Ming Dynasty: A centenarian madman criticizes the Grand Secretary and brings his coffin to court!

Images flow across the sky.

The wheels of history rolled ever onward, finally arriving at that place that should have been thrilling, filled with intrigue and bloodshed—

The night of the coup!

only.

Under Grand Tutor Gu's "physical intervention".

This coup, which should have been recorded in history, was instead...

It turned into a farcical situation—

farce!

【Ding--】

[Time: Early morning of the 17th day of the first month of the eighth year of the Jingtai reign.]

Location: Outside the main gate of Nangong Palace, Beijing.

[Event: Shi Heng and his team, leading the "Door-Seizing Suicide Squad," arrive at the battlefield!]

[Objective: Break down the gate and welcome the retired emperor!]

on the screen.

The cold wind howled.

Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and Xu Youzhen rode tall horses, followed by more than a thousand armed guards and assassins.

They stormed aggressively to the front of the South Palace Gate!

"quick!"

"Hurry up!"

Shi Heng brandished his broadsword, his eyes gleaming with fanaticism:

"Whoever breaks down this door will be the emperor!"

"We are the key figures who made the decision!"

"Wealth and glory are right before my eyes!"

"Charge!!!"

A group of servants, howling and carrying a thick battering ram, charged toward the vermilion gate of the Southern Palace!

In their view.

This is just an ordinary wooden door.

No matter how sturdy it is, it'll only take a few hits!

however.

When they rushed closer and could see the door clearly by the light of the torches,

The footsteps of everyone...

Sudden braking!

"this……"

The servant at the very front froze, rubbing his eyes:

"My lord..."

"This door..."

"Why isn't there even a crack?"

"What?!"

Shi Heng was taken aback, jumped off his horse, and strode forward.

Reach out and touch.

It's so cold!

hard!

and……

Uneven!

What should have been two separate vermilion doors had now been cast into a single unit by countless crisscrossing streams of molten iron!

All the gaps in the doors!

All the keyholes!

Even the position of the door hinge!

It was completely filled with dark, murky pig iron!

This is a traffic jam...

An iron wall disguised as a gate!!!

"Holy crap?!"

Shi Heng was dumbfounded.

Xu Youzhen was also dumbfounded.

The Buddhist prayer beads in Cao Jixiang's hand fell to the ground with a "clatter".

"this……"

"Who the hell did this?!"

Xu Youzhen roared in exasperation:

"Where's the door?"

"Where's the sewing?"

"How the hell are we supposed to take this?!"

"Weld the door shut..."

Cao Jixiang's lips twitched as he recalled a terrifying name:

"Except for that madman Gu..."

"Who else could it be?!"

"He's keeping his distance from us!"

"Don't panic!"

Shi Heng, being a military general, remained relatively calm.

"So what if it's welded shut?"

"No matter how hard it is, can it be harder than my battering ram?"

"Run me over!"

"Slam it in hard!"

"Even if it's made of iron, I'll smash a hole in it!"

"yes!"

The servants gritted their teeth, took a few steps back, and shouted in unison:

"one two three!"

"Collide!!!"

"Thump—!!!"

A deafeningly loud bang!

The massive battering ram slammed into the "iron gate"!

The earth trembled!

however.

That door...

Not moving at all!

There wasn't even much paint chipping off!

On the contrary, the servants who were carrying the battering log were so badly injured by the huge reaction force that their hands were split open, and they screamed in agony!

"Again!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Dozens more times!

The brick walls next to it were cracked, but the door still stood firm like a mountain!

This is the quality of Grand Tutor Gu's engineering!

Not only was it welded shut, but steel plates were also added inside!

"Is this even a door?"

Shi Heng was in despair. Looking at the undamaged gate, his composure crumbled.

"Is this supposed to be a city wall?!"

"Are we besieging a city?!"

……

Just as the group of people outside were banging on the door, questioning their very existence...

Inside the Southern Palace.

The retired emperor Zhu Qizhen, who lived next to the dog hole, was also awakened.

"What happened?"

"An earthquake?"

Zhu Qizhen crawled out of the grass nest, his face filled with terror.

He heard shouts of battle outside, and he also heard that familiar sound of impact.

"Someone's there!"

"Someone has come to rescue me!"

Zhu Qizhen's eyes lit up instantly!

He didn't even bother to put on his shoes, and scrambled towards the front door.

but.

The door was welded shut, so he couldn't get out!

Just then.

He saw the familiar spot at the base of the wall, the one he used to get his meals every day—

Dog hole!

"My dear subject!"

"Is that my beloved minister?"

Without a second thought, Zhu Qizhen lay down on the ground and shoved his head into the dog hole!

Shout outside:

"I am here!"

"I am the Retired Emperor!"

"Get me out of here! I want to restore the throne!"

This shout completely stunned Shi Heng and the others outside.

"The retired emperor?"

"Where is the sound coming from?"

Everyone looked down.

All I could see was the dog hole at the base of the wall.

A dirty head poked out.

It was Zhu Qizhen, the legitimate emperor of the Ming Dynasty, whom they had been thinking about day and night and were preparing to support!

"His Majesty!"

Xu Youzhen was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes, and she knelt down on the ground with a thud.

Followed by.

Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and the more than a thousand rebellious servants.

They all knelt down in unison!

only……

The art style of this scene...

It looks incredibly eerie!

A group of burly men dressed in armor and wielding weapons.

Facing a dog hole that's only the size of a palm.

kowtow!

Long live the Emperor!

And that emperor, who was the most powerful man in the land, was like a groundhog that was stuck, with only his head sticking out!

