Emperor Guangwu did not show Zheng Yucong's worried anger, but smiled and said:
"General Xiang, you want to say that I am also a ruler like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, right?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't say anything, just lowered his head, picked up a piece of elephant bark and chewed it. Then he looked at him and grinned, which was regarded as acquiescence.
The elephant's trunk is the elephant's trunk. Emperor Guangwu's inconspicuous table contained all the "eight delicacies of the mountain" in the Manchu-Han banquet: hump, bear paw, monkey brain, orangutan lip, elephant's tail, leopard fetus, and rhinoceros tail.
, Deer tendons. Xiang Xiaoqiang had never eaten any of them in Nanming. This time I tried Guangwu’s. If you don’t try it, you won’t eat it. I will seize the opportunity to try it all.
Emperor Guangwu looked at Xiaoqiang's "poor" look and couldn't help but smile sarcastically, feeling a great deal of satisfaction for his self-esteem.
He smiled lightly and said:
"It's not surprising. Not only you, but also many people who wrote articles in Nanming newspapers and Western newspapers compared me to the three of them. But neither you, General Xiang, nor they understand that I am the same as the three of them.
The fundamental difference between dictatorial politicians. Hitler, Mussolini
, Stalin’s people, their rule is destined to be short-lived. I can make a prediction here: among the three people, the shortest rule will be Mussolini, followed by Hitler, and the longest rule will be Stalin. Of course, I say
It does not include sudden illness, assassination and other unexpected situations."
Xiang Xiaoqiang chewed a chewy piece of elephant plucking in his mouth, without raising his head, but listening with his ears. Hearing this, he was very surprised. For a moment, he even suspected that this guy had also traveled through time. It is now 1936, but Guangwu made it
The judgment is surprisingly consistent with the subsequent facts. Mussolini was arrested by the King in 1943 in a coup.
He was executed by the guerrillas in 1945, and his naked body was hung in the square, which was the first to end his rule; Hitler committed suicide by drinking a bomb in 1945, and was burned into coke after his death, and his skull was placed in a glass window for people to see, which was the second to end his rule; Stalin was the second to end his rule.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1953. After his death, his grave was dug up and his body exposed, marking the end of his rule.
Although Xiang Xiaoqiang just lowered his head and ate silently, Emperor Guangwu seemed to see the surprise in his heart and said with a smile:
"The general must be curious about why I judge like this. My basis is simple: soil. I don't deny that I am also a dictator. You see, I am very calm. I am a dictator. But dictatorship also needs soil.
Among the three countries, Italy's soil is the least suitable for dictatorship. This land gave birth to the earliest representative democracy in mankind - the Roman Republic. In the late Middle Ages, this land became
It was the birthplace of the Renaissance. The Renaissance in turn triggered the European Enlightenment Movement in the 18th century. It can be said that the revival of the Western world began in Italy. And now the United Kingdom, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland...including you
Nanming, your democratic system of government, as well as the 'liberty, equality, fraternity' and other things in your minds, all originated from the European Enlightenment.
"All of this has created the deep-rooted national character of the Italians: enthusiasm, shrewdness, and a dislike of being restrained. You can easily make the Germans live under a certain uniform order, and you want the Italians to endure this neatness for a long time.
It is much more difficult to achieve unified order. Look at the general, this is soil. And the soil of Germany
It's much better. Prussia has been under a Spartan-style, national-militarized system for a long time. The people have long been accustomed to this uniform way of life and are accustomed to a uniform way of thinking. This has been integrated into the German people.
Sex. The loyalty of the Italians to Mussolini is far less than the loyalty of the Germans to Hitler.
"Germany was the main target of the Treaty of Versailles. Even though it was bankrupt, it had to pay for the entire European war. Coupled with the Great Depression, it made matters worse... So even though it had a short-lived democratic government after the war
, but this period of democratic government left the Germans with
The impression is not so much freedom as hunger and humiliation...These conditions are not found in Italy. Therefore, the soil of Germany is a gift carefully prepared by God for Hitler. Germany is also destined to produce a Hitler.
If not Hitler, it would be someone else."
…
Xiang Xiaoqiang was already very interested in what he heard. He knew that Emperor Guangwu was a dictator, but he didn't expect that he was also a learned dictator.
