"Ji … Ji Xin … You … What are you doing?"
Fang Shoushi looked at the scene in front of him in extreme shock, "What did you do? What did you do! "
Xiao Ruxun turned his head and looked at Fang Shoushi.
"Lord Fang, I've just said that rotten things have to be cut off. The earlier it's done, the better. Otherwise, the rotten parts will infect the parts that aren't rotten. Although it's painful and bleeding, at least it can ensure that the parts that aren't infected won't be infected. After that, it can still heal and continue to grow, right?"
"You …"
"I am cutting off the rotten things and letting the new ones grow."
Fang Shoushi was stunned.
"Xiao Ruxun, you … you are …"
Daheng stood up tremblingly and looked at the cruel scene in front of him in disbelief. He suddenly shouted, "Are you going to rebel?!"
"Rebel?"
Before Xiao Ruxun could speak, Liu Huangchang spoke first, "The former Ming Emperor wanted to rebel against his own country, but now, His Majesty the Daqin Emperor is safe. He doesn't need to rebel against his own country, as long as you are not here."
"Da … Daqin Emperor?"
Fang Shoushi's pupils shrank, and he suddenly remembered the black banners he saw on the city tower yesterday, as well as the tsunami-like cheers of "Long live the emperor".
"Hsiao Jixin! How dare you overstep your authority and proclaim yourself the emperor?! "
Boss Xiao let out a loud roar and rushed towards Xiao Ruxun. He did not take a few steps before he was captured by a few soldiers.
"Overstep my authority? It is you who have overstepped your authority! It is you who launched a coup d 'état and created the Daming Rebellion. You even killed His Majesty the Wanli Emperor. The world is in turmoil and without a ruler. My Majesty deeply feels the heavy security of the world, so he proclaims himself the emperor to bring peace to the world! How is this overstepping my authority? "
Liu Huangchang angrily rebuked Daheng. Daheng opened his mouth and subconsciously looked at the palace gate.
Wasn't Zhu Yijun there?
"I … Hsiao Jixin! How dare you kill the emperor! How dare you kill the emperor!!! I … "
"Bang!"
With a gunshot, Boss Xiao fell straight to the ground, dead.
A guard beside Xiao Ruxun put down the flintlock in his hand and retreated to Xiao Ruxun's side.
Boss Xiao died in front of him.
Fang Shoushi and Sun Chengzong widened their eyes.
Shen Yicheng closed his eyes.
Luo Sigong broke down and cried.
"Ah —!!!!"
Xiao Ruxun frowned. She took a flintlock and walked in front of Luo Sigong to face him.
"If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today. You have contributed greatly to me being able to reach this point. So, Luo Sigong, I don't know if I should thank you or hate you, but I do know that I should kill you."
After that, Xiao Ruxun pulled the trigger and shot Luo Sigong's skull.
In just the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, two important people were thoroughly dead.
Xiao Ruxun threw the flintlock in her hand back to her personal guard.
"You are an emperor?"
Shen Yicheng suddenly opened his eyes and stood up.
Xiao Ruxun nodded.
"Well, I am an emperor."
"When did you have the ambition to be an emperor? I can't feel it. When we met before, I didn't feel that you had the ambition to be an emperor at all. "
Shen Yicheng seemed to be very curious about when Xiao Ruxun had the ambition to be an emperor.
"The moment I escaped from the capital, at that moment, I suddenly wanted to be an emperor. During the time of escaping, I reflected on why I almost died in your hands. Then I came to the conclusion that instead of pinning my hopes on others, it was better to do it myself."
"That's it?"
Shen Yicheng felt a little incredible.
"That's it."
Xiao Ruxun nodded with certainty.
"Before that, you didn't have the ambition to be an emperor?"
"No."
Xiao Ruxun smiled mockingly. "Before that, I was wholeheartedly thinking about how to help our emperor get rid of you and then restore Daming. I thought of many ways, I designed many routes, but in the end, I was almost killed by you. After that, I understood that some things are better to be simple and violent. Man proposes, God disposes."
Shen Yicheng suddenly felt a little absurd.
"In that case, this old man is actually the culprit behind your betrayal of Daming and overstepping your authority to be an emperor?"
"You … Shen Yicheng, you are presumptuous! You … "
Just as Liu Huangchang was about to step forward and scold Shen Yicheng, he was stopped by Xiao Ruxun.
Xiao Ruxun was not unhappy.
He did not comment on this statement.
"You can't say that. Later, I thought about it carefully. Perhaps your mutiny was a major incentive for me to become an emperor, but the most fundamental reason was probably that I felt hopeless about solving all the problems through reform. I no longer had any confidence in reform.
I thought of Zhang Juzheng, I thought of Wang Anshi, and I thought of Shang Yang. What is reform? Why do we need to reform? What are the difficulties that reform faces? What if reform fails? What if reform succeeds?
In the end, I came to a conclusion. Reform is meaningless. For the beneficiaries, reform is robbing their money, and robbing people of their money is like killing their parents. In the eyes of most people, money and parents are equally important.
Reform will inevitably touch some people's pockets, and they will definitely not be willing. Under the current framework, the power of the reformers may not be stronger than them, and may even be weaker than them. They can use the current rules to suppress the reformers, and the path of the reformers is incomparably difficult.
I am not Shang Yang, I am not Wang Anshi, I am not Zhang Juzheng, I am Xiao Ruxun. Since I rejected reform, I am happy to flip the table. It just so happens that I do not intend to let you continue to live and fight for power with me. So I thought it through. What reform? It's a big break and a big establishment. "
Xiao Ruxun looked at Shen Yiyi. "Thank you, Cabinet Elder Shen, for clearing the final obstacle for me, and also completely shattering the last of my fantasies, allowing me to face the world squarely. So, I've decided to proclaim myself Emperor. I'm not going to reform, I'm going to make new rules."
Shen Yicheng took a deep breath.
"Are you that confident in yourself? Do you really believe that you can shatter the current rules and make new rules that you want? Even the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, would not dare to say that the world belongs to him alone. Do you think that you can make new rules just because you kill me? "
"Of course not!"
Xiao Ruxun refuted clearly. "So, I have decided to kill all of you. You, and those who share the same ideals as you, will be killed together."
Shen Yicheng frowned in confusion.
Liu Huangchang also looked at Xiao Ruxun in surprise.
"What do you want to do?"
"You don't need to know what I want to do. You only need to know that the three southeastern provinces, South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian, are all under my control."
Xiao Ruxun smiled and patted Shen Yicheng's shoulder. "What you think is the greatest support is just a flock of fat sheep in front of me. Thanks to the contributions of these fat sheep, I am now very rich. Even without 500,000 troops, I can still use money to crush any enemy. That's it, do you understand?"
Shen Yicheng seemed to understand, but also seemed to not understand.
He looked at Xiao Ruxun in surprise.
After a while, he showed an expression of sudden realization.
Xiao Ruxun did not care. He turned his head to look at Fang Shoushi and Sun Chengzong.
"Lord Fang, Mr. Sun, are you willing to serve the new dynasty?"
Fang Shoushi and Sun Chengzong were still immersed in shock. When they suddenly heard Xiao Ruxun's question, they were both stunned. After a while, Fang Shoushi took a deep breath and cursed at Xiao Ruxun.
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