Lawless in Great Song

In the third year of Jingyou, during Emperor Renzong's reign of the Song Dynasty, an unruly young man fell into the back garden of the Great Song Imperial Palace, thus beginning a life that wou...

Chapter 65: Extreme Pull

After a while, he slowly raised his head and said with a puzzled look on his face, "Ancestor, I don't understand why you ask me this."

"You know what you said before."

Zhao Zhen's face fell.

He remembered the series of words Zhao Jun had used to insult him before, which made him feel extremely angry.

There was no way to refute or defend myself at that time.

But now, Zhao Zhen finally felt the pleasure of being an emperor again, holding the power of life and death.

He wanted to teach Zhao Jun a lesson.

Didn't the same joy that I had imagined when I was looking forward to Zhao Jun's eyes recovering and seeing myself arise spontaneously at this moment?

However, what Zhao Zhen and everyone else did not expect was that they originally thought that when Zhao Jun saw the emperor of the Song Dynasty, he would feel awe and bow down to him, and obediently become the emperor of the Song Dynasty's minion.

But at this moment, he still had a very strenuous expression, and spread his hands and said, "I think you misunderstood, ancestor. I didn't scold you at the time."

Secret Technique - The Four-Step Method to Fool People - Phase 1: We Claim Nothing Happened!

This sentence made Zhao Zhen and many ministers open their mouths in surprise.

I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone so shameless.

He could still clearly remember every word Zhao Jun cursed at him over the past two months, but now the other party completely denied it!

Do you really think they are deaf or have amnesia?

Zhao Zhen's face was already dark, as if ink had been splashed on it. Even Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others frowned.

It seems a bit irresponsible to shirk responsibility so shamelessly.

Prime Minister Wang Sui couldn't help but say, "Zhao Jun, we haven't forgotten the dirty words you said back then. How can you deny them?"

"Wrong."

Zhao Jun shook his head. "I'm not denying it outright. I'm telling the truth. I want to ask my ancestors, are you the real you now, or the you in history?"

Zhao Zhen frowned and said nothing, staring at him with a bad look.

Yan Shu quickly came to the rescue and said, "Is there any difference here?"

“It’s a huge difference.”

Zhao Jun immediately responded, "If you are the you of today, then I am right to scold you. Because you in history were indeed so despicable. So, let me ask you another question: do you still want to continue to be the you of history? If so, I will let you do whatever you want!"

The me in history and the me now?

Zhao Zhen was momentarily confused, feeling the logic was a bit unclear, but after a moment he finally figured it out and asked tentatively, "You mean you're cursing the historical "I", not the present "I"?"

"Exactly!"

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If you didn't take action in history, you would have been scolded. But now you are still young and have a lot of room to develop. Whether you will be scolded in the future is a matter of the future, and it has nothing to do with the present. So maybe you are being scolded now, but you shouldn't blame me, because the real you is not being scolded."

Stage 2 of the Four-Step Method to Con People: Something may have happened, but no action should be taken.

"is that so?"

Zhao Zhen was confused again. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

Everyone looked at each other.

What Zhao Jun said seemed to make sense, and they were speechless.

"No, no."

Zhao Zhen quickly shook his head, banishing the thought of forgiving Zhao Jun from his mind, and said firmly, "There must be something wrong."

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Jun didn't give Zhao Zhen time to think and said, "Isn't this reality?"

"The I in history is still I, it just hasn't happened yet. In other words, you still cursed me!"

Zhao Zhen felt that he understood.

However, Zhao Jun laughed and said, "This has to do with dialectical thinking. So let me ask you, if you were to die right now, would you have a future? If you don't have a future, what does it have to do with you?"

"Zhao Jun, stop talking nonsense!"

"That's too outrageous."

"Shut up!"

Everyone quickly stopped him, asking how could he say such nonsense?

"I'm not talking nonsense, it's just a hypothesis. When thinking about a problem, putting forward more ideas and making bold assumptions is the way to solve it."

Zhao Jun frowned and said, "Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"Forehead"

Everyone looked at each other, and what the other person said seemed to make sense.

Zhao Jun shook his head. "That's the downside of feudal society. Everything is taboo. But they don't realize that the West was able to drive social change by breaking these constraints, allowing people's minds and brainpower to run wild. That's how the Industrial Revolution came about!"

"Okay, I don't blame you for this. Let me think about it."

Zhao Zhen stopped them from arguing, pondered for a moment, and said, "You do have some truth in what you said, but you still said a lot of insulting words to my face, and I feel resentful."

"Maybe I shouldn't have been so blunt, but there's no going back now."

Zhao Jun shrugged and said, "But I still want to ask my ancestors to make one thing clear: the name is just a code name. You can be called Zhao Zhen, and people in the future can also call him Zhao Zhen. If you change now, then the Song Renzong Zhao Zhen in history will not be the Song Renzong Zhao Zhen today. The world has changed, and people should change in time."

The third stage of the four-step method of fooling people: Maybe we should take action, but there is nothing we can do, so we still have to follow the trend of the times.

"You mean to let me put it down?"

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