"Can't?" Selinda put her hand on her waist and squinted her eyes at Xiao Chen, waiting for him to give an explanation.

"I can't break my faith with those slaves. I told them that if they came with me, they would have a better life and that they would be freedmen in a few years. If I resell them now, then I will be contrary to what I said. I have to be responsible for them!" Xiao Chen said.

"Are you kidding? When did a lord, a magician, take responsibility for some slaves?" Selinda's voice immediately raised, she was not a lady, otherwise she would not have run away from home and blended into the enemy camp in the first place. So Xiao Chen's words made her angry. She felt that she had been tricked, and her anger was not because the other party did not sell her slaves, but because the other party had used such a nonsensical reason to prevaricate her. It's simply taking people for fools.

"It's not a joke, if I don't have credit, why should they listen to me. If I don't have credit, why should people believe what I say in the future?"

"Credit?Who rules by credit?Power is the foundation of rule!Aren't these slaves succumbing to your sword and magic?If you won't give me slaves, why do you talk such nonsense?"

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Selinda, Xiao Chen is definitely not trying to prevaricate you. He must have had his own ideas, you listen to his explanation. Li Jia grabbed her, put her hand on her shoulder, and looked like she was saying good things, Selinda glared at him, stopped talking, and listened to how Xiao Chen defended.

When Xiao Chen saw Li Jia's appearance, he knew that he was eaten by Selinda, and sighed and said: "Of course, force is very important, there is a founding leader in my hometown who said that 'power comes out of the barrel of a gun.'" ’”

"Regime?"

"You can understand it as the people who rule. ”

That's a good thing to say, and it sums up what I'm about to say very clearly. I prefer to use a sword, though. Selinda nodded in agreement.

"Why is there power in the barrel of a gun? Not only because you can destroy your enemies, but more importantly because you can protect your people. The reason why your lords pay you taxes is also because they believe that you can protect them from thieves, beasts, and other lords. And if you want them to believe that you can do this, you must keep your word, otherwise a lord who usually doesn't talk can really expect him to protect everyone in a critical moment?"

Selinda was silent for a while and asked, "Do you think those farmers in Montenegro resist taxes and don't trust the relationship of the Arias family?"

"At least you raised taxes indiscriminately, did not keep the original agreement, and pushed everyone to the limit of tolerance. ”

"But if you don't show up, these peasants will be easily suppressed. They will eventually obediently hand over the grain and then be taught a lesson. What does it have to do with whether they believe us or not?"

"It didn't work out this time, and there will be another riot. Xiao Chen affirmed.

Selinda smiled disdainfully, "Just with these people, how many riots have been suppressed is also the fate of being suppressed." In the case of a sword, how many people will choose to resist to the end? How many will give in and accept their fate? I don't need to say more, right?"

"This ...... It seems a bit too crude. Li Jia whispered.

"Rough? From south to north, from west to east, what lord is not like this? If someone really looks at the faces of the lords and acts, his lord doesn't have to do it. Such a weak thing, if it is not overthrown by those Diao people, will also be sent to the gallows by the lord next door. ”

"Isn't it good to be merciful?" Li Jia's voice became quieter.

"Kindness is a little honey smeared on the barbecue, if there is no knife to kill a cow, where can the honey be coated with!Master Xiao Chen, you are not really going to treat those slaves like this, right? If so, I really have to think about the value of cooperating with you. Selinda's face was grim, not joking at all.

Xiao Chen suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, all his ideas, all his views, whether socialist or capitalist, came from the era after the Industrial Revolution, when the system of feudal aristocracy had long since collapsed, and the relationship between people had changed dramatically. And the daughter of the earl in front of her is a serious feudal nobleman. If such a great aristocracy could easily accept his ideas, there would be no French Revolution.

Selinda's kingdom and territory is not a modern state. Selinda's nobles and subjects, not politicians and citizens. Therefore, the previous remarks are almost like chickens and ducks. Xiao Chen thought for a while and said, "It's useless to talk about it now, we are already talking about the territory matter, and we can solve it in other ways." We have money, technology, and goods. As for the slaves, I can make a step, you can make your terms, go to the camp and ask, and if you are willing to go with you, you will take them. ”

Selinda knew that the conditions she would give to the slave were definitely far less than Xiao Chen's promise. Those pariahs are not fools, who will go with her?" she snorted, "Let this matter be left behind, when I have not mentioned anything." ”

After saying this, she left on her own, and Li Jia hurriedly followed.

