Xiao Letian stood in the center of the hall, looking around at the officials and guests from all directions, his face as dark as water.
"The human heart needs to be exposed to the sun sometimes. If it is always covered with a lid, it will inevitably become moldy and hairy..." Xiao Letian pointed at the bright yellow jade ring and Zai Chun's imperial edict and smiled.
"The fact that such a gift can be given to me shows that many people have already grown hairs in their hearts, right?" His eyes pierced everyone like lightning, and sure enough, many people's eyes were a little dodgey.
King Shangtai was already covered with cold sweat on his back after fighting. He did not dare to look at Xiao Letian. Opening his heart to bask in the sun was sometimes a very scary thing, but at this moment, Xiao Letian was the scorching sun among the crowd.
"Shang Tai! Are you afraid of me?"
King Shangtai nodded subconsciously, then quickly shook his head and his face became paler. Xiao Letian patted his shoulder and comforted him, "I know what you are thinking and say it boldly. How can I know what you want if you don't tell me? Do you have to guess?"
King Shangtai used all his courage and finally spoke, "Prime Minister... Prime Minister! The Ryukyu Kingdom was saved by you, Prime Minister. In fact, I understand that in this big era, sooner or later, my small country will be annexed by others, not Japan. It's the Western Yi, or the Qing Dynasty, or it could be you..."
King Shangtai completely risked his life, "This country was saved by the Prime Minister. As long as the Prime Minister opens his mouth, he will take it... I just ask that the incense of the Shang family's ancestral hall can be preserved, and don't let our Shang family, which has been inherited for five hundred years, be wiped out... Wuwu Woo!" At this point, King Shangtai covered his face and cried bitterly, and countless old Ryukyu ministers also shed tears.
"Hey..." Xiao Letian let out a long sigh. "You finally said this. Do you feel better mentally after saying it? The feeling of basking in the sun started to sting a little, but after the sting passed, the warmth was very refreshing. !”
"Don't you understand the meaning of my Chinese order until now? I have made it very clear at the beginning. This is the basic constitution that the future Chinese-controlled country will believe in! This is a supreme and unparalleled constitution that exceeds the imperial power. The laws above not only bind you, they also bind me!"
"Now you want to understand? If the Chinese order is supported and implemented by all the people in Ryukyu, then King Shangtai will be canonized by the Chinese order again. Is it possible that someone else can't snatch your throne? Don't forget, even I, Xiao Lotte must also abide by the Chinese order, and I am also bound by this order!"
Jonas, the Prussian envoy in the crowd, exclaimed, "Constitutional monarchy! Is the Prime Minister going to be the first in East Asia to introduce a constitutional monarchy? Sure enough, the wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter. Even the king must bow his head before the constitution. It is indeed a constitutional monarchy!”
Xiao Letian waved his hand, "You are only partially right. We still have many difficulties to overcome if we want to establish a constitutional monarchy in Asia. The first difficulty is the divine right of kings that Asians have believed in for thousands of years. !”
"Emperor! Emperor? The most noble profession in the history of mankind, the pinnacle of power, and the ultimate representative of centralization. In China, the emperor is appointed by heaven and is known as the Son of Heaven! In Europe, the emperor is appointed by the pope and is the administrator sent by God on earth. …”
"Both the East and the West have given the emperor a deep mythological color..." Pastor Xiao Letian Chong Lewis shrugged and said with an apologetic smile, "But the Western world is fortunate to usher in the Renaissance and the French Revolution, and ideological changes have occurred time and time again. The impact finally destroyed the emperor’s mysterious aura!”
"There are czars and French emperors in Europe now, but their authority has long since lost its power. And the rulers of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets only retain one prince, that is, the king and the queen. I have never heard of Britain having one. The Emperor and the Empress... But the absence of an Emperor will not affect Britain's ability to become an empire on which the sun never sets!"
"The elites in the West are very smart. They took the lead in abandoning the decadent idea of divine right of kings, and many of the chains that were pressing on the people were suddenly loosened. Although they were not completely relaxed, they were at least at the forefront of other countries. , This is the fundamental reason why Western civilization has advanced so rapidly in the past three to four hundred years!"
“Relax your mind and let your creativity and productivity explode!”
Xiao Letian made a very aggrieved expression, opened his hands and turned his palms up, "Look at the looks in your eyes just now, and the look of King Shang Tai as if he were mourning for his heir... I know that the moment you just listened to that paragraph, you didn't even think about it. You didn’t realize that the Chinese Order also restrained me, so you subconsciously thought that I, Xiao Letian, wanted to mythologize myself and engage in a farce about the divine right of kings, right?”
"Hahaha... Shang Tai! I, Xiao Letian, launched the Hua Clan Order, and I will be the first to be restrained! As long as you, Shangtai, are canonized in front of the Hua Clan Order, then you, the prince, will be deceived by all the Chinese people in the world. It is generally accepted that I, Xiao Letian, can still overthrow you? If I overthrow you, wouldn’t it mean that I am overthrowing my own Chinese order?"
Bang bang bang... Xiao Letian gently patted King Shang Tai on the face, "Silly boy! Do you understand this recollection?"
"Father Shang..." With a cry like a wolf howling, King Shangtai knelt down in front of Xiao Letian, followed by all the old ministers in Ryukyu who knelt down. They finally understood what the Hua Clan Order was, and this was their greatest The life-saving charm!
"I understand, Father Shang, I understand! The day there is a Chinese order, my status will be solid. Without the Chinese order, I am just a duckweed in the wind! Father Shang, I was wrong... wuwuwu!"
This cry moved everyone present. Everyone looked at Xiao Letian in a wrong way, especially Xiao Letian's direct descendants. They licked their lips and had a question in their minds: "Do you want Ryukyu anymore? Does the Prime Minister not want Ryukyu anymore?" What does the Prime Minister want?"
Xiao Letian turned to look at Zai Chun, "Child, do you understand? I very much agree with what you just said. You said that in the Qing Dynasty, hundreds of millions of people still believed in the emperor and the divine right of kings! These believers Your people are the foundation of your governance!"
"King Shangtai has found his life-saving talisman, that is, the Chinese people who believe in the Hua Clan Order! And you, Aisin Gioro Zaichun, have you found the life-saving talisman for you Manchu people? Have you ever thought about what your throne is? Who should be canonized? Your ancestors? Or the illusory sky?"
"The Ming Dynasty collapsed! The Manchus entered the country and relied on the Eight Banners' bows, horses, and archery to conquer the world. Rather than saying that you were ordered by heaven, it is better to say that you were ordered by swords! Fortunately, you are smarter than the Mongols and know how to respect Confucianism and Taoism. As a result, Confucianism used the idea of the king's power to be granted by heaven to canonize you once, and then you have Zhengshuo!"
"Child, think about it carefully! This era is moving forward, and people's hearts are undergoing great changes. In the future, will the number of people who believe in the divine right of kings increase? Or will they decrease?"
"You said that the Chinese order is a threat? I think it is more of a spur to you! I made it very clear in the Chinese order that the Chinese will never use coercive means to let people join. You can only take the initiative to apply We will review and approve it, and only if you meet our conditions will we recognize your Chinese identity!"
"What are you afraid of? If you do better than me, better than the Chinese Parliament, and the people live better under your governance than under the Chinese Parliament, then what are you worried about?"
"Don't people take the initiative to run towards a happy life? If they join the Chinese ethnic group, their life will be worse than that of the Qing Dynasty. Do you think they will still join the Chinese ethnic group?"
"So, whether there is a Chinese order or not has no impact on you at all. As long as there are hundreds of millions of people who believe in the divine right of kings, then you will still be their emperor!"
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