CHAPTER XX
For civilians, or for lords?
Sui Xiong found that it seemed as if he hadn't thought about it for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This should have been taken for granted, whether it was his morality as an earthling, or the necessity of promoting the development of this world, he should think and act from the standpoint of a common person.
However, in recent years, especially with the demise of the Mystical Divine System and the full-scale missionary work of the various churches of the Void Masquerade in the Mystical Tower Federation, he has paid more and more attention to the missionary work and gradually shifted the focus of his work.
Even...... Even the focus of thinking has changed.
Why did he help the lords survive? just to spread their influence and spread the church?
In that case, why did he restrict the life-prolonging potion invented by the slime alchemist Wendy in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to directly launch the kind of potion that can continue to live in unlimited quantities? As long as he firmly grasped that kind of potion, which of those old people would dare to fight against him?
Now he is not the same person he was at the beginning, and he is very confident. At least in the main plane, he is not afraid of any challenge, and he is fully capable of protecting the benefits brought by the life extension potion.
So, should he change course and change direction?
Of course not!
How are those old immortal lords doing, it's none of his business!
It's good that they support their church, but it doesn't matter if they don't, it's a big deal to wait for ten or eight years, thirty or fifty years, can they still not grow old and die?
When they die, the next generation of lords may not support the Church of the Void Masquerade. Even if the next generation doesn't support it, then it's good to wait for the next generation.
Maybe after a few generations, the lord family itself will be ruined. On the mainland, the average lord family will probably be passed down for five or six generations, and in a hundred to two hundred years, it will almost be over.
The reasons for the end are varied, the most common being war, followed by political struggles and so on. On more than one occasion, there had been a battle between several heirs of a certain lord, and finally the conflict intensified to the point of killing each other, and then the direct heir died extinct, and the king was enraged and let the rest of the nobles who were related to his family inherit the territory.
Generally speaking, the king cannot dictate the inheritance of the liege, which is the rule and the unspoken rule recognized by the lords of all stripes. But in such a situation where the heirs are not in a good mood, or even cut off their direct lineage, the king, as the leader of the lords, has the right to mediate and punish the families who go too far and break the rules - this is also the rule, and it is also an unspoken rule recognized by the lords of all walks of life.
Therefore, generally speaking, the struggle for the inheritance of the nobility will pay attention to the rules, and the loser will leave some affection, and it will not hurt the life. However, as the family inheritance gets longer and longer, more and more contradictions accumulate, and in the end, it is often impossible to hold back. As a result, a big family with a long history is almost at the end of the road.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with Sui Xiong, anyway, he doesn't care whether the noble lords are prosperous, unlucky, descendants, or ruined. As the living deity, he had no need to pay attention to these lords.
On top of that, he didn't want to pay attention to these people.
In his opinion, the lord is like a parasite to put it bluntly, just attached to the commoners to suck blood, and has no indispensable contribution to society - look at the earth, where there are no lords are generally better developed than places where there are lords. Even if the former had oil under their feet, they did not see them develop a democratic, prosperous and powerful society, but instead a large number of strange and ****** ghosts appeared.
The source of the terrorist organization that entered the twenty-first century, but still upheld the values and morals of the seventh and eighth centuries, and eradicated all those who did not accept this old and rancid theory, was the aristocratic lords who were lying at large on the ocean of oil.
Of course, among the lords of this world, there are also enlightened and progressive people, and there are those who strive for the welfare of the people. But they can't establish their own practices, and they can't ensure that their ideas and practices can be followed after their deaths, passed down from generation to generation, and even promoted. On the contrary, the death of people is the norm.
In the eyes of the children and grandchildren of those wise lords, the lords of other people's families spend all their time drinking, the lords of other people's families are at ease, and the lords of other people's families are wanton...... Why do I have to be restricted, why do I have to restrain myself from pleasure, why do I have to work hard?
So the bad money drove out the good money.
Sui Xiong felt that this kind of thing was unsolvable. Anyway, he didn't learn the solution from either the textbook or the Internet. Even when I was in college, the professors who were well-versed in the past and the present couldn't think of any solution—oh, there was a way, and their solution was revolution.
By the way, when Sui Xiong was in college, the two professors who had the most influence on him were a thorough humanist and a staunch Bolshevik......
Sui Xiong didn't want to make a revolution in this world, he felt that he was really not that material. But he can't force himself to accept and like those who step on top of other people's heads and spend all their time drinking and making a fortune.
That's why he is a little out of place to engage in a republic, and he almost single-handedly creates a republic that may appear for the first time in the world, and promotes its continuous progress.
So now, is he going to change?
Of course not!
Thinking of this, Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh.
"I've been taught a lesson......," he said with some self-deprecation, "I thought I was a man with vision, but after all, I was just a mundane thing." ”
After laughing, he saluted the infinite darkness of the underworld, thanked him, and turned to leave.
The next day, the temples and altars of the Masquerade of the Void Church received oracles.
The oracle reminded them not to ignore the core of His Majesty's teachings just because the mission situation was so good in front of them. It is important to keep in mind that only by making the people happy can we truly develop and progress, and that we can only establish ourselves in the world. If the priorities are reversed for the sake of proselytizing, then no matter how widely the faith spreads, it is tantamount to failure.
This oracle took many of the priests by surprise, and many decided to close their doors to think about it - because of the changing situation, many of the priests were gradually shifting their focus towards the noble lords. They felt that as long as they could convince the lord to believe in His Majesty the Void Mask, the church could spread rapidly, but they did not think that faith comes from identity, and it was not easy for a high lord to truly identify with the concept of development and progress!
Even if this lord agrees, won't he change his mind in the future?
Even if he doesn't change, what about his children and grandchildren?
In contrast, it is much more reliable to get the people to agree with this concept.
After all, people will always have a need for this.
For a while, the entire Void Mask Church began a large-scale adjustment...... (To be continued.) )