Chapter 337 Whose neck is the noose on?
"If hanging those ignorant people can correct all mistakes, then the world will be too kind," Gao Wen couldn't help but smile and shook his head when he heard Penny Rossie's words. "They are just followers who are encouraged or taken advantage of."
"But they are more hateful than the main culprits," said Roppenne Glen coldly. "My husband, for them, fought against traditions and rules, gave those who had been able to roll in the mud all their lives to live a decent life, but they were deceived by a little lies or bought by a little money, turned into a mob, robbed the property in the castle and attacked their lords!"
Amber heard the moment before he finally couldn't help it. She looked at Gao Wen and Penny in a daze: "Wait a minute, what do you mean is that most of the mobs that had hit the castle were actually those who were helped by Viscount Roman?!"
"Of course, this is the inference I made based on your investigation results," Gao Wen nodded, "and it was similar to what I expected at the beginning. After knowing the specific actions of the Viscount Roman and the subsequent mob attack on the castle, I knew that this would definitely be the case."
Penny Rowe looked at Gao Wen in surprise. At this time, she had calmed down a little from the excitement of re-recommending her old injury. She couldn't help but start to doubt what Gao Wen's real purpose was today: "Why did you say that?"
Instead of answering Viscount Penny Rowe directly, Gao Wen raised a new question: "Want to know why your husband failed?"
Penny Rodriguez was stunned and took a deep breath. She wanted to get back the dominance of the topic: "Why should I discuss these things that have passed with you?"
"If you can understand the laws that Cecil is currently enforcing, you probably won't have this problem," Amber next to him spoke, "Cecil's leader... is also gradually liberating serfs and slaves, and land allocation is also being carried out simultaneously..."
"My husband has failed this once, and I didn't expect that someone would do the same thing," said Ronaldinho Glen, staring at Gao Wen. "Now you have learned what happened here a few years ago, so it's better to stop in time. This kind of deviant behavior..."
"This kind of deviant behavior is nothing wrong with it. Your husband's failure lies in the fact that he did three other things wrong," Gao Wen shook his head and directly interrupted Penny Rowe. "First, his pace is too big, second, his fists are not hard, third, he keeps the people ignorant."
As he said, he turned to the wall behind the desk and looked at the Viscount Roman Glen, who was smiling faintly in the oil paintings on the wall.
"He was a pioneer, a pioneer of reform, but like many pioneers, he made serious mistakes. He tried to correct the mistakes in the current Ansu system and let the people's power be released, but he did not make reasonable plans. He put all reforms together and did not think of the mutual influence and interaction between these decrees, and the gradual nature of social transformation, so his reforms would make order a mess - if I was not wrong, the serfs and slaves who suddenly gained freedom caused chaos in the initial stage because they had neither land nor property, so your husband had to implement land distribution without preparation, which led to greater chaos.
"Secondly, he did not have enough strength to resist those rebounding forces, he did not first secure a force of his own armament, nor did he think carefully about how much resistance the traditional nobles influenced by him would make after their interests were damaged.
"The last, and most deadly point - he didn't tell those who were free and land, and he didn't tell them that all this was 'why.'"
Gao Wen stopped here and turned his head to Ropene Glen: "The aristocrat's arrogance still bound his vision, so he did not take a closer look at the civilians at the bottom, nor understood the thoughts, knowledge, and logic of those people. Instead, he took it for granting the people that they would understand this great cause as much as he himself. His original intention of giving the land and many rights to the people was to let the people live a good life, but in the eyes of the people at the bottom, this was just another 'alent' carried out by the noble nobles - the lord can give alms, others can give alms, and the lord can get the benefits of the lord, and others can still get the benefits of others."
Penny Roh murmured to himself: "...How could they think so..."
"Why can't they think like this? Didn't they come like this in the past few hundred years? Thunder and rain are all rewards from nobles. Untouchables don't need to think, just bear it silently. This society ruled by nobles has taught them this way for hundreds of years," Gao Wen snorted softly, "So I'm sure that when they are bewitched and hit the castle, they will not feel any guilt at all - but when you liquidate afterwards and you send them to the gallows, they will not feel wronged at all!"
The study was quiet, and for a long time, none of Luo Penny, Gao Wen and Amber spoke.
