Chapter 10 Measuring Life by Numbers
Looking at this space battleship that can move and shock people standing in front of it, I can pull in the perspective of pushing away at will, as if looking at my own body, looking at its propulsion system, armament, armor, active and passive radio reconnaissance module, attitude control module, cargo hold, delivery bay, and various personnel entrances and exits...... Entering the battleship, in the gravity-free environment, the crew used the moving column to move quickly, as if they had encountered some very urgent situation, everyone looked in a hurry, and came directly to the bridge, only to see a girl with a sharp blade and beautiful black hair, surrounded by a group of armed soldiers with powerful charging guns. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter a beautiful sword dance, a soft, delicate, somewhat unfamiliar and familiar voice sounded:
The sky is full of stars, light years are vast, and I will eventually recover all my ......
The voice fell, the girl suddenly looked back at herself, looking at me or "me"?her heart was shocked, and for a moment the time and space were confused, and her soul was trembling and couldn't help herself, it was her, she was her in front of the Black Steel City, just like that time, the pair of bewitching golden pupils could no longer move away, the crew began to blur, the space battleship began to dissolve, no, it was the scene that began to melt, and he began to sink and sink, and a poem echoed in his mind-
Who I was before I was born,
Who am I after I am born?
Who is who after I die,
I am not born or die.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
The arm was lightly touched, Yu Youzi suddenly woke up, and looked, it turned out to be Xian Ruola, who had been on the side of the throne, quietly approached him and touched herself, and asked with a little concern.
It turned out that when it was time for the meeting to break, Hygilia had already left the throne and went out, and the royal family advisors on the steps were laughing and laughing with each other, while a room of officials gathered in groups of three or five, discussing very anxiously.
These long meetings have a break in between, usually every three or four quarters, or when an issue is over. Looking at the clock on the opposite wall, this memory retrace lasted the longest, almost a moment later. Even if someone noticed Yu Youzi during the meeting, they would only think that he was deserting, and it wasn't until the intermission of the topic that Xian Ruola noticed that the black-haired boy was a little strange......
"The topic of the Sealed Beast is over?" Yu Youzi asked.
"Nope. Immortal Ruola glanced at Yu Youzi, "What did you say to your mother to make her determined to destroy the Sealing Beast?"
Yu Youzi thought about it, she hadn't given Hygilia any 100% guarantee since the beginning of Bark Village, she took out this decision and directly announced that she shouldn't have gained enough confidence from herself: "I don't know...... All I told you was that I would definitely deal with the Seal Beast. "Maybe from the very beginning, Hygilia had the intention of destroying the Sealing Beast.
"Do you think you can really deal with the Sealing Beasts? You're from the Otherworld, how much do you know about us?"
"At least I know the history of Carrelian......
"What do you know, and what do you know about me?"
"I want to save you......"
"Hmph, stop meddling. After saying that, Xian Ruola turned around and walked away.
Yu Youzi smiled reluctantly at the people who were watching around, and when they saw the princess walking out, they stopped paying attention to this side. This was the biggest anger that Xian Ruola had ever made to herself, which made Yu Youzi think of the fact that he had forcibly put Alai Feng, The things that Alaiyou brought out, he did what he wanted and meant that others would follow his own wishes, compared to words, or actions were the most telling, but Yu Youzi had that feeling of rejection in his heart, which was a psychological symptom that appeared with the gradual recovery of his memory, and there was a kind of soul-tearing pain that had occurred, Yu Youzi already faintly knew the reason for this feeling in his heart, so this time there was just a sign, so he immediately stopped and stopped thinking about it, so he only felt a pain, and others would not find the earthquake in the soul of the black-haired boy at all......
Stroking her forehead and blinking, she had just integrated her newly recalled memories, and Xian Ruola returned to the lobby with Hygilia. The queen sat down slowly, the room slowly fell silent, and the scattered attendees returned to their places, and the atmosphere became serious again.
"So let's move on to what we just said. Hygilia flipped through the copy on the table, "Secretary of the Interior, tell me why you objected. ”
Minister of the Interior: "Ahem, I'm afraid that there will be a riot on the part of the people, Your Majesty knows about it, and many parts of our country still regard the Sealing Beast as a god, so we can build a new limestone town around the Karelian Mountains." ”
Hygilia: "Do you have any solution to this?"
