196 Enlightenment

Roald knew that helping Zhu Wencong was helping himself, as their interests were tightly intertwined.

This cooperative relationship resembled the Eastern tradition of tutor-disciple succession, where the master treated his disciple as his own son.

Since his own son was too worthless, it made more sense to support a capable disciple and let the disciple protect his son.

If the disciple did not protect his son, then he would be socially dead, utterly unable to mingle in the East.

The order of importance in the East was heaven and earth, the monarch, the teacher, and then one's own kin.

It's evident how crucial the tutor-disciple relationship was to ancient people, a foundation that aristocratic families have upheld to the present day.

They did not need their progeny to be particularly brilliant, only to support those outstanding scions of heaven.