945 The Palace
"Prime Minister!" Xiao Hexin's face was so blue and purple, his lips were trembling. Sima Yun quickly persuaded him, "Prime Minister, you know that Xiao Hexin doesn't mean that, he is also doing his own good for us!"
Sima Yun shook his head, "Prime Minister, we all understand what you said! But have you ever thought about it? The arrow is not turned back. Our forces have already reached this point, that is, pushing a big stone up the mountain. You can't even get down. As long as you don't push the huge rock, you have to smash us to death!"
"Don't believe it. Our brothers have been born in miserable families since childhood. Later, by chance, they entered the kingdom of heaven and began to rebel, and then became bandits, and then followed you..."
"We have seen the rise and fall of a dynasty with our own eyes. We saw the rise and fall of tall buildings, and then we saw the building collapse. So we understand everything you said to Prime Minister! Isn't it just to be a general or a founding elder? It doesn't matter, anyway, when we go to that part of the world as we are, we will have a meal of peace and prosperity!"
"But we can retreat, can others retreat? Prime Minister, have you ever thought about the brothers of the new army, the technicians in factories, the employees of banks and foreign banks, and even the hundreds of thousands of people in Ryukyu?"
Sima Yun said with a sad look on his face, "We all leave whenever we want, whether we want to go, whether in the United States or Prussia, or even in South America, to the newly established Canada, just by our current prestige, everyone will look up to us..."
"But the hundreds of thousands of people who follow you can immigrate together? When you give up your rights, who will protect their life and death? Will our enemies counterattack? Then they will die..."
Luo Huo couldn't sit still, "Yes! Those bastards don't deal with each other for a day, they will have to go against the sky! There are many people in the world who hate us. You must consider these hundreds of thousands of people who follow you!"
Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun and Luo Huo had already expressed their opinions. At this time, Xiao Letian's eyes remained on Wang Huaiyuan.
Wang Huaiyuan still has the same gloomy personality. He would not express his thoughts directly, but just used some secret information to indirectly attack.
"Do you still remember the traitor Yang Zhi? Now this guy has been hidden in the West Mountain by Prince Gong and others, where is the Manchu printing factory located... Don't look at me like this. It was the Prime Minister who ordered the order to stop the killing of him. This was also a condition for Manchu when he later negotiated with the court..."
"It doesn't matter whether Yang Zhi dies or not. When he leaves our collective, and when he does not have the energy to constantly accept new knowledge and new ideas, he can only rely on his old capital to survive. Sooner or later, he will squeeze his value dry, and finally throw it away as a foot cloth..."
"What I want to say is why Yang Zhi escaped... Actually, it's me that I'm also blamed. I discovered that his life is becoming increasingly luxurious and wanted to remind him a few words, but it turned out that the adults were unwilling to take another step. As the adults said, pour some cold water in advance!"
"As a result, I never expected that this cold water was a poison of despair to Yang Zhi! He was a veteran of Taibaiding. When he privately cast silver coins to open the silver stove, he was the core guard and he has made a lot of contributions in recent years..."
"When Yang Zhi was chatting with the veterans in private, he said more than once that the prime minister would reach the top in the future. He would have to be a marquis, and at least he would have to be a noble like a duke, count, and he would have to be hereditary..."
"All the luxury now is actually a preview of his future luxury life? How many people who follow the Prime Minister of Ryukyu are for your dream, and how many are for money?"
Wang Huaiyuan didn't wait for everyone to reply and said to himself, "I think only 10% of the people who absolutely pursue dreams are? There may only 10% of the people who absolutely pursue enjoyment... And more than 80% of the people are very complicated. They have the calculations of ordinary people. In their ideals, the best one is of course to follow the prime minister to realize their ideals while also getting rich rewards!"
"This is human nature, human nature that cannot be changed forever. I don't care what decision you make, but I just remind you that human nature is like water and you can only guide you and never stop it..."
At this point, except for the Frenchman Kevin, everyone expressed their attitude, and Xiao Letian's face became increasingly ugly. "I don't understand what you said... But do you know what it means to take a step forward? It means the life and death of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people!"
"Have you not fought enough civil war? Haven't you died enough? When can the interests of our 400,000 or 500,000 people be higher than the interests of hundreds of millions of people in China?"
"If we can ignore the life and death of others for our own interests, and the life and death of millions of people... Then what is the difference between us and the Qing Dynasty? Is this the way I want to take you!"
The flower hall once again fell into a dead silence. These are two completely different ideological disputes, two completely different values. Some things are like men's braids and women's feet, which have become a cancer in the nation.
Although everyone knows that the cancer looks ugly and dangerous, no one can cut it off with a knife. It hurts too much! And it will be fatal if it is not cut properly.
Therefore, most people still choose to live a day. They are blind and choose to face this problem in a daze, half asleep and half awake. Just as Li Hongzhang said in his later years in history, he is just a papermaker, breaking the house and breaking the windows, and pasting a layer of white paper can barely see it.
If this broken house is really broken down and built, let alone whether it can be built, those who are crowded inside to shelter from the wind and rain will have to tear him apart.
Xiao Letian encountered unprecedented pressure today. For the first time, he felt a strong desire from his subordinates to overthrow this broken house and establish a new order. Then, while achieving his ideals, he realized the improvement of his self-worth and changed the life destiny of his and his descendants.
This is a very strong desire, just like this summer Pacific hurricane, sweeping everything! Even Xiao Letian, the creator and inciteer, was entangled in it and could not extricate himself.
Xiao Letian's mouth was bitter and he kept muttering to himself, as if he was explaining to his brothers, but in fact he was just to cheer himself up.
"Don't force me! God brought me to this world, not to let me follow the old path. I can't repeat the endless killing spiral... Push it down and rebuild it, then push it down and rebuild it!"
"In the past, we were a closed agricultural country. We really had no choice if we didn't follow this path. But now the times have changed and we have really changed. We are facing an open world, a new world that we have never seen before! Do we still have to follow the old path?"
Xiao Hexin roared, "Prime Minister! No matter how the world changes... human nature will not change! Selfishness and greed in human nature will not change! You must worry about it!"
Chapter completed!