Chapter 753: Agreement Reached
If the news from the previous day made some politically sensitive people sense a shift in Gephra’s political landscape, then the headlines early the next morning confirmed it.
Because someone had died in the conflict that took place just yesterday.
Regardless of whether the emperor and his ministers were willing to admit it, one thing was undeniable: a certain awareness and power at the bottom of society was awakening.
The education people received, the knowledge they acquired, and their broadened horizons had given them more mature and complex ideas than in the past. They were no longer ignorant masses—at least, not all of them.
In the past, people’s lives were simple: in planting season, they received seeds from the nobles, worked the fields during the day, and toiled in their gardens at night, hoping to reap more fruit.
A good harvest meant comfort for the present; a good garden meant comfort in old age.
Beyond that, they had little else to pursue.
But now, people’s ambitions had expanded. They were no longer content with their old lives. They wanted more—such as the most basic human rights: their own lives, and the right to private property.
This is why Gephra has courts and laws now—something it didn’t have in the past. The legal system only came into being after the country was unified.