The man cast his gaze on the stairs that Ji You had walked before, and was silent for a long time before he said: "You walked up all the way, and you must have seen everything in front of you. Those people are the people, and you and I are
He is an emperor. If the people do not exist, the king will not exist. But if the king does not exist, the people can still exist. The worst that can happen is to replace him with a new emperor, that's all."
"The question I want to ask is very simple. You are an emperor, and I am also an emperor, so what exactly is an emperor?" The man didn't say a word, and his aura only strengthened. Until the moment the final words fell,
The aura on his body has reached its peak. It is a terrifying imperial aura, showing his majesty!
What is an emperor? It seems to be a very simple question, but it is not that easy to answer. Because even emperors have their differences. Saints like Yao and Shun walked the holy way, which can be said to be the path of the holy way.
The emperors in Xia Jie and Shang Zhou were domineering, while King Wen of Zhou Jichang followed the path of benevolence. Each emperor was different.
"Only when you rule the world can you become an emperor." Ji You thought for a moment and then gave the simplest answer. If an emperor cannot rule the world, how can he be called a king?
"This answer is correct, but not enough." The man shook his head, not satisfied with the answer Ji You just gave.
"I want to tell you how to be an emperor, why don't you tell me how to be an emperor first?" Ji You looked directly at the man in front of her, thought for a while and then said.
The man was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Haha, it's interesting that you still ask me back. Anyway, you can see me here. It's fate. I just tell you my way to be an emperor, so what?"
"My way of being an emperor is to pacify the world, obey the destiny of heaven, and govern the four directions. Everyone in the world will respect me. I will lower the hearts of the people and make the people live and work in peace and contentment, and live in a peaceful and prosperous age! This is my way of being an emperor.
Tao!" When the man said this, his face was full of pride, and Ji You could tell from his expression that this guy did everything he said.
It's no wonder that even if this person is just a shadow, he can exude such a rich imperial aura.
However, after listening to this man's words, Ji You frowned slightly. After being silent for a long time, Ji You finally spoke: "Your way of being an emperor is a bit different from mine. Because you are already the best in the world.
, integrated with the common people, but alone, just alone."
"Oh?" The man showed a strange smile, waiting for Ji You's next words.
"Doing whatever you want is the only way to be an emperor." Ji You smiled slightly, and a strong imperial aura emanated from his body in an instant. When he spoke, there was a kind of arrogance all over his body, as if he was
Innately general.
"Nonsense!" The man was stunned for a moment, then shouted, "It seems that you are not only a subjugated king, but also a foolish king! As an emperor, shouldering the responsibility of the world, the country, the country, how can you do whatever you want? Your emperor's way
, it’s just a joke!”
"Yes, for thousands of years, everyone has said that Gu is a foolish king. But even so, Gu has never regretted it. If even the emperor cannot do whatever he wants, what is the use of the emperor? What Gu wants to do is what Gu wants to do.
No matter what the outcome is, I will not regret it at all." In his previous life, Ji You was King You of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor of the ages, but even so, he has never regretted it. If he can't even do what he wants to do, then he is not Ji You.
You, is no longer the King You of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
After hearing Ji You's words, a trace of anger emerged in the man's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "You are not an emperor if you do as you please. Where do you put all the people in the world?"
"If Gu had a choice, he would rather not be that kind of king. But Gu can't. Gu inherits the throne of his ancestors and rules the world, but the world is no longer the world that Gu is familiar with. Gu must do whatever he wants and do what his predecessors did not dare to do.
At that time, so what if he was called a foolish king? Even if he was a king who subjugated his country, so what?"
"As for the common people in the world, what does they have to do with Gu? If Gu can't even control himself, and can't even do what he wants to do, then how can he make them move forward? Perhaps, if they do that, in these thousands of years
Inside, no one would call Gu a faint king, but Gu has no face to meet his ancestors. If he wants to be a weak king, he would rather become a faint king that is reviled by thousands of people!" Every time Ji You spoke, what appeared in front of his eyes was the big picture.
The world of Zhou Dynasty is the beacon fire of Lishan Mountain, and the thousands of troops of Shenhou and Quanrong.
He didn't know if he was doing the right thing, and he didn't know if what he did was really the act of a foolish king, but he knew one thing very well, that is, everything he did was what he wanted to do.
