Gold is Justice

At this moment, Fleisch also turned his head to look at her, his eyes filled with the pride of the winner.

then……

"Everyone, do you want to rob, kill, set fire, and extort ransom together?"

Ariel no longer looked at the leader of the Thunder Army, but at the people.

People who had just been aroused by Fleisch's passionate voice couldn't help being stunned when they heard Ariel's soft voice.

If Fleischer is like a fire, then the mayor is undoubtedly the narcissus blooming in the fire, which can bring a little calm to people.

Ariel nodded lightly, looked around, and continued: "Of course you can plunder, kill and set fire, and kill every nobleman, every lord, and every rich person you see. When you After occupying their wealth, you can enjoy the life that the nobles once enjoyed. Why let them be nobles, you can only be commoners? There is no difference between nobles and commoners. They will all be stabbed to death with knives, and the blood will be red .So why?"

Fleisch folded his arms and snorted: "Are you admitting defeat?"

Ariel suddenly turned her head to look directly at Fleiser, and asked in a very stern and sharp tone: "I completely agree with the trial of those aristocratic landowners who have committed heinous crimes, but you, General Fleiser of the Thunder Army , do you still remember the reason why you did this? Is burning, killing and looting the real reason for your Thunder Army to exist? Does your team exist only to kill? Before becoming a general, what you really longed for What is it, have you forgotten?"

Fleisher's face changed slightly, but he remained calm and said, "Hmph, do you want to talk to me?"

Ariel didn't care about this, and said directly: "I want a stable life. As you said just now, everyone here wants to live a stable life! Those oppressed ordinary people, those who have nowhere to go, they They all hope that they can have a peaceful and safe living environment, and can live in peace and stability. I believe that there may be many people in this world who have very lofty and great ideals, but I am more willing to believe that in this world, I hope to be able to Those who live their little life well and then spend their whole life happily occupy the majority!"

The corner of Fleisch's mouth twitched: "You didn't answer my question at all—"

Ariel: "Burning, killing and looting will kill people! You can rob others, why can't others come and rob you? Do you think that you can do nothing because you are the biggest rebel leader? According to your thinking, do you want to lead everyone to go out in the future? Going to rob and kill? Have you asked everyone present... even the soldiers in the Thunder Army, would they prefer to live a stable life without worrying about being hunted down? Or would they like to live with you? Blood, I wonder if I can still see the day when the sun rises tomorrow?"

A team, a team gathered just like robbers just to report to each other for warmth, rob and kill, has no faith at all.

Therefore, Ariel would not discuss with Flesch whether it was right or wrong to kidnap those nobles for ransom, but directly touched the core area of ​​the team.

The Thunder Army is a rebel army composed of all kinds of forced people who have no way to survive. This rebel army has been fleeing with Fleisch before, looting houses and houses.Although what they do seems to be robbing the rich and giving to the poor, I am afraid that more of it is to supplement themselves.

Are these days hard?

Nonsense, how can it not be hard to be hunted all the time?

Do you still want to continue living like this?

Ariel is sure that many of the soldiers among them probably don't have any vision and ideas for the future.I just want to grab a few more things, and then spend the day comfortably. As for whether to move my head tomorrow or continue to rob to live a better life, then I have no idea.

However, although the idea is very beautiful, the purpose is also very correct.But how should such a dream be realized?

Fleisch just smiled coldly, and said: "Sounds very good. Then do we want to become good friends with those noble landowners? Then watch them continue to fish and meat the people under their leadership, and empty their lives. Money, come to us to spend a lot of money? But I have no objection to this, if they are willing to spend all the money on us, I am also happy to use the money to buy elemental guns, and then shoot bullets into Inside their ribcages."

Ariel didn't go to see Fleisher, but took a deep breath and said again——

"If we want to be able to eat enough, have a warm home, and not have to worry about whether we will die tomorrow, then we need a strong strength! So strong that even the Blue Bay Empire dare not spy on our strength!"

"To achieve such strength, money is of course indispensable. But if we only obtain money through kidnapping, killing, and robbing, then there must be an end, and there must be limitations. Others will think that we are a A warlike city will also think that we have accumulated a lot of plundered wealth, which will trigger other more greedy and more terrifying teams to attack us!"

"And most importantly, what I want to bring to you is not only peace, but also a more important thing - fairness!"

Ariel's eyes were still directed at the Thunder Army soldiers over there, and she said very sincerely: "As long as you have money, you should be killed, right? In this era, there seems to be no objection to such a thing."

"But if we kill a rich person as soon as we meet them, then money will become their common denominator. All rich and powerful people will unite and fight against us."

"We have an army. We may be able to encourage those people to fight and kill with us by killing some nobles, but those rich people will also gather a larger army to attack us!"

"However, as far as I know, even though almost all the nobles in this world are not good people, some people still have good intentions. Perhaps in terms of their own situation, they may not be able to realize how important their status is. How much harm ordinary people have caused, but as long as they can see it, they will find ways to help some civilians tide over the difficulties."

