Human beings are creatures of habit. From birth, a person goes through these stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth... and after passing through these stages, he will be over 20 years old.
These twenty years are the development stage of a person's thoughts. No matter whether his thoughts are advanced or backward, wise or ignorant, the inertia will be formed unless a major event occurs in his life later. The mind is stimulated very strongly, otherwise this inertia would be difficult to change.
Looking at ancient times from the perspective of modern people is sometimes as hazy as looking at flowers in the fog. In the final analysis, it is because the core values between us and the ancients, that is, the thoughts in our hearts are completely different. This difference is sometimes difficult to understand. Understandable.
Ancient people believed that there are gods three feet above the head, but many modern people have abandoned this idea. Ancient people believed in the divine right of kings, and believed that scholars were descended from the world. Modern people may look funny, but that is their thinking, and it is deeply rooted and certain.
During the Boxer Rebellion in the north, those Boxers believed that drinking talisman water and eating incense ashes could stop bullets. Or there were thousands of people who did that. Anyway, if the magic failed, they could still blame it on lax martial law. On the body.
You must have missed a woman last night, so the talisman water and incense ash had no effect, and you couldn't stop the bullet.
Is it foolish? If you think outside of the situation, you would say they are ignorant, but when you are personally in that environment, you may not think so.
So what if it’s the 21st century? In our close neighbor India, people still believe in the caste system, believe that people are born unequal, and believe in the theory of blood.
There is no way, it is a kind of inertia, a powerful force that is difficult to change throughout their lives.
Why is Xiao Letian drunk? The most fundamental reason is that he himself did not realize that the introduction of the Chinese Order was so smooth.
In previous deductions, the Four Heavenly Kings, including Xiao Letian himself, were uneasy about the introduction of the Chinese Order, especially the idea of abolishing the emperor and the divine right of kings, which would undoubtedly have a devastating impact on ordinary people.
Another one is to abolish the classification of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. This is destined to be opposed by Confucian scholars all over the world. What this breaks is not a dynasty at all, but China's thousands of years of literati philosophy of governing the country!
The last thing to worry about is foreign ethnic groups such as the Chinese. Ethnic groups from Fusang, Korea, Nanyang and other places may face less criticism when they apply to become Chinese, but what about black people? What about Europeans? What about other religious believers from other regions that China is unfamiliar with?
These people will definitely be opposed by many people if they join the Chinese ethnic group. Not to mention that the Chinese do not have racial discrimination. In fact, the Chinese who have regarded themselves as Huaxia Zhengshuo since ancient times are the ancestors of racial discrimination.
Barbarians, Yi Di, Shengfan, Tartars, Hulu... each of these creative discriminatory words carries the arrogance from the bones of the Central Plains dynasty.
The expected resistance was very strong, but Xiao Letian had no way out, because he knew very well that the appearance of the Zhiyuan and the establishment of the Far East Volunteer Army were equivalent to Xiao Letian's oath to the world that he would join the club of great powers.
Today we have a fierce fight with the European arbiter Russia, and tomorrow we have a life-threatening fight with the Second French Empire. This is to prove to the great powers that I, Xiao Letian, am also qualified to bring the Chinese people to join the club of great powers.
There will be more and more wars and conflicts in the future, and they will become more and more serious. To fight against foreign aggression, we must calm down the internal affairs. If the front is fighting desperately, and a group of traitors like Yang Zhi emerge from the rear, wouldn't it be a dead end?
Desire is like water, it is better to clear it than to block it! Xiao Letian must face up to the desires of his civil and military officials, perform meritorious service and receive rewards, sacrifice and struggle, and finally obtain rank privileges. This is the driving force for most people to work hard with Xiao Letian.
After all, patriotism is just like a bowl of chicken soup. It is satisfying to drink at first but not full! When it's time to share the chicken, even if the chicken cannot be eaten temporarily, people must be told the fair rules for sharing the chicken, so that people know the rules and are willing to implement them. This is the key to the unity of the entire Chinese nation.
Break up a group of old aristocrats and support a group of new aristocrats, and the rules for these new aristocrats to ascend to power are the Chinese Code!
Xiao Letian, Wang Huaiyuan and others have been mentally prepared. No matter how loud the opposition is, this time the Chinese code must be passed by force.
The army has been prepared. If the opposition is too loud, if someone really dares to jump out and cause chaos, the new army will immediately suppress it and declare Ryukyu to enter a state of military control.
Even if a military government is established, the Chinese code must be accepted by all people!
Aixinjueluo Zaichun's reaction was already expected by everyone, but his power was temporarily unable to affect Ryukyu's decision-making in the Qing Dynasty. The most worrying thing was King Shangtai.
After all, this young king was Ryukyu Shosho, and he had no bad reputation, so the people still believed in him. If King Shangtai does not agree to this reform, even if the army forcibly suppresses it and passes it, there will be great hidden dangers in the future.
He never expected that King Shangtai would be so enlightened. He could see at a glance the benefits of the Chinese code to him. It seemed that this king really had an epiphany. He had understood the core essence of the European constitutional monarchy.
It is precisely because of King Shangtai's example that the promotion of the Chinese code was so smooth this time, which also suppressed the few Confucian officials in Ryukyu.
Xiao Letian didn't expect it to start so smoothly. In an extremely relaxed mood, he actually drank a few more glasses of wine. It was because these few glasses of wine made him say the words that almost scared Luo Huo to death.
There were only three of them in the study room. Luo Huo and Wang Huaiyuan guarded the sleeping Xiao Letian with strange expressions. The words Xiao Letian just said over and over again in their minds.
Do we really want to kill several emperors and a group of princes and nobles? Is this the truth or drunken talk? Could it be that the Prime Minister has always treated Zaichun like a pig?
Could it be that the Prime Minister just wanted to carefully carve a beautiful piece of art and then smash it in front of the entire Qing Dynasty? This is so perverted...
Wang Huaiyuan swallowed hard and said, "You... don't think nonsense! The Prime Minister is just talking drunkenly!"
"But the more the Prime Minister talks drunken words, the more likely it is that these drunken words will become reality? Otherwise, what's the use of having that group? The Prime Minister's prophecy was not just said once!"
"I... I mean, how could the Prime Minister harm Zai Chun? What the Prime Minister should deal with should be the hostile princes and nobles in Sijiu City... The Prime Minister is just a metaphor!"
"I said what's wrong with you? Luo Huo, you can just be your strong general. Why worry about this? We are all knives in the hands of the prime minister. You can chop whoever you ask. There is so much nonsense..."
