The carriage stopped in the garden, and Yang Tong instructed him to watch it carefully, so the inner supervisor in the morning has been standing until now. Li Xiang saw his pitiful appearance, so he asked him to find some subordinates to come over, and by the way, he could go to have a meal. The inner prisoner thanked him and left.

Yang Tong rushed into the carriage again, regardless of Li Xiang and Dai Xuan. The two of them were also bored, so they sat aside and started chatting.

At first, I talked about today's food, and slowly talked about the officials who came to the birthday banquet today.

Li Xiang had been in the back kitchen, and when he came out, the officials had already finished their gifts, and he didn't have time to pay attention to who was there, so Dai Xuan told him in general.

Li Xiang found out that although there were many people here, they were all people who wanted to speculate, and they took advantage of this opportunity to contact Shangguan more, or show their faces in front of everyone, and win everyone's attention, and there were very few people who really had real talent and real learning.

Li Xiang shook his head helplessly, and Dai Xuan said curiously: "You are so young, how can you do anything, people say that you are a god in the sky, and when I see it today, even I believe it." ”

Li Xiang laughed and said, "Immortals? Who has seen it? Pointing to the sky with his finger, he said with some emotion: "Most of the people who believe in the gods are unable to accept the current life, or are not satisfied with the current life, and have no way to change, so they can only rely on the gods to help, which is just a kind of psychological comfort." ”

looked at Dai Xuan again and said: "If there were really immortals, seeing this kind of scene in the world, I would have been angry to death." ”

Dai Xuan looked at Li Xiang with some surprise and asked, "You dare to speak like this, it's really bold!" ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "I am bold and only talk about it, and I have never done anything that hurts the heavens and reason." But if you look at the people who came, they shouted how respectful they were to the heavens, but in fact, there were a few people in their hearts who were in awe of the heavens. ”

Thinking about the suffering of the people and the extravagance of the officials, Li Xiang shook his head and said: "Heaven is a talisman in their mouths, and the gods are also their servants." They are in charge of a people, and who really knows what the people need? They live a prosperous life, but the people are in dire straits, and they will say that this is the arrangement of God, life and death, and wealth is in heaven. ”

Dai Xuan had never heard such an argument, and he didn't know how to answer with his mouth wide open.

Li Xiang continued: "In their hearts, immortals are always servants used to protect themselves and their lives in critical moments, who has really considered the feelings of immortals." They often say that there are gods three feet above their heads, if there are any of them, will they still do those things that fish and flesh the people and bring disaster to the country and the people? Aren't you afraid that the gods will come down and clean them up? ”

Li Xiang talked eloquently, but Dai Xuan's heart was surging, and Li Xiang's words seemed to have found a new world for him. In this era, people believe in ghosts and gods, and also believe in the existence of retribution. If Li Xiang's words were said in public, he would be attacked immediately.

Dai Xuan is different, he came from a humble background, he also learned fighting skills when he was a teenager, and fantasized about being a ranger, but later found that there were too many people who needed to be saved, and it was impossible to rely on his own strength, so he began to study hard, and it took five years to get famous, and Yang Guangfeng He went to the Yue Wangfu, until now.

As he grew older, he saw all kinds of officials in the palace, and he himself was a little skeptical about whether this choice was correct. Looking at the ugly faces and shameless behavior of those officials, Dai Zhou could only look up at the sky, looking forward to the day when God would open his eyes and take these people away.

Once wanted to leave the Yue Wangfu and return to the market, at least the sword warrior was more comfortable than being half-dead like this, but Yang Tong was a good boy and treated him very well, but he hesitated for a while, so he stayed until now.

Hearing Li Xiang say this, he asked, "You don't believe this, so what do you believe in your heart?" ”

Li Xiang looked at Dai Guan's eyes with some confusion and some expectation, and said with a smile: "In fact, no one knows whether the heavens and immortals exist or not." The only thing that knows, even if they exist, doesn't help us do anything useful. ”

Seeing that Dai Xuan still didn't understand, he said: "God and the gods are a kind of sustenance in the hearts of the people, but in the hearts of the officials, they are people who are used, they will tell the people what they think and want to do through what the gods say, so that they know that this is the right thing to do, it is the arrangement of God, and let the people willingly obey the command." ”

Dai Xuan began to nod, and said as if he didn't understand: "Yes, do the people really believe it?" You don't have a god in your heart? ”

"The people have no way not to believe, they can't fight against fate, they just live at the bottom, and only by relying on the faith of the gods can they struggle to live! I also have immortals in my heart, they can see it, they can contact it, they can help me, they are the loveliest, but also the hardest. The gods in my heart are the people! ”

"Well, that's a good point!" I don't know when Yang Tong stood behind the two of them, and when he heard Li Xiang speak, he applauded.