Ariel turned her head, started to face Fleisher, and continued to say——

"It's like Viscount Nobis from Diliao Province who came to visit the competition this time. During the drought this year, he did not follow many merchants to raise food prices, but chose to continue selling food at a par price. Even though this approach did not work very well, and his family quickly discovered the limitations of this and stopped the food sales, but this does not mean that we cannot have a good talk with such nobles."

"There is also Baron Kwaul from Shannan Province. He subcontracted his fields and charged only a small rent, so that the people under his command can fight the current drought together as much as possible. Everyone in their village I respect such a baron very much, after all, this baron also shared weal and woe with them."

"Such people, we can chat with them, talk to them, and see what they think about the Blue Bay Empire, and see what they think about the difference in status between commoners and nobles. If we think about it They kidnapped or killed them all, do you think these nobles who could still talk about it will be captured by our power and submit to us? Or will they pull up an army after returning and completely sever ties with us from then on?"

Facing Ariel's questioning, Fleisch remained so relaxed.Putting his hands in his arms, he sneered and said slowly——

"Convincing those nobles? How is it possible? The nobles themselves are separated from us commoners, and it is impossible for them to become a part of us."

Ariel: "What about me? What do you think I am? In your opinion, am I a little girl who was born as a slave? Or a noble Earl who has his own territory? In your opinion, I am Is my slave status and earl status irreconcilably separated from each other? Then am I one person or two people?"

The current Blue Bay Empire is indeed going downhill, but Ariel is really not sure whether the counterattack erupted by this empire when it is going downhill is something she can resist.

Therefore, she had to make more friends of her own... not just Viscount Nobis in Diliao Province, Baron Kwaul in Shannan Province, but also other landlords and nobles.

It can even be said that those who are willing to come to Pelican City at this time are people who are more open-minded and will not stubbornly believe that things cannot be changed.

Ariel believes that the source of her power comes from the people in the entire marginal province.That's right, this is the source of her own strength. If someone takes away this source, she will completely become a useless little girl.

But in addition to the source of power, Ariel also needs some knowledgeable people.These people need to be well educated, able to know when to do something, and should have a great strategic vision.

After all, after she ruled the entire Marginal Province, the things that appeared on her table were not only about Pelican City or Song of the Mermaid, but also about many other cities and towns that she needed to deal with. too busy.

Therefore, communicating with those nobles who are rich in knowledge, education, and more open-minded, building a good relationship, and accumulating their own strength is also an important part of the "strategy" that Ariel can imagine.

That's why she spared no effort to stop the man in front of her who was only thinking of killing all the nobles and stealing all the money.However, even if she wanted to use this kind of reasoning to narrate, the leader of the Thunder Army in front of her didn't believe these things at all.

For Ariel's "strategy", all he showed was contempt and ridicule.

At the moment, Fleisch stepped on the chair with one foot, crossed his hips, laughed and said——

"President Ariel, what you said seems to be very beautiful and light. But is it useful? What evidence do you have to prove that what you just said can really add strength to Pelican City, not that a little woman like you is born That kind of indecision? How do you convince everyone here that you are in collusion with those noble landowners, and that you will not become another noble landowner riding on the heads of ordinary people like us? What exactly are you going to do? Can it bring us a life of peace and tranquility?"

There are some things that Ariel actually doesn't want to say now.

Because although those ideas have done a lot of reasoning and calculations, it can be regarded as letting Ariel do it, and she has written a logic of the argument hastily, but this logic only relies on her own experience over the years, as well as her own experience. Some "small" and "insignificant" theoretical knowledge planned together with the knowledge obtained by the teacher.

Are these theories true?Is this my fantasy?Is it based on one's own social status, real class, and the external situation faced by one's own willful expectation generated by an optimistic spirit?Or is it a prophecy of the future that is actually possible and is currently taking place further?

Ariel wasn't even sure.

Only now, everyone is waiting for an answer.

Waiting for an imaginary topic of a better future that is not general, but really concrete.

Now, not only the citizens of the entire Pelican City, but also the civilians of other cities who came to this meeting, and even the soldiers of the Thunder Army, everyone is looking at her, expecting her to give a different Frysh, and also solid answers.

If this is the case, then even if the answer may not be so perfect, Ariel also knows that she must express all the thoughts in her heart at this moment.

"The Blue Bay Empire will be destroyed. All the emperors on the entire Golden Continent, who have the inheritance method of passing power to their blood relatives in a fair manner, that is, the monarchy, will eventually be completely destroyed. At that time, a country will be formed that is completely controlled by the people themselves, and I can say that ... it will be a country that is controlled by the people, that is, a democracy."

Ariel didn't use a loud voice to shout these words, to shout.

Even now through the loudspeaker, everyone present can hear clearly, and her tone does not appear to be very excited.

But even so, after hearing her words, everyone present was stunned.

Everyone, including the soldiers of the Thunder Army, including that Fleiser, everyone... was stunned.

then……

"Fart! You really are a traitor! You traitorous woman!"

The first one to speak was the sweet wine cheese who had been in the crowd all along, watching all this with a theater-watching attitude.

At this moment, she jumped out of the crowd and rushed towards Ariel.

