Under One Person: Starting from the Inheritance of Gods

Chapter 340: The Ruthless Working Machine 1.0th Edition is online [Please subscribe, please vote for the monthly ticket, please vote for the recommendation ticket]

"Your Highness, Li Siyuan's head is here!"

"According to what Your Highness said, after we capture this man, we will hand him over to Zhang Zifan, the Junior Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, to cut off his head personally."

"Your Highness, please review it!"

Li Cunxu respectfully presented Li Siyuan's hideous and bloody head on a wooden plate that had been prepared long ago. His face was extremely distorted and filled with a strong sense of unwillingness.

Meng Fan glanced at it, waved his hand in disdain and said, "Throw it into the Longquan Underground Palace with the corpses of the other princes later!"

"Your Highness, I have made such a large underground palace their mausoleum, not leaving their bodies exposed in the wilderness, and have given them the dignity of being princes. This is considered a kind act."

Li Cunxu handed the wooden tray to the person beside him, took a step forward, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is indeed merciful. I admire you!"

"By the way, where is Li Maozhen?"

Meng Fan suddenly thought of his cheap brother-in-law.

"Originally, with Ying Gou Shi Zu, Zhong Xiaokui and I, we could have kept Li Maozhen and Li Siyuan together. However, according to His Highness' previous instructions, we still let them go!"

Meng Fan sneered, "Let him go. It's time for my brother-in-law to experience the hardships of the common people. Now he has no home to return to and the country to rely on. It's good to be a commoner."

After dealing with the affairs of the princes, the surrendered minister came out with something that looked like a vessel in his hand. After nodding to Meng Fan, they left together.

At this moment, the Longquan Underground Palace finally couldn't bear the weight and made a roar. In an instant, dust filled the sky, mixed with red and white salt blocks with blood stains, fluttering down like a red snow covering the mausoleum.

Meng Fan and Li Xingyun stood on the cliff together, looking at the collapsed Longquan Underground Palace from a high place.

Li Xingyun had a complicated expression and asked, "Li Siyuan, did he die just like that?"

Even now, he still doesn't quite believe it.

According to Yuan Tiangang, there would be chaos in the world, but who could have thought that the King of Qin would take direct action and wipe out all the princes in the world.

And Li Cunxu is even more of a Qin King's man.

In other words, since the incident in Chang'an, Meng Fan has been planning to clean up the princes of the world, and he even lured the princes of the world in and then killed them, twice in a row.

Meng Fan laughed and said, "If I don't kill him, will I keep him for the New Year? I don't have the habit of raising tigers to cause trouble. In the late Tang Dynasty, the separatist regimes were one of the fundamental reasons that led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty."

"After the An-Shi Rebellion, the power of the feudal lords rose, and the Jiedushi took control of the local military and political power, gradually breaking away from the central control, weakening the emperor's authority, leading to the dispersion of financial and military power, and making it difficult for the central government to effectively manage the local areas. This is just one of the reasons."

"In addition, there were eunuchs interfering in government affairs, serious land annexation, heavy taxes, and frequent natural disasters, which led to the hardship of the people's lives."

"Additionally, with foreign invasions, the Tubo, Uighur and other surrounding ethnic groups constantly harassing the border, the pressure on border defense was enormous, and a large amount of military and financial resources were consumed."

"It was due to internal and external troubles that the Tang Dynasty became so devastated that it was difficult to recover."

"These feudal lords are like termites that survive by sucking the blood of the Tang Dynasty. If we don't kill them, how can the Tang Dynasty continue?"

"If we don't eradicate these evils, no matter how good the country is, no matter how perfect the policies are, no matter how prosperous the times are, they will eventually be destroyed in their hands."

"Isn't it worth it to exchange their blood for a peaceful world?"

Li Xingyun knew what Meng Fan said, but he did not have the courage to wipe out all the princes in the world, nor did he have the skills to subdue the rebellious people in the world.

"I want to know, what are you going to do next?"

Li Xingyun looked at Meng Fan with sharp eyes.

Meng Fan looked up at the morning star and the waning moon in the sky and said, "Recreate the mountains and rivers!"

"The Bad Commander is dead, and I have accomplished his final plan. The agreement between him and I is also voided. The rest of the world is mine!"

"I, Li Xingyu, want this world!"

Just as Meng Fan turned around and was about to leave.

Li Xingyun suddenly stopped him, frowned and asked, "Can you kill less?"

Meng Fan looked back at Li Xingyun coldly, and suddenly revealed a sarcastic smile, saying: "You are still too naive now!"

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Youzhou.

Meng Fan knelt beside a tea table and waved his hand to release the spirit of the Bad Commander, placing him opposite him.

