The days of learning black magic in another world

"The length of the Uranian civil war has always been an important reason why Mr. Riemann has been criticized."

"Obviously there is the ability to end the battle in an instant, why did it take so long?"

"This question may have arisen in most people's minds. Many people agree that Riemann Iserveld is an outstanding magician and mathematician, but think that like most geniuses, he lacks sympathy for ordinary people Heart and respect for politics, otherwise we wouldn’t have watched Urang in chaos for so many years without taking any action.”

"Some people even think that Mr. Iserveld is a typical elitist, because when the civil war affected Springs College and Mr. Heller Villen, he simply rescued them and brought them Go back to the Magic Academy and protect it."

"However, I think this accusation is a bit unrealistic. If Mr. Iserveld is an elitist, he should not have supported the group represented by White and forced to become workers after losing their status as farmers in the first place. "

"Speaking of the White Army, many people think that Iserveld lacks basic political literacy because he originally supported the White Army, and their performance was really unsatisfactory."

"The characteristics of the White Army have been concluded today. They are a group of former peasants who lost their land and became workers with anger and impulsive uprising. They are more inclined to charge and vent without a goal than to fight with a goal."

"White Army has been criticized the most for three places. The first is that they hate intellectuals. They hate the nobles who are above them and oppress them. Since knowledge was naturally bound to the nobles at that time, they also hated those who possessed knowledge. Human beings, and that was at the extreme when they attacked Springs College."

"The second is the blind hatred of technological innovation. In fact, this is understandable. Although we now know that technology is an important factor that brings about economic development, so even if there will be pain during the technological innovation period, we should not reject new technologies. , but for the White Army, those who have personally experienced the great pains brought about by the first technological innovation, their hatred of new technology is engraved in their bones, and their typical behavior is to smash all new factories in the areas they occupy. It makes them less economically stable than Queen Reina in the later stage."

"The third point is that they grew up in the feudal era, and most of them lack the instinct to learn and think, which directly leads to their lack of perspective beyond the times. There is a king in their original world, so they can only think of overthrowing the current king. , and be the next king."

"Many people think that Riemann should have regretted his initial choice after they showed the above three characteristics."

"But in fact, I personally think that Mr. Riemann should have realized these characteristics from the beginning."

"When you read this, you may not be able to help but let out a sigh—here again, Iserveld's crazy fans are deifying him again."

"Please hear me out. I can produce evidence to support this point of view."

"White Army attacked Peg Chester who was on vacation at his old house in December of the ninth year of the new calendar. At that time, Peg Chester had just published the most important paper in his life - "Probability Models" Summary", now everyone knows that this paper directly made him one of Mr. Iserveld's most valued mathematicians. If, I mean if, Riemann Iserveld was right from the beginning The White Army had placed unrealistic expectations, so after this operation, he would definitely feel either anger or regret, but he didn't. Apart from saving Peg Chester, he did nothing more. They did not integrate the White Army, nor did they personally lead their next actions, as if they were just passing by, as calm as if they had just had a decent lunch."

"From this time point, it is obvious that Mr. Riemann has low expectations for the White Army."

"Let me correct my wording. Mr. Riemann's expectation of the White Army is not to let them create a better world."

"Because the word low expectations can easily give the impression that I'm belittling the White Army, and I don't want to give the impression that, in fact, I think people are saying too much about the White Army in the current environment. low."

"It is true that they have courage and force, but they lack the mind and vision to truly change the world, but their courage still deserves the highest praise."

"Ordinary people with knowledge who enjoy philosophical and political speculation are always one step behind those who have experienced suffering to realize the existence of suffering, and even if they are aware of the existence of suffering and injustice, few people have the courage to change the status quo. After all, they have Knowledge means at least they have food, and the desire for safety and security is inscribed in most people's bones."

"Many people like to say that the White Army has only courage, but I can definitely say that courage is by no means a quality that everyone possesses."

"..."

"The second widespread misconception about Mr. Riemann is that he only wants to practice magic, and that other events are by-products of his practice of magic. People who hold this idea tend to think that Iserveld is a cold-blooded bastard. "

"I also want to defend him to a certain extent."

"If he just wanted to promote magic, he had already become a four-ring magician at that time. With the top combat power in the mainland, he could completely rule the mainland with high pressure and force everyone to learn magic, but he didn't. I think this That's pretty telling."

"..."

"The end of the first phase of the civil war in Urang was marked by the assassination of Queen Reina by the White Army. This move brought some naivety to them, thinking that the death of Queen Reina would allow them to win despite the economic backwardness."

"The result of the assassination is well known. Queen Lena's 'disappearance' was actually through the passive teleportation array placed on her by Mr. Riemann in advance—a magic array that automatically detects fatal damage and activates itself once it exceeds the threshold—— Transferred to the Academy."

"Mr. Iserveld later announced the news that the queen was still alive after all the dust settled, and declared that Queen Reina just had a deal with him. The subsequent series of actions were to complete her historical mission. This announcement saved It destroyed the queen's historical evaluation, but failed to salvage her folk evaluation. In the eyes of most people who have experienced that era, she is still the iron-blooded and ruthless high-pressure queen."

