girl, you're wrong

Chapter 196
When seeing the princess sister again, Cheng Jinyang was startled.

Judging by her appearance, it seems that she hasn't slept well for a long time.

"I have to guard the equipment of the Patriarch of the Zheng family 24 hours a day." Seeing his concerned and inquiring face, Princess Nankang explained, "Otherwise, if something unexpected happens, the entire Jiankang City will be ruined."

"Can't we arrange synthetic human mercenaries?" Cheng Jinyang asked.

"Of course, the synthetic man itself does not have coding authority, so there is a risk of being hacked." Princess Nankang replied.

So Cheng Jinyang thought of Xiao Yunlai, a housekeeper who had been hacked several times, and asked quickly:

"Then you don't sleep for 24 hours, is it okay?"

"Solve it with medicine and mechanical assistance." Princess Nankang yawned, "Although it is easy to get sleepy, it can still hold on."

She calmed down a little, and said:
"You are already the patriarch of the Cheng family in the god capital, right?"

"Yeah." Cheng Jinyang nodded and said.

"Go to the palace next, Father will definitely meet you." Princess Nankang confessed, "Don't be too afraid of him, but don't trust him either."

Can't trust the emperor?It's a bit weird that Sister Xinnan said that as his daughter.Cheng Jinyang thought to himself,

"You are the teacher's son, and my father may talk to you about this." Princess Nankang hesitated, and said, "I said, I will wait until you reach the seventh rank and have the ability to protect yourself. Tell you about your parents."

"But father doesn't have such worries, so no matter what he says to you, you must keep an attitude of careful consideration." She finally concluded, "Don't believe what he said lightly, think more."

How did Sister Xinnan become a riddler?Cheng Jinyang slandered in his heart, and earnestly agreed:
"it is good."

After bidding farewell to the princess and sister, Cheng Jinyang went down the mountain road to the west again and set off for Taicheng.

At the east gate of Taicheng, he found the guard in charge of guarding the gate.

Unexpectedly, this guard is actually a synthetic human...or a highly mechanized soldier. All exposed bodies are mechanical, which gives people a chilling feeling.

Cheng Jinyang recalled that this seemed to be called the "uncanny valley effect", that is, creatures that are closer to the appearance of humans are more likely to cause fear, but if they are indistinguishable from humans, the sense of fear will disappear.

After the other party confirmed his identity, he was led directly into the Tai Chi Hall.

Unlike the descriptions in novels and TV dramas, the guard did not explain any etiquette for "meeting the emperor", such as kneeling down, not looking directly at the emperor's face, etc. - he didn't say anything.

When Cheng Jinyang came to the imperial steps, he saw the emperor sitting on the throne a hundred meters away, surrounded by nothing but the beam of light shining on the corridor from the skylight on the side wall, which made people feel a mysterious and unusual religious ceremony feel.

"Just play against His Majesty here." The guards stationed on both sides said in a mechanical voice, which meant that he could no longer approach.

"Uh." Cheng Jinyang began to search his stomach, thinking about what he should say, only to hear the emperor's voice from a loudspeaker around him:
"Ugh……"

"You are Xie Guyan's son, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cheng Jinyang replied.

"Xie Guyan." The emperor let out a chuckle of unknown meaning, "Her death is a great loss to the empire. I warned her not to trust Cheng Qinghe too much, or even the god capital Cheng...but she refused to believe my warning."

"If she chose to stay in Taicheng at that time, maybe she wouldn't have died. No one expected the monsters to infiltrate the Chuhe defense line and attack Wujiang Town." Speaking of this, the emperor paused slightly, "But In that case, perhaps you would not have been born in this world."

Cheng Jinyang didn't know what to say.Contrary to the emperor?The heavily armed guards are still standing nearby!Go along with the emperor?Doesn't that mean that I don't want my parents to marry and give birth to me?

Fortunately, the emperor did not say much on this topic, but asked him:

"Jinyang, Wang Chuzhong should have sent someone to look for you, right?"

