Traveling through ancient times.

The aristocratic families in Ezhou had just begun to emerge, but the imperial court directly transferred the imperial guards outside the capital over here.

In less than ten days, the uprisings that broke out one after another were suppressed.

What made these noble families most terrified was that after these guards suppressed the rebellion, they turned their attention to them.

These big families often owned tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the local area. They built walls around their houses that were taller and thicker than the walls of the government offices, and they also had lookout towers and shooting holes on them.

A living militarized fortress that combines defense and attack.

Inside this fortress are the small kingdoms of these big clans with strict hierarchies.

Although only a very small number of people are privileged individuals in these sturdy fortresses, those who can live in the fortresses are basically their confidants, close servants, and a large number of hired security guards and thugs.

Therefore, there is a strict hierarchy inside, but the people inside and the aristocratic families form a true community of interests.

Those inside the fortress extended their tentacles to incite the short-sighted people outside to rebellion and profit from it.

At this moment, they never expected that the new emperor would dare to transfer the guards defending the capital to deal with them.

The uprising had only begun for a few days when it was suppressed with great force, which completely failed to meet the expectations of these aristocratic families.

Now, after suppressing the uprising, these guards did not withdraw. Instead, they used the excuse that rebels had infiltrated their fortress and demanded that they open the fortress and eliminate the bandits.

These big families are local tyrants on the earth. Even the soldiers of the local government are not as numerous as the guards and thugs they have in their fortresses, so they don't take the imperial court seriously at all.

But now, there are thousands of elite soldiers gathered outside. If they don’t open the fortress and clear out the bandits, they will launch a violent attack.

Thus, the battle was about to break out.

Everyone knows that local forces have joined forces with senior officials in the court to overthrow the emperor. They either want to push someone from their own people to represent their interests, or find a new obedient puppet emperor.

In short, this disobedient emperor who always goes against their aristocratic families must not be allowed to stay.

The new emperor had been holding back for a long time and finally found an opportunity to take action - on the premise of stabilizing the border and coastal defense, he finally transferred half of the imperial guards that he had completely recovered to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, both sides are aiming to kill each other this time.

It was at this time that Jiang Yizhou broke into this stalemate tug-of-war.

Jiang Yizhou had seen large fortresses built like this in other places before, but none of them were as large as the one in Ezhou.

This shows how powerful the local forces here are.

Jiang Yizhou saw the new emperor personally going to war in the camp outside the fortress.

In an instant, she understood.

I think he also understood that it was impossible to gradually divide the power and interests of those diehards by implementing new policies. As long as their interests were involved, they would be like a dog that could not be kept at home and would turn around and bite you.

Therefore, taking advantage of the current natural disasters and man-made disasters, we should just push forward.

Anyway, in the court, these old guys have already scolded him as the emperor: what a tyrant, unpopular, and perverse...

Yes, as long as he does not do as they ask, as long as it does not conform to their interests, he is a tyrant, he will not be supported by the people, and he is going against their will.

... Jiang Yizhou did not go to the tent to meet the new emperor. Instead, he used his martial arts to climb over the more than 20-meter-high wall at night and opened the city gate. The soldiers who had been waiting outside for a long time rushed in and flattened the huge fortress in less than a day.

These are the foundations of the aristocratic families and the basis for those stubborn forces in the court to take root in the Zhou Kingdom.

Only by eradicating the roots of these aristocratic families can those powerful families that are too powerful to be eliminated be obedient and those ministers in the court can speak the truth.

There are three major families in the entire Ezhou, and of course there are some small families that have been wiped out.

Jiang Yizhou is like a bug in this campaign to eliminate civil unrest.

After killing the people originally in the fortress, the land and houses will be distributed to the poor - after all, the harsh natural disasters are getting worse and worse, and it is impossible to waste such good houses.

In just one month, the local evil forces in Ezhou were completely eliminated.

When the local forces in the surrounding areas heard the news and had originally considered joining the uprising, they had to reconsider.

This emperor seemed to be different from all the previous ones. He clearly did not change the dynasty, but he was doing things that would support it.

Of course, other local forces dare not move now, not because they don’t want to move or don’t want to rebel, but because they learned that Mangshan seemed to have disappeared overnight!

Mangshan is their base. Without support from there, if they make any moves again, the imperial court will only focus on them.

