Mo Lin did not mean that those "common folk" were "mobs." As a modern-day transmigrator unlike Tang San, he could easily see that every nation, whether empire, kingdom, or duchy, practiced a policy of keeping the people ignorant. Their investment in basic education for ordinary commoners was practically zero.
Only a few nobles with dreams and ideals privately taught basic knowledge to commoners without soul master talent. If they encountered someone particularly clever, they might cultivate them a little, but at most, they would keep them by their side as advisers. Entering the court as an official was basically impossible. Even the Star Luo Empire had only appointed commanders of commoner birth in the military; civil offices remained firmly controlled by nobles and great clans.
Moreover, despite the sheer number of nations in this world, there had never been anything like the flourishing of a hundred schools of thought during ancient China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. After all, this place more closely resembled the Western Middle Ages. The difference was that Spirit Hall was unlike Christianity or Catholicism; for ordinary people who had not joined Spirit Hall, it did not brainwash them quite so severely.
In medieval Europe, the more ignorant the people were, the easier they were for the Church to control. Here, the more ignorant the people were, the easier they were for the royal families to control. But one point was universal—if people had no thoughts of their own, they would merely drift with the current like leaves.
"Will the prestige Spirit Hall has accumulated over so many years really be wasted because of a single war? Besides, what if we win? As long as we win, isn't that enough? History is written by the victors, after all." There would always be people who