What is this?
Li Wei's attention was indeed drawn away by that stack of rice paper covered in English.
She blinked those big, watery almond eyes and curiously peered at Gu Jinzhi.
What was this fellow playing at, all mysterious and secretive?
Gu Jinzhi said softly, "Absolute power is not a panacea."
"If you do not master it, but instead resort to blind slaughter, not only will you fail to save the common people, but you will trigger even greater chaos."
He paused, continuing his analysis, "In the present Great Jing Dynasty, imperial authority does not reach down to the villages, and local order is maintained entirely by the gentry."
"If this class is wiped out, and in the short term there is no new force to fill the power vacuum... have you thought about the consequences?"
At these words, Li Wei felt her heart jolt.
She was not actually stupid. Back when she had first transmigrated, her mind was quite nimble, and she could calmly calculate when facing troubles.
Yet from when on, she had grown increasingly lazy about using her brain...
A sin, a sin... I cannot always rely on super strength; it is time to put my super brain to work as well...
Listening to Gu Jinzhi's calm analysis, the raging anger in her heart that had been on the verge of exploding temporarily subsided by a few notches.
True, wiping out the gentry was satisfying enough, but what then?
The grassroots governance of the Great Jing court would likely suffer an instant paralysis.
No matter how strong she was, she was only one person.
She could protect the capital, but what about all those prefectures and counties far and wide? What should be done about them?
By that time, the fires of war would flare up