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The distance has become invisible, getting closer.
Human nature is really a wonderful thing, as we have said before: "People respect geniuses, but they will not approach them" - as the ruling class, the relationship between nobles and commoners in Rigar's world is also Maintains a similar delicate situation.
Although the gap that has long existed between the aristocracy and the common people around the world is the source of many conflicts, it still exists and naturally has its own necessity.
In the final analysis, all the culture of the nobles is to make their rule more stable. The use of luxurious clothing to create physical superiority, strict wording and etiquette, the study of knowledge and martial arts, all these aspects of attention and luxury in life are precisely to distance themselves from the common class and firmly ensure that the ruling class will always remain the ruling class. .
This is also one of the arguments of the "human servility essentialism" of the Laman scholars: "People always yearn for those beings with a higher status than themselves. Social animals will surrender to large individuals, and human aristocrats are not the same." Using money and power to create a huge impression.”
If the ruling class does not have such a strong sense of existence, then why should the people respect and fear it?
If the people do not respect the ruling class, then why should they follow their ideas?
Human beings are complex, and human nature is also very wonderful. If the common class and the ruling class can be on an equal footing, countless things will not be able to proceed—at least not smoothly. Because everyone will have their own opinions, he has his own ideas, and you have your own ideas. In the end, no one can win the argument, and things will not really start to progress unless an overwhelmingly strong person stands up and makes everyone Everyone obeys him.
This is how the original ruling class was born. In the development of human history spanning thousands of years, the division between the ruling class and the civilian class has become increasingly strict. In the end, in established empires like Padrosi, they even began to ignore individuals and use identity as the basis for judgment.
It is true that you cannot get rid of things like identity, background and origin, but without these things, the ruling class and the civilian class are actually the same.
They are all living human beings.
Everyone has their own pressure, their own pain, and their own emotions.
Their estrangement is not as deep as most of the critics think.
It's just that the ruling class cannot always expose their weaknesses because of their status. They must maintain this superiority and maintain their own posture. It may be said that it is all about saving face, but this is exactly what the common people expect and yearn for.
This creates a contradiction to a considerable extent. In order to maintain their rule, they must maintain their superiority, and sometimes - or always - cannot expose their weaknesses in the nobles' own circle. All suffering can only be hidden in one's own heart. The higher the status, the more things people carry, the lonelier they will be. And they endure this kind of loneliness and pain, but others still find it difficult to understand and just blame them again and again.
Accusing them of not understanding civilians and people's hearts.
This is correct to a certain extent. It is true that many nobles are ignorant of the lives and thoughts of common people, but more probably it is an inevitable tragedy caused by the imperfect social structure.
Nobles are expected to be perfect, as exposing one's weaknesses to the wrong person can be traumatizing.
But if it is with the right person, the distance between the two parties will become closer.
To some extent, this is the first step in establishing a trusting relationship.
Instead of staying on the periphery and trying to protect yourself in a tactful way, try to reveal your true feelings and tell the truth without hiding anything.
Everyone in the team is not a fool. Even if the lower-level mercenaries and businessmen do not possess any advanced knowledge, they are still adults who have experienced the vicissitudes of time. There is no need to explain everything about the human heart. It can be inferred by observing the details of attitude and behavior.
Many times, many things can be resolved peacefully as long as you talk well.
The only difference is the action of breaking through this layer of window paper.
Henry achieved his goal, as always. The overall atmosphere in the team was much brighter. They no longer seemed to be splitting into two groups. People began to communicate more, and some jokes and household chores were mentioned from time to time, so it didn't seem dull.
Although Margaret's matter has not yet been completely resolved, the situation has gradually improved unknowingly.
The weather seems to fluctuate with your mood, or changes in mood and situation make the changes in the weather easier to feel.
Mira couldn't remember how many days she spent running away on rainy nights, and how many days she spent laughing brightly in the sun. Although she understands that these are only a few examples, there are actually many cases of fleeing on a sunny day and singing happily on a rainy day. But memory always tends to link similar things together, adding a little more detail every time we recall them.
When you finally recall the sad past, the surrounding environment must be cold and painful, as if even the air betrays you and wants to suffocate you, and the whole world is full of hostility.
But when it comes to those beautiful memories, everything is filled with a rich, sweet smell of light gold, like spilled honey.
The longer it goes, the more unreliable memories that have been tampered with to some extent due to personal emotions.
Something that you believed in as a child, you also believe as an adult that it must be that way. But when you actually go to touch it, you find that your memory is wrong at some point, so that the memory you firmly believe in is actually very different from the fact.
Just as history itself may be biased due to the knowledge and experience of the recorder, although many people refuse to believe it, human memory is inherently an extremely unreliable thing.
Something that is subjectively believed must be fact. Because of the easily confused nature of memory, it may be wildly wrong.
So based on this, are the trust relationships and interpersonal relationships established based on "familiarity" as fickle and fragile as it is? ——Mira looked back at Margaret, who was smiling happily. She stopped and did not continue to think about this issue.
If you go deeper, you may be able to deny the entire world's knowledge.
This will be a good memory and that's enough. It doesn’t matter if the subjective emotions at this moment will be whitewashed in the future. People always need something to believe in.
She had recently come to understand why Henry was always so calm, as calm as if he had no emotions - even though she knew that wasn't true. When your knowledge reaches a level and you can begin to look beyond the surface of things to understand all the inevitable laws, you will be surprised that everything in the world is so fragile, fickle and unreliable. Subconsciously, you will begin to deny everything and reject everything.
