Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 702 The Republic and the Emperor (27)

Spring of the ninth year of Republic 480 (699)
Chang'e City

The annual celebration was held, and Emperor Yan Ling, as usual, rode a carriage to express his celebration to the people of the capital.

This is the road that Queen Yan's carriage once traveled. Yan Ling rode in an open carriage, imitating Queen Yan, smiling and waving to the crowd.

Different from that time, Queen Yan was the one everyone expected, while Yan Ling was just doing routine things. The onlookers were all ordinary people with nothing to do, not Yan Ling's supporters.

This was once the place where Queen Yan was assassinated, so the previous emperor Di Yu never passed by here.

However, the new emperor Yan Ling had no scruples. He confidently patted the beautiful girl next to him and said, "My female bodyguard can instantly subdue an assassin in one breath!"

"No one can assassinate me!"

The beautiful bodyguard next to her also nodded confidently, and her eyes were full of arrogance, which showed her disdain for all assassins.

"As long as I am around, no assassin can harm even a hair on His Majesty the Emperor!"

Bang bang bang!
With fireworks and firecrackers going off, people have gradually forgotten the trauma caused by the large-scale civil war decades ago. Instead, there are new faces welcoming a new era.

Most of the soldiers who participated in that war have passed away, and only a few are veterans who rely on funding from the Republican Congress to support themselves. Occasionally, some young people will interview them about the stories of that era.

however……

boom!
A sound unlike that of firecrackers exploded in the crowd.

Immediately afterwards, I saw Yan Ling's head exploded, a bloody hole was punched in Tianling Gai, and his face was covered with blood. He was speechless and fell onto the carriage.

Assassination!Another assassination!

His Majesty the Emperor was traveling in an open carriage and was assassinated by an assassin with a blunderbuss in public.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

The surrounding guards reacted very slowly and were stunned for a few breaths. Then they hurried forward to subdue the assassin and went to the carriage to check on the emperor's condition.

If nothing goes wrong, His Majesty the Emperor who was hit by the Tianling Gai should have died.

The beautiful bodyguard riding a white horse who was riding beside the carriage had been stunned for a long time. Even now, she is still stunned, not knowing what happened.

The assassin was subdued. He was a Jurchen free citizen. He was holding the latest model of the Yan Kingdom's one-handed small fire gun and a can of gunpowder on his body. It seemed that if the fire gun failed to assassinate him, he planned to explode the gunpowder can. Die with the emperor.

"Jurchen traitor! Yan's lackey! Dead! Haha! Dead!"

Even though the Jurchen was subdued, he was still laughing wildly at Yan Ling's corpse.

This was an obvious ethnic vendetta. The Jurchen people were dissatisfied with the "Jurchen Relocation Act." Therefore, a Jurchen free citizen who cared about his Jurchen compatriots decided to take a chance and assassinate the Jurchen traitor Yan Ling/Wan Yanling.

However, afterwards, in order to cover up the national conflicts within the Republic, the court designated the Jurchen assassin as a Tang Dynasty spy.

"This man received 50 copper coins from the Tang Dynasty and was so bold as to assassinate our Emperor!"

"The Jurchens and the Yan people are equal, and there is no argument that one is oppressing the other." "There are rumors that the assassin assassinated because he was dissatisfied with the relocation bill. This statement is completely false!"

The Jurchen assassins were sentenced to death at the speed of light, and then executed at the speed of light.

However, the "Jurchen Migration Act" that is the culprit is still strictly enforced.

A large number of Jurchens were forced to leave their homes and go to the newly conquered Beishiwei area to reclaim wasteland.

As for the home they had worked so hard to cultivate on the north bank of the Blackwater, they were assigned to immigrants from the Yan State.

Of course, the Jurchens are also free citizens of the Republic, and the Republic will not go too far.

For these Jurchen people who went to Beishiwei to open up wasteland, the Republic provided them with cotton clothes, cotton trousers, dried salted fish, and agricultural tools for free.

Faced with this naked banditry of depriving their homes, the Jurchen nobles not only did not help these lower-class Jurchens to speak out, but also severely reprimanded those Jurchens who wanted to resist.

"It is the Republic that gives us the qualification to live and allows us to experience the great Chinese/Yanhua. We should know how to be grateful instead of repaying kindness with enmity!"

The Jurchen nobles have long been in the same spirit as the Wang nobles, wear the same pants, and even marry into the Wang nobles.

The offspring of Jurchen nobles and Wang nobles often call themselves Wang instead of Jurchens.

They more recognized their identity as Wang family members and did not recognize their identity as Jurchens.

Colluding with the ruling classes of other countries and sucking the blood of the lower-class people of other countries, this is the way for the Wang family's nobles to conquer the world.

Hongyan Dao, on the other hand, is just the opposite. They like to unite the people at the bottom of other countries and overthrow the ruling classes of other countries. This is often thankless, because when the people at the bottom of other countries become the new ruling class, they worry that Hongyan Dao will affect their enjoyment. Afraid that Hongyan Dao will overthrow him, he will often turn against Hongyan Dao.

The actions of the Wang nobles are naturally despicable, but they are also realistic. Only by doing this can they conquer the world.

Why?Because this is in line with human nature!
Everyone hopes to enjoy themselves forever, so if they collude with the ruling classes of other countries and enslave their lower-class people together, then the ruling classes of these countries will be willing to cooperate with the Wang family, and in order to prevent being overthrown by their own lower-class people, they will take the initiative to get close to them. The Wang family wants to use the power of the Wang family to maintain their privileges.

However, Hongyan Dao's approach is incompatible with human nature.

Uniting the people at the bottom and overthrowing the rulers sounds wonderful, but it cannot be completely and truly realized.

Because after the people at the bottom of their country overthrow their ruling class, they themselves will become the new ruling class. In order to be able to enjoy and prevent Hongyan Dao from continuing to unite with the people at the bottom to overthrow themselves, these new ruling classes, even if they are in Hongyan Dao He would naturally reject Hongyan Dao and even turn against Hongyan Dao. At the same time, he would cooperate with the Wang nobles, hoping to use the power of the Wang nobles to preserve his privileges.

This is human nature!

They are not resisting oppression, but they are resisting the oppressed themselves. If they can oppress others in turn, they will not resist, and will even unite with the Wang family nobles, the ancestors of the oppressor.

In reality and ideals, the Wang nobles chose the achievable reality, while Hongyan Dao chose the unachievable ideal.

The death of Emperor Yan Ling/Wan Yan Ling only added a little more talk to the people of the Republic and did not have much impact.

There is only one emperor. If he dies, he will die. Just elect another one.

Soon, Emperor Shitian, the head of the Embroidery Department, was elected as the emperor of the Republic with the majority of votes in the parliament.

(End of this chapter)