There was a dead silence in the flower hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Everyone was immersed in the story Xiao Letian just told and couldn't extricate themselves. The ice in the wine glass in Luo Huo's hand had completely melted, and the half glass of rum had been warmed by the temperature of his palm. .
He raised his head and drank it all in one gulp and asked in a low voice, "What happened next? Is that...that woman dead?"
Wang Huaiyuan shook his head, "He's not dead. His daughter was very brave. She pushed her mother's hand at the last moment, and the silver hairpin went along the neck, bleeding a lot..."
"How could this happen? Why is this happening? We recognize dual nationality, but it does not mean that they are no longer Chinese. What are they afraid of? Why are braids and foot bindings so important?"
Looking at the confused Luo Huo, Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and said, "Because people's hearts refuse to change! It's funny to say that, but in fact, the sense of security that people can feel is not due to the likes and dislikes of the environment, but a habit... Yes, sense of security It’s just a habit!”
"Most people think that mountain bandits are evil, and they are demons that eat people without spitting out their bones. However, Mr. Long once told me that most mountain bandits in the Qing Dynasty were actually half-farmers, half-bandits, especially in areas with poor mountains and rivers. Being a bandit is a part-time job for locals..."
"What does a village in the mountains look like? In fact, it is not as scary as people imagine. It is just an ordinary village. The lives of the people inside are no different from ordinary people..."
"The village is also made up of small families. They have farmland and raise livestock. People also have weddings and funerals. They also abide by the traditional rules that have existed for thousands of years. What do you think of the women who live there? With children, will they be afraid of the people around them?”
"On the contrary, if you change people in different environments, fear will naturally appear. If a caravan passes by a bandit village, he will still be afraid even if he pays protection fees... and the wife in the village occasionally goes down to the county town to buy some food. Things, don’t those peaceful and stable counties have a sense of fear for her?”
"So, all the problems that the Special Administrative Region is encountering now, especially the conflicts caused by these refugees, are the biggest enemies of our cause in the future... Yes, I never think that the Manchu soldiers are a threat. No matter how well their new army is trained, I don’t think they pose any threat..."
"The scary thing is the human heart. Those hundreds of millions of heads controlled by traditional ideas are our biggest enemies in the future! Now do you know why I will never fantasize about becoming king and emperor? Because the Qing Dynasty has at least Eighty percent of the people do not want a change of government..."
"They refuse to change even small things like cutting pigtails and banning small feet. Do you think they will accept changing a dynasty?"
With a bang, Xiao Letian slapped the table. "Can this basin of cold water wake you up? If you wake up, just pour it on the others... I repeat it one last time, all we have to do is think We must do everything possible to reverse China’s declining destiny, rather than letting ourselves become kings and emperors!”
"Those who agree with this ideal, stay. If you don't agree..." Xiao Letian rubbed his eyes in pain, "I can't do that, and I can't do a bloody internal cleansing... Those who don't agree, just let them go." Let them leave!"
The flower hall fell into dead silence again. The servants in the small kitchen ten meters outside had been waiting for a long time with food boxes in their hands, but no one dared to take a step closer. It seemed that the most terrifying core of the entire hurricane was in the glass viewing pavilion in front of them. Same here.
The first person to break the silence was Xiao Hexin, the wise general known as Xiao Letian's number one strategist. This was the first time he said no to Xiao Letian in a clear-cut manner.
"No... Prime Minister, can you listen to me! Some words have been stuck in my throat for a long time. If I don't say them anymore, I will go crazy!"
"I, and everyone sitting here again, are the first old people to follow the Prime Minister. Open the skylight and speak out. No matter what the Prime Minister decides, we will implement it 100%. If you don't want to be king and emperor, we will follow you. Not bad for a rich man!"
"But have you thought about the other brothers? What do they think of the 20,000 New Army soldiers? What do they think of the tens of thousands of officials in the Prime Minister's Palace? There are hundreds of thousands and millions of people who depend on our group to make a living. What do you think? Can they be as calm as you and return to their hometown to become rich men? "
"Prime Minister! You can't do this. You must give those who follow you a hope, a hope of promotion!"
"How did you analyze the Kingdom of Heaven back then? Those words are still fresh in my mind. Did Hong Xiuquan want to rebel from the beginning? No, at the beginning he just wanted to test talents and promote people to take the imperial examination! But he failed three times in the exam and finally Due to depression, he became seriously ill, and then his temperament changed drastically and he embarked on the path of rebellion!"
"Didn't you say that people's desires are like water, and you can't stop them? Who among the world's elites doesn't expect to move forward? Who doesn't want to have a chance to get ahead? But as long as any dynasty gets old, it will suffer from all kinds of strange diseases. The inability of talents to effectively move upward is the most terrifying terminal disease!”
"When the outstanding talents in the private sector find that the lid on their heads is made of iron and the possibility of upward mobility of talents has completely disappeared, and when they know that the existing system can no longer give them a chance, then they can only break through it. This iron lid is the last road!"
"So, at the end of each dynasty, natural and man-made disasters always started to cause civil unrest, and then the outstanding elites among the people took over the baton and stirred up this trend until the existing dynasty was overthrown and a new order was established!"
At this point, Xiao Letian grabbed the conversation and said, "Yes! Let's establish a new order, and then create a new group of powerful people. Then the descendants of these powerful people will continue to seize resources, and then block the upward passage of the civilian elites again, followed by another Earth-shaking... Isn't this the reincarnation? China has not played enough of this game for thousands of years? You still want to continue playing..."
"Okay! Suppose I follow your ideas and I, Xiao Letian, step on tens of millions of corpses to ascend to the throne of God, and I become an emperor like Tang Zong and Song Zu. What happens next?"
"How can I ensure that my children and grandchildren will still be like me? How can you ensure that your children and grandchildren will not form an interconnected iron network and eventually forge a new iron lid? Answer me..."
Xiao Letian said sadly, "Junzizhi has been killed for five generations! Judging from today's era of great changes, five generations is too much to talk about. It is only three generations at most. After three generations, there will be chaos. When the time comes, it will be just another collapse of the earth." In reincarnation, all our efforts will be in vain!"
"The few breaths of vitality we have worked so hard to maintain for the Chinese civilization will be exhausted by then! The foreign invaders will swarm in again, tearing at our Chinese flesh and blood, insulting them! Colonizing them! Enslaving them! "
"This is the result you want!" Xiao Letian shouted sharply.
