Chapter 024 Human Nature
"The Zhao family's country is destroyed... It's time for this, but you still deliberately humiliated me. What's the purpose? Do you need my life to be a stepping stone for your ascension to the throne? Well, just take it, just ask you to let them go. They are just women and will not pose a threat to your country, can you?" After several days of influence, Emperor Lizong's spirit has been completely defeated. He did not believe that Hong Tao would continue to keep him and his family. There has never been this precedent in history, and he did not want to be the Lord Chen.
"Your Majesty, no one wants to replace your throne, and no one wants to kill the royal family. Brother Hong and I just think that the Song Dynasty can be better, but through normal means, we cannot get control of the Song Dynasty, so we can only come up with this inferior strategy. Please believe that as long as I, Wen Nan, live for one day, you will still be the Emperor of Song." Wen Nan finally dared to show up in front of Emperor Lizong, and it was not forced by Hong Tao, but came voluntarily. The vicious plan to kill all officials was expressed, and this layer of window paper was penetrated, and his inner thoughts changed.
"...Minister Wen, why is it so far? I asked myself that there is no place to be sorry to the people of the world. Am I really so unbearable?" Emperor Lizong was not surprised to see Wen Nan. He had been mentally prepared since the moment Hong Tao appeared in front of him. As for what Wen Nan said, he still couldn't figure out. If he was not worthy of being the emperor, why should he keep himself?
"Your Majesty, if the Jinhe Empire fights the Song Dynasty, who do you think will win in the end?" Hong Tao has been standing by the door frame all the time. He didn't want to be too close to Emperor Lizong, not because he was afraid that he would hurt others suddenly, but because Concubine Jia and the princess behind Emperor Lizong looked at him with fear, helplessness and sadness. These two women are indeed innocent, and he has indeed hurt them for his own purposes. The taste of being treated as a devil is indeed not so happy, so just stay away.
"Our court has always had good friendship with Jinhe Kingdom, so how could there be a saying of war..." Emperor Lizong hated Hong Tao to the core, but he did not dare to offend this great evil god. The screams that came from the mountain in the past few days echoed day and night. Just think about it and you will know what was going on, so the question has to be answered.
"Friendship? You are still concealing yourself. I built the Jinhe Empire with only 20 years. But I can already regard the Song Dynasty as nothing. If you want to attack, I don't know if this is a problem? I am stronger than you in the issue of governing the country, and I believe that my ancestors are Han people. Seeing that the love of the Han people's country is getting weaker and weaker in your hands, I will soon be broken by the Jinhe Empire. I can't bear it. This country can be stronger, so why not?"
"You just said that the Song Dynasty is the kingdom of your Zhao family, which is very wrong. The Song Dynasty is not owned by anyone, but by everyone. If you can't change this concept, you will never be able to become prosperous and powerful with the Song Dynasty. But then again, is your Zhao family really useless? No, personally, I think you are doing pretty well. This is also the main reason why I want to retain this throne to you. It is the reward that your Zhao family has made for several generations of efforts to the Song Dynasty and has never given up when the powerful enemy invades."
"But this emperor is different from the previous emperors. You should have studied what the emperor of the Jinhe Empire, that is, the emperor of my son and I. In the future, you and your descendants will do my previous job well. Just be an emperor and participate in certain government affairs with conditions, mainly as a symbol and spiritual existence of the empire. Whether you are willing or not, this is irresistible. I advise you to do this job well for the sake of the entire royal family and cooperate with us to govern the Song Dynasty."
"These are things that need to be done at tomorrow's dynasty meeting. You can take a look first. It doesn't matter if you can't remember it. You can bring your manuscripts to the court together. By the way, tomorrow's dynasty meeting starts at Chen hour, and it will be this time in the future. Don't get up in the middle of the night and make trouble. You are not tired of others. Think about what I say, and our monarchs and ministers still have plenty of time to talk about these issues in detail. Of course, you have to be able to live until the end, listen carefully to every word of my words and do it 100%. That's you and
They continue to live to ensure that they should be safe." Hong Tao did not want to influence the emperor. He did not have the patience and there was no need to influence him. Keeping him as an emperor was just a transitional method. In the end, the Zhao family's throne would still be replaced, and he would have to hand it over to Jinhe if he couldn't replace him. It is estimated that Emperor Lizong would become a very special last emperor in history books. The reason why he was special is that he and his royal family would not be killed by later generations, but gradually became ordinary people and had the opportunity to participate in political activities.
"I have been crying and screaming in the imperial garden these days. You have already got everything you want. Why do you want them to come here to suffer with your wounded body? Tell me, I agree to whatever I want, don't be embarrassed by them anymore. I am ashamed of them..." Emperor Lizong looked at the stack of documents handed over by Hong Tao, and he was determined to kill him. Being a prisoner is not enough. He has to let himself and those ministers go to court like nothing is wrong. This is not too bad to treat people!
