Chapter 71 You know nothing

late at night.

The emperor looked at himself, the young man he once trusted the most, the orphan he had always placed high hopes, Qin Guang's most trusted successor, and the new generation of leading figures recognized by the imperial intelligence community, his heart seemed to be torn apart by something.

"I did it." Ge Shaojie, director of the Second Department of the General Intelligence Bureau, raised his head and looked at the emperor calmly, "I want to kill the prince for this country, for this nation, and for the realization of your ambitions."

The emperor's eyes became deeper and deeper: "You want to kill my son, but you said it was for me and for my empire. What is the reason?"

"Commander," Ge Shaojie suddenly shouted, shocking the body of the emperor who had not heard of this for a long time. Many pictures that had long disappeared from the depths of memory flashed in front of his eyes like slides, "The son inherited his father's business, and passed down from generation to generation, the empire of the family, the noble title, the chaebol and the political lords, are all these really the country you want? Is it really our ideal back then?"

The emperor's body sat upright little by little. He didn't say anything, but just stared at the man.

"Commander, you have educated me for so many years, and my words of teachings back then are still in my ears. To be fair, you have really realized your ideals, your pursuits, and your beliefs?" Ge Shaojie's eyes were red, but his tone was extremely firm. "You taught us to learn Rousseau, Montesquieu, Western Enlightenment thoughts, and educate us to put the country and the nation first, and to do everything for the fundamental interests of the people. I, Ge Shaojie, have not forgotten all this for a day."

"I want to kill the prince, it has nothing to do with who he is. I have no grudges with him, and even many things make me admire him very much. But I want to kill because he is the prince, he will let the empire pass on and become a real family world!" Ge Shaojie's voice seemed so clear and clear on this rainy night, with a hidden echo, "Commander! I have been following you for thirty years! From a runny nose to this intelligence officer today, I have seen a lot, experienced a lot, and thought a lot. Does this country need only change an emperor? Is there no other way to choose a leader except for the son to inherit his father's business? Is this China still repeating the previous cycle of governance. Can the people expect only the so-called wise king? Qin II, Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Shun of Yuan, do you have to repeat these pasts?"

"I have not betrayed, I am loyal! I am loyal to this country and to you! I can't bear to have your life's foundation, and finally I am given the reputation of a ** monarch who moves against the flow!" Ge Shaojie breathed a few times, "Everything I do is according to your teaching, for the country, the nation, and the long-term interests of the people!"

"So you want to kill my son, let me have no descendants, and let this empire be extinct. In this way, I can't pass on it. I can only conduct so-called elections or designate talents, right?" the emperor said coldly, "This is your loyalty? This is the future you think about in this country?"

Shaojie nodded, "I firmly believe that I have chosen the right path."

"You know what a fool." The emperor suddenly swears, which shocked Ge Shaojie. He knew that the emperor was not only angry, but was afraid that he had already hated himself in his bones. "You are just a fool. You want to push this country into a deep abyss and make this nation doom!"

As soon as the emperor said this, Ge Shaojie, who had always been calm, suddenly turned red. He struggled and twisted his body like a wounded beast. The rope on his body rubbed between the chair and the creaking sound. The silent white-clothed guard came over, but the emperor shook his head gently. The guard immediately stopped and looked at Ge Shaojie coldly.

"No, I want to save this country and this nation!" Ge Shaojie growled, "**The monarchy system, when it comes to you, it should be stopped! You are a genius, but we cannot expect your descendants to be! Passing such absolute power through the way of blood inheritance can only bring disaster to the country!"

"You know nothing." The emperor said coldly, "Is my plan something you can understand! What do you know? What do you know!"

He shook his head in disappointment, got up and walked to the window, watching the raindrops outside the window hitting the glass, making rain, and no longer looking at Ge Shaojie.

After a while, he said calmly: "Do you know why I wanted to become a crown prince back then?"

