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

Chapter 24 I have it in this life!
[Ding! You're dead. The wrong choice led to the wrong outcome...]

【Your life is a refreshing life! 】

[In the past, when you saw the darkness around you, you were always powerless to resist. Even if you risked your life, you would only crash into the dark wall and die. Other than that, you wouldn't be able to create a spark.]

[But this time was different. With your exquisite micromanagement, you took advantage of the rare opportunity presented by the remnants of the bandits and successfully exposed the matter to the world, shocking the almighty Divine Emperor's lackeys, the Imperial Guards. Then, taking advantage of the Imperial Guards' insatiable greed, you successfully spread the weak fire throughout Shaanxi!]

[Under this ferocious fire from the God-Emperor's lackeys, no one in Shaanxi could withstand a single round...]

[Shaanxi officials encountered Jinyiwei by chance. The greedy Jinyiwei were as strong as monsters, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not defeat them! ]

【You: It wasn’t a chance encounter! 】

As the saying goes, give them a taste of their own medicine. While you may not possess the Murong family's "Turning Stars," you do understand a bit about officialdom and infighting. With skillful micromanagement, you leveraged the power of the Ming Dynasty to destroy the entire Shaanxi administrative system. In one stroke, you secured a perfect victory.

[Although you paid the price with your life in the end, you have no regrets at all.]

【Fighting, cool! 】

[Ding! This reward is being calculated...]

Zhou Liang: Happy!

"Good boy, even when death is imminent, you're still playing with memes!"

The corner of Zhou Liang's mouth twitched.

Hanging with a hemp rope, let’s not talk about the cosplay of Chongzhen first, let’s just talk about the suicide poem:
This poem is titled "Farewell to Yunjian" and is the suicide poem of Xia Wanchun, an anti-Qing hero in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Although Xia Wanchun died at the age of twelve, he was a typical loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. Even after experiencing Li Zicheng's conquest of the Ming Dynasty and the invasion of the Qing army in the northeast, his family remained loyal to the Southern Ming until they were captured and killed by the Qing soldiers who were very murderous.

The line in the poem, "Endless tears for the mountains and rivers, who says the world is vast?", is his best summary of the change of dynasties from Ming to Qing.

However, he is not a historical figure like an emperor after all, so if you are not someone who has a certain understanding of the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, you probably don’t know the story behind him and his suicide poem.

Zhou Liang obviously knew this allusion, because he used it very well. Moreover, compared with the original author's writing background, his use of this poem is even more ironic than the original:

Because "Zhou Liang" died in the Ming court's hunt, and although there was no massacre by the Qing soldiers who entered the pass in this world line, there was a massacre when the Divine Emperor took revenge on the world!

Compared to the massacres of the Qing soldiers, the Divine Emperor's was even more of a Khorne within a Khorne, killing far more people and decimating far more cities than the Qing soldiers. This unexpectedly contrasted with the devastation Xia Wanchun had experienced. The phrase "Infinite Tears for the Mountains and Rivers" seamlessly connected the two...

Even more outrageous is that "Zhou Liang" didn't have to worry about the original author coming after him for copyright fees, because Xia Wanchun's hometown was in the Suzhou and Yangzhou area, and the wealthy merchants and landlords in that area often resisted taxes during the Chongzhen period, so they were all slaughtered by the Divine Emperor in his revenge...

A loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of the Ming Emperor, and then had his own suicide poem used by anti-Ming traitors. This is unparalleled...

Zhou Liang shook his head and sighed:

"It's Chongzhen... wouldn't it have been better if he'd been hanged on that old crooked tree earlier? That would not only help the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty to leave their names in history, but also allow you to leave behind the good name of 'The Son of Heaven guards the country's gates, the King dies for the country', for filial sons of later generations to mourn and mourn, and even write a few poignant poems for you when they feel like it..."

"Now, you're not dead, but have become a god, slaughtering people everywhere, making it so that even the loyal officials of the Ming Dynasty can't praise you..."

All I can say is that dying at the right moment is a skill.

"Okay, bring the prizes over!"

[Ding! This prize is: "The Light of the Sacrifice's Spirit!"]

Zhou Liang:?
"No, why is it this thing again?"

Zhou Liang was confused:
"Didn't I already have this thing last time? I'm still waiting for you to give me some weird title as a prize..."

[Except for the title, all other prizes can be obtained repeatedly. Furthermore, simulation prizes are drawn based on the host's experience in the simulation. Just like last time, you sacrificed yourself to do something, which is why you received the same prize twice in a row.]

"That's it..."

Zhou Liang seemed to understand, although he still hadn't figured out the specific reward mechanism, but at least he understood the sentence "the prize depends on the simulation plot". He sacrificed his life twice in a row, so he received the "spiritual light of the sacrificer" twice in a row.

