Chapter 55 Shen Zhiwei, where is your youthful spirit...
When talking about Anguo and Beiguo, the kings of Yunning and Yunning felt so angry that their chests hurt.
Previously, they were pinned to the ground and beaten to a state worse than death by the coalition forces led by these two countries, all because of their claim to be king.
As a result, as soon as the war was over, the monarchs of these two countries proclaimed themselves kings, and now all the princes in the world have proclaimed themselves kings.
So what? Are they some kind of despicable people? Why do they get beaten when they claim to be kings, but this group of people are fine!
What was happening to the emperor far away in Jingchang was no longer a question in the minds of the two men. They now had only one thought in mind, which was to kill Prince An and Prince Bei.
Perhaps this is what a nemesis is. In the eyes of the nemesis, there is only the nemesis, nothing else.
Shen Zhiwei was not surprised to learn that Yun and Ning had sent troops. What surprised her was that the unrest caused by the princes in the Northern Kingdom was actually quelled. The Northern King was obviously better at fighting than the An King, or perhaps he had seen the lesson of the An King and had become vigilant. In any case, the Northern Kingdom was now stable.
However, after the war, the Northern Kingdom was left with a mess. It was absolutely impossible for the King of the North to interfere in King An's affairs.
Shen Zhiwei could not see the situation of the four-nation melee.
Perhaps because he knew that the Anguo shares he bought could not fall any lower, Shen Zhiwei now had a completely passive-aggressive attitude when he saw Prince An suffering. He no longer had the despair he had felt before when the stock market was in the red.
Because now Shen Zhiwei has bought the new stock Beiwang, and the performance of the new stock is quite good.
In addition, Hu Youan listened to her advice and did not cause her any trouble, which made Shen Zhiwei even happier.
Unfortunately, the happy time was short-lived. Not long after, Shen Zhiwei heard the news again. Prince An escaped and returned to his Jiuqu City. He organized an army to launch a counterattack, and the allied forces of Yunning and the small vassal states were beaten to flee everywhere. Somehow, they ran to the vicinity of Bian.
Then Hu Youan led his troops and destroyed these chaotic foreign troops.
After destroying them, he took advantage of the situation and took over three small vassal states that had been wiped out by King An’s army. He got a big bargain!
When Shen Zhiwei heard the news, she was completely stunned.
Before this, she never believed in the idea of destiny. In her opinion, people's luck did have good and bad qualities, but those were just small things that affected individuals and could be influenced by human intervention.
Now she stared at Jie Xun and just wanted to ask God whether there was really someone who was her biological daughter.
How did Hu Youan manage to have a pie grow wings and fly onto her forehead while she was sitting at home?
No, it was Fei's own forehead that hit her. Hu Youan was only responsible for expanding the territory and conquering the land. As for other matters after the land was conquered, she didn't care at all.
After the victory report, there was also a letter from Hu Youan. In the letter, she was very happy and told Shen Zhiwei that those vassal states had been cleared out. Taking them down now would be purely beneficial without any harm. They didn't need to bother to clean them up anymore, and there would definitely be no hidden dangers.
The only hidden danger is that Prince An might hate him, but there are so many grudges between Jingchang and Jiuqu that it is not a big deal to worry about such a small matter.
Compared with the deterioration of relations with An Guo, Hu Youan was more worried that the two countries of Yunning would take advantage of this to cause trouble. After all, she also destroyed the armies of the two countries of Yunning.
What could Shen Zhiwei say? Shen Zhiwei could only comfort Hu Youan not to worry. Yun Ning and Bian Di did not border each other, and there was a large part of An Guo's territory in between. Even if the two countries united, they could not defeat An Guo. As long as An Guo was not destroyed, Yun Ning and Bian Di would only fight to the death.
I believe Hu Youan will feel relieved after seeing Shen Zhiwei's reply.
The only person in the world who couldn't let go was Shen Zhiwei.
Shen Zhiwei unfolded the map and saw that out of the nine states in the world, she had already occupied two and a half states, and these two and a half states were located in the hinterland. The value of this was simply beyond the limit.
In comparison, the powerful Beiguo and Anguo are just two small things on the map, and their threat is infinitely reduced.
Shen Zhiwei was really at his wit's end this time.
As she was looking at the map and silently crying for the main quest, the system dealt her another heavy blow. The special event "National War 2" was resolved.
The SSR ending theoretically allowed her to achieve her wish, but in reality it made Shen Zhiwei completely give up.
The main quest is really hopeless!!
After realizing this, Shen Zhiwei was not very energetic for the next few days. Yanxia asked her if the weather was too hot and the summer heat was making her feel uncomfortable. Shen Zhiwei said nothing and just looked at Yanxia quietly.
Yanxia was also one of those who stabbed her in the back, but because she had always been in the palace and by her side, it seemed that she had not done anything big.
But in fact, Yanxia and Hu Youan have a good personal relationship. Sometimes Hu Youan can do things accurately to make Shen Zhiwei angry, because Yanxia, the "expert", is guiding him behind the scenes.
Shen Zhiwei really intended to give up, but after she saw these people who stabbed her in the back, she still couldn't accept it for a while.