It was not until a few minutes later that the Viscountess broke the silence: "So, you came here this time to talk to me about this? To let me figure out how exactly a disaster that broke out a few years ago happened?"
Gao Wen smiled faintly and shook his head slightly: "I'm just here to see a friend I've never met before."
He was referring to Patty, but Roppenni Glen would obviously understand it as Viscount Roman, but these were not important.
Gao Wen turned around again and looked at the Viscount Roman Glen who was smiling in the portrait seriously.
As he thought before, this world did not revolve around him, a time traveler.
There will always be people awakening, there will always be people doing things that are unorthodox, just like the wild mage who studied the essence of magic decades ago, and like the Viscount Glen, who started reform ten years ago.
The change failed. Due to lack of experience, limitations of vision, and ideological constraints, Roman Glen's new policy was declared failure in just a few years. He himself was also labeled with many negative marks and became a typical example of being cursed by the devil. If it were not for the noble system in order to maintain its own face, Viscount Roman would have ended even worse - and his brief change became a solo of romantic utopian reformers, no one could understand or even record it.
But the pioneers existed after all. Before Gao Wen lifted the coffin and rose, there was indeed such a pioneer.
That's why Gao Wen was coming here and said so much to Penny Ronald Glen.
His original purpose was to confirm the existence of Patty Glen and confirm whether the land was also polluted by the Eternal Sleeper, but after Amber investigated the incident that happened many years ago in Gelen, he temporarily changed his plan.
He withdrew his gaze and nodded slightly to Viscount Roppeni: "Madam, if you really want to hang the murderers who killed your husband, then you should put the noose in place and wait until the right time and put it on the right person's neck."
Viscount Penny Roppeni looked at Gao Wen quietly: "But I'm afraid I don't have such a noose."
Gao Wen looked at her for a moment, and the corner of her mouth slightly raised: "That happens to be true, I have it."
Then he did not wait for Penny Ronaldinho's answer, but continued, "Can I go and see Patty?"
"Of course," Roppenni Glen nodded, "She has always admired you."
"Then I can't let my little admirer wait too long," Gao Wen laughed, "Take me over."
Under the guidance of the viscount, Gao Wen and Amber came to the door of the little girl Patty's room.
"She hasn't been very good a few days ago, but she's suddenly getting better in recent days," said Roppeni, as she stepped forward and opened the door. "It's probably because she's happy to hear the news you're coming... When my husband was still alive, he often told Patty about you."
The wooden door decorated with yellow and white tassels was pushed open. Gao Wen walked into the room and saw Patty's chair in the middle of the room. The little girl was looking out the window in a daze. Through a very wide crystal window, she looked at the sky of stars outside the castle.
The house has many very large windows, and the walls of the castle were obviously radically transformed in this part - near the roof, Gao Wen even saw a skylight that is rarely seen in a traditional castle, which can easily spread the noon sunlight into the interior.
"The doctor said she needed to bask in more sunshine - the magic contained in the sun can relieve the itchy and painful on her skin." Roppeni said softly.
Gowan remembered what he said to herself in the Dream City Ripati: She needs to enter the Dream World to sleep well because she is itchy and painful.
There is no sunshine at night.
At this time, Patty finally heard the movement at the door. The little girl's head trembled, turned to the direction of the door, and then a bright smile appeared on her face: "Uncle Gaowen!"
Penny Rodrim walked forward quickly and turned Patty's chair over while correcting: "It's Duke Gauwen."
"It's the same with calling uncle. I feel like I've been over seven hundred years younger," Gao Wen smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care. Then he came to Patty, "Look, it's like an appointment, I'll come to see you."
The little girl blinked happily: "Yeah!"
Then she asked curiously: "Uncle, are you really resurrected? I heard from the maid that the founding hero was resurrected from the grave..."
Gao Wen turned his head, looked Amber with a smile, and then nodded to Patty: "Of course."
"It can really be resurrected!" Patty showed a surprise look, "Can dad, too? Dad likes to tell your story! He must also want to see you..."
At the edge of Gauven's sight, Roppenni Glen's fingers holding the backrest of the chair suddenly turned white due to force.
Chapter completed!