Chapter 1463: Killing the Son
In the open square where the 'Victory King's Day' is held, the six-story high-rise god Tall Usway with a golden roof of black stone smiles gently in the dazzling light of the sun, and exciteds the crowd like a swarm of ants below, and also faces the expressionless aging king. He was in the center, and he was closely watched by all the people, nobles, and officials around him, like a group of evil beasts were about to devour him!
"Is this what you give me justice?" he asked silently in his heart, wordlessly looking up at the huge statue of the black-skinned, blond-haired and golden-crowned god that was high above, and watching the dazzling ten-colored divine light gradually unfolding on the statue. Generally speaking, it was the great feat of the god Rusway's ten great salvations. But at this moment, he suddenly understood the meaning of those divine lights, because the imaginary black-robed man was also observing: "Each light is a divine realm, and there are ten of them, and the wonderful thing is that they are not independent but densely intertwined with each other, forming a very complex domain system. You really haven't studied it before?"
"Nope. The old king replied in his heart with an illusion: "The priests will not sue us." So, what do you see?" the man in black said, "From the elemental point of view, the realms of earth, water, fire, and wind all exist, but they are not very strong. His blue-gray brilliance represents the realm of the sky, the sun and space, but not the realm of weather and rain, and he has the realm of the earth, and he also includes the rivers and oceans of the earth, but there is no earth and no minerals. It is both comprehensive and incomplete, like the so-called concept of 'heaven and earth' - people look up to heaven and earth, as if heaven and earth contain a qiΔ. But in fact, the sun and moon are relatively independent in themselves, and they only want to cast light on people through the sky. And the sky is a middleman, a channel. Therefore, the god Ruswei is the 'god of heaven and earth'. On the surface, it contains all things, but in fact it is just a huge super middleman, he dominates the channel of the sky and the channel of the ground, and the natural realm of other gods will submit to him. From the point of view of natural attributes, social attributes. He extends the realm of power from the natural attributes: the sky, the earth, then the realm of punishment, and then the realm of 'nobility', which is the golden light. This 'noble' realm should be his strongest realm, followed by domination, protection, and so on. is a very complex god. β
"Just there is no kindness??" The old king's stern zhΓ²ng was full of despair and the last expectation: "God has always taught us to be kind and merciful~~~" But the man in black replied so seriously and ruthlessly: "No! But that's not true kindness, he shows kindness and kindness. Just a technique of domination. Just like the so-called charity of the wealthy families of Kan Ruimaia, it is actually a tool to buy fame, protect private property, and by the way, suppress the rise of moderately wealthy families. Of course, Rusway is not so simple, but it is not as kind as you think. Actually~~~ I also saw the 'treacherous' realm. β
The old king was a little surprised: "What kind of light is it?" and pointed to the pale blue divine light that represented 'wisdom' in the colorful divine light: "It is those lights." Actually, that's not really the realm of wisdom. Rather, it's closer to the realm of deceit or the realm of the mind. Do you remember when the god Rusway turned into a lion monster and killed the demon king? Isn't that lionman just playing a logical loophole? God Rusway is not a 'good' god who 'keeps the rules and keeps the contract'. β
The old king sighed and let out a slight voice: "I have always been wrong?" and saw the man in black next to him reply, "This is the art of domination." You and those nobles want to be 'good citizens' with low commoners, and the gods want you and those nobles to be 'good people'. But everyone is a human spirit, and it's just a matter of doing it. Why put your life on the line?"
"But I put my net worth and life into it~~~" The old king smiled bitterly in his heart and finally asked: "Do you really want to do that?" Then the man in black replied: "If he agrees with those nobles to cut down your son, destroy your heirs, and destroy your kingdom, isn't it considered to turn his face? He should also understand the importance of this turnaround. Don't you see that he still has a pale green 'luck'? People say it's his wife's domain, but I don't think it's that simple. This fortunate realm is probably crucial for him to become the main god here!"
At this point, the old king nodded heavily, and walked up the steps leading to the idol along the splendid golden carpet, and beside the altar under the idol was his son, who was handcuffed and gambled, and was being held like a little animal, ready to be beheaded by the sword!
When he stood still on the steps and gasped for breath, next to him happened to be his cousin, who was sad with a look of joy hidden in his indifference, and asked in a desperate whisper: "Is this really the case?" So he got a calm and absolute answer: "If not, how can we complete the transformation of the body?"
