Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 272 Ruthless Communication

After leaving the room where King Liu De was imprisoned, Eldest Prince Liu Jiarui came to the room where Prime Minister Chen Pu was imprisoned.

When the Prime Minister Chen Pu saw the eldest prince Liu Jiarui walking in, he couldn't help but said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, why do you do this? Although the power of our Han Kingdom is in the hands of the cabinet, the cabinet has always respected him very much. The opinion of the royal family, the good situation of our Han Kingdom is hard-won!"

Prime Minister Chen Pu actually didn't care too much about who would be the king of the Han Kingdom, but the coup by the eldest prince Liu Jiarui was not as simple as seizing the throne of the Han Kingdom. The eldest prince Liu Jiarui actually wanted to take back the power of the cabinet. Changing the constitutional monarchy that has been practiced in the Han Kingdom for many years into a centralized monarchy is tantamount to touching the interests of the entire capitalist class, which is completely unacceptable to the cabinet minister Chen Pu.

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui twitched his lips contemptuously, "Prime Minister Chen, the officials of our Han Kingdom are greedy for ink and have made the entire Han Kingdom a mess, but your cabinet has nothing to do about it, or you don't want to govern the officialdom of our Han Kingdom at all. Corruption issues, because many cabinet members are the biggest corrupt officials in our Dahan Kingdom."

After a pause, the eldest prince Liu Jiarui continued: "If your cabinet is allowed to continue to govern like this, it will really destroy the hard-won good situation of our Han Kingdom, so I will temporarily take back the power of the cabinet and use a high-pressure policy. , Completely solve the problem of corruption in the officialdom of our Han Kingdom."

An embarrassing look flashed across Prime Minister Chen Pu's face. As the prime minister with the most power in the cabinet, Chen Pu did not appear to be so noble. He also used his power to collect a lot of money for himself.

Prime Minister Chen Pu coughed to hide his embarrassment, "Your Highness, our Han Kingdom has practiced a constitutional monarchy for more than 100 years. If you suddenly want to take back the power of the cabinet, it may cause quite a lot of turmoil. It is worse than everything else." As usual, and the cabinet is willing to support His Highness to become the new king of the Han Kingdom."

Prime Minister Chen Pu's words made the eldest prince Liu Jiarui sneer in his heart. In fact, Liu Jiarui is not King Liu De's own son. Regarding the issue of the heir, most of the bigwigs in the cabinet also sided with King Liu De because of the problem of royal blood.

Now the Prime Minister Chen Pu no longer considers the matter of royal blood for the sake of profit. These politicians can sell anything for their own benefit, of course they can also sell the royal family.

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui shook his head and said: "Prime Minister Chen, I am not here today to discuss with you what system the Han Kingdom should implement in the future, but to ask you to support the military power of the army and the administrative power of the government at the cabinet meeting." Return it to the king."

Prime Minister Chen Pu then said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, as the prime minister of the cabinet, I will never support such a proposal. History has proved that centralized monarchy is backward, and only a constitutional monarchy can make a country strong."

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui said with a sneer: "Our Han Kingdom has practiced a constitutional monarchy for more than 100 years. I haven't seen the constitutional monarchy make our Han Kingdom stronger. On the contrary, our Han Kingdom is constantly ceding land and paying compensation. If it weren't for Su Yi The emergence of the Han Kingdom, perhaps our Han Kingdom has become a vassal of the Gothic Kingdom, and now we are sending millions of young Han Chinese to the battlefield for a bloody battle with the Nica army and the Olu army."

Prime Minister Chen Pu hesitated for a moment and said, "But that kind of situation has not happened now, and if the Han Kingdom continues to implement the centralized monarchy system, maybe our Han Kingdom will become even worse."

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui saw that he could not persuade the Prime Minister Chen Pu with words, so he waved to an officer of the royal guard behind him, and soon a group of people were brought to the door of the room.

"master!"

"Father!"

"grandfather!"

A dozen people, old and young, couldn't help yelling when they saw Prime Minister Chen Pu being imprisoned in the room, and these dozen people were all relatives of Prime Minister Chen Pu.

When Prime Minister Chen Pu saw his relatives being brought here, his expression changed drastically, "Your Highness, what do you mean?"

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui said with a smile: "Prime Minister Chen should understand what I mean, now it's up to Prime Minister Chen's choice."

