owlsbooks Chapter 2009
Chapter 2009
Chapter 2009
In fact, it is very rare for a ruler to have an IQ problem. In history, there are only four emperors who have been confirmed to have an IQ problem: Sima Zhong, the Emperor Hui of Jin, was the second son of Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. Because his elder brother died early, he became the eldest son and finally became the second emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, reigning for 17 years. Emperor Hui of Jin was demented and did not take on any duties. At the beginning, Taifu Yang Jun assisted in the administration. Later, Empress Jia Nanfeng killed Yang Jun and took control of the power. One year there was a famine, and the people had no food to eat. People starved to death everywhere. Someone reported the situation to Sima Zhong, but Sima Zhong said to the reporter: "If there is no food to eat, why don't they eat meat porridge?" The reporter was amused and confused. The victims couldn't even eat food, so where did the meat porridge come from? This shows how stupid and confused Sima Zhong was. He also made a lot of jokes. During his reign, he caused the Eight Kings Rebellion, which weakened the power of the Western Jin Dynasty and eventually led to the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty. If Sima Zhong was a normal person, the Western Jin Dynasty would not have perished.
The second one is still from the Sima family, Emperor An of Jin Sima Dezong. There was an idiot emperor in the Western Jin Dynasty, and there was one in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was Emperor An of Jin Sima Dezong, who was the eldest son of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin Sima Yao. On the 12th year of Taiyuan, on the 15th day of the eighth month, Sima Dezong was made the crown prince. Emperor An was stupid and not good at speaking. According to the "Book of Jin·Emperor Records 10", he could not even distinguish between winter and summer. Therefore, after Emperor An ascended the throne, the power of the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty declined greatly. Many generals outside the court actually established themselves and did not obey the orders of the monarch. The power inside the court also fell into the hands of ministers. In the early days of Emperor An, the court policy was mainly presided over by Sima Daozi, King of Kuaiji, and his son Sima Yuanxian. After Sima Dezong ascended the throne, civil strife broke out frequently, the country was declining, the Sun En uprising broke out, and finally Huan Xuan usurped the throne. Later, Liu Yu rescued Jiankang, but Liu Yu was also ambitious and eventually usurped the throne of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. (I don’t know if it’s because the Sima family has done too many evil things, but their family members are prone to problems, they are either stupid or crazy)
The third Emperor Shunzong of Tang, Li Song, was the eldest son of Emperor Dezong of Tang and the tenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty. After Emperor Dezong of Tang ascended the throne, Li Song was promoted to King Xuan and was appointed as the crown prince. He served as the crown prince for a total of 26 years. Li Song was kind, filial, generous, benevolent and good at making decisions. He dabbled in various arts and was good at official script. He once organized the victory of the "Fengtian Defense War". In September of the 804th year of Zhenyuan (805), Li Song suddenly suffered a stroke and lost his speech function, becoming mute and stupid. Since the crown prince had been appointed, he had to ascend the throne. In , when Emperor Dezong died, he officially succeeded to the throne. After ascending the throne, he appointed Wang Shuwen and others to carry out reforms, which violated the interests of eunuchs and Jiedushi. He was forced to abdicate to the crown prince Li Chun and called himself the emperor. He died the following year.
This one is a pity, he was very smart, but he had a stroke... It seems that everyone in the Li family has this problem. Many members of the royal family died of stroke.
The fourth emperor, Zhao Yu, was the sixth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was the nephew of Zhao Yun, the Lizong Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and the son of Zhao Yurui, the Prince of Rong. Because Lizong of the Song Dynasty had no son, Zhao Yu was adopted as an adopted son and trained as the heir to the throne. Zhao Yu was born to a concubine. When his mother was pregnant with him, his mother was forced by the main wife to take abortion pills. In the end, she did not abort the baby and gave birth to the baby smoothly. Unfortunately, he was stimulated by the medicine. He was born weak, his hands and feet were weak, he could not walk until very late, and he could not talk until he was seven years old. His intelligence was lower than normal. Lizong of the Song Dynasty equipped him with good teachers and taught him carefully, but he still could not make him open up. Some ministers advised the emperor to change the heir, but the ministers who dared to speak were demoted to the local area by the powerful minister Jia Sidao, so no one dared to speak. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the first year of Jingding (1260), he was established as the crown prince. When he ascended the throne, the Mongolian army in the north marched southward. When the country was in crisis, he handed over the military and state power to Jia Sidao, which made the beautiful country of the Southern Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River dark and dark. The Southern Song Dynasty was getting worse day by day. Zhao Xie reigned for 10 years and died in Lin'an in 1274 at the age of 35. These emperors with low IQs were born in the imperial family and sat on the throne. They were not normal people, so they could not handle the government affairs reasonably, so they were controlled by the powerful officials at that time. As a result, the country declined day by day. God opened a door for them, but closed a window for them.
