On the way to the old capital of the Kingdom of the Moon, the sage wrote a few letters and sent them to Xinjing via Scud when he passed the inn.
In view of the fact that paper, pen and ink are not cheap enough to be consumed arbitrarily even in the Crescent Continent where the industrial chain is more mature and the labor force is more concentrated, the standard size of Moon Kingdom letter paper for civilians to communicate can only be used to write a few lines. . Therefore, he simplified the language and only highlighted the key points, mentioning details such as how to identify dangerous areas through flowers and the need to be more vigilant.
Because language descriptions may cause misunderstandings, I also attached a dried fairy flower clip to the letter at Aya's suggestion for reference.
Starting from the intermediate station on the road from Xingjing to Fuso, letters sent by Scud will usually take a day or two to be delivered. Taking into account the possible risks of failure in delivering letters on the road, Henry hired a total of full-time personnel, including one government company and two private companies, to send the same letter.
Despite this, considering the identity of the Qingtian family and the Grand Miko who received the letters, it is very likely that these letters will be intercepted by some grassroots personnel and cannot be delivered.
The Kingdom of the Moon is a strict class society, with clear distinctions between civilians and nobles. As the main ethnic group, Kazuto also despises foreigners as "barbarians" - even though Henry showed the token issued by Xinjing and was riding a horse and was generous when delivering the letter, the staff at the station also made their attitude clear. He was very perfunctory, and even had the slightest intention of mistaking him for being taken advantage of and trying to find ways to increase the money. Of course, our Mr. Sage stopped him calmly.
This token of honorary nobleman specially issued by Xinjing seems to be less effective if it is slightly farther away from Xinjing, even if it is nominally honorable.
Therefore, although the hope may be equally slim, Aya also wrote a letter with similar content in her own name to the tutor of Tiange Academy in the hope of attracting attention.
She went out to relax and experienced some crises. After calming down and thinking, she was no longer as persistent as before. This letter only succinctly stated the problem and hoped that it would be taken seriously and contact people who had solutions. It did not include detailed reasons and explanations of opinions as before, hoping to convince the other party with truth and facts.
People often enter a period of laziness after they have paid a lot but failed to get the results they wanted. Although from the perspective of others, they may feel that they are not as enthusiastic as before, as if they have become decadent, this state is not bad. Good thing.
As long as you can sort yourself out and start again, taking a step back now is just a rest in order to go further in the future.
What they can do has been done, but it's hard to say whether it will be effective.
The Kingdom of the Moon, which occupies the entire Crescent Continent, is ultimately too large a country, and a huge country must be inefficient. Even in the past, a small country like the Kingdom of Avenella on the west coast, with a population of only one million including the countryside, would still face many obstacles in promoting reforms and implementing many things in place. Not to mention the Moon Kingdom, a behemoth that is more than a hundred times larger than Avenella.
Contrary to folktales about dandies who abuse their power and deliberately obstruct the implementation of things and corrupt officials in high positions, in reality many warnings about extremely serious dangers that are clearly the truth and right are ignored, often not based on Malice, but simple laziness and—sometimes even—a sense of justice.
Laziness is a very common habit, especially in an officialdom like Xinyue Continent where nobles are everywhere and departments that need one person are always filled with 10 people, which is seriously overstaffed. It is a common behavior to do nothing and eat free money. There are even many nobles who don't even know what the department they work for does.
This is actually a very common phenomenon in both Rigal and Crescent Continent:
People don't solve problems as they arise.
And it often appears in this order: in the early stages of a problem, even if someone warns it, it will be ignored. It was only in the middle and later stages when the problem expanded to seriously affect the operation of the entire society, the people were in dire straits, and a large number of casualties and losses occurred that they had to face it squarely and mobilize manpower and material resources to solve it.
One of them is the laziness and procrastination that everyone has at work. On the other hand, the objective reason is that various events are always happening in a huge country.
With limited resources and manpower, it is not enough to just have a few small-scale disappearances of a dozen or so people, just a bizarre incident in a small area that no one cares about, and just a few people without real power shouting warnings. Attract attention and take action accordingly.
What's more, some things are "natural" at the moment.
Due to the war in the vassal territory, the problem of refugees within the Kingdom of the Moon was very serious during this period. Farmers fleeing war and military service, or simply having their farmland destroyed and unable to reach Hukou, migrated south in large numbers. This problem itself caused demographic inconvenience, and the refugees who were not properly dealt with turned into bandits and robbed others. It has also resulted in frequent disappearances in various places.
From the perspective of those in power in Xinjing, even if the vassal territory is indeed no longer attacking, the issues that need to be solved most will be the resettlement and riots of the large number of refugees, not the weird and strange strange things that a few people keep preaching. world threat.
