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

Chapter 121 The plan cannot keep up with the changes

In the ninety-fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, at the age of fifty-two, you returned to the palace and met the Divine Emperor sitting on the Dragon Bed.

[All the way, you were filled with fear: After all, this time you had truly attacked the eunuchs in the Imperial Palace. If the Divine Emperor held you accountable, even if you were right, you would still be hard-pressed to escape the blame!]

【And more importantly, why did He send eunuchs to spy on you? 】

This makes you feel even more uneasy. Your intuition tells you that "He" must have discovered something. This trip is extremely risky...

[And the result was just as you expected. When you met the Divine Emperor, the smile on His face was gone. Instead, it was filled with solemnity and gloom!]

【"ovary……"】

[As soon as you meet Him, He speaks before you even think about how to start the conversation.]

[He said in a deep voice: "I indeed underestimated you..."]

【this? ! 】

You were startled upon hearing this, and the bad premonition in your heart grew stronger, but you still said, "Your Majesty, I do not understand what you are saying..."

"I really don't understand?"

The Divine Emperor sneered, "Then I'll make it clear... Where have those out-of-control Jinyiwei gone?"

"Were they imprisoned in various places, or were they all killed?"

[Sure enough, this is the problem…]

The Divine Emperor's sharp words pierced through all your hopes: "As expected, you can't hide it from Him... Or rather, if you can, then there must be something fishy!"

[No matter how indifferent he is to the affairs of the world, he still has the ability to understand things. Since he has already set his sights on the Jinyiwei, he will definitely pay more attention to them.]

[After the Jinyiwei went out of control, you had two options: either kill them to eliminate the threat forever, or lock them up as a time bomb... But you obviously chose neither option. So, the answer is obvious: you cured them!]

[This isn't difficult to guess at all. Even if the Divine Emperor hadn't specifically investigated, he'd definitely be able to sense something was amiss based on his intuition alone.]

[Or rather, the fact that He only discovered this problem today is enough to show how slow His reaction was...]

[And since He has made this matter clear to you today, you only have two choices left: confess and receive leniency, or resist and receive severity.]

[Which one should I choose? ]

[After a brief consideration, you ultimately chose the wise man who knows the times...]

[There's no other way. I've given you irrefutable evidence right in front of you. It's pointless to continue to be stubborn. Not only will it be useless, it will only anger the Divine Emperor, completely destroying your already slim hopes of success... Rather than yelling and getting arrested, you'd better be sensible and seek leniency.]

[With a sigh, you reluctantly confess your ability to restore the out-of-control Jinyiwei back to normal...]

【…】

The Divine Emperor's expression quickly went through shock, suspicion, confusion, anger, and other changes...

[After you finished talking about this ability, you seemed to have lost all your energy and spirit, and just lowered your head, waiting for the Divine Emperor's judgment.] ["..."]

The Divine Emperor took a deep breath, his complex gaze faintly revealing a cold murderous intent!

This couldn't possibly be without murderous intent, because the fundamental reason why He can still act with impunity in the world today is due to His absolutely invincible power: in a world filled with mortals, a true God on earth is truly too great!

He can do whatever He wants. As long as He is inhuman enough, no one in the world can resist Him!

[And this is precisely the foundation of his survival... No one knows better than him how important power is. If he didn't have this overwhelming power and status, then with all the heinous deeds he's done, he would have been hanged on the old crooked tree by the unruly people long ago!]

Therefore, power and status are his absolute taboos. If anyone threatens this, he will eliminate the threat with swift and violent means.

[The mysterious power you are currently displaying clearly threatens His very foundation: since you are able to maintain the sanity of the out-of-control Jinyiwei, it means that as long as you remain, the Jinyiwei will be able to ignore the madness brought on by divine power and continue to accumulate divine power...]

If this momentum of dripping water wearing away a stone continues, doesn't it mean that sooner or later someone will be able to become powerful enough to threaten Him?

[He is not a fool. He can think of anything you can think of, so He is fully aware of the threat you pose to Him!]

[In this situation, you are simply a thorn in His side, making Him want to get rid of you as soon as possible!]

[But... until the very end, He never made up His mind to kill you...]

【…】

【He finally let you go.】

Even you don't know why He let you go. After all, you posed such a huge threat to Him, so much so that if you put yourself in His perspective, you wouldn't find any reason to let yourself go...but He actually let you go.

He didn't hold you accountable for concealing your special abilities and not reporting them, nor for attempting to emulate Sima Yi and secretly raising three thousand assassins, nor for attacking the eavesdropping eunuchs... Even though your intentions of rebellion were already clear, He didn't do anything to you.

[He has only given you one order: From now on, you are not allowed to restore sanity to any Jinyiwei who has lost control!]

[As long as you stop, you will still be the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty. As long as you stop, you can still survive. If you still don't stop, don't blame him for not giving you a chance...]

Although you couldn't understand why He would let you go, since He had already said so, you couldn't afford to be shameless anymore, so you had no choice but to obey His orders.

[From this day forward, you will no longer be running around the country restoring sanity to the out-of-control Jinyiwei as before... This not only marks your complete defeat in this battle between the invisible and visible hands, but also marks a huge flaw in your unreliable plan to slay the gods, making it impossible to carry out...]

[It is precisely at this moment when your plan fails that your already slim hope is at risk of collapse: the Jinyiwei, under the watchful eyes of the Divine Emperor, are clearly unable to bear the heavy responsibility of slaying the gods... You must find a way to formulate a new plan to slay the gods.]

[But... does such a method really exist in the world? ]

[You don't know that all that's left in your heart is the confusion after your plans were violently interrupted...]

【…】

[Ding! Faced with the Divine Emperor's sudden intervention, your already flawed Jinyiwei plan to slay the gods is on the verge of collapse... At this moment, you must find a way to remedy this impending plan! You chose: (?) Please create your own answer!]

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(End of this chapter)