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

Chapter 20: Explosive Warrior! The Strongest in the Beyblade World!
"Is he Li Laiheng?"

After reading it, Zhou Liang couldn't help but wonder:

Although this old man has always claimed to be Li Laiheng, the great-nephew of Li Chuang, all signs indicate that the probability of him being Li Laiheng himself is infinitely close to zero!
Firstly, there was the disaster in the capital in the 17th year of Chongzhen. The newly resurrected Divine Emperor would never hold back. He would blow up the city without hesitation. It was clear that the entire Shuntian Prefecture in the capital was completely razed to the ground.

Given Li Laiheng's identity and status in the Chuang army, he must have been near Li Zicheng at the time, and Li Zicheng and the Dashun veterans were indeed killed to pieces, so there was no reason for Li Laiheng to survive.

Secondly, the Ming court failed to catch him despite pursuing him for thirty years!
The bandits were no match for Zhou Liang's petty butchering guild, whose peak was only the occasional assassination of a few county magistrates in the Bashu region, along with the killing of a few lawless officials and local tyrants...

However, Chuang Zetian was the number one rebel leader who gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to capture cities and plunder territories, proclaimed himself emperor and founded a new country, killed princes of the Ming Dynasty, and even broke into the capital, forcing Chongzhen to hang himself!
Therefore, the Ming court has been conducting various intensive searches for possible survivors of Li Laiheng for the past thirty years. With such a time span and level of attention, if he was really Li Laiheng, he would have been caught long ago.

But the result was that he had never been caught and had been living in seclusion in his hometown of Mizhi County...

is it possible?

"So, he's probably not the real Li Laiheng. At most, he's an elite soldier of the Chuang army who escaped unexpectedly... He calls himself Li Laiheng just to create a bluff..."

After a thorough analysis, Zhou Liang gradually came to an understanding:

"It's just that now he has to be Lee Rae Hyung again."

Because the Jinyiwei who are eager to advance need him to be Li Laiheng. Only if he admits his identity can the Jinyiwei use his head to get promoted!
On this basis, he has to be either.

"But if it's just coercion, he doesn't have to cooperate. As long as he doesn't admit it, the Jinyiwei won't be able to use him to collect a sufficient reward."

"But judging from his expression, he seems to be planning to admit it..."

What is the reason?
Zhou Liang thought for a moment and roughly guessed what he was thinking:
revenge!

"Having lived for an extra thirty years, the old thief wasn't afraid of death. If he had any last wishes, it was probably to avenge Li Zicheng and his men, so that his death would be more meaningful."

Of all the ways of revenge, the most satisfying one is, of course, to overthrow the corrupt rule of the Ming court and smash the head of the Divine Emperor Chongzhen!

But this is obviously unrealistic.

So he had to settle for the second best, which was to kill as many Ming Dynasty officials as possible, subvert the official order of the prefectures and even provinces, which could be regarded as a way to vent Li Zicheng's anger.

"That's why he wasn't afraid or panicked from beginning to end. When I wanted him to write a letter to accuse the provincial governor and other local officials, he was very cooperative, as if he was afraid that not enough officials had died..."

In this way, Li Laiheng's entire logic is clear. He just wants to avenge Li Zicheng and make the Shaanxi officialdom a river of blood!
As for whether he is Li Laiheng, no one cares. What is important is that everyone hopes he is:
The Embroidered Uniform Guards hope he is, because they can get the reward!
"Zhou Liang" also hopes that he is, because he can take revenge on this dark officialdom!
The Divine Emperor hoped that he was, because as long as he was killed in public, the "Grandson Li" incident that had troubled the Ming court for more than 30 years would never happen again. Although there would still be peasant uprisings, no one would raise the banner of a dead man again!

Even he himself hopes he is!
For this reason, the interests of all parties were brought together, making this a classic case rarely seen in history...

Zhou Liang had to admit:

"Then, it's time for the reckoning that everyone loves to see!"

A malicious "reckoning" has been placed on the heads of Shaanxi officials who knew nothing about it...

……

In September of the 48th year of the Chongzhen reign, the Jinyiwei stationed in Shaanxi captured the remnants of the rebels who had been hiding in Mizhi County for 31 years: "Grandson Li," Li Laiheng!

During the subsequent interrogation, Li Laiheng confessed to his crimes of infiltrating Shaanxi officialdom for many years, colluding with local officials, and attempting to "reverse the Ming and restore the Shun" regime!

[According to the clues he provided, the attentive and daring Jinyiwei quickly uncovered this anti-Ming and anti-God Emperor organization that had been entrenched in Shaanxi for thirty years!]

[That year, Shaanxi Provincial Governor Liu Yizhao was the first to be apprehended. A large number of letters from the rebels, as well as a large amount of gold and silver bribes, were found in his home!]

[That same year, Xi'an prefect Lin Yuxuan was also captured, and similarly, letters from thieves and gold and silver bribes were found in his home!]