"Rise, my dear subject!"

Zhu Qizhen, with his neck constricted, said with difficulty:

"quick!"

"Open this door quickly!"

"I must go out and take charge!"

"His Majesty……"

Shi Heng's face was filled with bitterness:

"I...I can't open it!"

"That door was welded shut by that madman Gu!"

"What?!"

Zhu Qizhen was struck dumb:

"The weld...it's welded shut?"

"Then how will I get out?"

"Am I supposed to crawl out through this dog hole?"

"this……"

Xu Youzhen gestured to indicate the size of the dog hole, then looked at Zhu Qizhen's shoulder.

He shook his head:

"His Majesty……"

"Although you didn't eat well while you were inside, you still have your bones."

"This hole..."

"I can't get out!"

despair!

asphyxia!

The throne was right before their eyes, and reinforcements were right outside their door.

But they were completely isolated by a welded-to-the-door door and a dog hole they couldn't squeeze through!

What the hell is this?!

"Use a VPN!"

Cao Jixiang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and pointed to the two-zhang-high wall:

"If the door is blocked, we'll go through the wall!"

"Yes! Use a VPN!"

Shi Heng slapped his forehead:

"quick!"

"Form a human ladder!"

"Bring the retired emperor out!"

The servants immediately sprang into action, setting up several makeshift ladders in preparation for scaling the wall.

however.

What they never dreamed of was...

Grand Tutor Gu's "defenses" were never a single point.

But -

All-around!

No blind spots!

Insane!

When the first servant excitedly climbed onto the wall and reached out to brace himself...

"ah--!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream pierced the night sky!

The servant's hand instantly became a bloody mess!

Bloody!

He fell off the ladder as if he had been electrocuted, rolling on the ground clutching his hand.

"What's going on?!"

Shi Heng was greatly alarmed.

He raised the torch and shone it on the wall.

next second.

Everyone gasped in shock!

All that could be seen was the once smooth top of the wall.

Densely packed, layer upon layer...

It's full of holes—

Broken glass shards!!!

And countless sharp ones—

Barbed caltrops!!!

In the firelight, it gleamed with a sinister, cold light!

This is not a wall.

This is clearly a mountain of knives!

Who dares to reach out? Whoever reaches out will be crippled!

"Gu! Cang! Hai!"

Xu Youzhen looked at the wall covered in shards of glass, trembling with rage, and roared to the sky:

"You old pervert!"

"Are you trying to protect yourself from thieves?"

"Are you trying to kill someone?!"

"When God closes a door, he closes a window..."

Xu Youzhen recalled Gu Canghai's famous saying from years ago, and was filled with grief and indignation:

"Gu Canghai would then conveniently weld the windows shut as well!"

"They even wanted to scatter shards of glass all over the walls!"

"Is this something a human being would do?!"

……

The coup forces had not yet seen the emperor.

It's already half ruined!

My hands went numb from banging on doors, and my hands were ruined from climbing walls!

Morale has plummeted to rock bottom!

At this time.

It was on the Meridian Gate tower, not far from the Southern Palace.

Grand Tutor Gu, whom Shi Heng thought was "already dead."

He was wrapped in a thick fox fur coat and sitting in a grand chair.

He was holding a high-powered telescope, the latest development from the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty!

While drinking hot tea.

They watched this "farce" with great interest.

"Hahaha!"

Gu Canghai put down the binoculars, laughed so hard he almost fell over, tears streaming down his face:

"Wonderful!"

"That was amazing!"

"Tingyi, look at those idiots."

Gu Canghai handed the binoculars to Yu Qian beside him:

"How could this be considered a coup d'état?"

"This is clearly—"

"Climbing over the wall to steal dogs!!"

"Look at Xu Youzhen, she's so angry her face has turned green!"

"And that Shi Heng, he rammed the door like a wild boar!"

"That's hilarious!"

Yu Qian took the binoculars and glanced at them, and couldn't help but laugh, his lips twitching wildly.

But he still had some concerns:

"teacher……"

"Shouldn't we wrap this up?"

"What if they actually tear down the wall..."

"Tear down the wall?"

Gu Canghai sneered and took out the tiger tally used to mobilize troops from his pocket.

I tossed it in my hand.

"Trying to tear down my wall?"

"That depends on whether they're lucky enough to have it!"

Gu Canghai suddenly stood up, and his lazy aura instantly vanished.

Instead.

It was a murderous aura as heavy as a mountain!

"play……"

"I've seen enough!"

"These actors should be sent away..."

"Time to collect your lunchbox!"

Gu Canghai waved his hand, delivering his final judgment to the row of Shenji Battalion gunners behind him who were already poised to fire:

"Pass on the order!"

"Surround Nangong!"

"Don't let even a fly escape!"

"Give it to me—"

"Close the door and beat the dog!!!"

"yes!!!"

……

Beyond the sky.

The Hongwu Plane.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the comical yet desperate scene in the picture.

Looking at the great-grandson lying in the dog hole.

Looking at the wall covered in shards of glass.

He shook his head, a complex expression on his face.

There is both anger at the disappointment of one's descendants.

There were also those who admired Gu Canghai's methods.

"That madman Gu..."

"They've truly mastered the art of manipulating people to the core!"

"These traitors..."

"Running into him is the worst luck imaginable!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao:

"Biao'er".

Remember this for the future.

"No matter who you're going against, never go against this shameless, unscrupulous, and incredibly cultured lunatic!"

"otherwise……"

"You don't even know how you died!"