Fu Xiaoguan was stunned. Of course he remembered this, but... "Empress Dowager Xi is a traitor. What she says doesn't count."
Eunuch Jia smiled slightly, "But His Majesty has approved the marriage, and Nangong Piaoxue has already left Guanyun City and arrived in Jinling in early June."
Fu Xiaoguan suddenly felt unwell!
This harem... do you really want to fill it up?
Eunuch Jia looked at Fu Xiaoguan's expression and said slowly, "I think this is your majesty's good intention. Your Highness, please think about it. The harem and palaces of the Wu Dynasty are now completely empty. This is not a good thing for a country."
"Zhou Tongtong wrote to this old servant, saying that both the left and right ministers had urged Your Majesty to hold a selection, but Your Majesty flatly refused and threatened to flee. So Your Majesty has made up his mind, and the continuation of the Wu family bloodline naturally falls solely on Your Highness."
"For the nation, a stable royal family inheritance is more important than anything else. Although Your Highness is in the Yu Dynasty, your fate is closely related to the Wu Dynasty. Therefore, I dare to ask Your Highness, why are you unwilling to return to the Wu Dynasty?"
Fu Xiaoguan was silent for a long time. He took a long breath, looked at Eunuch Jia, and said seriously, "Prime Minister Yan once asked this question. Of course, what I said to Prime Minister Yan was for the righteousness of the world. Let me tell you something from my heart..."
"I will keep this secret forever!"
"Because this place... is so much like my homeland!"
Here are the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, here are the Shu and Qinling Mountains, everything here is very similar to Fu Xiaoguan's homeland in his previous life.
In my previous life, in order to defend my motherland, I walked in unknown corners and silently did things that no one knew about.
He loved that land deeply, and he dedicated his short life to the peace and harmony of that land!
Now he came to this seemingly unreal world, but the land of Yu Dynasty was so similar to his previous life that he always felt in a trance that this was still the same land.
He wanted to do something more for the people of this land. He felt that everything here was so familiar, and that only here could he feel at peace and at ease.
But it was different in Wu Dynasty. It was a strange place for him. He felt a sense of alienation and found it difficult to fit in.
Just like a fish that originally lived in fresh water, if it was thrown into the sea, would it become a salted fish?
This analogy is not quite appropriate, but that is what Fu Xiaoguan thinks in his heart.
Eunuch Jia was stunned. He didn't understand what Fu Xiaoguan was saying—Motherland? Too much like my motherland?
In Eunuch Jia's opinion, this is because Fu Xiaoguan was born and raised in the Yu Dynasty.
This is such a pity!
He was silent for a long time, then said, "But Your Highness is still the Highness of the Wu Dynasty. The people of the Wu Dynasty admire you very much. They are your people. If you really abandon them... they will be really sad and upset."
Fu Xiaoguan sighed. Ever since Yan Beixi said that, he would think about this problem whenever he had free time these days.
In this feudal monarchy, were his ideas too naive? Too wishful?
My thinking has not broken away from my past life, which has led to the problem that I have always been looking at the world through the eyes of my past life.
This is wrong!
The progress of civilization has its own development trajectory. You may be able to push the huge carriage of civilization a little bit with your own strength, but it is difficult to achieve the effect you want.
The cage in the minds of the people and officials is not so easy to break, but the seeds of seeking freedom still need to be planted.
However, it will probably take a longer time for the seeds to take root and sprout.
That perfect country may be something I will never be able to reach in my lifetime.
But something has to be done towards that goal.
Fu Xiaoguan laughed and said, "Tell my father to give me another three to five years."
Eunuch Jia was overjoyed. He stood up and bowed respectfully to Fu Xiaoguan: "Your Highness, it is a blessing for the Wu Dynasty and the people of the Wu Dynasty that you think so!"
Fu Xiaoguan waved his hand and said, "I may not be able to be a good emperor."
"No, Your Highness will definitely become a good emperor who will go down in history!"
Eunuch Jia straightened up, suddenly becoming full of vigor and enthusiasm. "When Your Highness returns, I will leave the Yu Dynasty. Now that I am old, I will serve as Your Highness's doorman, okay?"
Fu Xiaoguan laughed heartily, "As long as you are happy!"
"I am truly delighted."
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After Eunuch Jia left, Fu Xiaoguan suddenly felt a sense of pressure.
That's trust!
That kind of trust was accompanied by blind admiration. Even people like Eunuch Jia, who originally wanted to stay in the Yu Dynasty to retire, were revitalized because of his words. This was because he saw hope.
What he thought was basically the same as what the people of the Wu Dynasty thought.
It was no longer a secret to the Wu Dynasty that Fu Xiaoguan was implementing new policies in the Yu Dynasty, and now the news had spread throughout the Wu Dynasty.
His reputation was not only prominent in the Yu Dynasty, but in fact even greater in the Wu Dynasty.
In the final analysis, he was the prince of the Wu Dynasty and the future emperor of the Wu Dynasty.
Fu Xiaoguan stood by the Weiyang Lake and carefully reviewed the past two years. He suddenly realized that the excuses he made for leaving the Wu Dynasty were actually a form of escape.
Of course, there was nothing wrong with him deeply loving the land of the Yu Dynasty. The mistake lay in the inertia of his thinking.
He felt that the Yu Dynasty was his homeland, but in fact, in this life, after visiting the Wu Dynasty, he had already developed a close connection with the Wu Dynasty.
Whether it was the emperor who handed over the imperial seal to his father Emperor Wen at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, or the father who brought him up, the official Fu, whom he recognized in his heart, the landlord who was used to being idle, but now had to guard the throne of the Wu Dynasty for him.
Wu Linger gave birth to a son for him, and they lived in Jinghu Villa.
Zhuo Yixing and Nangong Yiyu had talked to him earnestly and earnestly.
There was also a great scholar named Wen Xingzhou who was my friend regardless of age difference. I don’t know whether the "Neo-Confucian Code" has been implemented in the Wu Dynasty.
During this night, Fu Xiaoguan's thinking underwent a huge change.
This change made him suddenly enlightened, and his heart suddenly became bright.
——When living, one should pursue freedom of heart.
I can hold that authority, and I can also let it go, because I am different!
So when it is time to hold on, you should hold on, and when it is time to let go, then let go.
As long as the people of the world can live comfortably and have time to look up at the vast sky, it will be enough.
Dong Shulan came behind him at some point. She silently looked at the somewhat lonely figure and quietly hugged him from behind.
Fu Xiaoguan tilted his head and rubbed Dong Shulan's hair, then asked in a low voice, "The moon is about to be full. Where do you think your hometown is?"
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