Qiming 1158

Chapter 498 Do you dare to make an appointment with me?
The meeting continued, Su Yonglin talked about some key points of political work in the future, and listened to the relevant reports from the members.

When the meeting came to an end and Su Yonglin planned to end the meeting, Kong Maojie, a member of the Renaissance and a regiment instructor of a regiment of the White Army, raised his hand and asked a question.

"There's one thing I feel I have to say, and I can't put it off."

"You said."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"A little while ago, I counted the wounded and sick in the army, and I heard the voices in the army that you want to establish a new country and become the emperor, and this kind of voice is not small."

As soon as Kong Maojie said these words, several people raised their hands and said similar news they had heard.

It seems that this kind of sound is really not small.

Then everyone looked at Su Yonglin, hoping to get his true opinion from him.

Su Yonglin was silent for a while, then slowly opened his mouth.

"This question, when I was in Jinan, I convened some high-level personnel of our Revival Association to hold a secret meeting to discuss it. Before the Northern Expedition, I had expected this day, and my answer was very clear. If the situation requires me to do it. Emperor, I will do it."

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and you don't speak for a while.

Su Yonglin paced slowly with his hands behind his back.

"From the earliest emperor Qin Shihuang to now, the emperor has existed for nearly 400 years. The inertia of 400 years cannot be underestimated. Everyone who calms down troubled times will become an emperor. After a long time, people will naturally They will think that only the emperor can stabilize the world, and they need the emperor.

But in my opinion, the people who really need the emperor are not ordinary people, but scholars and bureaucrats. With the emperor, they can become officials logically, and then use the power assigned to them by the emperor to do whatever they want, and maintain this system until no more until it can't be sustained.

From a long time ago, our history has been a strange circle. One generation of people has calmed down the troubled times, proclaimed emperors, ruled the world, declined, perished, and chaotic times, and then another generation of people came out to calm down the troubled times.

Now, the person standing on the cusp of the storm has become me, and if I become emperor and pass on the throne, I can be sure that the country I build will be just as strong, decay, fall, mess for a while, and then reappear A person can pacify the troubled world, and then become the emperor. "

"Then why do you want to be emperor?"

It was Kong Maojie who asked the question just now and asked Su Yonglin: "You said that because of the emperor and unrestricted imperial power, there are high-class people who can do whatever they want, and in order to eliminate the high-class people, you worked hard. In this case, Why do you want to be king?"

"Because there are too few people like you who think you don't need an emperor to live a good life."

Su Yonglin gave him a clear answer: "The long reign of the emperor and the propaganda of Confucian scholars make people naturally think that there should be an emperor to rule them, and if there is no emperor to rule them, they may panic.

For example, you are a knight passing by a certain village. You see a bully in the village bullying the villagers. The villagers are miserable but dare not resist. You teach the bully, drive the bully away, and then Leaving gracefully, but you don't know, the villagers don't thank you, on the contrary they blame you. "

"What's the point of this?"

Kong Maojie looked astonished: "If you do a good deed, you still have to be blamed?"

"Yes, because you left after doing good deeds, and the bullies are not dead, they will come back, and then they will intensify their bullying of the villagers, and you have left, you have thought about the villagers after you left How are we going to deal with the comeback bullies?"

Kong Maojie was stunned for a while, then asked tentatively, "Then I stay? Continue to protect the villagers?"

"How to protect?"

"I am a knight, of course I can defeat bullies."

"And what if the bully brings more helpers from outside the village? What if you can't beat it alone?"

"I called on the villagers to resist with me."

"What if the villagers are too scared to join forces with you? What if they sit back and watch?"

"How...how could it be?"

"In the earliest days of the uprising, before we conquered the city of the Jin Kingdom, did the oppressed residents of the city unite and take the initiative to cooperate with us inside and outside the city?"

"This……"

Kong Maojie could not answer.

"People have not been educated, they don't understand the relationship and contradiction between the high-class people and cattle and horses, they can't read, they can't think, they only know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. At this time, the only thing they know is to help whoever wins. They don't offer to help you unless you win."

"I see."

Kong Maojie nodded slowly, and the surrounding people also nodded slowly.

