I am a director in Ark. If I am not banned, I will be considered successful.

Hai Rui obviously knew that the cabinet and the Yan Party were not the root causes of the current state of Dayan. If he went to participate in the cabinet now, there would still be only one person who could make the final decision, and that was Jiajing.

"The disease is incurable. It is useless to treat the symptoms unless the root cause is treated. What is the root cause of the disease of the Great Yan Dynasty? You know, I know, everyone knows, but no one dares to touch it!"

"I won't do the same thing as they do. If I do, I will start from the root of the problem!"

"...It looks like Hai Rui is finally going to confront Jiajing." The Emperor of Dayan couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene. He certainly admired Hai Rui and despised Jiajing. Now, Hai Rui's sharp blade was finally going to attack the root cause of Dayan's illness, and he was naturally happy to see it.

Inside the temple, Jiajing is now talking to Huang Jin, played by Taihe. After Lu Fang left, Huang Jin became the only person he could trust. Although Huang Jin is a little bit stupid, his loyalty is evident.

Now, the lonely Jiajing, under the meticulous care of people he trusts, also rarely reveals his vulnerable side as a king.

"Since I was a child, my father and mother... have been honored as guests of honor."

"I don't have parents, I don't have brothers... I don't even have a close friend around me. Don't tell me, if there is one, Lu Fang is one... He left and left you to me, so he is worthy of me."

However, the weakness only lasted for a short while. Soon, Jiajing took Huang Jin to visit the two palaces and two pavilions that were about to be built. On the way, they happened to witness Feng Bao being taught a lesson by Chen Hong's men.

Previously, in order to allow Lv Fang and Chen Hong to complete the transfer of power, Jiajing allowed Lv Fang to leave the palace on the pretext of guarding the mausoleum. He also found many charges against Lv Fang, and Feng Bao, played by Ah, was one of them.

Jiajing had his reasons for doing so. He was playing a game of chess, a game that controlled the fate of these people.

Chen Hong is a vengeful person. Feng Bao was Lu Fang's man. Now Feng Bao was punished by Lu Fang and came here to be the lowest slave. Naturally, he was given special care by Chen Hong, but Feng Bao also knew that no one dared to kill him.

Feng Bao has now gained the trust of Prince Yu, who will be the emperor of Dayan in the future. As long as he survives until that day, the highest position in the Imperial Household Department will undoubtedly be his!

When the time comes, when autumn comes on September 8th, my flowers will bloom and all other flowers will die!

Jiajing also saw through this, so he watched all this silently, and only reminded Huang Jin beside him:

"Don't be so straightforward in the future, and don't talk back to Chen Hong in person. I'm doing this for your own good."

"The person who can kill Chen Hong later...is probably this person."

Jiajing knew that a tyrannical person like Chen Hong would not have a good ending in the future, which was why he dared to use Chen Hong as a knife against all officials. But the knife might also hurt himself in the future, and Feng Bao was another knife that could cut off Chen Hong in the future!

Now, the more Feng Bao endures, the more ruthless he will be when he wants to kill Chen Hong in the future, and in turn, he will be the sharpest and most loyal blade under Prince Yu! This is Jiajing's plan.

The fate of all these little people is in his hands. He is the God of Dayan and controls the future of everyone.

However, soon, Jiajing saw a group of figures slowly approaching. Without a doubt, they were the officials who had decided to come and die in protest. They had all written memorials and were ready to report to the cabinet and all the officials under the emperor!

"What do you want to do?! Are you planning a rebellion?!"

"——In our Great Yan Dynasty, there are no officials who plot rebellion, only officials who die for their advice!"

However, faced with the death-defying remonstrances of at least seventy or eighty officials in the capital, although they were not of high rank, such a scene was enough to make the officials of Dayan outside the screen, as well as the Emperor of Dayan himself, feel suffocated.

"In the history of my Great Yan Dynasty... I'm afraid there has never been such a large number of officials dying for their remonstrances?" The Great Yan Emperor seemed to be still a little frightened. He couldn't help wiping the cold sweat off his forehead, feeling a little guilty.

