Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 141 Slackness!
In the 115th year of Chongzhen's reign, you used a deliberate sacrifice to probe for new information about the Divine Emperor... Although the specific mechanism is unknown, you can now confirm that He truly cannot refine those contaminated by your telekinesis.

[However, this information is currently of no use, and you dare not even express your discovery... From now on, every three years, you will send a thousand Jinyiwei as sacrifices to the Divine Emperor.]

When everyone saw that the Divine Emperor would actually do something after accepting the sacrifice, their initial worries largely dissipated: Since He kept His promise, then our deaths would have been meaningful!

[I just hope He can continue like this forever...]

[Amidst this complex emotion, many people volunteered to sacrifice their lives, one after another, hoping that the Divine Emperor would always be so passionate.]

The Divine Emperor was naturally delighted by this: "Look at this realization! I'm so pleased!"

[The only thing that makes Him unhappy is that every time He enjoys the sacrifices, He encounters a few hard bones that He can't chew...]

[It's like biting into a pebble while eating delicious food. It's a complete letdown!]

[And theoretically, there shouldn't be anything he can't refine, but now he encounters this kind of thing so frequently. This can't help but make him wonder: What exactly is going on?]

[With suspicion, he once carefully studied those hard bones, but due to his limited knowledge, he could not discern any tricks. At most, he could only sense a strong sense of rejection and difference from the hard bones' divine power...]

[This is truly strange. The divine power that comes from me is so powerful that I can't even take it back, and it also feels so strange...]

Whenever he thinks of this, he, filled with doubt, always casts his suspicious gaze upon you: Although he has no evidence, you are the only one who is beyond his control, so you are naturally his first suspect.

[However, no matter how much He doubted it, He ultimately did not make a decision that was disadvantageous to you, as if you held some special significance to Him...]

[Thus, time slowly passed amidst the forbearance and questioning between the two sides.]

【…】

In the 115th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered a sacrifice of 1,000 Jinyiwei.

[In the following three years, the Emperor pacified drought and floods throughout the world, and used his divine power to eliminate all natural disasters!]

In the 118th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered sacrifices to another 1,000 people.

[Three years later, the emperor continued to travel the world, never tired of it!]

[In the 121st year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered sacrifices again!]

[The Emperor never tires of this...]

【…】

[In the 154th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered sacrifices to another 1,000 people!]

[The Emperor never tires of this...]

[In the 157th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered sacrifices again!]

[The Emperor never tires of this...]

[In the 160th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Prime Minister offered sacrifices again!]

【Emperor: Joy! 】

[“Prime Minister, I think we should take a break…”]

The God-Emperor, who had been working continuously for nearly fifty years, finally collapsed on the assembly line, looking exhausted...

From the initial enthusiasm, to the waning enthusiasm in the middle stages, to the current coldness... the Divine Emperor has finally worn away the passion that he had worked so hard to build up.

As a bystander, you clearly saw his evolution: as the saying goes, no matter how passionate one is, it can't compete with decades of repetitive work. Any sane person will gradually become passive and lazy; this is human nature.

[And you also deeply admire the Divine Emperor's persistence and hard work over the past few decades: It must be said that this emperor was indeed a well-known workaholic before ascending to godhood. He actually persevered at such a high intensity for nearly fifty years before giving up, which is the limit of a mortal being. It is truly admirable!]

[However, while working continuously for fifty years is considered the pinnacle among mortals, it is completely inadequate for a true god...]

You thought he could hold out for five or six hundred years, but he withered after only fifty. His patience isn't even as good as the Monkey King's when he was in prison! You complained in your heart... Of course, despite your complaints, you still put on a caring and loyal image: "Your Majesty, it's been a real struggle to hold out until now... Why don't you rest for a month before trying again?"

【rest? 】

[This is what the Divine Emperor has been waiting for! ]

He then immediately climbed up from the dragon bed with renewed energy, coughed, and then solemnly said, "Then I will follow Zifang's advice. I will first tour the land for a month, and then I will come back to seek the welfare of the people!"

[After saying this, He walked out of the palace with a smile on His face...]

[And you looked at His cheerful back and sighed in your heart: Not good! ]

[When doing anything, I'm afraid of suddenly slacking off. Because once I slack off once, I'll slack off twice, three times... or even completely hate working.]

[Many emperors in history were like this: they worked hard in the early stages, then began to slack off in the middle stages, and then simply gave up in the later stages, and then they could no longer be saved...]

[For example, Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the Taoist priest Jiajing, and the Taoist priest Wanli... These are all living examples.]

Most people continue to do something for decades not out of self-discipline, but because if they don't do it, they will be coerced... For example, students who don't study will be scolded by their parents and teachers, and workers who are absent from work every day will have their wages docked...

[Under such circumstances, naturally, the more noble those are, the more likely they are to slack off, because their power makes others afraid to advise or coerce them... In this way, if they realize that they are actually not restricted at all, their unbridled ambitions will grow unchecked, until the story of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is repeated...]

[And can the Divine Emperor restrain his ambition? ]

【…】

The answer is: Obviously not!

After the January holiday, the Divine Emperor patiently resumed his work, but you could clearly sense his laziness. He wasn't as dedicated as before...

[And only a few months later, the Divine Emperor took another vacation, this time for half a year!]

[Six months later, the Divine Emperor reluctantly worked for another month or so before taking another vacation, which was extended to a year...]

【He finally couldn't bear it anymore! 】

[And you also sighed: Maru spicy...]

[The Divine Emperor finally realized one thing: He has always been invincible and has never needed to be restricted by anyone!]

If that's the case, then what's the point of His work?

[What world? What people? You said the emperor should benefit the people and put them first... I don't think that's right!]

[Compared to a group of insignificant ants, my body and mind are obviously more important! ]

[What's with "people first, the country second, and the emperor least"... I think you, old man Meng, don't want to live like this anymore! The past was the past, the present is now... Now I am the most important!]

【Besides, we have worked all our lives, so can’t we enjoy ourselves? 】

[Let’s play music and dance! 】

[Looking at the completely defeated God-Emperor, you sighed again... Although you felt that your persuasion was useless, you still fulfilled your duty...]

In the 164th year of Chongzhen's reign, faced with the constant natural and man-made disasters throughout the world, and the lazy emperor on the throne, the 120-year-old Prime Minister Zhou Zifang dragged his heavy body, struggling but determined to hold up the reports of famines from various places and handed them to Him!

"Your Majesty, indulging in pleasure and losing your ambition, has become like Jie, Zhou, and Xuanzong!"

"If Your Majesty does not correct this, I will dig out my loyal heart and then smash my head against the throne room and die!"

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(End of this chapter)