The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 699 The Insane Reason to Start the War (Happy National Day Everyone)

The only purpose of biological evolution is to obtain better survival and continuation.Among them, becoming the leader of the population and becoming the king is the best portrayal of biological evolutionary instinct, because this type of dominant individual can obtain more resources, more sufficient food, and more mating-mating-rights.

And this biological instinct is embodied in human civilization, and it has evolved into another unique humanistic tendency-domination.In layman's terms, it is the desire to be an official. No matter in William's previous life or in Faerun's three-acre land, becoming a master is always the most longed-for pursuit of all humanoid creatures with brains.

We can even say that this instinct imprinted in the genes of creatures is the invisible driving force that drives the entire civilization forward. If any intelligent group loses this instinct, then she is not far from extinction.

William met with ten lucky ones who passed the test, and after communicating with them, he promoted seven of them to be the new representatives of the administrative district.

The so-called representatives of the government affairs district are the superiors of the team leader, and any government orders issued by William or the distribution of materials are realized through the representatives of the government affairs district.The only difference between the representatives of the administrative district and the group leader is that the group leader is self-selected by the group members, while the representatives of the administrative district need to be appointed by the lord, because they represent the extension of the lord's will and are the guarantee of the lord's governance.

Of course, William does not need to maintain his dominance through the so-called balance of personnel. His dominance comes from his strength, from the powerful and formidable Flame Legion under his command.

William's only request to the representatives of the administrative district and the team leaders is to ensure that no one under his command starves to death.Regarding the issue of food, William has never worried about it, not to mention that the rich products of the entire valley are enough for Shadow Valley to have many ways to tide over the difficulties. What is more important is that William has confidence in himself. As the strongest, he is confident that even if the situation really gets out of hand, he can still break the situation by himself.

Isn't it just that there is not enough food?Isn't it just not enough to eat?At worst, I will steal, rob, and hunt in a huge country. How can I feed these thousands of mouths? !

By the way, the Great Kingdom is a peculiar specialized outer plane, and everything in it is hundreds of times larger than the same kind on the main material plane. It is said that it is the origin of the giant race.

The reason why William didn't directly take action to solve the problem now was that he didn't want to raise a bunch of waste. He needed people from Shadow Valley to be self-reliant. After all, he wasn't everyone's nanny.William hopes that even without his own caretaker in the future, the people under his hands can still live in this land firmly and grow up on their own.

This is the greatest love and the best help for these people in William's mind.

Regarding the mess that Elminster and others made in Shadow Valley, William had the urge to laugh awkwardly.Are you kidding me, sir?After living for hundreds of years, you will only engage in this kind of personal heroic protection in Shadow Valley. Are you really stupid or fake!
What William wants to do now is to knead the people of Shadow Valley into a solid whole through this disaster, and train an efficient team with certain political capabilities.

That's why he selected the nine surviving team leaders. Among them, seven talented ones were promoted to higher positions, and two incompetent ones stayed in their posts, but they received generous material rewards from William. One hundred pounds of fine bacon jerky (this is real hard currency, and can even be used as currency in many places).

Of course, the only surviving government district representative was also rewarded with a hundred pounds of bacon jerky. This lady named Rumsfeld is a harp player and all the government district representatives recommended by Ms. Storm Among the talents, the only member from the Harper League.As for those idiots who failed to escape William's butcher's knife, most of them were natives of Shadow Valley or adventurers from Cormyr.

In this regard, as one of the leaders of the Harper Alliance, Ms. Storm is worthy of recognition in terms of character.If another person with no brains came, he would not have to place his cronies all over the place.

But this does not mean that William can coexist peacefully with the silver-haired sisters. On the contrary, irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts broke out between them.

The cause of the contradiction was William's harsh treatment of those who erred.

Whether it is the execution of 82 embezzlers or the labor reform of more than a hundred selfish people with minor mistakes, it is extremely inconsistent with the life philosophy of the Storm Sisters.

"They just made some mistakes that normal people would make. This should not be a reason for them to be severely punished, let alone an excuse to be killed! William, you can't arbitrarily deprive people of their lives, this is wrong! Those poor people also have family members, and their families will cry for it." Storm stood beside the lord, lobbying William vigorously.

However, William said without giving up an inch: "Ms. Storm, you only saw the pity of these one hundred and ten people. Did you see that there are more than 900 people who are more innocent, more pitiful, and more innocent under their feet?" Help?! Let them put those poorer lives behind them, their fate is already doomed."

Storm shouted angrily: "Damn it! William, you can't sacrifice the lives of a few people for the benefit of more people! That's wrong! The importance of life should not be measured by the number!"

William was startled when he heard this. He was familiar with what Lady Storm said. This was a famous ethical and philosophical torture in his previous life.

The source of this problem is a thought experiment. Suppose you are a train driver with more than ten years of service experience. When you are driving to a crossing point of railroad tracks, you see five train drivers in front of you from a distance. Children are playing.

You honked the horn urgently, trying to get them to dodge quickly, but these five children didn't understand what it meant, and they were still having fun on the railroad tracks, and they were about to crash into them.

Just near the intersection you find that you can turn onto another track, unfortunately there is a road worker on that track, and the clock is so tight that the worker must not have time to avoid the train.

How should you choose at this time?
The thinking triggered by this thought experiment is, is the life of one person or five people more important?Then came another thought, should we sacrifice one life to save more people?Are heroes and martyrs worthy of praise?Should people be more selfish?

William was also confused by this question for a while, but it wasn't until he experienced a lot later and got a solution from a sensible person that he really understood the sinister intentions behind this question.