Apart from anything else, if such a large number of officials had died in protest during his time in power, then there would be no doubt that he had done something evil that would have angered God and people, and he would probably have left a stain on his name in the history of Dayan.

When faced with the death of hundreds of officials, any emperor would immediately give up his original idea. However, only Jiajing in the play, standing on a high place with Huang Jin at this moment, faced with the death of hundreds of officials, his expression did not change at all, and even had a bit of sneer and solemnity, his momentum was no less than that of the officials!

"If the emperor is startled here, it will be terrible. I must immediately escort the master back to the palace!" Huang Jin was a little nervous when he saw such a posture, but Jiajing smiled sarcastically and proudly when he heard it:

"Shocking? You haven't seen anything shocking like that before!"

"It's been thirty-five years... Back then, in order to get them to make my father the emperor, I caused a lot more trouble during the grand ceremony debate than this year! Many of them were university scholars. I dealt with two or three hundred people by myself and killed them all!"

"Lü Fang was right beside me at the time, but it was a pity that you were still young."

"Look carefully, and when you write the record for me in the future, write down everything you saw today."

"I didn't provoke them... they were the ones who provoked me."

At this moment, Jiajing's tone suddenly became extremely cold and murderous. He regarded all the officials as his slaves, and now facing the counterattack of this group of slaves, no one knew what he, as the master, would do in order to establish his own prestige.

But at this time, Jiajing, played by Wei Yanwu, did not take such a large-scale death remonstrance seriously, and the description of the "Great Ceremony Debate" incident that they were not aware of made the officials outside the screen feel more intuitively the horror of this king...

"This Great Ceremony Controversy Incident... perhaps I should let Director Chen Qi tell me about it." The Great Yan Emperor also muttered to himself. He vaguely felt that this incident was something that had great reference value to him as well.

"But, what exactly does Jiajing want to do? How is he going to get through this massive death remonstrance?"

However, this question echoed not only in the minds of the emperor, but also in the minds of all the ministers. However, with the appearance of Chen Hong, played by Lin Qingyan in the play, Jiajing suddenly told his answer to everyone present.

Faced with the servants who are now rebelling and actively provoking their master, the master has only one method to use - use physical means to let them know who is the head of Dayan!

Therefore, at the instruction of Jiajing, Chen Hong became the sharpest knife to defend the imperial power. He led a group of palace servants and people from the Supervisory Office, and faced with the officials who submitted memorials to the cabinet, he began a most primitive and simple way of suppressing the family slaves - whipping!

The scene of flogging the officials was played out on the screen. Such a scene not only shocked the Emperor of Dayan and the officials who were watching it, but also the rulers of Ursus, Victoria... all the countries to which Chen Qi had sent the videotapes were shocked by this primitive scene that symbolized absolute oppression.

"*Ursus swears*... I wish I could do something like this. This Jiajing really has absolute authority over the country."

Whipping all the officials, even Ursus, who always had a tough attitude, would never do such a thing. No matter how many people the tyrants of Ursus had killed, they would never make such a threat - if people died, they would no longer be a threat, but if they could not be killed, it would plant the seeds of hatred in people's hearts. The emperors of Ursus never gave people a chance to take revenge.

But now, Jiajing's approach is that he is not afraid of the hatred in the hearts of these officials. He even dares to conclude that these officials dare not have any resentment at all. And this is the situation that Emperor Ursus has always wanted to achieve!

He made the whole world his slaves, and no one in the world dared to complain or speak out. As the Emperor of Ursus, Jiajing pointed out a supreme pursuit that he could only hope for but could not achieve.

PS: Today is the second chapter! (Another 5k chapter, ah, so tired, I'll just take a break...)

Volume 323: Chapter : Emperor of Dayan: I want to run away, but officials advise me not to give up the throne?

But no matter how much Emperor Ursus envied Jiajing's dictatorial imperial power, in the eyes of the officials of Dayan, Jiajing's behavior was undoubtedly a target of public attack.

Of course, the officials cannot get into the screen, nor can they personally compete with these servants who rely on their power, Chen Hong played by Lin Qingyan, or even Jiajing himself. But judging from their current indignant momentum, if they were really there, they could definitely perform better than the officials who were whipped.