Su Yonglin found a seat and sat down, and asked the others to sit down together, then he continued.

"Faced with such a group of people who only know how to seek benefits and avoid harm, as a knight from another village, what should you do to make them risk their lives to fight against the bullies with you?"

"I……"

"This is the reason why I want to be the emperor. Everyone knows that the emperor is a victor. The emperor has natural appeal and legitimacy, and can naturally make people obey orders. Those who oppose the emperor are naturally anti-thieves.

This is the easiest way to drive those who seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and there are too many such people around us, not to mention how many people in the new countryside we control really understand our philosophy, just say How many people in the army think I shouldn't be the emperor? "

Su Yonglin's explanation made everyone present understand this truth.

It's just that there are too few people who don't need the emperor, and there are too many people who need the emperor.

Being the emperor can make the newly established country quickly gain a firm foothold and embark on the road of development and growth, without worrying about precariousness.

This is the biggest benefit.

Su Yonglin put all of this in front of people so that they could see clearly.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages, as Su Yonglin sees it very clearly.

"Being an emperor has many advantages, but there are also many disadvantages to being an emperor. The most important thing is to absorb a large number of old officials and powerful gentry into the new court, and assign them power to do things, which will bring us a lot of resistance. , There are some things we have to endure.

However, this is also the price that must be paid to obtain benefits. There is no dual law in the world, and the lesser of two evils. This is the final conclusion I came to after weighing the pros and cons.
"However, being an emperor is not my goal. Being an emperor is a means to an end. Being an important minister of the country and holding important authority is not your goal, but a means for you to achieve your ultimate goal. I hope everyone knows this."

"Here."

They nodded in understanding.

"When I was the emperor, we should make full use of the cheap power to develop and expand our organization, attract more talents to enter, and gradually replace the old officials and powerful gentry with them, and finally realize a brand-new imperial court.

If you want to save the bullied villagers, the knights cannot do it alone. You must tell them why they resist the bully and why they can't continue to swallow their voices. Then teach them how to fight the bully, and let them know that their combined strength is any bully. Can't resist.

Let them learn knowledge, let them learn to organize, let them learn to fight, let them know that a single fight will never win a group organization, and they can eliminate any bully by joining forces!At that time, all the villagers are knights, so there will be no need for knights. "

Su Yonglin smiled and pointed to himself: "The emperor is no longer needed."

Su Yonglin's words deeply impressed the [-] people present.

Then, Su Yonglin said that he didn't think the time to become emperor was now.

Now he can't rashly proclaim himself emperor, because there is still a Southern Song Dynasty in the south. Proclaiming an emperor rashly now will make the Southern Song Dynasty lose all illusions and immediately treat him as an enemy, so he can't immediately proclaim the emperor and the Southern Song Dynasty as an enemy.

The time to become emperor was after the Jin Kingdom was completely hammered to death, in order to comply with prestige, stabilize people's hearts, and no longer worry about war on both sides. At that time, it was the best time to become emperor.

Before that, not only the Southern Song Dynasty, but also the Western Xia side, he had to deal with them, and give them an illusion that the Restoration Army would not be an enemy of them, and that everything could be turned around.

In this way, the new Liberation Army regime will gain time for stability and growth.

It was very late when the meeting ended. Su Yonglin let most of the people go first, leaving Zhou Chong and Kong Maojie behind.

"People who think they don't need the emperor are still relatively rare now, so you are a very precious kind of fire in my opinion, let me know that my investment and efforts have not been in vain, I am very happy.

You have to persevere, don't be dazzled and cover your eyes by being drunk with money. You have to resist this temptation, and you have to find ways to win more comrades who can support us. When most people think that the emperor is no longer needed, I don't have to be king anymore. "

Su Yonglin turned around and looked at Zhou Chong and Kong Maojie: "At that time, I will be very pleased."

"Aren't you going to be emperor forever?"

Young Kong Maojie looked at Su Yonglin, who was also young, and boldly asked: "I heard that the emperor is the most powerful person in the world, the emperor, who can do whatever he wants. Emperor, will you be drunk yourself?
Zhou Chong looked at Kong Maojie a little surprised, and was very surprised that Kong Maojie dared to ask this question.

