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

Chapter 97: What Does He Mean? [Bonus for my good brother "See You in the Maple Forest"'s birthday!]

"What? That guy really disbanded all the Jinyiwei?!"

[When word of your actions reached the ears of the officials in the capital, they were all stunned!]

[Although everyone knew that you, a newcomer, would definitely stir up trouble, no one expected that your trouble would first affect the Jinyiwei themselves...]

[No...are you just sitting here and destroying your martial arts skills?]

Everyone was amazed, then unconsciously delighted: "Good job disbanding!"

What are the Jinyiwei? They are the Ming Dynasty's only real supervisory agency, and they are also high-ranking spies who directly represent the will of His Majesty. Although they generally don't do much, they are like a time bomb that could explode at any moment.

[So, although everyone knows it won't usually explode, they still have some concerns. They don't dare to openly expose corruption and abuse of power...]

[But now, look what's happened. You, the parachuted-in Jinyiwei commander, haven't even achieved any achievements in cracking down on gangs and eliminating evil, but you've already chopped the Jinyiwei into pieces!]

[Now that the Jinyiwei are no longer monitoring us, everyone can do whatever they want, right?!]

[For a moment, all officials were overjoyed...]

[And the good things don’t stop there.]

"I heard that guy not only disbanded the Imperial Guards, but is also teaching the people about class hatred... Tsk! Isn't that courting death?"

Some officials were amazed and said, "What's the difference between this doctrine of leading the people to hate the court and rebellion?"

[“When this matter becomes a big deal, it would be best to incite a few more popular uprisings. By then, His Majesty will definitely relapse and become suspicious of me…”]

"Your Majesty, if you've been suspicious all your life, how could that boy possibly survive? Haven't you seen what happened to Commander Chong?"

“Ha! I’m already waiting to dip my steamed buns in his blood…”

Officials in the court were discussing this matter, their words filled with bloodthirsty smiles. After all, your thoughts are too dangerous. Your spinning top behavior in Shaanxi shows that you have no good feelings towards the court. If you continue to do this, it will sooner or later be disadvantageous to them.

[And if you kill yourself like this, it would be a cause for celebration for everyone...]

[So, under the instruction of the six ministers, a group of court officials jointly submitted a memorial to the Divine Emperor!]

[In the memorial, everyone harshly criticized your perverse actions within the Imperial Guard, claiming you were deliberately disrupting order at court.]

[And the so-called hatred theory you promote among the people is a blatant traitorous ideology!]

[The common people hate the ruling class. So, as the supreme ruler, is His Majesty the Divine Emperor also considered a "tyrant and traitor" hated by the common people?]

[Obviously, according to this theory, the person who deserves death the most in the entire court is His Majesty himself...]

[By openly promoting such anti-traitor ideology, everyone has every reason to suspect you are a remnant of the bandits!]

[Your Majesty! No more hesitation, you must strike hard!]

The officials were extremely confident: If this memorial fell into the eyes of the always suspicious Emperor, it would definitely stir up a storm, and perhaps even lead to the reappearance of the Lao Yuan Roast Duck incident...

[This was indeed the case. After the Divine Emperor received the memorial, he indeed showed the hallmark doubts of Emperor Chongzhen.]

But to everyone's surprise, the Emperor's doubts didn't cause any serious consequences, nor did they make Him paranoid. In fact, His doubts didn't last long.

[Faced with this well-reasoned memorial, the Divine Emperor ultimately chose to hand it over to you...]

【you:?】

[This unexpected move of His really leaves you unable to react: What does it mean?]

Does this mean He trusts you, or doesn't? Or, what signal is He trying to convey to you? You ponder it over and over, but it still doesn't make sense. However, this doesn't affect your next move...

In the fifty-first year of Chongzhen's reign, you completely reorganized and reformed the Imperial Guard, transforming them all into Beyblade Warriors capable of increasing their own power through revenge!

[Then you decisively led your men into the capital and gathered evidence of the officials' crimes.]

This is easy to collect, because there is so much evidence of their crimes. The Jinyiwei in the past simply didn't want to investigate. After all, it was the Divine Emperor's will to condone corruption. As the Divine Emperor's lackeys, we naturally have to understand his intentions, so we turned a blind eye to the various crimes of the officials...

[And now that you've chosen to investigate, of course you'll have as much evidence as you want!]

Soon, you had a large amount of evidence of crimes against officials, including but not limited to: "seizing property," "raping women," "abusing power for personal gain," "embezzling food and wages," and "concealing disaster information."

[Every case, every incident, is filled with irrefutable evidence! ]

[So you stopped pretending and directly ordered the newly joined Jinyi warriors to arrest people!]

Everyone had long since grown impatient, and a group of men in brocade robes, their eyes red, rushed into the various mansions, terrifying the unsuspecting officials and their families...

[Thousands of Jinyiwei took advantage of the night to kick down doors from house to house, causing panic and fear among the people of the capital!]

The timid ones wet their pants when they saw the Jinyiwei barging in with menacing looks... Some kowtowed profusely, begging them to let them go, while others collapsed, unable to speak.

[The bold ones, upon meeting the Imperial Guards, even lashed out in a timid manner, claiming to be model officials of integrity and honesty, and even threatened to report them to His Majesty...]

[Of course, as top warriors eager to achieve success, the Jinyiwei didn't care about the other party's reaction. Whether they begged for mercy or cursed, they were all locked up and taken to the "Imperial Prison" to be severely tortured!]

[What? Someone resisted?]

[Then everyone will be even more satisfied. There's no need to rush to lock him up and take him back to the Imperial Prison. Let's just give him a beating first!]

The belt whipped them harder and harder, and the prisoner's screams seemed to give them a strange sense of pleasure...

[By the middle of the night, most of the court officials had already been arrested and thrown into prison!]

[Being thrown into the imperial prison was just the beginning; the subsequent torture was the highlight...]

【…】

【"ah!!!"】

“Mercy! Mercy! I won’t be greedy again! Never again… All the money is in my cellar, and I haven’t dared to spend even a single ounce of silver!”

"No! You can't do this to me! I've massacred cities for His Majesty! I've killed people who surrendered for His Majesty! I want to see His Majesty! I want to see His Majesty!"

“Zhou! Kill me if you dare! Even if I become a ghost, I won’t let you go…Ah!!!”

You stand in front of rows of cells, quietly watching the newly recruited Jinyiwei use various torture instruments with their unskilled techniques, such as "clamps," "branding irons," "tiger benches," and so on.

[Under the effects of these torture instruments, the prisoners screamed and cursed non-stop, their wails incessantly filling the ears with a terrifying sound...]

[But you didn't pay too much attention to the noises of these people. Instead, you frowned and took out a letter from the emperor.]

"Before tomorrow morning's court session, all the convicted officials will be released, and their execution will be carried out at night... In this way, we will govern during the day and receive punishment at night..."

What does He mean?

……

(End of this chapter)