My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 445 Surrender

Men need to work year-round to support their families.

And women also need to maintain the continuation of the ethnic group.

In such a twisted world, everyone needs to be prepared to sacrifice everything, including their lives, at any time for the survival of the group.

The dignitaries drank all night and played music night after night to show off their wealth, but also to express their deep fear of the unknown future.

Where should we go?

This is a question that everyone who understands the irreversible fate of the rise, power and decline of the Central Plains Empire and the terrible destiny behind it invariably thinks about together.

It is to continue to move forward according to the cycle of history, in exchange for hundreds of years of stability and peace.

Or should we simply try to flip the table and try to break this endless cycle of history?

But in any case, the rulers of the Central Plains should know that they achieved such a status by relying on force and protecting the thousands of people under their command from evil spirits outside the customs.

They call themselves the royal family and the sons of God to prove that every word they say is the constitution of heaven.

But this does not prove that those terrible destiny really regard them as their sons.

Zhu Houcong knew this very well.

He stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the boundless sea in front of him.

The sea breeze stirred up white waves one after another, rushing into the distance like a torrent, just like the wheels of history rolling forward, never to return.

It is a pity that even Ming Taizu had already broken with the destiny at the beginning of the founding of the country.

But many of his descendants still believe in the authority of destiny and the peace granted by those terrible things.

Even if King Yan's cavalry crossed the Yangtze River and went south, they burned Jinling.

None of them can dispel their misconceptions about destiny.

They forgot that they were conquerors and that destiny was just their ally. The reason why the world surrendered to them was that, on the one hand, they shattered the old ruling power with their powerful power, and on the other hand, the old dynasty was gradually declining. Decay can no longer protect his people from demons and ghosts.

A new spokesperson of destiny came into being, ruling over all nations with a more powerful attitude, and responded to the intrusion of evil spirits from all directions with a stronger attitude.

To show that they can protect all people in the world better than the previous ruler.

But the descendants of the successors have long forgotten this.

Zhu Houcon still remembered that when he first entered Beijing, the first thing Yang Tinghe considered was to let Zhu Houcon succeed Emperor Wuzong, who vomited blood and died suddenly during the sacrifice process, and continue to worship the destiny in the southern suburbs.

They naively believed that destiny would protect them and their dynasty.

Their blind obedience is due not to stupidity but to weakness.

Because of their weakness, they were unable to collect enough tax money from the South.

The private soldiers of the generals who were unable to stop the northern army from suppressing the generals.

Unable to stop the intrusion of the Mongols, Japanese pirates and Jurchens.

It is even more impossible to continue to inflict merciless genocide on opponents like Taizu of Ming Dynasty or King Yan.

Unable to even protect themselves from the demons, Empress Dowager Zhang and her shark allies gained control of the Ming court at a negligible cost.

Ming watched all this with fear, but did not dare to make any effective resistance.

No one in the capital even dared to expose the fact that Empress Dowager Zhang and her relatives were puppets used by the sharks to control the Ming court.

Perhaps in the near future, the Ming Dynasty will be like the historical interpretations Zhu Houcong learned in his previous life.

The weak imperial court was defeated by a coalition of refugees and aristocratic families.

And the Jurchen barbarians, who had never been regarded as opponents by Mingren, were finally able to sweep across the Central Plains and accept the world.

I am afraid that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military generals of the Ming court and even Zhu Yuanzhang himself would never have thought that it was not the residual Yuan forces in the north that destroyed the Ming Dynasty in the end, but the Jurchen barbarians who were too weak to be worth mentioning.

Akito is very weak, but they always pretend to be very powerful.

The gifts from ancestors are both gifts and curses.

The power of destiny confused them, so much so that they forgot that they had won this world by their own strength. Rather than the charity of destiny.

Zhu Houcong faced the wind and waves, thinking about how to complete his blueprint.

Strength is the prerequisite for him to not be bewitched by those terrifying beings and to resolutely implement his plan.

This is why he was able to drive away Queen Mother Zhang, expel the sharks, and pacify Luchuan.

What he is thinking about now is how to pass on this power.

It was only the first step to enfeoff the kings and let them control their troops.

If possible, Zhu Houcong did not want to expand his territory.

But in order to lead the world on a new path.

In order to build a brand new spiritual energy system that does not rely on those sneaky things.

Zhu Houcong needed the kings to lead armies to capture cities and territories for him, spread spiritual roots along the way, and seize all the treasured caves in the world for his use, kill the sneaky evil creatures, and achieve the true spiritual recovery.

This was an essential step, a long expedition that was destined to take the Ming court hundreds of years to undertake.

Zhu Houcong looked at the slightly turbulent sea in front of him and thought to himself.

The ship has been traveling for a day and a night. During the final journey, the ship will pass through a sea area that is shrouded in strong winds all year round.

Wave after wave on the sea increases the dangers of sailing here.

After Li Shunmin urged everyone to sit still, he personally directed the sailors to face the wind and waves.

The experienced boatman was not intimidated by the big waves in front of him.

He carefully adjusted the position of the bow to avoid facing the heavy blow of the waves.

While shaking, I looked at the calm-looking boat passengers beside me.

He was secretly surprised and strengthened his belief that the ship passengers behind him were not mortals.

The old Taoist who was silently reciting the secret of avoiding dragons and regenerating water seemed to feel something.

He opened his eyes and looked around uneasily, then stood up and quickly came behind Zhu Houcong. Gao Lin, who was standing behind Zhu Houcong, saw something wrong in his expression when he came, so he asked in a low voice.

"What happened?"

"There's something around us."

Zhang Fawei’s answer was brief.

Gao Lin looked at the boat that was fighting against the wind and waves.

Looking at the surging water around me, I felt a chill in my heart.

"no need to worry--"

Zhu Houcong's voice came from the front.

"They are not here to attack us. On the contrary, they still need to do some things?"

As Zhu Houcong finished speaking, Li Shunmin on the bow looked at the suddenly calm sea in front of him, with a flash of doubt in his eyes.

Why did the sea breeze that usually kept blowing for two hours and wouldn't stop until it capsized two boats suddenly stopped today?

But he didn't think much about it, he was just grateful for his good luck.

Little did he know that a pair of hands covered with scales as white as jade had quietly climbed up from the stern of the boat and walked up to Zhu Houcong in full view of everyone.

"Your Majesty, even after we say goodbye to Jinling, the dragon's body is still majestic."

(End of this chapter)