Su Yonglin's words were loud and clear, with a strong flavor of unquestionability.
Tian Guizi was speechless for a long time because he hadn't heard Su Yonglin say such domineering words for a long time.
In his impression, unless he launched a major purge, Su Yonglin had always been quite gentle, and would even encourage his subordinates to put forward various suggestions to his opinions, even if they were opposed.
Therefore, during his reign, even when he was emperor, the political atmosphere in Ming Dynasty was relatively relaxed and not tense.
Su Yonglin was not a radical most of the time, unless he determined that he must accomplish something, and this matter would inevitably encounter a lot of resistance.
Then he will become tougher than ever and will not listen to others.
This is not the norm.
But this time, it seems that this is the abnormal situation.
Therefore, it took Tian Qizi a while to understand Su Yonglin's intention, and then he squeezed out what he wanted to say from his throat.
"You really still want to take us all away."
"That's natural."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "Quizi, I don't know if you have noticed, but I have noticed that those of us who came from the founding era are too strong, not only in terms of power, but also in terms of momentum.
Latecomers, as well as newcomers who have passed the imperial examination, often cannot stick to their own attitude when facing us, or they cannot hold their heads up at all. The reason is simply because we have provided this foundation. He was beaten off the head.
Regardless of whether we or they admit it or not, everyone has already acquiesced that this country belongs to me and to us. They are more like the guests who come later, and we are the real masters. Since ancient times, there has been no principle of overestimating the guest. Woolen cloth?
Even if some people want to dominate the scene, then the power in the hands of us masters, including the powerful deterrence of the Ming army, is it just there for people to watch and has no practical significance?
Obviously not. If latecomers want to do something, it is normal to encounter strong resistance and confrontation from the elderly. This is especially obvious in Shandong Province. "
Tian Guizi thought carefully and then nodded decisively.
"I have also noticed this situation, but I don't think it's a big deal. It seems quite normal. I feel that we are not that strong. Some newcomers don't know where to go. It's natural to reprimand them."
Su Yonglin spread his hands.
"That's because I'm here. You are not so strong just under my suppression, but you are really very strong and oppressive towards the younger generations. This is not the first time I have seen this happen, it is the norm.
This is not normal. This country was established by us, but this country should not be ours. This country belongs to all people, and everyone is its master. There should be no distinction between subject and guest. But no matter how much I emphasize, this fact The situation that exists is difficult to reverse.
I think we cannot artificially create a distinction between host and guest for a country. We cannot be like the feudal dynasties of the old era, where in addition to the emperor, we also had to create a bunch of nobles and turn the country into a private property. This is not allowed. The country is Public property, not private property.
But just as you can't do anything about our prestige, I can't do anything about this actual distinction between host and guest. So at this critical moment, the only way I can think of is that you must follow me and not stay. "
Tian Qizi was silent for a while, then sighed deeply and spoke slowly.
"I figured it out. I finally figured it out. We can't stop your will on this matter, and we can't go against you. Some of what you said is right, but some of it is wrong. You said that we are too. Master of this country, but I don't think so.
There is only one master in this country, and that is you. Including us, we are either your servants or your guests. Our power actually comes from you. It is you who have lifted us up from poverty. , gave us everything.
I read history books and the founding stories of the past dynasties, and found that many heroes had their own power. They often took their own power to defect to the emperor they liked and helped the emperor achieve great achievements, so in fact, the founding of the country was the foundation of the country. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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The empire that was established was shared by them all.
But Daming is not Daming. Daming is your Daming alone. We people did not bring you any help. Instead, you saved us from the predicament of starvation and gave us everything. We are not your collaborators. The master of Ming Dynasty is only you. "
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi for a while, smiled helplessly and nodded.
"You can see it."
Tian Qizi also nodded. _o_m
"I can see it, so to put it bluntly, in your opinion, the current Ming Democratic Republic is just a facade. On the inside, it is still the same empire that has not changed, right?"
"That's right."
Su Yonglin nodded: "I realized a long time ago that as long as I live, the foundation of this country will not change. I have the power to change its appearance at any time. This is not what a republic should be like, this is an empire.
But this is not unchangeable. As long as I prepare everything, then from the moment I die, the Ming Democratic Republic will be a true democratic republic.
This is also the reason why I cannot allow my son to enter politics. If he also enters politics, then everyone will unnaturally regard him as my successor, the second master of this country, and turn this country into the Su family. , this is not acceptable to me.
