Chapter 328: What a great head! Who chopped it off?
[No matter how panicked the monkey is, you have already made up your mind and cannot be challenged. Even if the road ahead is a dead end, you will not avoid it.]

【Why not avoid it? 】

【Because I’m not afraid! 】

[Of course, there has always been a way in front of you, that is to use the Blood Godson, a great and needless saint creation, which will definitely allow you to rule the world for thousands of years! ]

【But you don’t want to use it. 】

[The reason is very simple. First, you decided not to use the Blood God Son.]

[Secondly, you have seen clearly the nature of how society works. No matter what you do, with the current level of prosperity in the human world, it is impossible to exist independently without the power of the gods.]

[Since the day you decided to use the power of the gods to support the development of the human world, all this was destined. A hasty separation of humans and gods will only lead to social disasters and collapse! ]

[You can only step on the accelerator hard on this dead end. Knowing that prosperity comes from oppression, you still choose to oppress the true God and use him as a beast of burden.]

[Should the true gods be treated like cattle and horses? 】

[Obviously, this shouldn’t happen. If you are oppressed, you should resist. Resistance is a natural and just act. It is in line with human nature and the laws of nature.]

[So you can’t use the Blood God Son. If you do, that would be going against the will of Heaven. It’s like tying the victim’s hands to prevent them from resisting, or covering their mouths to prevent them from shouting…]

[So, you decided on a way to exit: let the rebels kill you! ]

[You are willing to die, and you must die, because this is the course of history that should have taken place. If you don't die, their suffering will not be rewarded, and that is not what you want.]

[Even if you can use the Blood Godson to maintain this prosperous era forever, this prosperous era is definitely not the perfect ending you want...]

【…】

[In the sixty-seventh year of the new calendar, you issued a reform decree, so the position of heavenly official was transferred from the monks to the true gods... Of course, the people are still the same people. The cows and horses have worked hard for more than sixty years and thought they could become the best, but they didn't expect that they would still have to continue to be cows and horses! ]

[Of course they were angry, and then they got angry for a while...]

[What else? Are you still hoping to rebel? ]

[These newly-enchanted beasts of burden were filled with resentment and grievances, but faced with the oppression of the Eight Banners of the New Era, they had no choice but to keep their grievances to themselves.]

[The underworld is functioning as usual, the various departments of the Sitian are still regulating the changes in heaven and earth, and the various miscellaneous tasks in the human world have returned to normal after a brief strike.]

[The noisy civil riots and protests died down just like that, leaving only a few comments after dinner. Some people praised the resistance spirit of the cattle and horses, some people disdained the traitors' kneeling on the spot, and some people secretly ridiculed the tyranny of the court and the generals...]

【…】

The gray-haired Li Ziliang sat in the house of the past, looking at the dying old man with gray hair lying on the bed, and couldn't help but sigh...

"Old...old ancestor, did you ever...ever experience separation from your descendants?"

The dying old man asked with a forced smile.

"Had."

Li Ziliang sighed, and while recalling those years, he told this story to his descendants who had accompanied him for decades:

"My crown prince died of old age right before my eyes... He was different from you. He had always been an ambitious man who dreamed of succeeding to the throne and becoming emperor. It was just that I did not give up the throne to him, so he could only be crown prince for seventy years until he died of old age right in front of me..."

Talking about his past, Li Ziliang seemed to have some nostalgia and some regrets:

"I want to save him, but I can't. He is not a naturally qualified Shinto monk, and he has never mastered the Dharma in his life. Even if I want him to reincarnate, he doesn't have the fate to do so."

"Come to think of it, I should have let him succeed me. When he was young, I was fighting wars everywhere, so he suffered a lot. What a pity..."

Listening to the legendary ancestor telling him stories from hundreds of years ago, the dying old man gradually felt relieved:

"Although he didn't become emperor, it is a blessing to be remembered by our ancestors... I just don't know if I have this blessing..."

Li Ziliang glanced at him:
"You are a young man who is disloyal and unfilial to me, and you still expect me to remember you?"

The old man said helplessly:

"I have no choice... Although our Shunshi Li family abdicated long ago, they are still eye-catching in the new dynasty... Besides, you, the old ancestor, still have the ability to cause chaos, how dare I get too close to you? It's a small matter to harm my own family, but it will be troublesome if it harms you..."

Li Ziliang was disdainful:
"Lin Liu is not that stingy!"

"General, you are not stingy, but we can't be generous either..."

The old man coughed a few times and gasped:
"How can a mortal be disrespectful to a true God? The fact that our family is still alive is a manifestation of the general's kindness... Ever since our ancestor abdicated, we have been afraid of being used by someone with ulterior motives, so we never dared to talk about our origins, fearing that something might happen and cause trouble for the general..."

