Regain the Holy Light?
Amber’s words didn’t make sense, and if Gawain continued to ask, she wouldn’t know anything. He only said that Wright had just returned to the territory—and now he had returned to the church.
“Keep an eye on the construction side,” Gawain hurriedly confessed to Rebecca, then grabbed Amber who was about to leave, “come with me to see Wright.”< /p>
"Hey, don't pull me... I am the Dark Night God's Chosen, do you know... I am the Dark Night God's Chosen... I feel awkward entering the Holy Light Church..."
Amber is here The weak protest quickly disappeared in the air. Gawain tucked the short winter melon under his arm, took a big step and walked straight to the church - not long after, the two of them arrived at the church built by Wright himself. in front of the chapel.
The church is not open at the moment, but the door is not locked. On the ajar door of the church, a white death chrysanthemum is quietly inserted in the gap of the door panel.
Gawain glanced at the death chrysanthemum, then stepped forward and gently opened the door.
A tall and burly figure stood in front of the pulpit. He turned his back to the door and wore a scarred Cecil magic armor. The sunlight streaming in from the side window fell on the shoulders of this figure. A hazy glow spread out.
In that layer of vague and illusory light, Gawain seemed to see something flashing away, but when he looked carefully, all he saw was dust flying in the sun. The hazy light brought by it.
Gawain walked towards Wright, and the sudden sound of footsteps echoed in the empty church hall. The figure in front of the pulpit shook. Wright turned his head and bowed after seeing Gawain. Salute: "Lord, I'm going to report to you..."
"It doesn't matter, it's the same for me to come see you," Gawain waved his hand, and then noticed a shocking trace on Wright's face. The wound - the wound extends from the left side of the forehead to the cheek. If it is deeper, it may take away one of Wright's eyes. At this moment, the wound has healed, but it has left a deep scar. " ...It seems that you have experienced a lot."
"I...gained the Holy Light," Wright lowered his head and spread out his palms, and a clear light with substance appeared almost immediately. Emerging and flowing from the air, it gathered above his palm. This group of light seemed to activate the holy energy in the air, covering his whole body in a hazy halo, "I have never felt... I The relationship with the Holy Light is so close. It turns out that it has always been around me, around each of us, just like the magic in nature..."
Gao Wen looked at the Holy Light quietly. It flowed on Wright's hands and slowly dissipated, and then asked curiously: "How did you do it?"
"I... don't know all the reasons behind this, but maybe I have found the Holy Spirit." The true path of light," Wright's voice hesitated at first, but then became firm and powerful, "Lord, do you still remember what you once asked me?"
Gawain had a hidden feeling in his heart: "About your beliefs?"
"Yes, you once asked me, do I believe in the Holy Light or the God of Holy Light," Wright said, While turning his head, he looked quietly at the back of the pulpit - Gawain remembered that the icon of the God of Holy Light was once placed there, but now, there was nothing there, "I think I understand what you mean now... …”
With the disappearing icon, the regained Holy Light, and the quietly changing temperament of Wright, Gawain had already thought of the general situation of the priest regaining the Holy Light, but he didn’t know How did this astonishing change happen - how could a devout believer suddenly break through his faith and break through the influence that was almost like a steel stamp on the soul?
He couldn't help but ask. After hearing these questions, Wright was silent for a long time, and then quietly said: "Lord, you know that after the defeat of those nobles and Holy Light Priests, they What did the defeated soldiers do?"
"I can probably guess it," Gawain said in a deep voice.
"We passed a village, on the edge of the Consco area...it was completely destroyed," Wright said calmly, his tone seemed very indifferent, but when he spoke, Gawain was able to Feeling the power of the Holy Light vaguely floating around him, "There are more than a dozen survivors in the village, and we spent the night there..."
From Wright's mouth, Gawain and Amber knew He learned about the night that happened in the Conseil Territory, about the aristocratic soldiers and the Holy See knights who went crazy due to hunger, about the little girl named Emily, and about the whole process of Wright regaining the Holy Light.
