The Crescent Continent has many mountains. Even around fishing villages, they are often surrounded by mountains and rivers and lack large areas of flat land.
The disadvantage of complex terrain is inconvenient transportation, and by extension, cultural and commercial exchanges are naturally more difficult than in plain areas. In this geographical environment, it is common for a prosperous center of power to be formed in an area with convenient transportation, but if you go a little further into a mountainous area with rugged terrain, it will turn into a chaotic area without care.
In fact, similar situations abound on the Rigal continent, especially on the west coast. The reason why the Moon Country, which has a land area far larger than the sum of the countries on the west coast, has been able to maintain its unity for thousands of years is closely related to the power that the royal family has always firmly grasped. On the other hand, it also stems from their pride. Thousands of years of civilization accumulation.
——And when we mention the latter, we are actually not entirely in a position of unilateral approval.
This kind of thing is always obvious to the authorities, and even Miss Doctor, who is a member of the highest think tank group in the Moon Country, may not be aware of it. Therefore, if you want to understand all this, the most appropriate starting point is the documents written by the Lamanites who have been communicating with them for hundreds of years:
"Countries with long histories often have rich traditional cultures. These things fascinate people, but they also make people want to ask, 'Do they also limit the pace of progress?'"
Similar to Suomir, the northern kingdom bordering the Padrosi Empire, "tradition" has to some extent formed a shackles that imprisoned the limbs, causing the entire country to stagger towards the future. Her Majesty the Queen of Suomir still has a long way to go in abandoning and preserving her country's traditions, but she has at least taken this step.
In contrast, the huge shackles called "tradition" of the Moon Kingdom, which has accumulated four thousand years of civilization, may be difficult for even Kramer to break.
"There is no name for slavery in the Moon Country. They despise the empire's slavery system and consider it a barbaric and uncivilized barbarian act. But no nobles of the Moon Country that I have talked to have ever realized that their own country also has The reality of slavery." Laman scholars recorded in the literature: "This country is divided into countless detailed classes from top to bottom. Although class divisions exist in all countries, including the empire, they are so detailed and so The only one that is strict is this country.”
"From the clothes they wear to the things they step on, from the way they speak to the ingredients they can eat. Civilians will be beheaded even if they just verbally contradict the samurai. The harsh traditional cultural consciousness that penetrates the bones of the bones makes these people immovable. Just kneel down and kowtow. Even illiterate children in remote mountainous areas have been instilled with this idea since they were sensible. The awe of the mysterious royal family has become an unshakable iron law over thousands of years. This is even in this country. There are geographical barriers, but there are few root causes of rebellion.”
"The servility that is deeply rooted in their souls and cannot resist the upper class is even worse than the physical shackles that the empire locks on the hands and feet of slaves."
This report signed by Padre Matteo was written a year and a half ago. After the report received the attention of the empire and the top leaders of the White Church, the Lamanites also changed their invasion strategy for more than a century.
We no longer start from the people, but from the leadership class.
The results brought about by the change of thinking were beyond the expectations of even the executor of the plan, and the impact it had on the entire Crescent Continent was something that the group of people here now experienced firsthand.
The conflicts intensified by the Lamanite poaching behavior made the Moon Country as a whole hostile to foreigners and ethnic minorities. Even if it was not the center of the conflict, the deep-rooted traditional culture made the people instinctively reject outsiders.
Henry and the others solved the monster, but after solving it, they still had to think long and hard about what to do next.
Aya, who was somewhat aware of the current situation, was willing to provide them with some help. However, although her status as a doctor was noble, she was only a scholar-adviser. She only had the authority to make suggestions but did not hold real power.
Most of the scholars in the Moon Kingdom are from noble backgrounds. However, most of those who become scholars are unappreciated members of their families.
Becoming a scholar largely means voluntarily giving up the rights of one's own family, which is why Miss Doctor did not mention her last name when introducing herself. In the upper class society of the Kingdom of the Moon, scholars are often called by the class title of "Bachelor" or "Doctor" followed by the honorific title of "Your Excellency" instead of the orthodox aristocratic "Lord So-and-so".
These things were told to them personally by Miss Doctor later - all she could do was help them argue their case, but she could not directly issue some kind of identity certificate like a noble with real power, saying "these foreigners are "Good foreigners", so that they can travel unimpeded on the land of the Moon Country.
And this is exactly the vision expounded by Aya and the others: to assist her in completing the investigation of this high-threat creature, and to obtain information on the rebels that are inextricably linked to it. After that, you only need to go to Honshu, where the power center of the Moon Country is located, and after submitting the report, you will surely be able to obtain a special status sign and become a foreigner with privileges.
She spoke simply and clearly when describing all this, but after Henry listened, he had to pour cold water on Aya.