The Thunder Army soldiers on both sides and the members of Song of the Mermaid immediately stood up to block the fighter when they saw the fighter rushing up. Seeing that he had no way to rush directly to Ariel's side, Sweet Wine Cheese gritted his teeth, Pointing at her, he exclaimed—

"You actually cursed that my country would collapse? Ha! Only a witch would use such a ridiculous prophecy to declare her power! Ariel Garcia, I thought you were a woman of some standard, but I didn't expect After tossing and tossing for so long, you still only have so much ability after all!"

Rummy's ridicule and sarcasm may be for the benefit of his own family, but for the Thunder Army or other civilians, the most unimaginable thing in Ariel's words is not the power of an empire. collapse.

After all, as long as you have a little understanding of history, you will know that even in the more than 1000 years after the Demon Conquest War, countless empires were established, and countless empires collapsed and disappeared in the long river of history.

What really made them unable to understand came from the second half of her sentence...

"You mean...you want to be a new generation of empress? Just like the Murderer Empire next door?"

With a sneer, Fleisch said something tentatively.

In this regard, Ariel shook her head lightly: "I made it very clear that there is no emperor, no queen, and no monarchy country. It is the people who decide the direction of this country, people's democracy, and then go together ( Harmonious) republic. A democratic republic, if anything.”

Hearing this sentence again, Fleisch laughed involuntarily.He clapped his hands and said, "No queen? No emperor? In other words, you want us to enter a world without a monarch? Hehe, I've never heard such a funny joke. Ai Lier! Don't Thinking that I haven't read the book for a few years, I want to lie to me!"

He pointed to Ariel's nose—

"How can a country not have an emperor? Besides, a country always needs a decision-maker who keeps his word. Well! Even if you are open-minded and don't want to be a queen, someone else will become the emperor of a new country And what determines the emperor's strength is undoubtedly money. With money, people will support you, and with money, you can control a powerful army!"

Fleisch's statement was very confident, and even more so... rampant.Ariel actually didn't really want to use this word to describe it, but his performance now just gave Ariel such an idea.

The first thousand and 450 chapters and five chapters on the destruction of the empire

Regarding this rampant, Ariel's performance was very calm.

A country without an emperor?This was almost unimaginable before.

People are used to having emperors, nobles, and lords.If there is no emperor, then who will command the army?Who will guarantee that a country will not be invaded by foreign countries?

If it was five or six years ago, Ariel would have been deeply skeptical of this if she followed her teacher to learn economics in depth.

But with the research in recent years, she really has such an idea... This is not just a witch's empty prophecy.

"Phew... At that time, no one will want to be an emperor. No, to be more precise, there is no way to be an emperor. When the emperor's internal factors and external conditions will disappear by themselves, then the emperor itself is meaningless .”

Ariel still said these words very calmly.In this regard, Fleisch slammed the table, sat down on his seat again, put his legs on the table, and said cheerfully——

"Okay! Then you can talk about your ridiculous ideas. I want to see, what kind of mental patient would want to refuse to be emperor? If I can, I will definitely wait until the destruction of the Blue Bay Empire in this life. At the same time, I will also be the one to witness the enthronement of the next new emperor."

Even the sweet wine cheese over there, now gave Frye a look of contempt, and then looked at Ariel in the same way, and said: "My empire will not collapse so easily. You alone It's even more impossible!"

After taking a deep breath, Ariel began to organize her thoughts again.

Although the situation is critical now, she slows down her thinking and uses a more calm, as if staying out of it, just looking at all this from the perspective of a historical observer.

After sorting out her thoughts, she slowly exhaled the breath in her chest, and finally, she spoke out——

"My thoughts are not illusory prophecies, nor are I talking nonsense. They are thinking based on the perspective of human nature."

"Since I want to talk about the collapse of the imperial system and the destruction of the Blue Bay Empire, then I will talk about why we are now the emperor in charge of everything."

"The reason is actually very simple. Because if there is an emperor on a piece of land to issue orders, people in this area can live better and grow more food."

"Just imagine, if there is no emperor in a huge territory, then the people in the various villages and cities below will definitely clash and bleed for more land. Under such constant conflicts, small cities will always be In a small city, no one can make it bigger and stronger. The labor force that could have been used to cultivate the land and produce food must be put into the battle. If no one cultivates the land, the food income will naturally decrease. After the food income is reduced, new crops will be triggered. A round of fighting will not stop until most of the people die and the remaining food can feed those who survived."

"In this case, someone leads his own town to wipe out other towns, dominates a large territory, and starts farming under the orders of this person. Since everyone must obey this person, there is a difference between towns and towns. Naturally, the fighting and estrangement are reduced. If there is a food crisis in a certain city or village, this person can also order other areas to deliver food, thereby alleviating the pressure of famine.”

"Under this circumstance, the larger the territory you own, the more resources you can deploy. Once there is a problem in one place, you can use resources from another place to fill it. In this case, this person for himself If the territory under the rule remains stable, it will naturally expand the territory under its control to the limit that cannot be expanded! Then, this person is what we call the emperor."