[That year, the Shaanxi prefect Zhu Xuan was also apprehended...]

[For a time, from the provincial governors to the grassroots clerks, everyone in the Shaanxi officialdom felt insecure, and there was a sense of panic from top to bottom!]

You feel extremely excited and happy as you see these high-ranking officials who were once so high and mighty fall from power and go to jail!

[Awesome! The best episode ever!]

Even though you don't recognize any of these high-ranking officials' real names or faces, you just feel good! It's as if a long-simmering resentment is pouring out of you... [Normally, these guys are no less deities to ordinary people than gods in a temple; you can't look directly at them, you can only kneel down and worship them, and it's rare for you to speak to them in your entire life... But now, they've been apprehended on the spot by the Imperial Guards. Begging for mercy and in panic, they look at the "letters from the intruders" and "bribes from the intruders" found in their homes, crying out in injustice!]

"The ink on this letter isn't even dry yet!... How could you, the Imperial Guards, so brazenly fabricate evidence and arrest imperial officials?"

"Warrenching loyal officials! Warrenching loyal officials! You Jinyiwei will not have a good death!"

"I've massacred cities for His Majesty! I've shed blood for His Majesty! You can't do this to me! I want to see His Majesty! I want to see His Majesty!"

A group of high-ranking officials from the prefecture raged and cursed, but were still arrested in public. Faced with the surprised and curious gazes of their subordinates and the common people, they were filled with shame and indignation, and their rage intensified, denouncing the Jinyiwei for their arbitrary arrest of loyal officials!

But the Jinyiwei laughed coldly: "You only said that the letter was forged, but you never mentioned that the bribe gold and silver were fake... So, does that mean that the gold and silver in your house were really given by the thieves?"

【this?!……】

The officials, still furious, paused. "How can I explain this?" If they wanted to say no, then they'd have to admit they embezzled the gold, silver, and jewelry... Admitting corruption isn't much better than admitting they accepted bribes from a thief!

Although corruption is rampant throughout the world, if this were to be taken to extremes, then given the Divine Emperor's aspirations to become a sage ruler, he would surely be punished by being skinned alive and stuffed with straw, just like Emperor Taizu...

[But if I admit that it was given by the bandit, wouldn't all my clans be executed, or even nine of them?!]

At this moment, the arrested officials were filled with regret, blaming themselves for their corruption, which led to their current misfortune...

[But you, who had been following the Jinyiwei throughout the entire scene, couldn't help but smile and shake your head... As Chen Pingan said, when a bad guy repents, it's not true regret, it's just that he knows he's going to die!]

"You dare say that even if we let them off today, they won't reform themselves and become honest officials. Instead, they will continue to be corrupt, or even worse..."

[“So, it’s time to use your lives to atone for your sins!”]

【…】

[However, rather than arresting these high-ranking officials who are so ethereal to mortals that they are no different from gods, you are actually more concerned about the minor officials who have frequent contact with mortals on a daily basis!]

[While the corruption of high-ranking officials is infuriating, the huge gap in rank makes it difficult for the people to have a clear and specific understanding of them... What everyone hates most is these small-time officials who directly bully them!]

These guys, relying on their power, can do whatever they want among the people. They engage in corruption, abuse of power, and so on. The people have had enough of their oppression, so now they're conducting a sweep across Shaanxi. Everyone is excitedly rushing over to watch.

You don't care about the petty officials in other places. You only care about the Xi'an prefectural government and the people in Mizhi County...

"You bastard official! Give me back my honors!"

You led a group of white-armored soldiers and stormed directly into the Xi'an prefectural government office. You had the officer who had lied to you and seized him. As he stared in terror, you approached with a sly grin, ready to slap him several times!

So you jumped up and hit his knee...

The five-year-old you coughed, then pulled a belt from the waist of a soldier who was trying to hold back his laughter. Then you had the soldier use it to beat the official so hard that he turned into a spinning top!

[“And that gatekeeper!”]

[Soon after, you found the gatekeeper who had openly tried to sell you official titles in the governor's office, and beat him like a spinning top!]

[Then they'll force you to tell them who sold your test paper, and then they'll whip everyone who sold and bought your test paper into spinning tops...]

[There's also the magistrate of Mizhi County, the academician surnamed Xue, and your master, Deputy Academician Ding... Especially your master, you smoke like a madman...]

[After beating up all the officials who had grudges against you, you finally turned your excited, blood-red gaze to the evil people and evil deeds in the county that you couldn't stand. You are enforcing justice for the people, today!]

[The butcher who shortchanges you on weight! The grain store owner who fiddles with measurements! The profiteer who hoards goods at a discount price! The hooligans who assault and rob people! The school bullies who bully their classmates... You won't leave any of them behind, and you'll whip them all into a tumble!]

【Powerful! Dominant!】

[With my own strength, I turned the world into a spinning top! ]

[What a powerful warrior! My system would like to call you the strongest in the world of beyblades!]

……

(End of this chapter)