The bone of sin domain is king

Chapter 627 No.40 Five Acts. Debate
"Actually, not only the strong, the power of the ruler also comes from the people. When a nobleman uses his power for his subjects, he will be loved by the subjects, and the people will reward him with hard work. But when a nobleman uses violence recklessly against his subjects, it will naturally lead to dissatisfaction and rebellion."

Rosen said that this happens frequently in history. The so-called nobles are not always stable. Even if they can support a group of powerful people, they still cannot prevent the fate of being overthrown in the face of stormy people's uprisings and revolutions. perished because of this.

His words are confirmed by history, so although the nobles sounded a little strange, they did not refute them. In fact, the attitude of most noble lords towards the people has already sprouted from the modern society, from the original ruler and the ruled. It has gradually become the relationship between the manager and the managed. Although there has been no essential change, there has been progress.

What Rosen meant was to take this relationship a step further.

"In the past, the reason why we became stronger was to gain a higher status, acquire more wealth, and for ourselves. Therefore, after reaching the peak, the strong would begin to fall, transform from kings to tyrants, and eventually be defeated by the People's War. drowned by the vast ocean.”

Rosen said that he remembered that the ancient empire was overthrown by several ancient countries because the last emperor was tyrannical and unjust, and that led to the present human countries. I believe that all the nobles here must know better than him.

"But right now, I think our power should be used to protect ordinary people, because with great power comes great responsibility."

"You mean, responsibility?"

Mother Teresa finally came to her senses and asked.

"Yes, responsibilities, responsibilities and rights are the core of the rules I believe."

Rosen didn't directly say that he wanted to ban the nobles, which was unreasonable in this era, and it was likely to cause the resentment of other nobles. He decided to first deepen the concept of responsibility and rights into the hearts of the people.

He adopted the term responsibility and suppressed the concept of obligation for the time being before continuing.

"Leaders have the responsibility to protect and guide ordinary people, because they are stronger and have a broader vision, so they can lead the people, and they naturally enjoy the right to obtain more resources and higher status; while ordinary people It is their right to be sheltered and live without being disturbed, and correspondingly, they should also shoulder the responsibility of producing food and following the rules set by the lord."

This is the simplest version of the social contract theory. Rosen believes that using this to promote the next changes has the best effect and is easier to be accepted by the nobles. Since Mother Teresa asked here, Rosen did not Mind to say it in advance.

"So the strong, while enjoying leadership, command, and even royal power, should also fulfill their responsibilities to protect the public. If they don't do that, history will eventually destroy him. No amount of power can stop this destiny."

After Rosen finished speaking, everyone present fell silent.

In the past, nobles have always been troubled by a problem, that is how to maintain their rule.

The vast majority of nobles are ancestors who stood out in war or production and became leaders, and finally proclaimed themselves nobles.

The so-called aristocrats, although the offspring are generally much stronger due to long-term intermarriage and good diet and education, this is not an essential change. They are not much stronger than others in terms of blood. In other words, If the heir of a nobleman is living among the people, he is at best a slightly stronger man, and his offspring will be even more obliterated by everyone.

Therefore, most of the nobles will use the policy of ignoring the people, putting education on the shelf, and only the nobles and some elites can enjoy it. Although this can maintain their own rule to a certain extent, it can only cultivate ignorant masses, a vicious circle, and even It is easier to be instigated by some outsiders.

When the temple first appeared, the nobles were also very disgusted, because the temple used the reason of the goddess to spread the Gospel to teach knowledge to the people at the bottom, which ran counter to the nobles' ideas, so the original temple was suffered. The rejection of many nobles, and even regulations to exterminate the clergy appeared.

But soon, the nobles discovered that the teachings of the church could be easily tampered with, making most people believe that the natural royal power and the reason why the nobles were nobles was the power given by the goddess. Any attempt to blaspheme the power of the nobles would, in essence, It is equivalent to blaspheming the goddess.

After the Holy War, the transformed church became the mainstream force in the church with the support of the nobles. And after many purges within the church, there were not many original clergy left. The rest of the sound was gone.

At that time, the general situation was that a few powerful countries controlled the Holy Church, and the Holy Church controlled most of the small countries. In the end, the nobles relied on their faith to rule the people.

This balance lasted for hundreds of years until the rise of modern mages.

Most of the ancient mages were lost after the Holy War, and the remaining mages have been hunted down by the Holy Church as heretics for hundreds of years. The remaining mages have been kept in secret, but Isaac Livingston The establishment of the leading modern magic system has directly improved the strength of mages a lot. In response to the dissatisfaction of some countries with their own domestic interference due to the growing church forces, mages have also stepped onto the political stage and become the nobles. A great force in the church.

In countries dominated by mages, elite education is mostly adopted. Gifted children can receive excellent education and eventually become a mage, while those without talent return to the countryside after receiving basic education. , talents who might have been detrimental to the rule were quickly transformed into members of the ruling class.

At the same time, contrary to the church's practice of shelving all kinds of extraordinary powers to create a sense of mystery and awe, the mages went in the opposite direction and applied various magical technologies to production, reducing the production burden on the general public. , so that people's hearts will not be unstable due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, and a virtuous cycle will be achieved.

From this point of view, in fact, mages have only effectively improved productivity, and the increase in productivity will naturally drive social progress. The country dominated by mages has entered a semi-capitalist society in a sense.

Rosen, now, wants to push this system one step further and completely change the world using contract theory.

(End of this chapter)