"His Majesty........"

By the lake, Ah Hai made a tactful move away from the position. Fu Liye stood beside Li Mingxun. Seeing that he had not spoken for a long time, he just looked at him, he shouted softly.

Li Mingxun put down the fishing rod, observed Fu Liye carefully, and said, "I didn't expect you to call me Your Majesty. I thought before you came, maybe you would call me by my name, maybe you would add respectful titles such as sir, but I didn't expect you to call me Your Highness like an ordinary person."

Fu Liye said: "You are the founding emperor and the pioneer who rescued our nation from feudal oppression. I have no reason not to respect you. And if you call your name, it would be too rude. Just call him a sir, I would be too sorry for your contribution to our nation."

Li Mingxun pointed to the horse stool beside him and asked Fu Liye to sit down. With a greeting, the servants brought barbecue grills and beer chilled in the ice bucket. Li Mingxun personally barbecue. Fu Liye asked: "Your Majesty, Your Highness Yu said you want to see me. I have always wondered why you want to see me?"

"I am a shareholder." Li Mingxun explained casually.

Fu Liye frowned: "What shareholder?"

Fu Liye was sure that he had not done any business in the past ten years, nor did he do business in partnership with others.

Li Mingxun said: "My youngest son found you a piece of land in North America to allow you to continue your ideals. He also gave you 200,000 silver dollars in start-up capital. Later, he gave the money twice one after another. Half of this was my private money, and I am a shareholder."

"Okay, but this is not a business." Fu Liye understood the truth, coughed lightly, and said in a deep voice.

Lee Mingxun doesn’t care: “I am a plain person. In my eyes, as long as it is related to money, it is business.”

"Then why do you support me? My commune has never made money." Fu Liye said.

Li Mingxun said: "Because what you do is meaningful. What you advocate is equality, which is the way of the world. If you succeed, I will leave my name in the history of human civilization. If you fail, there will be many experiences and lessons that can be summarized and taken as a warning to future generations."

"So, are you my fellow disciple?" Fu Liye asked.

Lee Mingxun immediately raised his hand and said, "No, absolutely not. I don't have the great ideals of yours, at least my moral standards are not as good as you need."

Fu Liye once again wondered: "From your perspective, you should not support me. Because you are the beneficiary of the existing order. Although our country is full of unfairness, this unfairness is beneficial to you."

"It's true. I have hesitated, but I have thought that at my age, the soil is about to be buried in my neck. Even if your ideal can be successful, it will not be after my death. I can even say, what does it have to do with me?" Li Mingxun said, pouring himself a glass of beer and handing Fu Liye a glass.

Fu Liye took it, drank it all in one sip, and asked, "Don't you consider your descendants?"

Lee Mingxun said: "I have considered it, but unfortunately I have considered it in vain."

"Why?"

"Because we are royal families." Li Mingxun said frankly: "China's history proves that every dynasty has a day to end. There is no dynasty for generations. At my age, I can't see my great-grandson growing up. His descendants after the fourth generation have no connection with me. In the future, they may be wiped out or become the mascot of the new system.

As for my children and grandchildren, they have real power, either they will be crushed by the wheels of history or they will follow the trend of history. It is useless to consider it for them. They have their own thoughts and their own ideas. I don’t want to care too much, and become old immortals who are bored by others.”

Fu Liye smiled: "I think what you said is the truth, but not the whole truth."

"Of course, we are not familiar with each other, so we naturally can't say too much. The only thing I trust is Regal. If you have any questions, you can ask him. If you can get all his trust, he will tell you everything." Li Mingxun replied with a smile.

Fu Liye asked: "Then why did you call me here this time?"

"I am a shareholder. Although you have lost all your capital now, I will still support you. The premise is that you have to tell us about the next plan and the current results." Li Mingxun said.

Fu Liye had failed twice, the first time in Australia. At that time, he attributed the main reason for his failure to internal and external difficulties. This time he failed again in the North American colonies, but this time there was no objective reason. The funds supported by the royal family several times were nearly one million, and the Military Control Commission and Navy in Atlantic City also gave almost all conveniences. But the commune he created disintegrated again.

"If I summarize what I have now in one sentence, what I want to say is that with the current actual conditions, pure public ownership is impossible, and the operation of society requires the existence of private ownership to a certain extent." Fu Liye said this and saw Li Mingxun nodding, he immediately explained: "But I think that public ownership should still dominate."

Li Mingxun smiled. Fu Liye's last words were still trying to separate himself from the empire's current system. After all, the empire has been promoting public ownership over the years, such as a large number of state-owned enterprises, nationalizing land as much as possible, etc.

"My next plan is to introduce part of private ownership, and then..." Fu Liye talked endlessly about the next plan. It seemed that he had prepared for it, but in fact it was true, but he was going to give Li Junwei these words.

Li Mingxun interrupted him and said, "Mr. Fu, can I give you a small suggestion?"

"Please say that as the pioneer of the empire and the pioneer of the spirit of equality and rule of law, your suggestions are of great significance to me." Fu Liye said sincerely.

Li Mingxun said: "Our ancestors have a saying, "The unity of knowledge and action." I think you have paid too much attention to practice over the years and lacked some theoretical things. Maybe you should stop for the time being and summarize it quietly."

Fu Liye has been practicing for many years, but what he has achieved was failure again and again. This is especially true in North America. At first, he went to the old path and built a farm. The land and the things produced on the land were completely public. As a result, it failed quickly. Both the empire immigrants and local Indian natives actively joined in after hearing his speech, but immediately lay down and ate and drank.

