After leaving home, Li Wei spent the last copper ring he had on buying half a piece of Siberian labor camp-style black bread.

I soaked it in the free public fountain until it softened, and then I finished my dinner.

"You are very good to that child." While eating, Janna suddenly sighed.

"This is her brother's last wish." Levi replied.

"...I believe your words now, Mr. Summoner. You should not be an evil guy."

Compared to before, Janna was much less hostile.

Not only because of Levi's care for his sister, but also because of the article he wrote in collaboration with her.

Evil people cannot write that kind of words——

"Zuan, where did it come from?"

This seems to be just a popular science history article.

The article is indeed like an ordinary history textbook, sorting it out from top to bottom along the timeline, starting from the tribal civilization era after the great migration of humans 7,000 years ago, the Shurima Empire era that began 6,000 years ago, and the Shurima Empire era that began 3,000 years ago.

The era of warlords and kingdoms, the era of parliamentary city-states that began 300 years ago, and the era of the split of the twin cities more than 200 years ago... From ancient times to the present, all the history that has happened in the land of Zaun.

Janna had never been interested in this kind of article before.

Because she herself is a living history textbook that is thousands of years old. How can those history books compiled by mortals who are based on speculation and blind people feel as much as she, a person who has experienced history, knows so much?

But Levi's article shocked Janna.

Not because Livy unearthed some mysterious and novel historical materials, but because he provided a brand new perspective.

Before Levi, the historians of Runeterra, including Janna herself, only knew how to tell history from the "ruler's perspective" or the "hero's perspective".

For example...

If the previous Janna were asked to tell the story of the birth of the Shurima Empire, she would definitely say this:

"The ascended warrior queen Setaka was guided by the giant gods of the heavens and was baptized by the sun disk to become the first ascended person in history. With the powerful force of the ascended person, she eliminated and annexed all the tribes in Shurima and established the first empire in human history.

a unified empire of slavery.”

But Li Wei only regarded this paragraph as the background of the story. What he wrote emphatically was:

"With the development of productivity, the quantity of products increased to the extent that there was a surplus relative to survival needs. This allowed tribal prisoners of war to transform from killing to economically profitable slaves. Tribal leaders were transformed into slave owners, and others

Gradually turn into a slave..."

"Driven by economic interests, tribal slave owners including Setaka plundered, annexed, and united with each other, and continued to strengthen themselves. Human civilization gradually moved from individual tribes to tribal alliances, and from tribal alliances to slave kingdoms..."

"..."

These words almost overturned Janna's understanding of the world.

She had previously firmly believed that humans were able to establish the civilized Shurima Empire from a barbaric primitive tribe by relying on the great power given by the giant gods and the sun disk.

But Livy believed that even without the giant gods and the sun disk, human beings would sooner or later move from tribes to slave kingdoms.

The emergence of the Titans and Ascended Ones is just a plug-in for humans, which greatly speeds up the process.

In the final analysis, productivity is improving.

Yes, productivity... Janna learned many new words from Levi and was exposed to a whole new set of ideological theories.

After being exposed to this knowledge, some issues that Janna rarely thought about and couldn't understand in the past became clear instantly.

Why was the slavery system gradually disintegrating at the end of the Shurima Empire?

Why was Shurima replaced by feudal kingdoms after its demise?

Why did the Kingdom of Zaun, once ruled by kings and nobles, gradually develop into a commercial city-state controlled by a conglomerate council?

There seems to be an answer to all this.

but...

Know of some that are useful?

Can promoting these histories that not many people care about make people follow and believe in them?

As she thought about it, Janna couldn't help but feel a little confused.

So she couldn't help but ask:

"Mr. Summoner, I still don't quite understand. The things you promote seem more like...a scientific theory? Rather than a belief."

"Can just imparting theory and knowledge really attract followers?"

"Of course." Li Wei said firmly: "Only by mastering this knowledge can we understand the past. Only by understanding the past can we understand the present."

"What the people of Zaun lack most now is thinking - they must seriously think about why Zaun is like this."

"If you can figure it out..."

"They are already 'your' followers."

.............................

At the same time, in the rental house.

Lina read the article as if she was fascinated by it, forgetting all sleep and food.

Now she really believed that Li Wei was favored by the goddess Janna and was enlightened with wisdom.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for her brother to write such an article with his educational level, which was not educated in prenatal education.

"What on earth is going on? Has my brother really seen Janna in person? I have to ask him when I come back tomorrow."

Lina first worried about Levi for a while, and then noticed the content of the article itself:

"It turns out that there are so many secrets in Zuan's past history..."

Not the same as Janna.

Janna's existence is otherworldly, and her vision encompasses all directions. The first time she read this article, she realized that what Levi wanted to share was not the history itself, but the set of ideological tools for analyzing history.

But as a Zaunite struggling to survive in Piltover, Lena's first reaction when reading this article was:

"These damn Piltover guys - it turns out they were never good in the first place!"

What Lina is most concerned about is the various historical secrets mentioned in the article.

Especially the dark history of Piltover.

According to the official textbook of Pi City, Pi City was founded 300 years ago by a group of businessmen pursuing seed oil cooking.

They worked together to overthrow the rule of the evil old Kingdom of Zaun, established the first independent parliamentary city-state in Runeterra, and brought unprecedented freedom and prosperity to the people of this land.

As for these great businessmen pursuing freedom...

How they originally accumulated huge wealth that could subvert a kingdom is only briefly mentioned in the history books.

But with the help of Janna, Li Wei clearly wrote the process of their accumulation of wealth:

"With the roar of steam machinery, the few resources, land and population of the Kingdom of Zaun were quickly swallowed up by the gradually awakening giant beast... Of course, Zaan, a small country with few people, could not satisfy its endless desires.

..."

"Zun merchants who have made a living from maritime trade since ancient times soon set their sights across the ocean and looked at the continent of Shurima, which has been lonely for thousands of years."

"In the hundreds of years that followed, privateers armed with guns and cannons gradually spread across the sea, and coastal colonial strongholds were like the pus spots of smallpox patients, almost crowding the skin of Shurima..."

"Shurima was reduced to a place where slave laborers were hunted for commercial purposes...the indigenous people were exterminated, enslaved and buried in mines, factories, ports, and wherever oil and water could be extracted from them."

"The virus even gradually spread from Shurima to all parts of the world... Demacia, Noxus, Ionia, Bilgewater... As long as there is a profit, merchants dare to risk beheading

Risks arise on any coast and attack any country..."

"..."

The great warriors who overthrew the kingdom's rule more than 300 years ago, and the ancient business families who still hold the power of the Piltover Parliament today...

The history of their fortune is revealed, and almost every line is filled with blood and filth.

"These Picheng guys actually have the nerve to call us barbaric... They are obviously the descendants of a group of robbers themselves!"

After reading this article, Lina just felt that she had been deceived before.

She used to hate Piltover, but what she hated was just the arrogance of Piltover people and their discrimination against her.

But in her heart, Pi Cheng was born to be better than Zaun.

Pi City is so civilized, progressive and prosperous, and the people of Pi City are so gentle, kind and elegant.

While the people of Zaun were willing to kill each other until rivers of blood broke out over a few silver wheels, the people of Piltover were able to pull off the entire city's main switch just to save a bird tangled in a wire.

Zaun doesn't regard human life as life at all, but Pi Cheng regards every life as human being.

This may be the reason why Zaun can never compare to Piltover.

…

Lina had thought so before.

But now... why is Zu An lagging behind? She seems to have a new answer to this question:
To be continued...