"It's not that simple. The rebellious samurai are not puppets that can't move." The sage mentioned the encounter two days ago again: "The small-scale troops encountered at the shrine were lightly armed and had a clear purpose. It was obvious that they were here. Cut out the little things.”
"There is only one reason for doing this: in order to prevent the important plan that is about to come to an end from leaking and being aborted, so all possible extraneous factors must be cleared away."
"The specifics of some kind of large-scale operation hidden behind this are still unknown, but judging from the actions of those warriors, at least two things can be basically determined." He paused, and then continued: "Such an efficient and precise small-scale elite force cannot do without strong intelligence support and a huge power network. This means that they will have backup and superiors to report to."
"And the second thing that extends from this and is closely related to our safety is——"
"There will be pursuers." After Henry explained in a short and concise language, he hit the nail on the head.
"If those warriors miss the scheduled return time and fail to report, then the follow-up troops will inevitably be sent out. And the traces we left above are extremely obvious." The sage shrugged and said: "Just The traces of the doctor's life in the hut, as well as the living supplies left on it. There are also traces of the battles with the samurai before that. Although we took time to clean it up, the traces left were still enough for them to carry out Rough inference.”
He said, and the missionary and the doctor finally understood why Henry still took the time to return to the shrine after dealing with the monster.
"And in order to travel a long distance, we also collected necessary supplies from small villages. As long as there are people with a little experience among them, we can deduce from the traces how many people left here alive."
"These people will not let us go, which is why I want everyone to pack up and hit the road immediately after solving that thing. We can spend time making more preparations, and we can also clean up those traces more cleanly. But Don’t forget, samurai have horses, but we walk.” The sage explained to everyone from his professional point of view: “So for us, even a minute and a second of lead time is very important.”
"I don't think those rebels would risk breaking into the territory of decent nobles, but this is where the trouble lies." Henry turned his attention to the doctor next to him, who rubbed her temples and then continued in Lamani. : "Yes. We don't understand who are the rebels and who are the nobles loyal to the royal family. This is the most critical point."
"But wasn't there a list before?" The Luoan girl remembered the documents she had seen in the shrine, but she immediately realized something as soon as she said the words.
"Yes, but there are only names." Ling said with a wry smile: "I am Dr. Xingyong, not Dr. Land. My expertise is biology and climate, not country and society. I can only infer those names from their surnames. territory."
She said that the civilian class in the Moon Kingdom did not have surnames. Only nobles had surnames given by the royal family or named after the territory. This is exactly the same as the lords of Rigar continent naming the territory as their family name. However, due to the evolution of thousands of years and the countless national and rural scholars from all over the Moon Kingdom, the only ones who can clearly remember who belongs to them are the Doctors of Land who specialize in this.
"And there is also the theory of the main family and the separate families. There may be nobles with the same surname, but their territories are far apart. It is really difficult for us to completely avoid the territories of all the suspected rebels listed on the list. Too high." The person who added this time was Priest Alfonso, who also knew a lot about the Moon Country. Although he was hesitant about which side to take at first, he now understood the rebels' attitude toward them. After Ning Ning killed the wrong person, he was basically in the same boat as the rest of the group.
"So we can only keep a low profile, pass through the territory unnoticed, and quickly go to the territory where the nobles loyal to the royal family are, however." Ling glanced at herself and then at the others in the team.
“Dr. You can't keep a low profile." She said, and Mira learned a new word through Aya's words, turned her head and glanced at the little unicorn, who snorted.
"If it were normal, I would suggest walking through the mountain road and going to a sparsely populated place, but." The sage said this and glanced around. Since the blowing snow in the afternoon when he encountered the samurai and the monster, he has been on and off for the past three days. It started to snow again. Taking a long detour on the mountain trail in this weather was too risky for a group of people who lacked transportation vehicles.
Not to mention being overtaken by the samurai due to fatigue, the mere possibility of being killed while crossing the mountains in this weather was enough to deter anyone with any knowledge of winter mountain trails.
The Kingdom of the Moon, which borders the Yi Land, is vast and sparsely populated. When the mountains are covered with heavy snow in winter, it is difficult to obtain enough supplies even with a bow in hand.
It is not that they have not considered the matter of going to look for Lulu's tribe, but they would forget it at other times. Now that there are nine out of ten pursuers behind them, they will take these people to the mountains where the Yi tribe has been hiding for generations. refuge? Anyone with any brain would reject this kind of thing.
For this reason, and not wanting to cause trouble to her tribe, Lulu finally decided to stay with everyone in the short term.
"Although the whole world is huge, there is no place for us." Miss Doctor smiled bitterly and said a proverb in the language of the Moon Country. Although her strong curiosity was answered, the situation she faced now was even more embarrassing.
"It's okay to stay, but it's very difficult to move forward." The Luoan girl squatted down and sighed.
"No matter what, let's continue on the road after finishing this meal. We can only take one step at a time." The sage fiddled with the flames and said softly.
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