People are bitter insects, and they can't survive without being beaten and scolded. Zai Chun's pretentiousness and unwillingness to be wronged made most of the master's scoldings disappear immediately.
Although he was still twitching and crying, his waist straightened up, and the fierce and stubborn look in his eyes became a little more intense.
"Okay, okay... this is the state. It doesn't matter if you lose a round. You just have to find a way to come back. From this round, you can understand the cruelty of the enemy, and then the defeat was not in vain!"
"Hey...you just missed the lesson in Paris. You don't understand the cruelty of fighting for power deeply enough! No matter how I teach you by words and deeds, it's actually not as good as going to hell to see it for yourself!"
“It’s impossible not to taste the cruelty of struggle for yourself!”
Zai Chun stretched out his hand to wipe his tears with his sleeves, looked up at Xiao Letian and asked, "Thank you, master, for your teaching. How should we resolve the current situation in the capital? Master, please give us your advice!"
Xiao Letian picked up a stone and threw it into the sea. He took a deep breath, "Actually, the situation is not as chaotic as you think! The enemy rushed forward very fiercely, but the moves they used were very old. Didn't you notice?"
"Since ancient times, ministers have generally used only a few tricks to restrict imperial power. One is trapping! Yes, it means trapping you in the Forbidden City and isolating yourself from the outside world. Then, you will say one thing in front of you and do another thing outside!"
"If you think about it carefully, as an emperor, how many times can you go out of the palace a year? Even if you are a powerful emperor like Kangxi and Qianlong, if you go out of the palace many times, what will the elites of the Imperial Academy do to disturb the people! How extravagant your life is! Wait! Use excuses to hinder!"
"When you encounter a powerful emperor with military power, they will use moral etiquette to imprison him, and they will have to remonstrate and cry to you. You, the emperor, will be embarrassed to leave the palace again!"
"As long as you don't leave the palace and are out of touch with society, then the rest will be simple. I sell you an egg for one hundred taels of silver, and you don't know what's going on!"
"Yes, the master is absolutely right! The imperial court has deceived these little people. They will lie about the military situation for their own selfish purposes. It is clear that Jiangnan has a good harvest, but they can still say that they owe a lot in order to defraud disaster relief funds!"
"Or they can blame the situation. If there is a flood in Henan, they can write it as a small flood in the memorial, and they will not report how many people died!"
"These bastards just want to lock the emperor in the palace and trick him like a fool!"
Xiao Letian nodded, "You're right. If you want to seize power, you must first deprive the emperor of his right to know and prevent him from knowing the real situation!"
"To deal with powerful centralized emperors, such as the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong, these people can only be restrained by moral articles! But once the emperor is weak and can no longer control the situation, the faces of these people will become even more ugly!"
"They will use the laws of their ancestors to restrain the emperor. Then why don't the guards at Donghua Gate open the door to you? Would they dare to meet Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong?"
"To put it bluntly, they are just testing whether you are tough enough! Once you soften, haha... you can't even order the garrison in the Forbidden City!"
"If they don't open the door for you, you won't even be able to leave the Forbidden City! It's a living prison!"
"Fortunately, you were stunned and found a way out. The Forbidden City can control a Donghua Gate, and you can also control the Desheng Gate in the capital. You have left yourself a way out!"
"The enemy should have figured it out. It is unrealistic to trap you. You are very aggressive. What's more important is that you have a group of soldiers who dare to fight and kill!"
"So the trapping formula doesn't work anymore. What I need to use next is scare! Plus shear!"
"The word scare is easy to explain. Since I can't trap you, then I'll attack your henchmen, kill and maim a few of them, and make bloody threats to you and your men!"
"Manshun's fate is in front of everyone. Think about it, Zaichun. If he can lie there in a vegetative state today, will you be the next one?"
"What about the other people who support you? What will they think? Are they afraid of ending up like Manshun?"
"Even if your generals are loyal, can you withstand the enemy from attacking their families? Don't forget that there is also a duty of filial piety!"
"Use intimidation to cut out your henchmen! This method has been used for thousands of years, and it still works!"
Zai Chun's face became worse and worse. He gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "They can do evil things, can't I? I don't believe it. Don't they have a word of fear in their hearts?"
"No big deal, use terror against terror!"
"Okay! Since you have this determination, what else can you say! Once the enemy fails to intimidate, what will the next step be?"
"Death?" Zai Chun and Xiao Letian shouted the word in unison!
Xiao Letian nodded helplessly, "They will not give up their rights easily. In order to resist stubbornly, they will definitely take risks!"
"Zaichun, remember, starting from today, Dasixi and the others should not eat food that has not been poisoned! Don't go to places without absolute security!"
"Private visits incognito are not impossible, but you must keep confidentiality first. No matter how ambitious you are, you can't withstand a bullet!"
"Can't I resist? Do I have to defend all the time? Are you a coward?" Zai Chun shouted stubbornly with red eyes.
"No, no, no... kid, I'm just telling you what the enemy will do, so that you can be prepared, and we will definitely carry out our counterattack!"
"Those who only know how to avoid defense are not good generals. Sometimes offense is the best defense!"
"Why is Guiziliu so arrogant? In fact, the root cause is not the tens of thousands of soldiers in Xishan. Although having soldiers and guns is important, that is not the source of his power!"
"The power that Guiziliu relies on is actually the conservatives in the entire Eight Banners system, the rentiers, and the vested interests that are unwilling to change!"
"They don't want to give up their privileges, and they even want to try to expand and steal more from the imperial power... so they will naturally gather under the Six Flags of the Japanese!"
"The Eight Kings are discussing politics! Who allowed you to have such a ghost in the Qing Dynasty!"
"Now let me ask you, Zaichun, where do you think the source of your strength is? You must have a core strength to fight against the enemy!"
"Who are your allies? Once you find your allies, you will naturally find a way to break the situation. You must think for yourself and don't always rely on the master's teachings!"
Emperor Tongzhi fell into deep thinking, "Where is the source of my strength? Where is the source of my strength?"
"Isn't it you, master? Of course, I have a good relationship with the British royal family and the German royal family. They are all my aids!"
"Hahaha... You're not right. You're still just a formality. You can't just look at the surface!"
"Dig deeper, analyze it carefully, analyze it layer by layer!"
