The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 907 The Cat in the Wall
The travelers who had imagined that the Great Qi would be destroyed even though it was far away eventually died overseas. Their families did not wait for the imperial army to rescue them from thousands of miles away, and they did not even find the bodies of their loved ones. It was said that they were fed to sharks by the desperate criminals of the southern Yinzhou. After all, the southern Yinzhou did not keep idle people. What was disheartening was that the attitude of Tianxin City towards these "barbarians" was very cold, even indifferent.

With the tacit approval of Tianxin City, the empire's overseas colonial governors ignored these people and left them to fend for themselves.

Afterwards, several newspapers in Great Qi published articles attributing the suffering of the overseas Qi people to their own fault. In the words of renowned commentator Hu Xiaoli, "If they weren't dreaming of getting rich, why would they be in Yinzhou, thousands of miles away in the south?"

Therefore, the people of Qi attributed this tragedy to the victim's personal moral problems. It is said that what Qi was best at was attributing all kinds of problems to moral issues.

After all, ordinary people have the strongest sense of justice when they act as moral judges.

Under the verbal and written criticism of people of justice, the sporadic protests of the victims' families were quickly quelled, like a stone thrown into stagnant water, which caused a few ripples but soon returned to silence.

In any case, this time the problem of the pig was finally solved satisfactorily.

However, Emperor Jing Yan did not feel the slightest joy. Conspiracy politics was incompatible with Liu Fan's nature. Moreover, using such despicable means to deal with ordinary people, even if it achieved the expected effect, was not acceptable...
Liu Fan missed his ancestor Liu Zhaosun more and more. At least Emperor Taizu eventually degenerated into a real villain, while he was now gradually degenerating into a hypocrite.

Liu Fan neither believed in the new policies nor was naturally averse to the polar system. As time went on, the emperor felt that he was struggling more and more.

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In early April, news of Kingsin's disappearance reached Tianxin City. As the empire's most wanted criminal, Kingsin's every move was monitored by intelligence personnel. Although Emperor Jingyan had let the thief go, it did not mean that the Jins could do whatever they wanted in Siberia.

Intelligence shows that Kingsning lived a quite comfortable life during the more than one year of exile in the North Sea. With the support of his believers, the leader of the "Rescue Tianxin City" movement lived a luxurious and extravagant life as an emperor in the local area. There were twelve girls serving him alone. After enjoying all kinds of worldly pleasures, Kingsning tried to return to Da Qi, but several actions ended in failure.

A magic circle composed of huge stones stands on the shore of the North Sea, each stone weighing ten tons. There is even intelligence that Kingsning and his subordinates held some kind of bloody sacrificial ceremony in front of the stone circle. Shortly after the ceremony, Kingsning and his followers disappeared without a trace.

There were many different opinions at the time, and all kinds of news were flying around.

Some say that Kingsning has become an immortal, some say that Kingsning has escaped from prison, and more people say that maybe Kingsning is just hiding.

In any case, Kingsning's sudden disappearance was a shocking event. The emperor immediately ordered that he must be found even if they had to dig three feet underground, so as not to leave any excuses for the Europeans, especially the British.

On July 1624, 7, Dong Shaowei, a captain of the Guoyi Army, was appointed as the Beihai Observer and went to the place where the criminal Kingsning was exiled, on the shore of Beihai, to investigate this bizarre incident.

Until six months ago, after confirming that there was no hope for him to return home, the party leader gradually became obsessed with a certain local mysterious power (an ancient mysterious power originating from the depths of the North Sea).

One morning in early spring of the fourteenth year of Jingyan, Jin Jinning woke up from a nightmare, his hands trembling and his face pale. Jin told his followers:
The sleeping gods are about to descend upon the earth.
The natives of the North Sea knew some simple things about their ancestors, but as for the details of the mysterious power that Kingsning mentioned, people kept silent about it.

Ever since Zheng Zhifen brought his followers to this land, the natives have been watching the various performances of this group of people as if they were watching monkeys.

Once, the palace of the Jin Emperor—the local natives called the party leader Jin Ning—was built next to the natives' fields. An elderly man, holding a farm tool, cursed loudly:
"The ancestors will bring the gods to punish you, you bunch of pagans!" Kingsning knew nothing about the ancestors mentioned by the natives. Maybe they were a group of knights who participated in the Crusades, or sailors who died in the sea during the Age of Exploration. Who cares?

Despite strong opposition from the local natives, Kingsning continued to build his palace until the palace wall hit the Semger Monastery.

To be precise, it was a pile of nearly collapsed medieval ruins. There was no one in the monastery, the walls were covered with vines, crows were perched on the broken roof, and the ground was covered with bird droppings.

Kingsning led his followers to break through the native blockade, and the leader shouted:
"Anything that prevents us from saving Da Qi must be completely destroyed! Come, tear down this foreign monk temple!"

At Kingsning's command, hundreds of fanatical believers gathered around immediately took action. They divided the work and cooperated with each other, some moving bricks, some pushing walls, and began to systematically demolish the unbearable building that was obstructing the "Tianxin City Rescue Project."

"DIV...OPS!"

Several indigenous residents looked at the horrifying scene in front of them with distorted expressions and muttered something, but Kingsning and his followers remained unmoved. In the end, the indigenous residents could only scream and flee in panic.

Kingsning said with disdain: "A bunch of fools!"

As the last piece of marble floor was lifted up by the believers, a line of strange and unfamiliar words appeared in front of everyone at the bottom of the stone slab: "DIV...OPS...MAGNA．MAT..."

The learned Kingsnin glanced at the words on the stone tablet and immediately shouted to everyone, "This is the mark of the Great Mother Goddess Magnamat. During the reign of the Rakshasas, the people were once prohibited from practicing mystery worship of her, but the ban was ineffective."

Some of the believers who were naturally timid asked cautiously:
"Leader, are we still digging?"

Kingsning said coldly, "Dig, of course we have to dig. We have to get to the bottom of it."

Kingsning had pieced together the various legends he had collected in the North Sea, and based on the Feng Shui techniques he had learned when he was wandering in Tianxin City in his early years, he finally came to the conclusion that his new villa must occupy the land in front of him, otherwise it would not be able to suppress the dragon vein in the direction of Tianxin City.

From the beginning to the end, Jin was a very pure person.

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The palace was finally completed.

On July 1723, 7, Kingsning moved into his mansion with his family and servants.

He lived with twenty young girls, five dogs, and nine cats. It was said that cats could ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to Kingsnin. He had spent half a winter in muddy trenches in southern Crimea, filled with dead bodies and flies. Only this cat kept telling Kingsnin to live, and to live gracefully.

(End of this chapter)