Urban Sims

Chapter 152
Zihua Bookstore was closed and "Science" was banned. Although it was beyond Zhou Ming's expectation, it cannot be said that he was not mentally prepared at all, and was completely caught off guard.

In fact, for this kind of change, as early as the start of the "Zihua Bookstore Phase II Plan", Zhou Ming prepared multiple sets of response plans to prevent accidents.

And in the first ten years or so, Empress Wu Zhao and Princess Changping have silently acted as the umbrella of this plan, so the situations envisioned in the plan have never happened.

However, Zhou Ming never expected that Li Wei, the emperor who has half of his blood and knows that Zihua Bookstore is his father's estate, would be so vicious in his strikes. Naruto's reaction time is extremely short.

"Li Wei, I am your biological father! I have also written to you many times, and sponsored you tens of millions of gold and silver and a large number of firearms to help you conquer the Western Regions. I just hope that you will take care of my Zihua Bookstore. You Is this how you repay your father?"

Thinking of how much help he had provided to his son, Zhou Ming was very angry in exchange for this kind of repayment.

but……

Since ancient times, emperors have been ruthless. This boy, even his mother, can be locked in a deep palace. He can't see the sun outside for many years. He has never seen his father a few times, so what if he cheats him?

In addition, the root cause of the book-burning incident is not Li Wei, but science and education. Once this set of ideas came out, it was extremely hated by countless Confucianists!Treat it as a thorn in the side, a thorn in the flesh, and a mortal enemy who wants to get rid of it quickly!

Confucianism is the direct driving force behind this incident!

Why is Confucianism so hostile to the nascent science and education, and is it so ruthless?

The main reason is that the two ideologies and teachings, in many respects, are completely different from each other. In essence, they are fundamentally different and can be said to be completely opposite.

What is the core idea of ​​Confucianism?
It is humility and observance of proprieties, monarchs and ministers, high and low order, benevolence and morality, repaying grievances with virtue, believing in the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature, and idealism that believes that the thoughts of saints can change the world.

So, what about science and education?

It is the pursuit of knowledge through the study of things, the search for truth in practice, and the recognition that productivity determines social relations. It is a realistic materialism that believes that matter can determine thought.

The two thoughts, one virtual and one real, one static and one moving, have many advantages, and it seems that they will be perfect when combined, how can they become a pair of sworn enemies?
It turns out that the so-called Confucianism has developed for thousands of years, and has long since turned the original benevolence and morality, sacrificing one's life for righteousness, into a mask of the Virgin Mary on the surface, and its core essence has long since degenerated into something that caters to the ruling class. Cynicism.

The core of this kind of cynicism is the word "loyalty and filial piety", which requires the subjects to be loyal to the emperor and obey the emperor's orders unconditionally; requires women to abide by the three obediences and four virtues; Live to death, don't resist!

The new science and education does not cater to any class, but only to the internal laws and formula laws of everything.

Therefore, the scientists who believe in science and education see overseas culture countries with numerous factories, rapid development of productivity, and the living standard of the working class far surpassing that of farmers, so they encourage industrialization and liberate those self-cultivating farmers who lost their land due to land annexation; Equality, freedom of marriage, and protection of women's basic rights; in addition, death is like a lamp being extinguished, and there are no ghosts and gods in this world, so there is no need to express your filial piety by observing filial piety for three years...

Regarding the feudal emperors, scientists, after seeing the various advantages of the overseas constitutional monarchy system in the operation process, many scientists privately believe that a mediocre king in a society ruled by law is worse than a society ruled by men. It is better to be a wise emperor, and to rule the world with the wisdom of one person is not as good as to rule the world with the wisdom of all...

Of course, scientists will not spread this kind of view that stimulates the nerves of feudal emperors, which will cause the catastrophe of "killing the nine clans" at every turn. These outrageous words can only be said on the overseas Wenguo side, and on the Dalai Lama. On Zhou's side, they all tucked their tails and engaged in their own scientific research behind closed doors.

Emperor Li Wei was not a fool, he heard the ministers' performances, turned his head a little, and knew that this set of thoughts was beneficial to his own rule, and that set of thoughts would bring endless disasters... So he raised his hand without hesitation. Butcher knife, eradicate that scourge.

In order to eradicate thoroughly, even if it is a hundred thousand heads, a million heads, or even tens of millions of heads, he will do it!