Of course, if it were in the past, they would be well behaved now, and the emperor might not touch them for the sake of stability.

But now, the new emperor does not think so, and this time he has invested a huge amount of money to lead the army personally.

It would be better to get rid of these stubborn forces at once, so as to avoid destroying them one by one as they appear today, and then pacifying them wherever they appear tomorrow... instead of being led by these restless things.

It turns out that there is no unrest or rebellion that cannot be solved by a killing.

If there are still people rebelling, it must be because they have not been killed thoroughly enough.

In just half a year, this emperor, who had been in power for less than two years, swept across half of the Zhou Kingdom with his own troops.

There is widespread grief, but also the emergence of new life and stronger vitality.

Half a year later, when the new emperor returned to the court, the same crowd of ministers remained, but most of them had been replaced.

At this moment, when he promulgated the new policy, although there were some dissenting suggestions, it could be felt that the starting point of these people was no longer to serve a small group of powerful people.

This is good.

……

Two years later, the whole earth turned into a world of ice and frost.

Hidden beneath this layer of frost are bunkers of varying sizes.

These bunkers were built by farm organizations, dividing each area into small blocks and communes, where people lived together to resist natural disasters and severe cold.

They have basic food and fuel, but the commune still arranges work for everyone to take care of the planting base built by You Liuli. Although it cannot fully satisfy everyone's need for vegetables, it alleviates the vegetable shortage to a certain extent, and they can eat a bite of green leafy vegetables every now and then.

Some workshops are still operating normally...

The busiest places are the schools in the communes. In addition to children reading and writing, even adults are strictly required to clock in at the literacy classes every day to avoid trouble in the remaining time because they have only so many things to do every day.

Apart from the fact that the sky and the earth were covered in snow, making travel inconvenient, people found that such a life was fulfilling and comfortable.

People are terrified of the end of the world, but are very satisfied with their current lives and full of hope for the future.

…Jiang Yizhou was lying on an armchair covered with a thick wool blanket, his expression calm and peaceful, as if he was asleep.

Just a moment ago, Xiao Tongzi told her that the natural disasters in this world had reached a critical point.

In other words, the days ahead will gradually get warmer, and they will finally survive this natural disaster.

According to the previously deduced data, this time the imperial court and Tianzhuang worked together sincerely and perfectly led everyone through it.

Compared to the world in the original plot, only tens of thousands of people survived.

This time, however, tens of millions of people are still alive.

Moreover, after experiencing natural disasters, collectivization, and literacy education, these people can meet each other and see how prosperous the Great Zhou will be after the natural disasters.

Jiang Yizhou made great contributions in leading the whole country to fight the disaster, so the supreme rules rewarded her with three million merits.

Then, a new exchange option popped up on Xiao Tongzi's exchange panel -

【Small World Employee Recommendation Letter: 500 Million Merits】

When Xiao Tongzi saw this redemption option, he was more excited than Jiang Yizhou who was in a daze.

"Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou... choose it quickly, choose it... from now on we can become partners forever."

Jiang Yizhou quickly came to his senses. Small World employee?

In other words, the world I am in now is just one of countless worlds for the supreme rules?

This employee recommendation letter...could it be? ...

While she was still thinking in her mind, she had already used the only 5 million merits left in her account without hesitation to exchange for the letter of recommendation.

A calm voice sounded in the sea of ​​consciousness: Congratulations on becoming a formal employee of the Supreme Rules.

Jiang Yizhou couldn't help but ask Xiao Tongzi: "From the tone of the Supreme Rules just now, in addition to regular employees, there are also temporary employees? What's the difference?"

Xiao Tongzi is still immersed in excitement. Now it has finally advanced to become an advanced system. All this is due to the host's original choice.

Turn it from an "auxiliary system" into a serious "main control system".

Xiao Tongzi: "Of course there is a difference. If you were just a temporary worker, you would have to experience birth, aging, sickness and death completely in this world. If you were lucky, you might have the opportunity to enter other small worlds, but you don't know what kind of failed life you would need to fight back. Now that you are a formal employee, it means that you... you are immortal in a sense, and you can still go to different worlds to experience different lives."

Jiang Yizhou said "oh" and roughly understood.

This made her very happy.

Unexpectedly, he gained a little merit in saving people in his original world, and was able to travel to another small world as a woman in the back house. By chance, he earned more merit with the help of Xiao Tongzi's golden finger and became an "official time traveler."