Before Ge Shaojie could answer, the emperor seemed to say to himself: "It is to prevent us from fighting in the internal affairs and prevent those people from having any ideas! With such a prince, there will be many unreasonable thoughts! What kind of marshal, prime minister, secretary general, governor, minister, can you deserve the throne? People's hearts are the real bottomless abyss, and they will never be filled!"

"The tradition of this country is internal struggle. His history is internal struggle! The long-term so-called central powers are all barbarians, which has long destroyed the ambition of pioneering and full of intra-fighting ambitions and power-making in the minds!" The emperor said coldly, "You know nothing! Without a recognized inheritance and without a recognized authority, internal struggle can destroy this country! Let this nation be doomed!"

"This country has no democratic tradition, and there is no active sage. Even the abdication of primitive society has become the hereditary monarch, not to mention that the monarch has been hereditary for thousands of years now! They only know violence, only know that the east wind overwhelms the west wind, only know how to completely eliminate their enemies, only know how to trample everyone under their feet, and the right way to pass on their father and son!" The emperor's tone was extremely cold, "If they don't become emperors, they can become sons and inherit their father's business as presidents! This is Chinese politics! I have never expected myself to change! Even if I am a role model, give up my position to someone, or designate someone to succeed to the throne after my death, he will only find an opportunity to kill me and my descendants, eliminate future troubles, and pass on the world from generation to generation! Because this is the rule! This is the rule of China's thousands of years of political game! Every Chinese has an emperor's dream in his heart!"

Ge Shaojie's face gradually became pale, and his body began to tremble slightly, but his expression was still extremely stubborn.

"A constitutional monarchy, with the monarch as the arbitrator who transcends party and class disputes, and is the common ruler of the world, the Chinese can each settle their position!" The emperor said, "Do you think those ambitious people who are wearing public opinion and shouting republican democracy will really update a way to play with the sovereignty of the people after they take office? You know what the hell is! "

"What republic democracy, what is breaking the world, it sounds nice." The emperor said coldly, "In a country like China that has been around for thousands of years, where did a group of saints with a deep-minded democratic republican lords come out of nowhere? From xiǎo to greatness, everything they hear and see is power, the emperor's top-down pyramid structure, the behavioral logic of power above everything, and the ideological basis for everything for power!"

The emperor suddenly moved: "They were wearing the cloak of public opinion, shouting slogans of jijin, relying on inciting the people to come to power, but what they were thinking about was dictatorial! In order to allow this rule with public opinion as the cloak can be continued for generations, they will continue to clean up the people within the country, carry out the most cruel suppression and brainwashing, and turn everyone into machines! Become a slave who completely follows the 'mainstream thought' in all aspects! This is Chinese politics! You know what the hell is!"

Ge Shaojie was suddenly as if he was hit by a lightning bolt and froze there blankly.

"You are just a bunch of shitty half-baby dolls, and you thought you were unparalleled!" The emperor's tone was full of ridicule and disdain, "You are all full of black and black, white and white, imperial system is feudal **, and democratic republic is the right way in the world! It's really shit!"

The emperor said, and his tone became fierce again: "I said back then that only I know what this country needs best, and only I know what path this country should take the best! Only I, unlike the people born and raised in this country, I know the harm of **, and I understand from the bottom of my heart what the people need! I understand clearly to you, and you follow me, and you must believe me! I have written so many books to teach you, and introduce Western enlightenment ideas. I think that the smart people among you will one day understand me, truly understand my heart, and understand my career! Some things can only be done and cannot be said! If my mind is known by others, it may be the greatest disaster for the country!"

"But you disappointed me too much." The emperor turned his head and stared at Ge Shaojie viciously. "Even you are like those scattered revolutionaries. They are all fools with shallow thinking and simple minds! They are all fools with bad minds, good democracy, and the better the more democratic it is! You don't understand what people really believe in and what they need in our country for thousands of years. You don't understand this system at all. You have to tailor it, not just cut your feet and put your feet on your feet!"

Ge Shaojie stared at the emperor with his eyes blank, and his entire soul didn't know where he flew.

