Chapter Eighty-Six: A Panacea for Healing People's Hearts
Aya obviously has her own ideas about changing people's hearts.\\
Is it wrong to change people's hearts? If so, then why does the world need to be educated? Isn't it okay to let it go? But not to mention the Xiyi Continent, even in Kyushu, the royal Taoism is also an indispensable part of any ruler, and it is not natural to infect and educate people's hearts with chivalry?
But she was not ready to debate with Wang Lu, because it was impossible to win, and even if she did, it would be meaningless.
And Wang Lu didn't say much, so far, some things, looking at them with their eyes, are far more powerful than saying them with their mouths.
This small city can not accommodate enough people's hearts, so the next stop is Dragon City.
Choosing Dragon City means that this month's journey is finally coming to an end, Aya thinks about it at this time, and she is reluctant to give up but also a little relieved, she has vaguely understood what Wang Lu wants to do.
However, she believes that when he arrives in Dragon City, the real Bretonian Knight will show him that chivalry is not illusory, and she believes that the former Knight of the Round Table, Bedwell, will not disappoint her.
However, after arriving in Dragon City, what she saw and heard made her feel like falling into an ice cave.
Everything seems to be a replica of that remote town, but the specifications of things are bigger, and on the surface it seems to be more orderly, but the greedy people are still greedy, the corrupt people are still rotten, the order of the past has been broken, and the newly established order has put on the cloak of chivalry, but what they do is not too different from the Holy Light Cult.
In the past in Bretonia, the church suppressed the four realms, and the believers were superior. Now that the superior has become a knight, and not long after the restoration of this regime, the strict class barriers have vaguely taken shape, and the boundaries between the knight class and the civilian class are clear, and the knights are also divided into different levels.
And the difference in level means that the interests are different, and the high-ranking knights occupy the richest land, have groups of servants, and are like overlords.
In a way, the new Bretonia is better off than during the reign of the Holy Light Cult, but in some ways, the situation is actually worse, because in order to consolidate its power, the Holy Light Cult used the resources of other dioceses to subsidize the Blatonia, while many of the new knights simply began to exploit it.
The redistribution of interests is an inevitable phenomenon due to the change of the old and new regimes, but everything should be fair and just, which is conducive to the interests of the family, the country and society. Aya used to fight in all directions, doing everything she could to maintain the fairness of the process. She had unleashed the rival who had posed a great threat to her and had finally lost to her, and had given him the respect he deserved. She once severely punished those subordinates who tried to show off their power and loot after the victory, and she led by example, and she was the supreme king and still maintained a simple life.
The spirit of knighthood allowed her to quickly set off a storm in Bretonia and establish an unprecedented unified regime, although for various reasons, the knightly kingdom fell apart soon after its establishment, but she believed that Bretonia's future had found a direction, at least she and those who accompanied her in her struggle should know this.
"For what?"
Late at night, Aya quietly entered Bedwell's study, and the Dragon City Lord, who had just finished a day's work, and was now the regent of Bretonia, was shocked when he heard this, and immediately stood up from his desk.
"Aya?"
Aya didn't show her figure, but just asked in a cold voice, "What is it for?" ”
She didn't say a word, but Bedwell knew exactly where Aya's anger was coming from. Just now, he had finished meeting with a well-known wealthy man in Bretonia, and promised to give him a piece of land that the Holy Light Cult once held, along with the people of the land...... Compared to the Holy Light Sect, the greedy and cruel rich man will only worsen the lives of the people in the land.
There were many more things like this, and Bedwell didn't know exactly how much Aya had seen, but he wasn't going to hide it.
After a long silence, Bedwell spoke.
"Because these are necessary compromises."
"Compromise?" Aya's voice was full of loss and puzzlement, "You...... It shouldn't be someone who says compromise so easily. ”
Bedwell laughed at himself, "Isn't it? A person who has survived for more than 100 years under the raging flames of the church is probably best at compromise. Otherwise, I would have followed in my footsteps more than a hundred years ago
This time, it was Aya's turn to be silent.
"Chivalry requires me to resist to the last moment, but I can't bear to let everything in the first king disappear, so I still compromised, and it was a series of compromises, I surrendered to an opponent who should not have surrendered, fell in love with a woman who should not have fallen in love, gave birth to a child that should not have been born, and to this day, compromise seems to have become an instinct of mine."
Bedwell was full of emotion, but the next moment, he changed his words and said in an unexpectedly tough attitude: "But this hundred years have also made me realize that compromise is an indispensable quality for politicians, without my compromise, there would be no Dragon City today, without Bretonia today Aya, you are the daughter of the Knight King, you tell me, my compromise, is it wrong?" ”
Aya's voice was a little astringent: "It was then, and now it's ......"