"Stupid ruler! Tyrant! You are so cruel and mediocre. In the history books of the future, there will be a shameful record of you, Jiajing!"

"Even if all the ministers of our Great Yan who died for their remonstrances are whipped to death today, there will still be people who will come to report you, Jiajing, tomorrow! Our Great Yan will never lack loyal ministers and filial sons!"

"*Da Yan Zhong Yuan swears*! How come these bastards only know how to get beaten?! They are just a bunch of slaves who rely on their superiors for power! You are officials! Fight back!"

"You have all forgotten how your ancestors fought in the court, right?! What's the point of just taking a beating? With my temper, I can even kill Jiajing! Who cares if he's a king or a god!"

In the hall, the officials of Dayan who witnessed the scene of hundreds of officials being whipped even spoke with a little more offense, but the Emperor of Dayan did not care too much about it. After all, they were angry because of Jiajing's absurd behavior, and no one said that they wanted to rebel.

What's more, what they said does make sense. Jiajing was so stupid and tyrannical. If he were in the current Dayan, the spit of officials in Dayan would be enough to drown him, and there would be no situation like the one in the play where officials were lashed out.

However, the Jiajing in the play has theoretically overwhelmed all the officials. The "Great Ceremony Debate" incident established his prestige as a king. But now, Dayan's national strength is stretched to the limit, and its high-level combat power is almost disconnected. Jiajing is a king who will not give anyone who opposes him the opportunity to take action. With Dayan in his hands, who can defeat him?

It can only be said that if any of these conditions were missing, Jiajing would not be able to sit firmly on the throne in Dayan. This is also the reason why all the officials in Dayan thought Jiajing was absurd. In their prosperous times, anyone who took action could really fight Jiajing. Who would be like the officials who dared to be angry but not to act?

"Your Majesty, I want to report Chen Hong. Your Majesty, please allow me to do so."

Finally, in the play, Huang Jin, played by Taihe, couldn't stand it anymore and said bitterly: "Beating officials without issuing an order is an act of usurpation!"

"The officials were wrong. They were just dissatisfied with Lord Xu and his men. If they had submitted a petition, they would not have been subjected to such cruel treatment."

"...You are too honest."

However, although Jiajing did not express his attitude directly, his current actions were all instructing Chen Hong to do so. Jiajing naturally had his own excuses for his actions:

"They are not dissatisfied with Xu Jie, nor are they dissatisfied with the cabinet... They are all coming for me."

However, just as Jiajing said this, everyone thought that he at least knew that he was cruel and suspicious, but they only heard Jiajing say without any shame:

"It's simply because I built a few houses for my retirement! How dare Yan Song and Yan Shifan do this?"

"I use Chen Hong because he is ruthless. If I don't use Chen Hong now, my Great Yan Dynasty will be in chaos immediately... I have no choice but to do this."

"Lu Fang would not do such a thing... I don't want him to do it either."

At this point, all the officials present, including the Great Yan Emperor himself, completely understood why Jiajing had made such a fuss... Jiajing certainly knew that he had forced Xu Jie and others to draw money from various departments to build palaces for him, not only because he needed these palaces and Taoist temples, but also as a test, to "see if the officials would still support him now that the Yan party is gone."

Now the result is obvious, verifying Jiajing's idea. He thought that all this was caused by the incompetence of the Qingliu. In the past, his demand was not small, and Yan Song could supply it while suppressing these voices, just obediently obeying Jiajing and never letting these unpleasant voices reach Jiajing's ears.

But after Yan Song died, the Qingliu family dominated, and these voices could not be suppressed for a moment. Therefore, Jiajing had to use Chen Hong to establish his own prestige so that all officials would continue to be like slaves without a voice.

It all sounded like a test by the king to establish his own prestige, and the conclusion he reached was that his concerns were correct - but the price to be paid for this test was not just the whipping of officials.

"…But what about the price? Who should bear the price? The cabinet? The officials?"

