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

Chapter 172 The wind of history will eventually blow away the garbage in front of the grave!

【Give up divine power?】

【What a joke! 】

You laughed out loud at that moment: "The reason you have all the initiative in your hands now is because all the divine power belongs to you!"

[It is precisely because you possess the boundless divine power bestowed upon you by the Crystal Powder of the World after his death that you are qualified to face the Divine Emperor directly, and even force Him to sign a coexistence treaty with you... Otherwise, you would have to hide in various places in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, lest He scatter your ashes on the spot.]

[After all, it was you who knocked Him down from His supreme position above the Ming Dynasty. It was you who caused Him to be in such a miserable state today. He was starved to the point of being on the verge of death, and in his final moments, he returned to Coal Hill and hanged himself on the old crooked tree, waiting to die...]

[With this kind of hatred, He would probably want to eat you alive!]

"In this situation, if you give up your divine power, it would be equivalent to giving up your ability to resist. It would be strange if He didn't take the opportunity to kill you..."

[In the final analysis, you relied on divine power to force Him to agree to coexist with you. If you don't have sufficient divine power, then the initiative will slip into His hands, and then there will naturally be no realistic basis for signing a coexistence treaty.]

[Besides, you have already achieved immortality through divine power...]

If you lost your divine power, your lifespan would be the same as that of an ordinary person. However, it is now the 133rd year of the Chongzhen reign, and you are already ninety years old...

[Once you die of old age, all power will return to the Divine Emperor. During His long life, He will surely find a way to dispel the superstitions of the people.]

[When the time comes, the God-Emperor will be restored, and the Dark Ages will return. With just a thought from Him, all your efforts will be wasted.]

[When the sun sets and your faith falls to the ground, you will also be shattered...]

[This result is so frustrating! ]

【"shut up!"】

You mercilessly rebuked the Divine Emperor's ridiculous offer, saying coldly, "It seems you don't want to talk anymore..."

"Look! This is the great Zhou Tianzun!"

[Seeing your intense reaction, the Divine Emperor couldn't help but sneer.]

[“The Heavenly Venerable speaks of the world but not of the common people. He talks of benevolence, righteousness, and morality, as if he is willing to do anything, even to die, to save all living beings…”]

"I never imagined that as soon as I asked you to give up your immortality, you acted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on... Heavenly Lord, for the sake of peace and prosperity for all mankind, you wouldn't even dare to give up immortality? You're so obsessed with life, so obsessed with power, so selfish, you've completely disregarded the fate of the world, yet you keep talking about the people of the world... Tsk!"

[His words were filled with sarcasm, even hurtful words...]

You understand that He is deliberately trying to hurt your heart, but facing the question, you still speak in a deep voice.

"If you seek peace through compromise, peace will perish; if you seek peace through struggle, peace will survive."

"I know your nature, and I know your indifference towards the people of this place. In your eyes, they are not even human beings, unworthy of your great imperial grace... If I abandon my martial arts, won't I be at your mercy?"

“So, stop using this cheap provocation to ridicule me, because your level is still as low as it was before the 17th year of Chongzhen…”

[God Emperor:...]

[Divine Emperor: I%/@*%!]

After harshly mocking him, you rebuked him one last time in front of his red, almost furious face.

"I'll give you one last chance. Will we coexist?"

"I won't!"

The Divine Emperor stiffens his neck and glares at you: "Kill me if you dare!"

"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty guards the country's borders. A king dies for the sake of his country! I will never agree to your demands, you traitor!"

"Come! Chop off this beautiful head!"

【You laughed out of anger! 】

[Okay, okay... I'll let you, the Son of Heaven, guard the country's gates, and I'll let you, the King, die for the country!]

【…】

[In the 133rd year of Chongzhen's reign, after experiencing a crisis that threatened the world's demise, the "Great Ming Kingdom" and this illusory world ultimately survived...]

[After this calamity, you've pried out nearly all the key information from the Divine Emperor. Although some information is still unclear, those are minor details that don't affect the overall situation, so don't worry too much.]

[The only difficulty lies in the Divine Emperor's final solution.]

[You already understand the importance of the Divine Emperor's life and death, so killing Him is definitely not an option. No matter how much unresolved anger you have, you can only coexist with Him.]

[But he refused to accept your coexistence agreement, demonstrating Emperor Chongzhen's stubborn nature...]