The Home Secretary looked back at the few people standing behind him, and a pot-bellied minister hurriedly stepped forward and turned the document in front of his boss to the correct page, and muttered to the Home Secretary who came over with his ear for a while. The Home Secretary, who didn't look younger than the Speaker, coughed dryly twice, straightened his clothes and said to the Queen, who was waiting for him to speak: "The current mayor of Limestone is Priss, and the guard will be Haurems...... Since taking office, Pulis has been very aggressive and has achieved remarkable results, with tax revenues almost catching up with those of Mulimu last year, and the scale of mining development has increased sixfold compared to the beginning...... Hohams, on the other hand, was a conservative man, and had done nothing when the rebel general Hargin had revolted not long ago, but his cavalry team, Red Heraldic Scott, ......"
"I'm not asking you to report on the personnel situation in Limestone. Hygillia interrupted the Secretary of the Interior, "Just say if you have any solutions." ”
Yu Youzi found that Hygilia and Bark Village were completely two people sitting on the throne. In fact, this feeling is not only Yu Youzi, all the people present who know their queen well feel that today's majesty is a little different, and there is no soft feeling in the past, but it looks very aggressive.
The Minister of the Interior, who couldn't adapt to the changes for a while, hesitated for a long time and didn't say why.
"Your Majesty, please don't forget Baikoma's inscription. The Speaker, who had not been converted by Hygilia at all, said, "Don't sit down on the three major sins preached by the rebels. ”
Hygilia: "What about protecting my daughter?"
Chairman: "Then please stop asking if there is any way to stop the people." ”
Foreign Secretary: "Let's not talk about the three major sins, we can't find allies in the international community, which means we can only rely on ourselves...... Can we figure it out on our own?"
As he spoke, the Foreign Secretary looked sideways at the Minister of War on his left, who in turn looked at General Hudwes on the steps.
Seeing that everyone in the conference hall was looking to his side, the general stepped forward and said, "Everyone should know the deeds of His Majesty the First King, and both the Speaker and the Minister of the Interior have experienced it...... We can defeat the Sealmon. ”
Speaker: "But we have lost the first king and the queen. ”
The Minister of Justice, who had not spoken since the afternoon meeting, then spoke: "And we don't have the same strength as the king and queen now...... We don't have a law to make the people die for the Sealed Beast. ”
This is the duty of the royal family – the meaning of the Minister of Justice is quite obvious.
Hygilia: "I can recruit the brave......"
Xian Ruola: "Please allow me to retire first." ”
Needless to say, the first to apply were definitely Pan Xi and Hui, a group of people from the Silver Sword Jue Bird Troupe. Ignoring the gazes of others, Xian Ruola pushed open the door and left the council hall directly. Yesterday in the viewing room, when her mother raised this matter, Xian Ruola wanted to object, but was shocked by her mother's sudden courage. But now that the topic may suddenly involve her friends, Xian Ruola still decisively expressed her attitude - although it is more like a princess temper.
Yu Youzi is very similar to stepping forward and saying that he is the "brave" who came to be summoned, and he will leave the sealing beast or something to himself to deal with, but that sense of rejection still stays in the body, and he must distract his mind from thinking about anything, he is worried that as soon as he makes any moves, he will have that soul-tearing symptom again.
Xiudweis watched as the door pushed open by Xian Ruola was slowly closed by the liaison officer standing outside, and said, "There has never been a shortage of brave men in my army. ”
Speaker: "You're telling the truth that you've survived this Sealing Beast, so what about next time?"
Minister of the Interior: "We are still in a state of war, and the impact on inland cities will have serious consequences, especially in the Baktimke region of the eastern corridor of the Karelian Mountains, and if the city of Sogor is affected, not only the economy, but also the siege of Baikoma......"
Secretary of War: "We already have a secret agreement with Graham. ”
Minister of Justice: "It's best not to let the people know about this secret agreement, because of that...... We're very passive right now. "The only ones who can put the three major sins into account are the Speaker and other veteran ministers, who can be said to have grown up watching the current Her Majesty.
The foreign secretary tried to think differently: "Do you want to try to ask for assistance from the hero country?"
Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The Baikoma incident has already helped us once. "Otherwise, I want to besiege them in a city, and I don't know when.
There were guns and arrows in the hall of the council, and the departure of the little princess was as if it had never happened. In order to distract himself, Yu Youzi simulated a plot of using force to dissolve the parliament and the queen forcibly implementing the policy, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the history of the earth, but here because of the different national conditions, it will encounter considerable trouble, and even cause a bad ending-
The Carrelian family is an outsider, and although they have ruled for more than 500 years, the Carrelian are still silver-haired, and the normal hair color of the people here is brown. Although the military power of the country is in the hands of the royal family, the soldiers are all ordinary brown-haired, and the only silver-haired troops are the eleven Silver Knights, whose members Yu Youzi have seen more than half of them, and the rest are with Prince Lemore on the Baikoma front.
Yu Youzi still remembered that in the Adventurer's Hotel in Gray Rock Town, he had heard Xian Ruola say that in ancient times, they were called "elves" by those with different hair and natural skills.
Therefore, if the army is really to be incited against the parliament, it is not clear who will fight against whom in the end, and the military office belongs to the ministers of the kingdom parliament rather than standing on the steps, which shows where the roots of the army soldiers are, and it is precisely because of this that Carrelian can become a dual government, not a royal family.
History can be started by one person, but it must be developed with the participation of the general public, otherwise it will be just a diary of a person, not history.
The issue that was opened by Hygilia was to abolish the practice of human sacrifice for the Sealed Beasts and replace it with frontal destruction. The conference hall was divided into two groups, one led by Hygilia and Xiudeweis, representing the royal power and military forces, as a way to eliminate the Seal Beast Sect. The Kingdom Diet is divided into three parties, and the conservative faction that opposes it completely is headed by the Speaker, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Justice. The Foreign Secretary is a neutral. The Minister of War is a co-opted Seal Beast Sect.
Judging from the Speaker's intransigence, it seemed impossible for Hygilia to convince the old man verbally. Time passed in the midst of the exterminations and conservatives, and the neutrals were peacemakers, during which no less than five breaks were made, and the officials gathered according to their factions to discuss the next shots.
When the meeting reopened, the setting sun had already slanted into the lobby, pulling the old shadows of the ministers standing in the row by the window, and the maid who came in to serve tea to the participants closed the curtains and lit the magic lamp...... After such a long time, Yu Youzi's heart gradually regained his calm, and he began to listen to the meeting again.
The regular meeting of the cycle has been held to this time, to this extent, many of the ministers who were standing had already stepped back and sat down in their seats, and the current scene was no longer something they could put their beaks on, and the Wang family advisers on this side of the steps had also sat down a lot, and only Yu Youzi, who had been deserting for a long time, was still standing.
Minister of the Interior: "Our country does not have a large population, and it will be very detrimental to the development of our country to sacrifice too many talents on the Seal Beast." He was making a fuss about the population and the average rank ratio, emphasizing how serious the consequences would be for the future if the Sealing Beast caused too many casualties.
Xiudweis: "We have talked about this topic before, the main force of this attack on the Sealing Beast will be the Silver Knights, and the other troops will only be used to blockade ......"
Speaker: "Honorable General, the Silver Knights are also an indispensable force in our country, and they will be needed for the Future Tower Ring Contest and the Tower Expedition...... I firmly oppose Her Majesty's motion, and I ask Her Majesty to put the overall situation first, and it is better to sacrifice one than many. ”
Yu Youzi was shocked in his heart, and actually proposed the famous train fork problem: on the two forked rails in the distance, there are one person and nine people tied respectively, and there is only a train fork control lever in front of you, you can pull down the control lever and let the train run over one person, so as to save nine people.
This is the utilitarianism of ethics on earth, proposed by the English philosopher Bentham, who said that even if you are unwilling to pull the lever because of your inner conscience and standards, as long as the number of people who can be rescued continues to increase, we will eventually give up insisting on a certain number, and admit that "human life cannot be counted by numbers" is not a moral principle...... Yu Youzi even felt that Xian Ruola was also caught in this thinking, thinking that as long as he sacrificed himself, he could save everyone......
In Bentham, eternity is only a matter of numbers......