"Injure your body? Hahahaha... Your Majesty, you are really good-minded, but if you worry too much, they are basically not injured. Those screams were indeed from them, and I heard them, but the screams are not necessarily injured. It seems that you are still inferior to me in terms of how to torture people. Just take this opportunity to show you how I make people surrender. Come and serve the princess to take the water beating!" He actually dared to stare at himself! He even threw strange words to himself! It seems that this Emperor Lizong has not completely put himself in his position. It would be better to do anything for the second master. Emperor Lizong is a little old, so it is not appropriate to punish him. Concubine Jia is not young anymore, and it is not suitable to be replaced by the princess.
Hearing Hong Tao's orders, the two swallows walked towards the princess expressionlessly, dragged the crying princess out of the arms of the imperial concubine and the emperor without saying a word, and threw it on the round table. One person rode on her belly and pressed her to prevent her from getting up. One person took a piece of cotton cloth handed over by the Marine and covered it on the princess' face. At this time, some Marines had already brought a poke of water from the well in the yard, scooped it up with a scoop, and slowly poured it onto the cotton cloth.
The cotton cloth quickly became soaked and stuck to the princess' mouth and nose. In order to get more air, the princess had to open her mouth and breathe hard through the wet cotton cloth, but the amount of air was very limited, and more water was entering the mouth and nose. Hong Tao had never tried how uncomfortable this taste was, but he could almost imagine it, it should be similar to the feeling when a person was about to be drowned. The whole chest was so painful like a tear-out, and there seemed to be dozens of small needles in his lungs. Although the nose and throat were filled with water, it felt like there was a fire burning.
I want to ask Hong Tao how he knew he was about to drown. Who made him soak in the sea when he traveled through time? When he just woke up, he drank about the same sips of sea water as drowning. In his previous life and on a sailboat, he used this method to torture those disobedient sailors. The effect was only one word. Good! No matter how tough a person was, he had to kneel down and beg for mercy when he was poured into a bucket of water. If he didn't accept it, he would pour it again. When he was convinced, he would calculate when he was convinced. It is said that Americans in later generations also used this trick when they interrogated terrorists in Guantanamo. If it was not easy to use, would those agents of the CIA use it?
In addition to the good effect, this method has another special advantage, which is that it does not hurt the body of the inmate. After stopping watering, it can recover in less than five minutes. Apart from mental stimulation, there is no physical injury, and you will be able to jump around and behave like a good person immediately. Of course, if the inmate's heart is not very good, he may die suddenly during the torture. In the previous three days, four officials of the Song Dynasty had died at the hands of Jia Sidao and Ding Daquan, and this was the case.
"Let me go... I go to court! I go to court! Let me go!" Emperor Lizong saw that the princess was twitching all over, but couldn't scream, and he knew how uncomfortable she was. The only way to save her daughter was to ask Hong Tao. He still really loved this daughter. In order to make her suffer less, he had to kneel down for Hong Tao with his legs bent.
"Stand up, if you dare to kneel down, I will add another bucket of water to her. Look at her now and remember it in my heart. When you have any stupid thoughts in the future, think about it. Don't worry, she won't die. Let her go after the bucket of water. Also, say to her, don't seek death, otherwise I will punish the people in the royal family one by one. Your life is mine. When you cry, laugh, and die, I have to decide." Hong Tao grabbed Song Lizong's neck collar, lifted him up with one hand, squinted his little eyes, and turned Emperor Lizong's face towards the round table with a grim smile, and said in a low voice like chatting with an old friend, but the content was not so happy.
"Do you have to torture an old man like this..." After a bucket of water, the princess had collapsed on the round table and was still motionless. If it weren't for the fact that her chest was still undulating, it was no different from being dead. To be precise, she was dizzy and in pain. Hong Tao only looked over and took Wen Nan out of the hall, and decided that the princess was not dead. Wen Nan still had objections to Hong Tao's humiliation of Emperor Lizong and the royal princess so much.
"I am older than him, just treat it as my brother teaching my younger brother a lesson. This is what he asked for! Surrender is a little more thorough. If you want face or death, you can only choose one. For a while, he will still be the emperor of the Song Dynasty. If you are so fucked, not only will you seek death by yourself, but you will also put us in danger. Whoever increases danger to me will be my enemy. I am already very polite to treat the enemy." Morality and etiquette have premises. If your life is threatened, even if it is just a potential, Hong Tao must be anxious. When life is at stake, all morality and etiquette are nonsense.
Chapter completed!