Because, he wants to rule the world, and he wants to become a greater emperor than the first emperor!

Therefore, no matter what kind of thinking, no matter what kind of person, as long as he dares to stand in front of him, he will let him perish!

Even the so-called Overseas Wen Country, the wild island country that rang in his ears from time to time, giving people a great feeling, he would send troops to destroy it, so that only one voice in the world would be heard, praising him for his greatness!
Therefore, starting from the sixth year of Tianyuan, Li Wei recruited millions of craftsmen and peasants to cut down huge trees and build sea-going ships. Thousands of warships have been produced, and 50 people in the navy have been trained, with advanced equipment and high morale!
In the ninth year of Tianyuan, on the fifth day of the ninth lunar month, on the day of the expedition, this fleet was even more powerful and mighty, with a boundless aura that wanted to swallow up the entire world!

Looking at this fleet, Li Wei, who claims to be the "Super Emperor", is very confident. He believes that this fleet spent all the gold and silver treasures he earned from the countries in the far west during his expedition to the west. The fleet will definitely not let him down, it will definitely be able to occupy all the gold, silver and copper islands of the Overseas Wen Country, it will definitely be able to plunder the Overseas Wen Country, and slaughter all the tens of millions of people, so that there will be no future troubles!

As for his biological father, it would be best if he could be captured alive, if he could not be captured alive, it would be best to make him disappear forever and never reappear...

Holding a piece of information in his hand, Zhou Ming, who has been on hold for the past few years, was ready to wait for Li Wei to make his first move. After reading the information, he put the information aside, and said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth: "Li Wei, Li Wei, it seems You really lack fatherly love, want me as a father, and beat your ass hard!"

After muttering, Zhou Ming signed the "Expedition Order" on the desktop, and relayed the signal through the wireless telegraph ship. Three days later, a group of 55 ships covered with iron armor, no sails on the deck, spouting steam, and a displacement of more than [-] tons The huge fleet set off from Weihai Port on Qizhou Island and sailed westward at an average speed of twelve knots.

On the eighth day of September, at ten o'clock in the morning, a shocking naval battle broke out in the sea more than [-] miles away from Baijiangkou in Gaoji State. It was known as the "Battle of Baijiangkou" in history.

The process of this naval battle was boring and nothing to describe. It was a massacre of steam iron armor on wooden sailing ships. Thousands of warships in the Great Zhou Dynasty were wiped out. Only three or five small fish escaped. Single-digit casualties, more than 30 enemies were killed, and nearly [-] were captured.

After the naval battle at Baijiangkou, Zhou Ming personally brought a huge landing fleet into the Zhongjiang River along the coast of Yangzhou. At a speed of less than eight knots, he went upstream and easily destroyed several inland river defense fleets in Zhongjiang. Thirteen days later, the landing fleet landed on the shore of Luoshui, less than two hundred miles away from the imperial capital Luojing. Among the 52 landing ships, a landing combat force of [-] people came down. Following the wide official road, it took a day and a half to arrive at the foot of the imperial capital.

In one and a half days, they marched for two hundred miles. Many people expressed disbelief. The reason why the marching speed was so fast was that this landing force was equipped with 2000 internal combustion-powered vehicles. The engine has a load capacity of one ton, a maximum speed of 15km/h, a shock-proof chassis, and rubber pneumatic tires, so that these cars can drive for about 300 kilometers without any trouble on the ground in general road conditions.

However, during the first actual combat application, the performance of these cars was not satisfactory. It was just a short distance of more than 100 kilometers. Of the two thousand internal combustion cars, more than 1100 were scrapped and abandoned on both sides of the road due to various failures. .

Of course, although these cars were not very powerful, they still barely achieved the purpose of the lightning march, leaving Chaoshi Emperor Li Wei with no time to make preparations for fleeing to the imperial capital, and was blocked in the city and could not escape.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

After a few loud bangs, several city gates of the imperial capital were blasted open by high-energy explosives one after another. Nearly ten thousand landing army troops armed with burstable machine guns rushed in. In such a situation, the troops in the city that fought suffered heavy casualties, and countless surrendered.