Zheng Yucong was also fascinated by what he heard. He no longer picked up vegetables to eat, but looked at Emperor Guangwu intently and listened to what he said.
Xiang Xiaoqiang noticed that Zheng Yucong's eyes were wrong, and he was very unhappy. He kicked her to "wake up" the little girl. Then, he said with a smile:
"Your Majesty, what about Russia? Russia's soil must be the best."
Guangwu also nodded and smiled:
"Russia's dictatorship soil is of course the best. There were two major plagues in the European Middle Ages, one was the Black Death and the other was the Mongols. You Nanming people always say that we are Tartars and barbarians. Haha, okay, even if
We are barbarians, which also created the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong, and compiled the four
Ku Quanshu treated the Han people kindly with words and deeds, and achieved equality between the Manchus and Han people under the rule of "barbarians". The Mongols in the Middle Ages were the real barbarians. They began to destroy civilization in Asia and destroyed it all the way to Eastern Europe, leaving their ignorance and
Barbarism spread to most of Eurasia.
"The easternmost part of the Mongol Empire is called the 'Great Khanate', which is the 'Yuan Dynasty'. The westernmost part is called the 'Kipchak Khanate', which is the 'Golden Horde'. It is also called 'Russia'
This country was born on the land of the former Golden Horde. It was born in the most barbaric and ignorant part of Europe. This can be regarded as Russia's misfortune.
"Russia is at the easternmost point of Europe. For hundreds of years, neither the Renaissance nor the Enlightenment has penetrated Russia at all. Even Peter the Great used the most barbaric and brutal methods to learn from the West. Until the beginning of this century
, Russia is still a country of serfs. As a European country, a country composed of white people, it is still a country of serfs. This can be regarded as the greatest irony of God to the white people.
"But, again, this is the best gift God gave to Lenin and Stalin. Ignorant citizens are always the dictator's favorite. I also like it, haha. Ignorance means not being able to think, and it means being easy to believe.
Anything. You can't imagine that British people, French people, American people, Dutch people, or even German people in the 20th century would believe that there are
'Utopia'. But the Russian people in the 20th century believed that the Russian people were more ignorant, poorer, and more eager to have their destiny changed by a myth. So, when the Bolsheviks described a myth for those ignorant workers, sailors, and serfs,
After Utopia, they believed it. Therefore, changing destiny has forever become a myth for Russia.
"Compared with fascism and Nazism, the Bolsheviks can be said to be the most mature system. Its theory was born earliest, and it has a process of improvement and evolution of nearly a hundred years. It also has the most complete organizational system and the most alluring ultimate goal.
, the method of self-reinforcement is also the most violent, and it can be said to be the most evolved one. These are incomparable to the other two, which are just the products of a madman's brain, and are just newborns in front of it.
"The Nazis were the Nazis of Hitler alone, and the fascists were the fascists of Mussolini alone. Once these two people die, it is difficult to say whether the countries they left behind can continue to have these two doctrines. But the Bolsheviks are not Stalin alone.
The human Bolsheviks have a life of their own. Since they were not born with the birth of Stalin, they will not die with the death of Stalin."
…
Zheng Yuqing listened with rapt attention, and then boldly interjected:
"Your Majesty, are you so pessimistic?"
Guangwu laughed and said:
"Whether it is pessimistic or not depends on who it is. For the Russian people, for you, it is naturally very pessimistic. But for Stalin, or for me..."
He picked up a piece of rotten bear paw with a spoon, slowly stuffed it into his mouth, closed his eyes and tasted the most luxurious delicacy in the world. After a while, he swallowed it, and then continued to laugh:
"...That is the most optimistic and best thing. Hahaha."
Guangwu put down the spoon, picked up a wet wipe and wiped the corners of his mouth, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang and smiled:
"Isn't it? Doesn't your Queen Zhu Yourong envy me? Doesn't your Chief Minister Shen Rongxuan envy me? Or General Xiang, don't you envy me?... When Zhu Yourong wants to do something, he still has to do it.
Read the constitution to see how the cabinet looks
At that time, when Shen Rongxuan was scolded by the newspapers all day long and was scolded by the people who blocked the official residence and dared not go out, when Xiang General you were almost arrested and imprisoned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate over and over again because of some big shit.