The cold-faced old king, with his jaw clenched, said no more, and continued to step on the extinction steps leading to the destruction of his offspring! Walked under the majestic statue of the titan, stood on the silver-white dazzling guillotine, and looked at his son who was shackled in golden shackles on the execution table, his eyes were already red from crying, and his gagged mouth kept struggling and squirming, like a worm smashed into two pieces by a club, experiencing the last pain and struggle.
"Don't worry~~~" The old king wanted to step forward and touch the child's face, but at this time he was already in tears, and he didn't even have the strength to stand. If he really touches it, he will hold his head in pain, this is the last moment he will be with his son: "The child ~~~ soon ~~~ will be over ~~~"
He gritted his teeth and turned to the golden flames and sound crystals on the inky altar, which he would use to express his repentance to the gods in front of everyone, so he spoke in a trembling voice, so that the voice could be heard throughout the open square, so that his repentance could be heard by tens of thousands of men, women, and children in the dense field: "Everyone has their own children, and I have my son. Everyone prays to God for blessings for the children to grow up healthy. I, on the other hand, am not even qualified to pray. Because God has prompted me that I have committed a serious sin. And now, it's the punishment for my mistakes!"
"What is my fault?" the old king's originally excited and trembling voice unconsciously calmed down: "Is it the wine pond and meat forest? Is it the abandonment of the government? Is it the reckless use of the army? Is it a great achievement? I admit that it is indeed a great achievement in some things." But these faults are not the reason for today's outcome. And the Supreme Protector of all things, the Most Holy Rusway God who crosses heaven and earth, did not tell me the reason. I. I can only reflect on my faults with meagre human wisdom. And here I sincerely confess to the gods, and if my confession is also wrong, I hope that the gods will give me some clear instructions. β
"Hey, what does he want to do?" Below, a wealthy official whispered to the king's cousin, "Do you still want to make a tirade? But when he saw his cousin, he shrugged his shoulders in confusion: "I don't know." Whatever, even if it drags on for time, he will be beheaded in the end. Probably he is unhappy, so let him toss it. The two said yes, and the king not far away had already said for a while: "However, it takes too much energy to do 'meritorious deeds will be rewarded, and faults must be punished' completely and without omission." And I'm not up to the task. The servants who served the king at the bottom were eager to be promoted. But I don't have the ability to look at them one by one. For example, in the propaganda team engaged in royal affairs, there were many young people who made efforts, but I did not seriously promote them, even if they were promoted and rewarded. There are also fewer of them. No one has ever received more than a hundred gold coins for profiting from the proclamation. For I cannot break the rules of the kings at will. It's been a long time. Everyone seemed to be gloomy, and I didn't pay attention to it. Compared with many businessmen, they can select their favorite doormen and literati for a long time and seriously. Spending huge sums of money to promote them, they can make a bunch of ceramic melon seeds that can be hyped into tens of thousands of gold coins of 'modern art', and they can paint a satirical painting with poor craftsmanship, which can also be raised to a sky-high price of tens of thousands of gold coins or even 100,000 gold coins. Such a huge incentive attracts more motivated people to join it. A handful of people can make waves and outweigh the thousands of people I have under my command. β
"As for the punishment, I'm not up to the task. Because there were too many laws, I entrusted the ministers and officials at all levels to evaluate the lower bureaucrats, but the officials did not do their job well for their own interests. A stern official will be isolated in officialdom, and he himself cannot guarantee that he will not make the slightest mistake. If he really doesn't make any mistakes, then he will always live in a box, basically unable to make achievements, and in the end he will be stuck in the middle and lower classes. And I myself did not strictly review and supervise this, and the situation was declining day by day. If the officials are really so strict with each other, there will be mutual demolition and mutual attacks, and the whole situation will collapse, which is a historical lesson in the first dynasty. Instead of fighting each other, no one will benefit in the end, it is better to protect each other's peace. This is the instinct of human nature, and going against instinct is to do more with less. I couldn't find a proper way to deal with it, and this is the second Yan zhΓ²ng fault. β
"In order to prevent them from corrupting, I have put in place stricter rules to limit their abuse of power, only to find that more and more people are 'doing more and more wrong, not doing good'. In order to put an end to their neglect of government, I formulated more detailed work requirements and more assessment standards, and found that more and more people were cheating, because it was easy to set goals, but it was actually difficult to do practical things. And I can't evaluate so many detailed regulations and requirements one by one, so I can only entrust officials to check and evaluate each other, so I went back to the issue of rewards and punishments just now. β
