Chapter 2919 Deception
New cities are being built in full swing, and the Fire Nation's military-to-civilian transformation is going smoothly. After the disarmament, all talents and funds have flowed into the field of civilian technology. Civilian technology has developed rapidly and the economy has recovered very well.
Zuko, the new king, is also supported by everyone. It is difficult for Azula to rebel now, but she will not give up.
For their siblings, their mother will always be a pity. Especially for Zuko, his childhood was no longer a happy one when his mother disappeared. So he kept looking for his mother, and finally he found her.
Back then, his mother assassinated the old king. After leaving the palace, she lived in seclusion as a commoner. No one knew about her past. She was now accustomed to a poor life away from right and wrong, and would never return to the palace, even if her own The son became the Fire Lord.
In the palace, husbands cannot be trusted, fathers cannot be trusted, and sons cannot be trusted, so it is safer for the people.
Faced with his mother's choice, Zuko could only respect it. However, after finding his mother, Azula disappeared and she continued to fight for her own status.
"Yes, people's ambitions will never end." Duran said that Azula is indeed getting braver as she fights. Although she is a selfish person, she will never stop.
"Don't just talk and don't do anything, but lend me the heavenly beings. As long as I have an army, I will be able to overthrow that stupid brother." Azula said. She believed that she could completely replace her brother. In this era, , the Fire Nation has huge potential for development, and it doesn’t matter whoever becomes the king, so why not her?
"You first sum up the experience and lessons of your failure." Duran said first sum up the experience.
"There's nothing to summarize, it's just that I lost to the unreasonable magical power." Azula said angrily. Her own control skills had been wiped out by the magical power, but she still refused to accept it. The magical power is just borrowing the power of the gods. He did not lose to the magical powers, but to the gods.
But if supernatural powers can borrow power, he can also borrow power. "If I also have power, I can be stronger than him, so lend me your power." Azula looked at Duran and said, she didn't want to wait a day longer, she wanted to start a new wave in the Fire Nation right away. whirlwind. In her opinion, without the military expansion of the previous generations of Fire Lords, her brother would not have been able to have such smooth sailing, so why did such a fruit fall on her brother in vain? Why not yourself?
This is true. If the Fire Nation did not gain wealth through military expansion, it would not be able to produce so much military technology. Without so much technology, it would be impossible for the Fire Nation to have the opportunity to convert its military into civilians after defeat. The development of the Fire Nation is indeed inseparable from the wealth brought by expansion. Although it lost money in the later expansion, the early expansion was a huge profit.
Only with primitive accumulation can the Fire Nation have money to engage in education and develop technology. What Zuko is doing now is to guide these technologies and talents into the civilian field. Who can't do this kind of work? Azula thought she could do it anyway, she just wished the prince had magical powers to help.
"Now everyone is developing with peace of mind. If you usurp the throne, it will only cause everyone's dissatisfaction." Duran said that the Fire Nation has basically stabilized and has developed in all aspects. It is not wise to take action at this time.
But the princess only thinks about herself and does not consider whether others are happy or not. In her opinion, as long as she takes the position, everyone will get used to it, and ordinary people can just accept it and have no right to be picky.
She really has the character of a tyrant, as if the whole world revolves around her.
"I taught you before that you must tell your story well. If you tell the same story as Zuko, then everyone will not support you, because they don't have to endure the turmoil and ultimately change nothing. If you If you can promise more benefits, you can give it a try, but you can't get any benefits now. "Dulan said, "Now you have to find your own story again."
Azula looked at Duran and responded with silence. Dulan helped write the previous stories. Now she still has high hopes for Dulan, hoping that Dulan can make her great again.
"Everything has returned to its original point, but there is no need to be nervous. We can tell good stories. For example, the story of 'not relying on the gods and emperors, only relying on ourselves' is very good. In the future, everyone will become more and more dissatisfied with magical powers. Everything will be dissatisfied, and when the time comes, new stories will be needed by everyone. "We have to wait for the opportunity, and when everyone is eager for new stories, we will come up with new stories.
"Don't rely on the Immortal Emperor, just rely on ourselves?" "But I just want to become the Fire King." The princess said that this slogan was not in line with her goal.
"You are still too young. When you start telling stories, everyone gathers because of this story. If you betray the story, you betray everyone, and everyone will abandon you. When you become the teller of the story "You become a member of the story and you cannot be above the story." Duran said: "You were almost abandoned by everyone because you were not serious about your story and could not be consistent. This was very dangerous. of."
"Become a member of the story? No, I am a storyteller, I will not be bound by the story." Azula did not want to put shackles on herself. It would be great for her to remove obstacles, but not for her to create obstacles for herself.
"There's nothing you can do about it. Anyone who wants to be in power must do this. Going against your own story means you'll die." Duran said, "Everyone follows you and tolerates you not because of your charisma, but because of your personality." It’s because of your story. If you go against the story, you’re their enemy.”
This is too difficult for Azula, because she is not a person who can abide by the rules. She always wants to break the rules and make her own will the rules.
But this is not possible, because a person's will is bound to change, that is, accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger. If there is no stable story, no one is willing to accompany a tiger every day.
There are generally two possibilities for accompanying a tiger. One is that there are huge benefits, so that everyone forgets the danger. The second is that there is a huge danger, and tigers are relatively safe.
Confucius has a joke, saying that when he traveled around the countries, he met a crying woman and asked her why she was crying. She said that she was really miserable, there was a tiger in the mountain, her father was eaten, her husband was eaten, and her son was eaten not long ago. Confucius asked since he knew there was a tiger in the mountain, why didn't he move? The woman said that there was no harsh government in the mountain. This is the allusion of harsh government being fiercer than a tiger.
Therefore, there are prerequisites for accompanying the tiger. Azula obviously cannot create these two conditions. Then she has only one way to go, that is, not to be a tiger, give a stable story, and let everyone abide by the story. Her wishes cannot be higher than the story, otherwise she will be betrayed.
"You are still young, I think you should understand the importance of the story." Duran said: "Let me send you to the hometown of the gods, and you will understand."
Duran sent Azula to the factory to screw screws. From the beginning of recruitment, it was agreed that the monthly salary was 8,000, and food and accommodation were provided. But after joining the company, it was found that the position of 8,000 was occupied, so only 3,000 positions could be arranged first, and the conditions of food and accommodation were very poor, which could only be said to be not starving to death.
Azula had to feel the feeling of those who followed the story but were deceived in the end, so that she could understand the importance of realizing the story. To understand those who follow the story, to understand the hatefulness of those who tell stories but do not implement them, so that she can be a person who does not violate her own story.