Chapter 422 Great Debate and Sparks

Although Dongnar is mainly popular for riding earth and looks down upon spellcasters, this does not mean that Dongnar's cultural and technical level is low.

In Donnar's traditional concept, a qualified knight must not only possess extraordinary abilities, but also possess sufficient knowledge, even if he is a wandering knight.

Therefore, in Donnar's traditional concept, scholars are not necessarily knights, but knights must be scholars.

Under this concept, most of the extraordinary beings trained by the war committee also have the habit of reading and studying. Therefore, in several years of peaceful development, relying on the sharp minds brought by the knights, the war committee also gave birth to batches of people. Batch of new scholars.

Whether they are new scholars or old scholars who have survived the chaotic years, a wave of reflection on Dongnar's culture and system has emerged among them long before the committee members began to think.

It’s just that because of the Commission’s regulations on population movement restrictions, scholars’ reflections are still limited to internal matters.

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At best, it can only be discussed and reflected on a small scale.

But the extranet appeared at the right time. The extranet not only connected the committee with a large number of people, but also connected scholars from all over the world.

As a result, when the people on the committee gradually began to reflect, the scholars who were watching could not help but give up.

As the scholars and countless people participated, the reflection became more and more in-depth. Due to their different views and ideas, discussions and disputes gradually emerged. What was originally just reflection gradually turned into a big dispute across the entire Tianqi Province. Discussions and great debates.

After Tianqi started the big discussion, several other provinces naturally discovered the situation of Tianqi's external network.

After all, although you can't speak on other external networks, you can still browse.

Therefore, when someone moved the big discussion on the Apocalypse Province extranet to other extranets, other provinces also joined the big discussion, even half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, goblins and halflings also joined the discussion. Big discussion.

This is a big discussion and debate that revolves around all aspects of Dongnar's culture, traditions, systems, religion, policies, etc., and the participants cover almost all races and members on the committee.

For this big discussion covering the entire committee, the committee officials naturally supervised the whole process. From the moment the big discussion started to appear, the War Committee had already handed the information to Roland.

When the signs first appeared, Roland could easily extinguish them if he wanted to. However, Roland did not do so, and even actively promoted the birth of the Great Debate. It was precisely because of the official promotion that the Great Debate Only then could the news spread throughout the entire war council in such a short period of time.

Of course, on the surface, the War Council officially remains neutral and does not support the arguments of any faction.

They only serve as referees to maintain the order of the great debate, but secretly, the committee is silently guiding the general direction of the great debate.

Regarding the big debate, the committee's attitude is very clear. As long as it does not violate the [Golden Law], they can do whatever they want. Even if it is an offline fight, as long as it is legal and compliant, applied in advance, and no lives are lost, the committee will not Will take care of it.

Under the deliberate indulgence and guidance of the committee, this great debate has become more and more intense, affecting more and more people.

Although the war committee did not end directly, as a new country that fought back the green tide and ended the era of chaos, a large number of people and scholars have studied the committee's system, and have also considered what Roland said in every public appearance.

Therefore, the things that Roland had advocated before were basically dug out and summarized by them.

Legal order, collectivism, meritocracy, diversity and tolerance, pragmatism, checks and balances of power... ,

As the winner, Roland's views have been basically affirmed, and the winner will not be questioned.

During the period of the Resistance and the early days of the War Council, some people might still think that Roland's idea was wrong, but now, almost no one would question Roland, who was the final winner of Donnar.

Of course, even so, the public and scholars have different opinions on the concepts proposed by Roland.

Some are relatively extreme. They not only fully accept all the concepts put forward by Roland, but also take them to extremes, reject all Sinar traditions, and demand comprehensive reforms. For example, in terms of legal order, the extremes should formulate a This new law governs all aspects of food, drink, housing and transportation.

Some are more conservative. While affirming Roland's ideas, they also believe that Dongnar's cultural tradition still has merits. It is possible to absorb the essence of it, and there is no need to reject everything in an extreme way.