"I know that a lot of officials are tired of this, and they call me a 'braggart king' who only sets high standards on the surface but does not solve real problems. Many of them are dissatisfied with the fact that they work more and get less, especially after they see that they can gain huge profits and fame by making a bunch of ceramic melon seeds, many of them begin to contact the rich and exchange power for more private interests. β
"I tried to clean up a group of them, thinking I could make an example. But then I found that the officials under my command were more detached - on the surface they were more obedient, but behind the scenes they were afraid of being abandoned by me, so the instinct of 'right not to use, expired and invalid' became stronger. Increasingly, they feel that their position and interests are unreliable, and they need to find more reliable backers. Therefore, those who have the ability are more covert to collude with the rich, and those who are not able are more 'seeking no fault'. Either it's dull, or it's eating inside and out. β
"Actually, I envy the relationship between those big businessmen and their subordinates, those literati can help them blow, one blow is thirty or forty years, tirelessly blowing, shameless blowing. And few of my literati work so hard. How they formed such a close relationship of interests, I didn't really understand. Nor can it be applied to my ministers and officials. This is my strict zhΓ²ng fault. Recently, I have reflected on one possible reason for this - soldiers are not expensive, but expensive. Giving huge and long-term benefits to a small number of people so that they can unleash great potential. And my propaganda team is busy with many daily things, I don't have the time, energy, and I don't have the money to give them all high rewards. Perhaps I should set up two propaganda teams, one to deal with the complicated and ordinary daily affairs, and only to give ordinary revenge, and the other to imitate the relationship between merchants and scholars, and use them as elite soldiers. The same may be true for other bureaucratic branches. β
"What the hell does he want to say??! The king's cousin, who was already surrounded by six or seven nobles, asked each other in a menacing whisper: "He is openly antagonizing us! Is he going to perform a major operation on us? Is he crazy?" and the nervous cousin tried his best to comfort: "Let him complain, he can't turn the sky now." If he wants a coup d'Γ©tat, we have stronger soldiers!"
But the nobles heard the king from the stage, 'Now even such things as disaster relief and lowering the price of medicine are resisted by them under the pretext of 'free pricing in the market.'" Some literati have written articles in agreement, and even attracted the approval of many people. It seems that any royal thing is wrong or problematic, and any market trade is good, and there is no problem. The officials not only did not manage it, but also secretly sheltered it, and now a situation has been formed: the officials shelter the wealthy merchants, the wealthy merchants buy the literati, the literati oppose the king's affairs, and the king's affairs are corrupted and the three profit. The corruption of the royal affairs further gave the literati an excuse to attack, so the Trinity of moths. I didn't deal with these things quickly, and it was my fault for being strict. β
Then the nobles exploded again: "Are you going to send troops over? He seems to be fighting!" and someone else said, "I have already gone to transfer my guards." Now the situation is very bad! As the king's cousin, you haven't heard a word of the news?" and the cousin was also a little flustered: "It doesn't matter, the general's soldiers and horses are two miles away, so we will transfer some troops." And this is a temple, forgive him for not daring to come nonsense~~~~"
In the midst of their panic and the consternation of the tens of thousands of people around them, the old king under the idol had finished his speech, and ordered the executioner to hand over the gold-like decapitation knife to himself, and ordered everyone else to leave the statue. The nobles were all suspicious: "Is he going to kill his son with his own hands? What is he doing here? Don't you know?"
The king's cousin also panicked: "I~~~ I really don't know." You are ~~~ uh??What is he going to do??" I saw the old king under the statue of the god raise his terrifying long knife with a golden blade, and said the astonishing words: "God wants the king to behead his son to apologize." I am also the son of the former king! The fault is also caused by me, and it has nothing to do with my son. I hope that the wise God Rusway will bless my son so that he will not make my mistakes again. Today, I will take the place of the former king and behead me, the unworthy son!!"
In an instant, the knife sounded in his hand, slashing through his neck!
When his blood-stained head fell to the ground with a bang!', the first person to react was a nobleman who had experienced the big scene of war: "Suicide ??! God!~~~ It's great, he finishes it himself, and we don't need to move~~~" Suddenly, he noticed that something was wrong - because the king's cousin next to him instantly flashed with ambition in his eyes!
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