Everything he did. At least, Guo Shifu and Yin Qiu, they never thought that they had done anything wrong. They all followed him, followed him, believed in him, and then died generously.
Is it wrong to depose the queen prince and be independent and praise Si?
Is there anything wrong with the Lishan beacon fire and the drama of the princes?
Is it wrong to fight a bloody battle to the death when a foreign enemy attacks?
Yes! Because Ji You ruined the entire Zhou Dynasty and burned the foundation of the previous kings, the kings established by Shen Hou and others were no longer the kings of the Zhou Dynasty. What he did wrong was that he followed his own will and could not see the overall situation clearly.
I don't know how powerful Shen Hou's ambition is. He would rather lead a wolf into the house than let Ji You sit firmly on the throne.
But he was right, because he did what he thought he should do. He abolished the queen and the prince because he did not want to be a puppet manipulated by Shenhou. He made Bao Si the queen because he loved Bao Si deeply and for
She can give her all.
He played with the princes with beacon fire because he wanted to see clearly the faces of these princes. He wanted to know whether the world could still belong to his Zhou Dynasty and how many of the princes in the world still respected him as King You of Zhou Dynasty.
As for dying in battle in the end, it was because that was what he wanted to do. He was unwilling to live in an ignoble way, just like Xiang Yu, the overlord who was born after him, refused to cross the Yangtze River...
"I..." The man paused for a long time, then raised his head to look at Ji You again. Compared with before, his eyes had some inexplicable changes.
"I understand, your way of being an emperor is more like a person, an ordinary and ordinary person. You have things you want to do, things you want to accomplish, and you only do what you want to do, and you are only selfish.
Talents are like you, but you are not an ordinary person, because you are more selfish, more arrogant, and more do whatever you want than them. What you do is what many people want to do but dare not do. You are a fool.
, a king who has subjugated his country, makes me yearn for him."
After another moment of silence, the man asked: "When you were an emperor, even though you were alone, you were not alone, right?"
"Gu has two close friends beside him, a woman who has conquered the country, and even though there are not many soldiers, they are always willing to follow Gu. Naturally, Guo is not alone." When Ji You spoke, Guo Shifu and Guo Shifu appeared in front of her eyes.
Yin Qiu's figure, the soldiers who fought with him until the last moment, and the beautiful figure that overwhelmed the country...
"Not bad, not bad!" The man nodded, as if he recognized Ji You, and said, "You passed. You and I are both emperors, but you and I are taking completely different paths. Even I don't.
I know exactly where you can go and what kind of scenery you can see, but I know that a guy like you will definitely remain standing. Even if someone can kill you, they can't knock you down."
Ji You looked at the man in front of him and smiled. He had indeed been killed, but he had not been knocked down. It was precisely because of this that he spent thousands of years in the Wangchuan River in exchange for
An opportunity to reincarnate with memories.
"You passed. I don't know where the emperor came from. I hope your emperor's way can take you to a more distant shore." The man was silent for a long time, and then walked aside to make way for Ji You.
.The light that originally blocked Ji You's progress also disappeared at this moment.
"It's just that you can't move forward now."
Ji You, who was about to take a step, heard this sentence, but froze on the spot and said, "Why?"
"Because the front no longer belongs to the place you should set foot on now. Every nine steps on the road you have walked before are equal to one step you have taken outside. Stepping here has answered my question and gained my approval.
You have already walked through the eighty-one steps you want to take, and you can try the road ahead after you pass all the Yingtian Pagodas outside."
These words made Ji You a little surprised, and she couldn't help but ask: "But Gu didn't feel anything on the steps in front. If so, how could the people before..."
Before he finished speaking, the man said: "Take a good look at what you are wearing. Your clothes and crown block everything on the steps in front of you. Although I have never seen such clothes, you can
These should be the clothes of an emperor, right? Without them, you wouldn't have gotten here so easily."
"Then if other people come here, will you ask them what an emperor is?"
"Of course not. Everyone has his own path. Different people come and show up. Because you are the emperor, that's why I came out. But I can see an emperor like you here, and I also feel that
Very good. Well, it's time for you to go back. The outside world belongs to you..." As soon as the words came out, the dazzling light directly enveloped Ji You's body, taking Ji You away from this place and back to where he was.