"God will repay you..." Sun Bingchen muttered to himself, his whole body trembling. He turned around and looked at Yan Liqiang with complicated eyes...
"If the people in the capital area had been evacuated earlier, instead of being left here to die in order to stabilize the situation, today's disaster would not have happened, and the White Lotus Sect would not have had such an opportunity!" Yan Liqiang said in a sad tone, pointing to the fire and the noisy voices in the darkness in the distance, "You said that day that the people are like leeks, but do you know that your so-called eternal foundation of the Han Empire is nothing more than the burial objects of the people in this small imperial city. What you think is an iron bucket country, Once it is thrown, it is broken. At this time, where are those civil and military officials who were in charge of the country in the court? Where is His Majesty now? Where are the troops under the control of the court? Under the way of heaven, these people are nothing more than ants and dust, not much higher than the leeks you mentioned. Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are straw dogs. A group of straw dogs standing in the court where the people's blood and sweat are condensed think that they can jump out of the way of heaven, think that their will can control the world, and think that others are leeks. It is really ridiculous, sad, and lamentable..."
"Heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs..." Sun Bingchen recited this sentence, and was stunned for a moment, "It turns out that we are all just straw dogs..."
Yan Liqiang looked at Sun Bingchen's face, which was dim in the firelight, smiled bitterly, and shook his head. "It is said that when you lose morality, you lose benevolence, when you lose benevolence, you lose righteousness, when you lose righteousness, you lose propriety, and when you lose propriety, you lose profit. Look at the Han Empire today. Everyone in the court claims to be a country of etiquette, favors foreigners, is shameless, and takes shame as an honor. The wealthy families and officials at all levels in various places are profit-seeking and plunder without limit. They don't care about the suffering of the people in the world, making the White Lotus Sect rise like a spark and gradually become more powerful. With such an empire, how can you talk about eternal life? Whether it is a coincidence, God's will, or a conspiracy of the ambitious White Lotus Sect, history has actually proved a truth countless times. Those who abandon the people will eventually be abandoned by the people. The glory of the Han Empire and the fate of this court will end from tonight..."
"You made the stone turtle in Ling'an River. Did you know that the calamity was coming?" Sun Bingchen looked at Yan Liqiang and said something that surprised Yan Liqiang. "Your original intention of publishing the Han Empire Times was not for fame, nor for profit, nor was it a sudden whim. Instead, it was a long-term plan. You wanted to remind the people in the capital to evacuate before the calamity came!"
Facing Sun Bingchen at this time, Yan Liqiang did not hide it anymore, but just nodded calmly, "My lord, you are right, it is indeed so!"
"I'm curious, how did you know this in advance?"
"There is a God above us. The reasons behind many things in this world are far beyond our imagination. In fact, I am just like you, a straw dog struggling to survive in this world. I am just lucky enough to be blessed by God and grow a little stronger than other straw dogs, but there is no difference in essence!"
"Did you know about what happened today in advance?"
"If I had known this in advance, none of this would have happened. How could I bear to see millions of people become the walking corpses!" Yan Liqiang shook his head.
"Millions?"
"Do you think that this incident tonight only happened in the Imperial Capital? The entire capital area has probably turned into a hell with wild beasts running rampant. I don't know how many people will survive in the end!"
Sun Bingchen was silent for a long time, for several minutes, until the flood of noise, screams and shouts approached the outside of the East Palace.
Yan Liqiang accompanied Sun Bingchen in silence, looking at the scene in the distance. Such a scene might not be seen once in hundreds of years...
"So... the fate of this court is really over!" Sun Bingchen's voice lowered, revealing a sense of desolation in the calmness. He lowered his head and looked at the ground under his feet. It was unknown what he was thinking. "In fact... Li Qiang, you know very well that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dead and has become what you call a walking corpse, right?"
"Indeed, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dead!"
"What will the future of the Han Empire look like?"
"I don't know. Maybe we've entered a chaotic world since tonight. This is what I wanted to avoid, but it still happened. In fact, tonight, you and I both failed!"
"No, I failed, but Li Qiang you haven't failed yet!" Sun Bingchen suddenly raised his head and looked at Yan Li Qiang, his eyes flashing with a gleam that was a little scary. "Li Qiang, I want you to tell me the truth, the truth from your heart. If the court is over tonight, what will happen to you, Li Qiang? What will happen when you return to the northwest?"
Yan Liqiang lowered his head and was silent for a few seconds, then raised his head, looked at Sun Bingchen and said decisively, "The king can die, the court can die, but the country cannot die, and the world cannot die. This country is not the country of one person, and the world is not the world of the court. If I return to the northwest this time, give me ten years, at most ten years, I will lead the northwest cavalry, sweep the world, and give the people of the world a bright and clear world, so that these hundreds of millions of people will never be slaves again!"
Sun Bingchen looked at Yan Liqiang, and suddenly there was an extremely relieved smile on his face, "Liqiang, I was right about you..." As he spoke, he took off a ring on his right hand and handed it to Yan Liqiang, "If you can return to the northwest this time, show this to Yijie. After seeing this, Yijie will understand everything, and he will listen to your orders in the future..."
"grown ups… "
"Take it, listen to me..." Sun Bingchen directly pressed the ring into Yan Liqiang's hand, and his tone suddenly became stern, "You must listen carefully to every word I say now. Your Majesty has a treasure in his hand, which is the most precious treasure in the world. If you want to dominate the world in the future, you must get that treasure. If you are lucky enough to get the help of that treasure, you will be able to dominate the world with half the effort in the future. If that treasure falls into the hands of someone else in the future, and that person happens to be able to exert the power of that treasure, you'd better not have the intention to compete with him..."
"What treasure is that?" Yan Liqiang asked in surprise. This was the second time he heard that the Emperor had a treasure.
"That is the Nine Dragon Seal, the most precious treasure of our Chinese race. If you want to conquer the world, you must master the Nine Dragon Seal!" Sun Bingchen patted Yan Liqiang's shoulder heavily, turned around and walked down the stairs, calmly walking towards the noisy place in the distance. Only his voice could be heard, "Let's go, let's go, you should also leave through the secret passage of the palace. I opened the map of the secret passage just now, and although you only took a look at it, with your memory, you must have remembered the location of the secret passage in the map. I know that there is nothing in this palace worth your nostalgia. I am already very happy that you can come back to see me..."
"Sir..." Looking at Sun Bingchen's suddenly desolate back, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt his eyes sore, and something wanted to overflow. His previous anger, dissatisfaction, and even a trace of inexplicable resentment, at this moment, could no longer be brought up, and disappeared in an instant...
"Li Qiang, remember what you just said to me. Even if I am in the underworld in the future, I want to see what the world will be like when people are no longer enslaved by leeks. Please..." This was the last sentence said to Sun Bingchen and Yan Liqiang.
"Boom..." The gate and a wall of the Yangyuan Palace Square in the distance suddenly collapsed, and then countless ferocious beasts rushed over here. Sun Bingchen calmly walked towards the beasts, opened his hands, and calmly sank into the darkness...
The tears that were about to fall finally rolled down from the corners of Yan Liqiang's eyes and flowed to his mouth, salty and bitter...
(End of this chapter)