Chapter 104 I Don’t Think He Can Do It
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Fu Hechen: "But this is different. It's like those people who worked in the coal mines. The poor people there couldn't afford to eat or wear clothes. Giving them jobs is giving them opportunities and allowing them to have enough food. This is good for them and positive. But those former royal family members used to have fine clothes and food, and were superior to others. Now sending them to mine is degrading. They are two completely different concepts. You can treat the people of Jiang State equally, so why can't you treat their royal family better?"
Fu Jiangyu looked at him with a gloomy face: "I am so disappointed in you."
Fu Hechen: "But haven't you thought about this? If one day we are the defeated nation, they will also capture us and make us slaves, without giving us the respect we deserve. Is that okay?"
"Do you think that Jiang country will give us respect? Are you too naive? Instead of caring about our own people, you care about their royal family. Do you have any conscience?" Fu Jiangyu had never been so angry before, because Fu Hechen was his most promising heir to the throne. He had even taken Fu Hechen to the battlefield, and Fu Hechen's performance had always been good, but why did he become like this now?
Fu Jiangyu asked him to go back and reflect on himself first, and asked someone to investigate who Fu Hechen had contacted recently and what he had done.
Not long after, the secret guard came back to report that when Fu Hechen went to the mine, he met the princess of Jiang State, and he now has a princess of Jiang State hidden in his mansion.
When Fu Jiangyu told Lin Baige about this, Lin Baige was amused: "No wonder you always say he looks like you. It turns out he's just like you, a love-brained person."
Fu Jiangyu: "...But I love you. You will make Jin better and better. The person he loves is inappropriate."
Lin Baige nodded vigorously: "That's right, I find what he said to you ridiculous. He can't even empathize with the people of his own country, but empathizes with the princess of the enemy country. He is too saintly, and a targeted saintly father. He only feels sorry for his enemies."
Lin Baige suddenly thought of a passage in the original text. In the original text, Fu Hechen became the slave of the Thirteenth Princess. The Thirteenth Princess put a dog leash on him and took him out to show off in the city. At first, she just showed him to her sisters to show off that she had a beautiful dog. Later, she took him out, made him crawl on the ground, made him learn to bark like a dog, and even put dog hair on him. Unexpectedly, he was the Thirteenth Princess's dog in the original text, and now he has become the Thirteenth Princess's dog too, but these two kinds of dogs are one spiritual and the other physical. No, now he is brainwashed mentally, while in the book he is subjected to both physical and mental torture.
He didn't know that if Fu Hechen had the memories in the book, or if the Fu Hechen in the book saw the current Fu Hechen, he would probably want to stab himself a few times.
"I hope he can reflect on himself and know where he went wrong." Fu Jiangyu still wanted to give Fu Hechen a chance. Perhaps the child was still young, not even twenty years old, and his ideas were not mature enough.
"Do you have any other candidates? I'd rather find someone mediocre with a positive outlook than someone smart with a crooked mind." Lin Baige raised his hand and said to Fu Jiangyu, "If you insist on choosing him as the heir to the throne, I'll be the first to vote against him. I don't have a veto, and I heard he has quite a lot of supporters. I'm just expressing my opinion."
When Fu Jiangyu heard him say this, he immediately changed his tone: "I also think he is not suitable. We are not just choosing the heir to the throne, the heir to the throne is also equivalent to our child. If you don't want him to be your child, he is not worthy."
"Why are you acting on emotion again? His popularity is so high now. If we replace him hastily, others will also raise objections. We should take a long-term view and find someone who can compete with him." Lin Baige thought that they would not be able to leave within ten years, so there was no need to make a decision so quickly.
"I'm still alive, and he's so popular. Does he want to take my place?" Fu Jiangyu said with a gloomy face, "This boy cannot be kept."
Lin Baige always realized at some point that Fu Jiangyu was the emperor. Fu Jiangyu was right. Not to mention that Fu Hechen was Fu Jiangyu's nephew, even if he was Fu Jiangyu's biological prince, he was so prestigious when Fu Jiangyu was still in his prime that the emperor would be wary of him.
For nearly a month, Fu Jiangyu has been suppressing Fu Hechen's supporters. People inside and outside the court were originally optimistic about Fu Hechen, but now that the situation has changed, everyone has begun to distance themselves from Fu Hechen to avoid being implicated.
A month later, Fu Jiangyu asked someone to bring Fu Hechen out of the house: "I will take you to a place."
Fu Hechen thought Fu Jiangyu had finally calmed down, but who knew that Fu Jiangyu took him to the cemetery.
"Most of those buried here are soldiers who died on the border. That group were captured by the Jiang State and buried alive. I led people to dig up their bones. That group were captured by the Jiang State and tortured to death. They captured our Jin soldiers and put them in a fight with hunting dogs for the amusement of their nobles and royal family. Many people's bones were gnawed by wild dogs, and only a cenotaph can be built." Fu Jiangyu asked him, "Even so, do you still feel pity for them? I only let them dig for them. They didn't have such good intentions at the time."
