I'm the villain in the book

Chapter 546
Amidst the loud laughter, Han Zhao strode out of the palace gate and walked away.

And it is estimated that it will not be long before the Gu family and the Zuo family will be completely wiped out.

Of course, the heirs of these two families must still be left outside the capital, and they will definitely live with the Wei family in the future.

But none of that matters now.

The most important thing is that Wei Xianzhi killed two people in a row in just a few tens of breaths, and the two people didn't even finish talking.
Looking at the two bloody corpses lying horizontally in the center of the hall, no one, standing or kneeling, made a sound.

As for Ruan Tianfu in the corner.
While thanking himself for kneeling in time, he was also extremely surprised.

It's not that he didn't think that Wei Xianzhi would make an example of others, but he really didn't expect the latter to be so decisive.

You must know that it is unrealistic to kill all those who oppose it.

After all, if more than [-] court officials died at once, then the forces behind these people would definitely not let it go, and once this matter got out, it would have a very bad impact on Ning Wenjun's "comment".

Everyone agrees, that's what everyone wants.

To kill all those who disagree is to seek power and usurp the throne through and through.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it must be possible to kill as little as possible.

However, after all, Wei Xianzhi was a lunatic who led people around the palace.
For a while, Ruan Tianfu was not sure whether the commander of the Xuanjing Division would continue to kill.

The latter quickly gave the answer with practical actions.

"Master Sun, do you want to disobey His Highness?"

"You just have to answer yes and no."

"Wei, Wei Xianzhi, don't force people too much."

"boom!!"

With a sharp palm, he turned to look at the other person.

"Master Mei, what about you?"

"I"

"boom!!"

Close your palms and turn your head, another person.

"Master He, you"

"what!!"

"I, I would like to assist Your Highness to ascend the throne!!"

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When the number of corpses in the hall changed from two to four, and the servant of the Ministry of Punishment named He Zhang fell to his knees and yelled, Wei Xianzhi finally stopped his crazy actions.

His eyes calmly scanned the rest of the people who were still standing one by one, his eyes didn't seem to be looking at a living thing, but more like looking at the meat on the chopping board.

Although he didn't ask another question, wherever he looked, within three breaths, the people looked at would all tremble and kneel without exception.

Everyone understood that Wei Xianzhi couldn't kill them all, but they also knew that killing four and five didn't make much difference for the former.

Obviously, no one wants to be that fifth body
Just like that, when the last person knelt down tremblingly and shouted "I would like to assist His Highness to ascend the throne" with a trembling mouth, there was no one standing in the hall except Wei Xianzhi and Ning Wenjun.

Turning his head to look at Ning Wenjun, who looked a little pale but also a little excited, Wei Xianzhi stepped forward, turned around, and knelt down facing the former as well.

He shook his sleeves, then cupped his hands to his forehead, and shouted in a deep voice:
"Use martial arts to bring about chaos, and use virtue to bring about peace!"

"We implore Your Highness to ascend the throne immediately!"

"Your Highness, Wanmo, please decline it!"

For an emperor who seized the world through "abnormal" means, he generally had to go through a process of "three speeches and three concessions" before he ascended the throne.

That is, a minister had to persuade him three times, and he himself refused three times, and then "reluctantly" agreed the last time, and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

Obviously, the purpose of this process is to make up some face for these "dishonestly named" emperors.

To put it more bluntly, it is-

If he is decent, you make him decent; if he is not decent, you make him decent.

For Ning Wenjun, he must be in an "unseemly" situation, after all, his father is not dead yet.

But the current situation could not prevent him from going through the process of "whitewashing" such as "three words and three concessions", so Ning Wenjun immediately accepted the request of the "officials", and transformed from a prince to an emperor.

Of course, the change of status is still short of a grand enthronement ceremony.

The ancients attached great importance to ceremonies, so no matter what you say, this grand ceremony is indispensable.

And although the preparations for the grand ceremony will take a few days at the earliest, the "propaganda" work can be carried out first.

Thus, the "Beijing News", which has been established for a year and has almost monopolized public opinion, began to play its real role.

It was only half an hour after the early morning ended.

The warehouse of Chunshen Bookstore’s head office in Beijing was opened, and the newspapers stacked inside were delivered to every household for free like snowflakes.

The semicolons in each state were doing the same thing almost at the same time, spreading everything that happened in the capital to the thirty-six prefectures of Daning in the first place.