Prime Minister Chen Pu's face changed a few more times, and finally said sadly: "Your Highness, I am willing to cooperate with you in the cabinet meeting, so that the king of the Han Kingdom can regain control of the military power of the army and the administrative power of the government."

After the eldest prince Liu Jiarui left the room where the Cabinet Prime Minister Chen Pu was imprisoned, he went to the room where the Cabinet Deputy Prime Minister Qian Jianrong was imprisoned.

The Deputy Prime Minister Qian Jianrong was much tougher than the Cabinet Prime Minister Chen Pu. Even if Qian Jianrong's family was brought before him, Qian Jianrong still did not choose to surrender to the eldest prince Liu Jiarui.

However, when the eldest prince Liu Jiarui cut off two fingers of one of Qian Jianrong's sons in front of Qian Jianrong, the hard-nosed deputy cabinet minister Qian Jianrong also gave in and agreed to support him at the cabinet meeting. The eldest prince Liu Jiarui took back the military and administrative power in a justifiable way.

Using his family as a threat, the eldest prince Liu Jiarui easily made most of the arrested cabinet members submit to him. Only Sun Mingwu, former commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces of the Han Kingdom, and Yang Yuandu, the former chief of the general staff of the National Defense Forces of the Han Kingdom, were among the cabinet members of the military. Members, even if they threatened them with the lives of their families, these military cabinet members did not have the slightest intention of yielding to the eldest prince Liu Jiarui.

In the room where Sun Mingwu, the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, was detained, Sun Mingwu looked at his own son who had five fingers cut off, and gritted his teeth and said to the eldest prince Liu Jiarui: "Even if you kill my whole family, don't expect me, Sun Mingwu, to agree with you." To re-implement the centralized monarchy, in order to realize the democracy of our Great Han Kingdom, how many people with lofty ideals have sacrificed their lives, it is a retrogression of history for you to go against the law like this!"

The Han Kingdom was able to implement the constitutional monarchy, not without incident, but after a bloody storm, and even a civil war broke out more than 100 years ago, the Han army that supported the constitutional monarchy finally defeated the Han army that supported the royal family This made the king of the Han Kingdom at that time have no choice but to agree to form a cabinet. At this point, the Han Kingdom began to implement a constitutional monarchy, and transferred the military power and administrative power in the hands of the king to the cabinet of the Han Kingdom.

Seeing Sun Mingwu, the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces with a firm attitude, the eldest prince Liu Jiarui sighed softly, and waved his hand to let the royal guards take Sun Mingwu's family away.

Then the eldest prince Liu Jiarui said in a regretful tone: "Commander-in-chief Sun, I personally respect you very much. It is just that you have been the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces for many years and you can still maintain a clean style. I am in awe, but you are so Being stubborn and possessing great prestige in the entire national defense force, this makes me very embarrassed!"

Sun Mingwu sneered contemptuously and said: "Liu Jiarui, maybe you should be called Zhang Jiarui, you should put away your fake mercy! If you want to kill or cut you, I, Sun Mingwu, will never give in!"

"Do you stop thinking about your family?"

"Since they are members of my Sun Mingwu's family, it is their duty to be loyal to the country!"

A murderous look suddenly flashed in the eyes of the eldest prince Liu Jiarui, "It seems that I can only help Commander-in-Chief Sun."

Then the eldest prince Liu Jiarui turned his head and said to the two officers of the royal guard at the door of the room: "You two come in and see Commander-in-Chief Sun for a ride!"

Two officers of the royal guard walked into the room and suffocated Sun Mingwu, commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, with a quilt.

When Liu Jiarui walked out of the room where Sun Mingwu was detained with a gloomy face, he found that the commander-in-chief of the Dahan Army, Yang Guanghao, had also come.

Seeing Liu Jiarui walking out, Yang Guanghao couldn't help asking with concern: "Your Highness, is Commander-in-Chief Sun willing to support you?"

The personal relationship between Yang Guanghao and Sun Mingwu has always been good. Yang Guanghao has persuaded Sun Mingwu several times before, hoping that Sun Mingwu can recognize the situation and stop being stubborn. Unfortunately, Sun Mingwu is like a stone in a latrine, which is smelly and hard. Let Yang Guanghao say the hype, Sun Mingwu was unwilling to give in to the eldest prince Liu Jiarui and supported Liu Jiarui's upcoming centralized monarchy.

The eldest prince Liu Jiarui said in a cold voice: "Commander Sun has just suffered a chronic illness and has left us forever. Tomorrow morning, the news of Commander Sun's death will be reported to the entire National Defense Force, so that all military regions can carry out mourning activities. .”

