Eternity RPC Board
11-03-2018, 11:27 PM
Dâng Hâi Cân province, Imperial Kingdom of Hôinôm | Vintyr, 1590
"You can enter", Bính said. "Your Excellency Huỳn is waiting".
"Thank you", Vô Quang Vang replied.
"Would you want anything to drink or eat?", Bính asked.
"No, thank you", Vô answered.
"Alright", Bính replied, indifferently. "It's down there, the main room on the left".
"Not the kind of the visit I would have expected", Huỳn Công Viên said as soon Vô Quang Vang entered.
"Well, I needed to cross through this province, and I suddenly reminded our last conversation", Vô Quang Vang said. "How are you feeling lately", he asked.
"Those lungs are killing me, and not only literally", Huỳn replied, although his voice sounded more bored than worried. "How were you able to leave Hôi Luỳên? I am surprise they did not send you to prison".
"I am as surprised as you are", Vô Quang Vang replied. "But men like me are not longer a threat for anyone in current circumstances. Maybe not even for you".
"You are right", Huỳn said. "I still believe that people like you should have been stopped when there was still time".
"I am convinced you do", Vô said, unsure if Huỳn Công Vièn was kidding or not.
"In any case", Huỳn continued, "I will not last for long, and it wouldn't be good manners to threat a guest in my own house. As one of our ancestors once sang...About a conquered nation’s poor fate the singing girls know nothing".
"We haven't been conquered yet", Vô replied.
"Our nation has already known in the past several meaningless states of independence", Huỳn added.
"So do you believe that Lê desperate and suicidal move...will be for nothing?", Vô asked.
"It is not I disagree with General Lê's medicine", Huỳn seriously replied, "it's that I believe it should have be tried earlier and differently".
"You still voted for his proposal", Vô said, unimpressed by Huỳn's arguments, "that morning in the parliament...that last morning in the parliament".
"Well", Huỳn replied, "if you had been there, you had witnessed that the parliament did not vote under a happy mood".
"My own and General Lê's ideas are not too different", Huỳn added, "you may realize. The general has...not that sophisticated way to express them, let's say. But the moment his military movement failed, that moment the monarchy died".
"Do you believe he will try to build a personal dictatorship then?", Vô curiously asked.
"Oh no", Huỳn answered, "I don't mean that. Personally I don't care too much. It won't change much the situation in the current circumstances...".
"Our nation won't survive without the monarchy, I still believe that", Huỳn continued after being interrupted by his own coughing fit. "But that moment, the monarchy died. It may survive, you may say, institutionally, from the point of view of the mere and meaningless facts, but the monarchist principle died in those days".
"What do you mean?", Vô asked.
"If the imperial armed forces can decide", Huỳn replied, "not just under the shadows, but in television speeches that the monarch must leave or not...what's the point of a monarchy anymore. It was turned into a meaningless kind of government".
"I guess I'm able to understand your point", Vô said.
"Ironically", Huỳn continued, "history will be written under the voices of people like you, maybe not you personally, but your party, the spiritual party that you and your friends represented, and it will blame the empress of being too deaf to the complains of the people, of the suffering of the masses, and all that emotional and cheap talk, when the truth is found in the contrary. She rather followed the mood of our time, which is to be undecisive, not regarding the complains of the masses, but being undecisive precisely because of them. If she had been a more ruthless and bloodthirsty leader, we wouldn't be in the situation we are today. And I am not just talking about the current national crisis, but even a decade ago, when that would have been even more deeply misunderstood".
"Excuse me", I feel I'd rather need some rest now", Huỳn added.
"I understand", Vô replied. "I must continue my travel anyway. I hope you are wrong, and our nation knows better days soon".
"That's alright", Huỳn said. "That such nice wish travels with you at least until the end of your journey back home".
"If you have some time", Huỳn continued, "ask Bính to prepare some soup. It won't make you harm".
"You can enter", Bính said. "Your Excellency Huỳn is waiting".
"Thank you", Vô Quang Vang replied.
"Would you want anything to drink or eat?", Bính asked.
"No, thank you", Vô answered.
"Alright", Bính replied, indifferently. "It's down there, the main room on the left".
"Not the kind of the visit I would have expected", Huỳn Công Viên said as soon Vô Quang Vang entered.
"Well, I needed to cross through this province, and I suddenly reminded our last conversation", Vô Quang Vang said. "How are you feeling lately", he asked.
"Those lungs are killing me, and not only literally", Huỳn replied, although his voice sounded more bored than worried. "How were you able to leave Hôi Luỳên? I am surprise they did not send you to prison".
"I am as surprised as you are", Vô Quang Vang replied. "But men like me are not longer a threat for anyone in current circumstances. Maybe not even for you".
"You are right", Huỳn said. "I still believe that people like you should have been stopped when there was still time".
"I am convinced you do", Vô said, unsure if Huỳn Công Vièn was kidding or not.
"In any case", Huỳn continued, "I will not last for long, and it wouldn't be good manners to threat a guest in my own house. As one of our ancestors once sang...About a conquered nation’s poor fate the singing girls know nothing".
"We haven't been conquered yet", Vô replied.
"Our nation has already known in the past several meaningless states of independence", Huỳn added.
"So do you believe that Lê desperate and suicidal move...will be for nothing?", Vô asked.
"It is not I disagree with General Lê's medicine", Huỳn seriously replied, "it's that I believe it should have be tried earlier and differently".
"You still voted for his proposal", Vô said, unimpressed by Huỳn's arguments, "that morning in the parliament...that last morning in the parliament".
"Well", Huỳn replied, "if you had been there, you had witnessed that the parliament did not vote under a happy mood".
"My own and General Lê's ideas are not too different", Huỳn added, "you may realize. The general has...not that sophisticated way to express them, let's say. But the moment his military movement failed, that moment the monarchy died".
"Do you believe he will try to build a personal dictatorship then?", Vô curiously asked.
"Oh no", Huỳn answered, "I don't mean that. Personally I don't care too much. It won't change much the situation in the current circumstances...".
"Our nation won't survive without the monarchy, I still believe that", Huỳn continued after being interrupted by his own coughing fit. "But that moment, the monarchy died. It may survive, you may say, institutionally, from the point of view of the mere and meaningless facts, but the monarchist principle died in those days".
"What do you mean?", Vô asked.
"If the imperial armed forces can decide", Huỳn replied, "not just under the shadows, but in television speeches that the monarch must leave or not...what's the point of a monarchy anymore. It was turned into a meaningless kind of government".
"I guess I'm able to understand your point", Vô said.
"Ironically", Huỳn continued, "history will be written under the voices of people like you, maybe not you personally, but your party, the spiritual party that you and your friends represented, and it will blame the empress of being too deaf to the complains of the people, of the suffering of the masses, and all that emotional and cheap talk, when the truth is found in the contrary. She rather followed the mood of our time, which is to be undecisive, not regarding the complains of the masses, but being undecisive precisely because of them. If she had been a more ruthless and bloodthirsty leader, we wouldn't be in the situation we are today. And I am not just talking about the current national crisis, but even a decade ago, when that would have been even more deeply misunderstood".
"Excuse me", I feel I'd rather need some rest now", Huỳn added.
"I understand", Vô replied. "I must continue my travel anyway. I hope you are wrong, and our nation knows better days soon".
"That's alright", Huỳn said. "That such nice wish travels with you at least until the end of your journey back home".
"If you have some time", Huỳn continued, "ask Bính to prepare some soup. It won't make you harm".