New cities are being built in full swing, and the Fire Nation's military-to-civilian transformation is going smoothly. After the disarmament, all talents and funds have flowed into the field of civilian technology. Civilian technology has developed rapidly, and the economy has recovered very well.
Zuko, the new king, is also supported by everyone. It is difficult for Azula to rebel now, but she will not give up.
For their siblings, their mother is always a pity. Especially for Zuko, his mother's disappearance made his childhood no longer beautiful. So he kept looking for his mother, and finally he found her.
Back then, his mother assassinated the old king and lived in seclusion as a commoner after leaving the palace. No one knew about her past. She was now accustomed to a poor life away from right and wrong, and would never return to the palace, even if her own
The son became the Fire Lord.
In the palace, husbands cannot be trusted, fathers cannot be trusted, and sons cannot be trusted, so it is safer for the people.
Faced with his mother's choice, Zuko could only respect it. However, after finding his mother, Azula disappeared and she continued to fight for her own status.
"Yes, people's ambitions will never end." Duran said that Azula is indeed getting braver as she fights. Although she is a selfish person, she will never stop.
"Don't just talk and don't do anything, but lend me the heavenly beings. As long as I have an army, I will be able to overthrow that stupid brother." Azula said, she believed that she could completely replace her brother in this era.
, the Fire Nation has huge potential for development. It doesn’t matter whoever becomes the king, so why not her?
"You first sum up the experience and lessons of your failure." Dulan said that he should sum up the experience first.
"There's nothing to summarize, it's just that I lost to the unreasonable magical power." Azula said angrily. Her own magical power had been wiped out by the magical power, but she still refused to accept it. The magical power just borrowed the power of the gods.
He didn't lose to supernatural powers, but to the gods.
But if the supernatural power can borrow power, he can also borrow power. "If I also have power, I can be stronger than him, so lend me your power." Azula looked at Duran and said, she didn't want to spend more time in a day.
Wait, she wants to start a new whirlwind in the Fire Nation immediately. In her opinion, without the military expansion of the previous generations of Fire Lords, her brother would not be able to have such a smooth sailing, so why should such fruits be in vain?
Did it fall on my brother? Why not me?
This is true. If the Fire Nation did not gain wealth through military expansion, it would not be able to produce so much military technology. Without so much technology, it would be impossible for the Fire Nation to have the opportunity to convert its military into civilians after defeat. The development of the Fire Nation is indeed inseparable.
The wealth brought about by expansion is that although you will lose money in the later expansion, the early expansion will be a huge profit.
With primitive accumulation, the Fire Nation has money to engage in education and develop technology. What Zuko is doing now is to guide these technologies and talents into the civilian field. Who doesn't know how to do this kind of work? Anyway, Azula thinks she can do it.
, I only wish the prince had supernatural powers to help.
"Now everyone is developing with peace of mind. If you usurp the throne, it will only cause everyone's displeasure." Duran said that the Fire Nation has basically stabilized and has developed in all aspects. It is not wise to take action at this time.
But the princess only thinks about herself and does not consider whether others are happy or not. In her opinion, as long as she is in power, everyone will get used to it, and ordinary people can just accept it and have no right to be picky.
She really has the character of a tyrant, as if the whole world revolves around her.
"I taught you before that you must tell your own story well. If you tell the same story as Zuko, then everyone will not support you, because they don't have to endure the turmoil and ultimately change nothing. If you
If you can promise more benefits, then you can give it a try, but now you can't get any benefits." Duran said: "Now you have to find your own story again."
Azula looked at Duran and responded with silence. Dulan helped write the previous stories, but now she still has high hopes for Duran, hoping that Duran can make her great again.
"Everything has returned to its original point, but there is no need to be nervous. We can tell good stories. For example, the story of 'not relying on the gods and emperors, only relying on ourselves' is very good. In the future, everyone will become more and more dissatisfied with magical powers and will be more and more dissatisfied with magical powers.
Everything will be dissatisfied, and then new stories will be needed by everyone." You have to wait for the opportunity, and when everyone is eager for new stories, come up with new stories.
"Don't rely on the Immortal Emperor, just rely on ourselves?" "But I just want to become the Fire King." The princess said that this slogan was not in line with her goal.
"You are still too young. When you start telling stories, everyone gathers because of this story. If you betray the story, you betray everyone, and everyone will abandon you. When you become the teller of the story
If you tell the story, you become a member of the story and you cannot be above the story." Duran said: "You were almost abandoned by everyone before because you were not serious about your story and could not be consistent. This is very dangerous.
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"Am I a part of the story? No, I am a storyteller, I will not be bound by the story." Azula doesn't want to put shackles on herself. She is extremely happy to let her remove obstacles, and let her set obstacles for herself.
But no.
"There's nothing you can do about it. Anyone who wants to be in power must do this. Going against your own story means you'll die." Duran said, "Everyone follows you and tolerates you not because of your charisma, but because of your personality."
It's because of your story. If you go against the story, you're their enemy."
This is too difficult for Azula, because she is not a person who can follow the rules. She always wants to break the rules and use her own wishes as the rules.
But this doesn't work, because a person's will is definitely changing, that is, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger. If there is no stable story, no one is willing to accompany the tiger every day.
There are generally two possibilities for accompanying tigers. One is that there are huge benefits, which makes everyone forget the danger. The other is that there is huge danger, and tigers are relatively safe.
Confucius had a joke that when he was traveling around the country, he met a crying woman and asked her why she was crying. She said she was really miserable. There were tigers in the mountains. Her father was eaten and her husband was eaten.
Soon his son was also eaten. Confucius asked why he didn't move since he knew there were tigers in the mountains. The woman said that there was no harsh government in the mountains. This is the allusion that harsh rule is stronger than tigers.
Therefore, there are prerequisites for accompanying a tiger. Azula obviously cannot create these two conditions, so she has only one way to go, that is, not to be a tiger, but to give a stable story and let everyone abide by the story. She
Her will cannot be higher than the story, otherwise she will be betrayed.
"You are still young, I think you should understand the importance of stories." Dulan said, "Let's do this, I will send you to the hometown of heavenly beings, and you will understand."
Dulan sent Azula to the factory to make screws. From the beginning of the recruitment, it was agreed that the monthly salary would be 8,000, including food and housing. However, after joining the job, he found that the position of 8,000 was occupied, so he could only arrange a position of 3,000 first, and then food and accommodation would be included.
The conditions in which they were housed were also very poor. It can only be said that they were starving to death.
Azula needs to feel the feeling of those who follow the story but are deceived in the end, so that she can understand the importance of realizing the story. To understand the people who follow the story, and to understand the hatefulness of those who tell the story but do not implement it, in this way
Only then can she be a person who does not violate her own story.