All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 82 I am not strong yet, but when I grow strong, things will change!

Grand Marshal's Mansion, back hall.

"Why are you panicking?" Chen Ran, who was sitting upright, chuckled. "I'm still sitting here. The sky won't fall! Tell me clearly, what did the emperor say?"

"Grand Commander." Cao Demeng, who looked a little flustered, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty said, 'I am not strong yet, but when I am strong, there will be changes!'"

"Hey."

Chen Ran did not get angry but laughed, "You are so young, yet you understand these things."

He glanced at Cao Demeng, who looked uneasy. "Why did the child's words scare you so much?"

Eunuch Cao smiled bitterly and said, "Grand Commander, he is the emperor after all."

"Oh."

Thoughts raced through my mind, and I soon understood what he meant.

Chen Ran has a modern mindset and looks at this kind of thing like a joke on the Internet.

But Eunuch Cao and the others are different. They have all lived under the oppression of imperial power since childhood and are naturally afraid of it.

Although the emperor was young, he undoubtedly had the righteous authority.

Once they grow up and launch revenge, they will definitely be in trouble.

This is why Eunuch Cao ran to report in panic after learning that the little emperor had said this.

"I understand." Chen Ran nodded. "I was so busy dealing with the people below that I ignored the threat from the imperial power."

He simply stood up and said, "Let's go into the palace."

He led a large number of soldiers straight into the Forbidden City and all the way to the Empress Dowager Zhou's bedroom.

The heavy palace door was pushed open, and the trembling Queen Mother Zhou hugged the little emperor tightly in her arms.

Seeing Chen Ran entering the room in armor, she pleaded desperately with tears in her beautiful eyes, "General, he is still young and ignorant, it was all taught by the teacher~~~"

Chen Ran turned his head and looked at Cao Deming.

Eunuch Cao hurriedly responded, "The four masters have been arrested and interrogated."

Chen Ran had previously ignored the little emperor's education issues. After all, in his opinion, it was too early for such a young child to go to kindergarten, and it was not yet the time to talk about education.

It was Empress Dowager Zhou who invited four great Confucian scholars to teach the young emperor, and it was not until the young emperor said this that the matter was exposed.

"Since they like to talk so much, send them to the mines to perform crosstalk and talk as much as they want."

With a wave of his hand, Chen Ran walked up to Empress Dowager Zhou who was lying on the ground.

Queen Mother Zhou looked up at Chen Ran, who was wearing armor with mountain patterns, holding the hilt of a knife, with a gloomy expression on his face. She was already trembling with fear, but she still hugged the little emperor tightly and cried and begged.

"He really doesn't understand anything, don't kill him~~~"

"What are you talking about, Queen Mother? I am not a descendant of the Sima family. How can I be a regicide?"

"But the emperor made some inappropriate remarks." Before Empress Dowager Zhou could breathe a sigh of relief, Chen Ran changed the subject and said, "It's better to abdicate."

Everyone was shocked!

How old is the little emperor? Why is he abdicating so soon?

Without giving the dazed Queen Mother Zhou time to think, Chen Ran signaled Cao Demeng with his eyes, "Since Your Majesty likes studying so much, send him to the military academy. I believe he will become an excellent non-commissioned officer in the future."

Cao Deming was startled and hurriedly led people to hug the little emperor.

After coming to her senses, Queen Mother Zhou struggled desperately, crying and shouting.

But no matter how she resisted, she could not stop the crying little emperor from being carried away.

"Grand Commander, Grand Commander~~~" The desperate Queen Mother Zhou hugged Chen Ran's thigh and begged, "Please, don't hurt him, he doesn't know anything~~~"

"I've said it before, I'm not a Sima descendant!" Chen Ran said calmly, "I won't do anything to kill the king! I'm just sending him to school."

There were too many orphans in the Ming Dynasty, which was plagued by man-made disasters, wars, and natural disasters.

In the past, these orphans were basically left to fend for themselves, and no one knew when and where they would die.

Chen Ran established a military school for teenagers and sent these orphans to the school to learn military knowledge and life skills.

As for girls, they are sent to nursing schools to learn nursing work.

If nothing else, at least these children were saved from the fate of starving to death, freezing to death, being beaten to death, or being toyed with and abused by beggars.

The Ming Dynasty's military merit group had already taken shape. As the helmsman of the entire military merit group, when the little emperor said, "I am not yet strong, but when I grow strong, there will be changes," he had to take action and express his views.

Otherwise, people's hearts will be scattered.

As a powerful official, he did not dare to deal with the puppet emperor, or he was obsessed with the empress dowager and just wanted to live under her crotch.

Then the other members of the Military Merit Group will have to make plans for the future.

Chen Ran coldly pushed Queen Mother Zhou away and turned away.

As expected, when we returned to the Grand Marshal's Mansion, the generals who had received the news were already waiting there.

When the Grand Commander took his seat, Wen Tiren was the first to step out and said, "Grand Commander, the court has been too generous to the scholars in the capital, and they are resentful and are doing such a thing to instigate the emperor. They should be severely punished!"

Chen Ran looked at him with a slightly strange expression, which made Wen Tiren feel a little uncomfortable.

Then he slowly asked, "How should we punish him? Burning books and burying scholars alive?"

"Grand Commander~" Wen Tiren was so frightened that his legs went limp and he almost fell to the ground. "This, this, this..."

"Stand up straight and talk!" Chen Ran said in a low voice, "Issue a notice today. From now on, there will be no more special examinations or imperial examinations! If you want to be an official, you must either be a soldier or a good family member who has entered a school and passed the examination! There is no other way!"

It's not necessary to burn books and bury scholars. There are millions of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and we can't kill them all. He is not a wild boar.

