Chapter 225

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Cheng Yeran was put in a dangerous situation by them. He couldn't leave, nor could he stay here any longer.

Cheng Yeran looked at Cheng Zhao on the side, who was still watching the fun. He wondered that if his father didn't want to be the emperor, why did he drive the queen out of the palace in the first place, move into the palace himself, form his own army, and even prepare gunpowder long ago. And the reason why all these ministers support his father is that those ministers who did not support his father were blown to death, and the remaining ones are his confidants, so naturally they all support him.

Cheng Yeran saw his son giving him a look that said "why are you pretending?" and looked back at him aggrievedly.

Cheng Zhao stood behind Cheng Yeran holding an umbrella helplessly, "Dad, just agree to it. If you don't think about yourself, you should think about dad. Dad can't stay at home all his life. Besides, Uncle Shao Hui is going to catch a cold. Dad, just agree to it quickly."

Shao Hui even sneezed, and the others were also shivering and looking unwell.

Cheng Yeran was forced into a corner and had no choice but to say, "I will take over this position temporarily. When the equal world in my heart comes, I will abdicate."

When the ministers heard him say this, they all shouted "Long live the emperor!"

Cheng Yeran asked them to stand up: "Although I am the emperor, you are still the masters of this country!"

After Cheng Yeran finished shouting this to the crowd, he issued his first imperial decree, "When I become the emperor, the first rule I will set for you is to abolish the kneeling ceremony. From now on, you are not allowed to kneel when you see me, otherwise I will quit my job."

When the ministers heard him say this, they all stood up, fearing that he would quit his job and run away.

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The second prince was assigned a new house and lived outside the palace, and the queen lived with him.

Although there are no longer slaves or palace maids and eunuchs, and it has become an employment relationship, the palace maids and eunuchs who previously served the Queen and the Second Prince are reluctant to leave and still stay by their side to serve them for another hundred years.

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Some eunuchs regained their civilian status, but they had nowhere to go. They didn't want to work in factories for fear of being laughed at for their identities. Staying to serve the empress and the second prince made them feel more at home and at ease.

They heard that Cheng Yeran would not allow eunuchs to be employed in the future, and that even if they wanted to serve in the palace, they could enter as men. They felt very complicated. On the one hand, they were jealous of those who could enter the palace to serve without harming their bodies, but on the other hand, they felt that this was against the rules. What if the eunuchs did not purify themselves and mixed up the royal bloodline?

But then they thought, Cheng Yeran is a god, and his child is naturally also a son of God, how could he not tell the difference?

When the Queen heard that the Second Prince took the lead in requesting Cheng Yeran to be the emperor, she felt resentful and blamed him. After the Second Prince came back, she did not treat him well.

The second prince advised her, "Mother, Mr. Cheng, that's not right. We should call him the current emperor now. The emperor is doing this for the good of the world and the people, and even more for our own good. Father and my eldest brother were both controlled by that evil spirit. How many people were persecuted to death before they died? Do you want to see your child become like that?"

"I think you have been bewitched by his evil words. Many emperors would do many absurd things when they get old. Your father is just senile and confused, and he is not possessed by any evil spirit at all. And your elder brother is an ambitious man. Cheng Yeran just gave him an opportunity." The queen felt that her son was the simplest and easiest to deceive person.

"Not only do I, your son, want him to take the throne, but all the officials think so too," said the second prince.

"How could the officials not agree? Those who disagreed were blown to death by him. The rest were his subordinates, students and admirers. How could they not agree?" the queen asked him.

"But now, no matter whether what he said is true or false, we have to let him be the emperor. He has the power to control our life and death," the second prince advised the queen, "from now on, we should behave ourselves. Only by doing so can we last long. If it were someone else, would he be able to save the lives of you and me, mother and son?"

The second prince still believed that Cheng Yeran was a god, and he also believed in Cheng Yeran’s kindness, otherwise why didn’t Cheng Yeran kill him and his mother?

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Shen Yuntang never expected that one day she would become the queen, but this queen was different from all the previous queens. She could still do business like before and enter and leave the palace, but she would be surrounded by many guards.

Cheng Zhaoze entered a junior high school in the capital.

These schools were the result of a reform by Shen Yuntang, who divided the schools into elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and universities. Students could only work after graduating from university, and both boys and girls had to study and work.

It is not that you can study and work, but that you must study and work, and the marriage age is changed to 20 years old.

After the school was built, he sent people to every household to capture children to study. At first, many families hid their daughters and sons, thinking that there would be no good results if the government forced them to study.

However, although they hid the children, the government had records of the children. If there were girls or boys in the family who did not go to school, these families would collect huge taxes.

Naturally, they cannot afford to pay, so they can only send their children to school. The school charges tuition fees based on family conditions. Judging from the current national financial situation, it is still impossible to provide free education for all. Low-income families can get it for free, while high-income families can pay normal tuition fees. For example, in poor mountain villages and remote counties, education is free for all, and the children are also given free books, paper, pens, and meals.

Every time he made a reform, there were people who opposed it, but they were afraid of the guns and cannons in his hands.

