In response to Aya's sincere inquiry, Wang Lu rarely took off his usual calm expression, but was a little embarrassed. Come and read - Internet café,.!

"Actually, I can't talk about pointing, I've never been omniscient, it's just that you happen to be in the situation...... I've seen a similar situation before, so I can learn from it, and what I'm saying is not necessarily right, but it should be valuable. ”

Aya listened intently.

Wang Lu said: "Bretonia doesn't need you now, it's the same reason as when your kingdom fell apart. The state society is a complex whole, made up of many different people, different classes, and as a ruler, you can't directly exert influence on each specific person. You have led troops to fight, you should know that no matter how brilliant the strategy is, it must be carried out through subtle tactics, in war, it is the officers who carry out your intentions, and when governing the country, it is the bureaucracy that implements the intentions. What you really need to deal with is not everyone in Bretonia, but the bureaucrats closest to your estate. ”

Aya couldn't help but retort: "There shouldn't be such an obvious difference between people......"

Wang Lu said: "I know that you are the founder of the Knights of the Round Table system, and you have always advocated equality for all. But even at the height of the Knights of the Round Table, how many were there? There are thousands of qualified knights in Bretonia, how big of a table can you fit all the people? At the end of the day, you're only in direct contact with the more than 100 people at the round table, who are your right-hand men in ruling the country, but you don't care too much about their interests. ”

"The hearts of men are profit-oriented, and the knights follow you, although there is a cohesion of faith, but they are not gods, and they cannot live by faith alone, they also have to live and enjoy. In addition, as professionals, they need a lot of resources to make themselves stronger, which is the instinct of being human. Of course, I know that you are a king with a near-perfect personality, but you can't ask everyone to be like you—then there will be nothing to eat in this world. ”

It was rare that Aya did not react to this baggage, but listened silently and attentively.

Wang Lu continued: "The knights follow you in the hope of benefiting from it, they are eager for honor, they are eager to make meritorious deeds, and at the same time they are eager for treatment that is commensurate with their merits. ”

Aya interrupted, "I have never hindered them from pursuing proper interests, and I have never asked them to live an ascetic life. ”

"Yes, you didn't force it, so your regime can hold out until the first unification of Bretonia, otherwise you won't be able to pull even the most basic ranks." Wang Lu said, "Your problem is that you don't lead by example." You are the king of knights, the king of hundreds of millions of people. If you yourself live a life of poverty and poverty, what do you let the people below do? If you, the king, get a thousand silver coins a month, and those ministers can get ten thousand a month? They only gritted their teeth and took eight hundred, five hundred, but this was not enough to live

Aya smiled: "Do you want me to be poor and extravagant because of this?" ”

Wang Lu said: "Except for a few cases, which king have you ever seen who was not poor and extravagant? Those impoverished kings are either overshadowed by their subordinates, or they are about to become the kings of the country, and the impoverished kings mean that the entire bureaucratic system has become dysfunctional. ”

"Then according to your reasoning, there is no king with high morals in this world?"

Wang Lu said: "To be precise, people with high morals are not suitable for kings, because the concept of morality is not applicable between different classes. At the same time, chivalry is not suitable for guiding kings to rule the country.

Aya had actually been moved a lot by Wang Lu's words, but when she heard him mention chivalry, the girl was immediately dissatisfied: "Do you want to veto even chivalry?" ”

"Not a veto, but a right position for chivalry. If something is in the wrong place, even if it is not defective, it will only be counterproductive. It's like if you make a fish head cake and look up at the starry sky, that's a naked tragedy. ”

Using this example to illustrate, Aya felt a little more acceptable: "So where do you think the place 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 good qualities, and the exemplary idols set up when educating and guiding the people are nothing more than that. But idols return to idols, and reality returns to reality. ”

Aya said, "You mean to deceive everyone? They shout about fairness and justice, but in fact they are selfish and insatiable? ”

"Deception?" Wang Lu smiled, "No promise is not a deception, as long as you don't claim that Bretonia has fully achieved the popularization of chivalry, and the people can use chivalry to strictly demand all the ruling classes, it is not a deception." It should be said that chivalry is not a reality that has been achieved, but a goal that we need to constantly strive for. In fact, we are indeed working for it, although the reality is still far from the ideal, but a unified Bretonia is always closer to the ideal than a Bretonia that has been exploited and disintegrated by the Church, isn't it? ”

Seeing that Aya was silent, Wang Lu added: "It's still a metaphor for the way of military formation that you are good at, assuming that you encounter an enemy who you can't defeat now, do you want to rush up directly and fight him, or do you follow the steps and accumulate advantages little by little, until the final battle?" There may be victories and defeats, and compromise and retreat are inevitable. ”

Aya asked a little tiredly, "But how long does it take to truly achieve the prosperity of chivalry?" ”

Wang Lu asked rhetorically: "If I say that ten years is enough, will you believe it?" ”

"I know you can't wait to see that day, but you have to be clear that you have done everything you can do, that you have created an unprecedented foundation for Bretonia, but that is the end of your role, and that is to do more, which is to pull out the seedlings and help them grow."