Just as Cheng Jinyang wanted to subconsciously say no, he suddenly remembered the matter of the housekeeping robot Xiaoyun, and replied:

"Yes, they seem to have hacked into a domestic synthetic human..."

"Well, you destroyed it later, which is very good." The emperor continued his topic and said, "Wang Chuzhong judged you as a hostile party because of this. Some time ago, he asked Shen Shiju to test you, but was later sent away by Princess Nankang. .”

Hearing that, Cheng Jinyang was in a cold sweat.Good guy, Jin Yiwei's eyes and ears are really pervasive!Fortunately, I killed Xiaoyun in time that day, otherwise, if the emperor's suspicion and jealousy are aroused, I'm afraid there will be a lot of troubles in the follow-up!

"If you were not so decisive at the beginning, for example, after listening to the other party's demagogic theory, what would happen afterwards?" The emperor seemed to see through his thoughts, and continued, "Then Shen Shiju is not testing you secretly. Instead, they took you out of Jiankang City directly."

"Then you will become one of the brainwashed mind stamps."

Cheng Jinyang was silent for a while, then said:

"Your Majesty, I...although I don't know about political affairs, I know how to be loyal to the emperor and love the country. Since Wang Chuzhong rebelled, I will be at odds with them, and I will definitely not take refuge in them."

Only the second half of this statement is true.Now that the Duke of Wuchang has acquired the lineage of the gravitational uncle, the value of the members of the Cheng clan who stayed in Jiankang City has dropped significantly.If Long Xiang's army really destroys the court, then he will be at the mercy of mermaids, and whether he lives or dies depends entirely on the other party's mood.

But what can be done?Whether it's for the princess sister, or for Azhi, Wanrou, Qingqing and the others, it is impossible for him to be a traitor.

"Speaking of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism." The emperor said lightly, "Have you ever thought about what it means to be loyal to the emperor and love the country?"

Cheng Jinyang: ? ? ?

What?The emperor asked me why I was loyal to the emperor and patriotic, how should I answer this?

"Or let's change the subject." The emperor continued, "Emperor Gaozu Xuan once said that there is a group of people called 'social evolutionists'. Basic subsidies to the bottom people should be stopped, so that the low-end population will be eliminated naturally, what do you think?"

"Of course not." Cheng Jinyang replied immediately, "It's definitely a fallacy."

"Survival of the fittest, in the long run, is of course beneficial to mankind as a whole." The emperor said quietly, "but in the short term? If you want to eliminate others, will they be eliminated willingly? So there is intense competition, or More extreme, war."

"War is absolutely harmful to mankind as a whole, so the meaning of being loyal to the emperor and patriotism lies in this." The emperor paused, and continued, "What mankind needs is not the emperor or imperial power, but a stable political order."

"Once the political order is unstable, there will be competition, and countless ambitious people will stare at my position. They will start a war, and almost everyone will be involved. The winner will try his best to get to the position, and then be defeated by new competition The former will be overthrown until someone integrates most of the forces, gains absolute superiority, and establishes a new political order. But before that, such turmoil will last for a long time.”

"However, will demons give humans such time? I don't think so. Or, if it really happens, no one can afford the corresponding price. The current empire must not have civil strife, and Wang Chuzhong chose exactly Such a tumultuous path."

"Even if he really defeats the imperial court and ascends to the throne, can he successfully subdue other people? Wang Maohong will not talk about it. He can't subdue any of the remaining four of the five surnames. Everyone can accept a weak Sima family The emperor is in power, but he cannot accept the reign of a high-level supernatural being from the Wang family of Taiyuan, after all, the latter will brainwash people."

"So why should you be loyal to the emperor and love the country? If you can gain absolute strength, defeat the imperial court and subdue all forces in an instant, then you can take my position. But there is no such person, and all conspirators whose ambition exceeds their abilities will eventually It brings nothing but disaster to the empire."

(End of this chapter)