"This..." The old man's face, which was originally well-maintained, tightened... The voice of the psychic warlock was very gentle and plain, but it made the blood and vitality on this face fade in an instant.
! After a while of silence, he shook his head, raised his gaze again, and barely squeezed out a desolate smile: "Oh... I am worthy of being an apprentice of a great wizard. I am foolish, but I am making you laugh."
“Everyone has the right to dream, and that’s nothing strange.”
"Dream... Haha, of course, although this is undoubtedly the one that can win the best interests... but it is not advisable." The old man smiled, as if he had already awakened from his shock: "After all, the number of half-elves and half-hybrids, even if
After forty years, it has not been able to develop to a base that can establish a country. If you barely have independent independence, you will never have a good result. It is still dominated by half-elves, and the path of living with humans is the safest.
”
Edward narrowed his eyes and did not respond.
Because no matter what the old guy plans, he doesn't want to participate.
Of course, it is impossible to say that the other party’s conditions just didn’t impress him at all... The half-elf is naturally agile and keen, and has a natural expertise in bows and arrows. Regardless of men and women, as long as they are slightly trained, they can be used as archers and in the battle of defending the city.
It can be a good effect. If you can add these 20,000 people, you will at least have a strength base to completely fight against the Blake family and various forces.
But the problem is, the other party's attitude.
Twenty thousand people, less than a few; more but not too many... Edward had an agreement with the mixed race before. He could accept half-elves into the city. As long as the old guy sent Edward, he would definitely accept everything, at most.
I just thought of some way to settle things, but since he had worked hard and ran to Edward to discuss it personally, there must be problems behind him that he could not solve.
Well, this problem seems to be really not small now... Although the psychic warlock only extracted a word from the superficial memory, it was enough for him to calculate some of the facts.
"Is it difficult? Are you still willing to listen to me nagging?" Edgar Linobili sighed: "Although, you have already got the answer you want to know.
”
"I have some time left." Edward smiled.
Obviously, this old fox originally planned to conceal these things and try to simplify them. If he could get through, it would be better. But at this moment, he knew that he obviously underestimated a mage's keen observation ability. If he deliberately concealed it, the final
As a result, it was probably only a beat. Although Edward would not turn against anyone with this line of her daughter. However, this time the matter could not be negotiated, and the situation behind the matter was quite nervous for them.
.So after weighing the trade-offs for a moment, he finally began to make concessions.
This is one of the reasons why Edward continued to talk to him.
Of course, the main reason is that his ideals are not that hopeless. If this old guy was still obsessed with the founding of the country, he might have just thrown him out with a remote control of his mind.
"Oh, ah, by the way, let's start with the ideas of us. The old fox said: "This is also the original concept of the mixed-race association... The half-elves have a lifespan far beyond ordinary people, as long as they persist, they persist.
Work hard to preserve your original sphere of influence, carefully expand new forces, try not to miss any opportunities, make no mistakes, be blindly radical, be closed and conservative, then one day they will achieve their goals, and be fully
And win.”
Of course. At that time, the bloodline of the half-elves was probably completely thin and there was not much difference from ordinary people.
Edward nodded. He was able to propose this kind of national integration strategy. Obviously, there is not a lack of talent in the hybrid association...
"But it is precisely because of this ideal that in the past few decades, the original mixed race will be divided, and some of them have become the Purple Clan." Pay attention to his expression, the old fox seemed to finally relieve himself from the shock: "Well, right?
, Because of communication with humans, some half-elves and humans have gained some status. Although there are very few people, there are even mages, some are staff members of various lords, or knights under them, who believe that they can obtain them through legal means.
Power. They feel that humans and half-elves are not much different. Even if they follow human laws, they can also obtain the same status as humans. As long as they work hard to obtain social status, they will help more half-elves gain social status.
Gradually, people's discrimination can be changed, people's respect, and finally legally acquired a territory and built a country belonging to half-elves on it. Well, at least half-elves have the advantage in numbers and their status is not inferior to humans.
the city-state.”
"And what? Those who have no status?"
"It's the so-called Thorn Sect...their numbers are the most numerous among the several factions, but their status is generally not high, and most of them are not even mercenaries, prostitutes, helpers, they are the most in need of assistance among the mixed-race associations.
A group of people... However, their views and strategies are very influential among the lower class of half-elves, and even the brown-clad genius."
