The meeting continued, and Su Yonglin talked about some key points of political work in the future and listened to relevant reports from members.

When the meeting was over, when Su Yonglin planned to end the meeting, Kong Maojie, the instructor of a certain regiment of the White Army, raised his hand and raised a question.

"Chairman, there is something I think I have to say, and I can't delay it."

"you say."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"Earlier, I counted the wounded and sick in the army and heard the voices circulating in the army that you want to build a new country and be an emperor, and this kind of voice is not small."

As soon as Kong Maojie said this, several people raised their hands and said similar news they heard.

It seems that this kind of sound is really not small.

Then everyone looked at Su Yonglin, hoping to get his true view from him.

Su Yonglin was silent for a while and spoke slowly.

"When I was in Jinan, I convened some senior officials from our Revival Association to discuss this issue secretly. Before the Northern Expedition, I had expected that this day would happen, and my answer was very clear. If the situation requires me to be the emperor, I will do it."

Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, but didn't speak for a while.

Su Yonglin walked slowly behind her hands.

"From the earliest emperor Qin Shihuang, to the present, the emperor has existed for almost 1,400 years. The inertia of 1,400 years cannot be underestimated. Everyone who pacifies troubled times will become emperors. Over time, people will naturally think that only the emperor can stabilize the world and they need emperors.

But in my opinion, what really needs the emperor is not ordinary people, but scholars and bureaucrats. With the emperor, they can be naturally officials, and then use the power assigned to them by the emperor to do whatever they want, and maintain this system until it can no longer be maintained.

Since a long time ago, our history has been a vicious circle. A generation of heroes pacified the troubled times, proclaimed emperors, ruled the world, declined, perished, and chaotic times, and then another generation of heroes pacified the troubled times, just wandering around like this, and going to the present.

Now, the person standing at the forefront of the storm becomes me, and if I become an emperor and pass on the throne, I can conclude that the country I established will be as strong, recession, destruction, and chaos for a while, and then a person will pacify the troubled times and then become an emperor."

"So, why do you want to be the emperor?"

Kong Maojie, who asked Su Yonglin just now, asked: "You said that because of the emperor and the unrestricted imperial power, there are superior people who do whatever they want. In order to eliminate the superior people, you have worked hard. Since that is the case, why do you still have to be emperor?"

"Because there are too few people like you who think there is no need for an emperor to live a good life."

Su Yonglin gave him a clear reply: "The long-term emperor rule and the propaganda of Confucian scholars made people naturally believe that there should be an emperor who ruled them. Without an emperor, they might even panic.

For example, you are a knight passing by a village. In this village, you saw a bully bully in the village bullying the villagers. The villagers were in a miserable way but dared not resist. You taught the bully a lesson, drove the bully away, and then left casually. But you didn't know that the villagers didn't thank you, but instead blamed you."

"What's the reason?"

Kong Maojie looked shocked: "If you do a good thing, you will be criticized?"

"Yes, because you left after doing good things, and the bullies are not dead yet, and they will come back. At that time, they will become more aggressive in bullying the villagers, and you have already left. Have you ever thought about how the villagers will face the bullies who make a comeback after you leave?"

Kong Maojie was stunned for a while and asked tentatively: "Then I will stay? Continue to protect the villagers?"

“How to protect?”

"I am a knight, of course I can defeat the bully."

"What if the bully brings more helpers from outside the village? What if you can't beat it alone?"

"I will call on the villagers to resist with me."

"What if the villagers are too scared and dare not join forces with you? What if they watch the success or failure?"

"How could this...be it?"

"When we first started to rise up, before we conquered the Jin Kingdom city, did the oppressed residents unite and take the initiative to cooperate with us from the city?"

"this……"

Kong Maojie couldn't answer.

"People are not educated, do not understand the relationship and contradictions between superiors and cows and horses, they are illiterate, cannot think, and only know how to seek profit and avoid harm. At this time, the only thing they know is to help whoever wins, and they will not take the initiative to help you unless you win."

"I see."

Kong Maojie nodded slowly, and the people around him also nodded slowly.

Su Yonglin found a seat and sat down, and asked the others to sit down together, and then he continued.

"Faced with such a group of people who only know how to seek profit and avoid harm, as a knight from another village, what should you do to make them risk their lives to follow you to fight against the bullies?"

"I……"

"This is why I want to be an emperor. Everyone knows that the emperor is the winner. The emperor has natural appeal and orthodoxy. He can naturally make people obey orders. Those who oppose the emperor are naturally thieves.

This is the easiest way to drive those who seek profit and avoid harm. There are too many such people around us. Not to mention how many people in the new countryside we control really understand our philosophy, but how many people in the army think I shouldn’t be the emperor?”

Su Yonglin's explanation made everyone present understand this truth.

There are too few people who don’t need the emperor, and there are too many people who don’t need the emperor.

Being an emperor can quickly gain a foothold and embark on the road of development and growth without worrying about being in danger.

This is the biggest benefit.

Su Yonglin put all these in front of people so that they could see clearly.

However, there are benefits, but disadvantages. Su Yonglin also sees this clearly.

"Being an emperor has many benefits, but being an emperor has many disadvantages. The most important thing is to absorb a large number of old officials and powerful gentry into the new court and give them power to do things. This will bring us great resistance. We must endure some things.