Yuan Tiangang looked at his illusory body and murmured, "Am I not dead?"

"It's true that he's dead, but death doesn't mean the end." Meng Fan said meaningfully with a smile on his face.

"Your Highness?!"

Yuan Tiangang raised his head and saluted to Meng Fan in shock. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something and said firmly, "Your Highness, it seems that what you have learned is different from what we have learned?"

"Did you notice?"

Meng Fan paused holding the teacup, then slowly put the tea into his mouth. It was not surprising that Yuan Tiangang noticed this.

It would be strange if we really couldn’t detect it!

"Haha, I have been immersed in martial arts for three hundred years. I am not a scholar, but I have enough knowledge. When the little Taoist priest fought with me before, I already found something wrong, but it involved Your Highness's secrets, so I did not investigate it in detail. Now that I think about it, Your Highness's methods are probably comparable to those of the legendary immortals!"

Yuan Tiangang looked at his illusory hands and sighed, "No wonder Your Highness mocked Li Xingyun as a frog in a well and a summer insect before. With such means, why can't he rule the Tang Dynasty for ten thousand years?"

"Ten thousand years?"

"Humph!"

Meng Fan raised his eyes and chuckled, "What I want to replace is the sky of this world!"

"sky………?"

Yuan Tiangang looked up, with a hint of disbelief in his tone.

Meng Fan explained: "The so-called heaven can actually be seen as a collection of the laws running between heaven and earth. Just as Laozi said, there is a thing that is mixed and formed before heaven and earth. It is quiet and lonely, independent and unchanging. It can be called the mother of heaven and earth."

"I do not know its name, so I call it Tao. I force myself to call it Great. Great means passing away, passing away means far away, and far away means returning. Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and the king is also great. There are four great things in a country, and the king is one of them. Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Tiangang could not help but frown and said, "The Tao Te Ching that Your Highness is talking about seems to be different from what I know?"

Meng Fan slowly filled his cup with tea and said, "Since the Han Dynasty, when all schools of thought were abolished and Confucianism was the only one respected, the words of the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period have been tampered with a lot and are no longer the same. What I said is just one of the versions." "Of course, it is also the version that is closest to Laozi's original intention."

"Heaven is the collection of all the ways of heaven and earth. The so-called way can also be seen as the rules for the operation of all things in the world. Your divination, deduction of the fate of the Tang Dynasty, and glimpse of the future are all based on this."

"I will call this collection the Heavenly Dao. It is like a precision machine that runs in a cycle. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao is ruthless, and the Great Dao is impartial and selfless!"

"It is precisely because of their lack of selfishness that dynasties continue to change for the development and evolution of all things in the world."

"But what if the way of heaven is selfish?"

Yuan Tiangang had never looked at the Heaven's Way mentioned by Meng Fan from this perspective. As a fortune teller, he only knew that the will of Heaven is unpredictable, and had never analyzed the other party in this way.

It’s like someone is telling you the answer directly, saying what the so-called God’s will is, explaining its essence, and the laws governing its operation.

Hearing Meng Fan's words, Yuan Tiangang felt as if he had been awakened. He was silent for a long time before he said, "If the way of heaven is partial and favors one person, then wouldn't a certain dynasty continue to exist?"

"Not bad!"

“There are four great things in a country, and the king is one of them; there are four great things in a region, and people are one of them. In the final analysis, the metaphors here are actually the same.”

"The king is the leader of mankind, and mankind is the most intelligent creature in the world. Therefore, it can be said that the emperor is the one who is most favored and protected by heaven. He speaks the law of heaven and can decide the life and death of all people with a single word. He is equivalent to the son of destiny and possesses a certain amount of authority in heaven and earth. The saying of the emperor is not groundless."

"And what I have to do is to use my status as the Son of Heaven to get a share of the so-called Heavenly Dao, or even completely control the Heavenly Dao, and follow the laws of Heaven and Dao!"

When Yuan Tiangang heard this, his first feeling was that it was absurd, but since Meng Fan dared to say this, there must be some truth to it, or even some certainty.

What I thought was impossible might actually be possible for His Highness.

A glimmer of ambition appeared in Meng Fan's eyes. He looked at Yuan Tiangang who was lost in thought, and then said, "You must have heard of the Buddhist theory of countless worlds and the three thousand worlds. In addition, Taoism also has the theory of blessed lands and thirty-six heavens."

As he spoke, Meng Fan took out chess pieces from the chessboard beside him, arranged them in front of Yuan Tiangang, and said, "This is where my confidence comes from!"

Yuan Tiangang stared at the chess pieces in a daze. As a Taoist, how could he not be familiar with these theories? He just didn't expect that they would come true today.

