Huo Yushen smiled tolerantly and said, "You're not an emperor, so you don't understand creatures like emperors. Their first priority is protecting the Tantai Clan's throne, not this Empire."
"If their family's throne is gone, they would rather see the country gone too."
"If you don't have that mindset of treating your family as the nation, then you're not a qualified emperor."
"Because no emperor puts the interests of the public first."
Xia Chujian: "..."
It was hard to understand that kind of mindset.
But perhaps it was because she was not an emperor?
Yet when she tried thinking as an emperor, she still could not do it. She shook her head and said, "Is there really no emperor who puts the interests of the public first?"
Huo Yushen's gaze turned toward the distant horizon. He sighed and said, "There are people like that, but there are no emperors like that. Do you understand what I mean?"
"The universe is so vast, and time is so long. In human history, there have indeed been people who put the interests of the public first. But people like that should not be insulted by the outdated term 'emperor,' a title full of distinctions between high and low, noble and base, that ought to have been thrown into the garbage heap of history."
"So-called emperors are not even worthy of carrying the shoes of people with that kind of vision."
Xia Chujian felt a yearning rise in her heart. She said dreamily, "...There really were such great people? Huo Yushen, have you met one?"
Huo Yushen fell silent for a while before continuing, "Unfortunately, I was born too late. I never had the chance to live in the same era as such great people."
Xia Chujian only half understood. *The Beichen Empire had