After listening to Wright's story, Amber's always careless and silly face inevitably showed a trace of regret and regret. She frowned and looked up at Gawain, who had a gloomy face. , looked at Wright again, and finally couldn't help but mutter: "Those damn nobles... and those gangs of magicians..." After saying this, she immediately patted Gawain. arm: "Gawain, I didn't say anything about you - there is still a difference between you and them."
"I know, you don't have to stress it," Gawain looked at Amber with a dumbfounded look, and then looked at Looking at Wright, "Although you have regained the Holy Light, you should still have doubts...otherwise you wouldn't have stood here thinking for so long without reporting."
"I was just thinking. Something...I don't know if I should think about it." Wright frowned and sighed slightly. Then he looked into Gawain's eyes and asked in a particularly determined tone, "Lord, I have a Question."
"You ask."
"Those nobles, as well as those priests and knights, they claim to be the protectors of the people, but in the end they do more than bandits. And robbers, of course they deserve to die, we can kill hundreds of nobles and priests in this war, but... what on earth caused such nobles and priests hundreds of years ago, or even a few years ago? Ten years ago, we had not fallen to this level... We are todayWe have eliminated them, but after tens or hundreds of years, will the people after us embark on the same path of depravity? ”
Amber looked at Wright’s expression in disbelief, as if she did not expect that this question would be asked by him. In her impression, Wright was just an enthusiastic pastor who preached with peace of mind and helped people everywhere in the territory. That's all, but I didn't expect that he would suddenly ask this kind of question after coming back - this question is almost questioning whether everything Gawain did is meaningful.
And this question...
Amber couldn't help but glance at Gawain. She thought of the plans that Gawain had said about the disposal plan for the old nobles and the future territorial laws. She couldn't help but ask: "Yes. , you also said at the beginning that there is always greed in human nature. Even if the Government Affairs Office seems to be orderly and honest now, as the territory develops and becomes richer, there will always be people corrupted by power. If that is the case... ”
Gawain looked at Amber and Wright, and he was not too surprised by the latter’s question.
Transforming and establishing an idea does not happen overnight, even in With the continuous promotion of new education and new ideas, even in the innermost circle around him, there were very few people who could fully understand his ideas. However, after Wright had seen the battlefield with his own eyes, the old aristocracy and the old church, It is of course normal for such questions to arise after the person's corruption and depravity.
This has nothing to do with personal thinking or understanding. It is simply the limitation of the times.
He regained his eyesight. The priest of Holy Light asked: "Wright, what kind of group do you think the 'nobles' are? "
"The nobles..." Wright frowned, "They...are the owners and rulers of the land and the people, and at least in name, they are also the protectors of it all...theirs They have a lot of power, and this kingdom basically relies on them to run. ”
“Then do you think ‘nobles’ are good or bad? "
This time it was Amber next to him who answered: "It's bad - Wright has seen it with his own eyes. "
"I am also a noble," Gawain looked at Amber with a half-smile, "and Viscount Grant, who liberated the slaves eleven years ago, and now Lady Grant, has accepted Cecil. Law, Viscount Andrew Leslie, who is ready to swear allegiance, they are all nobles. "
"Um..." Amber was stunned for a moment and scratched her hair, "That's good and bad. "
"Yes, there are good people among the nobility, but why is the entire group of nobility still corrupt and degenerate like this? ”
Amber and Wright looked at each other, as if they didn’t know what Gawain really wanted to say for a moment.
Fortunately, Gawain didn’t confuse them for too long. Some of his words had already been Just wanting to tell the people around him that the time was right at this moment, he took a slight breath and said what he was thinking: "The nobles - or more strictly speaking, the landed nobles under Ansu's current system. They are the absolute owners of land and population, as well as the powerfulMakers and executors, from the day they were born, the nature of this group has determined their way of survival - they possess almost all resources, and have absolute authority to use these resources, and all civilians are nothing but their resources The renters, or even part of their resources, the nobles do not produce, nor do they need to produce anything. They only need to be parasitic on the land and the people, and draw nutrients from the latter...
