"Your Majesty, this conservative party said among the people that what our imperial court did in Korea was not authentic, and that it was unkind and unjust to allow the army of our subject country to brutalize Japanese women and children outside. Moreover, we are asked to deal with the armies of their subject countries so that they cannot continue to maim women and children. The staff officer of the chamberlain said.

Wang Guorui listened to the report, and then asked: "What do the people think, do they believe the words of the Conservative Party?" ”

"Yes, the people are also very dissatisfied with this kind of cruelty to women and children. Of course, they were dissatisfied with the armies of those subject countries, and many of the people thought that since we were the suzerainty of Korea, we should have the right to govern them. And since those people are all citizens of our subjects, why can't we deal with them? Therefore, they hope that our court will arrest all the subject armies that killed innocents indiscriminately, and then punish them severely. It seems that the common people are not very supportive of their killing of Japanese women and children. ”

Wang Guorui sighed and shook his head at this, obviously because this people really didn't understand these things. Because for many Chinese, or for ordinary people, their understanding of good and evil simply stays on those ordinary emotional feelings. They think that the mercenaries are indeed wrong to kill those Japanese women and children. In fact, if Wang Guorui stood in the perspective of ordinary people, he might also think that this was cruel and ruthless. But in many cases, as an official and a national leader, you can't think like this with the thinking of ordinary people. Because ordinary people are more concerned about the safety of human lives and world peace. Since ancient times, the Chinese people have not liked war, but longed for peace. Whether it is a war within one's own country, or the government instigating a foreign country to fight, it is also disagreeable.

China's traditional culture is peace-loving, and it will not be resolved by force unless absolutely necessary. There are benefits to this. But there are also disadvantages. The advantage is that it is easier to rule, but the disadvantage is that their emotions are easy to accumulate, and once it breaks out, it is often an earth-shattering uprising. However, sometimes it is not possible to govern completely according to the will of the people, and if the public opinion is solicited on everything, it will certainly not work. After all, in fact, many ordinary people do not have the corresponding ability to govern and do not have the corresponding political vision. So if you let ordinary people do everything, what kind of absolute democracy. That's definitely not going to work. The so-called compliance with the will of the people is also to a certain extent, and it does not mean that it should be carried out 100 percent in accordance with the will of the people.

"Your Majesty, many ordinary people do not understand the significance of our people killing those Japanese women and children in Korea. They don't even understand why we are targeting the Japanese so much, they still think that Japan is only our subject country, and not our opponent at all. Coupled with the killing of women and children, it is really not good, so it is certainly inappropriate for us. And the people definitely have an opinion about us, especially for those mercenaries. What should we do? This incident really touched the sensitive nerves of ordinary people, and they did express sympathy for ordinary women and children during the war. This gives the Conservatives a reason to attack us, and they want to mobilize the people to send us troops to get the mercenaries back. ”

Wang Guorui asked, "Haven't we already explained?" Can't we interfere with the other side's judicial sovereignty? ”

"There is no way, the people still think according to the past, they think that North Korea is our subject country, so we should have the right to control them."

Wang Guorui also frowned, this is different from ordinary people and future generations. If you grow up in later generations, almost every citizen also knows a lot of rules in international politics. However, the cultural level and various thinking of the common people at the end of the Qing Dynasty still stuck in the rules of this time, thinking that China was the so-called upper country. You can give orders to your neighbors and make them obey 100 percent. But in fact, this kind of national thinking also existed more than a thousand years ago, and this kind of thinking actually has a very deep-rooted foundation.

This kind of pride in their bones, they still deal with it according to the past international relations. Therefore, they believe that China naturally has the right to meddle in the internal affairs of those subject countries at will, and even if they want to inherit the throne, they must have China to canonize them. But this kind of thing. Not in the future. This colonial mentality is bound to collapse in the future, and this has nothing to do with so-called military strength. With the awakening of nationalism in all countries of the world in the future, those countries with a certain cultural foundation and a certain civilization have also begun to awaken their national consciousness.

