C3525 Lectures (1/2)

Reading ten thousand li of books, travelling ten thousand miles! How much will learning affect a person's personality? This was something that one could see through with their own eyes, but with Tongzhi as the emperor, taking him travel the seas for the past few years had completely changed the little emperor's personality.

Unknowingly, the Tongzhi Emperor could no longer return to the past. He was no longer the Sovereign King who was taught by strict rules in the past.

The freedom that he enjoyed in Europe was something unimaginable in Asia. This kind of freedom did not only belong to the Sovereign King, it actually also belonged to commoners.

So what if they were kings or emperors? When they were supposed to patrol, they would do so only because the security was stricter and the citizens would live their lives the same way.

The cavalry on the streets protected the emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The shops and houses on both sides of the road could live their lives as they pleased, and those who loved the emperor would bow, and those who didn't care would pay no attention to what you were, and what you were supposed to do.

Those who opposed the emperor would even spit or shout out slogans of protest. Actually, as long as you didn't really want to assassinate the emperor, most of the police would just disperse.

This is the Emperor, and the other nobles are much more relaxed. In the common people and the common people, you live a life of wealth, and I live a life of poverty.

It was precisely in this kind of environment that the Tongzhi Emperor could go to the library and flip through the classical books of the sixteenth century with the students, or go to a private museum to study cultural relics with scholars.

He could go to the most expensive restaurant, and during the meal, the guests would only applaud him a few times. He could do whatever he wanted with the rest.

Even walking on the streets, in the forest, deep in the park... These places were casual, without so many rules, they would not disturb the people!

Such a life is great, you and I are under the sky, but they do not interfere with each other, this is the freedom to relax the mind!

Everyone could benefit but not harm each other. Even the highest realm that the saint had mentioned was only mediocre!

But when he returned to the Qing Dynasty, everything he looked at … Everything was grey and depressing, including this welcoming ceremony. It was actually fake and had been made by someone else!

The commoners had suffered so much, who would they scold? Are you cursing those darned officials? Or was he scolding the emperor?

What made Tongzhi even more furious was that he actually dared to splash dirty water on Master Kang Xi and the dryad Emperor's heads, saying that the rules were even stricter when they went down to Jiangnan all those years ago. What did that mean? Wasn't this clearly telling the people that Sacred Ancestor disturbed the people even more than he did? Wasn't he tormenting the people even more than he did?

You can forgive your vow to go on a rampage against the Holy Father, but you can never forgive your sin of blackening the Holy Father!

Behind Tongzhi, and the others, who were clearly behind him, were clearly winking at him as they made hand gestures, but in the end, Sai Bao was still unable to comprehend what that meant.

”Your Majesty …” I'm not bullshitting... This servant really did hear it from my grandfather's own mouth. Moreover, which old man in the entire city doesn't know about the grand occasion that happened back then? ”

”You're not allowed to eat or drink as you wish! This is really a rule!” ”We are prepared to welcome you. Please send a letter with your horse ready to roll. The foreigners will have to send a message every quarter of an hour.”

”The people and the gentry gathered on both sides of the canal three days ago, and all the houses were conscripted for these people to live in. ”During the last two hours of service, you are not allowed to eat for the first twelve hours!”

”Everyone just wants to give the ginseng soup and the dried beef to you, and you have to limit the amount …” ”What I'm afraid of is that I'll go and offend the Holy Son!”

”Don't even think about being a big shot, you need to be a flail in your pants. If you need a small size, there's only one or two latrines for you to go to …”

”But there's a rule for latrines. They must be guarded by someone else and prepared with the best silver wood charcoal. Every time they go out, they have to spread a layer on the toilet and then add some spices …”

”This is the rule, this is the care of our Great Qing!”

”Your Majesty, don't say that the rules are strict, but if you aren't strict, that won't do …” Why did he have to sit in the same village? Why are all the villagers matched with the elders of the village? ”