723. Chapter 723 Survival from a desperate situation [5]
Seeing the dying Nangong Jin, Yang Chi and Tianya were anxious, but they had no choice but to summon hundreds of officials to go to court immediately.
Seeing all the civil and military officials in the court again, Yuchi Haotian was filled with emotion.
Most of these people were his ministers a few years ago. The emperor was imprisoned, but these ministers were living well and doing whatever they were supposed to do. It seemed that the change of dynasty had no impact on them at all.
When all the officials saw that Nangong Jin had been captured, they were all too angry to speak out.
Yuchi Haotian sat on the dragon throne again and explained his intentions to the civil and military officials.
First, change the Nanyang Dynasty to the Chaoyang Dynasty. Second, give up attacking Luo Zhiguo and return the occupied territory.
If one of the above two conditions cannot be met, today this palace will become the burial place of all officials.
If everyone can comply with the current affairs, then tonight there will be just a change of emperor. Except for Nangong Jin's cronies, the official positions and salaries of all other officials will remain unchanged.
I originally thought that these Nanyang ministers who tried their best to pass the Enke examination and sneak into the Chaoyang court must be some tough men who would rather die than surrender.
Unexpectedly, after the restoration of the country, the high officials who had been serving for a period of time began to become greedy for life and afraid of death.
The officials' bodies, which were originally trembling in fear, stopped trembling after Yuchi Haotian's words fell.
Everyone lowered their heads and glanced around quietly, observing the reactions of other ministers and workers.
After a long time, a former minister of the Chaoyang Dynasty came out first, knelt down to Yuchi Haotian, and declared himself a minister again. He also talked about how helpless they were as ministers after Nangong Jin forced the palace, and hoped that Yuchi Haotian could accept them again regardless of the previous grudges.
Upon seeing this, the other Chaoyang ministers all knelt down to support Wei Chi Haotian.
Unexpectedly, it would go so smoothly, and Yuchi Haotian was also in a good mood. Looking at the Nanyang ministers who wanted to surrender but were very worried, Yuchi Haotian said many good words to calm their worried hearts.
In fact, if the ministers and troops of the Nanyang Dynasty were dedicated to protecting the Lord and would rather die than surrender, then no matter how powerful the evil leader was, he would not be able to subvert a country with just one person.
But it happened that these ministers were greedy for life and afraid of death. Just like the Chaoyang minister who betrayed him, so were all the Nanyang ministers.
After weighing the pros and cons, the first Nanyang minister knelt down.
When there is one, there are two, and then one after another...
After a while, there was not even one who would rather die than surrender, and all the ministers were kneeling on the ground.
This was something that neither Yuchi Haotian nor the evil spirit leader had ever thought of. Originally, they thought that there would definitely be unyielding people, and when the time came, they would kill one more to serve as a warning to others.
Unexpectedly, these Nanyang ministers were worse than some of the Chaoyang ministers at the time, and they all surrendered.
Only then did they discover that Nangong Jin's four generals and personal bodyguards had disappeared after notifying the civil and military officials.
Originally they thought they were going to mobilize troops, but not long after, even the general from the military camp came to the palace and handed over the military symbols. Yuchi Haotian and Mu Yunqi were too lazy to trace the whereabouts of these four people.
Not to mention just four personal guards, even four hundred people can't do anything to them.
After introducing Yin Chanzi, one of the five elders of the Evil Spirit Sect, to the officials and conferring him the title of national master, Yuchi Haotian forced everyone to take the "miraculous elixir" secretly prepared by the Evil Spirit Sect.