"Because they are the closest to the public... The rich people's ideas are certainly impossible to match those mercenaries, prostitutes, or helpers... Otherwise, the rabbit would not have won the flower planting family in the battle...
”
"Well, Lord Edward, please forgive me for not understanding your metaphor..."
"Nothing, just a fairy tale..."
"In fact, this... members of the Thorns, at the beginning, were some civilians who helped each other, who united to resist the bullying of human beings... They did not trust human beings, and most insisted on resisting and not cooperating, they claimed that
: "We are just a bunch of thorns, and those who trample on us will surely bleed. But later, this mutual help turned into a kind of entangled..."
"Gang members?"
"Yes, now, in several cities where half-elves have a large population, there are more or less half-elves...well, gangs."
Edgar Linobili smiled bitterly, "You know, they think they have inherited the blood of the elves, but because of this, they should be higher than ordinary humans and should not be treated like this,
All injustice is just caused by human jealousy, so they are very dependent on force. In recent decades, they have gradually become disdainful of the brown-clad people, believing that our actions are too conservative and more troublesome.
What is, these people think that the "Purple-clothed guys" are traitors, and the two sides are often opposite. Even if the Purple-clothed sect often fund them, even in some places, they rely almost entirely on the maintenance of the Purple-clothed sect to survive."
After pressing some tobacco in his pipe, Edgar took a deep breath. The smoke filled his face deeper.
"There is a kind of remark among them now. The half-elves should have their own ideals and should pursue freedom, equality and liberation. Therefore, the actions of these members of the Thorn Sect became more intense, and even among them began to emerge.
Some people who were not originally there, such as killers. Moreover, they began to be hostile to us, especially the Purple Clan... I won't hide anything. In fact, there were also those in the last action you participated in.
Their shadow, in which the intelligence that targets you, may be...of course. This is speculation."
"Haha... they are such a group of young guys." Edward smiled and did not speak, but the tentacles of his mind gently swung. Several names had already fallen into his mind.
"Actually, if they did it themselves, we have nothing to say. After all, this is the path they chose, but their actions intentionally or unintentionally deepen the hatred between the half-elves and humans, and now we are trying to use a kind of
Radical and violent ways to promote their so-called ideals... Kill ordinary people, create terror, drive them away, and in order to gain their so-called power, we try to persuade them, use funding to improve their lives and calm their dissatisfaction,
But...they had no intention of stopping at all, but instead became more and more powerful."
The psychic warlock nodded.
Humanoid creatures usually have the characteristics of group living, but this gathering is usually not too large. The more people there are, the more discrete forces, interests, feelings, intentional or unintentional, they will gradually expand among the crowd. Don’t say
The view that right and wrong, my race will have different minds. No matter what kind of smart creatures it is, there will be some. Even if they are both humans, they can still be divided into five or six schools because of the sweet, salty, sour and spicy tofu brain or nothing.
, shouting to burn all the heresies to death.
Of course, knowing this rule does not prevent him from labeling this half-elves in his heart as a "poor" label-
Of course, the only thing worthy of pity is their IQ.
Well, those boring opinions are usually harmless, after all, they will not affect their respective interests. If you bear it, just go... In fact, confrontation with the state machine is not a strange thing. Revolution has been common throughout history, only
However, there is a cost problem in the revolution... Only chaos, famine, war and other things can be reduced. In Tuminis, we cannot say that the country is prosperous and the people are safe, but there is no crisis in the operation of the country. We choose to make trouble at this time. Revolutionary cost.
It's a little too high... Especially since these guys are xenophobics, they don't have the revolutionary foundation of the people, what tricks can rebel make?
Well, OK.
In this era, what mature revolutionary theories and lessons do you need? It is common sense that peasant uprisings have no program. Most of them are just following the big picture... Even in the world of technologically developed that he is familiar with, there is still a
Those who have no brains think that taking turns to go on hunger strikes and sit quietly to protest can overthrow the country and change the times.
"They feel that they have endured enough, and they don't want to endure it anymore, and want to get what they deserve as soon as possible. After all, decades have been too long, and no one is willing to endure such a hard time and wait for something that may not necessarily happen.
The ending is right.”
Those who knew it were obviously enough to support speculation, so the psychic slammed the table and concluded for the other party.
"I guess they are 80% jealous of you. The more you try to support them, the more they take it for granted, and even find out from it that you have more property, so they firmly ask you to share the property equally with them.