At this moment, Lin Qingyan, who played Chen Hong, was also hiding in an inconspicuous corner of the hall, standing with several colleagues from the Dali Temple to watch "The Great Yan Dynasty" - she did not dare to stand up, for she was afraid that if she was exposed in front of the officials, she would easily be beaten to death by the indignant officials.

But now, watching this scene, Lin Qingyan couldn't help but speak in his heart. Whether it was martial arts or temper, Lin Qingyan inherited his master, Master Bai Tian. He couldn't help but murmur to himself sadly:

"The cabinet will not suffer, and the officials will suffer less, but in the end, the ones who suffer the most... are always the people."

Military supplies for national defense, salaries for officials, food for disaster relief... all these funds related to the survival of the Yan Dynasty were used by Jiajing for this test. But national defense can only be defended and not attacked, and officials will not die after the New Year, but what about the people who need disaster relief? Who cares about their lives?

The next moment, it was as if Lin Qingyan's thoughts were verified. Jiajing was lashing out at the officials, and Hai Rui went to a disaster-stricken county at the foot of the imperial city. Here, they saw the bodies of victims who had frozen to death or starved to death under the heavy snow.

Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie, had received a notice in advance to come to the county town to provide disaster relief. Before arriving, Hai Rui had obviously made mental preparations, and the officials watching were also prepared.

After all, some of the officials who submitted memorials said that "there are one or two thousand starving victims and refugees lying dead in recent days." However, at that time, Zhao Zhenji, played by Ling, refuted this point very "righteously".

"You are exaggerating! You are alarmist!"

"How could there be starving people everywhere? Early in the morning, the Ministry of Revenue received a report that people had starved to death in two counties at the foot of the imperial city, so we immediately used up the military rations and sent people to provide relief. Don't you know this?"

However, compared to the words of Zhao Zhenji played by Ling, everyone naturally believed the words of the officials in the capital. However, after seeing this scene... they realized that starving people everywhere... was just a relatively mild excuse.

Under the heavy snow, the bodies of countless victims lying on the streets had long been frozen solid. The originally spacious streets were left with no room for foot traffic due to all the frozen bodies. Only a few minor officials from the government were collecting these bodies, carrying them away one by one on mats and stretchers.

What made everyone's pupils tremble as the camera was moving was the place less than fifty meters away... the county government office.

Under the shed of the county government office, a local official was sitting. Around him were steaming braziers and large pots of porridge for disaster relief. He himself was holding a cup of hot tea. Ten meters away from him, the ground was littered with victims who had frozen to death.

At this moment, the four big characters "Disaster Relief by Imperial Order" on the side of the greenhouse seemed so glaring and pungent... making people angry and ashamed.

All the officials were silent and the hall was dead silent. Only Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie in the play, finally broke out of silence when he saw the porridge for disaster relief.

"Is this called porridge?! The soup is so watery that you can even see a person's reflection in it!"

"Add another five pounds of rice to each pot! Add more rice!!"

At this moment, the roar of Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie, also carried a hint of the familiar dragon might that all officials found - although it was very weak and obviously had not been fully aroused, but now under this dragon might, everyone could feel the anger of the actor in the play through the screen.

Zhao Zhenji patted his chest and promised to use military rations for disaster relief, but this scene now is enough to prove that everything Zhao Zhenji promised was an empty promise...

It's not that there was no food. In the play, Hai Rui could add five kilograms of rice to each pot with just a roar. This only proves one thing... military rations were indeed transferred, but they were just "transferred" and there was no plan to use them at all.

Obviously, it is enough to explain clearly how Zhao Zhenji "persuaded" the wealthy provinces to transfer grain and how he saved the money for disaster relief from the Ministry of Revenue.

In the play, although Hai Rui was sad, he still prepared a series of countermeasures. After issuing a series of countermeasures to solve the so-called problems of the county magistrate who watched the frozen corpses and remained indifferent, the first thing she had to do was to save the living people as much as possible.

"Fellow villagers, the porridge will be ready soon."

"Everyone sit up, stand up if you can, don't lie down."

"If you keep lying like this... you really won't be able to get up."

