Volume VIII 1214 Demons

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No one answered Ryoma Sakamoto's question, because no one could refute his reasoning, the thousands of years of human civilization, the rise and fall of countries and nations, all along with the competition between private interests and public interests.

If the public interests of a nation begin to expand at a certain stage, it is inevitable that the nation will be offensive and expansive at this stage, and this character may be reflected in war, or in large-scale engineering and scientific research that benefit all peoples.

During this period, it is easier for the state to do great things, but the happiness of the population decreases. For a simple example, the world says that the Han Wu expedition to Mobei in the Western Regions opened up the living space of the Han nation, and it was fascinating to watch the victory of the war.

However, under the victories one after another, it is the wealth of hundreds of millions of people who have been squeezed out, the sorrow that they still can't fill their stomachs despite the good years, and the happiness of the small people has been squeezed to the extreme.

This is a kind of damage to private interests caused by excessively strong public interests, but if private interests are too strong, is it necessarily a good thing? The Song Dynasty was a typical policy of a weak monarch and a strong people, and after five dynasties and ten kingdoms of war, the Song Dynasty gave civil officials an absolutely respectful status.

At that time, the emperor of the Song Dynasty could not expand the imperial city of Bianjing, because there was an ancestral family law to control them, so that they were forbidden to take profits from the people, and even the civilian areas close to the imperial city did not dare to be demolished.

It was a time of great development of secular culture, and the prosperity of the common people was a miracle in the Middle Ages, and before the Industrial Revolution, there was no one more rich in all human empires and people than in the Song Dynasty.

However, the Song Dynasty was indeed the most weak period in Chinese history, although it was in a prosperous era, and in the end, the Song Dynasty was destroyed by barbarism, and countless wealth became the spoils of the barbarians.

At that time, not to mention the happiness of the small people, but the small people did not even have the right to live, whether you were a prince and nobleman or a landlord or a commoner, at that time all of them would become slaves of the Mongols.

The conflict between public and private interests, which has lasted for thousands of years and will continue to stretch for countless more years, is an unsolvable conundrum, and this conflict will last forever as long as human society exists.

Like the pendulum of time, it swings back and forth in two nodes, and this pendulum will not stop until the end of mankind.

"Hahaha......" Xiao Lotian laughed, he suddenly laughed wildly, and the tears of laughter in the silent hall flowed out, and the people around him were dizzy when he saw it, and the people around him palpitated when he listened.

Xinjing tears are flowing, his mouth is smiling, but his heart is dripping blood, he sighed that he has finally come to this point, he has finally begun to use human life as a chess piece like all emperors, generals, and politicians.

Ever since the day he crossed over, he had had a fear in his heart, a fear that accompanied him through countless sleepless nights and countless hangovers.

Xiao Letian knows very well what kind of path he is taking, and he knows how difficult the choice he will encounter in the future. It's not how strong the enemy is, it's whether Xiao Lotian can defeat his demons.

He understood that when his power grew bigger and bigger, and when he finally had to compete with the great powers, a difficult choice would come.

The chessboard that devours human life has been laid out, may I ask you if Xiao Lotian dares to sit down and fall? In the void, Xiao Lotian seems to have seen the souls of countless famous politicians, military strategists, and revolutionaries in modern times flying.

The huge world map is a chessboard of conquest, and each chess piece is the soul of mortals bound by evil fate, they are placed in different positions on the map, twisting and struggling to escape the fate of being driven, but there is nothing to be done.

The Queen of England is laughing in the West, the French Emperor is watching coldly, the Prussian Bismarck is raising his hand to invite Xiao Lotian to enter the game, and the Tsar is glaring angrily with a sword......

"The chess game has been set, will you Xiao Lotian enter the game? Will you play this game or not? If you don't play, you will quickly change people, or you East Asia will not play chess players, isn't it good to let us manipulate it with peace of mind?"

"Do you want to come...... Won't be played...... Come or not......"

The spell-like voice echoed in Xiao Letian's ears, and then looked at the banks of the Bailayi River in South Asian Borneo, the chess pieces in the reclamation area had been cut into pieces of flesh with blood, although there were surrounding Chinese chess pieces desperately supplementing the past, but the 10,000 unjust souls were flying and hovering on the chessboard.

"We don't want to die...... Why do we want to die...... Why should we sacrifice our lives for the benefit of others? Please, you are the god of the Chinese people, you are the founder of the Chinese people...... You bring us back to life, let us come back to life......"

"Enough!" Xiao Lotian suddenly burst into a loud breath and broke through this illusion.

Xiao Letian, who had regained his composure, shook his head, looked at Lin Zhen, Cai Bixuan and the others and asked, "What do you want? Is it illusory fairness and justice, or is it a war that can't be avoided in front of you?"

"I know that the death of those 10,000 people was unjust, and the initiator of this incident was Sakamoto Ryoma, but as the current leader of the Chinese people, I must be responsible, and this is a responsibility that I cannot escape...... I'm going to bear such an infamy in this position!"

"Today's matter, I declare it top secret! For the time being, it cannot be made public, and I will hold a high-level secret meeting after the end of this battle to negotiate...... Of course, the premise is that we can still win at that time, and if we fail, then we will all go to Lord Yama to talk about cause and effect!"

"Even after the victory, I, Xiao Lotian, will not shy away from this issue, and I will resign as prime minister at that time...... I'm sorry, I don't want to play this game!"

"What?" Everyone was in an uproar, Wang Huaiyuan grabbed Xiao Letian's hand and shouted, "Prime Minister can't be so depressed, everyone's doubts are not aimed at you, although Bai Layi is a tragedy, but everyone understands that this is also a necessary sacrifice to victory......"

"Cai Bixuan, they are just people with a temporary mentality, they are not forcing the palace, please think twice about giving them a chance...... They are too young to bear such a charge, and if the Chinese know that they forced the prime minister to abdicate, they will not survive...... cough cough cough ......"

Wang Huaiyuan began to cough violently again, and Cai Bixuan, Lin Zhen and the others were frightened and pale, no one expected that a few words of gasification would make Xiao Letian say the word abdication.

"We're not...... We really didn't mean that......" Cai Bixuan was forced to cry at that time, and Lin Zhen knelt directly on the ground and didn't even dare to breathe.

The whole hall was in chaos, but there was only one person laughing, and that person was Sakamoto Ryoma, this man with Xiao Letian's blood in his veins was actually the person who knew Xiao Lotian in the world.

"Prime Minister...... Are you scared? That terrible bloody chess game...... You don't want to play anymore?hahaha, you have to rely on your own strength to defeat this demon!"