Chapter 47 The Holy Emperor
The girl held his hand tightly, as if worried that he would get angry again.
Her power did work. Dai Bingcheng took a deep breath, but found that there was only extreme shock left in his chest, but there were not many other emotions - as if filtered by this girl.
He was stunned for a long time before asking, "How is this possible? The emperor... is in power? The cabinet was disbanded? Did the voters agree? What are the reactions of other countries? No... what does Li Zhen say?"
The girl smiled patiently and said in a soft voice: "Li Zhen - are you the sacred emperor in the south? Oh, let me know first that there are only two countries in this world - different from yours at that time. One is the empire - our empire. The other is the sacred empire - the country in the south. As for the voters... look at me. I used to be just an ordinary person, but now I have quite interesting power. The two Majesties have given us this power, why don't we support and love them?"
Dai Bingcheng stared at the girl for a while, then shook her hand like she was throwing away a poisonous snake, and shouted in disguise: "You little girl... what do you know? Are you crazy? Imperial system?? Restoring the imperial system?! Do you children know what it means? It took our ancestors more than two hundred years to barely put the imperial power in a cage!!"
"Li Zhen - is Li Zhen crazy too?? He can't be such a person!! Why did he go crazy with Zhu Zhaoxu? Or did I not wake up yet??" Dai Bingcheng was so excited that his body accidentally lost balance and turned over and fell to the ground.
But this time the nurse did not help him. Instead, he moved away from him as if he was avoiding something disgusting, and at the same time he showed a panic-inspiring expression on his face. He pointed his arm straight at Dai Bingcheng and screamed, "How dare you call His Majesty's name? You are so ruthless!!"
The girl changed her face like she changed her mask. Then she opened the door and shouted outside the door: "This old madman called out your majesty's name! She also said that Your Majesty is crazy! Oh my God!!"
Her sharp voice echoed in the corridor, and Dai Bingcheng almost didn't know how to react - because he felt that this was a complete farce, and he must still be hibernating, it was just a dream!
The cabinet is gone? The emperor is in power? He violated His Majesty's name?
Can't I still kneel down and worship when I see Zhu Zhaoxu now?!
He is indeed a person who loves power and status. However, even if he is such a person, he is also a "modern person" who has been influenced by modern civilization for hundreds of years after the imperial constitution!
Of course he was shocked by the disappearance of the cabinet - which means that he will no longer be the cabinet master, no longer one of the decision-makers with the right to decide the future direction of this powerful country. He was also angry that he was treated so rudely after he woke up - because he had lost everything? He was still puzzled - Zhu Zhaoxu and Li Zhen clearly promised to support him. Why did he let himself sleep for ten years in one breath?
But these emotions are not as ridiculous, funny and shocked as he heard the phrase "the emperor is in power".
It's just ten years, why did it reach this point?
What are they doing for? Just to live a fucking emperor? But is Li Zhen the kind of person?!
Didn’t he go to Yinggong’s villa with him? Didn’t he keep saying that he wanted to transform this country?!
The question eventually turned into anger. He stared at the slender figure screaming at the door and raised an arm suddenly.
Even if he is no longer a general and a cabinet master, he still has power - he is the King of Bronze!
However……
The last straw was pressed down, completely pressing him into the boundless dark abyss.
He found that his strength had been lost. It was not like a tired person who lost his strength, but like a person who had his limbs cut off.
He couldn't feel it anymore.
The deepest darkness enveloped, Dai Bingcheng felt that the four walls of the room suddenly squeezed towards him, completely flattening him. His weak body could no longer be overloaded and temporarily stopped working.
He fell into a coma.
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When he woke up again, he found himself in his original room. However, he was already fixed on the bed - his limbs were bound by soft straps, and a white sheet covered his face like a corpse, and he could not see anything.
He wanted to call someone, but quickly stopped the impulse. That coma seemed to give him a sobering dose, and his mind had completely recovered.
But followed by deep pain and despair. Even more so than the despair when he learned that he had lost power. Because the power that supported him disappeared, he still couldn't feel it - he became a completely ordinary person.
For a moment, he was completely lost, and even wanted to lie here and stay motionless and be slaughtered.
However, after a minute, he warned himself that he had to put away that emotion. For people like him, as long as they live, everything is possible. He must not die before he figured out what crazy the outside world was going crazy!
Yes. Dead. At this moment he has made the worst predictions about the prospect.
It seemed that some instrument was monitoring his condition. Two minutes after he recovered from consciousness, he heard the sound of the door opening.
The footsteps were very heavy, as if they were standard 03 military boots. This sound made him breathe lightly for no reason - at least there were some things he was familiar with.
The moment he opened the door, he also heard the conversation coming from outside. A low male voice said, "Isn't this right? After all, he used to be a cabinet master or a general."
Another cold female voice said: "Gei Master? In the past, those Gaei Masters were driven home by His Majesty? There were two dead. What is he?"
