The great monk was stunned, and said quietly, "I just don't know which king this royal land and royal ministers belong to?" ”

Yang Huairen was stunned, the great monk has been talking lately, and he has always explained several layers of meaning, which makes him really difficult to answer for a while.

However, from the perspective of the great monk, he should not be talking about the distinction between Zhao Xu and Yelu Bawotai, but mentally wondering whether Yang Huairen wants to be the emperor himself.

Yang Huairen thought of this, and immediately smiled calmly, "Master, if I say that I have never coveted the throne, do you believe it?" ”

The big monk smiled and didn't say anything, just eating and drinking stupidly, and his throat was gurgling.

Yang Huairen said slowly, "I think you should believe me." Since the master came to me, we haven't actually spent much time together.

It wasn't until last year when I came to Hangzhou with my whole family that I pestered the master every day and listened to him chant the Buddha, even though I couldn't understand the master's scriptures.

But after living at the foot of the mountain surrounded by monasteries for a long time, I always feel that my heart can calm down and I can look at the world with a peaceful eye.

A few years ago, I would never have had such tranquility.

Everyone has desires, or money, or beauty, or power, or just to survive.

I'm a normal person, not a Buddha or an immortal, so I never think I'm noble, I have my desires, and I've been tirelessly pursuing a lot of things.

For example, I like money because I was penniless and could starve to death, so I had to earn money to eat.

When you have money and no worries about food and clothing, you can be idle, and then be an ordinary landlord and old wealth, and just live a lifetime.

But I suddenly couldn't be idle again, I always had an irrepressible impulse when I was young, and when I had 10,000 yuan, I wanted to make 100,000 yuan, and with 100,000 yuan, I began to think about how to make 1 million yuan.

I always feel that I want to make ruthless and endless money, so as to deceive myself and tell myself that this is a way to prove the value of life.

In this way, I have the family property I have now, and I have many followers who follow me, and later I married a wife and had children, and when I gradually matured and cleared my head and wanted to stop, it was no longer possible.

The whole family business is like a herd of horses, running on the vast grassland, it is difficult to stop, even if I am a head horse, I can't do it.

But if you have more wealth, you will inevitably be envied, and my family's wealth is richer than the emperor's inner treasury, and the emperor will also be jealous, even though he is actually richer than me.

So I can only spend money, spend it violently, and even waste it. Some of the money was not spent on the place, so that others laughed at me as a loser, but I was actually very happy.

But some of the money is spent in the place, and in the future it will be able to earn me back new money, and I am worried again, so I have to think of ways to continue to spend money, which is a circle of conscience in the eyes of others, but in my heart it is a vicious circle.

In those days, the foundation of the legal system was too weak, and there were always people who were not bound by the law, so having more money was not necessarily a good thing.

Yangzhou's two billionaires, Huang million and Baiyinhai, are now also thinking about spending money on the law, bribery, or anything else, in short, as long as there are rich people, they are afraid that someone will worry about them.

Fortunately, I have the right to have someone in my hands, and ordinary thieves can't care about me here, and no one who really dares to worry about me except the emperor has dared to do anything against me openly.

So not only do I want to make money, but I also want to make money for the royal family, I heard that the land over there is fertile, and the crops are at least three times a year, such a good place, I beat it down and gave it to the emperor, in fact, it is to support myself with a protective umbrella.

The emperor thinks that I can not only make money for myself, but also for him, so he has to keep me and allow me to be presumptuous.

I am in charge of the army outside, and it is difficult to say that the emperor did not do it deliberately, to put pressure on the people in the court and make them honest and obedient.

But if I think at this time that I can support myself, or do something so-called rebellious, then it is impossible.

The people's idea of imperial power has gone through thousands of years, and the Great Song Dynasty has been enlightened for more than a hundred years.

There are many people and things in history who have sought to codify the throne, and there are not many successes, and most of them have ended miserably.

But don't forget, this is only recorded, and there are even more people and things that have not been recorded, and I am very self-aware and don't want to be that inconspicuous cow's hair.

Although the army under my command is considered elite, compared with the royal army, the number is still too small, and the real war naturally pays attention to the combat effectiveness of the army, but in fact, the biggest impact is the number.

I have seen the soldiers of Western Xia, they are not ordinarily strong, even more than the Khitan soldiers, if they are brought out with one army and one battalion, the border army of the Great Song Dynasty is not an opponent.

But the reason why they failed was that in addition to their own internal strife and splitting, the Song army of 6.7 million people fought against more than 200,000 people in Western Xia, and this numerical advantage was also an important factor in the victory of the Great Song Dynasty.

There is no doubt that two fists are invincible to four hands. Even if a master has such superb martial arts, it is difficult to meet an opponent one-on-one, and if he goes to the battlefield, I am afraid he will not be able to influence anything.

The martial arts are high, and they may be able to play a key role in the local battlefield, but if the master goes to thousands of military formations, it is really difficult to affect the battle situation.

You may be able to kill ten, a hundred, or even a thousand, but there will always be a steady stream of soldiers fighting around you, and you will always have a moment of exhaustion.

Not to mention the strong bows and crossbows or other powerful weapons in the hands of the soldiers, which can sneak attack the master's life anytime and anywhere.

Just because I recognized this, I didn't have enough money to fantasize about having imperial power.

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, I am still a person without much foundation, and even the name of me, the prince, was put on my head in a daze by the two emperors who calculated each other in order to fight for face.

In fact, the bigwigs in the court know this in their hearts, so our officials are so nonsense, so no one says anything.

From the perspective of etiquette, it is completely unreasonable for a kid like me to be crowned king.

Although the title of the Great Song Dynasty is not worth much at the moment, the title of a county duke, for a kid like me, is already an emperor's grace and makes others jealous.

Now that he has been crowned a prince again, it is a joke. But I can't help it, I don't want it, but I have to keep my face shy, no matter how embarrassing I am, I can't show it in front of others.

In short, I want to satisfy the emperor, and then think that I am stupid, and I can't let him see that I have any displeasure in my heart.

From the moment I married Princess Anguo, I knew that I would have to face a lot of difficulties, and the reason why I still had to do this was also something I couldn't do.

In my code of conduct, people's feelings should not be disappointed, and other factors should not be considered, otherwise the most innocent part of human nature will be destroyed.

So everything I am facing now is also self-inflicted, like a big wheel, whether to go or stop, it is no longer up to me to decide, I can only move forward, looking forward to the day when the axle is loose, and I can escape. ”