Madam, don't do this!

Chapter 160 The Emperor May Be Dying (1)

Build walls high, accumulate grain, and slowly become king.

To put it simply... Play it safe and don't be reckless!

This is inciting him to rebel.

For a moment, Song Yan even had the urge to pry open Liu Yisheng's head and see what was inside.

This guy is truly fearless.

He and Liu Yisheng had only just met, and even counting their previous meeting, it was only their second time. How dare Liu Yisheng instigate a rebellion? Even if Ningguo did not punish Liu Yisheng for his words, the crime of instigating a rebellion was enough to sentence Liu Yisheng to be executed in the autumn.

Was he so sure he wouldn't betray him?

Moreover, even if they were to rebel, Song Yan did not think now was a good time to rebel. When Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled, the country was already in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Although there were peasant uprisings in Ningguo now, they were only a few small ones. The largest peasant army had no more than 20,000 people, which was far from the point of widespread chaos.

At this time, Ningguo was like a ship; although it was damaged, it could still sail for a few more years.

A series of figures appeared in Song Yan's mind: Kong Chan, Gu Banxia, ​​Luo Tianyi, Luo Tianxuan, Luo Tianshu, Luo Tianquan, and that blockhead Luo Tianyang... But the clearest one was actually Luo Yuheng.

Song Yan was well aware that the rebellion Liu Yisheng spoke of was completely different from the rebellion Luo Yuheng was ordered to commit under the arrangement of Emperor Ninghe.

When the world was in chaos, Luo Yuheng raised an army as a royal princess, taking the opportunity to eradicate the cancer on Ningguo and give Ningguo a chance to revive. This should be Emperor Ninghe's last resort. Emperor Ninghe and Luo Yuheng would never do this unless absolutely necessary.

If they fail, the Luo family will disappear from the Central Plains forever.

If successful, Ningguo will still belong to the Luo family, and may even be more powerful than the Ningguo of the past.

It's a big gamble.

The rebellion that Liu Yisheng spoke of turned this place upside down!

Ningguo will become history, and a new nation will be established.

If I really did that, wouldn't Mother be very sad?

Thinking this, Song Yan smiled, slightly rotated her shoulders to relax her joints, which were stiff from maintaining the same position for so long, and got up from the ground. Looking up, the fiery red sun still hung in the sky, the sunlight was scorching and dazzling, making her eyes hurt, and the scene in front of her was filled with white patches and spots of light.

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Kong Chan, and Bu Yu faithfully guarded the surroundings, preventing anyone from approaching.

It's a bit far away, so I can't hear anything from here.

The wind blew past behind me, and my dark hair danced in front of my eyes, slightly disheveled.

He raised his right hand towards the sky as if trying to grasp the fiery red sun, but in the end he only grasped a withered yellow leaf, the edges of which were jagged, as if gnawed by insects.

"Mr. Liu!"

When this title appeared, a smile appeared on Liu Yisheng's face. He knew that he might not have succeeded, but at least he had not failed.

"We've only met twice today, why are you trying to get me to do that kind of thing?"

“I know this might sound a bit harsh, but we should only be considered strangers, shouldn’t we?” Song Yan turned around and looked at Liu Yisheng.

He even suspected that Liu Yisheng was sent by Emperor Ninghe to test whether he had any ambitions.

It's just... not like that.

Song Yan could sense the suppressed madness in Liu Yisheng's chest; he truly wanted to overturn the world.

Moreover, Emperor Ninghe doesn't have the energy for that now.

Liu Yisheng smiled, stepped forward, and stood a little behind Song Yan, but with his back to Song Yan, looking towards Ning Ping... no, towards a direction even further away from Ning Ping.

It is the ocean.

"Because you annihilated the Japanese pirates."

"Because of you, Ningguo can finally hold its head high in the face of the Japanese pirates." "Because of you, we will use the heads of the Japanese pirates to build a Jingguan (a mound of skulls)."

His voice seemed to be suppressing something: "I have always felt that a country that cannot even protect its own people has no right to exist."

Song Yan remained silent, but he had probably guessed something.

"I only wish that the people of China will no longer be bullied by foreign races."

"My only wish is that the people of the Central Plains can live like human beings."

Liu Yisheng's smile turned somewhat bitter: "Perhaps my request is really a bit too much."

"Over the years, I have met many people, some of whom are extremely powerful and others are exceptionally intelligent, but in their eyes, ordinary people are nothing more than pigs and dogs."

"do you know?"

“Through those people’s eyes, I could sense that they didn’t even regard ordinary people as human beings, as if they and ordinary people were two different kinds of life.”

“But, Lord Song, you are different.”

“You are a baron, a nobleman, and the son-in-law of the Princess. Although you killed thousands of people when the disaster victims gathered, I can see that in your eyes, the disaster victims are just like you, all human beings…”

"Well, you might not consider those Japanese pirates as human beings, but that doesn't matter, since they weren't really human to begin with."

In short, in my eyes, you are the one I have been looking for all along.

Perhaps it was because of some deep-seated obsession that Liu Yisheng came up with such a crazy idea.

Song Yan's eyelids slowly drooped, as if she were deep in thought.

"Moreover, even if not for the people, Your Excellency should at least think about yourself," Liu Yisheng continued. "In fact, in my opinion, this may be Your Excellency's only way out."

Song Yan lifted his eyelids, his dark eyes revealing no emotion: "What do you mean?"

“I don’t know what Emperor Ninghe has encountered, but I can guess that his situation must be very bad.” Liu Yisheng’s voice remained calm and unhurried: “Although there are only three thousand, the fact that he allowed you to command troops is strange enough. He doesn’t know you at all.”

"Although the Lord's strength was demonstrated through the Japanese pirates, that could be a coincidence, after all, it was just an isolated incident."

"Loyalty is something that simply cannot be confirmed."

“Military power must be extremely valuable to Emperor Ninghe. Over the years, Emperor Ninghe must have cultivated a group of loyal subordinates. However, he did not hand over the precious military power to those people. Instead, he handed the military power to you when all aspects were uncertain. This shows that Emperor Ninghe actually had no other choice.”

"He had no choice but to take a gamble and go all in."

Song Yan's expression gradually darkened. He hadn't thought about this in detail before, but now that Liu Yisheng had reminded him, he realized that Emperor Ninghe's situation might be even worse than he had previously guessed.

"There are perhaps only two possibilities. First, his trusted confidants are now dead or may die at any time. Handing over military power to these people is tantamount to handing it over to others."

"The second possibility is that these confidants have betrayed him."

A strange light flashed in Liu Yisheng's eyes: "Moreover, Emperor Ninghe has been emperor for nineteen years. Nineteen years! Since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty, how many emperors have reigned for more than nineteen years?"

"It's not that there isn't any, but it's definitely not too many."

"Moreover, compared to the late emperor, Emperor Ninghe is clearly more difficult to deal with, and this time Emperor Ninghe has begun to try to seize military power, which will definitely make some people wary."

"Perhaps, some people's patience with Emperor Ninghe has reached its limit."

"Don't forget how Emperor Yuanjing died."

Song Yan's pupils suddenly contracted. He had heard Luo Tianyi talk about Emperor Yuanjing's condition. He had fallen into the lake while boating in the palace and then died of illness.

"You mean..."

"If my deduction is correct..." Liu Yisheng's voice was sinister: "Emperor Ninghe is probably... about to die!"

(End of this chapter)