Your wealth is also the ill-gotten gained by cheating like those humans. Is that true?"
"You are so wise." The old fox was speechless, and the pipe in his hand also slid down, and a light sound was knocked on the stone table.
Someone just smiles.
There is no doubt that this is the most likely mentality among civilians. Getting something without work is of course much stronger than hard work. After setting the goal, the world will easily become binary - if you are rich and I am poor, then rebel and force redistribution.
, How simple is this? Of course. If you really have to rebel and fight for the right to survive, then there is nothing to say, but if it is just a mentality of hatred for the rich, you eat the bowl and look at the pot...
To put it bluntly, that is the pretentiousness of a bitch.
The solution is very simple. Send it to a barren land, enjoy the life of the slums, and deprive all security. Eat some rough cakes made of black noodles, drink some 'holy water' that has soaked the corpse. Then worry and don't know
When did you get a "happy life" by a girl? I stayed for a while and I didn't have any bad habits!
"In fact, if it is just an hostility within our sect, it doesn't matter. We can give them better... However, this unscrupulous way of action has now begun to intensify the contradiction between humans and half-elves.
It's! ""
Edgar Linobili was a little excited, and her palms that were holding the tabletop became pale due to force.
"I'm going to tell you. Just three days ago, they... chose to attack a city lord and tried to participate in a coup! It failed... Now, Gushan City has begun to expel half-elves on a large scale.
...And what's worse is that several elders were also implicated in this operation. Originally, there was a relatively stable stronghold for us. However, it has been completely destroyed and the two elders in brown clothes were punished.
After hanging, the remaining elder of the Purple Clothing Sect was stripped of his official position and expelled from the city. The arrangement we had been there for thirty years has been completely uprooted."
"We tried to get them to stop this stupid move, but unfortunately, Lord Edward, they are numerous and very good at fighting, you know... we are just merchants, and most of them are just small merchants, we don't want to
Participating in those dangerous businesses, most of the half-elves are like this...
"Okay." Edward stopped him from continuing.
What ideals, advocates, freedom, equality and liberation? In the final analysis, disputes are just problems caused by uneven distribution of interests... The leaders of this mixed-race association are actually just a group of guys with no ideals, so-called becoming officials,
Fighting for benefits for all the half-elves is just a bargaining chip they use to confuse the half-elves below and obtain their support...
The biggest part of things like interests will always be in the hands of a few people... Whether it is humans or other intelligent life, unless they can share everyone's ideas 100%. Otherwise, absolute equality will be nothing more than
It is the ephemeral in the water - half-elves officials mediate between humans and half-elves, but now the people who pay wages are destined to restrain their hands and feet, forcing them to protect each other's own tangible interests, the so-called taking money from others
To eliminate disasters for others... they will never harm their boss' interests to satisfy their original poor relatives and friends.
Therefore, contradictions are naturally inevitable.
It is very likely that what indulged and guided them to do this was the nobles who were ready to drag on and compromise slowly, and finally let the trouble go to nothing. In another few decades, wait for this and a half.
The elves entered middle age and each had their own concerns. All the damns died. What are the interests of a group of guys who are nothing but the crowd to organize and promote freedom movement?
After pausing, he stood up and made a gesture to send guests off.
"Mr. Linobili, if you are asking me for advice. It's very simple, you can let them come, and as long as they come here, I will accept it, as long as everyone must abide by the laws here and exchange work for meals.
I don’t care about the food and the rest, and I don’t need to care about it. If they want to make trouble, please forgive me for being powerless. I don’t use gallows here, but you should have seen those things on the road as well.”
The things the young man called were naturally those one or two hundred woods and corpses... so the middle-aged man couldn't help but tremble, but he quickly calmed down.
"The problem is that we can't send them all, the distance between the two territories is not far, but no one can allow such a large-scale transit to the border, even in batches," he said:
"Well... I'll think of a solution for you."
The psychic warlocked for a moment and wanted to refuse, but he raised his gaze and changed his mind.
The middle-aged man left the living room and left Edward to stand quietly in the hall.
He closed his eyes and pondered quietly. After a moment, a petite body leaned against him behind him.
"Thanks……"
“No need to be polite.”
"I will not let you work for nothing. Edward, the goddess will give you a chance because of this new group of believers."
"Chance?"
"The goddess will help you solve your troubles with her own hands, for example, about... Sister Elena."