These newspapers had already been printed two days ago, and they not only published the original text of Ning Wenjun's "speech" today, but also attached a "judgment document" of Dali Temple against Ning Yongnian.

Um.
Strictly speaking, although the first page of the "Da Ning Law" states that "the emperor breaks the law and the common people are the same crime", but in terms of the system, the only person who can judge the emperor is the emperor himself, not even the "Supreme Law" Dali Temple.

But after all, newspapers are for the common people to read, and no one cares whether the system is compliant or not.

The common people only know that Dali Temple is the place where all major cases are judged. With this "official endorsement", the content in the newspaper will naturally become much more credible.

so.
Is Ning Yongnian the real culprit of the incident in Yuanzhou City?
The Xu family rebelled, and Ning Yuke was forced to rebel?
Also, it turned out that Ning Wenjun ordered the Wei family to rebel?
In the narrative tone of the "Beijing News", Ning Yongnian was naturally portrayed as a sinister and cunning tyrant who would ignore the common people.

And Ning Wenjun is a good prince who hates evil like hatred and kills relatives righteously.

As for the Wei family, it is of course a powerful helper to help Ning Wenjun to do justice for the sky.

The above three points, except that the statement about Ning Yongnian is basically in line with the facts, the other two points are undoubtedly very outrageous.

But ordinary people are simply unable to distinguish these.

In their view, the "Beijing News", which has brought them all kinds of latest news in the past year, is the most reliable information channel, at least much more credible than those rumors in the market.

Therefore, in less than half a day, the whole Daning was completely boiling.

After all, the fact that the emperor changed overnight is so shocking that most people wouldn't believe it was true if they hadn't heard it from the newspaper reader himself.
"Sir! We just arrived! Didn't hear what you just said!"

"You read it again!"

"Yes sir! Read it again!"

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Extreme East, Qingzhou Prefecture.

A teahouse named "Sanrunju" is located in a small town not far from the sea, and most of the people who come and go are fishermen living nearby.

Hearing that something big happened, these fishermen stopped fishing at sea today, and ran to the town with all their brains, wanting to hear what kind of big thing happened.

Some people come early, some people come late.

Therefore, the few "newspaper readers" in the town are very busy today, and they have read the newspapers in their hands back and forth countless times from morning till night.

But it doesn't matter, as long as there is money to earn.

"Be safe and don't be impatient! Township party members, be safe and don't be impatient! Let the old man drink some tea to moisten his throat!"

While drinking tea, he quietly observed the continuously increasing copper coins in the copper furnace in front of him.

When the copper coins reached a certain height, the old man in a Confucian robe held up the newspaper and read it slowly again.

"cough!"

"On the fourth day of November in the [-]th year of Tianji, there is heavy snow on the solar terms."

"The first edition of the Beijing News, a great change in the government"

"."

The moon was on the branches, and the wind was blowing outside, but it was very hot inside.

The small teahouse was packed with people inside and out, and the crowd would let out a burst of exclamation every few tens of breaths.

Today's newspaper has seven or eight pages, and it takes almost an hour to read it through.

What's more, the old man still waited for the crowd to finish talking before continuing to read, so it was even the time of the child when he read.

"Dear fellows, the newspapers say that the new emperor has promised to stabilize grain prices in the states within ten days."

"There is also the south side. It is said that there will be no more wars."

Undoubtedly, when these two sentences were finished, the crowd inevitably became noisy again.

The fishermen in the south didn't care whether there was a war or not, but Ning Wenjun's promise to solve the food price problem within ten days made them extremely excited.

The night was turbulent, and the bubbling discussions lasted for almost a stick of incense before slowly stopping.

Someone saw that the old newspaper reader had already folded the newspaper, so he hurriedly asked loudly:

"Sir! Have you finished reading?"

"Is there anything else you haven't read?"

"."

"One more thing."

He looked at the copper leak in the corner through the crowd, and then turned his head to look at the night sky outside the house.

Under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes, the old man who read the newspaper sighed softly with some emotion.

"Oh, fellow countrymen."

"It will not be an auspicious year in less than an hour."

"The new emperor has changed his year name, and tomorrow will be the year of Taichu"

too early.

Hearing the new year name, the fishermen looked at each other, obviously not understanding the meaning.

But old newspaper readers understand the ambition implied in this year name.

In the beginning, it was indistinct, rare and detailed.

People have no destiny, and countries have no destiny.

Domineering.
(End of this chapter)