Apart from these four, even the most foolish emperor had no problems with his IQ!
As I said, the reason why you think the emperors at the end of those dynasties are stupid is that extreme power leads to absolute stupidity.
No matter how powerful the emperor was, he was only one person. He rarely left the palace. He relied on a huge bureaucracy to govern the country. As a result, the emperor actually didn't know what the country was like. He could only rely on the officials below to tell him.
Therefore, many emperors did not realize that their empire was about to end until the world was in turmoil.
All he had heard before was that the world was peaceful, the rivers and seas were calm, and everything was going smoothly. All his decisions were based on information given by others. If the information was wrong, it would be impossible for the decision to be correct! Therefore, the decisions made by those emperors were simply stupid in the eyes of later generations!
The same is true for Zeus and others.
They are gods, it is true, but the problem is that these gods are not what everyone imagines after reading myths. They are indeed powerful, but they are not omniscient and omnipotent. They cannot even know everything about astronomy and geography. They can be said to be powerful people!
In this situation, it is not uncommon to be deceived and make wrong decisions.
Thoth sees some things clearly, but great gods like Zeus may not!
Or maybe they are simply afraid of any change!
Because they are vested interests, even if they know that if they don't change, they will be doomed, they are unwilling to let their interests be damaged.
Some people refuse to change because of attribution problems and are unable to take on the responsibilities they should deal with; some people cannot change and procrastinate because of insufficient motivation and lack of interest in the changes they should make, and the performance is to give up; some people do not change because of insufficient energy and insufficient energy; and some people cannot change because they cannot overcome their inner fears. No one is willing to admit that they are responsible for the current bad life. It seems that most people want to change the world, and few people think that they need to change themselves. In the minds of those who dare not take responsibility, they are always the innocent victims, like people abandoned by fate, and can never get rid of the identity of tragic victims persecuted by the environment. They believe that in this world, the root causes of all the misfortunes they suffer are external factors, and all they can do is helplessly bear the reality.
For example, I used to attribute my lack of success to my family environment and my parents’ education. Therefore, I know that it is too easy to find problems and faults in others. After all, no one is perfect. When it comes to finding faults, it is only a matter of whether you want to find them or not, and there is absolutely no question of whether you can find them or not.
There is another kind of fear that cannot be changed, which comes from the fear in one's own heart.
The so-called fear is a psychological state of helplessness caused by facing "harm" and "unknown".
The same goes for Zeus. He doesn't like Asgard, and he doesn't want Asgard to come back and compete with them for the right to speak. The key is that he is not sure whether he can defeat Asgard... Perhaps deep down in his heart, he knows that he cannot defeat Asgard, so the best way is to escape!
Resisting Asgard, even to the point of being allergic.
He would overreact when hearing the word Asgard.
So Thoth proposed an alliance with Asgard, but Zeus reacted very strongly. However, others were willing to give it a try, so there was that Pantheon mission to Asgard. Thor's performance made Zeus ecstatic, and he had even more reason to resist Asgard!
"You think I didn't tell you? But those people didn't listen to me. They were so stupid!"
Toth drank a large glass of wine and then started complaining!
Trying to change others to your expectations often ends in failure. Wanting to change the environment or others is the source of pain. Everyone knows how difficult it is to change themselves, so where does the confidence come from to change others? A person always seems to have excessive self-confidence and thinks he has the superpower to change others.
