"Your Majesty, if you must go to the north, then let the Crown Prince oversee the country!" Qi Hongyi said to her husband, Vézé, with a frown.
Wei Ze was immediately dumbfounded. This loss of composure lasted for more than ten seconds before Wei Ze opened his mouth and said, "Dear! Am I … Am I unable to take care of myself because of my illness? "
"No!" Qi Hongyi answered her husband's question frankly.
"Then has our child grown up?" Vézé continued to ask.
"No!" Qi Hongyi continued to answer honestly.
After asking two questions consecutively, Vézé finally asked, "Then what about the Crown Prince and the country of Russia?"
"No, Your Majesty. You have to appoint the Crown Prince before you can have the Crown Prince oversee the country. "Qi Hongyi said with a matter-of-fact attitude that only a mother would have.
At least at this moment, Vézé suddenly understood the feelings of the poor scholar who came up with the "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Virtues". When facing a wife who knew him, sometimes a husband really wanted to have the absolute authority. Because from the perspective of a mother, or from the perspective of a wife who had the absolute right to speak about household matters, Vézé could not deny the justice of his wife, Qi Hongyi.
However, Vézé was Vézé after all. He recovered the calmness that a leader should have. After a moment of silence, Vézé asked, "Can I understand it this way? You want the eldest son to be appointed as the Crown Prince."
The eldest son was naturally Qi Hongyi's son. Hearing her husband's words, Qi Hongyi sneered, "Your Majesty, according to tradition, the Crown Prince should have been appointed by now."
Before Vézé could think of any response, Qi Hongyi raised his beautiful eyebrows, "Oh, yes, I have to clarify that the barbarian Manchu Qing would not do this. But the traditional Chinese dynasties have always followed this pattern. "
In the face of such a rational argument, Vézé was momentarily speechless. His wife was a historian. A few years ago, Vézé still had the ability to analyze history. But now, Qi Hongyi's knowledge of history was far beyond Vézé's. She had already read through the Twenty-Four Histories several times. The depth of knowledge was not something that Vézé, who was busy with work all day, could understand.
Looking at Vézé's speechless expression, Qi Hongyi giggled, "Your Majesty, are you saying that I'm backward?"
Currently, the style and language of the new government were "advanced" and "revolutionary", while "conservative" and "backward" were negative terms. After being rebuked, Vézé thought for a while and suddenly said, "Now I feel that I'm worse than you, so I want to push you down on the bed!"
"Haha!" Qi Hongyi laughed, "This qie is going to be forty soon, it's not a bad thing to have a daughter quickly. Then I'll have to trouble Your Majesty. "
This was the disadvantage of gender equality. Women could completely ignore the feelings of men and treat men as tools for sowing seeds. After all, women had a strong urge to have children after the age of thirty. This was a natural process written in DNA, and an engineering dog like Vézé could not ignore it even if he wanted to.
"I said dear …" Vézé was ready to reason with his wife.
"You said dear!" Qi Hongyi corrected.
Vézé was immediately speechless. After ten seconds, he finally said, "… I say, dear, are you so anxious to let your child be the crown prince? Do you think I'll have a feudal inheritance system? "
"The feudal system perfectly conforms to the relationship between humans based on their own blood relations and the distance between them as the standard. What's wrong with that? Look at the feudal monarchs in Europe. The inheritance rights are not necessarily given to their own people, "Qi Hongyi said frankly.
European monarchs were like that. Inheritance rights were calculated. Between the monarchs of various countries, the crown prince of a foreign country often had a higher inheritance rights than the great nobles of their own country. Just like the current King of Prussia and his cousin, the Emperor of Russia. Vézé had read the Life of Bismarck. There was a passage in it. William I was 90 years old. Bismarck wrote an explanation about the Three Emperors Alliance, and William I memorized it with extraordinary perseverance. When he met his nephew, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, William I explained the relationship of the Three Emperors Alliance in a clear and unhurried manner, which made Alexander II admire his uncle very much.
"You mean I have to marry an Austrian princess!" Vézé could not help but mock.
However, the mockery obviously did not work. China was different from the Catholic monogamy in Europe. Qi Hongyi did not quite understand the meaning of marrying an Austrian princess. She did not understand why Vézé used the joke of Napoleon I marrying an Austrian princess as his wife.
