"Lord Roster, are you really going to teach these commoners, even slaves, how to read and count?" In a castle not far away, Viscount Roster watched all this with a smile, but the old man beside him had a face full of worry.
Since ancient times, knowledge had been exclusively for nobles. Many great nobles even used their family libraries to show off their family's status, history, and wealth.
But now, Viscount Roster actually wanted to teach knowledge to these commoners for free, and even... if they learned fast enough and well enough, Viscount Roster would also give these people some coins.
This... was just too much... This was, to some degree, going against the natural order.
