Volume VIII 1345 Is Popular Sentiment Available?

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Xiang Ying's eyes suddenly lit up, "Will Ji An'an come out?" At this moment, the hatch of the conference room not far away was pushed open, and Cai Bixuan showed his head and shouted, "The kitchen has prepared dinner, hurry up and eat something......

"Leave us alone, don't eat it!" the master and apprentice actually roared in unison, but after speaking, the two of them were stunned for a moment, and then laughed slyly.

Cai Bixuan was stunned for a moment, and his mouth pouted, "Sick, right?" After speaking, he slammed the hatch shut and ignored them.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and all corners of the cabin of the Zhiyuan and between the upper and lower spiral stairs were hung with windproof kerosene lamps, and the light of hundreds of kerosene lamps outlined the beautiful arc of the entire battleship from a distance.

With the faint light not far away, the two lit a cigarette and continued the conversation in the sea breeze.

"Xiang Ying! Although I, Xiao Letian, have a reputation among the Chinese people now, do you think I have any prestige in the Great Qing Kingdom? If I now lead my troops back to the Great Qing Kingdom and raise the banner to rebel, how many people do you think will support me?"

Xiang Ying thought about it carefully, frowned, and shook it, "With all due respect, none of the ten ......"

"Haha, you're praising me! Where is there no one out of ten, and there is no one in a hundred!" Xiao Letian shook his head and sighed, "The most stubborn thing in this world is the human heart, and the most fickle is also the human heart.

"The Chinese people see me as a savior, because they have been influenced by my latest nationalist ideas, and the volunteer student preaching groups on the streets of Ryukyu today are the result of this kind of thinking, and no one forces them to ......."

"The Chinese diaspora are a group of people who have opened their eyes to the world, they know how powerful the Western powers are, they also know how weak the Qing Dynasty is, and they have tasted the taste of being bullied by foreigners, and now they have met a person who can give them hope...... That's me, and I will naturally take refuge in it......"

"But the Qing Dynasty is different, that country is closed, and the people can't move their hometowns where the household registration policy is located, if you are not a person with merit, then you will have to open the way for the government to leave your hometown for hundreds of miles to go to your relatives!"

The CIA once conducted a secret investigation, and only 50 percent of the people in Zhili Province knew about the war in which the British and French forces attacked Beijing, and this was the main battlefield where the war broke out!

"You don't have to be surprised, only half of the people really know that in the countryside in the south of Zhili, many people have never heard of the term British and French alliance, and they don't even know what the Old Summer Palace is......"

"In Shanxi, the proportion of people who knew about the war dropped directly to 25 percent, in Henan to 23 percent, and in Shandong it was 21 percent......"

"This is the Central Plains, a large coastal province, as for other inland provinces, such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places...... Knowing that the proportion of people in that war did not exceed 3%, think for yourself who do you think people's hearts will follow in this extremely closed and ignorant environment?"

Xiang Ying was stunned for a moment and muttered to herself, "Yes, which environment did I come from, they don't know what the world is like, they don't even know that there is a person like Xiao Letian, they don't know that there is a prime minister who lives in the world, how can this person's heart be used for you?"

"Tradition! That's right, there's nothing wrong with it, it's not the emperor who sways the hearts of the people of the Qing Dynasty, but tradition, the power of inertia, and every thing is caused by habit!"

With a snap, Xiao Letian snapped his fingers, "That's right, that's right! You guessed it, it's habit...... Every citizen of the Great Qing Kingdom is not popping out of the cracks in the stones, they have parents and grandparents, three relatives and six deaths!"

Around him, there are countless people who are brainwashing them with habitual behaviors, grandpa tells the story of Kangxi, grandpa talks about the legend of Yongzhengye, and father says the flowers of the Qianlong period...... Coupled with the selective indoctrination of storytellers and Mr. Reading, a so-called loyal and patriotic idea has naturally been formed!"

"I remember I told you in a small class! Man is a very wonderful thing, when his outlook on life, values, and worldview is formed around the age of 20, he will generally have a firm grip on his life......

"People are very stubborn, when he is 18 years old, 20 years old or so, he forms a certain thought, then it is like a tree taking root to entangle him for a lifetime, and a strong sense of self will make him keep brainwashing himself!"

"What are you washing in? I have always instilled in myself the idea of 'I am always right', I am the most correct, what my father said is also the most correct, what my grandfather and relatives said is even more correct, whoever says I think wrong I will be anxious with whom!"

"Aren't there countless such people in the world? How many adults have quarreled and even fought because of different ideas, in the final analysis, it is because you have denied my cognition, and you say that what I think is wrong! This is what Buddhism calls self-grasping!"

This kind of person will become a slave to his own thoughts, and that kind of thinking has actually been instilled and brainwashed by the environment before the age of 18!

"Haha...... Do you remember the story of Xishuimen? Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you just returned to China, and you may not have heard the story of Tanggu Xishuimen......

"Do I just want those refugees to let go of their wives and daughters' little feet, cut off their braids, and get paid for their work? These demands are excessive? In fact, they are not too much at all, but there are still countless people who choose to refuse, and even use extremely vicious words to scold them after they have played tricks!"

As I just said, the human heart is stubborn and refuses to change, but at the same time he wants to share your happiness without changing his own thing!"

"Do you think I can change such a Great Qing Kingdom? With a population of four or five hundred million, do I have to reason one by one? Do I have the ability to influence everyone?"

"Please, I'm a human being, not a god, and I can't overcome the deep-seated ego in people's hearts!"

Xiao Letian stood there with a lonely expression, his body was like a mountain undulating with the waves, and at that moment Xiang Ying clearly felt the trace of old and tired in the corner of the prime minister's eyes.

"Is there no way? Is it just for the people of the Great Qing Kingdom to sink down according to that so-called habit? Sleep to death in the dream of the so-called loyalty to the monarch and patriotism?"

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