However, this is also the price that must be paid to get benefits. There is no law in the world. The two evils are the least. This is the final conclusion I came to weigh the pros and cons. This conclusion, at the previous meeting, the Prime Minister, the Vice Premier, and the Ministers of various departments, all agreed with the conclusion I came to."

So the Revival members present nodded in understanding and did not continue to express their opposition.

"But being an emperor is not my goal. Being an emperor is a means to achieve your goal. Being an important official of the country and holding important authority is not your goal, but your method to achieve your ultimate goal. I hope everyone knows this."

"Here."

They nodded to show that they understood.

"When I was the emperor, we must make full use of cheap power to develop and strengthen our organization, absorb more talents, and gradually replace old officials, powerful gentry, and ultimately, realize a brand new court.

If you want to save the bullied villagers, it is not OK to fight alone. You must tell them why they have to resist the bully and why they cannot continue to swallow their anger. Then teach them the ability to fight against the bully, so that they know that the power they united together is something that no bully can fight against.

Let them learn knowledge, let them learn organization, let them learn to fight, let them know that fighting alone will never beat group organizations, and they can unite and eliminate any bullies! By then, all the villagers will be knights, and there will be no need for knights."

Su Yonglin smiled and pointed at himself: "There is no longer an emperor."

Su Yonglin's words gave the 108 people present a deep understanding.

Then, Su Yonglin said that he believed that the time to become emperor was not now.

Now he cannot be called emperor rashly, because there is another Southern Song Dynasty in the south. Now he will be called emperor rashly, which will make the Southern Song Dynasty lose all its fantasies and immediately treat him as an enemy, so he cannot be called emperor and the Southern Song Dynasty immediately.

The time to become emperor was after completely killing the Jin Kingdom, in order to adapt to prestige, stabilize people's hearts, and no longer worry about wars on both sides. That was the best time to become emperor.

Before this, he had to deal with it not only in the Southern Song Dynasty, but also in the Western Xia side, and gave them the fantasy that the Restoration Army would not be enemies of them, and that everything would have room for revolt.

In this way, we will strive for stability and growth for the new Restoration Army regime.

It was already very late when the meeting ended. Su Yonglin asked most of them to leave first, leaving Zhou Chong and Kong Maojie behind.

"There are still relatively rare people who think they don't need the emperor now, so you are a very valuable spark in my opinion, which makes me know that my investment and efforts have not been in vain. I am very happy.

You must persevere and not be confused by being indulged in luxury and obscuring your vision. You must resist this temptation and try every means to win more comrades who can support us. When most people think that the emperor is no longer needed, I will no longer have to be an emperor."

Su Yonglin turned around and looked at Zhou Chong and Kong Maojie: "I will be very relieved by then."

"Don't you always be the emperor?"

The young Kong Maojie looked at the same young Su Yonglin and asked boldly: "I heard that the emperor is the most powerful person in the world, the emperor, can do whatever he wants, and is the best person. You often say that power is intoxicating, so once you become the emperor, will you be drunk yourself? Chairman?"

Zhou Chong looked at Kong Maojie with a little surprise and was very surprised that Kong Maojie dared to ask this question.

So brave!

But he also cared about this issue.

Su Yonglin stared at Kong Maojie for a while.

Kong Maojie, he was not an old subordinate who came to Shandong to rebel with Su Yonglin. He was a Yizhou native who only followed Su Yonglin after he arrived in Shandong and recruited soldiers in Yizhou.

At the same time, he is also the second group of members of the Revival Association.

When Tian Guizi reported the list to Su Yonglin, he focused on Kong Maojie, so Su Yonglin still had some impression of him.

He was originally a farmer and had a surname of Kong. I wonder if his ancestors had any connection with the Kong family in Qufu.

But in his generation, there is obviously no connection, otherwise he would not have read a word. He only had a few acres of thin land at home, and he lived a hungry meal and had a full meal.

After Su Yonglin led his troops to liberate the village where he was, he divided the fields for the villagers. The Kong family divided the fields. His father was grateful to Su Yonglin, so he asked him to join the army and joined the Shengjie Army at that time.

He ranks second in his three brothers, so when he joined the army, he called Kong Xiaoer, which was not conspicuous at all.

However, this kid really has a bit of a genius. After three months of training, he not only learned basic military skills, but also recognized more than 700 words, which was the one with the most words among the recruits at that time.

After that, he was brave in combat, actively recognized words, and was also very active in learning cultural ideas. So he became the head of the class within a month and then became the vanguard. After the battle in Hebei, he accumulated merits and was promoted to the commander of the battalion, and entered the training class of the Guidance Department for further study.

In the training class, he showed extraordinary talent in political work, and was noticed by Tian Guizi, and then talked to him and asked him if he was willing to engage in political work.

Kong Maojie thought for a while and nodded in agreement, so he moved from military command position to political work position, and was promoted to regiment-level instructor several months later.

Tian Guizi was very happy and helped him change a slightly cultural name, called Maojie. People in his life always called him a waiter, which sounds quite unprestige.

In short, Kong Maojie is a rare talent with a strong memory and strong understanding ability. He is a genius. If he had not been discovered by the Restoration Army system, he would probably have to work in his life facing the loess and back to the sky until his death. Where could he use his talents?
To be continued...