Chapter 323 Our Road

The news Solderin brought was crucial.

Anyone with a little bit of brains can realize how this will affect the current tense Typhon-Anzu situation.

For Gawain, this is both bad news and good news. Needless to say, the bad news is that he climbed out of the coffin and saw a large number of aberrations outside (the previous version was in vain) ), I was worried about this matter, worried about the decline of the Great Wall, worried that more and more aberrations would escape from that wasteland and come to attack the human world. The attack on the Typhon border meant that the last time The attacks by mutants were far more serious than imagined. The thousands of monsters faced by the Cecil Territory were just part of the mutants that broke through the magnificent wall. But on the other hand, the emergence of mutants, the enemy of civilization, Perhaps it would also delay the war...

Postponing the war between Anzu and Typhon.

Rebecca, who was very slow in this regard, realized the significance of this matter after being prompted by Hetty. She blinked her eyes and looked at Gawain curiously: "Master Ancestor, if If the king and the emperor on Typhon's side are aware of the threat of aberrations, won't they stop fighting?"

But Gawain could only break the girl's mind: "Ansu and There will be a battle in Typhon, sooner or later."

This is the conclusion that Gawain came to after analyzing the current situation of human countries.

Rebecca obviously couldn't figure out how this conclusion came about. Even Amber, who had the most clever ideas, had a cute look on her face. Only Hetty frowned slightly and showed a thoughtful look. When Gawain saw this, he didn't show off, and simply took advantage of this opportunity to teach the people present a lesson:

"Tifeng has developed rapidly and is now very powerful, but in fact it has developed to A critical turning period and a bottleneck period. This is the most dangerous moment for it. Through many successful domestic reforms, Typhon's current population, economy, and military have achieved tremendous development, but rapid development. It has also laid hidden dangers. On the one hand, the improvement of productivity means the improvement of resource consumption efficiency. This giant beast needs to devour a large amount of resources to achieve the final transformation of society. On the other hand, Typhon's population is growing too fast, and its officials And the domestic nobility lacks effective new management methods, and the huge population is gradually turning into heavy pressure on the empire.

“Whether it is to absorb ‘nutrition’ or to relieve pressure, Typhon must find it. An external means of catharsis will do.

“And there is a more important point: the reforms of Rosetta Augustus the Great have gone so far as to touch the interests of the nobility, whether it is the return of legislative power to the royal family or the reform of the national land aristocracy. The re-examination greatly stimulated the sensitive nerves of those traditional nobles - although Emperor Rosetta used his strong hand and personal ability to suppress the backlash and allow the reform to be implemented in place, this pressure has not been released.

“The development of the domestic economy has indeed brought many benefits to the land aristocrats of Typhon. However, these benefitsThe government has obviously not yet fed those greedy guys who have lost many privileges during the reform. Emperor Rosetta still needs to find more dividends, more dividends that can prove the correctness of his talent and strategy, to feed those feudal lords who are still dissatisfied. Minister - or use the process of seeking dividends to 'naturally and reasonably eliminate those who cannot keep up with the times'.

“A foreign war is the best option - it can solve almost all the problems faced by Typhon after his reforms.

“Typhon has ruled all the land in the eastern part of the continent , its current expansion can only go in two directions. To the south is the Gaoling Kingdom, which is obviously not suitable to start with. The Gaoling Kingdom has the closest relationship with the Silver Empire, and the Silver Elf's Star Temple is suspended over the southern strait. Monitoring the large tract of ancestral forest located on the border of the Kingdom of Highmountain - do you think that once Typhon invades other countries through the ancestral forest, the Silver Elves will watch helplessly?

"So Typhon actually has only one choice, and that is to go north and regard Ansu as a victim-among the four human kingdoms, only Ansu experienced the fatal Brumaire civil strife, and the decline of national power was the most serious. How could the Typhons be able to bear it?"

Rebecca was stunned as she listened to Gawain analyze these things, her eyes almost never stopping, but at any rate she was still not thinking. Slowly (probably), although she couldn't think of this, she could understand it at least. The girl's brows wrinkled on the spot: "In other words... even if the two countries don't fight this time, in a few years, as long as those monsters If there is no big movement, Ansu and Typhon will still fight?"

"This is inevitable," Gawain nodded, "And even if the aberration comes out a few more times, as long as Hongwei The wall itself has not collapsed, and the two countries will still go to war at any cost - Typhon can't wait too long. Rosetta Augustus is already past middle age, and he doesn't seem to have any powerful heirs. , so as long as he cannot solve the hidden dangers in the reform in his own lifetime, or even in his prime, then Typhon's prosperous age will definitely turn into a disaster as the emperor ages. Rosetta herself understands this, and we The king can also understand it."

"...Is there such a complicated reason behind this war..." Rebecca said blankly, "My lord, how do you understand it?" These things? You have obviously been resurrected not long ago, but you seem to understand things better than all of us..."

If you have seen a lot, you will naturally have experience. As long as you see a little hint of things, Being able to make up all the causes and consequences, this is the power of the satellite spirit...