He suddenly smiled and said, "Your Highness, I seem to understand. Your Highness disappeared after he was born. I have calculated everything but could not find your whereabouts. I think your Highness must have gone to another world, right?"

"Your Highness must have learned all of his skills in that world. No wonder they are so miraculous, almost like the skills of gods and immortals. No wonder Your Highness would say that he wants to replace the heavens."

"With such an opportunity, it might be possible to replace the sky!" Yuan Tiangang said this excitedly and tremblingly.

He raised his head suddenly and said:
"May I ask, is that heaven and earth the fairyland?"

Meng Fan shook his head: "It can't be called the Immortal Realm, but it is an unimaginable prosperous time."

Meng Fan snapped his fingers, and scenes of the world under One Person that had been intercepted appeared in front of Yuan Tiangang’s eyes. There were tall buildings, busy traffic, abundant products, and picturesque mountains and rivers…

After a moment, the phantom dissipated.

Yuan Tiangang said with a hint of yearning: "I envy Your Highness for being able to live in such a prosperous era."

Meng Fan smiled slightly and said, "What if I could recreate this scene in this world?"

Yuan Tiangang's body trembled suddenly. He looked at Meng Fan as if he was looking at a saintly monarch who was even more wise and powerful than Emperor Taizong of the past. His tone was filled with madness and excitement as he said, "Then His Highness will definitely be an eternal monarch!"

Suddenly, Yuan Tiangang knelt on the ground and begged, "I beg you to let me see that prosperous scene, no matter how much it costs."

Unexpectedly, Meng Fan said meaningfully: "Instead of letting you take a look, how about you create it yourself?"

Yuan Tiangang raised his head in disbelief and looked at Meng Fan: "Your Highness means..."

As Meng Fan waved his hand, a magical puppet wearing white ancient clothes and a white star mask with gold patterns appeared on the spot. Under the puppet's simulated skin, there were even specially refined muscles like fine steel cables and chalcedony-like bones.

"Tian Kuixing listens to my orders!"

Meng Fan stood up and suddenly said seriously.

"Wei Chen is here!"

Yuan Tiangang knelt down and saluted respectfully with his hands.

"I will still appoint you as the Bad Leader of the Tang Dynasty, and appoint you to the position of Tian Kui Star. From now on, you will command the thirty-six Tian Gang Commanders and the seventy-two Di Sha Commanders, and serve the Tang Dynasty loyally for ten thousand years."

"Your Majesty, please accept the order and thank me!"

Yuan Tiangang's body was shaking and he knocked his head to the ground, his excitement and joy were beyond words.

Then, Meng Fan waved his hand and put Yuan Tiangang's spirit into the divine machine puppet. There was a sound of mechanical startup, and the white divine machine actually started moving.

Yuan Tiangang felt the various functions of the divine machine, looked at the knuckles that were harder than black iron and fine steel, and said, "Minister, it seems to be even stronger!"

However, when Yuan Tiangang opened his mouth, he made a loli-like female voice.

Meng Fan suddenly broke out in a sweat and cursed inwardly: "Damn, Lao Ma forgot to change to factory mode!"

Just as Yuan Tiangang covered his mouth in embarrassment, Meng Fan handed an operation guide to Yuan Tiangang's spirit with both hands and said, "Change the voice settings. I remember there are multiple voice modes."

Then, after experiencing various local accents and many difficult-to-speak voices, Meng Fan and Yuan Tiangang finally found a voice that suits him.

Looking at Yuan Tiangang who was loyal and devoted, Meng Fan couldn't help but raise a meaningful arc at the corner of his mouth.

It is impossible to resurrect Yuan Tiangang. The only fate that awaits Yuan Tiangang is to keep working in this divine puppet until his spirit is exhausted and wants to dissipate.

However, how could Meng Fan bear to let Yuan Tiangang, such a useful worker of destiny, disappear?
Don’t forget, Meng Fan also has a pair of perfect hands!

The fatigue of the soul can be eliminated, and even if the divine puppet is corroded by time, it can be replaced and renewed frequently. What Meng Fan will get will be a working machine that never gets tired.

The kind that can't free itself.

For a soul that has experienced three hundred years of loneliness to work hard for the new Tang Dynasty for another three hundred years, or even longer, up to ten thousand years, there wouldn't be any problem, right?

This can be considered as a punishment for Yuan Tiangang.

Perhaps, Yuan Tiangang would also enjoy this.

Perhaps countless years later, Yuan Tiangang will say: "I am tired!"

Only Meng Fan would show mercy and allow him to reincarnate and live another life, and then find him again in the second life.

(End of this chapter)