Such a strange scene made Yuan Yan and Chen Longzheng so anxious that fine beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads. They wanted to solve this awkward situation, but they didn't know what to do.
Just as they were anxious, Xiao Ruxun took the initiative to speak.
"I've seen the project supervised by Duke Yuan. The quality is very good. Duke Yuan didn't let me down. If Dazhi Dao is completed, Duke Yuan's achievements will be recorded in history and sung by future generations. At that time, Duke Yuan can have whatever reward you want."
Yuan Huang stopped writing and looked up at Xiao Ruxun.
There was a moment of silence.
"Anything?"
Xiao Ruxun froze for a moment, then nodded.
"Anything."
"Then this old man will ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Daqin to remember to add a line in the history books. I am not a subject of the Qin, not for the Qin, only for the world."
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed. Chen Longzheng and Yuan Yan were scared out of their wits. In an instant, they broke out in a cold sweat and looked at Yuan Huang with indescribable horror.
Yuan Huang stared at Xiao Ruxun, looking at his face.
His expression changed at first, and then a sorrowful look appeared on his face.
"Duke Yuan, why do you have to do this?"
Xiao Ruxun was not angry, and his voice was not loud, but there was unspeakable regret in his words.
Yuan Huang closed his eyes.
After a while, he opened his eyes again and said, "It's meaningless to say this now. Your Majesty, please go back. This old man will naturally do a good job here. If I don't do it well, this old man will die with everlasting regret."
Xiao Ruxun said to Chen Longzheng and Yuan Yan, "You two go out first and keep an eye on the outside. Don't allow unauthorized people to come in."
Chen Longzheng and Yuan Yan looked at Xiao Ruxun in surprise.
"What, you don't understand me?"
"No … no."
Chen Longzheng and Yuan Yan immediately went outside. Yuan Yan went outside and closed the door with a worried look.
Only Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang were left in the office.
"Deacon Yuan, half a year has passed. Are you still unwilling to understand me?"
"Understand? Understand what? Do they understand that you killed Zhao Shiqing and then killed all the officials in the imperial court? "
Yuan Huang looked at Xiao Ruxun in astonishment. "Others may not know about these things, but you can't hide it from me. Xiao Ruxun, I've known you for six years and lived with you day and night for more than three years, but I never knew that you had such a vicious heart."
Xiao Ruxun took a deep breath.
"Putting aside the fact that this is something that I've decided to do a long time ago, as an Emperor, if I'm soft-hearted, I'll be subverting my own empire. I won't let off anyone who threatens my empire."
"What about me? Am I not a threat to you? Why don't you kill me?! "
Yuan Huang slammed the table and stood up, roaring angrily at Xiao Ruxun.
Xiao Ruxun was not angry.
"Deacon Yuan, you're different. Even if I want to kill everyone in the world, you'll be the last. I won't kill you. You're not a threat to me."
"You …"
Yuan Huang's face froze. Then, he lowered his head and sat back on the chair with a pained expression. "Why should I know you? Why should I help you? "
"Because only I can save the world."
Xiao Ruxun immediately answered Yuan Huang, "Only I can bring the world back from the brink of collapse. Only I can change everything, and I did change everything. It's just that I killed a little more people. But Deacon Yuan, with the situation of the Great Ming Dynasty before, is it possible for me to not kill?"
"I don't want to care about these things. I only know that you've been killing people non-stop."
Yuan Huang raised his hand and patted his chest. "Men, women, old and young, you haven't left a single one behind. You've been killing them all."
"When the emperor is angry, millions of corpses will float. Since ancient times, which emperor didn't kill people? Moreover, the people I killed were all people who deserved to die. "
"Then there are too many people who deserve to die."
Yuan Huang sneered and mocked Xiao Ruxun.
But he didn't expect Xiao Ruxun to directly nod.
"In terms of what I originally wanted to do, I can be said to be the enemy of the whole world. However, I became the emperor. Using this identity and this power, I can make many seemingly unreasonable things reasonable. People have to accept it even if they don't want to. But if people see through the fundamental purpose of what I want to do, all the officials in the imperial court will be my enemy. There are no exceptions."
Yuan Huang furrowed his brows.
"What exactly do you want to do? Haven't you done enough? What else do you want to do in this world? "
"You don't need to know so much. You only need to know that I'm not only doing it for myself, but also for the people in the world. I'm not doing it for the officials or the tyrants."
"What does this mean?"
Yuan Huang couldn't understand Xiao Ruxun's actions. "If you want the land to belong to the state, you can just kill the landlords and gentry. Isn't that enough? What else do you want? "
"I can't guarantee that there won't be new landlords and gentry after me. My officials and generals helped me kill the previous landlords and gentry, but what if they become new landlords and gentry? I can suppress them when I'm alive, but what if I'm dead? "
"You …"
Yuan Huang found that he really couldn't understand Xiao Ruxun.
What was he thinking all day long?
"Can't you just calm down? Don't make a fuss here and there, okay? The people need a stable and peaceful world, not a world in turmoil! "
"The absence of war is the greatest peace and stability. It's already there now, but if the people of the world don't want to go back to the cycle of chaos and then chaos again, they must continue to make trouble. Once they forget to make trouble and I die, they will be meat on the chopping block. They can only wait for the next chaos and be killed again."
Xiao Ruxun's words were very calm, so calm that Yuan Huang couldn't understand them.
He didn't even know what Xiao Ruxun was talking about.
But he could vaguely feel that Xiao Ruxun might not be a person who knew his place.
After a long time, Yuan Huang sighed dejectedly. "Forget it, forget it.
"Forget it, forget it, you are the Emperor, you can do whatever you want. This is your ability, I can't stop you, and I don't want to stop you. Do whatever you want to do, kill whoever you want to kill, kill whoever you want to kill, kill whoever you want to kill, kill whoever you want to kill, kill whoever you want to kill. If you have the ability, do it!"
Yuan Huang didn't want to say anything. He picked up his pen and continued to write his documents.
Xiao Ruxun didn't say anything more. He looked around the room, shook his head, and turned to leave.
Then he closed the door for him.
Yuan Yan and Chen Longzheng ran over anxiously, looking nervously at Xiao Ruxun.
Xiao Ruxun smiled.
"Why are you so nervous? I won't hurt Deacon Yuan. If you have something you want to say or do, go ahead. Don't worry about me."
With that, Xiao Ruxun left.
Yuan Yan and Chen Longzheng were stunned for a while, and then they quickly ran to Yuan Huang's room.
Xiao Ruxun looked back at their backs.
Sure enough, if he continued to fight, no one would understand him.
No one would understand. Even if they helped, it would only be for their future and the glory of their descendants. If they didn't have these, would they do it?
Ideals were too extravagant, especially in this era.
Isolated and helpless, no one understood, and no one supported him.
It seemed that he was a little too ahead of the times.
But people who held such ideas in any era were ahead of the times, isolated and helpless, and no one could understand them.
Fortunately, everyone was still using the traditional template of the founding Emperor to compare his actions, thinking that this was just the founding Emperor's act of establishing power.
They were frightened, but they didn't think that this was the beginning of a big change.
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