Toth can't even change himself, but he expects others to change according to his expectations. This is a bit too much.
"Okay, let's not talk about Zeus and those people. You can't change him anyway. It's useless to say more." Kai didn't even bother to comfort Thoth. This guy was like an untrusted strategist who could only express that he was right by belittling his lord... a bit like Tian Feng.
Tian Feng was not a good strategist at all.
What should a good counselor be like?
Ask questions, and then make suggestions based on the questions. This is the basic skill... because although there are not many smart people in this world, there are definitely a lot of them.
Tian Feng and Toth are both such people. They can see problems and give reasonable suggestions.
But you forget that the most important thing for a strategist is to make your lord accept your advice!
Tian Feng: If you don't listen to me, I will be angry with you! He thought that this would force his lord to listen to him. He thought that he was upright and outspoken, but in fact he pushed himself to the opposite side of his lord. In this case, if the lord can listen to you in a good mood, then he must be a softie!
Look at what Xun Yu did. Others also give advice, but they will give it in a roundabout way, in a nice tone, and with reason and evidence!
So Cao Cao was willing to listen to him!
What is the most important thing for a counselor? Of course, it is that his suggestions can be adopted by the lord, so that there is a possibility of success.
You can't even take the first step, and the lord doesn't even listen to you, what kind of counselor are you?
It's useless even if you are smarter than Zhuge Liang.
So Toth could only mutter here.
"Tell me about the Eternal Altar? What on earth is that thing?"
When Thoth heard Kai's question, he put down his glass and cursed: "How could Zeus and his people be so stupid! They even gave the secret of the Eternal Altar to Ger! What's the difference between this and handing a knife to the enemy!"
Kai looked at Toth seriously and told him to stop talking nonsense!
Toth had no choice but to talk about this thing.
In fact, the Eternal Altar has always been the biggest secret of the Pantheon. Now Zeus has given the secret to his enemies. What’s the problem with him telling his friends about it?
The eternal altar.
As the name suggests, it is an altar. As for who built it and who used it, there is no way to know. The universe is huge and its history is even longer.
At least the gods have no way to explore the secrets buried by time.
All in all, the thing is there.
The gods of the Pantheon discovered it.
As for eternity, according to their research, it is the god who was born along with the birth of the universe when the universe was first born.
At the same time, four cosmic gods also appeared. These four gods are: Eternity, Infinity, Death, and Annihilation. These four abstract entities call each other brothers and sisters. (The nature of this relationship is a personification of abstract concepts. They are not blood relations like any traditional human family.)
Eternity is the physical embodiment of the multiverse, and the eternities in each single universe are just cells of the multiverse. Eternity can communicate with the eternity of the single universe beyond the physical realm and obtain any information within the universe, and even merge with it.
As an abstract entity, eternity has no physical properties, so what people see and hear is merely a reflection of their basic concept of existence. Attacking eternity is equivalent to fighting against one's own ideas.
It is said that he can control and change everything in the real universe!
Yes, everything!
All impossibilities are nothing to him.
He is the real universe itself!
And that altar is used to communicate with this great god!
The gods also tried to communicate, but unfortunately... everyone who did so got what they wanted, but also paid a price.
Eternity is fair, you can have whatever you want, but you have to pay the price.
There was a god who made a wish for eternal immortality to eternity.
Eternity satisfied him!
He became an indestructible statue, standing inside the altar. But he was only a statue.
There was a god who desired to obtain the most powerful power.
Then he became part of the universe and never appeared again.
There was a spirit who wished to have children of his own.
Then his child was born, and he was destroyed!
Eternity is very generous and will answer all wishes! But definitely not in the way you think!
So the gods sealed that place.
And put the path to get there in the Rainbow Bridge!
The only way to get there in the entire universe is through the Rainbow Bridge!
"I know what Zeus is thinking. He just wants Ger to seek his own death. After all, eternity is not something that mortals can touch." Thoth said worriedly, "They still look at Ger with the old eyes, despising him as a lowly mortal... But, how many of our compatriots have been slaughtered by such a mortal, can't they see it? Do they really think that mortals can't really touch eternity?"
(End of this chapter)