Chapter Ninety-Eight: Family Affairs Are No Simpler Than State Affairs
At this point in the conversation, the nature of the father-son divergence has been revealed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the surface, Myer's ideas are more human, while Gray's ideas are too extreme and impersonal. But by its very nature, it is Maier's ideas that are the most impersonal. Although he gave outsiders the opportunity to enter the country, and regularly provided cultural exports to the outside world, until then, he ruthlessly isolated these people from the dividing line.
Ideally, people who want to change will try to move within the dividing line, but this is not an easy task. Thinking that at the beginning, the people of Shangjin County fled to Byronsburg because they couldn't stand Wei Lin's exploitation, and Wei Lin tried every means to stop them, and even did not hesitate to kill.
Rulers will not sit idly by and watch the people of their realm flee because it will harm their interests. How many rulers are willing to give up their power and honor and take refuge in Mel in the name of their people? Such people are absolutely rare among rulers, and their actions are not destined to be smooth sailing, because by the time they make such decisions, their domains, people, and wealth are already being targeted by others.
Maier has always refuted that there are too many idealistic aspects of Gray's ideas, and in fact there are more idealized places in his ideas. But Gray only pointed out some of the key points, and did not point out all the idealized points in the other party's thoughts, as Mel did.
This is not to show mercy, but because Gray maintains a certain advantage in the debate, so he does not need to contradict the other party's point of view as Mel does. He is the one who controls the topic in most cases, and the same is true in the final debate. The reason why the two debated back and forth was because the right to act was with Meier, and Gray belonged to the suggestion party, and he was already at a disadvantage, so on the surface, the two would be evenly divided.
When Mel took the initiative to turn the conversation to God, he was doomed to lose the debate. He is a believer in God, and although he is not loyal to God, he cares a lot about God from what he knows and what He does. If he didn't care about God, how could he explain God's heart and God's love for the world in a number of treasures? If he didn't care about God, how could he take the initiative to pick up the burden that his father had thrown down?
Since his birth, Mel has never seen God with his own eyes or heard His voice with his own ears, but he can acknowledge God as his King without hesitation. It is not easy for a king who wields real power to willingly admit that an existence he has never seen before is his own without any threat or benefit.
Mary respects man's power to choose, not because of his love, but because it is given by God. The most obvious proof of this is that he mentions God first and then his thoughts. Before Mel took the initiative to bring up this topic, Gray did not dare to take the initiative to bring up this topic, because he had not seen his son for a long time, and he did not know the current state of Meier's faith, if Mel had regarded faith as a dispensable thing, the loser would be Gray. To be on the safe side, he had to wait for Maier to take the initiative to bring up the topic.
Now that Maier still holds on to his beliefs, Gray can point out the most essential problem of "dividing and ruling by dividing" from the perspective of faith, and deal him a fatal blow. The blow didn't hurt for Myer, but it gave him a sense of empowerment and made him regret his thoughts.
For the onlookers, the turn of the odds was a momentary event. Before they could figure out what was going on, Maier threw in the towel. However, before they could figure out why Maier had thrown in the towel, Gray had also thrown in the towel.
"I have a problem with my thoughts, too." "As you said, my plan will come with a lot of sacrifices, but yours is much gentler and more acceptable than yours. I think there are a lot of similarities in our plan, and we can take the time to discuss it and come up with a better plan. ”
"Well, that's it!"
The two who were arguing just now shook hands and made peace in an instant and became partners. This situation is difficult for most women to understand, but for women, it is enough that the husband does not have a conflict with his relatives, and it does not matter what happened between the two.
As soon as the business was over, Gray and Maier regained their love for their wives. The two vied with each other to call out to the guards outside, asking them to urge the kitchen to cook, and to bring juice and snacks to quench the thirst of the women and cushion their stomachs.
The maids lit candles in the council chamber, and it wasn't long before juice and snacks arrived. Everyone ate and drank in a relaxed atmosphere, and the maids informed the people outside of the state of the situation in the council hall, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
What a wonderful family......
Yu Mingli silently chewed the dim sum, but he didn't taste the taste of dim sum at all. She felt an itch in her heart, and her mind was full of the affairs of the Byron family. She is full of curiosity about this family, and even has some yearning. She couldn't help but fantasize about what it would be like to be a member of the Byron family, and excitement welled up in her heart.
Maybe...... Maybe marrying His Majesty the King is not a bad thing......
Yu Mingli smiled slightly, and the knot that had been twisted in his heart for a long time was inadvertently untied.
On the other side, the pimple in Yijuan and Yiyu's hearts is getting bigger and bigger.
Yijuan's mental state is gradually recovering, but as her mental state recovers, she misses her son more and more. Now Yijuan has no intention of getting married, she just wants to see her son once, even if it's just once. Yijuan wants to go to Laimao's house to be a concubine for her ex-husband, so that she can see her son.
But Yishan wants her and Yiyu to marry into the Byron family. When she was in Yaolin City, Yishan also had a similar idea, which was to let her sister get rid of the fate of political marriage. But this time, Yishan did it for herself.
The collapse of the Tengyan family made the three sisters completely free. The mother is still alive, and it is the father who only sees profit in his eyes as the father who died, and those half-brothers who inherited their father's greed. When she learned of their deaths, Yishan didn't feel anything in her heart, and it wasn't until the next day that she felt a little sad. On the third day, the three sisters put the matter behind them and discussed what would happen to their mother after she came to Byrensburg.
