
Amber and Wright looked at each other, as if they didn't know what Gao Wen really wanted to say for a while.
Fortunately, Gao Wen didn't confuse them for too long. He wanted to say something to the people around him for a long time. Now the timing was just right, so he took a breath and said what he was thinking: "The noble or more Strictly speaking, it is the land aristocracy under the current Ansu system. They are the absolute owners of land and population, as well as the makers and executors of power. From the day of birth, the nature of this group determines their way of life They occupy almost all the resources, and have absolute authority to use these resources. All civilians are only renters of their resources, or even part of their resources. Nobles do not produce, and they do not need to produce anything. They just It needs to be parasitic on the land and the people, and just draw nourishment from the latter...
"So, of course, they don't really care about the lives and rights of civilians, and because the resources come from the land, they don't even care about the people as much as they care about their own land, even if they occasionally show that they care about the people. Look, it is just equivalent to a person cherishing the coins in his pocket, they will protect their coins, but when the price is right, they can 'spend' those coins at any time.
"It is also true that they claim to be the protectors of the people. In the wild pioneering age, human beings had only limited resources to support limited protectors. In order to survive, we had to concentrate a lot of resources on a few powerful Individuals, let these individuals protect the safety of the whole, and these powerful individuals are the original land aristocracy, at least in that era, their existence ensured the survival and development of civilization, but after this period is over
"No one can control the landed aristocracy, because they are both owners of resources, allocators and users, and lawmakers, executors and defenders, so they must become a group that is out of control, corrupt and depraved, Even putting aside morality, their "corruption" cannot be regarded as corruption. It is just a natural change in the continuous expansion and growth of a group in a nutrient-rich environment, just like a plant will continue to grow in fertile soil.
"Under such circumstances, the land nobles will always remember that they will never voluntarily give up their resources and privileges, just like a plant will not voluntarily pull its roots out of the soil. In this case, even occasionally One or two 'good' landed nobles have appeared, and they will not change the overall attributes of the landed nobles, because the essence of this group has not changed, and their way of life will not change, as long as they still occupy land and enjoy privileges, If they master resources, their group will inevitably embark on the road of parasitizing on the land and the people, relying on the nutrients of the latter to survive, and their so-called 'protectors of the people' role will follow the distribution of resources by all land nobles , After forming a relatively stable ruling structure, there is nothing left. Think about those high-sounding "noble wars". In the "noble wars", did they take up swords to protect the people
"And when this concept is expanded, the current Church of the Holy Light and the land nobles are the same, except that the resources occupied by the land nobles are land, and the church possesses faith and magic. The privileges of the land nobles are laws, and the privileges of the church It’s just a classic interpretation.”
Gawain paused here, looked at Wright and Amber who were deep in thought, and continued: "So let's go back to why the nobles corrupted and degenerated like this at the beginning. The answer is that they must corrupt and degenerate like this. The emergence of a few enlightened lords among the nobles has nothing to do with how glorious and great they were, it is purely determined by their inherent attributes, so Wright, I can tell you with certainty that we can wipe out hundreds of them in this war There are thousands of nobles and knights, but as long as the group of "land nobles" still exists, then even if we kill all the land nobles, new land nobles will appear sooner or later, even from our descendants.
"So from the very beginning, this war was not just to destroy the bodies of those nobles, but to destroy their foundations. We did not carry out this war to destroy the more than forty feudal lords in the southern border and plunder their land and wealth. The war is to eliminate the whole of the "land aristocracy" to which these lords belong, and to return the land and freedom to the people. Milly fought this war.
"Wright, if you are interested, you can go and see my latest land distribution bill, as well as the explanations of land rights and people's rights that are constantly promoted in schools, newspapers, and bulletin boards. Perhaps You will understand why Earl Hossman charged me with 18 charges when he called for troops to declare war on Cecil, and 11 of them were related to the laws I made and the things I advertised in the territory Yes, because those things that really kill them will even kill their descendants. On this point, they see it quite clearly.
"But as long as these things are promoted and established to form a stable social order, then we can proudly say that we have wiped out the whole of the 'land aristocrats', not their bodies, but their foundations. From now on, even if there is still the word 'nobility', even if they have something left, their roots will no longer exist."