"Xiǎoyu, this child, has been the target of public criticism since xiǎo. How many people have worked hard on him, open and hidden arrows, sugar-coated shells, he has resisted it. Ting it! If you want to say sorry, the one I am most sorry for is him! It's him!" The emperor gasped violently, like a wounded beast, "I just used him, because I have never really considered passing the throne to him! This prince is just a shield, a tool to attract firepower, prevent those powerful tycoons from fighting each other, and also a tool to stabilize the hearts of the country and the people, and prevent ambitious people from having any embrace! At best, he is just an alternative!"

"I am also a human being. I also have the S Emperor breathing for a while, and my tone gradually calmed down, and a faint feeling of depression, "I thought I might have a biological son one day, and I would like to let him replace him in the future and inherit the country I established. But over the years, I have also lost this idea. I just thought that I could live for decades and observe these rising stars. There is no need to hurry!"

"I never thought of setting up an absolute monarchy for thousands of generations. This is no longer suitable for the times." The emperor said slowly, "Absolute monarchy can only end in my generation. My descendants can only be an arbitrator who transcends partisan politics and specific state affairs, a symbol of the country, a lubricant for the operation of the country and a glue that condenses the country! So I established a constitution, held a parliament and local political meeting, organized a party politics, established a local election system, established a cabinet system, and established a mutually restrained guards, army, and navy! Everything I did was not to put a pretext on, not to think of passing on this power from generation to generation, but to prepare for the future decentralization, to prepare for the country to truly move towards the rule of law, and to return power to the people step by step!"

Ge Shaojie's face finally changed drastically. He did not expect that this emperor, who had always been unfathomable and terrifyingly deep, had such thoughts! He knew that he would definitely die, so the emperor would turn his back on his whole heart! Obviously, the emperor had been holding these words for decades and never talked about them.

Today, the emperor really wants to vomit.

Ge Shaojie looked at the emperor's white hair and felt the unconcealable aura of the old man, and his heart gradually sank.

"I can't say these words." The emperor said quietly, "This will arouse the covetousness of ambitious people and cause the influence of the empire. This country only recognizes violence and authority, so once the central government's highest authority is lost, people find that they can no longer obey order, and the entire nation will fall into a terrifying hysteria and a complete state of disorder. That is the tragedy of the nation! The tragedy of the country!"

"The biggest threat to this country is not the emperor and the prince, but the ambition and tyranny hidden deep in everyone's heart." The emperor's voice replied in the office, as if it had surpassed the boundaries of time and space. "Everyone has a devil in his heart, and thousands of years of history of cannibalism has not been initiated by real thoughts. The Chinese are especially very concerned about this! To change all this, it requires long-term social and cultural influence, stable order, and a complete end to this world, so that everyone can understand that the social order has been stable, and violence must give way to communication and compromise within the system!"

"To do all this, authoritarianism is needed first!" The emperor said frankly, "Grant democracy to a nation full of ambitions and tyranny, 90% of it is illiterate, and 10% of it is full of ambitions and hopes. What they can only bring is frequent civil wars and coups, a hundred years of blood and poverty! China is already so much behind, and it really cannot withstand the toss and downs!"

Ge Shaojie's face was pale, and after a while he said hard, "Your Majesty, but you... don't there be a devil in your heart? You said there is no saint in this world, and you said that this country cannot produce a saint who really wants to return power to the people. But what about you? What you did is not a contradiction with what you said?"

"I am different from them." The emperor stared at Ge Shaojie, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes, "I am different from the people here."

He looked at Ge Shaojie's somewhat confused expression and sighed softly: "I am different from the environment they grew up in. I was not raised in this country. I have seen much more things than you... So I said that you should follow me and follow me, and as long as the people of this country follow me, I will give them what they need little by little. I have this confidence and I also have this capital! Because I... have this mission given by God!"

Ge Shaojie said in a stern voice: "Yes, you have been abroad since you were young..."