And if the bad consequences of common treatment methods such as laziness and neglect are foreseeable, then the consequences of people who have not mastered the correct knowledge but are new to the job are filled with a sense of justice and nothing else. Acting blindly often leads to consequences that are not only bad, but also full of unforeseen randomness.
Our Mr. Sage could anticipate the former and think of some rescue plans, and he also explained it to others during the journey - mostly to enlighten the unhappy Miss Doctor - but the latter, because of its randomness, even him There is nothing we can do.
Although we may resent ourselves for not having the real power when things are blocked, the old fable always tells us.
Heedless actions taken by those in supreme power will always be amplified by their immense power.
——About six days after they left, the hungry refugees in Xinjing and many other central prefectures caused great commotion because of a piece of paper.
It was a decree called the "Biological Compassion Order" issued directly by the royal family - it clearly targeted the refugees who lacked food and clothing and secretly killed cats and dogs in the city for food.
From the perspective of the Moon Country, which always likes to discuss "whether there is a precedent" in everything, this law has indeed been promulgated in the past, so the nobles have no objection to it - especially those who have cats and dogs.
But the problem lies in the timing and the intensity of implementation.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when there is lack of food and clothing, those who hunt and kill without authorization shall be punished with death.
"The life of a servant at the bottom is not as good as that of a cat or a dog." No one knows whether it was the lament of a poet who sympathized with the people at the bottom or the contempt of the nobles from above. However, as soon as this decree was issued, it immediately intensified the contradictions within the sphere of influence of Xinjing. Because the punishment for killing cats and dogs is far more serious than stealing and plundering, many refugees turn their attention to other civilians who live and work in peace and contentment in the local area.
In addition, most houses in the Moon Country are made of paper and wood, so many people set fire to the houses after looting them in order to destroy evidence of their crimes.
Murder is not necessarily punishable by death, nor is arson. Stealing food is only punishable by tattooing and whipping, while stealing and killing cats and dogs is directly punished by death.
The extremely stringent enforcement of the newly added laws, coupled with the real demand for other crimes that appear to be more acceptable in comparison, have resulted in criminal activities targeting local residents of Xinjing becoming more frequent within a week.
The most serious fire spread directly to the foot of the city wall of Xinjing. The fire bandit reformers and local colleagues who had had a relationship with Henry and his party became exhausted.
Even if it was out of pity, and even if many citizens had complained to the government about refugees stealing their own cats and dogs, this kind of putting human life at the bottom still caused a huge sensation among the people.
The royal family, which originally had a weak sense of existence, used a decree to declare who was the ruler of the Moon Kingdom, and the problems caused by all this required a very long time and a lot of manpower and material resources to solve.
And just as collateral damage, the warning letters submitted by the sages and doctors, which had a high probability of not being taken seriously and implemented, in this situation where the local government in Xinjing was in a state of distress, could not be said to have been carefully reviewed, even if After sending three copies, there is still little hope that it will reach the recipient.
Miss Doctor, who was still unaware, was more or less holding on to the hope that it might work this time. She felt a bit like a gambler, who had failed many times but still stubbornly believed that this time it would be different.
The journey continued, and the horse that was freed up without Joshua carried more supplies so that they could go further.
But as we move toward the less populated valley road in the southeast, the frequency of white flowers appearing along the way becomes more and more frequent.
In theory, they were farther away from the shrine that Placia destroyed, but as they got closer to Fuso, they encountered this situation almost two or three times a day. As a result, they were even struggling. They could only find ways to improve the spirit of the team members and avoid marching when the vision was poor.
The regional distribution seems irregular, but it is not always the case. After a little investigation, you can always find some shrines and shrines that have been in disrepair nearby. Fuso, which was once the old capital of the Kingdom of the Moon, was called the "Land of Dragon Prosperity" in Kazuto's records. In the past, the descendants of the Great Moon God founded their country here. Those shrines and shrines enshrined either the stocky god of craftsmen or the god of earth with pointed ears are more or less familiar to our Luoan girl.
These races that were far more prosperous than humans in the distant past may have been revered here even more than in the Rigar continent. However, nowadays, the statues of gods in these shrines and shrines that are overgrown with weeds and decayed are Even his face has changed. If you don't look for them intentionally, you won't even know that they are not far away on both sides of the national highway.
"The nodes destroyed by Placia's people affect the overall boundary demarcation, and the effect will be more obvious in places where the boundaries have become weak." When Henry explained that this kind of situation still occurs despite the geographical distance. When the phenomenon occurred, the Luoan girl suddenly recalled those friends who existed in the world of Rigar. She was a little worried that various changes would occur in Rigar, but Henry shook his head to deny her worries.
"What is the biggest difference between Crescent Continent and Rigal Continent?" he asked.
"..." And Mira fell into deep thought.
