Chapter 494: Radio Speech and Epilogue (Finale)
Xiao Xuan silently looked at the two outlines of the speech that had been drafted in his hand, and after weighing them for a long time, he finally shook his head. Although I have made a lot of efforts to transform my civilization and have put a lot of effort into it over the past 60 years, the basic pattern of a civilization, as well as its mode of thinking and historical habits, have not been so easy to change. Sixty years is still too short in the end. Fortunately, many hidden dangers and even problems that were once possible have erupted in the past, and the showdown has passed, and now I have experienced the bloody storm in the past to have the calmness I have now.
When Xiao Xuan walked into the broadcasting hall in front of the square, which was large enough to accommodate two million people, he had already let go of his previous hesitation, and all he had was calmness and calmness.
When Xiao Xuan appeared in front of the square in civilian clothes of the new era, the shouts of "Long live" that seemed to come from the heart were sincere and enthusiastic. Xiao Xuan waited for about ten minutes, waiting for this voice to gradually calm down, and the whole square began to become silent before he calmly began to make a crucial speech to the people and the army. It seems that this is not the first time that more than 2 million soldiers and civilians have entered Beijing in front of the main body of the army, including the main soldiers of the army. The maturity of the entire social culture and even propaganda and public opinion in the past finally allowed Zhang Fan to avoid a lot of clichés, and he could express his heart directly on such occasions.
"I think one day the development of technology will make everyone live forever, but I may not be able to catch up with that day. After thinking about it, I still feel that I should take advantage of the fact that I am still in the strongest body now, and my speech is quite full of energy, and it is not easy to be faked, to convene such a live broadcast with 2 million on-site listeners and hundreds of millions of listeners outside the venue, and directly confess to the vast number of military and civilians about some of my future arrangements. In the old words, it can be called 'the edict of succession'. ”
"Since the beginning of our career, we have overcome countless difficulties, experienced countless doubts, and experienced many civil wars and turmoil. The development of the current era has finally proved that I made the right choice in the first place. But what I want to tell you is that I am not 100% sure that my successor or the next successor will follow the strategic goals and grand lines I have set, and I am also not sure that your children and grandchildren, or you will still be able to think about the overall situation and the long-term in the conditions and circumstances of that time. Only the union of the people and the monarch, two forces in the social structure that are weaker than the elite and the capital and the elite, can be combined into a solid alliance to ensure to the greatest extent possible that no crisis of one kind or another will occur before the productive forces of society have truly developed to satisfy the desires of all. ”
Xiao Xuan's speech lasted not very short, about three hours, and it was not very impassioned or emotional, more like a leader's speech at an ordinary meeting. However, the different status, experience, and history make the effect completely different. After the conversation ended, the soldiers and civilians who had been in the square for a long time did not slack off, and still broke out into thunderous applause.
At this time, Xiao Xuan still seemed a little unconfident, is there really an order in the world that can maintain healthy operation for a long time? Not necessarily, I'm afraid Even if he has made various amendments to the traditional democratic constitutional mechanism, stipulating that his successor can only run at the age of 22 to 35. By strengthening the monarchy's term of office for 20 years, at most 40 years, some of the ills of traditional democracies will be addressed, and two-thirds of the election and media systems will be controlled by the monarch to balance possible populist forces.
But in the end, Xiao Xuan was relieved, because the times were already different. What about order and even regime change? Modern China has not been without changes in social order and even system changes from the Eight-Nation Coalition in the year of Gengzi to the 21st century, but the technological and economic development prospects of the industrial age, which are completely different from the agricultural era, will eventually make the "cyclical law" less worthy of concern.
"Holy! It's getting late, it's time for dinner... At this time, a girl beside Xiao Xuan said respectfully.
Since the turmoil many years ago caused Xiao Xuan to lose many of his former relatives, that girl is the intimate person around Xiao Xuan who was selected.
"I seemed to be a little too prepared before the speech, and I'm not hungry now, hehe. Let's go back to the room and rest first... Xiao Xuan said with unprecedented relief.
In the dream, Xiao Xuan once again came to a place he had never seen before, and he didn't know if there was a new mission from heaven to him.
(End of chapter)