"Li Jia, this guy will suffer in the future!" Xiao Chen watched the two of them walk one after the other, and said to himself. However, he immediately became a little worried, as a lord is such a concept, what about these slaves? will their minds be even more unbearable, will they not be able to fit into the framework designed by them as earthlings?

He touched his chin and stood there meditating. But suddenly found a figure wearing a robe in front of him.

It turned out to be Luo Ling.

"Did you hear it all?"

Luo Ling nodded, she smiled and said, "You talked about the social contract with the feudal landlord, and she didn't hunt you down, which is already very worthy of you." ”

"Alas, I just realized how difficult our path was. How out of place we are in the world. I'm a little skeptical that I'll ever be able to settle these slaves. What if these people can't fit into our arrangement, are we really going to treat them like the lords?"

"It's actually a very simple thing. The productive forces determine the relations of production. There are these people in the school, what are you afraid of?"

"Productivity? I've been reciting this every year since middle school, and I've had to hear calluses coming every year. ”

"Novelty may be a fallacy, and cliché may be the truth!

Xiao Chen pondered it carefully, and seemed to have a taste, and he analyzed: "You are saying that the productive forces here are insufficient, and all the production relations can only be handled in the way of slaves and serfs. And because our school has technology and ideas, and the same people are used by us, the productivity will be much higher than that of these feudal lords?

"Isn't it? We have agricultural technology and better farming tools. We have a factory management system and better equipment for workmanship, and we have a systematic drill system and more sophisticated weapons for the army. Our products are popular and can be sold at a high price, so we can afford more and more professional executives. Let them manage and nurture these people more effectively. As long as they are people, no matter what era they come from, as long as their own interests are involved, they will not be fools. Why don't they aspire to a better place? Why don't they support a better government?"

"Yes, that's it! they'll be on our side, just like the folks in Floro!"

"Xiao Chen, don't underestimate the power of production relations. The small society of the school is only a microcosm of modern society, and even so, the power it bursts out is not something that ancient society can contend with. So, why do you have to explain so much to her today? Things are done, not argued. By the time she sees it, you have turned these slaves into peasants, workers, warriors, students, even engineers, doctors, teachers, and judges. Is she still qualified to debate with you?"

For some reason, hearing Luo Ling say this, Xiao Chen was suddenly a little moved. There is something called the ideal, which sprouts in the heart. He nodded, "Yes, I can't let them down." We should be able to make some changes here. If we don't change here, then we will be changed by them. ”

"That would be a tragedy! We, as modern people, have to have our own persistence when we come to this place. Although our world has not yet found a perfect system. But in the handling of many things, there is no doubt that the society here is much more civilized and tolerant, and most people's lives are much happier. Our moral bottom line is not the same as Selinda's. Although, sometimes in order to survive, we have to break through our own bottom line, but if we even give up our own values, then what do we have left? Our connection with that world is only a few broken houses and rotten clothes?" Luo Ling said this, her voice a little low.

The old world, the old world.

The memory of the old world is both a concern and a burden.

Maybe it's the relationship between men's nerves that are rougher, Xiao Chen doesn't have much resonance in this regard, but he remembered all kinds of things that happened in the slave camp, and now when he thinks about it, the taste is a little different: "This incident of dealing with slaves gave me the opportunity to face some choices, and I don't think I embarrassed us." I now think about it, there are many things, if just because the surrounding feudal lords do this, those mercenary military leaders do that, we will be in the same boat and compromise with them, then we will really be lost. I don't want to be a slave, so I don't want to be a slave owner!"

"What if the people around you don't want you to do that?"

"Then try to change them, and if it doesn't work again, then fight. ”

"If you want to understand, then I have to remind you of one thing, you don't have to have a long-term plan to deal with these nobles in the future. It's all about giving us a temporary stable environment and letting our world grow slowly. When it's ripe, ......" Luo Ling raised her head and showed a sneer.