His weapons manufacturing factory has been moved to a more secret location. He selected a group of talents, including Yang Shiming. Yang Shiming was obsessed with studying bird guns. Cheng Yeran gave them a lot of books and materials, and even video courses, so that they could improve more advanced weapons.

As long as he has advanced weapons, he can do whatever he wants.

A minister said that he forced women and boys to work in factories and even arrested them from their homes. As long as they were over school age, whether married or widowed, they were all forced to work in factories and forced to work from nine to five with two days off. He had previously said that he wanted to give everyone freedom, so forcing others was not freedom.

Cheng Yeran said that he had brought so much divine technology to this world and opened dozens or hundreds of new factories. If only men went to work in the factories, productivity would not be enough. Men and women are equal, and they all have to go to work in factories to increase productivity.

The minister who asked the question had just bought a bicycle produced by a new factory and had a clock at home. He heard that Cheng Yeran had also opened a power plant to generate electricity. In the future, with electricity, he would be able to use something called an electric light at night. After it was lit, the night would be as bright as day. He was looking forward to it. If Cheng Yeran got angry and asked the woman and his friends to go home, the factory would be short of staff and would stop production. Then he would not be able to use these magical things, and he would naturally shut up.

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Another incident happened during this period. The second prince's mother had always wanted to find the emperor's children. The existence of those children was a hidden danger, but they hid very well under different names. Only the fifth prince was in the royal temple. At first, he was there to pray for the queen dowager. Later, the queen dowager died, and the emperor didn't remember him and didn't bring him into the palace. If he had been brought into the palace, his mother would have died long ago. No one took him away on the day of his escape, and he might have died in the palace. Instead, he escaped in the temple.

The queen remembered him and ordered him to be brought out and burned to death in public.

After hearing the news, Cheng Zhao felt very anxious, but also complicated. The Fourth Prince had changed. Would the Fifth Prince still be the same Fifth Prince as before?

If I ask my father to save him, but he carries resentment towards my father in his heart, what should I do if I want revenge when I grow up?

But he still couldn't help but go find Cheng Yeran. On the way to find Cheng Yeran, he heard that Cheng Yeran had already rescued the Fifth Prince, and said that he could perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits from the Fifth Prince.

He also explained that although children born from an evil spirit using a human's body also carry evil spirits, they are not truly evil spirits, especially girls and boys, who have the least evil spirits. The fifth prince is a boy, and as long as a ritual is performed, the evil spirits in him can be driven out.

He took the fifth prince away, saying that only one person could perform the ritual and no one could watch, for fear that the crowd might be accidentally injured.

He took the fifth prince away, brought him into the palace, and arranged for him to live in his previous residence. "I remember that you played very well with Xingxing when you were a child. I will ask him to come and see you later."

The fifth prince was very reserved. After seeing Cheng Zhao, he was so nervous that he didn't know what to say.

The two people are of similar age. The last time they met, they were six-year-old children. Now they are teenagers. They haven't seen each other for many years, and their feelings have faded long ago. There is nothing to say to each other, only awkwardness.

However, Cheng Zhao could feel that his attitude was not like that of the Fourth Prince, so he felt relieved.

Later, the fifth prince was also sent to junior high school, in the same class as Cheng Zhao, because he was the son of the late emperor.

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The child, his classmates at school all avoided him, and some even bullied him, but they only bullied him in private. After being bullied a few times, he told others privately that he had been engaged to Cheng Zhao since childhood, and that Cheng Zhao was the prince now. Naturally, everyone was afraid that Cheng Zhao would be angry and punish them, so they did not dare to bully the fifth prince anymore.

However, when the children went back and thought carefully, even if they had an engagement, that was a thing of the past. Now the dynasty has changed. Cheng Yeran is a god and an emperor. The Fifth Prince's status and position are not worthy of the Fifth Prince. The children also asked their parents, is it possible for the Fifth Prince to marry Cheng Zhao? After getting a negative answer from the parents, they became unscrupulous and went back to continue bullying the Fifth Prince. They even felt that the Fifth Prince deserved to die for having a father like that, and that it was Cheng Yeran's kindness that spared his life.

In order to get out of this predicament, the Fifth Prince privately said that Cheng Zhao liked him, and that he now also lived in the palace, and that they were very close in private.

In fact, they didn't talk to each other in private, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to find Cheng Zhao. Over the years, both other princes and palace maids and eunuchs could step on him, and his character became timid, but he also developed many bad habits. In order to have enough food, he often stole things and lied.

Now he lied to his classmates, saying how much Cheng Zhao loved him, but because of his status, he didn't want to show it in school.

At first the students were skeptical, but what he said was so truthful that some people were willing to listen to him after class.

He would choose a place that Cheng Zhao would not go to and tell a few classmates how much Cheng Zhao loved him, using the plots of many romance novels.

One day, he was speaking enthusiastically when the students in front of him suddenly became quiet, their eyes wide open. He thought that what he was saying was interesting, so he spoke even more enthusiastically.

But his classmates stood up slowly, as if they wanted to escape. He then realized something was wrong and felt a chill behind him. He turned his head stiffly and saw Cheng Zhao standing behind him without him noticing.