"But objectively speaking, she did intensify the class contradictions within Urang to the greatest extent. In order to obtain the silver coins needed to suppress the uprising army, starting from the seventh year of the new calendar, the factories in Urang oppressed workers, and ordinary people The squeeze of living space is terrifying, and the use of the acquired property is to suppress the rebel workers who are forced to have nowhere to go. This fact is not only ironic, but also really makes many people enter a state of awakening .”

"Actually, if she didn't do it out of her inner will, it's hard to imagine how much pressure she was under."

"After all, the criticism of Queen Reina at that time came not only from the people at the bottom who she couldn't hear, but also from young intellectuals who were dissatisfied with the chaos and were distressed and worried about the status quo."

"Young intellectuals are characterized by, first, being young, second, having a carefree life, and third, being good at philosophy and political speculation, although some of these people did not initially feel the stronger oppression suffered by the bottom of society , but after the conflict between Queen Reina and the White Army intensified, even those who were lately aware of the changes in the world, almost all young people who have a certain understanding of politics are thinking about the same question-how can To calm down the flames of war?"

"The first and most direct idea is Bodeism. Mr. Bode believes that the origin of all these turmoil is the invention of new machines. We should abandon the machines and return to the original state of existence. That said, Bodeism holds that change is bad and that no change is good.”

"Mr. Pod thinks that if White's army's desire to destroy the machine is satisfied, the problems of the Civil War will be solved."

"This is an idea that is too unrealistic, but there are reasons for Mr. Pod to raise this view. First of all, Mr. Pod's own family did not participate in the ranks of building factories to earn wealth, which is different from that of Pod. The status of the German family is related to history. The history of the German family is even longer than that of the royal family. They have excessive wealth and have rarely participated in politics since several centuries ago. Instead, they have focused on the study of philosophy and theology. Therefore, Even if the few years of technological change could be called falling silver coins from the sky, the Pod family did not participate in this process, after all, they were really rich enough to ignore such things as falling silver coins from the sky.”

"This makes it difficult for Mr. Pod to realize what kind of resistance will be encountered in eradicating the machine. To put it bluntly, even if Queen Reina wanted to eradicate the machine at that time, she was making enemies of almost all nobles and nobles in the whole country. It doesn't matter if there are only a few old and arrogant families like the Pods."

"Another reason Mr. Pod came up with this idea is his theological attainments. As we all know, the God of Light advocates stillness and not movement. The Holy See has imprinted this point in everyone's minds for a long time, so Mr. Pod saw that it was Wulang's chaotic state, and he would naturally think that this was the disaster caused by Queen Reina's disobedience to the teachings of the God of Light and her insistence on making 'changes'."

"The opposite of the Bode Doctrine is the Casey Beecher Doctrine. He believes that the current chaos in Urang is caused by the shortsightedness of the bottom workers. He proposes that although new technologies will cause job losses in a short period of time, But it will naturally bring new jobs, such as the emergence of spinning mills, which have caused people who originally spun yarn at home to lose their jobs, but a large increase in spinning and weaving will also bring new jobs, such as washing Cotton jobs, and more."

"And they saw the economic take-off brought by the factory system to Uran, but on this point, Casey and Beecher have a little difference. Mr. Casey is more inclined to attribute economic development to the factory system, while Beecher Mr. believes that technological innovation is the only element."

"However, this point of disagreement is irrelevant, because they have reached an agreement on the countermeasures that should be taken. Both of them believe that the queen should adopt a more powerful stance, or in other words, they think that the queen's strength is in the wrong direction, and the queen should adopt a stronger posture. Suppressing workers is useless, she should forcefully arrange new positions for all those who have lost their survival skills."

"These are the two main trends of thought that emerged during the first stage of the civil war in Uran."

"Another trend of thought has not received much attention because it is only a sympathetic sentiment, lacks clear discourse, and is contrary to the position of the class that controls the speech-because they want the rebel army to succeed, it is just a kind of respect for the The simple sympathy of the oppressor, but out of this simple sympathy, many other ideas were later bred."

"The three trends of thought in the first stage of the Urangan Civil War did not include thinking about the political system. On the one hand, the existence of royal power has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and on the other hand, they have not seen that the royal power system has completely ceased to work. It is a signal that in the second stage of the civil war, more people will pay attention to thinking about the political system."

"After the disappearance of Queen Reina during the assassination, although the White Army has not yet entered the royal city, the mood of success is still spreading."

"At the same time, the disappearance of Queen Reina plunged the royal city into chaos and division. The royalists, those who took the opportunity to want to be in power, and those who slipped away silently and hoped that the rebel army would succeed. These people, together with the uprising The army made Wulang into a mess."

"The history of those few years is simply absurd. Every few months, the throne has to be replaced. Sometimes the rebel army succeeds, and sometimes the royalist party succeeds. The cotton stubble is not as good as them. diligent."

"But the most important thing is that those intellectuals with simple sympathy see the rebels themselves as kings."

"They realized that if the royal system didn't change, even if the oppressed came to the throne, nothing would change for the rest of the oppressed."

"Intellectuals, relatively far removed from the conflict, began to discuss how to build a better regime."

——"Magic Century·Miscellaneous Talks of the First Century", Andrei M.