"When idealism and realism fight each other, most of the time one must use reality as the means and ideals as the foundation…"
The old uncle was currently giving Nahida a lesson.
Although most of the courses could be completed together with the Raiden Shogun, Nahida and the Raiden Shogun still had essential differences when it came to governance.
The Raiden Shogun's problem was herself — she needed someone to solve it.
The Shogun only needed to improve herself. The teaching plan leaned toward practical methods, so that the Shogun could be filled with knowledge proven through practice.
On Nahida's side, however, the problem actually lay with the people, not with the god herself.
Her own issue was merely the inferiority complex caused by being imprisoned in the Sanctuary of Surasthana for years and being gaslit by the Great Sage, which made her feel that she was incapable.
In this aspect, it was only necessary to let Nahida accompany them in handling political affairs. The more she handled, the more her confidence would naturally return.
But the main trouble lay with the Akademiya.
But how should one put it? These words weren't really whitewashing.
It was just that the Great Sage Azar might not be the kind of purely bad person, but rather simply a mediocre or foolish person.
In the original Genshin plot, Azar's mistakes mainly consisted of the following three points.
First, imprisoning the Dendro Archon.
Second, for the sake of the God Creation Plan, releasing the Akasha Terminal without restraint to extract the computational power of Sumeru's people's brains, and handing over power to the Doctor.
Third, being conservative and self-satisfied, which caused the relationship between Sumeru's desert and rainforest regions to deteriorate day by day, making historical issues increasingly severe.
Regarding the first point — imprisoning the Dendro Archon Nahida — this was not solely the Great Sage Azar's fault. Nahida had already been locked away by the time Azar was born.
Now that he was in power, it was quite normal for him to not dare to move her and not plan to move her either.
When encountering a bug, one shouldn't think about modifying it. As long as Sumeru's national program could still run, it was better not to touch it.
This actually also belonged to the third point — historical issues — and would become increasingly difficult to handle as time fermented.
Don't look at how easily the Shura Anyakonsen-shou seemed to be handling Inazuma's historical youkai issues.
The main reason it could be handled was because the Shura Anyakonsen-shou knew what the correct path looked like, and he had a full three gods backing him up.
The Great Sage Azar didn't know which way to go, so he could only continue walking the path that his predecessors had walked, while continuing to repair and patch up the house that his predecessors had built.
The second point was mainly because the benefits brought by the God Creation Plan were too high.
A new god who could lead Sumeru…
This was just like a person who had gone crazy from poverty picking up gold. Not picking it up would make one a great person, but picking it up was human nature.
As for whether this gold was real or fake, and whether it could be sold…
The mediocre person Azar simply took one step and looked at the next.
From an objective perspective, the people of the Akademiya were actually also lacking in self-confidence. They felt that they were fundamentally unreliable and could only rely on gods to survive.
Then this lack of self-confidence also affected Nahida. Nahida also felt that her current self was incapable. Following this, the people of Sumeru looked at their own god and also felt that she was incapable.
Thus, they became even more lacking in self-confidence. God and people lacked self-confidence together, falling into a vicious cycle. One had to admit that this was also a kind of mutual pursuit.
As for solving this vicious cycle, the Akademiya's Azar and Nahida also gave different answers.
Azar: This god is no good. Let's try replacing her with a working one. A useful god is a good god.
Nahida: I'm no good. I'll improve myself a little more.
Then one would discover that Azar's logic was actually quite self-consistent.
As for why Azar's logic was self-consistent yet still brought harm to Sumeru…
This was a real-life example of the fact that [a villain racking their brains is no match for a fool's sudden idea].