Chapter 2: The Greatest Emperor of All Time, Power Points Fifty
Eunuch Liu opened his eyes wide like a dead fish, his bulging eyeballs filled with red bloodshot. He raised his hands unwillingly and in disbelief, trying to grasp the sword that pierced his throat.
However, Liu Ziye did not give him this opportunity.
The sword was pulled out quickly and placed precisely on the carotid artery of the half-bent guard.
The guards in the back row suddenly surrounded him, their hands on the hilts of their swords, but they did not dare to draw their swords and point the sharp edges at him.
Liu Ziye knew that this was engraved in the consciousness of every citizen of the Zhou Dynasty, a reverence for the legitimate bloodline of the founding emperor. That was why Eunuch Liu dared to step forward and bury the body in the coffin because he actually believed that the original owner had lost vital signs at the moment the imperial physician diagnosed the patient.
The reason why everyone in the palace fought so hard was that he later traveled through time and negotiated with the system to restore a glimmer of hope.
She looked at them with amusement and said, "Savior Emperor, believe it or not, if you dare to move in my house today, I will make sure you never leave this gate again."
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After cleaning up the mess, Liu Ziye said in front of the shocked people in the palace, as if he had just beheaded the eunuch Liu sent by the emperor, as casually as cutting melons and vegetables: "Take the old housekeeper and the injured away and take good care of them."
Then her eyes turned and she added, "Have someone clean the floor. This Lord cannot stand the smell of blood. Also, boil two large buckets of hot water. This Lord needs a bath!"
Liu Ziye looked at the old butler, the steward of the Marquis' Mansion who was supporting the old butler, and the personal maid and guard who were closest to him at the moment, and they all froze slightly.
The familiar young marquis is back again...
But soon, a maid who had been standing a few steps away from him kowtowed and replied, "Yes, your servant Ah Huan will prepare it right away."
After everyone had left, Liu Ziye quickly took out a piece of outerwear from the hanger beside the bed and quickly wrapped it around himself, not paying any attention to the buttoned waist belt or belt. He wrapped it around himself in no time.
His hands were shaking slightly, his body trembling slightly.
In the room where no one dared to peek, he jumped around for a while to keep warm.
I was just busy pretending to fight off the enemy and I almost froze to death.
Has this former royal palace, now a marquisate, reached the point where it can't even afford to burn charcoal?
In addition to the biting cold, there was another reason why her body was trembling - the scene of her holding the cold iron sword with her own hands and causing blood to splatter. She deliberately buried it in the deepest part of her emotions, as if it had never happened.
She tapped the system in her sea of consciousness, wanting to have a good talk with the system about the current situation.
Furthermore, she needed to test whether she could find an opportunity to escape without anyone noticing. Asking her to rebel with such a start, wasn't that wishful thinking?
The system responded quickly, but the response she received was a strange, emotionless mechanical prompt tone.
"Your Emperor Cultivation System has been loaded."
"Establishment is one of the essential qualities for becoming an emperor. Due to your previous public killing, you have been awarded 50 force points."
However, the seriousness only lasts three seconds.
"I knew you could do it, host!"
"Getting fifty points right from the start is incredibly rare. I've led many hosts, and you're the first one to earn fifty points, equivalent to five days of life, in less than an hour. You know, for most people, and in most situations, earning a single-digit number of points is the norm."
Liu Ziye listened quietly and grasped the key words with high sensitivity.
"Fifty points, exchanged for five days of life?"
"That's right, host."
"I told you at the beginning that you have a life value when you travel here, and you need to complete tasks to earn points in order to continue to gain life value."
"So, what is my starting health?"
The system was completely clueless: "Ten days. Host, you just received fifty force points, which can be used to redeem five additional days of life."
Liu Ziye was extremely calm, even scary in its calmness.
But still subconsciously, maintaining an appropriate smile.
She knew that there must be another huge pit.
Fifteen days.
very nice.
It’s really, his dad’s good!!!
Liu Ziye immediately thought of a possibility and asked, "You need points to stay alive. So, those road and bridge constructions and tributes you mentioned also require points?"
System: "Ah, that's right, host. You are one in a million, exceptionally intelligent! When you complete missions and accumulate a certain amount of points, you can unlock and redeem corresponding system rewards. This reward will bring you material assistance beyond this world's civilization, helping you complete the main mission."
really.
This damn system!
Sooner or later, she's going to take down this damn system!
Her dissatisfaction with the system was already accumulating to the point of exploding at any moment, but the words that emanated from her consciousness were still calm and thoughtful: "So, what exactly are the 'certain points' and 'material assistance'? What exactly are they? Your honorable system doesn't even know anything about them?"
system:"……"
It seemed to detect a hint of hostility, but it had to answer the question asked by the host.
"Ahem... yes, these require you to try and explore them yourself, host."
It was a little uneasy. If it had a physical body, it would subconsciously twist its body at this moment.
"Host, your emperor cultivation system has been loaded."
Its programming automatically attempted to ingratiate itself with the host before it, saying, "Host, the world you've traveled to was divided and warred for hundreds of years before Emperor Shengzu unified the Central Plains and established the Great Zhou Dynasty. The unification of the Great Zhou Dynasty brought long-awaited peace to the people of the Central Plains. However, in the original worldline, Emperor Shengzu died after less than twenty years on the throne, passing the throne to your uncle, the current emperor."
