Just when Sakamoto Ryoma comforted Jae-chun successfully, on the other side of the battleship, the atmosphere between Xiao Lotian and Xiang Ying's master and apprentice was already very solemn, and Xiang Ying's question made Xiao Letian silent for a long time.

"Because Jae-chun is miserable!So master, do you want to help him? Help him through this crisis and bring a strong monarch to the Great Qing Kingdom? This is what you want?"

"Please, master, can you find a better excuse to prevaricate me? Even if you like this kid, do you also like the Manchu Qing to enslave the Central Plains? What is the benefit of making Zaichun the master of Zhongxing for our Chinese people?"

"Master, don't lie to me, I know you already have other plans in mind, if that involves your secret strategic plan, then I won't ask...... I just want to hear your yes or no's answer right now!"

Xiang Ying looked at Xiao Letian seriously and asked, "May I ask you, master, do you really want to train Zaichun to become a master of Zhongxing? Do you really want to continue the national honor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a few more years? Yes or no?"

Xiao Letian didn't answer, just looked at him silently.

Xiang Ying then asked, "Okay, I'll ask you another way, may I ask the master...... Is what you are doing to Jae-chun now part of your grand strategy to overthrow the Manchus......? Please tell me the truth, isn't it?"

"You're a deception to everything you do to Jae Chun, right? You just see that stupid boy is easy to deceive, so you're deliberately playing with him? Your purpose is to make the Manchu jump into your big trap little by little, and finally kill yourself?"

Seeing that Xiao Letian still didn't speak, Xiang Ying stomped his feet anxiously, "You are the leader of the Chinese clan! You are the prime minister of our Chinese clan! The interests of the Chinese clan are above all else! You don't want to ......be a woman's benevolence."

Ay...... Xiao Lotian sighed faintly, "There are some things I don't want to tell you, it's because those things are difficult for you to understand!"

"I once heard a saying that if you are half a step ahead of this era, you are a genius, and if you are one step ahead of this era, you are crazy! There is nothing wrong with this, because most human beings only use their own cognition to analyze the world......

"The knowledge that people have been exposed to since childhood, all kinds of bizarre information, constitute a person's thoughts...... For example, the small landlord class, who grew up in the idyll of the Qing Dynasty, could not understand what the industrial revolution was and what the productive forces were!"

"If you tell them that the earth is round, they won't believe it at all, and when I say that people can fly in the sky, did anyone believe it before? But when the hot air balloon appeared in Beijing, it was exchanged for the whole city bowing down ......."

"At that time, I had already surpassed the inner cognition of the people of the Qing Dynasty and made a big step, so I became a madman, a madman who no one in the Qing Dynasty could understand!"

Xiao Lotian let out a long breath, "Hey...... You will never be able to comprehend the pressure in my heart, do you know how much doubt I am subjected to?"

"Back then, I took Xiao He Xin and them to liberate Ryukyu with my bare hands, and everyone thought I was a madman before I succeeded...... Who would have thought that a small army of dozens of people who were hit by a typhoon would be able to successfully counterattack the 3,000 Corps of the Shimazu family?"

"When I was about to take my brother to Europa, do you know how many people looked at me in confusion? They couldn't understand why I had to go to Europa when I was so weak and couldn't develop my strength? Isn't this looking for death?"

"Especially when I arrived in Europa, I didn't stay honest, I had to participate in the Austro-Prussian War, I had to fight that battle in the Stone Bridge Heights, this kind of crazy move, there are many people who question me, and until now some people say that I am a gambler!"

Pinching the iron railing, feeling the coldness in his palm, Xiao Lotian vented his depression to the fullest, "In the eyes of those people, everything I do is irrational and crazy...... As I said, I'm a madman one step ahead of the times!"

Xiao Lotian is also a human being, and he also has times when he is depressed, and of course he will be unhappy if everything he does is not understood. When the little unhappiness accumulates more and more, he can't vent as much as ordinary people.

Because he is the king of the Chinese people, he has too many halos on him, and he can't let people see his weakness. So for a long time, Xiao Lotian could only suppress many things in his heart, pressing to death.

And today, after the victory in the naval battle, he was very emotionally sensitive, coupled with the stimulation of Xiang Ying's favorite apprentice's words, which finally opened his chatterbox.

"There are always some people in this world who like to point fingers, and they can't do it themselves, but they love to give ideas to others! They can only use old ideas to comprehend the world, and then use their brains, which are hundreds of years behind, to formulate a strategic ...... that they think is very powerful."

"Then he thinks that what he thinks in his heart is the truth! How egregiously self-centered, and they think that everything in the world should run according to his imagination......

"In their hearts, I, Xiao Letian, should be like the founding monarchs of the past, first lay a small territory to cultivate obscurity, and then build a high wall to accumulate grain, and engage in more diplomatic ......"

"In one year, two years, three or four years, little by little, the treasury and granaries are filled, and 100,000 or even millions of tigers are trained...... When the time is ripe, we will rise up and lead the army to attack county by county, state by state, and province by province!"

"Haha, in the eyes of these people, the world is flat, constantly expanding the boundaries of their own forces, and turning the newly annexed territory into the core area, this is called expanding the territory!"

"When you occupy enough territory and have enough strength, there will naturally be a swarm of Confucian students to be drummers, these people are desperately preaching the truth of the destiny of heaven, and then shaping you into a Zhengshuo, if you fight a few more key decisive battles, as long as you win, you will naturally be able to reach the top and become the lord of the Central Plains!"

"But they don't want to think about it, what has become of the times? This is not the world before the Age of Discovery, this is a big era when the earth is gradually getting smaller, and if we change everything with the kind of thinking we used to have, we can only walk into the old spiral of changing dynasties......

"Xiang Ying, you also came back from studying abroad, you should know what the world is like now, the European powers wish that you China would still follow the old path of the past, just like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he completely followed the same set of ...... as the Central Plains."

As a result, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States will be able to take advantage of the chaos by taking advantage of the civil strife...... The more chaotic your China is, the more civil war it will be, especially the large-scale civil war between the Han and the aliens, who account for the majority of the population, and this is the situation that the Western powers are most willing to see!"

"If you are good, they will be strong, the reason is as simple as that, if you kill the heads of the people, they will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to infiltrate!"

"The defeat of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom and the outbreak of the Second Opium War have proved that this old road is impassable, and it is useless except to delay the fortunes of our Chinese country!"

"Huh...... Attack Xiatanggu today, take Zhili tomorrow, occupy Shandong the day after tomorrow, and millions of troops attack left and right to fight the enemy in the Central Plains, watching the boundary line of power move in the red mouth and white teeth of Confucianism, this is the feeling that the lupine towel they want is wiped out!"

"Fuck, that's a bunch of idiots!"