Returning to the Lion City and stepping on the soil of Asia, Xiao Letian clearly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.
When they disembarked from the ship, all the people knelt down and worshiped, and the roar of "Long Live" was loud. He definitely heard the subtext behind this voice. This glorious war not only enhanced the national self-confidence, but also revived the idea of empire in the hearts of all the people.
Some people want to push Xiao Letian to be the emperor. Although Xiao Letian doesn't know who these people are, he has already noticed the signs!
"Some people want to overthrow the Chinese code, some want to reverse history, some want to turn the Chinese into an imperial system... I can feel it, and I think you are not fools..."
Xiao Letian's gloomy tone was as if there was a ghost hiding in the room, and those who heard it shuddered.
No one dared to speak, even if they had any other opinions in their hearts, no one dared to mention it. At this time, it was obvious that his godson was using it. Hyoutaro muttered, "What's wrong with being an emperor? Why should my father?" Why can’t you proclaim yourself emperor?”
"Shut up!" Xiao Letian angrily yelled, "Monarchy is a system that will be swept into the garbage dump of history sooner or later. In the future, there will not even be many countries with constitutional monarchies!"
"You want me to jump on the train of death? Go out...bring me all the backlog of documents in Ryukyu and let him move them by himself. No one can help him..."
Hyōtaro was kicked out. Xiao Letian looked at the people in the room and said quietly, "I'll repeat it to you again, the imperial system has declined. I don't think they can sustain it for even a hundred years..."
"Let's take the simplest example. If productivity continues to develop like this, science and technology will advance by leaps and bounds, and the destructive power of war will increase exponentially..."
"This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is conducive to the rapid rise of weak countries, but on the other hand, it is also conducive to the people's overthrow of the emperor's throne!"
"How many years does it take to train a knight? How many years does it take to train a crossbowman? How many days does it take to train an ordinary soldier who can shoot?"
"The cost and difficulty of rebellion have been greatly reduced. How long do you think the emperor can maintain his rule? The lessons learned from Napoleon III are there. Didn't hundreds of thousands of troops allow Paris to riot in the end?"
"Common people, as long as they are issued a musket, can fight with veterans of hundreds of battles for a while... And if you look at the current rate of productivity expansion, in the future, producing rifles and artillery will probably be as simple as producing pots and pans. !”
"This brings a great potential for war... In the next hundred years, maybe it will be an era when all the people are soldiers!"
Xiao Letian couldn't describe the tragedy of World War I and World War II to those who were doing it. This was closely related to the development of military productivity. In the late period of World War II, all the people in Europe were in the army.
The United States opened up its arms to manufacturing weapons and produced enough weapons to arm the population of three European countries. In order to fight Germany desperately, the Soviet Union’s entire nation crowded into tanks. It is not a fantasy for women to go to the battlefield.
In the future era, it will be very simple to overthrow an emperor. Xiao Letian is reluctant to let his son suffer any kind of hardship!
"Okay, let's not talk about this matter anymore. Just know it for yourself... The second threat is these businessmen!"
"These businessmen have made great contributions to our Chinese nation. Without them supporting the war, we would not be able to continue the war... However, we must also see clearly the true colors of these people..."
"Businessmen will become capitalists sooner or later, and capitalists will move towards monopoly sooner or later... Their power will become stronger and stronger, and industrial development will only accelerate their monopoly!"
"Sooner or later, the power of the capitalists will come back to control politics and even the military... I can still suppress them while I'm alive..."
"What about the future? What I'm worried about is the future..."
"Now do you know why I want to create six nobles, eighteen nobles, etc.? I have to give these capitalists a place to vent their desires... I can't let them just think about money, and I have to lock them up with a golden cage of honor. !”
"These future capital tycoons must be allowed to have some dignity while greedily wanting to make money... They must know that they are nobles after all, and they should care about the honor of the family!"
"I also know that there is no perfect way to deal with these people. I can only take it one step at a time..."
There are many words that cannot be explained. Xiao Letian has never been afraid of external enemies, but it is easy to deal with thieves in the mountains, but it is too difficult to deal with thieves in the heart.
After all, the imperial system has existed for thousands of years in human history. The people have become accustomed to the existence of an emperor, and their hearts always yearn for the existence of an emperor.
Before time travel, it was still difficult for Xiao Letian to understand this emotion, but after he time travel, he truly came to the world of the 19th century and saw the actual situation in Asia, America, Europe and other countries.
Only then did he understand how tenacious the imperial system was!
It can be said that every natural person in this era has his own standard image of an emperor in his heart, and they all hope to have an emperor who conforms to their ideals to rule them.
Some people say why are people so mean? Do you have to find an emperor to take care of you, do you have to kowtow to the emperor?
Those who have this kind of thinking are people who have been educated in the idea of equality for hundreds of years in the 21st century, and they are also people who are highly productive and have not lived a hard life.
In fact, in ancient times when productivity was underdeveloped, what was the emperor? It is more of a spiritual sustenance for the people and a reliance on life.
The reason is very simple. Life is hard, too hard. Farming in the fields, working in the city, being oppressed by society, class solidification... People live in the world, and it is already very difficult to survive.
When everyone encounters hardships and is bullied outside, isn't the first thing that comes to mind the warm harbor of his parents and family?
When children are bullied, don’t they always go to their parents to cry and seek protection?
The reason is that simple. When the adult world loses all fairy tales and illusions, and when the suffering people know that their parents cannot solve their suffering, what will they do?
They don’t have the ability to rebel, they don’t have the knowledge and the way out to change their destiny... Don’t they yearn for a leader at this time? Don’t you long for a boss who can take them away from the cruel reality?
The emperor is the ultimate embodiment of this emotion. There is a huge emotional appeal for a wise king, capable minister, and upright official hidden in the hearts of all people!
They really need a strong man to save them from the fire and water, and the mythical emperor is such a spiritual totem!
Xiao Letian finally understood that this imperial fantasy hidden in the hearts of millions of people has turned into a ghost that is invisible but can still be felt by you.
He has gradually come forward!