How courageous!
But he also cared about it.

Su Yonglin stared at Kong Maojie for a while.

Kong Maojie, he was not the old rebel who came to Shandong with Su Yonglin, he was a native of Yizhou who followed Su Yonglin after recruiting soldiers in Yizhou after Su Yonglin arrived in Shandong.

At the same time, he is also the second batch of members of the Revival Society.

When Tian Guizi reported the list to Su Yonglin, he focused on Kong Maojie, so Su Yonglin still had some impression of him.

He was originally from a farmer, and his surname was Kong. He wondered if his ancestors had anything to do with the Kong family in Qufu.

But when it comes to his generation, it is obviously not related, otherwise, he will not be ignorant, and his family has only a few acres of thin fields, so he can live on a hungry and full meal.

After Su Yonglin led his troops to liberate the village where he was located, he divided the fields among the villagers, and the Kong family divided the fields. His father was grateful to Su Yonglin, so he let him join the army and joined the Shengjie Army at that time.

He was ranked second among his three brothers, so when he joined the army, his name was Kong Xiaoer, which was not conspicuous at all.

But this kid is really a bit of a genius. After three months of training, he not only learned basic military skills, but also knew more than 700 characters, which was the most among the recruits at that time.

After that, he fought bravely, was active in literacy, and was very active in learning cultural ideas. Therefore, he became the leader of the squad within a month, and then he became the leader. After the Hebei operation, he accumulated merits and was promoted to the battalion commander, and entered the training course of the Guidance Department. Advanced study.

In the training class, he showed his extraordinary talent in political work, and was noticed by Tian Guizi, who then talked to him and asked him if he would like to engage in political work.

Kong Maojie thought for a while and nodded in agreement, so he was transferred from the military command position to the political work position, and was promoted to regiment-level instructor a few months later.

Tian Guizi was very happy and helped him change his name to a somewhat cultural name, Mao Jie. People in the province always called him Xiao Er, which sounded rather unreliable.

In short, Kong Maojie is a rare talent, with a strong memory and a strong understanding ability. He is a genius. If he hadn't been discovered by the Restoration Army system, he would have spent his life facing the loess and turning his back to the sky to do farm work until he died. , where can he use his talents?

Looking at the courageous young man in front of him, Su Yonglin once again understood what it means to be "a thousand miles of horses are often found, but Bole is not often found".

Nearly [-] million people, how many geniuses?
There are many geniuses, but most of them are buried in the sea of ​​people without being discovered.

Kong Maojie is lucky, and there are many people who are as talented as him, who still face the loess and do farm work, or play in the mud with bare feet, and have not yet been discovered.

but……

It is too soon to be discovered.

So Su Yonglin laughed, patted Kong Maojie's shoulder heavily, and put his hand in front of him.

"Make a promise. On the day I end the existence of the emperor, you will take down the crown for me, strip off the yellow robe, and burn it. Are you willing... No, do you dare to make a promise with me?"

Kong Maojie obviously did not expect Su Yonglin to ask him that.

but……

What's so scary about this?

After walking down this road and doing this kind of thing, I don't plan to be afraid of anyone anymore.

No matter how vicious the high-class people are, they are also human beings. When people are killed, they will die!

As long as I hold the knife tightly, no matter how strong the superior person is, they can't make me kneel again!

Kong Maojie gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand, and gave Su Yonglin three high fives to make this agreement.

"Break this oath, heaven and man will be killed together!"

"Break this oath, heaven and man will be killed together!"

The two made an agreement, and looked at Zhou Chong, who was standing dumbfounded.

"Zhou Chong, come and be a witness. When that day comes, if you don't witness by the side, it will be counted."

Su Yonglin smiled.

"That's right, you have to be a witness. When that day comes, you will have to watch me completely burn the emperor's crown and yellow robe! There is no more emperor in the world!"

Kong Maojie looked at Zhou Chong fiercely.

Zhou Chong blinked, and it took a while to realize what he had witnessed.

"This...I...I know."

He swallowed hard, and made this oath that he thought he might never see the result.

but……

What if?
Does something that never happen really never happen?

(End of this chapter)