This is a bowl of poisonous chicken soup that deliberately distorts the true meaning of the core of human civilization. The purpose is to weaken the unity and resistance of the society, and cultivate the kind of selfish, profit-seeking fools who have no vision and brains. It is called "exquisite egoism" (to put it bluntly, it means destroying the core values ​​of our traditional culture by weakening the chivalrous and heroic plot in the bones of our nation).

William looked at Storm Silverhand coldly. He didn't expect to encounter similar problems in this different world. William gritted his teeth and said, "Ms. Storm! Because you are Hellen's younger sister and you have a good reputation." , so I respect you very much and tolerate your stupidity. However, please don’t take this stupidity as your personality. Remember! I understand the weight of life better than you!”

The storm's complexion became ugly, and she asked, "I really want to know what your measurement method is?"

William snorted and said, "When a person bases his own happiness and happiness on the pain and suffering of others, this is an unforgivable original sin. As the lord of this land, I cannot ignore this Original sin exists, but it should be eliminated as much as possible so that more people can be happy.

Similarly, we cannot sell the goodness of a few people for the original sin of a group of people, because this is evil and unjust. "

Storm actually thought what William said was very reasonable, but she couldn't tolerate a group of poor people being beheaded right in front of her eyes, so she could only bite the bullet and argue: "William, your statement is too absolute! These poor people People do make mistakes, but they are definitely not worthy of death, you can expel or exile them instead of killing them directly. You are too cruel! This kind of tyranny should not exist!"

William was also a little angry, and he said angrily: "Idiot! What time do you think it is now? There are 5000 people waiting to be saved, but you are here entangled in the life and death of dozens of scumbags! Do you know what is called Use heavy codes in troubled times?!"

At this time, Dove, who had been listening to the side, interjected: "William, there are more monsters than people on this land, and every human life is precious. Now that Shadow Valley has suffered such a heavy blow, and wants to restore the population of its heyday, I don’t know if it will take dozens or hundreds of years. You killed nearly a hundred people at once, even if it takes ten years, you can’t make up for it! I hope you can think lightly and spare their lives.”

Of course, William knew the value of human life. The human head was not a leek, and it could grow back after cutting it off. Besides, the people who were killed were all the backbone of the thousands of survivors. They were either prestigious or talented. The worst is also a scene person.

But he also knew that if the rules could not be strictly established from the beginning, this dilapidated Shadow Valley would have no future to speak of.

William established the rules in Dagger Valley with eleven killing orders. How can this Shadow Valley keep up with the pace of Dagger Valley without severe punishments?

Therefore, William shook his head firmly and refused: "Back off! Two ladies. I have made up my mind. There will be no change in beheading the criminals in public at noon tomorrow. If you are free, you might as well take care of those homeless people. They are the poor people who really need someone to worry about."

Storm found that William could not be persuaded, but said bitterly: "William! Damn tyrant, you will regret it!" After she finished speaking, she left angrily.

Dove sighed, shook his head disappointedly at William, and left with the storm.

They are no strangers to the public execution of prisoner William and his subordinates from Dagger Valley. Of course, these young people who have personally experienced the [-]th killing order can't help but shudder when they think back to the horror scene at the beginning, that kind of nightmarish scene They definitely don't want to go through a second time.

But now they are the ones who use similar rituals to deal with other people. Somehow, there is an indescribable excitement and excitement in their hearts.More than 900 people, led by the newly elected team leader and representatives of the administrative district, lined up on the moat outside the town wall. Under the combination of this small team of 30 people, it should have There was an order never seen in the chaotic crowd, and not even many armies could match them.

But this incomprehensible change caused many bystanders in the dark to change their faces.

When William led a group of former Shadow Valley wounded soldiers to escort the criminals who were about to be executed to the edge of the moat, the waiting crowd suddenly burst into cheers, mixed with a small amount of crying and The exclamation was the plea of ​​the criminal's family.

William took a deep breath, stood on the edge of the moat, and signaled to Miluna, who was a little follower, to bless him with a [Great Roar], he said: "All the people of Shadow Valley who survived the suffering! I am your new lord William. Some of you may know me, and some of you are strangers to me, but this does not affect my attitude towards all of you.

I hope that all of you can live well and happily, and live peacefully until your twilight years.But there is a premise for all of this, that is to abide by my rules, obey my laws, and don't commit crimes or violate laws and disciplines.Otherwise, these scumbags in front of you are your role models.

I think many of you should know why these people were sentenced to death, and of course more people are still ignorant.Here I solemnly declare that these people were executed for the crime of beheading. "

"There are many people who violate my decree, but not all of them deserve to die. Those who are not worthy of death are punished by me to do hard labor. And these people who cannot escape the death penalty not only violate my decree, but also ignore his The lives of those innocent people in the districts and groups, just to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Such evil people are not qualified to survive in my territory, death is their best destination!

Now!Execution! "

All the criminals were lined up by the moat, and ten big and round executioners each held a machete, ready to start beheading work, but the crowd of onlookers was very noisy.

At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes in the distance, and Storm Silverhand led a large group of knights to the execution ground.Storm rode a vigorous silver-white Pegasus, rode the horse up to William, and said solemnly: "William, I want to take away these people who were abandoned by you!"

William said with a cold face: "Why?!"

The storm said: "The cavalry behind me are the elf wind knights from Myth Drannor. They are the knights who are the best at raids in the world. There are also the Mist Knights in the Misty Valley. They are the bravest knights in the entire valley. They have once defeated Countless powerful enemies. William, I don't want to fight with you, I just want to take these poor people away."

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(End of this chapter)