From the beginning, she just didn't want to be a scapegoat for that scumbag. Then, when she had the farm, she subconsciously wanted the people who followed her to live a good life. Then, the business grew bigger and bigger, and she wanted to protect more and more people. Now... her state of mind is completely different from when she first came to this world.

Think about it, life is really amazing.

She was full of curiosity about her future life as an "employee", and at the same time she was secretly sorting out the gains of this "short" life.

Looking back now, she found that although she had gained a lot, she had also neglected many people and things.

For example, the partners who started the business with me... Of course, they all have their own lives now, and have gained power, fame, and status.

They were once partners and passers-by to me.

To them, I am nothing more than a passer-by.

She had built an unparalleled foundation and an immense network of relationships here, and she thought she would be reluctant to leave and would miss it. However, the fact was, when she heard Xiao Tongzi say that she was qualified and had the opportunity to experience more of life and a wider world, she could only feel impatient.

So, she thought about her journey, and although her mood had gradually changed, she was still that cold and emotional person deep down.

It may seem so glorious here now, but in two or three generations at most, everything will be completely changed.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yizhou felt completely relieved about this world.

On the table were some drawings she had sorted out, as well as some construction ideas for after the ice and snow melted.

She is just a passer-by in this world. Ultimately, the development of this world should be explored and advanced by the people of this world.

As for those people, friends and partners who had laughed, worked hard and struggled with her, she did not inform them when she came, and there was no need to inform them when she left.

There is no need to disturb each other's lives.

Jiang Yizhou had no worries, and his consciousness and Xiao Tongzi entered another level of space.

…………

The news of the death of the head of the Jiang family caused grief throughout the Zhou country.

People spontaneously observed a moment of silence, then worshipped for three days and three nights and built a temple to worship the god.

When the new emperor heard the news of the death of the head of the Jiang family, his eyes were a little moist, but he was not too surprised.

He secretly had Jiang Yizhou's body transported to Kyoto in an ice coffin.

——He once had a very long dream, in which he was murdered by conspiracy amidst the oppression of his brothers.

After five or six years of war, his younger brother King Kang ascended the throne.

Then there were several years of extreme natural disasters, and those aristocratic families survived by relying on their accumulated food wealth and powerful courtyards...

Tens of millions of people died in that unprecedented disaster.

The surviving powerful families brought in foreign tribes who had been eyeing the Zhou Dynasty covetously, and the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had lasted for thousands of years, completely disappeared in the long river of history.

After the new emperor woke up, he found that everything was going according to his dream, and he decided to change everything.

Then, he discovered the head of the Jiang family, who was "incompatible" with this world.

If he was somewhat hesitant about changing the world at the beginning, he was shocked and ashamed when he saw an ordinary woman giving everything for this country. He decided to use his status and power as an emperor and drastic measures to win a future for this country and its people.

No matter how those people whispered in his ears, saying that he should not listen to a woman, implement new policies casually and forget his roots.

The key point is that this woman was also a vicious woman who cruelly pushed her husband and son to the guillotine.

He later had someone secretly investigate this point - he just wanted to say that for the vested interests, even if they knew that they were the one in the wrong, they would never admit it.

Those people thought that the head of the Jiang family was so successful that he threatened the emperor, and that there might be a female emperor in the future who would replace him on the throne.

In his opinion, not to mention that this woman had no idea about this position at all, even if she did, he would still help her!

As long as the Great Zhou civilization can continue, and not be destroyed by those bad people who betray their country and ancestors, and completely invaded by foreign races, even if it is just an imperial throne, he still has this tolerance.

The only time he had a serious face-to-face communication with her was right after he ascended the throne. On the one hand, he was thanking her for changing his fate, and on the other hand, it was also a test of her attitude.

The new emperor looked at the person lying quietly in the ice coffin. He looked to be in his early twenties at most, with a peaceful face, as if he was asleep. He did not have the fierce aura that he had when he first met him.

He looked at the people inside and said quietly: "I know that you may have your own adventures like me. You must have some kind of magical opportunity. You did not use this opportunity to become a member of those powerful families, but used this opportunity to save our country from disaster. You are the benefactor of all of us, and the true god of our Great Zhou - the Protector of the Country!"

"Not only will I let you enjoy the incense and offerings of my people forever, but I will also let you truly be immortal—"

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