“So, of course they don’t really pity or care about the lives and rights of civilians, and since resources come from the land, they don’t care about the people as much as they care about their own land, even if they occasionally show they care about the people. It seems that it is just equivalent to a person cherishing the coins in his pocket. They will protect their coins, but if the price is right, they can 'spend' those coins at any time.
"They claim to be the protectors of the people. This is also true. In the barbaric pioneering era, humans only had limited resources to support limited protectors. In order to survive, we had to concentrate a large amount of resources on a few powerful On an individual basis, let these individuals protect the security of the whole, and these powerful individuals were the original landed aristocrats. At least in that era, their existence ensured the survival and development of civilization - but what about after this period is over?
“No one can control the landed aristocracy, because they are both resource owners, allocators and users, law makers, enforcers and maintainers, so they are bound to become out of control. , corrupt, depraved groups, even in terms of morality, their "corruption" cannot be regarded as corruption - it is just a natural change of a group that continues to expand and grow in a nutrient-rich environment, just like a plant growing in a fertile environment. It will continue to grow in the soil.
"In this case, the landed aristocrats will never - remember, never take the initiative to give up their resources and privileges, just like a plant will not take the initiative to give up. The roots must be pulled out from the soil. In this case, even if one or two 'good' land aristocrats occasionally appear, they will not change the overall attributes of the land aristocracy, because the essence of this group has not changed, and their survival The method will not change. As long as they still occupy the land, enjoy privileges, and control resources, their group will inevitably embark on the path of parasitizing the land and the people and relying on the nutrients of the latter to survive. And their so-called "people" The role of protector will also disappear as all the land nobles complete the distribution of resources and form a relatively stable ruling structure. Think about those high-sounding 'noble wars'. In the 'noble wars', they are for Did you pick up the sword to protect the people?
“And this concept is expanded, and the current Holy Light Church and the landed aristocrats are the same, except that the resources occupied by the landed aristocrats are land, while the resources occupied by the church are faith and magic, and the resources owned by the landed aristocrats are The privilege is the law, and the church’s privilege is the right to interpret the scriptures.”
Gawain said this.Li paused, looked at Wright and Amber who were deep in thought, and continued: "So we go back to the beginning - why did the nobles become corrupted like this? The answer is - they will inevitably become corrupted like this. This has nothing to do with the land. The emergence of several enlightened lords among the nobility has nothing to do with how glorious and great they once were. This is purely determined by their inherent attributes. Therefore - Wright, I can tell you with certainty that we can wipe out everyone in this war. There are hundreds of nobles and knights, but as long as the group of 'landed nobles' still exists, then even if we kill all this group of landed nobles, new landed nobles will appear sooner or later, even from our descendants. .
"So from the beginning, this war was not just to destroy the bodies of those nobles, but to destroy their foundations. We were not trying to eliminate and plunder the more than forty feudal lords in the south. The purpose of this war is to eliminate the "landed aristocracy" to which these lords belong and return the land and freedom to the people. This war is to prevent the next one from being burned by their own lords. Village, don't start this war with the next Emily.
"Wright, if you are interested, you can take a look at my latest land allocation bill, as well as the land rights and interests that are constantly promoted in schools, newspapers, and bulletin boards. and people's rights and interests, maybe you will understand why Count Horsman gave me eighteen charges when he called for troops to declare war on Cecil. Eleven of them were actually the laws and laws I made. The things they promote in the territory are related, because those are the things that really kill them—even the lives of their descendants. At this point, they see it quite clearly.
" But as long as these things are promoted, established, and form a stable social order, then we can proudly say that we have eliminated the "landed aristocracy" as a whole, not their physical body, but their foundation. From now on, even if they still have the word 'noble', even if they have something left, their roots no longer exist. ”