The army that first entered the city by car quickly surrounded the Daming Palace. After the large army arrived, they fired smoothbore cannons, blasted open the Xuanwu Gate, and entered the palace. After two or three hours of fighting, they led a group of eunuchs and retreated. Li Wei, the emperor of Chaoshi who entered the palace and resisted stubbornly, performed very bravely. He killed [-] soldiers of the Landing Army who followed Zhou Ming's order and used cold weapons to capture him alive, and kept shouting: "I am the real dragon emperor! You can't kill me! When my army arrives, I will definitely kill you!"

"bump!"

A big iron tower man wearing a sealed iron armor with only one eye slit, like an iron can, first slapped the long sword in Li Wei's hand, and then slapped him on the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. The soldier stepped forward quickly and tied him up with a rope.

It turned out that this big man in the black tower was Li Tiejin, the grandson of Li Dazui. He was [-] meters tall, with infinite supernatural power, and was more powerful than his grandfather. Zhou Ming brought him here, and it really came in handy.

Grabbed Li Wei, released the Empress Dowager Changping, who had been imprisoned in the deep palace for nearly ten years, her hair had turned completely white, and her person had become a little numb and demented, and fed her a few pills of immortality. , Li Changping recovered, and then assisted Zhou Ming to stabilize the Great Zhou Dynasty Hall.

One month later, Luojing, the imperial capital, was surrounded by 20 King Qin's army. All states in the world launched rebellions one after another. In the imperial capital, countless loyal ministers and righteous men secretly contacted each other, preparing to kill the traitor Tian Zihua and rescue the emperor Li Wei.

However, on October 20th, in the Tai Chi Hall, in front of the officials and officials, the Empress Dowager Changping personally revealed a big news, which shocked the officials. Millions of people in the imperial capital and [-] King Qin outside the city Dajun couldn't help but exclaimed: "How is it possible? Your Majesty the Emperor, is actually the son of Emperor Wen Tian Zihua?"

It turned out that the information released by the Empress Dowager Changping revealed the mystery of Emperor Li Wei's life experience, saying that his biological father was none other than Wen Huang Tian Zihua from the Overseas Wen Kingdom.

The ministers shouted in disbelief, calling it ridiculous!But when Zhou Ming personally pulled Li Wei, who was tied up with a rope, to appear in the hall together, facing the officials together, the faces of the two were more than 50% similar, and with the narration of the Empress Dowager Changping, even Li Wei categorically denied: "He's not my father, he's not my father!" But after the test of blood compatibility, most of the ministers in the palace were silent and accepted this fact.

At this time, Zhou Ming loudly criticized Li Wei to the officials, saying that he "has three unfilial acts, and he should not be emperor!"

If one is unfilial, imprisoning the biological mother, destroying the father's career, selfishness, and treason!
The second is unfilial, sending troops to the father's country, plotting against the father's land, rebellious and untrained, and going his own way!
Three acts of unfilial piety, with the father at his side, denying it categorically, not as good as a beast, and should not be emperor!
After announcing the three unfilial acts, the Empress Dowager Changping discussed with Emperor Wen and decided to abolish the position of Emperor Li Wei!The new emperor will be re-elected ten days later.

Not only that, in order to punish the deposed emperor Li Wei for his various acts of unfilial piety, Zhou Ming ordered people to build a ten-foot-high "beating the emperor's platform", in front of hundreds of thousands of people in the imperial capital and 20 Qin King's army, with whips, ruthless He beat Li Wei hundreds of times, begging for mercy repeatedly, shouting "Don't dare, dare not!" Seeing that his buttocks were bloody from the beating, Zhou Ming gave up and asked someone to lift him down.

The next day, King Qin's army outside the city was all withdrawn, and all the officials and officials in the imperial capital also died down, ready to welcome the new emperor. Those loyal ministers and righteous men who had secretly contacted also gave up their plan to rescue Li Wei. The generosity and indignation of Shizhou also gradually subsided.

Some people may ask: Why did the situation change so dramatically?Why don't you care about the deposed emperor Li Wei?
Because, the hearts of the people in this world are no longer in him.

One, the abolished emperor Li Wei was indeed unfilial. He imprisoned his mother and deceived his father. It was unacceptable in nature. Such behavior made it hard for people to believe that he would be a good emperor, but he might be a tyrant instead.

Two, the mother was abused by the son, and the father and the son fought back and forth. In the end, it was other people's private affairs, and outsiders couldn't care about it. As for who the next emperor would be, it was up to his parents to decide. As long as it didn't affect people's normal lives, they would no big comments...

(End of this chapter)