The video takes us to ancient times; Li Er transforms into the Tongtian Emperor of Shu Han.

Liu Bang finally understood that the pens of these scholars could kill far more ruthlessly than knives.

From the start of the challenge until his escape from the capital, he played the role of a puppet in the city.

Not to mention the aristocratic families in the capital, even ordinary people know that while the emperor is heaven, the Sima family is even higher than heaven.

How could a puppet like him be so easily swayed by beautiful women?

In this world, beautiful women are a scarce resource; who would waste them on him?

As for his role in introducing dozens of cruel torture methods, which resulted in the deaths of countless loyal ministers and generals.

Even Liu Bang himself found it hard to imagine how those people could not laugh when he wrote this down.

During his actual time in the palace, he dared not even make a move against ordinary palace servants, let alone slaughter loyal ministers and generals.

After all, they were all spies of the Sima family!

If he truly enjoyed torturing and killing court officials, he probably wouldn't last three days on the throne before dying due to some unexpected event.

"The people of the capital may know that there is something fishy going on, but they don't need to care at all what the people of the capital think."

"Those in the capital dared not refute them, and those outside the capital had no other way to know what was happening in the capital, so they could only listen to and believe them."

Both Zhang Liang and Liu Bang had foreseen that the gentry in the capital would establish a new emperor.

Even Zhang Liang hadn't expected them to be so shameless.

"The way they're throwing mud at us is truly appalling. All I can say is that they're far more shameless than I am!"

Liu Bang grew angrier the more he thought about it.

Good heavens, that long and splendid memorial advocating for the new emperor's ascension to the throne was half praising Cao Fang's abilities and half smearing him!

"However, it's not entirely without the truth, Your Majesty. At least what they say here is not wrong."

Zhang Liang pointed to one of them.

"He led the bandit Jiang Wei's army from Shu into the territory of Wei, almost destroying the Wei kingdom in one fell swoop."

"Of course, this truth only occupies a small portion of the evidence they listed; the majority..."

After reading the entire letter of advice that had been made public, Zhang Liang found himself increasingly bewildered and unable to decide whether to laugh or cry.

This group of people attributed almost all the faults of incompetent rulers throughout history to Liu Bang.

This was not only to make their move to reinstate Cao Fang more legitimate, but also to completely crush Liu Bang.

"You want to drown me in the spittle of the world?"

"Aren't they being a bit naive?"

After figuring it out, Liu Bang couldn't help but chuckle despite his anger.

"In the end, I am the emperor."

"Moreover, by choosing Cao Fang instead of Cao Ju, they had already made a mistake in their first step."

"Apart from Guanqiu Jian, that stubborn mule, there shouldn't be anyone else willing to believe that cowardly fellow."

"Zifang, you should also make preparations. Go and tell the world that it's not just the literati and aristocratic families in the capital who know how to use a pen. If we're talking about killing with a pen, you are their ancestor!"

Zhang Liang: “…”

Your Majesty, my reputation has been completely ruined by this challenge!

When have I ever done such a thing?

Even the proclamation against Xiang Yu was entirely truthful and detailed. When did it ever fabricate such baseless claims?

"What you mean is that although you're not happy to call black white, if you really wanted to do it, you would definitely do it a hundred times better than them, right?"

Liu Bang noticed Zhang Liang's silence and quickly changed his tune.

Zhang Liang: “…”

"Your Majesty, please stop. I will go and prepare now. I cannot guarantee whether I can be more effective at stirring people's hearts than they are, but I can say that it is definitely true."

"In fact, we are different from them."

“You did nothing in the capital, and the gentry of the capital did nothing in the same way when facing the Sima family.”

"In this situation, if they want to reap the benefits and depose His Majesty to install a new emperor, they can only make things up."

"All we need to do is let the world know what happened during this period, let them know how His Majesty reversed the situation and suppressed the Sima family, that's enough."

"Justice resides in the hearts of the people. Their edict of remonstrance is too bizarre, cramming in all sorts of nonsense, which will only reduce its credibility."

"We don't need to call black white. As long as we tell the truth, His Majesty is white!"

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"Is the current emperor really that kind of person?"

"He is the emperor, yet he still peeped at palace maids bathing?"

"It's one thing to peep at palace maids bathing, but he also likes to seduce eunuchs..."

"These are at most just differences in personal preferences. No one can say anything about what the emperor does. However, his slaughter of good officials and even the arbitrary killing of civilians is truly shocking."

"How could the current emperor of Great Wei be of such a state? Could it be that Heaven is truly determined to destroy Great Wei?"

“That’s not right. When did the Prince of Qi become so virtuous? Didn’t the General say before that the Prince of Qi was incompetent and asked the Empress Dowager to issue an imperial edict to depose the Emperor and establish the Duke of Gaogui Township in his place?”

"How long has it been? The accounts have suddenly turned upside down. Which is true and which is false?"

After the remonstrances of the powerful clans in the capital were published throughout the land, the major prefectures and counties of Wei were in an uproar.

In their memory, it seemed that not long ago, the Sima family had obtained an imperial edict from the Empress Dowager to depose the emperor and made it public.

In that recent imperial edict, Cao Fang was demoted to a completely worthless position, stripped of his imperial title, and enfeoffed as the Prince of Qi.

Although the gentry, in their current letter of advice, portrayed Liu Bang as utterly worthless.

They had already attributed every imaginable act of a tyrannical ruler to Liu Bang.

But as Zhang Liang said, it is precisely because there are so many charges against him that people are more likely to doubt the truth of these charges.

time is too short.

In the public's perception, Liu Bang's reign lasted only a few years.

How could he be both infatuated with beauty and tyrannical and murderous?

He could peep at palace maids bathing one minute and then brutally kill a loyal court official the next.

If what is written in the memorial of advice is true, then he can hardly be considered a foolish ruler; rather, he seems more like a madman!

A complete lunatic!

Anyone with a modicum of sense would understand after a little thought.

Perhaps what the Empress Dowager said in the decree to depose the emperor some time ago was not true, but this memorial of advice is even more bizarre.

To determine which is true and which is false, we must wait and see.

The power of the powerful clans was immense, and soon those in the capital learned of the reactions from various regions to this memorial of remonstrance.

Aside from the places where they mobilized a large amount of manpower and resources to incite others, almost everyone else was skeptical of this.

So, at the next court meeting, this very issue sparked a heated debate among the group.

"As far as I know, the Xun family of Yingchuan doesn't seem to have played a significant role in supporting the new emperor, does he? Shouldn't you all be moved to a lower position?"

"Chen Tai of the Chen family even disappeared along with the deposed emperor, so why didn't Chen Tan move?"

"The Chen family goes without saying; what we're talking about now is other people's business."

"Gentlemen, the more effort you put in, the more you will benefit. That's fair, isn't it?"