Therefore, in order to truly establish the Ming Democratic Republic, all those who followed me from the empire era and those who bear my mark must withdraw from the whirlpool of power with me, and everyone must be under my supervision. You must never enter politics again, you must come with me.
We have been preaching that the age of empire has passed and will never come back, but people don’t think that those of us who lead everyone to the era of democracy and republic are the real last remnants of the empire. This is our other identity. , cannot be divided. "
After Su Yonglin finished speaking, Tian Guizi seemed a little surprised.
After a while, he took a deep breath and seemed quite emotional.
"So, you want to take us remnants away together at the end?"
Su Yonglin nodded.
"We are all remnants. Now that I'm gone, you have to leave too. Otherwise, how can I, the biggest remnant, suppress you little remnants? Without my suppression, wouldn't you have turned the world upside down? "
Tian Qizi was silent for a while, and then a calm smile appeared on his face.
He seemed to understand a lot of things.
"Su Yonglin, you are really ruthless and cruel to the extreme. You are obviously a group of revolutionaries who have followed you to the end, but you have received such evaluation. If I didn't know what kind of person you are, I would be really chilled."
"Don't separate me from you, Gezi."
Su Yonglin was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said: "It is precisely because of my ruthlessness and cruelty that I say that I am a remnant of the empire, and you are also a remnant of the empire. Do you still doubt it now?"
"I don't doubt you anymore. I am the remnant, and you, Su Yonglin, are the number one remnant! As long as you live, the Ming Democratic Republic will be in danger of overthrowing at any time!"
Tian Guizi gritted his teeth and pointed at Su Yonglin: "Thirty years, Su Yonglin, I have followed you for thirty years, and today, I really got to know you! You are a great chairman, but also the most despicable and ruthless monoman! You He is a saint, but also a complete villain!”
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Su Yonglin laughed wildly, clutching his stomach until he almost had a cramp. It took him a while to stop his crazy laughter.
"Gezi, am I hiding that deep? I don't think I have hidden it deliberately? I came from the imperial era, I was educated in the imperial era, I grew up in the quagmire of the imperial era, and I became enlightened. People describe this This kind of people call it muddy but not stained, is it true?
I don’t think so. I grew up in the imperial era and received an education in Confucianism. I doubted, reflected and ultimately denied it, and came up with new ideas, but my background can never change. I have desires, it’s just me. He has been suppressing his desires.
Gezi, I want to be a real emperor, I want to be a dictatorial monarch, I want the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards, I want to indulge in wine pools and meat forests for a lifetime, these are me. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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I have thought about it, when I was six or seven years old in Hongwu, I could hardly control myself.
Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night, do you know what I dream about? I dreamed that I gave up restraining myself. I dreamed that I destroyed everything I created with my own hands. The Renaissance Meeting, the Republic, Hongwu Political Commentary, everything I had done, was destroyed by me. _o_m
Then I became the emperor, the real emperor, and I became a real independent husband. I had seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards. I also held a large-scale talent show to attract beauties from all over the world to enjoy for myself, and I created a real concubine in the palace. Wine ponds and meat forests, drinking and eating meat every day, and having fun!
Do you know how happy I am in my dream? That feeling of wanton indulgence, that feeling of reaching the peak, after I woke up, my whole body was shaking, that feeling of excitement and trembling, do you know? "
Seeing the excited and even crazy Su Yonglin, Tian Guizi was stunned for a while, then tears burst out of his eyes, and then he burst into tears.
"why are you crying?"
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi in surprise.
"I cry that our ideal is just a bubble after all!"
"Why?"
Su Yonglin was still surprised.
Tian Qizi kept wiping tears.
"Even you, who is most like a saint, have such crazy desires, let alone other people? You, who are most like a saint, can have such a crazy side. If it were anyone else, they would definitely be less sage than you, but their desires are chasing you. !”
At this moment, all the excitement and madness in Su Yonglin's body disappeared, as if it had never existed.
Su Yonglin, who was so calm and didn't look like a real person, was back again.
He was silent for a long time, sighed, and took out a handkerchief to wipe Tian Guizi's tears.
"Quizi, do you believe in our ideals?"
"I believed it just now, but I don't believe it now."
"I still believe. I believed it just now, and now I am even more convinced that our ideal will definitely become a reality."
"Why?"
This time Tian Guizi, who was wiping his tears, looked at Su Yonglin in surprise.
"Because even a person like me can have such a saintly side, let alone those who are far less despicable and ruthless than me?"
Su Yonglin smiled and put his hand on Tian Guizi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "The most terrifying desire you can think of exists in my body, and the greatest liberating thought you can think of also exists in my body. Existence, Gezi, is our ideal really just a bubble?
