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Chapter 187 - 135 Coming of Prince Jalen and Belisarius the Banker (4101)_1

Chapter 187: Chapter 135 Coming of Prince Jalen and Belisarius the Banker (4101)_1

In the study room.

Ivita blinked and shook her head at Tartax, "Indirect robbery is a good idea."

"But I can’t do it."

Tartax furrowed his brows. "Why? The fastest way to make money in this world is robbery, nothing else. In times when the Lords are relatively poor, many of them rely on hunting and robbery to make a living."

Tartax thought Ivita was a small lord, unaware of the principle of necessity outweighing propriety, "Many lords have done this."

"Xios, the founding king of Sylimia, was once a local chieftain. When he was starting out, he robbed passing merchants for his initial capital."

"And he eventually became the Great Emperor."

Tartax said: "Xios is still the founder of the kingdom’s law, and the kingdom emerged from him, and he is the only Great Emperor of the Sylimia Kingdom."

"It’s not about whether I can succeed." Ivita said, "But this could easily hurt the civilians."

"Bandits are uncontrollable."

"Allowing bandits to rob my subjects promiscuously is something I cannot accept. Tartax, when the people entrust their safety to a lord, it does not mean you become their master but instead, you are their public safety Guardian."

"They are actually entrusting the responsibility of public safety to you."

"Tartax, if I do this, I’m betraying my duty, betraying my duty is to abandon the title I have now."

Ivita almost instantly ruled out the strategy of nurturing bandits.

Once you start this, it’s hard to get away.

Although it’s an unspoken rule that everyone tacitly acknowledges, such short-sighted behavior will bring more consequences in the future.

This is something that should only be done when driven to extreme desperation, and I’m not at that point now."

Tartax was staring at Ivita, and it was so strange that Ivita noticed it.

Ivita looked at him curiously. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You say, your rights stem from the transfer of your stakeholders’ concerns about public safety?" Tartax’s pupils suddenly contracted and his lips trembled a bit. "Do you mean that your rights come from the people? Not from The Church or God?"

"Not even magic or power?"

Ivita paused, and then realized the problem.

Because of his own educational background, he instinctively believed that authority comes from the people’s grant.

But in this era, it is generally believed that power comes from the inheritance of blood and the grace of god.

The perception exposed by his casual words, in fact, is something that most lords in this world cannot accept.

Tartax clenched his fist. "Did you come up with this yourself? Or did someone tell you?"

Ivita saw his excitement and didn’t understand his meaning because his perspective was a bit anti-church.

But there’s no need for him to lie. "Basically, I guess it’s what I think."

Tartax looked deeply at Ivita, "Your opinion coincidentally aligns with Scholar City’s."

He looked surprisingly at this wizard lord, full of astonishment, a barbaric lord from a small place, could have such cognition.

He seemed to know Ivita anew, and spoke eloquently: "The mainstream view in Scholar City is that the rights of the lords and the king come from the transfer of the people’s right to their own public safety. In other words, the only legitimate source of power in this world is when everyone recognizes you as a king or lord."

"But... Scholar City has always been afraid to publicly state this opinion."

Ivita thought about it for a moment, and knew why Scholar City would not dare to publicly state this opinion.

This point of view is virtually advocating that people have the right to choose their own king, when taken further it implies that the Republic is also legal.

Because the highest leader of a republic is also chosen by the citizens.

However, the goal of Scholar City is to eradicate magic, the church, and faith.

Therefore, they can’t possibly uphold the view of divine right.

As a result, it’s natural to develop a social contract theory in which people choose their king.

Ivita finds that Scholar City’s views are very close to his pre-life legal thinker Rousseau and others’ ideas.

In this respect, Tartax should be from Scholar City.

He wants to get close to Prince Jalen because he deliberately becomes a slave, and the big fish he wants to hook is Jalen.

Scholar City intentionally uses this method to make everything look like a coincidence. They want to strengthen their influence in Alsace.

Ivita then realized that Scholar City is not just an alliance of universities. Their views are very forward-thinking and very dangerous at the same time.

These people are all some very dangerous philosophers.

There’s a saying on my previous planet Earth that capitalists want your money, and philosophers want your life.

These people are all life takers.

Tartax suddenly changed his mind. He initially wanted to give Ivita a short-sighted strategy casually and exchange it for his freedom of action.

But, Ivita unexpectedly refused his suggestion.

Now it seems that for Scholar City, Ivita is also a good lord.