Aya nodded slightly, as if she had accepted Wang Lu's suggestion.

Wang Lu didn't urge, he was so quiet that he walked with her in the alleys outside Dragon City, where the hustle and bustle of the city was isolated from the high walls, separating a small silence.

I don't know how long it took, but 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 figure flickered, and in a flash, she reached the source of the sound.

Wang Lu sighed, hurried to follow, and saw a young girl crying helplessly in a dilapidated house. And the reason for the matter is very simple, they used to be merchants who provided the church with spring water in the snowy mountains, and then the church was expelled, they suffered from the pond fish, their father and mother were tried as traitors who supported the church, although they did not worry about their lives, almost all the family property accumulated for decades was plundered, and the two made an extreme choice in grief and anger, leaving only a young daughter and a little property barely enough for her to survive. Unfortunately, the young woman never understood the world, and her parents' inheritance was quickly defrauded, and now it is difficult to survive.

"Wang Lu, is this kind of sin also tolerated on the way forward?"

Wang Lu didn't answer, because Aya didn't really need an answer.

"Wang Lu, I think there is still something I can do in this country. Perhaps, as you said, I'm not fit to be a king, but I'm still a knight and can do what a knight should do. ”

Wang Lu asked: "Is it chivalrous and righteous to do it alone?" Wandering around Bretonia, managing all the injustices in the world, and cutting down the unkind and unrighteous people in the world? With your status as the Knight King, or the daughter of the Knight King, to fight against the strict system? Aya, you're not chivalry, it's a ranger who violates the ban with martial arts. It's okay once or twice, but sooner or later, you'll find that the sword in your hand is against the huge country you have single-handedly built. And the knights who still have reverence for you will unwittingly stand on your side, and you ...... Would you love to see that? ”

Aya trembled all over, and was extremely unwilling: "Do you just let me do nothing?" ”

"You can do anything, as long as you can bear the consequences, from your point of view, this is the country you built single-handedly, you can do anything to it, but I guess no matter what you do, you will not get a satisfactory result." Wang Lu said helplessly, "So, do you understand why in the Kyushu Continent, most of those immortal cultivators will not be too deeply involved in the world, right?" In Kyushu, there are very few monks above the Jindan realm who are directly involved in mortal things, because they can't control it. The number of monks in Kyushu is already one in ten thousand or even rarer than that of mortals, and the Ten Thousand Immortals League has done so many shit-like things, and the mortal world is only ten thousand times more chaotic. A large part of the reason why immortal cultivators seek detachment is that the chaos of red dust is really unbearable. You see, I have run a wisdom sect, and you are the sect leader, but it is only a remote command, and the ones who are really involved are a few executive deputy sect leaders, because the involvement is too deep, and I, a professional adventurer, will also cut and mess up. ”

Aya didn't speak again.

Wang Lu patted her on the shoulder, and didn't say anything more, Aya has never been stupid, when she was famous, she knew what she wanted to do better than most people in the world.

Wang Lu actually didn't think that he was really much smarter than Aya, his biggest advantage was detachment. Aya is already trapped in Bretonia's obsession. Otherwise, with her erudition, these truths don't need to be reminded by others. And now, everything that needs to be said has been said, and next, I can only wait patiently for Aya to figure it out by herself.

Next, Wang Lu didn't stick to Aya's side anymore, but left her plenty of time and space to think about it, some things need to be quiet alone. However, three days later, when Wang Lu ended his short trip and returned to the inn where he had agreed with Aya, he found that Aya had disappeared.

Standing at the door of the inn's bedroom, Wang Lu was dumbfounded.

"It's ...... Abducted by human traffickers? ”

After speaking, Wang Lu only felt a moment of depression, and couldn't help but put down the travel souvenir in his hand: Aya's favorite mead - a special elixir is added to the wine, which is the most reluctant means that Wang Lu prepared for Aya.

It's a pity, it's really unpredictable, maybe Aya really belongs to Xiyi, and she can't bring it back to Kyushu no matter what?

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