"Father, the people from the Chamber of Commerce are here."

Lin Ruwen walked into the study outside the forester, looked at his father's straight back, and said respectfully.

"Hmm...... Here we are......" The forester leaned back on his wooden chair and did not move, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate, "let our convoy set off with them, and be sure to help them get their goods to the place." ”

"Yes." Lin Ruwen nodded, and when he was about to leave, he hesitated, turned around again, and said with some reluctance, "Father, do we really want to do this...... Those...... It's ...... after all."

Lin Ruwen, who was leaning on the wooden chair and closing his eyes, opened his eyes, "Ruwen, when did you start caring about the lives of those monkeys." I should have told you before...... Chamber of commerce...... For the already decaying and degenerate Great Wei...... Does it mean anything! ”

Lin Ruwen lowered his head and said, "The child knows, you said that the owner of the Chamber of Commerce ...... The nobleman...... The resources and wealth in his hands can gradually bring countries back on track that have strayed from their paths. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Ruwen's heart inexplicably swelled with courage, and he raised his head to look at the forester on the wooden chair, "But...... The children still felt that what they had planned in the Kenbin Forbidden Area was too bloody and brutal. Although you haven't talked about that noble person in detail with the child, judging from the behavior of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kenbin Forbidden Area today, I'm afraid it's not a good one......

"Of course I do." The forester chuckled and interrupted his son's words, like an elder laughing at an immature child. He stood up and slowly paced around the room, walking to a picture scroll hanging in the study, the content of which was roughly similar to the one hanging in the small building where he had met Shi Cheng last time, and it was several young men in military uniforms. However, instead of an oasis, the background of the painting is replaced by a field, and in the distance of the field, there are several huts of the north-west land breeze and a long canal.

The forester stroked the scroll lightly, and then said: "Ruwen, for my father to know that you like to read history books on weekdays, you should also know a lot about the history of the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty." ”

"Don't dare." Lin Ruwen didn't dare to be arrogant in front of his father, "Children read history books mostly out of interest, so they only dare to say that they know a little bit about it." ”

"That's enough." Lin Yuanwai said, "Then you should also know that the things that the Chamber of Commerce did in the Kenbin Forbidden Area are actually nothing in our founding history." ”

"Father!" Lin Ruwen was shocked, "Is this statement a little ......?"

The forester said to himself: "Today, you will still treat the rainforest people as human beings, but in the early days of our country, the skin on the natives was just a piece of goods. A complete Aboriginal skin, presumably ...... Not...... About 300 wen, almost the income of a middle and lower family for two months at that time. That Tongbao was much more valuable than it is now. ”

"Father......" Lin Ruwen's body trembled a little, and he wanted to signal his father to stop talking, but he couldn't raise his hand.

The forester looked at his son and said with a smile: "What, do you think I'm criticizing something?" That's wrong. What I tell you is that without this bestiality, the empire would not be where it is today; Without the blood and sweat of the natives, there would be no foolish men and women of the empire who spent time in the teahouse and displayed all kinds of strange theories! It's just that most of today's Wei people, and even today's Hanyue people, have forgotten this kind of bestiality, or rather, they don't dare to face up to the past history. ”

"Besides, we've forgotten too many other things...... "The forester sighed to himself again, "Ruwen, my father never shy away from talking about my experience in the battle of Nanyang Island in front of outsiders...... Rather, it was those days in the Chita prisoner of war camp that cleared my head a lot. ”

"For the first time in a prisoner of war camp, I was faced face to face with a group of Chitas, who before the outbreak of war, were only enemies across the sea, far away and close in front of me."

"After really getting along with those Chita guards for a while, I realized that those Chita people are far from being as ignorant, insensitive, and only submissive under the whip as described in the domestic newspapers, allowing themselves to become cannon fodder for tyrants; On the contrary, they are witty, courageous, honorable, self-denial, benevolent and generous, but bloodless, down-to-earth and not empty talk...... Ruwen, when my father realized this, I only felt that my perception of the world in my heart was completely turned upside down. ”

"After being released and returning home, I read a lot of books for my father, and found that all these virtues were the qualities inherent in those once devout devotees of the Holy Venerables, which are unfortunately difficult to see in the subjects of the empire today, but they have made me see them in the enemy......"

The forester ignored his silent son, and he sighed heavily, "Therefore, the fiasco in the battle of Nanyang Island has long been doomed. ”

"So...... Father, you have ...... all these years"

"When I was released back to China, what I saw and heard in China almost made me despair of the future of the Empire. The Chita people are very smart, and they stopped after smashing the sphere of influence of the enlightened world in the North West Continent and the Quiet Sea, and did not take advantage of the victory to overthrow the enlightened order built by the empire in the whole world in one fell swoop, but concentrated on consolidating the sphere of influence that had been included in their hands, which also made those diaper dolls in the empire who were frightened after the defeat of the North and West Continents have regained their illusions, thinking that even if the Chita people were lucky to win for a while, they did not dare to challenge the empire's heritage and prestige after all, Then, like an ostrich with its head buried in the ground, he went on to play the blasphemous game of misinterpreting the Scriptures and the divine will of the Holy Lord! ”

"Therefore, after the defeat of the Northern and Western Continents, the empire was not without people of insight who wanted to reform the status quo, but because the Chita deliberately stopped moving forward, those reform efforts ultimately failed in the face of great resistance...... There are too many people who are lucky and still want to live the old days. ”

Lin Ruwen was silent again, these words, his father said these words to him for the first time.

"Don't look at the current empire, it seems that the world is still singing and dancing, but if one day, the Chitas, Lucers, and even the Elamites start to act again, what are we going to do? If the Empire is defeated again, where will we lose next? Is it Yamabarazu? Is it the Southern Wilderness? Is it Cold Moon Continent? And even our own territory? ”

"Eventually, in desperation, I met that one...... The proprietor of the Chamber of Commerce......" Speaking of this, the old eyes that had become dim outside the forester flashed a little light again, "He is one of the few noble people I have met since I returned to China, and what is even more rare is that he still retains the kind of beast nature that belongs to the ancient pioneers, so, in my opinion, he can change this country." I'm sure he can do that. ”

"Father...... These are the first times you've spoken to me......"

"Ruwen, the knot in my father's heart is not something that can be untied by chatting with others, only by letting me see the change of reality can I cure my heart disease......"

……

The night passed, a new day came, before noon, Xu Fengshi came on time and knocked on the door of Shi Cheng's residence, and the agreed time to leave was up.