Benedict felt that these Great Xia people were utterly unreasonable.
They were simply running wild!
What ruler would educate their commoners like this? How could the interests of those at the top be protected that way?
If they really did that, everyone below would be a defiant subject. How could the country be governed?
He tried hard to steady his tone.
"Mr. He, what... use is any of this you've mentioned?"
His voice was full of confusion and incomprehension as he continued:
"If commoners learn these things, aren't you afraid they'll become hard to govern? How will the nobility establish and maintain their advantages in the future?"
"Must your nobles also waste their precious energy studying knowledge that even commoners can learn and put to use?"
He shook his head, as though looking at a group of children who knew no better.
"More knowledge is not necessarily better."
"Knowledge that does not belong to one's own class will only bring confusion and disaster."
He Wuqi: "..."
The delegation members behind him also fell silent.
They finally understood, on a profound level, what it meant to have different principles and no common ground.
The glasses-wearing delegation member could not stand it anymore. This way of thinking was ignorance at its absolute worst.
Although he desperately wanted to fire back, his status as a diplomat made him hold himself back. Pretending to seek guidance, he said:
"But doesn't a country's strength and prosperity require everyone to work for it and contribute?"
"If a small group acts to secure its own power and satisfy its selfish desires, wouldn't the country keep being overthrown?"
"We read your history before, and that was indeed the case."
Benedict found this strange.
"Oh, heavens! But people are selfish, aren't they? How could they possibly work hard to