Everyone has a sage side, everyone has great possibilities to act for our ideals, everyone has possibilities, everyone is the hope of the future, Ming Dynasty has nearly 200 million hopes! "
"In this case, wouldn't we be entangled to death?"
Tian Guizi burst out laughing, wiped away her tears, and said: "Why do you always think about problems from such a strange perspective? It is obviously such a desperate matter, but when you disturb it, I feel that it is not so desperate." Well, wouldn’t it be pointless for me to cry just now?”
"Why is it meaningless? You just acted as my trash can and listened to me pour out my desires."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "You help me share part of the pressure of desire on me. Then in the next twenty years, I will be able to bear the weight of desire on me more easily. Then we, the remnants of the empire, will be able to bear the pressure of desire on me in the next twenty years." We can leave here together later, right?"
"To put it lightly, you might be a complete bastard twenty years from now. I really can't imagine what you will do by then."
Tian Guizi rolled his eyes at Su Yonglin: "You can think of such horrible things now. Who knows what you will think about twenty years from now?"
"Then if I can't control it anymore, just kill me."
Su Yonglin spread his hands: "I can leave half of the Huben Guards under your command. If I go crazy, you will kill me. If you go crazy, I will kill you. How about that?"
Tian Guizi was stunned for a while, looking at Su Yonglin carefully up and down.
"Are you already crazy?"
"Maybe I've always been a lunatic."
Su Yonglin leaned on the backrest. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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He went up and relaxed his whole body: "I can't let go of the luxurious life of an official. I can't let go of the life of three wives and four concubines. I can't let go of the life of being able to bully men and dominate women at will. We must liberate the whole world and make revolution. .
Now think about it, it’s okay to be a local tyrant and evil gentry who bullies men and women. At least if it weren’t for me, the good days of the local tyrants and evil gentry are far from over. They could have continued to dominate for hundreds of years, but in the end, because of me, The difference of one thought ended early, so you are not wronging me if you say I am a lunatic. "
"You are indeed crazy."
Tian Guizi nodded firmly, and then laughed again.
Su Yonglin turned his head and looked at him. @精品\/书馆*First update~~
"What are you laughing at?"
"I'm laughing, I might be a lunatic myself."
Tian Guizi laughed and said: "It is obviously a very unfounded thing, but I have been with you until now, restraining myself to the point where I don't even look like a human being. You said you are a madman, so I understand you so well." Am I not just a lunatic?"
"It makes sense. Maybe the two of us are madmen. We went crazy all the way and actually created a Ming Democratic Republic!"
Su Yonglin laughed out loud: "If this was said out loud, or recorded in history books, who would believe it? When future generations see it, wouldn't they all go crazy? Hahahahahaha!"
Tian Qizi also laughed together with Su Yonglin, and the two of them laughed into emojis. They laughed until their stomach hurt and they had to stop their wild laughter.
After resting for a while, Su Yonglin, who was half lying on the recliner, reached out and poked Tian Qizi's hand.
"You just said that you have restrained yourself so that you don't look like a human being. What have you restrained? Tell me about it?"
Tian Guizi rolled his eyes at Su Yonglin.
"Except for not thinking about the open draft, I have basically thought about everything else. I also want a lot of women, a lot of money, and do whatever I want. I want to eat whatever I want, play whatever I want, and be extravagant and lustful. Just like those scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, they lived in drunkenness and dreamed of death."
"Well, if you still talk about me, aren't you going to be no better?"
Su Yonglin rolled his eyes at him, then thought about it for a while, and said slowly: "But speaking of it this way, we look like human beings now, maybe everyone is struggling to restrain their desires behind the scenes, well, None of them are good, they are all crazy."
"If you're not a madman, who can fight against the Kingdom of Jin with you?"
Tian Guizi smiled and said: "More than 20,000 people dare to challenge the Jin Kingdom with an army of more than 400,000 people. This is not called bravery, it is really called madman. Bravery is no longer enough to describe it. This has exceeded the upper limit of bravery. It is called madman." , Crazy lunatic!”
"That's right, so everyone is a bunch of lunatics, lunatics who don't care about life and death."
Su Yonglin's face gradually became calmer, and his voice gradually became weaker.
Tian Guizi's place was quiet for a while.
Then he spoke slowly.
"Chairman, let me guess, your chosen successor should be Xin Qiji, right?"
"How did you guess that?"
"I felt vaguely strange at the time."