Her death in the main quest was so tragic!
"Yanxia, do you have any relatives at home?"
Most palace maids had no connection with their families after entering the palace. The origins of palace maids in those days were relatively simple. They were either descendants of criminals or slaves purchased from outside.
Yanxia had a good relationship with Hu Youan, and it was obvious that her entire family had been convicted and enslaved.
Yanxia nodded. She still had her maternal uncle's family, but they hadn't been in contact for a long time. She was in the palace, while her maternal uncle and others were outside the palace. Moreover, they were all slaves. She worked in the palace, and her maternal uncle's family also had masters to be loyal to. The less contact between slaves, the better.
This is to avoid doing things that shouldn’t be done, which you won’t be able to explain yourself in the end.
"Your Majesty, I am loyal to you. Ever since I came to your side, I have never thought about those people again. I only live for you!"
Yanxia was afraid that Shen Zhiwei would doubt her loyalty, so she immediately began to express that she had no second thoughts.
Shen Zhiwei's pressure suddenly increased. She was essentially an ordinary person. Could she afford the life of a living person?
She can't afford it.
But as she sits in this position, everything for her country and her people depends on her, and responsibility is a topic that she is destined to be unable to escape in her life.
"That's not necessary. You were a person first, and then a female official beside me. As for slaves... Yanxia, you know that I don't approve of burying people alive with the dead, nor do I like the existence of slaves."
The slaves here do not mean that the palace maids should not exist, but that the class of slaves should not exist.
Slavery is the system that oppresses the lower classes the most, especially the practice of burying people alive with their dead, which is an absolutely inhumane thing.
Shen Zhiwei simply didn't know whether those rulers who could come up with the idea of burying people alive with the dead were still human beings. They were worse than animals!
Yanxia didn't know Shen Zhiwei's inner resistance to slavery. When she heard the king's words, her first reaction was disbelief, because the king also used slaves a lot.
Then Yanxia remembered how the king treated slaves.
The king gave those slaves a place to settle down and distributed houses and fields to them, so that the slaves could make a living by farming like the common people, without worrying about their lives and without being beaten or scolded by anyone.
"Your Majesty, slaves serve their masters in life, and they must continue to serve their masters after death..."
Yanxia said this with confusion in her eyes, and she herself didn't know what she was saying.
In other words, this is the explanation of burial alive given by countless people, an explanation that even the slaves themselves believed.
"Aren't slaves human? Since we are all human, we are oppressed in life due to our bloodline and power, and nothingness is left after death. Why do the nobles still command slaves? We are all lying in coffins. Who knows how many years from now, we will just be a handful of dirt. How can dirt still distinguish between high and low? In this world, birth is unfair, but death is absolutely fair to everyone. Burial alive should not exist."
Shen Zhiwei does not have the ability to completely abolish slavery now. She has not even achieved great unification, let alone slavery.
The only thing she could do was to stop the bad custom of burying slaves alive within her power.
Yanxia seemed to have lost all her strength in an instant, and the confusion in her eyes became even more intense, and gradually, a layer of mist appeared in them.
"But my king, if it is not for the enjoyment after death, why should the slave die?"
Her mother did not die as a result of being buried alive, but she still had relatives in her clan who died as a result.
If burying people alive with their dead should not exist, if death can really take away the power of the nobility, then why did her relatives and friends, the people she had met, die?
Shen Zhiwei didn't know how the topic turned to slaves. She shook her head and didn't answer Yanxia's question.
Because she didn't know why the slaves died. She was very lucky. She traveled to this era and became the king with the system. She was one of the people standing at the top of power. She had power, so her fate would not be controlled by others.
But she was also influenced by the world. She wanted to complete the mission, but the final result was obviously that she could not complete the main mission.
She was frugal and did some insignificant little things, but so many people followed her to the death and admired her with all their heart.
From the beginning to the end, she was just a modern person with basic morals who did not commit crimes.
Shen Zhiwei really wanted to ask herself whether she was worthy of it. The reason why she had been giving up from modern times to ancient times was that she felt that her abilities were average and she could not do anything well.
She couldn't get the scores that satisfied her parents, she couldn't get into her favorite university, and she couldn't find a high-paying job. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't satisfy everyone.
So what's the point of working hard? It's better not to work hard, accept your ordinary reality, and then live an ordinary life.
"There aren't so many whys in this world. Fate has assigned a place to everyone. As a weak person, the only thing we can do is not accept our fate and move forward."
Shen Zhiwei thought that she had failed too many times in the past, and her youthful spirit had been extinguished time and time again. She almost forgot that she was once a young girl who "didn't know the immensity of the world". She had the courage to fear nothing. She was willing to take risks and dared to try. She was never afraid of failure, but only afraid that she would not dare.
Shen Zhiwei looked down at his hands. They were a pair of slender and tender hands. There were no calluses on the joints from writing, and his index and middle fingers were not deformed from writing too much. The lines on the palms were clearly visible, and they were full of strength.
With such a young body, why does she still look at everything around her with an aging mindset?
Isn't it just about completing tasks and accumulating achievement points? Isn't it just about unifying the world?
She is not afraid of difficulties!
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