Chapter 199: If you keep telling a lie, it becomes the truth (1)
In the Middle Ages, guilds played a dual role, like the two sides of a coin.
After the Frankish kingdom dissolved, a hellish world where looting, murder, robbery, and rape were commonplace.
In such a horrific society, people banded together in groups to preserve and pass on skills, achieving some progress.
After the wars ended, guilds played a significant role in stabilizing and growing society and the economy.
‘Without the guilds in the early Middle Ages, Europeans would have had no way forward.’
“Sebastian, isn’t it interesting?”
“What do you mean?”
“Guilds. They used to be like lights that illuminated the world, but now they’ve become nothing but trash that all the nobles and officials of the Empire call ‘the rotten system.’”
Everyone in the Empire’s nobility and administration says this.
They claim that guilds, in their effort to protect their own interests, have become addicted to overpricing, merely charging excessively to maintain their control.
Everyone wants to fix this system, but...
Those who don’t know any system other than the guilds fail to find another way and eventually give up.