Once you have formed your own national consciousness, you may not be able to annex it. Even if the Yankees were powerful in later generations, didn't they dare to annex those other countries? Isn't it also managed by supporting some local people. And there is no direct rule. In the coming decades, Korea, Vietnam, and many other former Chinese vassals will also begin to awaken to their national consciousness, and the same will happen to colonies around the world, and this kind of vassal state will become obsolete. Colonialism can only be truly formed when the local people have not formed their own national consciousness, foreigners can colonize India, but they have not been able to colonize China quickly, that is because China is not as culturally and ideologically chaotic as India, and the national cohesion is much stronger than that India.

However, in the next few decades, national consciousness will rise in large numbers all over the world, and this so-called vassal state system will definitely collapse at that time, and this is a process that Wang Guorui cannot reverse. In the future, all countries should interact with each other on an "equal" basis, at least on the surface. In the future, great power and all kinds of hegemony will be scolded by others, not even the enemy, but your own domestic people.

"We can't do nothing about this kind of thing, but it's not appropriate to do it exactly what the people think. Our reason not to interfere with foreign judicial sovereignty may be a reason for Westerners, but for our domestic people, they are not a reason. They are now in the process of alternating between old and new ideas, and the vast majority of the people have not been able to get in touch with new ideas in a timely manner, so they naturally still measure our international relations according to the thinking of the past, and they still use the thinking of the past to measure the international situation. In this way, I am too busy not to interfere with the reasons of foreign judicial sovereignty, but I am unable to convince them. This is like a chicken and a duck, and the two sides have not talked about it at all. I and many people in the people, their thinking is still stuck in the past thinking, and our thinking is more advanced, so we can't say that we can go together at all! ”

"It seems that I have to let people carry the black cauldron! Kick the North Korea out and let them go and draw fire for us. Didn't the people think they were all our subjects? Then we will let North Korea stand up against us, so that we will have no reason to interfere with them. Wang Guorui said.

On the North Korean side, the news was received, and then Jun Ji-hyun's father received a telegram from Wang Guorui.

"Mr. Quan, the emperor has sent a telegram asking you to issue a telegram, and then announce that you are no longer a vassal state of our China."

"What? Let's declare that it is no longer a vassal state of China? ”

Those Korean nobles were almost scared, weren't they letting them find their own death? Now is the time for them to hope that Wang Guorui will support them, and at this time, they actually let them declare that they are not a vassal state of China, isn't this a "great rebellion"? North Korea has been a vassal state of China for a long time, and they still expect Wang Guorui to support them, but now they actually want to declare that they are not a vassal state of China, isn't this looking for their own death? Moreover, some of their nobles still expect to be able to obtain the throne of the king of Korea by relying on their daughters, but now they want to declare that they are not subject countries of China, isn't this their own death?

They can't wait to be Wang Guorui's lackeys now, how can they dare to say such a thing publicly? If you are not a vassal state of China, they will not dare to lend them courage!

"Rest assured, it will be all right. In the future, the emperor will still treat you as a vassal country. It's just for you to openly fool some people, just to make a superficial statement. You should also learn about the future trends. According to what the emperor said, the future development trend is to get along with each other on an equal footing, rather than doing anything who is a subject country, understand? Wang Guorui's representative said.

However, the faces of those Korean nobles were still not very reassured, because they had been a vassal state of China for many years, but suddenly they did not become a vassal country, which made them very uncomfortable.

However, Wang Guorui really intends to give up North Korea in name, because this huge vassal system in China's history may have been glorious in the past, but it may be a burden today. Colonies are not bigger than ever, and it is not better to have more colonies in name, sometimes more colonies in name will bring a lot of political risks to your country. Especially since they're likely to drag you in, which is not appropriate. The huge colonial system may end up dragging itself down.

"The emperor really won't really give up on us? If the emperor gives up on us, then we really have no hope! ”

"It really won't, the emperor won't! If you don't believe me, we can sign some more agreements that are a commitment to you. That reassures you, right? (To be continued.) )

PS: Tragedy, it's been reviewed again, I'll change it right away, I hope it will pass as soon as possible!