In this moment, Li Yan faintly understood the Prophetic Technique.
What constitutes the world is not just vast stretches of rivers and mountains, cities and troops, but also the hearts of the people—even the Earth God and the God of the Grain must be considered secondary.
Therefore, the people are the most important, the state comes second, and the ruler is the lightest.
When the Emperor disregards the Human Dao, the way of the world falls into chaos, the people cannot make a living, and complaints fill the air; if someone predicts that a great disaster is imminent, they can create prophetic texts to push for a transformation in the mortal world.
Of course, carrying it out is definitely more complicated.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be referred to as an inner study by Confucianism, and it wouldn't have become a Forbidden Technique feared by both the court and Confucianism.
At least, in this world, it was so.