"I have done a lot here." The emperor was silent for a while and said, "I overthrew the Qing Dynasty and won the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. I have brought a unified country, brought new ideas, brought the combination of Western political system and Chinese cultural traditions, brought you today's empire, and I have let all the people see hope! I have not regretted all this. This is the mission given to me by God. I have done it and succeeded."

"But I am a human being," the emperor sighed, "I also have something I cannot control, that is your heart."

"What I taught you has brought you on a wrong path." The emperor looked at Ge Shaojie with only regret in his eyes. "Xiǎo Lei took the evil path, that is because he had a ghost in his heart. He did not hesitate to take the country to be buried with him for his own sake. So although I am sad, I don't feel sorry. He should die. But you, Zhan Xiang, do you know how sad I am now? You are loyal to this country, but what you did is destroying the future of this country!"

Ge Shaojie's eyes turned red and his head slowly lowered.

"Everything I have done is for this country and this nation. What I think is that the fate of the country and nation will be the foundation for thousands of years in a hundred years. It seems that not many people understand these, and even you, they don't understand them! It seems that I overestimate you!" The emperor turned around and looked at the drizzle outside the window, with a more distant light flashing in his eyes. "You don't understand at all... The transformation of a country is a gradual process, and it is also a process of integrating new elements and existing traditions. Governing a great country is like cooking freshness. In this period of change, any rash action may either cause unpredictable hunluàn, or it will cause harm to a hundred or thousand years!"

"This country has been ruled by thousands of years. Scholars only seek to be an official and seek wealth. Unsatisfied people are just exploring speculation. The people only want to scrape less and be wise and honest officials! They do not understand what natural human rights are, what democracy and freedom are, and they do not understand that they are the masters of the country. They can decide their own destiny! This is China! This is not a problem that I can solve by engaging in democratic elections with you. These cultural traditions have long penetrated into the deep blood of everyone!" The emperor took a deep breath, "If this country wants to move to sovereignty over the people, it will take at least 40 or 50 years of influence. In this process, a strong and enlightened ruler is needed to always ensure that it is in the right direction. Whether it is democracy or **, it is just a means, not an end. Everything is for the welfare of the people and the healthy development of the country!"

"I was a little desperate for the successor, and even considered whether to change the state system to a presidential republic. I gave up xiǎo Lei's luàn... But I didn't expect that even his mind was just to be a de facto monarch! Even if he couldn't do it, who could I count on? Even if he was different from others and could abandon his unrealistic thoughts, how many years could he last?" The emperor's voice seemed a little erratic in the sound of rain and thunder. "Everyone's choice is difficult to satisfy me, and the more direct problem is that the other party is easily challenged by other candidates in terms of law, which leads to the country being in a state of affairs."

"But after this tour of Europe and the United States, I finally confirmed that I have found an ideal successor. xiǎoyu, he surprised me, but he actually far exceeded my best expectations!" In the window, the emperor's blurred facial reflection, his mouth slightly raised, and his voice began to show pride, "He is no less than my current level in his grasp of international politics; his understanding of the political system is also better than that of most important officials in the cabinet, and even Li Da feels inferior to himself! He is stoic, skilled in methods, and has a stubborn spirit. He does not give up or admit defeat for what he should have decided on. He knows people and takes good care of himself, and can gain the support of his subordinates, and his grasp of people's hearts is not even as good as me! Over the years, I have been able to convince me face to face, and he is... the first one!"

"The most important thing is that he loves this country and this nation." The emperor sighed, "I have a murderous idea of ​​him, but he can give up confronting me for the sake of the country and the people here, and give up escaping from disaster. I originally gave him this opportunity... He is my adopted son! I have no choice! If he escapes, my problem will be solved!"

"But he didn't escape. He gave me a disposal. I know that although he was taking risks, he really didn't want to destroy the empire because of himself." The emperor's tone showed unconcealed appreciation and pride, "Integrity and morality, and a kind heart hidden under the strong shell! Although sometimes it is a bit sentimental, it is like a person, and this is the ideal monarch to take over the empire!"

