Not all worlds are as peaceful as the two hundred years since the founding of the Liang Dynasty.
A long, long time ago, there was no Great Wall in the north, and there were no guardians in the world. The monsters in the north could just go south if they said they wanted to, and the human territory was full of monsters that chose people to devour.
The national name of that dynasty was Da Jin.
Perhaps it was because the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty usurped the throne and conquered the world from his ministers, so he had always been unpopular with the people, and God seemed to be unable to stand such behavior, so the founding emperor Taizu died.
, the new king who ascended the throne turned out to be just a fool.
If you look through the annals of history, you will probably not be able to find such ridiculous things a few times.
The king of a country is a fool, which is not a good thing for the world, but it is an opportunity for the vassal kings who were divided into various parties. Therefore, the land soon became chaotic, and seven or eight vassal kings rebelled.
The whole land was turned into a mess.
The life of the common people is already difficult, and with wars raging like this, there is really no way for the common people to survive.
Fortunately, there were still capable ministers in the court. In the face of the rebellion of the vassal king, they always dealt with it calmly and recruited a large army to fight against the rebels. It took a full ten years to finally put the bad situation in which the whole country was rebelling under control.
Suppressing the feudal prince's rebellion at least prevented the death of the second generation of a dynasty. From a certain perspective, it actually saved the face of the dynasty.
However, ten years of war still emptied the national treasury and caused great trauma to the people of this land. .??.
The country has always been out of money. If it's not about the businessmen, it's about the people. Years of war have made it impossible for businessmen to do business, so they naturally have no money. If they want to fight, they can only play against the people.
Therefore, from the beginning of those years, the taxes on the people were very heavy. Many people worked hard to farm for a year, and in the end they didn't even have food rations.
Therefore, in those years, more people actually starved to death than were eaten by monsters.
In fact, if the demon clan chose to go south, I was afraid that the human race would be destroyed at that time, and the demon clan would rule this land from then on. But maybe the demon clan saw that the human race was too weak, and even lost the desire to conquer, so they allowed the human race to continue.
on one's last legs.
It was the demon clan's indifference that allowed the human race to survive the most difficult days and ushered in a wise monarch on that land.
His Majesty, the fourth emperor of the Jin Dynasty, has reached the highest level of power.
He ascended the throne as emperor at a young age, and then began to work non-stop to save this land, reform taxes, and lighten the criminal law. In a short period of more than ten years, he revitalized this land.
Then just when he was about to show off his grand ambitions, the demon tribe went south.
It is said that when His Majesty the Emperor heard the news, he cursed the thief in the imperial palace for a long time.
, that night, he was so angry that he died.
The crown prince naturally ascended the throne and became emperor. Faced with the monster clan, the young emperor did not choose to give up at the beginning. After all, when his father was in power, he still left a pretty good world for him.
So he organized an army and prepared to have a good fight with the demon clan.
But he still underestimated the demon clan too much. Da Jin's army was defeated at the beginning. The demon clan was not hindered at all and just continued to move south. At that time, the entire imperial city was in chaos.
The officials were distraught and the common people were panic-stricken. It was with great difficulty that they organized a court meeting, but only less than half of the usual number of ministers attended.
In the meeting hall, the young emperor with a childish face forced himself to calm down. Looking at the panicked courtiers in front of him, he said with a cold face, "It's not that easy for the monster clan to go south. I, Dajin, have hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers.
No matter how hard you are, you have the strength to fight."
Although the young emperor looked ugly and spoke very calmly, none of the courtiers were willing to believe this.
A tall and thin civil servant walked out of the court, looked at the young emperor in front of him, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the situation is over. We are no match for the demon clan at all. At this time, the most important thing to do is to move the capital. Let's move to
Go south, where it will be safer, and then send people to negotiate with the demon tribe. They just want to get something when they go south, and they certainly don’t want to fight us to the death. Although they have the ability to destroy us, they probably won’t do it for us.
Destroying us will cost you a lot."
The courtier spoke very directly and did not show any face to the emperor in front of him. Although the courtiers present were a little frightened, they remained silent and could not find any reason to refute the courtier in front of them.
The young emperor was furious, "How can I lose my ancestors' empire? How can I see my father and my ancestors after my death?!"
The courtier looked at His Majesty the Emperor in front of him, sighed in his heart, and said, "Your Majesty, the current situation is not something we can solve by losing some places, but if it continues like this and angers the demon clan, we can't just lose some places."
That’s all, but the whole country is about to overturn, and countless people will suffer as a result. Your Majesty, even if you are not thinking about yourself, you must consider it for the people in the world. For the sake of the people, Your Majesty, you should go!"
In the end, the courtiers saved some face for the young emperor. After seeing them in front of the courtiers, the young emperor no longer persisted and moved south as well.
"For the sake of the people, this is the only way."
