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Chapter 381 The fence-sitter is here

As soon as Kirby left, Zhang Jingyi heard a noisy sound. It turned out to be the people from the East Country Knights, who were escorting a large group of people from the Glorious Knights towards them.

The Glorious Knights were all covered in dust and looked extremely embarrassed.

The people from the Eastern Knights were arrogant and excited.

"Haha, look, that's my former 'master'. Now I've captured him back. The expression he has when he looks at me is so funny."

"Now that we have captured them, should they become our slaves?"

"This is called slaves turning over a new leaf and becoming masters."

"Hahaha!"

A group of people were laughing happily when they saw Zhang Jingyi coming over and facing them with a serious face: "Everyone! I just heard you say that they used to be your masters?"

"Yes! Your Majesty." The East Country Knights saluted quickly. "They are so bad. They whip us and force us to work every day. When there is a war, they force us to take up arms and fight. Every time we fight, they want us to rush to the front and use us as cannon fodder."

Zhang Jingyi: "Then how do you plan to treat them?"

The Eastern Knights: "Of course we'll use them as slaves. We'll use whips to force them to work, and if there's a war, we'll send them to the front lines as cannon fodder, hahahaha."

"That won't do." Zhang Jingyi said, "If you do that, won't you become the person you hate the most? If one day in the future, you lose the fight again, or your children lose the fight, won't you have to start the cycle all over again?"

Eastern Knights: “Uh.”

Zhang Jingyi: "From the day I rescued you, I said that there would be no more slaves in my country."

Eastern Knights: "Ah, these damned people..."

Zhang Jingyi sighed and said, "Slave owners are indeed hateful, but the root of their hatefulness lies in the system formed by the entire society. Everyone is following the system. These slave owners may not have been slave owners before, but just ordinary soldiers. Because they won the battle and captured you, they became slave owners within the framework of the system. Just like you, now that they have been captured, if I don't interfere, you will also follow the slave system and become new slave owners. In the future... they will also think that you are hateful and that you are all bad people."

The Eastern Knights thought about it carefully. Hmm? It seems to be true.

Because they do not understand any other system, once they win a battle and capture the enemy, they will inevitably become the new slave owners and the kind of people they hate the most.

It was actually the same in the Tang Dynasty. The peasants’ uprising was to overthrow the oppression of the landlords, but once the uprising was successful, they would become the new landlords and continue to oppress other peasants.

The root cause is that they do not understand the new system.

Zhang Jingyi gently patted the shoulder of the Eastern Knight beside him, softened his tone a little, and consoled him: "I deeply sympathize with the suffering you have endured in the past, but you must not inflict this suffering on others. Slavery must not continue. Otherwise, this suffering will one day return to your descendants, forming a spiral of pain."

Eastern Knights: "..." "Just as I liberated you, I will also liberate these people." Zhang Jingyi said: "I want to liberate the slavery system, not any specific person."

He turned his head and faced the annoyed brilliant knights: "Don't worry, you will not become slaves, but the sin of following Ugumantai will eventually need to be repaid. You must now go to the labor camp and meet the Knights of the Poplar there. They have been in the labor camp for a long time and should be able to show you the way."

The Glorious Knights were stunned, they had initially thought that they would be humiliated by their former slaves, who would in turn call them masters, but they had not expected that His Majesty the King would act like this.

I didn't know what to say, so I could only salute silently and let the soldiers take me away.
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The result of the next great battle in Sunshine City quickly spread to all the surrounding areas.

The four major knightly orders of the kingdom were all defeated!

Once this news came out, the fence-sitters had nothing to hesitate about.

Three days later, a huge convoy arrived at the east gate of Sunshine City first. The owner of the convoy was a great lord in the eastern area of ​​Sunshine City, whose title was Duke.

His motorcade was truly amazing, with more than a hundred vehicles in a row, each loaded with people and goods. His wife, children, brothers, uncles, aunts, and the entire family were all in the motorcade.

The house was filled with gold, silver, valuables, livestock, food, guards and servants.

Such a large group of people frightened the soldiers guarding Sunshine City so much that they clenched their weapons tightly.

The Duke walked to the foot of the city in person, raised his head and said loudly: "Please inform Her Majesty the Queen that I am Grand Duke Tick of the Holy Shield Castle. After I learned the truth sixteen years ago, I realized that I had trusted the wrong person before. I cannot tolerate the villain Ugumantai who usurped power sitting on the throne. Please let me return to the true king and help you recover the kingdom as soon as possible..."

His words were very nice, but everyone on the city wall understood that this was a decision made after seeing that Ugumantai had lost the battle, and it had little to do with the truth of sixteen years ago.

The soldiers guarding the city couldn't help rolling their eyes, but they still didn't dare to be rude to a grand duke. They suppressed their complaints and went into the city to inform Elizabeth.

Everyone knew that Grand Duke Tick was acting, so how could Elizabeth not know?
When I heard the news, I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

Antonio next to him said, "Your Majesty, although this Grand Duke Tick is a fence-sitter, he is the first fence-sitter with the highest status. Even if we look down on him, we must show a proper attitude to welcome him."

Elizabeth sighed and said, "I understand. This will make other fence-sitters change sides faster, right?"

Antonio: "Yes! There is no benefit in humiliating him. It will only make more enemies for yourself. This is how things are in politics. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and eat it even if you know it's a fly."

If Elizabeth were an ordinary girl, she could let her likes and dislikes and personality express themselves, but she was a king, so she had to dress up and go out to greet him. She came to the city gate and put on a very happy attitude.

Grand Duke Tick knelt on one knee before Elizabeth, swore allegiance, and publicly announced the release of all slaves in his family, restoring their civilian status, and firmly supported Her Majesty the Queen's new policy of liberating slaves.

After a shameful show, the swaying fence-sitters all fell over...

(End of this chapter)