After experiencing so much, she could no longer give this answer quickly-because the people here were far from being as different as they claimed. It is true that this country is larger and more unified, and the pride of Kazuto also makes them scornfully call almost everyone else "barbarians" and regard themselves as the most noble and only civilized nation in the world.
But they really have nothing that Rigal people don’t have.
Noble character, upright behavior, gentle care; high self-esteem, self-righteous behavior, unwarranted contempt and rejection.
There is no fundamental difference between the Kazu and the Rigars, they are just mortals. There are many advantages and disadvantages, but the geographical separation and lack of large-scale foreign cultural exchanges lead to cognitive biases.
Is it the difference in appearance between races? ——She thought, but immediately rejected this answer. She felt that the teacher would not ask such a superficial question.
So what is the land area? Customs and culture? The length of a country’s history?
This still doesn't seem to be a correct answer.
"It's the difference between Crescent Continent and Rigal, not the difference between the Moon Country and Rigal Country." Henry obviously understood what she was thinking, but Mira still didn't react when he said this.
"Pa, pa" the sage patted her pocket in a suggestive manner, and she raised her head. It contained the things he had specially picked up when he went to Suomir, and they were also things that would come in handy at the destination of their trip - —The core of meteorite from Suomir and——
Dragon bones.
"There are no dragons in New Moon Continent!" In an instant, the white-haired girl suddenly realized.
Even here there are still legends about dragons and various related words, but there are not all kinds of dragon creatures that are everywhere in Rigar.
"But what does it matter?" But she immediately had a second question.
"The dragon itself is a link against the inner world."
"Meaning that they will fight those monsters?" Mira thought of the Otolo Rock Dragon before, but her idea was obviously too simple.
The sage shook his head, and then raised a finger, pointing to the ruined temple behind him that was hidden in the woods and could not be seen by them.
"races other than humans have already disappeared from the world, and the memory inheritance of humans can be easily dated."
"With the death of a generation, or the change of dynasties, villages disappear, even shrines and shrines composed of faith, as long as they are nodes that need to be maintained."
"There is a risk of being forgotten and abandoned."
"So, its body is built with huge magic power. From the tiny rat dragon to the huge earth dragon, flying dragon and even giant dragon, they can survive and reproduce no matter what kind of ecosystem they are in."
"My Iceberg Beauty Wife"
"Dragon species and dragon-like creatures are an extremely large category. There are powerful individuals that are difficult for mortals to defeat. There are also tiny individuals that feed on insects."
"Even if there are a few heroes who defeat the powerful individuals among them for the sake of their own pride, even if there are sick and weak individuals who are devoured by other organisms, the ecological niche vacancies left by the death of individuals and even populations will be filled by other populations."
"Longevity, spread in various places, has a fixed territory, and will reproduce the next generation on its own." Following his words, Mira felt the fog in her heart dissipate little by little.
"The dragon is the living node of the magic circle."
"In the distant past, the most outstanding beings among the five races, the great magisters named Dru Yin, combined with the original dragons, and then used the creatures that already existed in this world as a model to build it."
"A magic circle that is stronger and more durable than any building made of stone and metal."
"They named it."
"Pan-world grand art."
"It's hard to imagine." The face of the doctor lady who was listening was flushed with excitement. She had always longed for the dragons they described, and now that she knew that they existed and had such ingenuity, it was even more difficult to restrain herself. The excitement of being a scholar.
But Mira, Kaleva and Lulu were just stunned and speechless.
"Dragon was created by...?" It took Mira a long time to squeeze out a sentence, but Henry still shook his head.
"It is better to say it is improvement than creation. Because man-made things are difficult to last forever. They must be a complete biological category, self-contained and self-consistent, and able to thrive in this world."
"This is a spell built with life itself. Countries and regimes that seem solid and eternal may fall overnight, and the knowledge they retain will die with them. Even if they do not die, they may be forgotten like this, After that, it fell into disrepair. But life will continue to multiply. No matter how many times the government changes, there will always be dragons roaring and running in the forest. If they are not in the forest, then they may still be hiding in the underground sewers or in the city. Lying in the corner of residents' homes waiting to prey on light-seeking insects."
"Even if the form changes in order to survive, as long as they still have dragon blood flowing through them, the spell will not be ineffective."
"Hundreds of years and thousands of years are just the blink of an eye to life itself."
"It doesn't even matter if the individual dies, because they are a species."
"Perhaps it can be said that the long-lived species have unique foresight. The time scale in their eyes is even longer than their own life span, so the idea of eternity is far from that of the short-lived species. They look for the strongest and most impervious to decay. Bad material' so simple."
"The only thing that can resist death and destruction is life itself, which is a miraculous existence."
"And Rigal is full of such miracles."