[Back then, before Li Zicheng captured the capital, he had sent people into the city in the middle of the night to negotiate with him. To stabilize the situation, Li Zicheng was sincere: if the emperor would make him king, not only would he not attack the capital, but he would also help the government army resist the Qing army outside Shanhaiguan!]

[Logically speaking, there was no reason to refuse such a humiliating treaty, and Li Zicheng had indeed given him enough face, but... the prison inspector still refused to accept this face!]

[Li Zicheng was so angry that he immediately launched his entire army and entered the capital that same day, forcing him to crawl to Coal Hill and hang himself...]

[Now, He once again demonstrates His traditional skills! Faced with your sincere negotiation, the Divine Emperor sneers and rejects it...]

[If He doesn't care about your face anymore, then you naturally won't give Him face anymore!]

[You couldn't imitate Li Zicheng and beat him to death, but you didn't show him any mercy either.]

In the 134th year of Chongzhen's reign, you built a courtyard in the capital and imprisoned the vehemently cursing Divine Emperor there. To humiliate him, you maliciously named the courtyard "The Den of Monsters and Demons"!

[Of course, while this "den of monsters and demons" is humiliating, it's not truly bad. It's only comparable to a wealthy household... But even so, your humiliation still makes Him furious, and He keeps yelling at you.]

[And the cursing didn't stop there. To demonstrate his determination to fight to the death and refuse to coexist, the Divine Emperor proudly chose to go on a hunger strike!]

"He certainly can't beat you, and scolding you is definitely useless. However, His life and death is a trump card. As long as He dies, no matter how powerful you are, you can't save this crumbling illusory world."

[So, He is threatening you with this...]

"Isn't the Heavenly Lord going to save the people of the world? Then I'll starve to death! I want to see what you, a saint who always talks about the people of the world, are going to do!"

[Zhou Tianzun, you don't want to cause suffering to the people because I starve to death, right?]

[He sneered and unleashed his final weapon: non-violence and non-cooperation...]

Gan Shengxiong: Kids, I have no objection. You were also amused by this: Fine, I used Gan Shengxiong's method to defeat you, and now you use his method to hit my boomerang...

[But you are not a useless God Emperor. The initiative is in your hands. Do you still want to go on a hunger strike?]

【joke!】

[So you lived directly across the courtyard. Besides managing daily affairs, you forcibly infused Him with divine power!]

[Infuse the Divine Emperor Imp, infuse vigorously!]

[Under your harsh tactics, the Divine Emperor's hunger strike quickly gave way. Every day, he could only endure your forceful infusion of divine power, his face filled with grief and indignation...]

[After a while, even though you might think you're a bit perverted, the world has actually stabilized.]

[As long as the result is good, then nothing else matters...]

In the 134th year of Chongzhen's reign, you imprisoned the uncooperative Divine Emperor in a den of demons and monsters, forcibly injecting him with divine power to maintain world peace. Incidentally, you inflicted the ultimate insult upon him, using this coercive method to severely torture his spirit, giving full expression to the resentment you've suppressed for three entire lifetimes!

[Then you became refreshed and gradually began to smile. Your subordinates saw the change in you and were surprised: "How come you, the Heavenly Lord who used to be so gloomy, now have such a happy expression every day?"]

[Everyone is puzzled, but since Tianzun's mood has improved, it is naturally a cause for celebration!]

As the saying goes, one will not attain Buddhahood until hell is empty. The Sorrowful Heavenly Venerable, who came here specifically to save all living beings, has now lost the worry that lingered between his brows. This naturally indicates that his mission of saving all living beings is thriving, and the world is gradually becoming the peaceful and prosperous world that the Heavenly Venerable hoped for...

[Ah! Good! We should celebrate!]

Everyone laughed lightheartedly, and the entire Daming area was filled with a cheerful atmosphere...

[Except the Divine Emperor.]

[He who has endured much torture sees the joy and relief on your and the faces of the people of the world, and the sadness and anger in his heart continue to swell!]

[But, it's useless...]

[Getting angry without strength is just impotent rage. It's useless except for turning yourself into a mad dog.]

At this moment, He truly understood the feelings of the people who had once prostrated themselves at His feet: oppression, frustration, anger, fear, sorrow, and… despair!

[This is true despair...]