The male voice hesitated and said, "But the above has taken care of it, try to be courteous-"
The female voice laughed disdainfully: "Over? Which one is above? Municipal Hospital? Your Majesty really cares that he should be someone from the military headquarters to take care of him..."
The door was then closed and he could no longer hear it.
The footsteps stopped beside his bed. A man with a heavier and deeper voice spoke, "General Dai. Now you should calm down."
Dai Bingcheng took a deep breath: "Let me go first. Which unit are you from?"
"Which unit? Haha... it's not your unit." The man said, "Don't rush to let go. I'm from the Inquisition - to deal with the matter of your calling Shengying."
Dai Bingcheng couldn't help but sneer: "Can you be convicted of such a thing now? Civil law or criminal law?"
The man waited for him to finish laughing and said, "Now there is only one law in the world. Human Relief Law. If you violated Article 1 of the Act, you should not call him the Holy Talk."
Dai Bingcheng is too lazy to say anything else - there is nothing in this world that is not ridiculous at the moment.
Seeing that he was silent, the man said again: "But you are in a special situation, considering... to put it simply. As long as you swear to be sincere in the imperial power and approve of the Human Relief Act, this time it can be regarded as never before."
"Take an oath?" Dai Bingcheng snorted coldly, "It's that simple? Have you also made an oath? Then do you agree with this from the bottom of your heart?"
His voice suddenly became louder: "You must have been a soldier of the Empire - aren't you ashamed?!"
This time the man was silent for a long time, then turned around and walked away - as if toward the door. Before opening the door, he said: "In our impression, you should not be like this - why should you react so fiercely? Then see you next time."
After saying that, he opened the door and closed it again.
The room became quiet again, only the instruments at the head of the bed made occasional low buzzing sounds.
Dai Bingcheng frowned tightly under the sheets.
He just now made a very fierce reaction because he wanted to test it. What happened now is very strange and it revealed that it was unreasonable everywhere.
Even if...even if the emperor is really in power - just like it was hundreds of years ago. But why do you treat yourself like this? Just call him Shengtao? Does this kind of thing really seem so serious?
Well. Even if it is serious to ordinary people, he is Dai Bingcheng. Ten years ago, he was the emperor's confidant! And the coup that forced the old emperor to abdicate fourteen years ago - he was also a hero!
Emperor Zhu Zhaoxu was the crown prince once. The crown prince has always been a member of the Ying Gong group. In the past, Ying Gong said to Li Zhen, he said to the crown prince. In fact, the so-called weakening of wealthy families and returning real civilian politics to this country was proposed by the crown prince at that time.
At that time, they were glad that God gave this empire such a crown prince. Because the royal family was the first family of this empire. Zhu Zhaoxu did a great job after ascending the throne - using his influence as the head of state. He was deducting titles, limiting the capital of the powerful, and combating rampant corruption...
But how could such a person turn the world into this ten years later? What about Ying Gong?
But what surprised him the most was Li Zhen - the Holy Emperor? What does that "sacred" mean?
Finally - why are you deprived of your ability?
Dai Bingcheng could feel his health - his illness had been cured. Although he was not sure what method he did. If he really made the emperor afraid or caused him some misunderstandings that he shouldn't have... Why not just kill him?
He could not even think of an answer. Because he was facing a world that had undergone earth-shaking changes, far beyond his cognition!
He spent the first night after waking up like this.
What he didn't expect was that he spent the next few days in bed like this - it seemed that his digestive system was disordered due to hibernation. For six days, he had only consumed two tubes of nutrients, but he only excreted once - it was the nurse who called him "you" who was helping him.
But since the first day, the girl stopped talking to him. She seemed to be quite angry with him. Fortunately, the sheet covers his face, so he would not let the man see his shameful expression when he was "assisted".
In six days, the man who claimed to be from the Inquisition met with him four times. He asked similar questions, and the focus was on his views on "imperial power politics."
Dai Bingcheng sometimes acted silent and sometimes scolded him away. It was not that he did not understand the principle of "seeking good and avoiding bad luck". But he had realized that if the visitor was really the emperor's person, in fact, they would not care about their own thoughts at all - otherwise the person who talked to him should be Zhu Zhaoxu himself.
But why did the other party delay time and repeatedly test himself... he didn't think clearly.
On the seventh day, the situation finally improved. The sheet on his face was taken off and his hands and feet were released. The person doing these things was a sturdy man wearing a doctor's white coat. But Dai Bingcheng felt that this man didn't look like a medical worker - because there was a ruthless spirit in his eyes.
The other party's hands are very powerful - not the level that ordinary people should have.
He did not try to resist. Because he knew he was no longer the King of Bronze, he could only wait and see.
Then Dai Bingcheng ate the first slightly decent meal after waking up - a bowl of porridge and a stack of pickles. This was not like a nutritious meal in the hospital... Ten years ago, even the prisoners in prison ate better than this.
Chapter completed!