In the constant quarrels and debates, every external network is constantly arguing, and gradually formed five major factions and a large number of small factions.

Dongnar conservatives: advocate maintaining the traditional culture of Dongnar and only improving the traditional culture of Dongnar.

Preserve the tradition of Donnar, advocate maintaining existing traditions, support collectivism, and advocate local autonomy. At the same time,

It also inherited the traditional conservative thinking of Donnar, and was more inclined to isolationism. It believed that after the war committee regained and unified Donnar, it would return to isolation like the Central Kingdom.

Dongnarvi New School: believes that the traditional culture of Dongnar has been decayed, advocates drastic reform of Dongnar traditional culture, absorbs its essence, eliminates garbage, supports legal order and pragmatism, and has relatively radical ideas and is biased towards expansion. doctrine, believing that isolationism is no longer suitable for the development of the times, and that the War Council should urgently participate in and intervene in world affairs.

Committee reform faction: advocates using the existing war committee as the benchmark, abandoning the rigid traditional culture of Donnar, embracing diversity, extensively absorbing the essence of various cultures of the committee, gathering common will, and creating a unique new cultural inheritance belonging to the committee. The faction is based on Xina The Er people, mainly half-elves and dwarves, pay more attention to internal development and racial integration.

The Committee Legalists: advocates that the Committee be governed by enlightened rulers, emphasizes that different races can coexist peacefully under the legal order, advocates the perfection and dissemination of the law, and that all affairs can be managed by the law, including traditional culture, As long as it doesn't violate the law, don't worry about it, and your attitude towards expansion is neutral.

The technocratic faction of the committee: believes that traditional culture is not the focus of the committee. The war committee should pay more attention to technological development and extraordinary popularization, and solve internal problems of the committee through technological development and extraordinary popularization. It advocates the rule of technocrats and supports stable and risk-free development and expansion.

In addition to these five main factions, there are also large and small factions with other ideas. However, most of these small factions do not have much support.

Among these five factions, the first two factions are dominated by Dongnar people. As native Dongnar people, although they have different ideas, they all prefer to preserve the cultural heritage of Dongnar. They hope that the committee will be a Dongnar people. A new country where our cultural inheritance is the main focus.

The last three factions are mainly Sinar people and other races. They are not Dongnar people, so they have little interest in the inheritance of Dongnar culture, so their ideas are more radical.

Of course, the five factions are not monolithic, and there are various internal differences. Moreover, these factions are not really established factions. They are just divided by the committee officials based on the mainstream views of the external network. And, in fact, The frequency of transformations between faction members is also very frequent.

Today he feels that the traditionalists have convinced him, so he supports the traditionalists. Tomorrow he feels that the reformists are reasonable, and he can turn around and support the reformists. There are even many members who are common supporters of several factions.

Although it sounds chaotic, in fact it is not that chaotic. The five mainstream factions are only sorted out internally by the committee. In fact, many people simply share their opinions on the external network.

Then, those with similar views can learn from each other, and those with opposite views can argue and debate, and just export their own views.

In addition, in addition to the quarrels between the five mainstream factions, several churches in the religious subdivision of the outer network are also constantly quarreling, but because of the small number of people, they have not attracted much attention.

In fact, although these five mainstream trends of thought have gradually formed within the committee, the vast majority of people in the committee are die-hard royalists. Basically, they believe whatever Roland says. Even if Roland says something contrary to their views, most of them will not Just think their point of view is wrong.

Of course, this does not mean that this big debate is without value. Through this big debate, everyone in the committee has begun to think and reflect, which is good. In addition, this big debate covers a wide area and has a large number of participants. If it continues, there won't be anything left at the end.

However, it is impossible for Roland to keep staring at the big debate on the external network. There are seven external networks and countless information. Roland alone does not have the energy to keep an eye on it. Therefore, the supervision and management of the external network are all done by the external network administrator. Responsible, Roland only does the general direction understanding and control. At most, he occasionally wanders around in his free time to understand the thoughts of the people on the committee.