"Your uncle was incredibly ambitious, wanting to achieve something as great as the Holy Ancestor. However, he was unaware of his limited abilities and, filled with suspicion, constantly provoked conflicts and killed meritorious individuals. This, in turn, caused the Rong and Di tribes on all sides to turn against each other. The various kings within the Great Zhou Dynasty rebelled, and the Rong and Di tribes took advantage of the chaos to move south. Ultimately, the Great Zhou Dynasty ended in its second generation, a mere thirty years later. The Central Plains once again fell into division and war, leaving the people destitute. During these expeditions, the Holy Ancestor's descendants were discovered one by one and slaughtered publicly before the eyes of the entire population. Not a single one of the nine clans was spared."
"Host, your mission is to become the greatest emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Reverse the short-lived fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the original worldline and become the revitalizing Emperor Taizong of this dynasty. Save countless lives ravaged by war, save the bloodline of the Holy Ancestor Emperor, and save this crumbling world. You will be admired by all the people, and you will be the one their hearts desire, host!"
It is not difficult for Liu Ziye to imagine that if this system had a physical body, it would probably be cheering and spitting at this moment.
However, Liu Ziye remained completely unmoved.
What does saving the bloodline of the Holy Ancestor, saving the suffering lives, and saving the collapsing world have to do with me?
There was only one reason why she agreed to the system binding.
Have a healthy life and, if possible, enjoy supreme status and boundless wealth.
The speech, which was thought to be passionate and intended to ease the host's emotions, failed to elicit any response from the host, and the system had to awkwardly end the conversation.
"Uh, well, I really am a super all-powerful system, host, you will know this later. However, I am also a very busy system, and I can't standby exclusively for you, the host. After the world line loads, it is difficult to respond to your call in time. My promise to you, host, still stands. You will always be the highest priority for me. Host, you can check your points panel at any time, unlock the rewards panel, and decide how to use the rewards you redeemed."
"Well, I wish you success. And next time, host."
As the subtle sound of electricity disappeared, Liu Ziye's mind returned to chaos again.
There is absolutely no possibility of abandoning her mission and escaping. If she doesn't do something to prolong her life, she will only have fifteen days... no, fourteen and a half days to live.
Moreover, these fourteen days also include the time she spends eating, sleeping, pooping and farting.
Is this the face of capitalists who exploit workers as recited in political books?
The people who stayed in the Marquis' Mansion still carried out Liu Ziye's orders quickly. In just a few moments, someone cleaned the bedroom floor.
There is also a bathtub with adjusted water temperature, placed behind the partition screen in the bedroom.
Liu Ziye asked everyone to leave, including his maid Ah Huan who had planned to stay behind the screen to serve him, and he lay down in the bathtub alone.
She needed someone to receive and digest the world line information while figuring out how to respond next.
When the guards sent by the emperor were carrying the body of Eunuch Liu away, the old people from the prince's mansion who had expressed their intention to seek refuge with Eunuch Liu to make a living were not taken away because of Eunuch Liu's accidental death. The guards left them in the marquis' mansion and returned to the Xiguan governor's mansion alone.
These people were temporarily detained in a side courtyard of the marquis's mansion.
Judging from the current situation, the maid Ah Huan at least knows her female identity. She guesses that the old housekeeper of the Marquis's Mansion should also be one of the insiders.
However, Liu Ziye was not worried about these people.
The first thing she needed to deal with was the guards from Yanjing, and how to deal with the aftermath after killing the eunuch sent by the emperor with one sword.
Although she was the youngest granddaughter of the Emperor, she killed a eunuch who was a slave of the royal family, and the guards did not dare to do anything to her.
However, this does not mean that the emperor far away in Yanjing will not take advantage of the situation to accuse her of contempt for the emperor and execution of the emperor's envoy. This hidden danger must be eliminated.
This emperor development system gave her three types of points, namely emperor value, morality value and achievement value.
The most urgent thing right now is to try every possible way to earn points.
However, although she racked her brains to live to the age of eighteen in her previous life and unexpectedly ranked among the top three in the province in the college entrance examination, she was just a high school graduate who had read and memorized some history books. How could she know what to do specifically to successfully obtain such emperor points?
Half an hour later, Liu Ziye, who had just finished his shower, deliberately pushed open the door from the inside.
He asked Ah Huan who was guarding the door, "The chief official hasn't left yet, right?"
The Xiguan Palace was downgraded from a prince's mansion to a marquis's mansion starting today, and the rank and file, previously reserved for those granted the title of prince in the frontier region, were to be eliminated along with it. The imperial edict made no mention of how these officials within the palace should be handled, effectively erasing their official status and making no further arrangements.
Everyone can see that the Xiguan Marquis Mansion will become a quickly rotting and stinking mud pit in the future.
These former staff members of the palace were not bound to the palace like slaves. At this point, they had to leave the palace and pursue other careers.
Ah Huan lowered his head slightly and replied, "Mr. Du is still here."
Liu Ziye: "Okay, go and invite Mr. Du to my father's study and tell him that I want to discuss something with him."
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