The two got up, and Yang Tong said: "I really didn't expect you and Mr. Dai to have such thoughts, if my father could hear it, how good it would be!" ”

Li Xiang smiled: "You must not let your father know these words, otherwise we will all die." Dai Xuan also nodded. Yang Tong was puzzled and asked why? Li Xiang replied: "The emperors are all true dragon emperors, and they are all immortals, we say that immortals, Your Majesty will not kill us all!" ”

Yang Tong suddenly realized, smiled apologetically, and then sat aside and said: "I'm eleven this year, and I still don't understand many things, I want to ask the two of you, hoping to tell me the most authentic answer." ”

Li Xiang glanced at Dai Guan, and felt that the next question was a little heavy, Dai Zhou said: "King Yue is birthday today, and Dai Zhou doesn't have any gifts to give, so I will give the thoughts in my heart to King Yue as a gift, hoping to help the prince relieve the confusion in his heart." ”

"Good!" Yang Tong said with some excitement: "Today, no matter our official position, no matter how big or small, we are just three ordinary people, and it is also happy to speak freely once!" After speaking, he saw that there were still many palace maids behind him, so he waved his hand and sent everyone away, and then said: "Although I am young and have been staying in Luoyang City, I still know that the world is full of smoke today, is my father really wrong?" Why do so many people rebel! ”

As soon as Yang Tong came up, he threw out such a big sensitive question, which surprised the two of them. Glancing at each other, Li Xiang said, "Let's not care about right or wrong, I want to know when the prince started thinking about this." ”

Yang Tong smiled: "Since Yang Xuangan rebelled, I began to think about it. My father tried his best every day to unify the world, conquer Goryeo, build canals, and try his best to help the people of the society, but the world is becoming more and more unpeaceful, why is this happening? ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "The prince has such an idea at such an age, Li Xiang really admires it." The imperial court has done a lot of things, and it is indeed from a good direction, but the result often backfires, in fact, the answer is very simple, after doing so many things, what did the people get? ”

Yang Tong frowned and thought for a while, but still didn't know what to say, and looked at Li Xiang again. Li Xiangdao: "The people are not very demanding, they have food for three meals a day, whether it is good or bad, they have clothes to wear in spring, summer, autumn and winter, no need for brocade, they have work to do during the day, they have a house to sleep in the evening, and the health of their relatives and grandchildren is enough!" ”

He looked at Dai Zhou again and asked, "Has the imperial court done it now?" ”

Dai Xuan shook his head and sighed and said, "Where can you do it!" Even in prosperous capitals such as Luoyang and Daxing, there are many people who have no clothes and no food to eat, not to mention places that we can't see. ”

Yang Tong asked, "But my father has been trying to find a way to do these things, why can't they wait?" ”

"Because they don't see hope!" Li Xiang replied word by word.

"Hope is their desire to pray to God and worship Buddha, and it is their strength to live. Now they can't see hope, so they have to find a way to survive. Waiting for death, resisting is also death, then it is better to resist, at least there is a chance of success. That's why the world will be uneasy, and there will be more and more rebellions. Li Xiang analyzed.

"How can there be no hope? The canal was built to connect the north and the south, and the goods from the south went north, and the people saw more and better things, weren't they happy? Yang Tong was still a little puzzled.

Dai Xuan said: "Is this only what the prince sees? ”

Yang Tong nodded, not knowing what it meant!

"The prince saw all the good aspects, and he didn't think about how many people were used to build the canal and how much money was used. Ten rooms and nine emptiness for conscription, the north bank of the Yellow River, Hebei and Shandong, three households without men, this is a common thing, is this the hope that the people see? Dai Xuan was also a little excited.

"When there is no canal, every family can be self-sufficient, at least their lives are not in danger. After building a canal, the men in the family are gone, all their savings are spent, and they have to be exploited by officials, this is what they suffer, this is the hope that the canal repair brings them, they have no way to live, how can they not rebel? ”

Yang Tong's mouth was open, his eyes full of shock. He only knows how many benefits there are after the canal is repaired, but he doesn't know what he has lost in order to repair the canal.

Li Xiangye said: "This is not to mention the three expeditions to Goryeo, the two expeditions to the Turks, and the prime-age people in the north were basically conscripted, how many people died on the battlefield, how many families lost their pillars, and in order to survive, they had to rebel." ”

Yang Tong finally knew that what he thought was too simple, sat silently for a while, stood up and said: "The words of the two golden jades, Yang Tong has written it down, it's late today, I'm going to rest, you two are at your own convenience." After speaking, he walked outside a little melancholy.

Dai Xuan stood up and wanted to go over, but was pulled by Li Xiang and said: "It's time for him to think about it himself, in the emperor's family, there will be these troubles, understand it as soon as possible, and you won't be knocked down by the cruel reality, believe him!" ”

Dai Xuan looked at Yang Tong's thin figure, and suddenly felt a little pity for him in his heart.

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