Liu Jiarui's words made Yang Guanghao feel a chill in his heart. You must know that Sun Mingwu, the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, had a very high prestige among the three armed forces of the Han Kingdom, but he was killed by the eldest prince Liu Jiarui. .

However, Yang Guanghao couldn't care less about feeling sad for Sun Mingwu at this time. You must know that Yang Guanghao's elder brother, Yang Yuandu, the chief of staff of the National Defense Forces, was also being detained in the camp of the First Mechanized Infantry Division of the National Defense Forces. Liu Jiarui's attitude was also the same as that of Sun Mingwu.

Yang Guanghao considered his words for a while, and then said to Liu Jiarui: "Your Highness, can you give me some more time at my brother's place, and I will definitely be able to do my brother's job well."

There was another smile on Liu Jiarui's face, "I have great respect for Chief of Staff Yang, and of course I hope that Chief of Staff Yang can support me, but you must be clear, Commander Yang, that Chief of Staff Yang has a huge role in the National Defense Forces." If Chief of Staff Yang can't be used by me, then I can't leave such a big potential threat."

Yang Guanghao nodded repeatedly and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely be able to convince my brother to be loyal to Your Highness."

Liu Jiarui patted Yang Guanghao on the shoulder, "Then go and persuade Chief of Staff Yang! I will continue to communicate with other members of the cabinet!"

Then Liu Jiarui said: "Commander Sun has worked hard for the country all his life, and he can't let Commander Sun go too alone. Let Commander Sun's family accompany Commander Sun on the road together!"

Although Liu Jiarui's tone was flat, the content of the words was extremely ruthless. Maybe Sun Mingwu, who died generously, would not have thought that the eldest prince Liu Jiarui would be so ruthless that he would really kill his whole family. Otherwise, maybe Sun Mingwu would not Will die without hesitation.

Yang Guanghao walked into the room where Yang Yuandu, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, was imprisoned with a very ugly expression. When Yang Yuandu saw Yang Guanghao walking in, he couldn't help but snorted and said, "You don't have to be a lobbyist for that Liu Jiarui anymore, I definitely won't." Support him to re-implement the monarchy!"

Yang Guanghao showed a smile that was uglier than crying, "Brother, don't stand still, His Royal Highness is here right now, Commander-in-Chief Sun Mingwu has been ordered to be executed just now by the eldest prince."

When Yang Yuandu heard it, he couldn't help roaring angrily: "Liu Jiarui even dared to kill Commander-in-Chief Sun. Isn't he afraid of the rebellion of the entire National Defense Force? If such a person becomes the king of the Han Kingdom, he must be a tyrant. Our Han Kingdom is in danger." Yea!"

"My elder brother, please keep your voice down, if His Highness the eldest prince hears your words, your life will be in danger!" Yang Guanghao said very nervously.

Yang Yuandu said indifferently: "I, Yang Yuandu, have never been afraid of death since I put on this military uniform, so let that Liu Jiarui let his horse come here!"

At this time Yang Guanghao said bitterly: "Brother, just now, the Grand Prince ordered the execution of all Commander-in-Chief Sun's family. A grandson, aged [-], and a granddaughter, aged [-], are on the execution list."

When Yang Yuandu heard this, he shouted in shock: "Why doesn't Liu Jiarui even let go of the child? His heart is too cruel!"

Yang Guanghao begged and said: "Brother, although I still have some face with His Royal Highness, if you have been stubborn and unwilling to join His Royal Highness, I can't guarantee that I will be able to protect my sister-in-law and others comprehensively, Big Brother, I beg you not to be stubborn, what system is implemented in the Han Kingdom, is it really more important than the sex of your family?"

Yang Yuandu, who had always been very resolute, could not help showing a look of hesitation on his face at this time. After all, it was no longer a matter of his own life and death. The eldest prince Liu Jiarui would probably let his whole family be buried with him.

Yang Guanghao persuaded again at this time: "Brother, in fact, even if you insist on not cooperating with His Royal Highness, nothing can be changed. The two prime ministers and most of the cabinet members have already surrendered to His Royal Highness, let alone the parliament. Those ordinary members of parliament, after His Royal Highness ascended the throne, the implementation of the centralized monarchy is a foregone conclusion."

Yang Yuandu was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said: "It seems that I, Yang Yuandu, for the sake of my family's life, can only work as a pawn."

(End of this chapter)