Chapter 200: Heroes Have No Regrets (2)
Dongfang Hao said: "At a young age, he learned to speak as an adult, okay, then I'll talk about it! I don't know the specific details, but I only remember that Ning Yiwu's father controlled the military power of the empire back then, and it was the "Star Moon Empire" at that time The generalissimo of soldiers and horses, at that time, the alien race took advantage of the internal and external troubles of the Xingyue Empire, the army was pressing, and the situation was extremely critical, Ning Yiwu's father planned to personally lead the northern expedition, but in the end he was stopped by a group of old guys, plus the mediocre monarch at that time listened to the slander, so he planned a palace coup d'Γ©tat and seized the military power of Ning Yiwu's father at a banquet!"
When Dongfang Xue heard her father say this, her face was full of astonishment, and she said, "There is such a mediocre king, no wonder that the Star and Moon Empire is going to perish!
Dongfang Hao saw his daughter so indignant, looking at the vast night sky, Thinking of this kind of thing, his heart was also angry, he sighed, and said: "Yes, in this case, when my Heavenly Domain culture is so crisis, they still have to think about this kind of nest fighting, you can imagine how incompetent the upper echelons of the Star Moon Empire were at that time!"
Dongfang Xue was also angry in her heart, and said: "Isn't this equivalent to cutting off one's own arm? The alien army is pressing the border, but they have deprived Ning of the military power of the seniors, and the upper echelons of the empire are still fighting in such a crisis situation, isn't this equivalent to burying the culture of our Heavenly Domain? This is disregarding the safety of our people in the Heavenly Domain, do they want to let time go back to the hell like five hundred years ago?"
Dongfang Xue understands that hell five hundred years ago, the people of the Heavenly Domain were driven by these aliens around them as slaves, and they used the lives of the people of the Heavenly Domain to refine the blood pool at every turn, it was a hellish era.
After all, she is the daughter of Dongfang Hao, a true righteous person, and her mood is naturally different from that of ordinary women.
Dongfang Hao heard his daughter's indignant words, but his eyes suddenly became solemn, and he said with a straight face: "Your indignation, of course my father understands, but things may not be taken for granted, it may also be that the king has been treated as a puppet since he was a child, so he wants to take this opportunity to become famous! After all, this is a rare opportunity for him to establish absolute imperial authority in the imperial army!"
His tone was full of irony, because he had suffered a lot due to the darkness of the Star-Moon Empire since he was a child, and he was even more disgusted with the mediocre emperor to the core.
For this kind of imperial family, Dongfang Hao has never had any mercy, there was a down-and-out prince who wanted him to repay his grievances with virtue, that is, he wanted him to take him in, but he unceremoniously assassinated this prince, just to relieve the evil breath in his heart back then.
This incident should have been the most cruel thing he did when he was young, because the prince came to him with scars all over his body, and even knelt down and begged him.
Dongfang Xue heard her father's sarcasm and cooperated: "So, this mediocre king deprived Ning of his seniors' military power, is it reasonable?"
Dongfang Hao was not in a hurry to answer this girl directly, but asked rhetorically in another way: "If the king is replaced by you, the military power is not in your hands, and all the military affairs of the empire are controlled by an old minister, how will you feel in your heart as the king of a country?"
Dongfang Xue was dumbfounded for a while, and after a long time, she replied: "If you put yourself in your shoes, it is indeed a little uncomfortable, at least I am very unhappy in my heart, after all, I am also the emperor of the empire!"
Dongfang Hao said: "Therefore, everything has a reason for him, but child, you have to remember that this kind of reason can never become a flaunt of justice!"
Dongfang Xue was stunned by her father's sudden warning words, touched the ends of her hair, and asked curiously, "What does my father mean by this?"
Dongfang Hao stroked the vicissitudes of his white beard, and said slowly: "The meaning of this sentence is that anyone has a reason to do everything, and this reason seems to be reasonable, for example, an assassin went to assassinate innocents, and the money he got was in the end for filial piety, which doesn't seem to be wrong, but it can never be right! For example, the last emperor of the Star Moon Empire, this is like this, from his point of view at that time, of course he had a good reason to deprive Ning of his military power, after all, Ning had been in power for ten years, of course he was unhappy, so he was unwilling to miss such an opportunity, but he forgot a little! Therefore, he was wrong, no matter how good the reason was, his mistake could not be erased. β
Dongfang Xue listened to her father talk so much in one breath, and suddenly sighed in her heart, and continued to ask, "What did you forget?"
Dongfang Hao said: "That is, he did not distinguish the priority of the contradiction, at that time, the invasion of foreign races, as a king, as the king of the empire, the core of the contradiction he faced was not whether his royal power was divided, but should think about what should be done to unite the hearts of the people of the Heavenly Domain, to resist the invasion of the alien race, so that our Heavenly Civilization will continue to be inherited, instead of taking this opportunity to deprive Ning of the military power of the seniors, as you said, he is tantamount to self-destruction in doing so." β
Dongfang Xue completely understood what her father meant, but she suddenly had a new question in her mind, and said, "If my father was the emperor of the Star Moon Empire, what method would my father use to deal with these two contradictions?"
When Dongfang Hao heard this, he had to praise this girl for her quick thinking, but she didn't answer her question immediately, but asked rhetorically: "Which two contradictions?"
Dongfang Xue thought for a while, integrated what she wanted to say in her heart, and then said slowly: "Put yourself in your shoes, the first contradiction is naturally that my father is the king of the empire, I mean, if my father is the last emperor of the Star Moon Empire, and my father wants to control absolute military power, he can't miss this opportunity to be neutral and powerful in the army, but this kind of practice will create an estrangement with a minister like Ning Laoshang, and the estrangement will produce contradictions, and the contradictions will allow the real enemy to take advantage of the loopholes." β
Dongfang Hao said: "That's right, what about the second contradiction?"
Dongfang Xue said: "The second contradiction, that is, what my father said, the situation we faced at that time was that the alien race gathered the surrounding tribes and invaded my heavenly domain on a large scale, causing the Empire Building to shake, in that case, if my father, as the last king of the empire, deprived Ning of the military power of his predecessors, it would undoubtedly destroy the Great Wall, simply put, it was the contradiction between the empire and these barbarians, and this contradiction daughter called the second contradiction!"
Dongfang Hao followed her thinking and thought about the question, and said: "Although the words are a little vague, but in general, there is still some truth in the two contradictions you said, so what do you want to say?"
Dongfang Xue said: "I want to say that if my father is faced with such two contradictions that cannot be unified, how will my father choose?"
Dongfang Hao heard the meaning of this girl's words, this is this girl testing herself, but he didn't answer in a hurry, but asked rhetorically: "If it were you girl, how would you make a choice?"
Dongfang Xue was stunned for a long time, she didn't expect her father to make such a rhetorical question, and she thought about it for a long time, and then she returned: "How can a young man like me come up with a way to get the best of both worlds, these two contradictions can't be reconciled at all!"
"Why can't you reconcile?" Dongfang Hao asked with interest.
Dongfang Xue replied in an orderly manner: "For example, if my father was the last monarch of the Star Moon Empire at that time and did not deprive Senior Ning of his military power, then Senior Ning would definitely use this time to resist foreign invasion and once again establish greater prestige in the empire, which is definitely not good news for a king, so that in the future, even if Senior Ning takes the initiative to return power to his father, he may still be opposed by Senior Ning's subordinates." β