Gawain shook his head: "There is nothing new under the sun, this world has not changed for thousands of years. ”

Speaking directly, no one can understand Satellite Essence, but if you put it this way... although no one can understand it, it is obviously much better.

“Old friend, if I didn’t know your experience, I would be curious as to how you could think of so many things.” Solderin shook his head with a strange expression on his face, “Back then, you didn’t even botherThink about this, and if you don't like it, just cut it. ”

Gawain sighed: “That’s because at that time, everyone was very poor, and the only people around were barbarians except for monsters. Diplomacy was not useful. If you encounter problems, you can just ignore them. Now everyone is civilized. Who can Don’t want to use your brain more? "

"Civilized people..." When Solderin heard the word Gawain said, he couldn't help showing a trace of emotion on his face, and then all the emotions turned into a long sigh.

This question came very suddenly. Gawain was slightly stunned. Hetty, Rebecca, Amber and even Pitman standing next to him all showed slightly curious expressions at the same time. They seemed very curious. Looking forward to Gawain's answer.

After two seconds of silence, Gawain smiled lightly: "To put it grandly, it is to lead the people out of the predicament, to protect and continue our civilization, to put it more ordinaryly, I just want to live - let everyone live. ”

“Yes, even the most mundane thoughts are to allow everyone to survive,” Solderin smiled bitterly, and the cold night when crossing the Eastern Territory repeatedly reappeared in his mind. , “But you know what? In this land that we conquered together, many people can no longer survive.

"Have you ever heard of something called the Tenancy Amnesty Act?

"That was in the south, in the territory of Earl of Berry..."

The elf ranger couldn't resist the urge to talk, and told everything he saw and heard that night - in his seven hundred years of traveling, it's not that he has never seen the dark side of society, it's not that he has never seen it. The people and things were more tragic and unfortunate than that, but as a high-level transcendent, he always looked at it all from the perspective of a superior spectator. Only that night in the East Territory, he witnessed it with his own eyes. Hearing those dark details that he had never noticed before, Ansu's current depravity shocked him, and he couldn't help but tell them all.

Some people in the room fell silent. Lost in thought, but some people were more surprised than they were silently thinking.

Rebecca could hardly believe what she heard: "How could they do this? That Earl of Berry and the rent-collecting knight... How could they seize farmers' land like this? ! "

"There are many such things, my eldest lady," Pitman said quietly after not speaking for a long time. "Why do you think so many landed nobles have more and more land in their hands? Why do you think the kingdom is reclaiming new land every year, but the number of farmers losing their land is increasing year by year, and the number of serfs is also increasing year by year? Even if you can't see what's going on outside, it's still good to take a look at this territory - where did most of the population come from?? They are serfs, slaves, homeless people who have lost their land. Should these people be born with nothing?

Rebecca's eyes widened, and her knuckles turned white from clenching her fists hard: "But... shouldn't nobles protect their own people... Since childhood, my father and aunt taught me this way?" Mine, the instructions left by our ancestors are also..."

"If the ancestors' instructions had worked, there would have been no illegitimate child war a hundred years ago," Amber rolled her eyes at Rebecca, "You Do you think that every noble is as stubborn as you and easy to fool? ”

If she had followed Rebecca’s usual habits, she would have picked up her staff and swept away the army after hearing Amber’s teasing like this. However, this time, she was immersed in entanglement. She felt I really don’t understand: “But…don’t those farmers realize that this is a trap? "

Gawain gently pressed Rebecca's hair: "Rebecca, you have forgotten one thing. Most civilians don't know that one-third of a taka of grain or What is two-thirds, and they don’t know what twice one-third of a taka is. They don’t even know how much rent they will have to pay in five years. In fact, they can’t even understand the ‘tenancy’ decree issued by the lord. Any word on the "Lease and Amnesty Act" - the person who read the lord's order was a noble soldier, and the noble soldier would never explain anything, so the actual situation is: the lord promulgated the decree, but the vast majority of the civilians did not understand the content of the decree. They knew nothing, they only knew that when the lord announced that he was collecting rent according to the law, he must not resist. As for whether the lord really followed the law...the lord said yes, that was it. "

"But there are always a few people who will understand..."

"Of course, there will be a few people who understand, and some can even recite the law after listening to the soldiers read it out. If you can write it down and keep it in your mind, what’s the use? "Hetty, who was standing behind Rebecca, shook her head. There was deep sadness and sympathy on the woman's face, "Are they capable of fighting against the lord? Are you able to find loopholes in these laws? Is it possible to make other civilians aware of the loopholes in these laws? If not, then all they can do is memorize these things, and then tell these things to a stranger after losing their land. "

Rebecca looked at Gawain: "Could it be...is there no way to change this situation? "

"Of course there is," Gawain couldn't help laughing as he looked at this silly roe deer who foolishly followed the "noble self-discipline code" and was now confused. "We are walking on this road. ”

Although... now is only the first step.