The outskirts of Tianqi City.

After a busy day, Roland walked slowly on the suburban road. On both sides of him were golden forests composed of brilliant golden trees.

As golden trees that once had their vitality extracted and fed countless people, when Tianqi City was expanded and built, these trees were not cut down directly, but were moved to the current area.

With the completion of the war committee's reconstruction work, agricultural production capacity has developed rapidly, and the committee's food needs can be met even without the use of food-making techniques. These trees are no longer drained of vitality. After several years of cultivation, they are now The branches and leaves have flourished a lot.

As the breeze blew by, several golden leaves flew past Roland's eyes.

The passing of golden leaves also slightly awakened Roland who was strolling.

Looking in the direction from which the leaves were flying, on a golden tree in front and to the right, a group of black ants lined up, grabbing leaves and walking on the branches. The fallen leaves just now also came from them.

Roland could see that in the middle of the team, a dozen ants were waving their forelimbs in confusion, as if they were wondering where the leaves in their hands had gone. However, although they were a little confused, they did not stop walking and walked along. The team kept moving forward.

Ants are moving.

Roland stretched out his hand, and a leaf fell firmly on his hand.

Looking at the leaves in his hands, Roland suddenly became interested. He walked to the golden tree and used magic power to place the tree back on the ants with empty forelimbs.

Then, Roland looked at the open space on the side, took out the tea table and chairs from the space bracelet, and slowly made himself a pot of tea.

Roland sipped the tea slowly, feeling the cool breeze blowing in his face and the strong vitality around him. Roland looked up at the ants moving on the branches, listened to the rustling sound of the wind, and relaxed a lot.

Roland gave himself a vacation. He was ready to adjust himself and completely build his first legendary element.

Roland had already made arrangements for his future work. With Julius, there would be no big problems.

Although this was not the location where Roland had upgraded the five rings before, the environment was generally the same.

Roland sat calmly on the chair, blowing the wind, drinking tea, and slowly adjusting his state.

The first legendary element he wanted to build was: sparks.

Sparks were the only necessary legendary element for promotion to legend. Only when sparks were built could they be ignited and promoted to legend. If there were no sparks, even if the other four legendary elements were built, they could not be promoted to legend.

Roland looked at the golden sea of ​​trees and closed his eyes calmly. As Roland gradually relaxed and adjusted his state, he felt as if his whole body suddenly became lighter and slowly began to float up.

The strong vitality around him gradually moved away from Roland's perception, as if there was a layer of glass between them.

Roland could see it but could not touch it.

After floating for an unknown period of time, Roland seemed to have passed through a thin film, and then the rustling sound of the wind in his ears disappeared.

After the sound disappeared, Roland's body and soul also had a strong sense of desire. Roland closed his eyes and calmly followed this feeling.

After advancing for an unknown period of time in the ethereal world, Roland gradually re-perceived the strong vitality and rustling sound of the wind around him, as well as a familiar breath.

Roland calmly opened his eyes, and what came into his eyes was a bright mark exuding an ancient breath. It was made of unknown materials and floated very thinly in front of Roland.

Although it seemed to be just a piece of thin paper, Roland could only see the front of the mark no matter which direction he looked at it from.

Looking at the ancient mark in front of him, Roland's eyes flashed with surprise. After a moment of silence, he stretched out his right hand and gently touched it.

The mark in front of him flowed into Roland's body very smoothly, turning into countless white dots and blending with the magic and flesh in Roland's body, and finally flowed into Roland's soul sea.

The white dots flew into the soul sea, and as they went deeper into the soul sea, the white dots gradually hardened and became white particles.

They gathered in the depths of the soul sea and formed a white fire seed.

The spark was formed, very smoothly, without any discomfort.

Roland pursed his lips, glanced at the empty surroundings, and closed his eyes again.

"Awake?"

A familiar voice sounded in Roland's ears, and Roland opened his eyes again.

In front of him, Hela, who came over at some point, was pouring tea for him.