[He has been trampled upon by ten thousand feet. Those who have suffered from His cruelty are now seeking mad revenge. Therefore, He will never be able to be reborn!]

【…】

In the 134th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Divine Emperor was imprisoned and reduced to a tool to maintain the survival of heaven and earth, suffering the ultimate humiliation...

[That year, you officially announced to the world: Your Majesty's merits are complete, and he has passed away, and the Ming Dynasty is doomed!]

[However, the demise of the Ming Dynasty does not mean that you must crush it. Although the Divine Emperor did not agree to your conditions for coexistence, you still fulfilled the "Ming Dynasty Favorable Treatment Treaty" you promised Him.]

[That year, you sealed off the Forbidden City and expelled all the eunuchs and palace maids. From then on, no one was allowed to enter or leave the palace without permission, nor was anyone allowed to resell the palace treasures. Anyone caught stealing would be killed without mercy!]

[That year, you held a grand sacrificial ceremony at the Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing, paying homage to Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. You explained in detail that you had no intention of murdering the emperor, and that it was the emperor who ascended to heaven after completing his meritorious service, and that it had nothing to do with you...]

[Of course, since you've come to the Xiaoling Mausoleum this time, you can't just say these things that spoil the fun... So you cosplayed as Kang Mazi and praised the Ming Dynasty's merits during the sacrificial ceremony!]

"Governance surpasses that of the Tang and Song dynasties!"

"Far surpassing the Han and Tang dynasties!"

[Regardless of whether the Ming Dynasty could actually bear these two sentences, once these two sentences were released, you have officially put the final nail in the coffin for the Ming Dynasty...]

[That year, you appointed the over-a-hundred-year-old Crown Prince Zhu Cilang as "Ji Ming Gong" and wrote his name at the end of the Ming Dynasty imperial genealogy, allowing him to offer sacrifices and sweep the Ming Dynasty ancestral temple with the rites of an emperor!]

[In this way, although you didn't actually make him emperor, his family status and reputation are no different from the emperor. Zhu Cilang was so happy that he burst into tears and almost knelt down and shouted "Long live you" three times!]

[The Lord's grace is not over yet! ]

Is there ever a prince who reigns for 130 years in this world?!

【Father! It’s a good thing you died!】

[(God Emperor:...)]

[In short, except for the imprisoned God-Emperor himself, everyone is very satisfied, which fully demonstrates His negative significance...]

[And after doing all this, you can finally do something you have always wanted to do...]

[The 1766th year of Chongzhen's reign, in the Western calendar, the st day of the eighth lunar month.]

Zhou Liang, the Supreme Ruler and Heavenly Venerable of the Great Ming Kingdom, led a large sacrificial procession to his hometown, Mizhi County, in northern Shaanxi!

When the news came out, everyone was surprised and couldn't help but wonder: What was the Heavenly Venerable doing with so many sacrificial teams back home? Was he going to perform a sacrifice for the Zhou family's ancestors and then enthrone them as emperor?

This was a very common practice. After all, the founding emperors of all dynasties had done this. After becoming emperor, they always wanted to give their ancestors a taste of emperorship. Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from a peasant background, posthumously conferred the title of emperor on four generations of his ancestors who had worked tirelessly in the fields...

[It seems that even though Tianzun is a saint born from heaven, he is not immune to worldly affairs!]

Everyone started discussing it as if it were a joke...

Even your relatives thought so, and they were all very excited: "If this makes our Zhou family's ancestor the emperor, wouldn't that be awesome? Even if the Heavenly Lord doesn't confer titles on relatives, he should at least give them some benefits, right?"

【It’s a great profit! 】

【…】

[But to everyone's surprise, your team didn't go directly to your Zhou family's ancestral tomb, but instead drove into a wilderness.]

The mountains and rivers here are shattered, as if they had been struck by some horrific disaster. Not only are there no people, but there are no small animals or plants growing either.

[Because this place was formerly called "Li Jiqian Village"...]

On August 21, the 139th year of the Chongzhen reign, Li Zicheng's 160th birthday, Tianzun Zhou Liang held a grand ceremony at the site of "Li Jiqian Village" to honor Li Zicheng, the sacrifice he made for the people of the world.

Li Zicheng, the Yongchang Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty and the King of Rebellion, has finally received a fair evaluation from future generations. The winds of history have blown away the garbage in front of his tomb!

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(End of this chapter)