In this case, let’s just remove the firewood from under the cauldron!
People study Confucianism only for the purpose of becoming an official. If this opportunity is lost, Confucianism will naturally lose its appeal and gradually decline until it is lost in the garbage dump of history.

Since we have already attracted the attention of the military, we might as well move forward with big strides!
Compared to Wen Tiren, who was shivering and sweating, the generals in the main hall were extremely excited.

Their status has reached an unprecedented height.

"Grand Commander." Some people were impatient and could not wait to step out and shout, "Why not let the Grand Commander be the emperor~~~"

All the generals echoed in unison, and it seemed that as long as Chen Ran simply said "the weather has turned cooler recently", they would immediately rush over to help him put on his robe.

Chen Ran simply changed the subject, "Go to the Emperor, give them farming tools and seeds, let the Emperor and Wang Chengen grow crops in the yard, and send some poultry chicks over to be self-reliant."

"The Emperor, send him to a military academy for good training."

"And the new emperor." He stood with his hands behind his back and looked around at everyone. "Who do you think is suitable?"

The generals looked at each other. They felt that the commander-in-chief who could protect their interests was the most suitable one.

But the Grand Admiral obviously had no interest in this. This really put Fat Tiger in a difficult position.

Wen Tiren, the only civil servant in the main hall, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and said hurriedly, "Grand Commander, the retired emperor has only one bloodline, Zhu Cilang. If he enters the military academy for further studies, the new emperor can only be found from the side branches. In terms of bloodline, it should be the lineage of Prince Fu."

Chen Ran simply interrupted him and said, "Who said that the emperor only has one bloodline?"

"Uh~~~"

Wen Tiren was dumbfounded.

The retired emperor did have a second son, but that Prince Huaiyin Zhu Cixuan died shortly after birth. It was impossible to make the dead second son the emperor, right?
Before he could figure things out, he heard Chen Ran's words, "The emperor has an eldest princess."

Lightning suddenly exploded in Wen Tiren's mind!
"Empress?!"

The people of the Ming Dynasty felt that there were so many melons in the royal family recently that they could not eat them all.

First, the retired emperor went to repent and cultivated the land, then the young emperor abdicated, and then a empress came out!
This is really a rare thing. A large wave of melons came at the same time and it is impossible to eat them all.

Under normal circumstances, since Wu Zetian, any woman who wanted to become an empress would be met with a crazy counterattack from Confucianism, desperate resistance from the royal family, and cold-eyed observation from the military merit group.

This is basically a comprehensive reflection of the forces at all levels in the world.

Therefore, since Wu Zetian, at most there has only been an empress dowager who has ruled the country, but there has never been a second female emperor.

It was not until this time that Princess Changping Zhu Mianzhu broke the fate of reincarnation.

At this time, the Confucians were busy encouraging people in various places to support the king and purge the court of evil officials.

The royal relatives, both inside and outside the capital, had basically been swept away. The foreign princes had already been holding high the banner of anti-rebellion, so no one cared about their opposition.

The empress was pushed forward by the nascent military merit group.

When he came to power, there was almost no resistance.

The only resistance that could be considered came from the opposition of Queen Dowager Zhou.

The preference for boys over girls is more likely to come from women themselves.

Chen Ran entrusted the young Princess Changping to the care of Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan to raise, to prevent Empress Dowager Zhou, who was in a poor mental state, from doing anything inappropriate.

The empress's ascension to the throne was an extremely heavy blow to the prestige of the royal family.

At least among the military merit group, the majesty of the royal family is already very contemptuous.

The emperor could be deposed and enthroned at will, so of course he would not be respected.

Chen Ran didn’t know where the Ming Dynasty would go or how far it could go.

But in his opinion, it is at least better than the Confucian reincarnation that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, where a large number of people die in each reincarnation!
Don’t follow the Confucian’s crazy involution; just walk out!
Grand Marshal's Office, main hall.

"You mean, when you went north to hunt down Dorgon, you encountered those big-nosed barbarians?"

Chen Ran motioned for Man Gui to drink tea. "What weapons did they use?"

"Mostly spears, short swords, and bird guns." Man Gui recalled carefully, "I couldn't understand what they said. But I heard from the local Mongolian people that these big-nosed barbarians built a city in Beihai."

After thinking for a while, Chen Ran stood up and turned to the back hall. "Wait a moment."

After a short while, he turned around and sat down again. "These people are the so-called expedition team from Europe."

"Are you interested in sweeping away the Ligdan Khan, and taking the opportunity to go to the North Sea where Huo Piaoqi has been, and find some big-nosed barbarians from the expedition team as guides, and chase them all the way to their hometown?"

Man Gui put down the tea bowl, stood up and saluted, "I obey your orders!"

Coming to the sand table room in the side wing, looking at the huge sand table that almost covered the entire room, Chen Ran lowered his head to look for the flag representing Li Zicheng.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, except for Shanxi, Shaanxi, northern Zhili and Liao areas controlled by the imperial court, the rest of the country was almost in chaos.

The princes of various places were pushed forward to raise the banner, the gentry provided food and wages, the local government carried out the specific operations, and forced the people to serve as able-bodied soldiers, and they fought and attacked each other constantly.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters have fueled public resentment like oil boiling over a raging fire.

Li Zicheng, who brought only a few hundred cavalrymen from the old camp, entered the Central Plains like water entering the sea, happily expanding his strength and running around everywhere.

Zhao Lujiao, who was pursuing him, was repeatedly blocked by inexplicable troops from various places and was unable to move.

Looking at Li Zicheng's flag that was almost reaching Xiangyang, Chen Ran squatted down and reached out to hold down the flag.

"King Chuang, King Chuang, don't run away again. I'm waiting for your rice to be cooked!"

(End of this chapter)