Tian Guizi sighed and said slowly: "Xin Qiji is the second-in-command in the affairs of the country and the second-in-command of millions of regular troops in the country. To wipe out a small overseas country, Su Jue alone and one regiment are enough, so why send out the second-in-command? ?
Moreover, if the military prestige of the second-in-command is very high, if it reaches a certain level, it will not be a good thing for you, nor is it something worth cheering for the Ming Dynasty. I don't want to see two people fighting for power.
Now there is no doubt at all. You asked Xin Qiji to go on the expedition just to accumulate some military prestige for him, so that those proud soldiers and generals could fight under his command and become familiar with the people under his command. I feel like there won’t be that much resistance in the future.
I remember that Zhang Yuejing worked with him, Han Jinggui also worked with him, and now Su Jue has also worked with him. When Su Haisheng was fighting in the Western Regions, he was in charge of the overall situation. Four of the five tiger generals were already related to him. , coupled with the prestige and qualifications he has accumulated in the staff headquarters, he is barely qualified. "
"That's right."
Su Yonglin nodded slightly: "You'an is my favorite successor. I think that in ten years, I will hand over this position to him and let him be the executive committee. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Chairman, in ten years, I will take you with me and leave all the positions available to those who come after you. "
Tian Qizi was silent for a while.
"Why him?"
Su Yonglin curled his lips.
"What, you want to be chairman too?"
"It would be a lie to say that I don't want to, but I also know that I don't have the ability."
Tian Guizi sighed: "I don't have military talent. I can't suppress those arrogant and brave generals. If I become the chairman, I'm afraid there will be trouble. It's a pity, it's really a pity. If I have some military talent, I can lead the troops to fight." If I win the battle, maybe I can become the chairman.”
"As you said, what is very important is military ability."
Su Yonglin nodded and said: "Without military talent and military prestige, at least in the founding era, a leader without military prestige would not be able to suppress the arrogant generals who founded the country. They have made too much contribution and are too proud. Someone needs to suppress them. .
When the founding era of the People's Republic of China passed, too many powerful military figures no longer existed, and it didn't matter if there were one or two occasionally. At that time, excellent military capabilities and military prestige were bonus points for leaders, not an inevitable choice.
The Ming Dynasty has a professional army, a professional staff department, and a mature military command system. Leaders only need to have common sense. However, in the founding era, military capabilities and military prestige must be real. Geizi, you were born at the wrong time. "
Tian Guizi smiled bitterly.
"It can't be said that I was born at the wrong time. Half and half, if I hadn't met you, how could I have become the vice chairman of the executive committee? Don't even think about it. I know this myself. I just envy Xin Qiji. He It’s time to catch up.”
"Actually, I didn't choose him just because of his military talents."
Su Yonglin said slowly: "Compared with you, Youan has a special advantage."
"What?"
"He took his own life."
Su Yonglin pointed at himself: "I also revolutionized my own life first, and then led everyone to revolutionize the lives of others. Gezi, people who have revolutionized their own lives are different from those who have not revolutionized their own lives. That kind of It feels a lot worse.
You'an's background is similar to mine. He comes from a family of officials in the Jin Dynasty, and I come from a family of officials in the Southern Song Dynasty. His grandfather was a magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, and his official position was higher than that of my grandfather, so the family business he abandoned back then was even more important. Above my house.
He gave up all these, land, house, property, servants, all, leaving only an ancestral house to worship his ancestors. By following the revolution so resolutely, Youan's will and identification with the revolution far exceeded those who had not given anything. stuff people. "
"Are you talking about me?"
Tian Guizi pointed at himself dissatisfied: "I haven't given anything? I have given a lot of things, okay?"
"Of course not, you also risked your life."
Su Yonglin smiled: "But that kind of determination to throw away all the hard-to-get things that you once had, after you have it, you are completely different from ordinary people. You An has sublimated it once."
"It's a pity that I don't have a great grandfather or father."
Tian Guizi smiled bitterly and said: "One step is slow, every step is slow."
"That's not necessarily true. There are many people who have powerful fathers and grandfathers, but there is only one Xin Qiji."
Su Yonglin pointed at himself: "The main thing is to look at your own consciousness. Once consciousness arises, it arises. If it cannot arise, it means it cannot arise. It has nothing to do with anything. Gezi, I hope you can understand me and support me."
Tian Qizi was silent for a while, and then closed his eyes.
"good."
"Thanks."
Su Yonglin reached out and held Tian Guizi's hand for a long time.
The hand was warm, not cold.
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PS: We have entered the final period, and it will probably be over in four or five days. .
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