But it didn't take long for a sense of crisis to appear in Yishan's heart.
In the past, the reason why she dared to be willful in front of Meier was because she was the princess of the Xiaohu family and had the capital to be willful. Although the Xiaohu family is here now, the Tengzi family has become a traitor, and Yishan, who is Teng Yan's daughter, is no longer a member of the powerful Xiaohu family.
If Teng Yan is still alive and his power is still there, Yishan still has a little capricious capital. But now Teng Yan is dead. His power is also gone, and Yishan is only left with the empty title of a princess, and she has lost the protection of her family. She knew that Maier would not abandon her because of this, but she was sure that her status in the family would definitely decline.
The princesses' choice of a new princess for Maier also gave Yishan a lot of stimulation. Of the four candidates for the new princess, two are from Leitin, apparently from Alice's side. One is an Ira youkai who seems to have a good relationship with Xiaoxiao, and the other is an Ira, and these two are likely to be from Xiaoxiao's side.
Queen Alice has a good relationship with all the princesses, but among the current princesses, she has the best relationship with Xiaoxiao. Kiki and Xiaoye are both Xiaoxiao's people, which means that Xiaoxiao has three allies in Meier's harem at this stage. At the same time, Xiaoxiao is the most favored princess, so she has more say in the harem than Alice. However, Xiaoxiao doesn't like to express opinions on weekdays, so on the surface, Queen Alice's voice is the greatest.
And Yishan and Euris are the "princess alliance", and the two have more power to speak than Alice together. In order to balance the voice of the harem, Xiaoxiao occasionally helps Alice. But in fact, Xiaoxiao belongs to a separate "camp", Qiqi and Xiaoye are both "camp members", Queen Alice is another "camp", and she is the only "camp member".
In this concubine election, two of the four candidates were Alice's people and two were Xiaoxiao's people. Xiaoxiao is basically neutral on weekdays, so those who join Xiaoxiao's "camp" will not have much impact on the discourse power of the harem. But the addition of Ista and Lulu will definitely make the "queen camp" have more say than the "princess alliance".
Although Uris and Yishan are allies, this alliance is not stable. The two have a good relationship, but their personalities are incompatible. Yishan can't get used to Ulis being favored by her intentions, and Uris can't get used to Yishan relying on her being Meier's cousin to be willful, and the two often have conflicts, and sometimes Alice has to come forward to help mediate.
After Yishan lost the protection of her family, Euris became more and more proud. Although she did not abandon the alliance with Yishan, the status of the two sides is no longer equal. In terms of scheming, Yishan was not Ullis's opponent in the first place, and she felt that she who had lost her family's protection was likely to be led by Euris.
In this regard, Yishan thought of a solution that was to let her sister and sister also marry into the Byron family. Although Yijuan and Yiyu will also become her competitors after this, they are Yishan's sisters after all, and the competition between the three can only be regarded as internal contradictions.
It's not just Yijuan who doesn't want to marry into the Byron family, but Yiyu doesn't want to marry Mel either.
She agreed to marry Maier because she didn't want to accept a political marriage. Yishan said that Maier was very reliable, so she was willing to marry Maier. Now that Yiyu is free, she feels that she has the right to find her own love, but now that Yishan has asked her to accept a marriage that is more ridiculous than a political marriage, how can she agree?
But now it's not as good as before, Teng Yan is dead, his power is gone, Yijuan and Yiyu are now under the fence, and they have to look at other people's faces. The reason why the two sisters, who lost their family protection and did not marry, were able to live in Qingshi Palace and live a life of being served by others was because of Yishan. The mouth of eating people is short, and the hands of taking people are short, and now Yishan has something to ask them for help, so they can only agree to come down.
But the promise was agreed, and the two did not want to marry Maier from the bottom of their hearts, and they still had some resentment towards Maier in their hearts. So the two did not appear in the welcoming procession, because in their opinion, Mel's return was not a good thing.
Unlike Yijuan, who is used to being submissive, Yiyu is a person with a strong sense of resistance. However, although Yiyu has a strong sense of resistance, her ability to act is very poor, and she belongs to the type that dares to think and dare not do. Like when she learned that she was about to marry into the Laiyu family, she thought of many ways to change her fate, but in the end she could only come to her sister Yijuan for help.
"His Majesty is a good man." Yijuan said weakly, "It's better to marry him than to marry those irresponsible men." ”
"But...... But we're free. Yiyu said depressedly, "In the end, we still can't get rid of the shackles of fate." ”
It is not so much that the sisters "did not shake off the shackles of fate", but that they never tried to break free from it. Yishan never said anything like "I want to change my fate", but when she met a good man, she did not hesitate to pursue him - of course, in terms of practical results, what she did was useless. But even so, Yishan has tried. Although the happiness she got in the end was discounted, she still got the happiness she wanted. In other words, Yishan's efforts have paid off.
As for the two sisters, they have not paid, and naturally there is no return.
“…… That's probably it. ”
That night, in Meier's arms, Xiaoxiao reported to him what had happened in his house since he left home. These words made Mel sleepy and his head began to swell.
How do I feel that family affairs are more complicated than state affairs?
Mel frowned, smiled as if she had anticipated his movements, turned in his arms, and massaged his temples with her fingers.
"It's useless for you to worry! Go with the flow! ”
Maier nodded helplessly, and closed her eyes as if resigned.