Next, Fu Liye changed his approach and established a handicraft workshop, which was also a public system, but it was still defeated quickly.

"What is the reason for doing this?" Fu Liye asked.

Li Mingxun said: "That's right. Every time you fail, I have read the report to the third brother. I found something. In all the reports, you mentioned your followers. Combined with the information provided by the supervisors, I came to a conclusion that your status in your commune is the same as my empire.

You only have followers, no like-minded friends. You and your followers, ordinary members of the commune, you are equal in legal status and unequal in political status. Of course, both are normal, but I found that you are not equal in spirit and others cannot give you advice from the perspective of complete equality, and they will not even openly communicate with you.

What's more, the people around you are not as knowledgeable and experienced as you. Most of them have no knowledge, and those with knowledge blindly follow you."

When Fu Liye heard this, he was completely silent. He looked back on the past. As Li Mingxun said, the people around him had gradually followed him blindly, but it was not the case at the beginning of his career. He had several like-minded friends, some of whom had withdrawn, some had betrayed, but some had left because of disagreement.

He remembered a few familiar faces. More than ten years ago, a friend proposed the idea that private ownership should exist on the basis of ensuring public ownership. At that time, he put forward the most severe criticism and attracted many people to draw a clear line between him. Now he also has this idea. It’s just that this is a lesson learned through time and blood and sweat.

"Then what suggestions do you have, Your Majesty?" Fu Liye asked.

"Maybe you should go to school, do some theoretical research, and learn more about economics, politics and philosophy. After all, your knowledge system was more than ten years ago. These decades were more than ten years of the Industrial Revolution, changing with each passing day. Or, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. You can take a trip that can go on a stoop and go on a field trip.

In fact, you are not the only person that our father and son support. There is Ozil in Tibet, and we promote trade union organizations in Xijin. They also believe in equality and have similar ideas to you." Li Mingxun gave his own advice.

"If I don't accept your advice, will Your Majesty and His Highness Yu continue to fund me?" Fu Liye asked.

"I'll do the last time. After all, your socio-economic structure dominated by public ownership and coordinated by private ownership is still very necessary to experiment." Li Mingxun said with a smile.

Fu Liye nodded: "I understand, I understand."

By the lake.

Li Zhaoying and Bai Ge were eating skewers and drinking juice. Bai Ge looked at the fishing spot next to him from time to time. She asked, "Li Huang, what does that Mr. Fu do? Is your grandfather asking him to discuss business?"

"Mr. Fu is a very ideal person. How can I say that, like Mr. Bagel who was very famous last year, he is a person who helps the world." Li Zhaoying explained.

"I didn't see it, I felt that he was talking nonsense." Bai Ge said.

Li Zhaoying laughed when he heard this: "My grandfather said that when he was young, when he discussed his political ideals with others, others also thought he was ridiculous."

"No wonder they chatted together for so long. Two people who are talking nonsense naturally have common topics," Bai Ge said.

Li Zhaoying said: "I mean, the 'hesses' that were once considered to be divine are the political system of the empire. Perhaps in a few decades, people will not think that Mr. Fu's thoughts are divine."

"So that's what it means." Bai Ge muttered, and suddenly realized a question: "Why did your grandfather's ideal turn into the real politics of the empire..."

Only then did Li Zhaoying realize that he accidentally let the words out because he maintained his grandfather's dignity. He wanted to cover up, but he couldn't think of any good reason. Bai Ge smiled and said, "No wonder girls say that you are the most elegant boy. It seems that you are also from a noble family. Why do you have a child from a noble family join a volunteer organization?"

"This...this..." Li Zhaoying said simply: "My third uncle thinks I am thin-skinned, so I let me come out and experience it."

"Well, this is reasonable. Don't worry, senior brother, I will protect you from now on." Bai Ge said domineeringly.

Even if the picnic was lunch this time, when Bai Ge and Li Zhaoying had enough trouble, they found that Mr. Fu was no longer there, and there were only two fishermen left by the lake.

"Mr. Fu was leaving anxiously just now. The old man had a few books to send to you. He should have gone back to the hotel to get his luggage." The attendant came over and handed Li Zhaoying a schoolbag.

Li Zhaoying nodded and immediately said, "I'll go to the hotel immediately. You go to the port. If I don't have time, I must stop Mr. Fu at the port."

After saying that, Li Zhaoying and Bai Ge hurriedly got on the carriage. Bai Ge was very curious: "What book do you think is there?"

"have no idea."

"Why open it and check it out?"

"Not good." Li Zhaoying was a little reluctant.

"It must be some books your grandfather likes to read. What do he likes to read?"

"The novels, gods, ghosts, monsters and martial arts, especially those who like to read them." Li Zhaoying said, thinking for a while: "Maybe it is Mr. Pu Songling's ghost novel. My grandfather likes to read them very much recently. He sent someone to Shandong to urge manuscripts a few days ago."

"Since it's a novel, just open it and read it." Bai Ge snatched it and opened his schoolbag.

But there are several exquisitely printed books. Bai Ge read the titles one by one: "Philosophical Principles", "Metaphysical Contemplation", "Tax Theory", "Dedicated to the Wise People"... Looking at the authors again, they are all foreign names, mainly Descartes' works.

"I know Descartes, our math textbook has his geometry," Bai Ge said, and she asked, "Didn't you say your grandfather likes to read novels? These seem to be philosophy books."

Li Zhaoying said: "I didn't say that my grandfather would give others the books he liked. He definitely didn't like it. I can guarantee that my grandfather hadn't even read these books."

"Your grandpa is so interesting. Giving others something you don't like is too stingy." Bai Ge curled his lips.
Chapter completed!