"Is there no other way?" A sense of frustration surged into everyone's hearts, and Xiang Ying, who had been listening without speaking, suddenly asked.
"In the five thousand years of China, there have been countless dynasties and dynasties. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the mighty Han Dynasty all perished in the end?"
"Hey" Wang Huaiyuan sighed, "That kind of change of dynasties is not what the Prime Minister wants. The price of every change of dynasties is always wars and a sharp decline in population. The ancients relied on massacre to solve the problem of stubborn people!"
"Natural disasters, warlords' melee, and foreign invasions have drastically reduced the population. Those who are clinging to the old will be wiped out directly. The population will be reduced by half. Who do you think will still be loyal to the past dynasty? That kind of method of changing people's hearts is too good. It’s extreme and too cruel. It’s just throwing people into the arena of life and death, where they have to either change or die!”
"How can you choose? In fact, you don't have to choose. For hundreds of years, the entire clan has been wiped out and everything old has been smashed. Only then a savior emerged from the ruins to establish a new dynasty. The final result is this final salvation The people came to clean up the people's hearts, and the people's hearts that had broken the inheritance once again found a point of attachment!"
Wang Huaiyuan shook his head in pain, "Do we still have to follow this old path? When the kingdom of heaven rose, so many people died in Jiangnan. I can't bear to remember it."
Xiao Letian secretly sighed in his heart, maybe this is really an unsolvable problem, the stubbornness of people's hearts is really strong to the extreme. In any parallel world where I exist, the Qing Dynasty has been destroyed and the Republic of China has been established. Xun's restoration still excited the people of Sijiu City.
At that time, I simply didn’t understand why this phenomenon occurred. Why would people be so obsessed with a lost dynasty?
Today, after looking at the telegram sent by Fan Jian and comparing every move of Fan Ru, the stubborn old man, the answer is naturally obvious.
During Zhang Xun's restoration, those people who cheered and hung dragon flags and set off firecrackers in front of their houses were actually Fan Confucians.
Their childhood and youth were spent under the rule of the emperor. Their grandparents and parents had instilled many ideas of loyalty to the emperor and country from infancy, including various mythological stories.
All this shapes the character of those people, which is the core values in their hearts. When they grow up, this unique character of ego will protect this memory and remain unchanged forever.
So after the Republic of China was established, if the police and the army went to the streets to forcibly cut off pigtails, they would cry to heaven and earth, and they would even
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If you want to hang yourself, will you cut off your braids? No, what was cut off was the values he firmly believed in, his soul.
When Zhang Xun was restored, they naturally cheered excitedly, because they knew that the beautiful memories of their childhood had returned. It turned out that their grandparents, father and mother were right. They said that the Qing Dynasty was good, and they said that the Qing Dynasty would not perish. In the end, there really was no death.
No, isn't Marshal Zhang of the Braided Army coming to restore the emperor?
Thinking of this, Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, for stubborn humans, death seems to be the only way to change their minds, but this method is not what I want!"
"Then what else can we do? Master, I know you must have a solution!" Xiang Ying asked anxiously.
"Method? Method" Xiao Letian sighed and said, "If you want to make an adult change his values, if you don't use death, then I think there are only two methods."
"The plan is coming!" Everyone asked in unison.
Xiao Letian subconsciously scratched his forehead with his fingers. "The first method is more stupid, and that is to rely on time. After all, society is changing. When the environment changes dramatically, then if the older generation wants to instill traditional ideas into the young people, then It will be more difficult”
"Because young people will find that the old people's principles have greatly deviated from the social era of great changes. Because of the deviation, they have to think about right and wrong. At this time, we can use education to compete for people's hearts."
"This is the first method. It is relatively slow and requires a lot of patience. As a generation dies naturally, those who keep the old traditions gradually grow old and die, and their right to speak in society will become weaker and weaker. By then we will see the rise of young people with new ideas!”
"But if this kind of education path is not followed for thirty years, the effect may not be obvious!"
"Thirty years! It's such a long time that one generation of adults with the right to speak in society has passed!" Xiang Ying said with emotion, "What about the second method?"
Xiao Letian licked his dry lips. "There is another way. We all know that sometimes people's personalities will change drastically and suddenly. That is after they encounter extreme emergencies."
"For example, after natural disasters, wars, huge family misfortunes, or even jaw-dropping major events in the social environment, some people will have a psychological process of self-denial."
"Once the self-denial mechanism is turned on, the personality will naturally change, and the views that were firmly believed in the past will be shaken. As long as they are shaken, there will be opportunities for new ideas. That is the perfect moment to stir people's hearts."
"Haha" Xiao Letian smiled coldly, "Now you understand why we want to build a country overseas instead of raising the flag in the Qing Dynasty, right? People's hearts have not yet reached the stage of asking for change, and the outcome of our actions now is no better than that of the Kingdom of Heaven. Go!”
"We have to bring chaos to the Manchus, let them have a complete internal embarrassment, and shake the stubborn loyalty to the Manchus in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. There must be a big event that touches their souls. It must happen. We must make people feel self-denial.”
"Let them ask themselves whether the Qing Dynasty is still worthy of loyalty."
Just as he said this, a loud voice suddenly came from the gangway behind the deck: "Master, is the sacrifice over? Am I late?"
Zai Chun suddenly appeared, frightening several people. Xiao Letian quickly shut up, turned around and smiled and said to Zai Chun, "The sacrifices haven't been removed yet, and it's still too late. Your Majesty doesn't have to come to offer sacrifices in person. There's an imbalance of status! This is not a compromise." Did you harm Fanru?"
"Hahaha, it's okay. Master's elders are also my elders. After all, it's my heartfelt intention to offer incense sticks!"
Zai Chun appeared, and the conversation just now could not be continued. Everyone gathered around Zai Chun and watched him burn three sticks of incense in the mourning hall, nodding slightly to express their feelings.
As the Qing Emperor, it was an honor for the Fan family to be able to do this.
"Master, I will send a telegram later and ask Master Weng to write a word about the House of Renxiao. I will give it to the Fan family as I am not in charge yet, so there is only so much I can do!"
Xiang Ying glanced at Zai Chun with a sneer and said to himself, "Flattery, if the Jiangnan stock market could not provide a steady stream of military expenditures for your new imperial army, would you pay homage to Fan Ru?"
"Hypocrisy, you are so fucking hypocritical at such a young age!"