When...don't you envy me? Huh?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at Guangwu's arrogant look and wished he could pounce on him and strangle him to death.
But he couldn't say "I'm not envious". If he said he wasn't envious, it would be a lie. He still had a smile on his face, but he was very angry inside. He wanted to say, "You can just do it, you can't do it for two months."
, but still held it back, and the words turned into:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, you don't seem to want to discuss the results with me, but you just enjoy the feeling of this kind of discussion. It can be seen that there is no one around you who dares to speak. Don't you think you are too lonely like this?
?Look, you don’t even want to enjoy the joy of discussing with others
, Isn’t it very sad that we have to go all the way to find someone from the enemy? And if Her Majesty the Queen wants to discuss any issue, there will always be a lot of ministers to discuss it with her, and even argue, it doesn’t matter if we argue until our faces turn red.
...Does this also make you envious of His Majesty the Emperor?"
Emperor Guangwu laughed and said:
"There is a saying that 'it is too cold to be in high places'. Since ancient times, the supreme person has been lonely. This is also a small sacrifice that must be made after gaining power. General, take a look, from ancient times to the present, how many people would rather sacrifice themselves for the supreme power."
Give up a safe life, give up your wife, children and children, even willing to
Pay the price of a narrow escape? As for the 'joy of argument', what is this small price? And among those who have gained supreme power, which one would rather hand over their power in order to get the 'joy of argument'?
? No, you can’t find any.
"Don't talk about your empress Zhu Yourong. From the time she was born to the time she grew up, that girl has never tasted the joy brought by the 'supreme power' for a day. Of course, there are a lot of people who dare to argue with her and blush because she is simply a victim.
The queen in a cage, her power is also the power in a cage."
Xiang Xiaoqiang thought silently in his heart:
"The supreme power in a cage" is a good description. Some people in later generations have said that the greatest invention of mankind is not the gunpowder printing compass, nor the airplane, cannon, automobile computer, but precisely a kind of "the supreme power in a cage."
System". It is precisely because of this invention that mankind has been able to escape the tragic cycle of repeated violent revolutions and periodic self-destruction. It has been possible for mankind's wealth and technology to accumulate at an accelerated rate in recent hundreds of years, and the industrial revolution has come into being.
, only then can everything in the hereafter come about.
Otherwise, it will never be possible to explain why human beings have experienced explosive development in the past few hundred years despite not having changed much for thousands of years. The progress of productivity is only an appearance. It is only a result, not a cause. It causes productivity to get rid of its shackles and fly free.
What is running is not the gold stolen from the Americas, but this "system that puts the highest power in a cage."
Otherwise, Zhu Yourong would not be the kind, gentle, elegant, and compassionate girl she is now, but would become a vicious woman like Empress Lu, Wu Zetian, and Ci Xi, whose desire for power is unlimited and their hands are stained with blood.
Of course, you can also find people who voluntarily put themselves in a cage "for the joy of arguing." However, such people are very rare. But once they appear, they will be recorded in the annals of history and will be infinitely respected by future generations.
For example, George Washington. After winning the Revolutionary War, whether in terms of actual power or huge prestige, Washington could become the king of the United States, enjoy the power in his hands for life, and then pass it on to his descendants.
But he only served as president for two terms, and he and his colleagues drafted a "Constitution", locked the supreme power in a cage, and went home to farm. It was this choice made by Washington two hundred years ago that led to the success of future generations.
The United States that is proud of the world. Otherwise, North America is at most a replica of South America. Anyone in the world in the future, even if he only knows one American president, it must be George Washington.
…
Xiang Xiaoqiang was considering whether to tell Emperor Guangwu this, when Zheng Yucong suddenly said with a smile:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, you must know the truth that 'water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it'. If you do this, aren't you afraid that one day you will end up like Louis XVI?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang took a breath, looked at Zheng Yucong, and marveled at how she could speak so powerfully. The heads of Louis XVI and his wife were cut off by a guillotine, which has become a nightmare for all monarchs for more than a hundred years. Xiao Nizi
Did you use this to stimulate Emperor Guangwu and make him faint?