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"Leona, aren't you coming back with us?”Brand, who was covered in armor, looked at Leona in confusion.
'Leona' smiled and waved his hand,""Jiang, there's something I care about that I want to take a look at, so you guys go back first. Don't worry, it'll be fine."
"Alright then, Leona, be careful.”
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Nie Hou turned off the Water Mirror Technique, and the scene from before disappeared. He took out a jar of wine that was quite old and tore open the mud seal on it. Immediately, a rich wine fragrance filled the entire room.
Then, Nie Hou took out two big bowls and poured the wine into them. He pushed one of the bowls in front of Leona and said,""After watching this video, Miss Lion, you should be able to calm down and talk to me, right? After all, I didn't hurt your companions, right? If I use your appearance, it would be easy for me to kill all of them.”
Perhaps it was because his companions had left safely, or perhaps it was because of the bowl of wine that was emitting a strong fragrance in front of him, Leona picked up the big bowl and drank the wine in one gulp. He wiped his mouth and said,"What exactly do you want? You clearly had many opportunities to catch all of them in one fell swoop, but you kept letting them go. What exactly are you planning?”
After saying that, Leona did not care about his identity as a prisoner. He took the large jar of wine on the table and waited for Nie Hou's answer.
Nie Hou didn't pay much attention to Leona's actions. He took a sip of the wine in his bowl and said,"" I'm just curious. I'm curious about the method that the Revolutionary Army used to create a free country where everyone is equal. Can you explain it to me? Miss Leona."
Nie Hou's words immediately made Leona's eyes light up. It seemed like…there was a possibility that this captain of the Imperial City Garrison Guard would be pulled into the Revolutionary Army camp.
Therefore, Leona immediately followed the propaganda of the Revolutionary Army and said,"It's very simple. As long as all the officials are elected by the common people, they must be very popular among the common people. How can such officials become pests that oppress the common people?”
When Nie Hou heard about the election system, he couldn't help but laugh in disdain.""Hehe, is that so?"
Seeing that Nie Hou did not believe him, Leona said angrily,""Of course. Is there a better way than this?”
If Nie Hou was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven who had been in the West for 500 years, he might have been moved by Leona's words. However, as a transmigrator who had come from a highly civilized world, Nie Hou instinctively felt that this was a ridiculous idea. Therefore, Nie Hou said to Leona,"Then, Miss Leona, let's make a hypothesis.”
Leona took a big gulp of wine and completely forgot about Nie Hou's contemptuous smile. She burped and said,""Ah, this is really good wine. What hypothesis are you going to make?"
Nie Hou looked at Leona, whose face was slightly red from the alcohol and looked exceptionally beautiful."" Let's say I'm the person who wants to be elected as an official, and you're an ordinary citizen who has the right to vote.”
This assumption was reasonable, so Leona nodded and said,""Yes, and then?"
"I took out ten gold coins and handed them to you, hoping that you would elect me as an official. Will you agree?”Nie Hou took out ten gold coins from his pocket and placed them on the table.
Leona answered Marquis Nie decisively,""Of course not."
At this moment, Nie Hou took out a black money pouch.""Miss Leona, if you have a seriously ill old man in your family and you need 100 gold coins to buy medicine for him, would you choose me if I gave you 100 gold coins?”
This time, Leona frowned. She put herself in Leona's shoes and said dejectedly,""I think... probably."
Leona didn't know that Nie Hou wanted to see this expression on Leona's face.
Nie Hou suddenly put on the face of a big capitalist."Then, let's assume that I am a businessman with a huge trading system, but I want to run for an official position. Miss Leona, there is a seriously ill old man in your family who needs 100 gold coins for medicine every month. However, Miss Leona, you work in a lumberyard, and the lumberyard will give you 150 gold coins every month. If I find the boss of the lumberyard and tell him that if all the employees of the lumberyard elect me, I will be able to save you. I'll use my connections to expand the logging business. If the logging boss says that if he doesn't choose me, he'll fire you, what will you do?”
The future Leona had described for the Revolutionary Army was completely shattered. If it was really as Nie Hou had described, then what would be the difference between the new Empire then and the current Empire?
Just as Leona's fantasies were about to collapse, Nie Hou added fuel to the fire." If the Revolutionaries succeed, then the higher-ups who are the leaders of the Revolutionaries will definitely obtain new power. In order to maintain their power, they will take out their family's money to consolidate this position. My previous assumption was completely based on the position of the higher-ups of the Revolutionaries.”
"How could…how could the higher-ups of the Revolutionary Army…become like that? " Impossible, this is absolutely impossible…" Leona, who had been hit repeatedly, had a look of disbelief on his face. He did not even notice that the wine jar in her arms had been smashed to the ground.
Nie Hou squeezed Leona's hand hard and said with a dignified expression,""Miss Leona, let's get this straight. The so-called revolutionary army is actually funded by those businessmen in the south who think that the Empire has too much tax. If politicians have a strict bottom line, then businessmen are the real vampires. Compared to those businessmen, the 50 million gold coins that I, the captain of the Imperial Garrison Guard, receive in a year is just a drop in the ocean.”
Leona was no longer drunk. She looked at Nie Hou coldly and said,""Is this your goal? Make me waver in my opinion of the Revolutionary Army? I have to say that your scheme has succeeded. However, this still doesn't change the fact that you're a greedy person, an evil person who made countless people bleed and cry.”
"Since Miss Leona has said so, if I don't produce some evidence that I'm actually a trustworthy good person, then Miss Leona will probably fight with me here. In order to gain Miss Leona's trust, I'm prepared to tell you the secret that I've been hiding for a year.”
As he spoke, Nie Hou took out dozens of scrolls from his Sumeru Mustard Space and gestured for Leona to read them himself.
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