It becomes increasingly difficult for you to believe in something, and even harder to hate something, so in the end you have to maintain a calm attitude towards everything.
Like a passer-by standing still in the flow of people coming and going, like a stranger who is out of place.
At first glance, this sounds like some kind of higher-level existence than human beings is observing the entire world. It seems very amazing, but it is not the person she wants to be.
She has only one role model from beginning to end.
Sages have emotions.
Although he doesn't express emotion often or well - or both - he does feel it all.
Only by standing among people, feeling everything, paying attention to everything, being able to be anyone and understand anyone's thinking, can you truly exist in the world, instead of maintaining a distant distance like an observer.
"Teacher, I probably understand why I want to travel." Suddenly, Mira said this to Henry. The sage looked back at her and raised his eyebrows rarely, but said nothing.
The chattering and laughing behind them continued. After all, Margaret and the mercenary merchants and their entourage all came from the same East Coast cultural background. Even though they had differences in spiritual concepts and many ideas, some of them were not very important. But it is very easy to talk.
Both parties tacitly avoided many topics such as politics and religion, and only talked about light things.
Just like that, as the sun set and the moon rose, they gradually distanced themselves and re-entered the slightly wider road. They camped beside the road, packed their equipment, collected fuel for torches, and rested.
The advantage of the traveling merchants traveling in groups was revealed at this moment. The four-wheeled carriage with two damaged wheels was dismantled by them, and with the consent of Henry and the others, they used iron nails and hemp ropes to follow their carriage. The small flatbed carriage was put together to lengthen it and increase the cargo capacity.
But considering the strength of the structure, they still did not put all the goods on top. Instead, they tried to make space for other carriages and dispersed and digested a small part.
In this way, the loss of the merchant whose carriage was damaged was minimized. Not only could the goods be saved, but the frame of the carriage was still there. At that time, there is no need to buy a whole new car and only need to be repaired and replaced, which can save a lot of expenses.
It is much better to always have a companion to take care of you when you are out. If a businessman traveling alone encounters a similar situation, he may have no choice but to ride a horse and carry as much merchandise as possible.
This is also the origin of the common tactics of many thieves in Padrosi. When near some small bridges or woods, thieves will hook one end of the hemp rope with an iron hook on the wheel of the carriage while the merchant is not prepared, and fix the other end to a tree or tree. pier. As the wheels of the carriage roll, the rope tightens inadvertently and the entire carriage is pulled out of control. When seeing that their carriage is damaged and surrounded by people, merchants usually choose to hand over the goods or run away.
You can get the wealth you want without using any blood. It can be said that it is another unique robbery method that evolved under strict public security.
Accompanied by thick soup and noodles, listening to the merchants tell these anecdotes makes people feel that even thieves and robbers have been racking their brains to think of various ways to survive.
Fortunately, caravans of their size and with guards are usually not targets of thieves because they are more difficult to attack. This is without Margaret and the other three nobles. With the existence of nobles, as long as they no longer encounter mobs that have great hatred for nobles, they can basically sit back and relax.
After dinner, before falling asleep, Uncle Mario began to plan their next destination.
The east coast is a quite huge place. Since there is no towering giant like the Tambur Mountains, the habitable area here is actually much larger than that on the west coast.
The vast land and abundant resources nourished not only the splendid civilization of the Lamanites, but also a variety of other creatures and intelligent races.
In the mountains that cross the southern part of the Padrosi Empire and enter the small Lamanite city-states and then continue towards the south, there live the dwarves, one of the five major races in Rigar. In the northern part of the Palohia Plateau, there is a dwarf kingdom known for its skilled craftsmen, but in addition to this, there are many scattered settlements of elves all over the world on the east coast.
"Wow." Uncle Mario took out a map of the South made of parchment - this is actually one of his products. Although the printing technology on the East Coast is very advanced, a detailed and reliable map is still expensive. , even only the nobles can afford it. Mario originally planned to sell it to the head of the previous village at cost price to maintain future trade relations, but now that this is the situation, he doesn't care so much and just uses it.
As in many other aspects, knowledge related to geography is also very valuable in this era.
Because of the superior quality of paper and printing, East Coasters judged the value of a map not by its size or the territory it encompassed, but by its level of detail and reliability.
"From Chester to Parnilla, the journey is so-and-so kilometers." - Such information and every curved detail of the road and every terrain that requires attention are marked, which naturally requires drawing. The author walked step by step himself, measured the earth with his own feet, and finally recorded it.
Carrying a leather bag full of parchment and wearing a large leather hat with several quills on his head, he walked around on foot. This profession was very popular on the East Coast. And they need to carefully observe and record and draw maps step by step. The time and energy consumed itself makes the cost high. If coupled with the lack of experience and knowledge of mathematics and many basic knowledge, it is impossible to draw reliable maps. If so, the price would be driven to the sky.
So even though it's just a map of the south, Mario's semi-gift product is still extremely valuable.
At this moment, the businessman uncle pointed at the destination he planned to go to next on the map, and a warning sentence "Elf-infested territory" was clearly written in Lamani in green ink around it.
This race itself, which is quite mysterious, extremely exclusive, and very good at magic in the eyes of humans, is naturally not the one they want to trade with.
But through the elven territory, there is a trail that leads to a village in the south called Scotti.
Although their caravan would not be considered exclusive there, and they would only be able to sell more than half of the goods, but if they walked around the area after it was over, they would be able to at least recoup their capital and make some more profits. .
"So, who wants to see the forest elves?" Uncle Mario smiled and said to everyone: "I mean, there is an empty forest, after all, those guys are shy." Mobile users please browse and read, A better reading experience.
