"Prime Minister!" Xiao Hexin's face was bruised and his lips trembled, and Sima Yun hurriedly persuaded him on the side, "Prime Minister, you know that Xiao Hexin doesn't mean that, he is also for our good!"

Sima Yun shook his head: "Prime Minister, we all understand what you said, we all understand! But have you thought about it? There is no turning back from the bow, our forces have come to this point, that is, pushing the big stone up the mountain, you can't go down if you want to, as long as you don't push the boulder, you will have to smash us to death!"

"Don't believe it, our brothers were born in bitter families since childhood, and later they entered the kingdom of heaven by chance and began to rebel, and then they became bandits, and then followed your ......"

"We have seen the rise and fall of a dynasty with our own eyes, we have seen high-rise buildings rise, and then we see buildings collapse, so we understand everything you said, Prime Minister! Isn't it just that we are not the prime minister, and we are not the founding fathers? It doesn't matter, anyway, when we go to that place in the world as our identity, we will have a mouthful of food to eat!"

"But can we retreat, can others retreat? Prime Minister, have you ever thought about the brothers of the new army, the mechanics in the factories, the employees of the banks and foreign banks, and even the hundreds of thousands of people in the Ryukyus?"

Sima Yun said with a sad face, "We people can leave if we want, whether it is the United States or Prussia, or even if we go to South America and Canada, a new country, with our current prestige, anyone will look down on us......

"But the hundreds of thousands of people who follow you can emigrate together, and when you give up your rights, who will protect their lives and deaths, will our enemies fight back, and they will die when the time comes......

Luo Huo couldn't sit still, "Yes! If those bastards don't clean up for a day, they will have to turn against the sky! There are people who hate us in this world, my lord, you have to think about these hundreds of thousands of people who follow you!"

Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, and Luo Huo had already expressed their opinions, and at this time, Xiao Letian's eyes stayed on Wang Huaiyuan's body.

Wang Huaiyuan is still that gloomy character, he won't say his thoughts directly, but just lightly use some secret information to knock on the side.

"Do you remember the traitor Yang Zhi? Now this guy has been hidden by Prince Gong and them in Xishan, where is the Manchurian printing house...... Don't look at me like that, it was the prime minister who ordered him to stop the killing order, which was also a condition of the Manchurians when the bond negotiations with the imperial court were held later......"

"It doesn't matter if Yang Zhi dies or not, when he is out of our collective, when he doesn't continue to accept new knowledge and new ideas, he can only rely on eating old books to live, sooner or later the Manchurians will squeeze out his value, and finally throw it away as a footcloth to ......"

"What I'm going to say is why Yang Zhi ran away...... In fact, I blame me, I found out that his life is becoming more and more luxurious, and I want to remind him a few words, but the result reveals that adults are unwilling to take a step further, as adults say, pour some cold water in advance!"

"As a result, I never thought that this cold water was a poison of despair for Yang Zhi! He is a veteran of Taibaiding, and when he opened a silver furnace from private minting silver coins, he was the core guard, and he has also made a lot of contributions in the past few years......

"When Yang Zhi was chatting with the veterans in private, he said more than once that in the future, when the prime minister ascended to the top, he would have to be a marquis, and at worst, he would have to be a duke and earl, and he would have to be hereditary......"

"Isn't all the luxuries of the present a rehearsal for a more luxurious life in the future, and how many of the people who follow the prime minister in the Ryukyus 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 the person who absolutely pursues his dream is Yicheng......, right? And more eighty percent of the people are very complicated, they have the calculations of ordinary people, in their ideals, of course, the best is to be able to follow the prime minister to achieve their ideals, and at the same time can get rich rewards!"

"This is human nature, it is human nature that can never be changed, I don't care what kind of decision you make, adult, but I just remind you that human nature is like water, you can only channel and don't want to block ......"

At this point, except for the Frenchman Kevin, everyone expressed their attitude, and Xiao Letian's face became more and more ugly, "I don't understand the truth you said...... But do you know what it means to take a step forward? It means the lives and deaths of tens of millions of people, if not hundreds of millions!"

"Haven't we fought enough civil wars? Haven't we killed enough people? When will the interests of our four or five hundred thousand people be higher than the interests of hundreds of millions of people in the whole of China?"

"If we are for our own benefit, we can disregard the lives and deaths of other people, and the lives and deaths of billions of people...... So what's the difference between us and the Manchus? Is this the path I'm going to take you?"

Once again, there was a dead silence in the flower hall, this was a battle between two completely different ideologies, these were two completely different values, and some things were like men's braids and women's small feet, which had become a cancer in the nation.

Although everyone knows that the cancer is really ugly and dangerous, no one will cut it with a knife, it hurts too much!

So most people still choose to mess around, between being ignorant and half-asleep, selectively blind, unwilling to face this problem in a real way, just like what Li Hongzhang said in his later years in history, he is just a pastemaker, breaking houses and windows, framing a layer of white paper can barely see it, and it will be okay to pass.

If this dilapidated house is really demolished and a new one is built, let alone whether it can be built or not, those who are crowded in it to shelter from the wind and rain will have to tear him apart alive.

Xiao Lotian encountered unprecedented pressure today, and for the first time, he felt a strong desire from his subordinates to overthrow this dilapidated house, establish a new order, and then achieve his ideals at the same time, realize the improvement of his self-worth, and change the fate of his life and that of his descendants.

This is a very strong desire, just like this summer hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, sweeping through everything! Even Xiao Letian, the founder and instigator of it, is entangled in it and cannot 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 cheering himself up.

"Don't force me! God didn't bring me into this world, I didn't let me go the old way, I can't repeat that endless killing spiral...... Tear down and rebuild, then tear down and rebuild!"

"In the past, we were a closed agricultural country, and we really had no choice but not to take this road, but now the times have changed, they have really changed, and we are facing an open world, a new world that we have never seen before!

Xiao Hexin roared in a low voice: "Prime Minister, no matter how the world changes...... Human nature will not change! Selfishness and greed in human nature will not change! You must not worry about it!"

Note: The second shift is there, guess there is a third shift today?