Just when Ryoma Sakamoto succeeded in comforting Zai Chun, on the other side of the battleship, the atmosphere between master and apprentice Xiao Letian and Xiang Ying was already very serious. Xiang Ying's question made Xiao Letian silent for a long time.
"Because Zai Chun is miserable! So master, do you want to help him? Help him get through this crisis and bring a strong monarch to the Qing Dynasty? Is this what you want?"
"Please, Master, can you find a better excuse to stall me? Even if you like this boy Zai Chun, do you also like the Manchus to enslave the Central Plains? What benefits does it bring to us Chinese to praise Zai Chun as the Lord of ZTE? "
"Master, please don't lie to me. I know you already have other plans in mind. If it involves your secret strategic plan, then I won't ask. I just want to hear your yes or no answer now!"
Xiang Ying looked at Xiao Letian seriously and asked, "Master, do you really want to train Zai Chun to become the master of ZTE? Do you really want to continue the Manchu state for a few more years? Yes or no ?”
Xiao Letian didn't answer, just looked at him silently.
Xiang Ying then asked, "Okay, let me ask another question. Master, is everything you are doing to Zai Chun part of your grand strategy to overthrow the Qing Dynasty? Please tell me the truth. Isn’t that right?”
"Everything you did to Zaichun was a scam, right? You just think that silly boy is easy to deceive, so you are deliberately playing tricks on him? Your purpose is to make Manqing jump into your big trap little by little, and finally make yourself a die?"
Seeing that Xiao Letian still didn't speak, Xiang Ying stamped his feet anxiously, "You are the leader of the Chinese people! You are the prime minister of our Chinese people! The interests of the Chinese people are above all else! You have no mercy for women."
Xiao Letian sighed deeply, "There are some things I don't want to tell you. That's because they are difficult for you to understand!"
"I once heard a saying that said that if you are half a step ahead of the times, you are a genius; if you are one step ahead of the times, you are a madman! This is not wrong at all, because most human beings will only use their own cognition to Analyzing the World”
"The knowledge and all kinds of bizarre information that people have been exposed to since childhood form a person's mind. It is like the small landlord class who grew up in the pastoral songs of the Qing Dynasty. They simply cannot understand what the industrial revolution is and what productivity is! "
"If you tell them that the earth is round, they won't believe it at all. If I say that people can fly in the sky, would anyone believe it before? But when the hot air balloon appeared in Beijing, the whole city knelt down and worshiped. "
"At that time, I had already gone a long way beyond the inner cognition of the people of the Qing Dynasty, so I became a madman, a madman that no one in the Qing Dynasty could understand!"
Xiao Letian let out a long breath, "Hey, you can never understand the pressure in my heart. Do you know how much doubt I have suffered?"
"Back then, I led Xiao Hexin and the others to liberate Ryukyu with my bare hands. Before I succeeded, everyone thought I was a madman. Who would have thought that a small force with dozens of people and a typhoon could successfully counterattack the Shimadzu family? Three thousand regiments?”
"When I was preparing to take my brothers to Europa, do you know how many people looked at me with confusion? They couldn't understand that I was so weak and didn't develop my own strength, so why did I go to Europa? Isn't this looking for death?"
"Especially when I arrived in Europa, I didn't stay honest. I insisted on participating in the Prussian-Austrian War, and insisted on fighting the battle at Shiqiao Heights. This crazy behavior has led to many people questioning me. Even now, some people still say I'm a gambler!"
Holding the iron railing, feeling the coldness in his palms, Xiao Letian vented his depression to his heart's content, "In the eyes of those people, everything I did was irrational and crazy. Just like I just said Just like everyone else, I’m a lunatic if I’m one step ahead of the times!”
Xiao Letian is also a human being, and there are times when he feels depressed. Of course he will be unhappy if others don't understand what he does. When the little unhappiness accumulated more and more, he couldn't vent it like other people.
Because he is the king of the Chinese race, he has too many auras around him, and he cannot let others see his weakness. So for a long time, Xiao Letian could only suppress many things in his heart, suppressing them to death.
But today, after the victory in the naval battle, he was very emotional. Coupled with the stimulation of the words of Xiang Ying, his favorite apprentice, he finally opened up his chat box.
"There are always some people in this world who like to point fingers. They can't do it themselves but love to give advice to others! They can only understand the world with outdated ideas, and then use their heads that are hundreds of years behind the times to make plans. A strategy he thought was awesome."
"Then he will think that what he thinks in his mind is the truth! How seriously self-centered this is! They think that everything in the world should run according to his imagination."
"In their minds, I, Xiao Letian, should be like the founding kings of the past. I should first build a small territory and bide my time, then build high walls, accumulate food, and engage in more diplomacy."
"In one year, two years, three or four years, we fill up the treasury and granaries little by little, train one hundred thousand or even one million tiger warriors, and when the time is right, we will rise up and lead our troops to attack county by county, state by state, and province by province!"
"Haha, in the eyes of these people, the world is flat. They constantly expand the boundaries of their power and turn newly annexed territories into core areas. This is called territorial expansion!"
"When you occupy enough territory and are strong enough, there will naturally be a swarm of Confucian students who will become drummers. These people will desperately advocate the principle of destiny, and then mold you into a Zhengshuo. If you fight a few more times, This is a crucial decisive battle, as long as you win, you will naturally reach the top and become the Lord of the Central Plains!"
"But they don't even think about what the times have become like? This is not the world before the Age of Discovery. This is a time when the earth is gradually getting smaller. To change everything with the thinking of the past, we can only Entering into the old spiral of changing dynasties.”
"Xiang Ying! You have also returned from studying abroad. You should know what the world is like now. The European powers are eager for you and China to continue to follow the old path. Just like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they are completely following the same pattern of chasing the Central Plains."
"What was the result? Ten houses and nine empty houses were killed in the Yangtze River Basin. As a result, Britain, France, Russia and the United States took advantage of the civil strife that severely damaged your vitality and took advantage of the chaos. The more chaotic China is, the more civil war it will be, especially among the Han people who make up the majority of the population. A large-scale civil war among alien races is what the Western powers most want to see!"
"If you kill them, they will become stronger. It's that simple. If you kill a lot of people, they will be able to infiltrate you from both sides!"
"The failure of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom and the outbreak of the Second Opium War have proven that this old road is unworkable and will serve no purpose except delaying the destiny of our country, China!"
"Haha, attack Tanggu today, capture Zhili tomorrow, occupy Shandong the day after tomorrow. Millions of troops will attack left and right to fight the enemy in the Central Plains. Watch the boundary line of power move through the red mouth and white teeth of the Confucian scholars. This is the feather fan they want. It feels like the Lunjin, Qiang and oars were wiped out into ashes!"
"Fuck, that's a bunch of idiots!"
