Chapter 705 What does your ambition have to do with me?
Everyone in the royal family has the uncanny ability to foresee the future.
It's just that under normal circumstances, most of the time you can only see some fragmented fragments.
Only by paying a huge price can we see the entire line clearly and see through the cause and effect. This seems not to be a simple exchange of equal value, but also something that must be endured to win the trust of the people.
Of course, any smart person can deduce the reasons behind the fragments of the future that the eldest prince saw.
The industrial revolution, the liberation of productive forces, and the development and prosperity of culture all symbolize that more people will get rid of ignorance and be liberated from the land and day-to-day work.
They will learn to think and gradually demand more from this society and country.
When their demands cannot be met, revolution will break out.
Of course, the future that the eldest prince saw was only a possibility of the future, not an inevitability.
Even if it is the same transition to capitalism.
There is still a constitutional monarchy and even a capital system under the management of the monarch.
In the vast galaxy, the boundless universe, and the endless world, it is not uncommon for even civilizations that have reached the pinnacle of technology and productivity to still be managed by the monarchy system.
The sound of the train tracks rubbing against each other kept ringing in my ears.
The coastline in the distance has been completely blurred into a mass.
The tide in the dark night seems to have lost all its activity and surging energy during the day.
They linger there dimly, like the monsters that people fear in their dreams. They seem to swallow anyone who comes close to them into the cold tide, and then take them away mercilessly.
"Does Your Majesty know?" Lin Xi asked the eldest prince.
This question directly skipped the implicit solicitation of the eldest prince.
Lin Xi knew very well that the other party would not come to recruit him personally based on a book alone.
Books are just an excuse.
The real reason is that his current status is that he is the fifth son of Xiahou Mingde, and he is also the son who seems to have the most promise at the moment.
The eldest prince wanted to gain Xiahou Mingde's support.
So we must conquer Lin Xi first.
And Binhai Province partially overlapped with the third prince's fiefdom. If he conquered Xiahou Mingde, it would be equivalent to checking and balancing the third prince.
Facing Lin Xi's rhetorical question, the eldest prince knocked the bell on the table.
Then a large number of servants brought sumptuous dishes and drinks.
The dishes are a combination of Chinese and Western cuisine, as are the drinks.
Then some beautiful dancers began to dance in the spacious carriage.
These dancing girls are also a combination of Chinese and Western styles, with many different types of dance.
Even some of the dances, in Lin Xi's eyes, looked a bit weird.
It should be an abnormal state caused by the imperfect and incomplete combination of Chinese and Western styles.
This is obviously intentional.
He was hinting to Lin Xi that he did not resist opening up and development, let alone accepting some good things from the West.
The Xiahou family only rose to prominence after the Age of Discovery began.
Therefore, if in the future, the new emperor resists opening up and resists the exploration and expansion of the sea, then the interests of the Xiahou family will be greatly damaged. In other words, an emperor who does not refuse to accept foreign culture should be
What the Xiahou family expected.
"My father is very clear, but he believes that there are other possibilities. He intends to form a cabinet and then expand the number of cabinets to more than a thousand people, involving top people from various industries." The eldest prince said with a sarcastic face. He even
He didn't control his expression at all and made no effort to hide his resistance to this decision.
Any kind of authority will become bloated if there are more than three people making decisions.
And if a cabinet that seems to divide the emperor's power appears but has more than a thousand people, it will be an extremely bloated and incompetent so-called power organization.
Ultimately, their existence is like a fig leaf.
All rights will still return to the capable emperor.
The so-called rights, most of the time, are the qualifications for arbitration.
For example, there is a piece of cake that three people want to eat.
The person who divides the cake with a knife has the right.
The remaining two people were ruled and managed by him.
"Your Majesty's decision is correct." Lin Xi said.
The eldest prince sneered: "But he is not decisive enough. After all, my father is still old, and he has lost the vigor of his youth. Even if the cabinet has a thousand or ten thousand people... as long as it has the name of cutting off the imperial power,
There will always be someone who can take advantage of the situation, take charge of the cabinet, and then weaken the imperial power."
"But your book gave me inspiration."
"The nobles despise the common people, and the common people despise the barbarians, while the mixed-race barbarians are at the bottom. They do not belong to any party and have no belonging. This is a structure spontaneously chosen by society, and we can use this structure to improve people's hierarchy.
, more concrete.”
"Society is developing and times are progressing, but the class that people are born with will not change, because the interests it represents will involve all aspects of the entire country. Everyone is a vested interest, and they are also victims.
The royal family...the nobility, standing at the top of this hierarchy, cannot and cannot be replaced."
"It only takes thirty years... I only need thirty years, which is enough to build a perfect country, a country that will never be overturned."
Having said this, he looked at Lin Xi eagerly, and then said very profoundly: "Xia Houzun! Are you willing to help me? Help me to build such a perfect world together."
Lin Xi looked at the eldest prince.
I was not moved at all by his bold words.
No matter how high-spirited he was, he couldn't hide the bloody smell and filthiness in his words.
This filth... Even he, a demon, couldn't stand it when he heard it.
Demons only eat human souls.
But what the eldest prince wants is to enslave people's souls for generations to come.
"I'm sorry, Your Highness! I may have to live up to your kindness." Lin Xi refused directly, leaving no room for maneuver.
The eldest prince's expression was cold.
Several cold butlers were already standing at the door.
Judging from their positions, it only took one step for the sword to pierce Lin Xi's chest.
"We are approaching Jade Corner here. I heard that there are many Western barbarians here who are doing evil and causing chaos. Brother Xiahou, please be careful..." The eldest prince's eyes, hidden in the shadow of the candlelight, looked a little strange.
Instead, Lin Xi laughed loudly: "Your Highness... From the beginning to the end, you have talked about your ambitions and ambitions. However, what does all this have to do with me?"
"Also... this is Binhai Province, I am Xiahou Zun. My father is Xiahou Mingde..."
"Even Your Majesty, you must take care of my father's face."
"Before I came, I left a handwritten letter for my eldest brother. Your Highness might as well guess... what did I write?"
"Of course, your highness doesn't have to believe what I say. You think I'm just deceiving you... maybe it's true, but your highness... are you willing to take a gamble?"