Bedwell shook his head: "It's the same, it's all the same. The tyrannical man you just saw was tyrannical and greedy, but he had great power and strength, and he was able to occupy Winter Rin City without blood, and he was a great meritorious, and all he wanted was a small piece of land, hundreds of laborers, and what he got in exchange was the lives of thousands of soldiers. So, what can I do? For the sake of his own observance, let his soldiers sacrifice their lives and forget about death? Kindness is also the basic tenet of chivalry. ”
Aya said, "You should try to change him and influence him." ”
"The human heart cannot be changed." "Unless we use magic to turn everyone into puppets, we must admit that the human heart is not as good as we think," said Bedwell wearily. ”
Aya was surprised that Bedwell would say something similar to Wang Lu, and she didn't know what to say for a while
After a long time, Aya tried to say, "That's just because we're not strong enough......"
Bedwell became excited: "Not strong enough? Yes, I'm just an ordinary Knight of the Round Table, and it's true that I'm not powerful, but isn't your father, the Knight King, strong enough? He never compromised in his life, so what happened? Was it just the reason for the infiltration of the Holy Light Sect? ”
"How can you talk like that?" Aya was furious like never before, "You want to talk about me...... Are our observances in vain? ”
Bedwell glanced at her deeply, and then said dejectedly: "Of course it is not in vain, without the struggle of the Knight King, Bretonia is still a plate of scattered sand, infighting, and bullying. But these are two different things entirely. ”
"The strength of the country lies first in the strength of the people's hearts, the hearts of the people are scattered, shameless, and insatiable......"
However, before Aya could finish speaking, she was patted on the shoulder by Wang Lu.
"Enough, don't be hysterical like a literary freshman."
Aya glared at Wang Lu angrily, the legendary-level coercion came to her face, Wang Lu's body shook slightly, but she didn't give an inch: "What, are you going to swing your sword at me?" Like you've done to the people around you? ”
Aya's anger condensed in an instant, and a bitter chill spread all over her body: "No, I ......"
"Let's go, let's go back."
Wang Lu said, pushed Aya, and turned to leave.
After the two left, Bedwell left his own study, and for a long time, he bent deeply in the direction of Aya's departure.
"Farewell, my king."
"You're getting one thing wrong."
On the way back, Wang Lu said to Aya: "He is no longer your subordinate, in the more than 100 years that you have been away, he is the pillar that really supports the chivalry of Bretonia, and he is the leader who single-handedly controls the situation in Bretonia and makes the country move from division to reunification in just a few months." ”
"And you, you are only the daughter of the Knight King, what qualifications do you have to speak up in front of him? Don't you understand the principle of respecting the old and loving the young? ”
Aya was a little crying and laughing, and even more speechless, maybe it was really as she said, the changes in the past hundred years have made it a little difficult for her to adapt.
"Maybe Bedwell found his way, maybe he had a reason for what he did, but that was a departure from chivalry."
Wang Lu said, "Of course, because he is no longer a knight under your command, but a ruler. And as a ruler, he is far more qualified than you are. At least the Bretonia I saw, in spite of its distorted chivalry, was inspired by this slogan, the hearts of the people were indeed united, the country was indeed revived, and unprecedented prosperity was in the near future. ”
"It's going to be with an unprecedented amount of decay."
"That's the norm." Wang Lu said, "The human heart is black and white, and the heinous people often have a flash of humanity, and the saints will also have unbearable selfish thoughts in their hearts." Complex people form a complex society, which is an objective reality and law, such as sunrise and sunset, don't be so clean. ”
Aya thought for a long time, and could see that the confusion in her heart was like a knot: "Maybe it's just because I'm not strong enough?" ”
Wang Lu was almost stupidly crying by her: "So strong is strong? Legend has it in the Xiyi Continent that in the era when the gods walked the world, were those gods strong? But I haven't heard of anyone who can educate all the people and make everyone become immortals. So do you have to break through the legend, promote to the gods, and then break through the holy realm from the divine realm, and then enter the supreme realm from the holy realm, so that you can return to your body to deal with the problems of the human heart in the mortal world? ”
Aya was a little confused: "What are your so-called Holy Realm and Supreme Realm?" ”
"Oh, that's expansion-only content, it's too early to tell you...... But in short, don't you think it's ridiculous to do something that you have to be infinitely powerful to do? ”
Aya was even more confused: "So...... I've been doing useless work all these years? ”
"How can it be useless? Without you, there would be no Bretonia today, but Bretonia today doesn't need you anymore. Wang Lu smiled, "I know you don't understand, so I'll explain it to you seriously." Actually, the reason is very simple, but you won't listen to what I said before, but now ......"
Aya asked seriously, "Please give me advice." ”
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