The young emperor's voice finally came out in the hall
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The courtiers all rushed home to pack their luggage, and the emperor's dragon chariot had been waiting for a long time. The young emperor walked out of the main hall, then stood in front of the main hall and cried for a long time.
Some people in the palace turned their heads when they saw this scene and couldn't bear to watch that scene.
The chamberlain who had the closest relationship with the young emperor looked at the young emperor and comforted him softly, "Your Majesty, don't be sad."
The young emperor burst into tears and choked with sobs, "When I think that I may never come back in this life, I feel extremely sad. How can I not be sad?"
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The emperor's dragon chariot finally left, and the palace people here also followed south. In an imperial city, except for a very few palace people who stayed behind, there was no one else.
"Do you think he is weak?"
Chen Chao, who had been watching with cold eyes, and Lu Ji, who looked only middle-aged next to him, finally spoke.
Chen Chao thought about this problem for a long time before saying, "If we really want to fight, we will definitely not be able to fight, but if we really don't fight, it will be almost meaningless."
Lu Ji looked at Chen Chao and asked, "What if it were you instead?"
Chen Chao was not in a hurry to speak.
"There is no chance of winning in a fight. It will just kill more people. If we don't fight now, the cost may be very high. In the end, some people will survive. Do you think this can be done?"
Lu Ji looked at Chen Chao in front of him. He seemed to really want to get the answer from the young guard in front of him.
Chen Chao shook his head and said, "If it were me, I would definitely fight. Even if I can't fight, I would fight. I can't decide who deserves to die and who doesn't deserve to die. Fighting is for everyone to face it together. Anyone can die. If we don't fight, the people in the north will suffer first.
After the peace talks, who will be the sacrifice? The people chosen are not fair to them."
Lu Ji frowned and said, "In the end, if everyone dies together, would you feel better than choosing some people to die?"
Chen Chao nodded and said, "That's right."
Lu Ji was silent. I'm afraid not many people in the world would be able to choose this question, and those who could probably not choose it like Chen Chao did.
There is only one Chen Chao, and only he can make such a choice, and he can be so decisive.
"You are indeed a rare person."
Lu Ji lamented, "For people like you, if the country's power is strong enough, you will be a great leader. But if the country's power is not enough, you will only be a coward."
Chen Chao said calmly, "Reputation is not scary. I will not change my mind."
"But have you ever thought about it, you still have to face the demon clan, but you are not the one who can keep his word."
Lu Ji worriedly said, "What if one day, that person who can keep his word will
If I have a disagreement with you, what should you do? You can't just kill him with a knife, right?"
Chen Chao laughed and said, "One day, I will put the knife on his neck and cover his mouth. Then everyone will listen to me."
Lu Ji was speechless and didn't know what to say.
Chen Chao suddenly joked, "But when I was young, my senior was actually not very good-looking. If I really had a daughter, I wouldn't be able to talk about it."
Lu Ji frowned and said angrily, "What do you know? A princess almost wanted to marry me back then!"
Chen Chao smiled and said, "I guess she is also a princess who cannot be married."
Lu Ji was furious and just about to speak, Chen Chao said, "Look ahead."
It turned out that in the palace corridor in front, a woman in palace clothes was holding a sword on her neck and looking at the nearby palace people with an indifferent expression, "Your Majesty wants to abandon the country, I can't control it, but I
If you can’t go, I can only die here and die here together with the inheritance of my ancestors!”
Hearing what the emperor's concubine said, everyone in the palace shed tears.
The crying was a little loud.
Chen Chao said, "Look, the emperor is worse than a woman."
Lu Ji said, "But this is of no use."
Chen Chao looked at Lu Ji seriously, shook his head and said, "Senior, many things in this world are useless, but they must be done, because if no one does these useless things, then the world will be really bad.
When it reaches the extreme, there is no way to change it.”
"Many people could not die, but still died. Many people knew that doing so would not help, but still did it. It is not that they are stupid, but they know that doing so will definitely be useful, not now, but in the future."
Lu Ji frowned and said, "Is blood so memorable?"
Chen Chao shook his head and said, "It's not blood, it's the spine."
"The reason why the Jin Dynasty perished was because the backbone was broken. It was like a lost dog. Even if there was still a backbone, it was no longer in the body of the man, but in the body of the woman. How could such a dynasty survive?"
Chen Chao said, "Senior, what you want me to read should be the most miserable period of human race's history, right?"
After reading these, Chen Chao had already guessed something. What Lu Ji wanted him to see was that the Chinese Lu Chen was at that time, and the entire human race was in the darkest era.
Lu Ji nodded, "To you, these things are just dreams, but in my heart, the things that really happened are not false at all. During those nights, I will think of these things every night and cannot forget them.
I dare not forget it either.”
Chen Chao sighed, "It is indeed difficult."
He said it was difficult because he didn't know how the people came here at that time. It was just difficult.
This chapter has been completed!