"This child has been tempered by so many years of open and secret arrows. He has achieved such success at such an age. I don't know how far he can grow in the future! Whether it is legal tradition, age, or ability, he is an absolute ideal heir. With him, I am really relieved about the future of this country." The emperor finally turned around and looked at Ge Shaojie, "He promised that if he became an emperor, he would eventually give power to the people."

"But you want to kill him." The emperor's eyes pierced into Ge Shaojie's heart like a sharp sword, piercing his shell mercilessly, and shattering the heart inside. "You want to kill the future and hope of this empire, and you want to let this country fall into the abyss of civil war after I die!"

Ge Shaojie bit his mouth, his face pale, and his whole body gradually shook into a ball. A trace of blood flowed down from his mouth, and the muscles on his face were already entangled in pain.

"You did something wrong," the emperor said coldly, "You almost destroyed everything I have done so hard and destroyed the future of this country. You almost brought history back on track and let the fire of hope that this nation has just ignited out again."

Despair and regret finally appeared on Ge Shaojie's face. The emperor sighed secretly. That night, the impact of the young man opposite was undoubtedly unprecedented. Ge Shaojie's beliefs that once regarded as the norm and as the pillar of life, those beliefs that supported him to work silently and take huge risks to engage in some feats collapsed at this moment.

"What else do you want to say?" The emperor looked at the desperate and miserable intelligence officer, and the coldness on his face gradually faded, and a hint of pity and sadness appeared faintly. He had never thought that the obsession between the two people actually led to such a ridiculous event. The difference in beliefs actually made the two people who originally believed and valued each other to this point. One became a prisoner waiting to die, and the other had to watch the young generation who had high hopes for him, who was sentenced to death by himself because of a paranoid belief in the country.

"I plead guilty."

After a while, Ge Shaojie's voice sounded.

"It is not convenient for the prince to do something in Siberia. Just use the incident of a large brigade to convict me." Ge Shaojie said calmly, the emptiness and death flowing out of his tone made the emperor's heart contract suddenly, "I am a sinner of the country, I killed the volunteers. These days, I have been condemned by my conscience, but I just deceived myself for the sake of the country. But now it seems that I am just a joke... a xiǎo ugly who has been playing for ten years."

Suddenly, tears gushed out of the emperor's eyes. He was like a wounded lion, sending a depressed roar of sadness, heart-wrenching pain, and even the thunderstorm outside the window seemed to have paused at this moment.

Ge Shaojie looked at the sad and crazy emperor and his heart couldn't help but soften, but then it turned into cold hardness.

The real reason he wanted to kill the prince was unspeakable.

In his opinion, democracy is not something worthy of attention. These ridiculous and childish thoughts can only continue to corrupt the hearts of this nation. What is the exchange for "the scholar-officials and the emperor to rule the world together"? It is the iron hoof of the Jin people and the ancients, and the slavery of the Qing Tartars!

The imperial power is behind, feudal allegiance is outdated, and the democratic republic is just a fig leaf for intellectuals. This constitutional monarchy, combining the outdated thing about imperial power with democracy, the boring trick of the West, is it a good way to save China! The great power of this nation and the potential of this country, if you want to truly release it, you can only use a steel will to form a real army for the entire people, and with strict discipline, the most thorough re-education, and the most rigorous organization, unite the country into a densely operated machine, conquer the world, and rule the nation!

The emperor was right, this country could no longer delay! The one who could make this country strong and embark on the road to rejuvenation was not the aging emperor or the young prince. Only that person, the firm will, the heart as uncorrosive as real gold, has absolute tolerance and determination, and has the most violent undefeated war god. The man with steel ambitions is the real hope of this empire! He knew about that person's situation, but had never contacted the other party, he just silently cleared the obstacles for the other party!

I have a clear conscience.

Ge Shaojie's eyes drooped slightly, and listening to the emperor's grief roar, his heart regained its steel-like hardness.
Chapter completed!