To be honest, Ye Feng's words really shocked Ying Hao, because Wu Zetian is so special, because she is the only female emperor in history. In the patriarchal society, a queen appeared in China's thousands of years of history. It’s something unimaginable, but no matter how unimaginable it is, it still happened. For unimaginable things, what smart and rational people have to do is to first admit the facts and then seek the truth and reasons behind them.
Wu Zetian ascended the throne and became emperor for only 15 years. This is a fact. But you can tell how difficult this thing is with your feet, so the only way to eliminate the difficulty is to kill. If all the people who can be called resistance are dead, there will be no resistance. The reason why killing is the only way is because the biggest obstacle preventing Wu Zetian from becoming the queen is the thought that men are superior to women for thousands of years. You must know that it is almost impossible to change a person's thoughts, and it is simply impossible to change most of the thoughts and cognitions. Then the only way is to kill, which is the simplest and fastest way, and to use the fear of death to force other people's thoughts. Surrender, this is almost the only truth.
Therefore, judging from this fact itself, Wu Zetian cannot be a wise king, at least at the level of a tyrant. Ying Hao couldn't tell whether Ye Feng's words were true or false as to whether Empress Wu was really a wise king, but he agreed that she was definitely not a wise king. He vaguely agreed with Ye Feng's explanation of the historical facts. What's more, what Ye Feng said this time was all the truth, without any lies.
Anyone with some brains can react to this instinctively, and Ying Hao is one of them. But he just felt it instinctively, not as clearly and detailedly as Ye Feng. After all, he was so busy with his tactics that he had no spare time to travel in the ocean of knowledge like Ye Feng. But even if you know that the lie that Wu Zetian is a wise emperor has been deliberately packaged and promoted for too long, it is enough to shock people to hear that she is a wise emperor.
Ying Hao, who recovered from his dazed state, finally realized the power of Ye Feng's speaking skills and clearly received what Ye Feng wanted to express. The queen will give up the throne, but on the condition that she must treat the people well. The Ye Feng in front of him also had the same attitude. The reason why I emphasize the word "adult" is because adults will not care about children, so this is a promise. Ye Feng and the Queen will not take the initiative to conflict with themselves because of the abdication of the throne. But the word "adult" is also a threat, because if the child misbehaves, the adult will spank the child to teach him a lesson. That is to say, if Ying Hao goes too far, the man named Ye Feng in front of him will take action against him, but he will not kill him. After all, what adult is perverted enough to be so neurotic and serious as to kill a child?
Although he was unhappy about being threatened, the result was not bad. Although the other party did not follow his own ideas and abdicate the throne by marrying the queen and getting her pregnant, the result was the same. As for the virtue of a wise king, he doesn't care. Lies and disguises are the foundation of the foundation of the emperor's art. Although you may say that a lie is still a lie after all, but you must know that if a lie persists for a lifetime, it will no longer be a lie.
So Ying Hao also smiled and toasted: "If it weren't for our different positions, I think King Ye and I would get along very well."
Ye Feng said calmly: "Even if our positions are different, the relationship between the two parties is by no means antagonistic, right? As for the relationship, I think even if we have the same position, the relationship between you and I will definitely not be very good."
Ying Hao was also stunned, and after a moment he smiled and said, "Indeed."
Aunt Xindao's eyesight on people is indeed not ordinary.
As he spoke, Ying Hao said to the dandies below: "Everyone toasts to King Ye."
And everyone in the audience immediately stood up and toasted. On the one hand, this is the order of the second prince Ying Hao, and on the other hand, I admire this kind of person in my heart. Even if some things are facts, not everyone has the courage to tell them, even if they are facts. Otherwise, where did the previous literary inquisition come from? Although Ye Feng's offensive just now was only verbal, it was no weaker than the two armies confronting each other on the battlefield.
Even Yue Gou, who had always avoided drinking, picked up the wine glass and toasted Ye Feng, even though the glass was only filled with juice. Even if the person in front of him is not the White Dragon King, he is still an amazing person who, like the White Dragon King, will not stay under others for a long time. Worth a toast of its own.
After the toast was over and everyone was seated, Ying Hao said: "King Ye almost belittled Empress Wu, the Empress, and me all just now. It would be better to simply degrade them all. Today, in Yong'an, the capital of the Qin State, there are still broken houses with leaking tiles and clothes. It is conceivable that there are a large number of poor people without covering their bodies. It is conceivable that other places in Qin State have ten houses and nine empty houses. The people are in dire straits and starve to death everywhere. This is a fact. I wonder what King Ye has to say?"
Ye Feng looked at Ying Hao and said, "Want some advice?"
Ying Hao said calmly: "Please teach me, isn't this what you promised my aunt to do?"
Ye Feng thought for a while and said: "That's right. In fact, the sage has long told us the way to ensure peace and prosperity for the country and the people: if you are poor, you can benefit yourself alone; if you are rich, you can benefit the world." This is a quote from "Mencius" in "The Chapter of Devotion".
"No one wants to be poor. For this reason, the poor work hard and take care of themselves. They farm their fields, work well with their tools, do business, and learn to read. However, except for a few scholars who can gain fame through the imperial examination, agriculture, industry, and commerce are still in hardship. Is it because they are lazy? No, it is because today's prosperous people are more afraid of poverty than the poor. They are unwilling to allow the opportunity of development to be given to the poor to help the world. They regard poverty as a shame. They have also witnessed Many dignitaries were defeated in intrigues and became poor. Therefore, the masters will spare no effort to oppress the poor and accumulate wealth in order to develop permanently and benefit their descendants. In the eyes of today's masters, today's world Just immediate wealth and status.
"As the saying goes, the poor will find the way to achieve success, and they can only find other ways to develop. Farmers abandon their fields and do not cultivate, and become bandits; workers abandon their tools and do not use them, get drunk and gamble; merchants abandon their trade and do not trade, and they are flatterers. Lending money; abandoning what you have learned and not doing it, speculating.
Therefore, the poor no longer care for themselves, and are unwilling to help the world. There are even hypocrites who cover their ears and steal the bell, whitewashing peace. In this way, how can the country be peaceful and the people be safe? There is nothing wrong with the ancient teachings of sages, it’s just that we, the unscrupulous younger generations, are incompetent. What His Highness has to do is to give the poor people hope and opportunities to develop on the basis of living their lives, just like Shang Yang's reform in the pre-Qin Dynasty. In this way, the country is still not peaceful and the people are still uneasy. "