"But those are all things of the past. The people buried here may have been reincarnated. Aren't we already a family? We should shake hands and make peace. Hatred cannot nourish beautiful flowers. Their royal family is still a slave. How can the people accept the people of Jiang State?" Fu Hechen knew that Fu Jiangyu liked to listen to others express their ideas. When they went out to fight together in the past, every time he put forward his own ideas, even sometimes against Fu Jiangyu's ideas, Fu Jiangyu would praise him and say that he not only had brains, but also courage.
As a result, he lost himself in Fu Jiangyu's constant affirmation, commonly known as becoming arrogant.
"Don't you know that the people of Jiang country all wish these nobles and royal families dead?" Fu Jiangyu looked at his expression. He didn't know why he thought so highly of Fu Hechen in the past. In Lin Baige's words, he felt like his head was hit by a door during that time.
Lin Baige's words may be rough but his logic is sound. Sometimes his words can be quite unpleasant to the ears, but no matter how unpleasant they are, they are all right. They are for his own good and for the good of the State of Jin, and he will not act in a condescending manner.
Fu Hechen standing in front of him actually gave him a feeling of superiority, as if in Fu Hechen's eyes, his thoughts were not as high as Fu Hechen's.
Fu Hechen must be thinking that the love in his heart is great love, which is different from that of a vulgar person like him.
"Which of the common people doesn't hate the nobles? They just think that those who control them are wrong," said Fu Hechen.
"Okay, okay, since you think so, I do think it's not appropriate to let them work in the mines. We should think of other ways to play." Fu Jiangyu asked someone to take him back first. After another half a month, Fu Jiangyu built an arena at the cemetery.
Before leaving, Fu Hechen was frightened by Fu Jiangyu's word "play". Although Fu Jiangyu's expression was calm, he seemed to be extremely angry. The powerful magnetic field on his body made people around him want to kneel down.
Before Fu Jiangyu left the cemetery, he saw a small figure sweeping the floor. It was a girl. Women were not allowed to enter here before. Later, after Lin Baige and his students developed explosives, women were allowed to enter the military camp. In this war, women also participated. From then on, this cemetery no longer had any taboos for women.
Fu Jiangyu took another look and found that the girl was none other than his niece.
His most valued nephew was in this position, saying such beastly words as "they have all been reincarnated, we should let go of the hatred, it's all in the past", while his niece was sweeping the graves here, staring at the scorching sun.
She did not mind that the people buried here were ordinary soldiers, nor did she think of herself as a noble who looked down on these people and came here to commemorate them.
Fu Jiangyu also specifically asked the tomb keepers, and they said that the princess often came to sweep the tomb.
When Fu Jiangyu returned, he specifically asked Lin Baige about his impression of the princess.
When Lin Baige heard his question, he was so excited: "Are you talking about Fu Lingchuan? She is amazing. This is what she made. She just finished it."
Lin Baige showed him a musket, but didn't let Fu Jiangyu handle it, fearing it might go off accidentally. "This thing is incredibly powerful. I gave her the blueprints, and she studied them. She made it in two years."
"Is this more powerful than dynamite?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"Each has its own uses. In terms of power, explosives are probably more powerful. They can blow up a group of people. They're not advanced enough right now. One bullet at a time, even if it hits one person, it might not kill them. But as the technology improves and becomes more advanced, the power will increase."
Lin Baige picked it up and demonstrated it to him. He shot at a vase in the distance, but missed. Lin Baige smiled awkwardly: "This thing may be like archery. It requires accuracy. I still need to practice."
Fu Jiangyu took it from him: "Let me try."
"You have to be careful with this, this..." Before Lin Baige finished speaking, he saw Fu Jiangyu smash the vase over there.
Lin Baige was stunned with shock: "You also traveled through time?"
"I see you've gotten the hang of it after using it once." Fu Jiangyu thought the weapon was pretty good and it was easy to use. "Is this thing difficult?"
Lin Baige twitched his lips: "For me, it's rare to hear it, but your Majesty is a genius, so it's different."
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Half a month later, Fu Hechen was brought here again. Fu Hechen didn't understand Fu Jiangyu's purpose: "It's not appropriate to build these entertainment-oriented things here."
"It doesn't matter. The soldiers buried here also need entertainment." Fu Jiangyu said, and asked people to bring many large dogs, as well as wolves, lions and tigers.
In addition to these wild beasts, the Jiang slaves who had been released by Fu Hechen were also pulled over, including the Thirteenth Princess.
"What are you going to do?" Fu Hechen was completely panicked when he saw the people he had rescued, especially the person he liked among them.
Fu Jiangyu looked at the slaves and said, "Don't you like watching dogs and humans fight? You just want to see how exciting it is. Why don't you go out and have some fun? By the way, I'll give you a chance."
Fu Jiangyu pointed at Fu Hechen and said, "You can fight him first. Whoever wins won't have to compete with the dog and can go back to digging coal."
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