Of course, Qi Hongyi felt the malice in her husband's teasing. She smiled and said, "If you must marry her, what can I do?"
This was also something that Vézé was a little unhappy about. If he married a woman he liked in the 21st century, she would probably understand the extremely rich "malice" in Vézé's words. However, it was too difficult for a 19th-century girl to have the characteristics of a 21st-century girl. At least in the 21st century, when Vézé joked with a girl and said, "Wisdom is unmatched, stupidity is unmatched," the girl could still discuss the true meaning of the Analects with Vézé. Now that he thought about it, Vézé and the girl in the 21st century were both half-baked.
Although his wife was not so perceptive, when it came to telling the truth, it was not a problem. Vézé frankly said to Qi Hongyi, "If I let my son inherit all the power, it is not because he is my son. I don't care if the heir is a man or a woman. The first thing I want is that they have the ability. The future world is not a world where the incompetent can do whatever they want. Incompetence is a sin in itself. If you have the ability to be an ordinary person, then live the life of an ordinary person. If you have the ability to be a professional, then live the life of a professional. If you have the ability to be a leader, I will not turn a blind eye to the capable. However, I will never give power to an incompetent person. "
Qi Hongyi knew better than anyone else about Vézé's arrogance. When she and Vézé got married, Vézé had already shown many signs of this. For example, Qi Hongyi knew that Vézé's life goal was not to be a capable follower of Yang Xiuqing, the King Of The East. Instead, he wanted to be the leader of China and the emperor of China.
The couple had discussed the issue of the heir more than once, explicitly or implicitly. This was what Vézé said at that time. People who started their own business often looked down on their children. It was not because they did not love their children, but because they could not understand why failure could destroy a person so easily.
After so many years, Qi Hongyi gradually understood and grasped Vézé's arrogance. Failure was not scary in Vézé's eyes at all. Failure was normal. However, if failure made a person lose confidence in himself, lose the confidence to continue forging ahead, and lose the confidence to overcome difficulties, that kind of person would not be valued by Wei Ze.
In this era, this kind of view was extremely rare. It was because of this belief that Vézé could finally become the emperor of China.
Therefore, Qi Hongyi dared to tell the truth to Vézé, because the truth would not make Vézé unhappy. Qi Hongyi asked, "What kind of person will Your Majesty like?"
"It's not that our son has no hope. If our son is capable, I will definitely choose him first. But how old is he now? I don't agree with forcing the throne on him. I think whether a person wants to be an emperor or not, he must first understand what it means to be an emperor. Or he was born with it. He instinctively understands what he has to pay to be an emperor. Now he keeps saying that the emperor's position is for something. Isn't this harming people? That's harming people and themselves! "
For the sake of his son, if begging could work, Qi Hongyi would definitely beg. However, for a guy like Vézé, begging would only backfire. Therefore, Qi Hongyi suppressed his displeasure and asked in a calm tone, "Then who do you think will inherit the throne, Your Majesty?"
Looking at his wife's beautiful face, Vézé still felt a little sorry for her. He calmed down and said slowly, "Did I ask others to put the crown on my head? No, it's everyone who wants me to be the emperor for their own benefit. And many people are very disappointed. They thought that if I became the emperor, they would be conferred the title of King or Marquis and receive a lot of privileges. I have really disappointed those who thought this way. Once the throne becomes someone who asks others to give it to them, then they will become the emperor's slave, not the master of the throne like me. Wife, I don't know if you think it's more important to be an emperor or to be one's own master. I think it's more important to be one's own master. Even if one becomes an emperor, if one becomes a slave to the throne, then what's the point of life? "
What Qi Hongyi couldn't accept the most was Vézé's attitude. A person's arrogance to this extent would make many people very unhappy. Even the supreme throne couldn't satisfy one person. One must make contributions that would make everyone submit to him. Qi Hongyi was suddenly puzzled. Could it be that the founding emperors were all such arrogant characters? Or was Vézé just someone with a different way of thinking?
After talking to his wife, Vézé suddenly felt relaxed. No matter what the people in the central government thought, Vézé had already decided to go to Beijing. This was the education that Vézé had received since he was a child. The highest state of a person was to live with a clear conscience. Although the details of a clear conscience still needed to be discussed, a clear conscience itself couldn't be questioned or shaken.
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