This is a group of ignorant people who have no concept of a country at all. It doesn't matter who is the emperor or who rules them.
But this same group of people have their own persistence, and their loyalty to the imperial power is sometimes unimaginable.
The emperor is always good, and the bad ones are always the traitorous ministers around the emperor. Whenever the country is in trouble, it must be the saints deceived by the traitorous ministers.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1898, the Qing Dynasty was tortured to a pulp by the Japanese. However, the slogan shouted by the people of the Reform Movement of 1898 was still to side with the Qing emperor and return power to the Holy Emperor.
The blood of the Six Gentlemen of 1898 did not wake these people up. When the Boxer Rebellion intensified, and when Cixi shouted the slogan of declaring war on all nations, there were still hundreds of thousands of people in North China attacking the foreigners.
Even in the sixth year of the Republic of China, when Zhang Xun was restored to power, every house in Beijing hung the dragon flag and set off firecrackers! You can imagine how important spiritual symbols like the emperor are to the Chinese people.
Xiao Letian thought countless times and deduced countless times. He even bound the special cases reported from Xishuimen into a book. After work, he often looked through them and carefully analyzed the incredible conflicts. People's hearts.
The people of the late Qing Dynasty had complex and contradictory sentiments. They could serve as guides for foreigners at the same time, and they could also shed their blood for the imperial power.
Isn't this contradictory? It's very contradictory, but this contradiction really exists in front of Xiao Letian.
In order to bind their feet and protect their pigtails, the people of Xishuimen would even give up the good life in the special zone. They would even angrily scold those fellow villagers who cut off their pigtails and laugh at the girls who let their feet go.
But even as they laughed and cursed, their longing for a better life in the special zone could not be concealed in any way.
Such contradictory and entangled national characteristics are a true reflection of the market in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, Xiao Letian figured it out. After thousands of years of brainwashing, the people didn't care who became the emperor, but they had to have an emperor. Even if the emperor was just a six-year-old child, they would still think that a piece of boy urine It is the panacea that solves all problems.
The braids on the head are easy to cut off, but can the braids on the heart be cut off? It's hard, it's hard! The emperor is the braid in the hearts of the Chinese people. Perhaps it is the spiritual opium they rely on.
Everything has been figured out. Xiao Letian's Chinese order is currently only suitable for those outside the mainland, and only applies to those Chinese wanderers who have not been brainwashed by the imperial power.
For example, Ryukyu, Nanyang, and the Taiping veterans who have been exiled all over the world. These Chinese who have escaped the influence of imperial power are freer and more independent in spirit. The biggest noble they have seen is King Shangtai. , so it is completely acceptable to them that the Chinese code abolishes the emperor.
But once the Chinese code is promoted on the mainland, Xiao Letian knows very well that he will encounter unexpected resistance. By that time, 90% of the people will oppose him. Those people simply cannot accept a world without an emperor, and their spiritual beliefs will Collapse quickly.
Maybe people like Cixi don't need to betray their country to deal with Xiao Letian. They may even organize another Boxer Rebellion to deal with Xiao Letian. Maybe by then, there will be thousands of people who have drunk the talisman water, with their upper bodies bare and painted on their skin. The Boxers, filled with charms, lined up and marched towards the guns of the new army, shouting various slogans.
If that happens, will Xiao Letian suppress it or not? How many lives will it take to cut off the braids in the hearts of the Chinese people?
The most important thing is, if there are really so many bewitched Han people who launch a deadly attack on the New Army for the sake of the emperor in their hearts, can Xiao Letian really order the firing?
There is no answer, and Xiao Letian still can't answer his heart. That was not an order to fire at the aliens, nor was it an order to fire at the Manchu army. Those were all oppressed Han people, brothers of the same ethnic group he hoped to rescue.
If he carries the name of that butcher, Xiao Letian will really be abandoned by this generation of Han people. By then, he will be scolded to death for any bullshit ideals.
Xiao Letian was just thinking deeply, while Fu Qing just watched quietly. The third master had a premonition that this was his last chance to pull his brother back from the brink. If he didn't succeed this time, he would have no choice but to give up on this idea from now on.
Time passed by, and Xiao Letian suddenly took a deep breath and shook his head, "I'm sorry, I won't go to the Beijing court to pour muddy water. I still insist on walking my own path... What do you want?" To be saved, you still have to rely on yourself after all!”
Fu Qing let out a long breath, "Then what do you want to do in the future? Become an enemy of the Qing Dynasty? You will accumulate strength day by day. When you have millions of troops, you will invade the Qing Dynasty and change the dynasty. Really? Is this your ideal?"
"You don't want to be the emperor yourself, and you won't let anyone else do it. What do you want to do? Learn from Britain or the United States? What kind of constitutional system do you have? Haha... Do you really think that is a panacea? No one believes you, no. Someone listen to you, the common people are greedy, ignorant and short-sighted, they are hopeless..."
"You are asking for trouble. Do you think you can change everything? No, no, no, you are not a god. If you continue on this evil path, you will destroy yourself sooner or later!"
It's a pity that no matter how much the Third Master tried to persuade him, he never saw a trace of wavering on Xiao Letian's face. He knew that there was no turning back, and the two tears in his red and swollen eyes finally couldn't be held back and burst out. .
"That's it, that's it! This is where our fate as brothers ends. From now on, you and I will be enemies rather than friends, so let's all be happy for ourselves!" After saying this, the Third Master stood up and walked out, but after taking two steps, he hesitated again. stopped.
Fu Qing slowly turned around, his eyes almost desperate. He took out a thin piece of paper from his arms and threw it on the table. "This is the last time I will help you...brother!"
Xiao Letian glanced at it, and his heart skipped a beat. The piece of paper was densely packed with texts translated from English to Chinese. It turned out to be a detailed piece of information about the Russian expeditionary fleet.
"This is the Russian fleet information provided by the British to the court. It should be much more detailed than yours... Take care, brother, I hope you can survive this!" After that, he turned and left.
Xiao Letian's mood at this moment was extremely complicated. He suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute! Why are you and I doing this... Are there only two ways in the world, the enemy and us?"
"You know very well that I have no ambition to be an emperor. If I did, how could I teach His Majesty so carefully? Are you turning a blind eye to all this?"
At the mention of the emperor, Fu Qing was stunned. He suddenly broke down and yelled, "Then what do you want to do? If you want to rebel, then rebel well. If you want to be loyal, then be loyal. If you want to be neither black nor white, what the hell do you want?" What do you want to do?"
"If you don't like my Qing Dynasty, I will take His Majesty back! Why study abroad? Why go to Europe? It's all bullshit..."
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