"Not only should we pay attention to this matter, you must also be careful in the future!"

He forced himself to tell his ancestors about his worries:

"Your identity is not ordinary. Not only are you the ancestor of the previous dynasty, but you are also the only survivor of the old heaven. In the future, someone will definitely use you as an excuse to oppose the general..." Li Ziliang opened his mouth but said nothing, because that was the fact.

"Although the world is peaceful and prosperous, this prosperity cannot be supported by ordinary people alone. The fact that it has developed to this point is entirely the result of the general's strong support."

"And now the general can still hold on, but what about later?"

The old man said worriedly:
"When I was young, I thought the general would continue to prosper, but as I saw more and more, I realized that this kind of life could not last forever."

"On the surface, the human world has countless machines and technologies, and it seems that they are self-sufficient... But if you look closely, you will find that the manufacture and development of machines require the help of divine power, and the operation of machines also requires divine power as energy... The lives of the world have long been inseparable from divine power."

"It's not that people don't work hard, but this is the only way out in this world..."

He sighed:
"With the current population, we need a thousand true gods to support it. What about the future?"

"The general never controls the population. This is his kindness, but also his fault... At this rate, one thousand true gods will not be enough sooner or later. We will need two thousand, three thousand, four thousand... There are only three thousand true gods in the world. How can we support so many people?"

"Besides, the general can't even wait until that time. In order to support more people, he can only let the bannermen leave the banner... As long as the number of his eight banners is less than that of the working gods in the future, he will definitely be attacked back. By then, I'm afraid there will be unspeakable things..."

He talked a lot, and Li Ziliang couldn't help but remain silent for a long time...

Li Ziliang sighed:
"I didn't expect you to have such insight. If you had shown this ability earlier, why wouldn't you even be able to marry a wife, and have no descendants..."

The old man smiled:
"If not, how could our family survive in the new dynasty until today? As for future generations... there are more than just me in my family, and my branch wouldn't be a big deal..."

Then, he said seriously:
"These are all trivial matters... Grandfather, you must be careful! If you can persuade the general, it would be even better... You must persuade him, this is a way to death..."

Li Ziliang said nothing, just nodded.

……

[You had never expected Li Ziliang to come, but since he came, you welcomed him warmly.]

[You know that he has been living with a young man in the clan for many years, and now that he has come to the shogunate, it proves that the young man has grown old... The ancestor sending the young man away is certainly not something worth talking about, so you deliberately did not mention it...]

[“What does Xingjun want to see you for?”]

[You curiously ask him why he came.]

[Taibai Xingjun was silent for a while, then slowly explained his purpose...]

[“Lin Liu, stop it as soon as possible!”]

[Taibai Xingjun said sternly: "If you continue like this, not only will you be in danger, but all the people in the world will be in danger too!"]

[“Once the future changes…”]

[You didn't expect that he came for this matter, so you were slightly stunned.]

[But before long, you shook your head: "This is all my choice..."]

[“Can’t you just reduce the number of mortals? Can’t you just cut down on the welfare of mortals?”]

[Taibai Xingjun said angrily: "Isn't this the way to your death?"]

[“You either don’t do it, or you have to do it thoroughly! No matter what, you have to let the Eight Banners gain absolute advantage and suppress those 1,000 True Gods forever!”]

[You smiled and said, "In that case, what is the difference between them and the people who were bullied by the Emperor Dashun?"]

[Taibai Xingjun was stunned. He had never expected you to come up with such an excuse. He could not help but get angry and said, "Why do you care about them? They are all consumables. Do you still care whether they are bullied or not? You don't want them to turn over a new leaf, do you?"]

【"why not?"】

[You calmly said: If you are oppressed, you must resist. Although I oppress them, I also support them in resisting me and even overthrowing me! ]

[Taibai Xingjun was stunned: Are you crazy?! What kind of absurd team-up is this? How can someone stand on both the enemy and the friend?!]

[“Just be crazy.”]

[You sighed: "My original ideal was to lead the world out of the dream world and into the eternal wilderness, but I failed..."]

[“After that, I wanted to achieve eternal prosperity in this dream, but I still failed…”]

[“Now, I know that no matter what I choose, I will never get a perfect eternal prosperity. Someone will always suffer… In this case, I might as well die gloriously. Let them rebel against me! Let them chop off my head!”]

[“At least I tried my best. My failure was due to the limitations of the world, not my ability. I have oppressed them for so long, and I must make them pay back…”]

[“What a beautiful head! Who chopped it off?”]

……

(End of this chapter)