"Alright then, get it!"

As Zhou Liang finished speaking, a familiar crimson light suddenly burst into his soul. The combined power of these two spiritual lights made Zhou Liang, whose soul was already solid and powerful, even stronger.

He even tried to pick up things with his hands. Originally, his soul could not touch material things, but after two consecutive strengthenings, he was now able to lift a piece of ceramic fragment that was broken when he drank the poisoned wine!
Although it was very reluctant, it made him quite excited:

"If this continues... maybe I won't need to overwrite the current real world with the world in the simulator. Instead, I can kill the God Emperor alone and create my own perfect world with my own hands!"

After only dying twice, he was able to lift pieces of porcelain with his soul. If he died hundreds or thousands of times, wouldn't he be able to achieve a perfect soul and move mountains, fill the sea, and pick stars and moons like the protagonists in those fairy tales?
When the time comes, I will be able to fight against the Divine Emperor...

With this in mind, Zhou Liang immediately continued his simulation:
"continue!"

[Ding! We've detected that you're currently simulating. Would you like to return to your last life choice point and continue the branch simulation, or return to your birth node and start over?]

Should we return to the previous node or start from the beginning?
Zhou Liang frowned:

"The previous node? Wasn't it me who gave him the idea to report to the Imperial Guards? This node... it seems like there's nothing I can do if I go back there, right?"

This time, with the help of the Jinyiwei's power, he destroyed the entire Shaanxi officialdom. The record was already brilliant enough. Even if the simulation continued under the current known conditions, it would be unlikely that Zhou Liang would achieve a better record than this.

What was the core power layer of the Ming Dynasty?
Of course, it’s the royal family, nobles, and aristocratic families!

Do you still want to discuss politics with princes, lords, and masters?
Why?
Don't be silly...

Just like the unlucky governor "Liu Yizhao" and a group of prefects this time, Liu Yizhao and his group were all military leaders who followed the Divine Emperor to massacre cities and kill people and suppress peasant uprisings.

With this identity, if they had not been tied to the "unspeakable" thing of the rebel by the Jinyiwei, there would be no way that these frontier officials would have fallen!

So Zhou Liang could actually guess that if his simulated self gave up on reporting and instead focused solely on taking the imperial examination, he would most likely not become a high-ranking official in the future, and he would definitely not be able to achieve the glorious feat of overturning the entire Shaanxi officialdom...

"Instead of wasting time, it's better to start from scratch. That way, there will be much more choices...but..."

Zhou Liang thought for a moment and shook his head:

"However, since there's a way I haven't tried yet, I might as well give it a try. Who knows, there might be a chance to change my fate... Besides, rather than changing my fate as quickly as possible, what I need more now is all sorts of information about divine power and the inner workings of the Ming court."

Since he had never been in officialdom seriously, Zhou Liang was completely in the dark about a lot of information. For example, he had no idea about the "increased divine power" that he had accidentally discovered this time. With the existing information, he had no idea what to do.

So after much deliberation, Zhou Liang decided to stay in the officialdom, solving puzzles while increasing his knowledge, hoping to overthrow the rule of the Divine Emperor in the future...

"Then return to the previous life node!"

[Ding! Returning to the previous life node...]

【…】

[…After failing to report you to the Xi'an prefect and then the provincial governor, you, now trapped in the darkness of reality, are lost in your thoughts about the future. Unsure of what to do, what are your choices? (?) Please devise your own strategy!]

If I don’t report to the Jinyiwei this time, what else should I do?

After a little organization of his words, Zhou Liang wrote his own strategy:

[Your choice: (Be patient and you will have peace; take a step back and the sky will be clear... Didn't your exam paper get changed, so you didn't pass? Just go back and take the exam later. The thieves are just trying to scare you. As long as you don't report them or provoke them, they won't do anything to you...)

As the saying goes, "Lay the foundation in your third year of high school, and then you'll be ready for the fourth, ninth, eighth, and fifth years!" If you don't get in this year, then take it again! Of course, it's not like the "second attempt" that some failed art students took...

Of course, your mission, besides taking the imperial examination, is to explore all kinds of knowledge about the "tyrannical divine power" in order to provide an information basis for the next restart and clear the fog of war...)

[As you hanged yourself to death, you felt a flash before your eyes, and then you suddenly returned to the day before you reported to the Jinyiwei.]

[Thinking of your own glorious death, you can't help but sigh... Then you think about it and realize that there are still many things in your life that you haven't witnessed firsthand. If you don't experience them, wouldn't it be a waste of life?]

So you gave up your old path as the "reporter" and instead devoted the rest of your life to the script, hoping that one day you would rise to prominence...

……

(End of this chapter)