Chapter 638 Zhou Ruyuan committed suicide!
Che Mingyuan thought that His Majesty would kill to his heart's content, but he didn't expect that he just waved it twice to boost morale, and then put the companion sword back on the chariot.
"Your Majesty, are you going to put down your sword?" Che Mingyuan asked.
Shen Lanxi shook her head: "My sword is aimed at foreigners, not the people of the Great Zhou."
After Che Mingyuan understood the meaning, he lamented that he was still a little shallow and thought too superficially about His Majesty.
His Majesty is far more suitable to sit on the dragon throne than he imagined.
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The battle lasted shorter than expected. More than half of Zhou Yanxing's troops surrendered, as did Zhou Ruyuan's troops.
At the beginning, they could still fight for a few times, but within an hour, they began to be defeated. More people who threw down their weapons and surrendered than those who fought.
In less than three hours, Xiao Fang blocked Zhou Ruyuan on a small road leading to Tianjin.
"Zhou Ruyuan, you can't escape."
"You have nowhere to go. Even if you escape back to Tianjin, there is no place for you there."
Zhou Ruyuen was in a dishevel, with only a few dozen loyal subordinates following him. It was obvious who would win and who would lose, and who would be strong and who would be weak.
Zhou Ruyuan looked at Xiao Fang coldly. He didn't expect that he would end up dying at the hands of an unknown person.
There were sounds of horse hooves from behind, and Zhao Zheng and his men were coming.
"Zhou Ruyuan, you can't escape. His Majesty has already ordered people to secretly recapture Tianjin."
"Even if you escape back to Tianjin, you will be trapped!"
Zhou Ruyuan glanced in the direction of Tianjin, unable to understand how he could have been defeated so miserably in an instant.
"Chen Lanxi..." At this point, he had nothing to say.
"I never thought that I, Zhou Ruyuan, a hero all my life, would lose to a woman in the end."
Zhao Zheng sneered: "You didn't lose to a woman, you lost to your arrogance."
Xiao Fang sneered contemptuously: "What's wrong with women? Women are not human beings? Is your majesty an ordinary woman?"
Zhao Zheng thought about how he had asked for water three times in one night, and began to ridicule Zhou Ruyuan.
"You are really blind. What you love to do most is to mistake fish eyes for pearls." His Majesty is such a good person, but you don't know how to cherish him. Instead, you give up such a good person like His Majesty for someone who doesn't know what you are talking about.
What if it was him?
Zhao Zheng didn’t dare to think about it anymore. There weren’t so many ifs in the world.
If it really happened and Zhou Ruyuan did not divorce, what would be the result?
What will happen to these people?
Thinking of this, they were all very glad that His Majesty had a good divorce.
"Zhou Ruyu, put down your weapons and surrender!" Countless weapons were pointed at Zhou Ruyu and others.
He managed to tear open a hole with great difficulty and escaped. This time he was surrounded and outnumbered, and there was no possibility of escape.
It's ridiculous that he has royal blood, but Shen Lanxi is a traitor. These people are blind and don't protect him as the orthodoxy, but support a woman.
"Are you willing to be commanded by a woman and stepped on by a woman all your life?" Zhou Ruyuan didn't believe that they would really be willing to do that.
I thought this sentence would bring out their resentment, but I didn't expect that these people still had smiles on their faces.
Zhao Zheng, Xiao Fang and others all just laughed at Zhou Ruyuan's words.
"Zhou Ruyuan, today we will let you die knowingly!" Che Mingyuan urged his horse forward.
"We are not loyal to women, but to the king who can bring peace and well-being to the world. As for whether the person sitting on the throne is a man or a woman, do we care?"
Xiao Fang said disdainfully: "If it can bring peace to the world and the people can live and work in peace, even if there is a pig sitting on the dragon throne, I can kneel down and shout long live it."
Zhao Zheng laughed, "What can a woman do? What can a man do? When the previous emperor was in power, the people suffered from heavy taxes and levies, and there was resentment everywhere. The officials and dignitaries in the court were blind and turned a blind eye. When the people were starving and ate grass roots and tree bark until they vomited, they were all eating their fill and didn't care about the people's lives. What do the people want from an emperor who eats their flesh and drinks their blood?"
Qian Feng: "Zhou Ruyuan, an emperor who is truly supported by the people is not one who commands a large army or is good at playing political games. Instead, he is an emperor who truly cares about the people and works hard for their livelihood."
Che Mingyuan: "When you were a prince, you thought about military power and worried about the army's food and fodder. Apart from that, have you ever cared about where the food and fodder needed by the army came from?"
"When you were in the court, you were thinking about how to get the emperor's favor. Have you ever thought about benefiting the people after being favored?"
Zhou Ruyuan had reached the end of his rope. Hearing all these accusations, he immediately shouted back, "Those were all things that happened after I ascended the throne. If I couldn't gain a firm foothold in the court, how could I have become emperor?"
"Only when I become the emperor can I be free from constraints and do whatever I want without anyone restricting me."
Che Mingyuan and others shook their heads.
"You have proclaimed yourself emperor in Tianjin. Have you brought any benefits to the people of Tianjin?"
Zhou Ruyuan: "Of course not. I also encouraged the people in Tianjin to open up farmland and build factories. I have people do anything that the court does to benefit the country and the people."
He is not bragging about this. Although there is suspicion of imitating the imperial court, benefiting the people is inevitable, so there is no question of imitating or not.
"Wrong, today we will make you die with a sincere heart and understand clearly."
"Even if you sit on the throne, you are not a qualified emperor."
"Although you ordered to follow the rules issued by the court, you did not supervise their implementation, so that the orders were not passed down, and were distorted by the officials below, allowing them to make personal gains and enrich themselves. Your so-called good deeds that benefit the country and the people have become a knife pointed at the people by the officials below."
"You don't know how to command your subordinates. You don't have the ambition to expand your territory, and you don't have the ability to protect your country and your people. That's why you lost the support of your army, and the soldiers defected on the battlefield. You lost the support of your people, and the people fled from Tianjin in anger. Tianjin is a corner of the world after you ascend the throne."
"No..." Zhou Ruyuan didn't believe it.
He is the God of War of the Great Zhou. He is the most outstanding prince of the Great Zhou. Wherever he goes, he is invincible and victorious. He... he is the best among all the princes.
Zhou Ruyuan's face turned pale and he refused to admit the fact of defeat.
Che Mingyuan and others did not have the time or patience to let Zhou Ruyuan reflect further.
They still have a lot to do.
"Capture Zhou Ruyuan and report to His Majesty!"
"yes!"
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Shen Lanxi waited for the report from Che Mingyuan and others.
"Your Majesty, Zhou Ruyuan committed suicide. Before he died, he used his own life to exchange for the lives of the soldiers who followed him. This was what Your Majesty had promised before, and we have agreed on his behalf."
In addition, Che Mingyuan presented something.
"This is the edict of repentance and abdication written by Zhou Ruyuan before his death."
"The abdication edict is useless, but the confession of guilt can be of some use!"
Shen Lanxi was silent for a moment and then said: "Before he died, he finally did something right."
"Bury him with his family!"
Che Mingyuan and others: Are they the family members who were shot to death on Zhou Ruyuan’s personal order?
Your Majesty's order...
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