Hai Rui walked on the streets filled with starving people, trying again and again to say words that would arouse hope in the hearts of the victims. She wanted to save, to save every person who had not frozen to death.

But what was Jiajing doing at this time? His two palaces, built with the lives and flesh of countless people, were finally completed, but because of the previous flogging of officials, the officials were unwilling to present congratulatory messages on the day of Jiajing's move.

For this reason, Jiajing issued an edict of repentance... No, it would be more accurate to say that it was called a "edict of repentance", but it was actually a final warning to all officials.

However, this edict of blaming oneself caused the blood pressure of Lin Qingyan, all the officials, and even the Emperor of Dayan to soar.

"I can only sleep on one bed, eat five kinds of food, and wear eight sets of clothes. I have no choice but to live in the palace. I think there are no people in the world who can stand on their own. So I moved to the Western Garden, just to find a place to cultivate myself and avoid the wind and rain..."

"How could the construction of the Wanshou Palace and the Renshou Palace be criticized by the whole country, and not a single official came to offer congratulations."

What I mean is that as the emperor Jiajing, I have been so frugal and cared so much about the people, but you criticize me just for building two palaces. You officials really don't care about the difficulties of a king like me at all.

Since you are so uncooperative, I will not move. Let the cabinet discuss the issues of disaster relief and officials' salaries. I will talk about moving when you have solved the problems and all officials have submitted their congratulatory messages.

There is no doubt that this was a huge problem that was thrown to the cabinet, and Jiajing himself was not responsible at all. After all, he was so "thrifty and caring for the people", so what else could he do? It must be that his subordinates did not do a good job.

"...Jiajing, if in the future, Da Yan really has a king like you, even if it is disrespectful, I will let the thunder strike you, the hypocritical beast."

At this moment, Lin Qingyan's voice was no longer concealed, and it slowly echoed in the hall. Everyone heard her words, but no one said that she was "disrespectful". Instead, they all showed expressions of approval.

The contrast between the previous scene of disaster victims starving to death and the hypocritical "edict of repentance" of Jiajing was enough to make anyone with a conscience hate Jiajing to the core, and every dignified official of Dayan wanted to kill such a king.

At the same time, looking at the face of Wei Yanwu, who played Jiajing on the screen, the officials' anger towards "Jiajing" could not help but be more or less attached to Wei Yanwu, the actor who played the role - after all, he was the one who brought the character to life.

And now, the Great Yan Emperor, who still sympathized with all the officials, did not know that because of this scene, his "escape plan" that had not been made public had begun to gradually go off track... because there was a very important point in this plan, which was that all the officials and the imperial guards cooperated with his escape plan.

Now, all officials know that the Emperor Jiajing in the play is a descendant of Wei Yanwu and Wen Yue according to the background. All officials also know that Chen Qi's identity as a "behemoth" is still unknown, and the suffix "1566" in this play is the year of the future Great Yan.

There have always been rumors about whether Chen Qi's power is "Future Vision", but no one is sure. But there is no doubt that the situation of Great Yan in "Great Yan Dynasty 1566" makes the officials today dare not bet that all this is false...

It is better to believe it than not to believe it. If the officials lost the bet and all this was true, wouldn't they, the officials of Dayan, be pretending that all this would happen in the future and become the sinners of Dayan?

The eight dukes of Victoria and the twin queens of Letania all have a say on this point. They all regard Chen Qi's masterpiece as a "warning". In a sense, they recognize Chen Qi's ability and admit that the problems Chen Qi mentioned do exist.

"No, we can't let this happen, otherwise we will become the sinners of Dayan."

"Director Chen Qi's warning must be taken seriously... Regardless of whether this Jiajing is the child of Duke Wei and Wen Yue in the future, he must not be allowed to become the emperor, otherwise future generations will point at our tombstones and spit on them!"

"I've heard rumors that your Majesty didn't want the throne back then, and wanted to pass it on to Duke Wei. Now it seems... it's better for Duke Wei's lineage not to become emperor."

All the officials had similar thoughts in their hearts. They lowered their heads and kept silent, but they all wanted to know whether such a future would be verified...