Luo Hao's eyes trembled when he saw the thick stack of documents. Scholars have studied the four treasures of the study. Judging from the thickness and texture of the rice paper, it is definitely not the new rice paper produced at that time. It is very likely that it is the rice paper collected by Rongbaozhai. Dao Songxuan, I didn't expect that the prime minister would buy it.
Look at the ink-colored treasure on it, and a luxurious orchid fragrance is faintly coming through. Needless to say, it must be the top-grade Hui ink finely blended spices, commonly known as one liang of ink and two liang of gold.
These are not important. With Xiao Letian's status and financial resources, there is nothing wrong with using these expensive goods. But everyone knows very well that Xiao Letian himself was born in the Second Japanese Army. He is good at pen calligraphy and is accustomed to using Bering paper produced in Europe or India.
The Prime Minister is not a traditional Confucian scholar and does not have much preference for the Four Treasures of the Study. But today the Prime Minister actually uses this treasure to record these words. This only proves that this document is extremely precious.
Xiao Letian held the thick stack of documents and looked around with a smile, "I feel so relieved to see you... Many of them are old friends who have followed me since I was just writing the book. Although it is only a short four years, this Four years feels like four lifetimes to me..."
"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and think back to the ups and downs of the past few years. It feels like a dream! At that time, I had no roof over my head, no ground under my feet, and not even half a copper in my pocket... I'm not afraid. You guys are joking, I didn’t earn the money for the meal myself..."
"At that time, I was walking around Sijiucheng. I was craving for a bite of tofu and had to pick up coins from Luo Huo's pocket. Hahaha..." Xiao Letian's joke relaxed the atmosphere, and everyone in the hall laughed.
Xiao Letian touched the heads of King Shang Tai and Zai Chun, "You can't understand that kind of life. You are so poor! You don't have any sense of security in your heart..."
"But just like that, the number of followers around me, Xiao Letian, not only did not decrease, but became more and more! Why is this? Luo Huo, tell me, did you get the salary I gave you in the first year? "
Luo Huo scratched his scalp and said with a smile, "Where is the money? At that time, I never thought about asking the Prime Minister for money, I just took care of the food! Wang Huaiyuan and several of Mr. Fan's housekeepers are in charge of the Prime Minister's expenses. We want Just collect the money when you need it, and reimburse you for what you spent when the time comes..."
"There is food in the big kitchen, clothes are provided on a monthly basis, and there is no place to spend money! To be honest, we really don't follow the Prime Minister just to make a lot of money. At that time, we just had an idea in our mind. Following the Prime Minister, we can do great things and do great things for others. Something so big that I can’t even think about it…”
Xiao Letian's old subordinates, especially the veterans who followed Taibaiding, were all whispering to each other, "Yeah, there was no money to give us at all at that time, and they didn't say how many taels of silver a month the salary was. Once the big pot of rice is eaten, just follow the Prime Minister and run forward..."
"The real pay was only available after Lotte Matheson was listed in Tanggu, and then the Prime Minister set a pay level for us... Later, when military stamps appeared, we had real salary... But why did the Prime Minister say this?"
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and said, "Yes! Why am I saying this when I am celebrating the Chinese New Year? It's because there are some things I can't do without saying them! If we don't say it, our team will be broken up... People's hearts are broken, and it's hard to lead the team!"
Luo Huo stared at that moment, "Who dares! People's hearts are broken? People who are supported by high-ranking officials with generous salaries, spend more money every month, buy houses and land, still dare to break people's hearts? Grandma's..."
Xiao Letian sneered, "Who dares? How come no one dares! Why did Yang Zhi seek refuge with the Manchus? Did he often complain after drinking before leaving? Who did he tell his complaints to?"
There was a "swish" sound, like an autumn wind sweeping through the hall. Hundreds of people present suddenly fell into silence. Some people had cold sweat on their foreheads because of their evil thoughts. Maybe they had heard Yang Zhi's rebellious remarks, and maybe they had echoed them. .
Xiao Letian looked at the dead silence around him and suddenly smiled mischievously, "Okay, don't be nervous, just kidding! That's how people are. There is no end to the pursuit of a better life. When there is no food, you want to have food and clothing. When you have enough food and clothing, you will stop. I want a daughter-in-law, and after I have a daughter-in-law, I want to be an official and make a lot of money... Desire is like an endless staircase!"
"Do you know why I don't kill Yang Zhi? On the one hand, the damage has been done, and killing him will not help! The other reason is on me. I hope he lives. The existence of this thorn will remind me forever Don’t forget humanity!”
"I remind all of you, no one should kill Yang Zhi, let him live, let this thorn thorn in my heart forever, remind me not to be carried away, remind me to always be vigilant about the morale of the people, the military and the officials!"
Shaking the document in his hand, "This is the fence I am trying to mend. This is my answer to everyone's questions... What is written here is the ideal we have to fight for throughout our lives! What kind of world do we want to create?" world, this document can give you the answer!”
"Sima Yun! Read!"
Sima Yun walked towards the prime minister, took the document with both hands as if holding his life in his hands, and turned to face everyone.
"Respecting the order of the Prime Minister, I personally promulgate the Basic Constitution of Ryukyu "Chinese Order"..."
“Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors arose from the banks of the Yellow River and the Wei River, with a land area of no more than two or three prefectures and a population of only tens of thousands… After thousands of years of conquest, the ancestors of China expanded their territory and merged with foreign races before the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties… "
"But there is no clear ethnic identity in China. What are Han people? What are Manchus? What are Tibetan and Hui-Mongolians? Where did the Turks, Xianbei, Qiang, and Huns who were once prominent in history go?"
"Looking at the forest of nations in the world, all powerful countries can only integrate all resources to start the industrial revolution and become one of the great powers..."
"China's chaos is caused first by the chaos of the people's hearts, and the chaos of the people's hearts is first of all by the confusion of national consciousness... I don't know what my ethnic group is? I only know how to fight for petty profits. Even though the country is big, it cannot escape internal strife, civil war, foreign invasion, and revolution. The old routine of reincarnation..."
"Today, the Xiao family is happy to advocate a great discussion among the Chinese people in order to rectify people's hearts and reshape the soul of the nation. They have issued a Chinese order to show it to the world!"
What Sima Yun was holding was really a heavy bomb. The first few hundred words had already caused everyone present to completely collapse.
The half-literate and half-white Mandarin is easy to understand, and the meaning Xiao Letian wants to express is very obvious, that is, the key to China's current problem lies in unclear national consciousness and no sense of belonging to his own nation.
You said you are Han Chinese? So the word Han is taken from the Han Dynasty, what about the people before the Han Dynasty? If the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were Zhengshuo, then would the other tribes he expanded to all directions and annexed be Zhengshuo of China?
The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were just tribes along the Yellow River and the Wei River, and their territory was only one or two prefectures. At that time, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, Bashu, and Guangdong and Guangxi were all barbarian lands.
If you call yourself a Tang person, then how should you count the various ethnic groups before the Tang Dynasty? Where should the bloodlines of those peoples who disappeared in the long river of history belong?
What kind of paradise on earth Xiao Letian wants to build, then he must first figure out what it means to be Chinese!
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