Chapter 101: Wanyan Honglie, the Imprisoned

"How about it, do you believe it now? If not, I can even spoil some things for you, such as Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng coming to the Great Desert and practicing martial arts using human skulls."

"Furthermore, in the future the Great Song will be destroyed by the Mongols, the Jin Kingdom will be destroyed before the Great Song, and after the Great Song is destroyed it will be ruled by the Mongols for over ninety years. Over ninety years later, Zhu Yuanzhang, a commoner from Huaiyou, will expel the Tartars and restore China. Over two hundred years later, the Divine Land will sink into the earth once more; Nurhaci from the northeast will establish the Later Jin, and his son Huang Taiji will establish the Qing Dynasty."

"Finally, the Ming Dynasty will fall to peasant uprisings, the Qing will take advantage of the situation to enter the pass, the peasant uprising army will be unable to resist, and subsequently the land of China will be ruled by the Qing for over two hundred years."

"Over two hundred years later, the Father of the Nation, Sun Zhongshan, will shout 'Expel the Tartars, Restore China,' overthrow the Qing Dynasty's rule, then the Beiyang warlords will fight in chaos, the Northern Expedition will begin, Chang Kaishen will steal the fruits of the revolution, and then Mr. Ziren will spark a prairie fire to establish a nation where the people are the masters." After Nie Huaishang spoke at length, he looked at the seven people who were dumbfounded and asked, "How about it, do you believe it now?"

The seven people did not know what to say; in just a few short sentences, Nie Huaishang had brought too much shock to their brains. Originally, the matter of Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng had made Ke Zhen'e very agitated, but as Nie Huaishang finished speaking, Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng had already been cast aside in his mind.

The Great Song falls, the Mongols establish their rule, the Ming expels the Tartars, the Qing takes over the Central Plains, the Father of the Nation ends feudal rule, Chang Kaishen steals the achievements, and finally a great man of the last generation establishes a nation where everyone is the master.

"What is a nation where everyone is the master like? Is it even more beautiful than the regimes you have established?" Ke Zhen'e asked, trembling.

"How can the regime we established be compared to the New China of the future? Let me tell you, in the future on this land, whether Mongols, Han, or Jin, they will all live in harmony and unity; they will all have a title called Chinese."

"People at that time could eat their fill every day, that kind of fragrant rice, not millet. There would be airplanes in the sky, cars on the ground, trains, high-speed rail, and they could even send spaceships to the moon."

"The armies of that time would not burn, kill, and plunder like they do now; when floods were about to submerge people's houses, they would use their own flesh and blood to hold them back; they would travel thousands of miles to rescue earthquake victims; we all call them the People's Sons and Daughters."

The seven listened as if intoxicated; they truly could not imagine how happy the people living in that era must have been, nor how extraordinary a person must be to build such a place.

"We who have come here are here to follow in the footsteps of those predecessors and build a nation where the people are the masters here, without exploitation, without oppression, where the people can live happily and joyfully on this land according to their own wishes, without slave owners, without emperors, without scholar-officials or landlords." As Nie Huaishang spoke these words, his expression became so agitated that he stood up directly.

The seven looked at one another, and finally Ke Zhen'e, the leader, stepped forward and asked, "Then why do you not organize the Han common people to establish a regime, but instead are here?"

"Over in the Jin Kingdom, Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan are already establishing revolutionary base areas, and their development progress is much smoother than ours," Nie Huaishang explained to him.

Of course, the progress of Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan over in the Jin Kingdom was smooth; originally, the Jin Kingdom was in its final period of rule, and the administration was even more corrupt. Because Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan adopted the strategy of surrounding the cities from the countryside, they did not attack the county towns. Seeing that the rebels were not attacking the county town, the county magistrate simply did not report it.

He was thinking that once his term was up, he would throw the mess to the next person; this led to the awkward situation where the revolutionary base area and the county town actually coexisted peacefully.

Of course, there were still people of insight in the Jin Kingdom, such as the Sixth Prince of the Great Jin, Wanyan Honglie. He personally visited the revolutionary base area in secret. He felt that the cohesion of the revolutionary base area far exceeded that of previous uprisings, the military discipline was even better than the Yue Family Army that had defeated the Jin Kingdom, and the combat power and fighting will were unknown how many times more formidable than the current Jin army.

Add to that those strange and unpredictable firearms; even if the Great Jin mobilized troops to suppress them, they might not fare well. If they did not suppress them, then the Great Jin would be destroyed by these people.

Just as he was planning to submit a memorial to his father the King to plan the suppression of these revolutionary base areas, his brother Wanyan Hongxi exposed the matter at Niu Family Village.

In the court, Wanyan Hongxi brought Duan Tiande and made him recount the events of several years ago in front of the entire court with such detail it seemed real.

Moreover, Duan Tiande also said that six years ago, Bao Xiruo was already pregnant, which made the entire court drop their jaws in shock; the son of the Emperor's most beloved prince was not actually his biological son.

His father, the Emperor of the Great Jin, was about to go mad with rage at this moment. The Sixth Prince of the Great Jin hiring assassins to kill people just to forcibly marry a married woman was already a huge scandal, and now his only son was not even his own.

This son whom he loved the most, the son he had once wanted to hand the throne to, what was he trying to do? Did he want to hand the throne of the Great Jin to an outsider?

In a fit of rage, the Jin Emperor ordered Wanyan Honglie to be imprisoned and sent a large army to Zhao Wang Fu to kill Bao Xiruo and Yang Kang, mother and son. At this critical moment, fortunately, Qiu Chuji intervened and rescued the two of them in advance.

Qiu Chuji arranged for the mother and son to stay at the Daoquanzhen Sect before departing. At the same time, the entire Third Wang Fu of the Jin Kingdom was decorated with lights and lanterns; Wanyan Hongxi held a banquet with a hundred tables and repeatedly toasted a young man.

Just two months ago, when his younger brother Wanyan Honglie went to Shandong for an inspection, this person came to his residence and said he could help him ascend to the position of Crown Prince. Regarding the words of this little brat, he did not believe them, but he was a person who respected the old and loved the young, so he kept him in his residence, which had nothing to do with a knife held to his neck.

Who would have thought he would fight Wanyan Honglie, who was deeply favored, into imprisonment? He, Wanyan Hongxi, was indeed the chosen one of heaven; whenever there was a crisis, heroes would always come to help.

The young man did not accept a single toast from Wanyan Hongxi, but Wanyan Hongxi did not mind; great talents, how could they not have some temper?

"Nowadays, Your Highness is still a distance away from ascending the throne; celebrating like this is still too early," the young man said slowly and calmly.

"Oh, please instruct me, Mr. Zhang," Wanyan Hongxi asked, pretending to be humble and seeking counsel, though inwardly he did not think much of it. The only one who posed a threat to him in the struggle for the Crown Prince, Wanyan Honglie, had already been imprisoned; the remaining Nasir did not even leave an impression before his father, so how could he compete with him?

"Your Highness must know the story of the Xuanwu Gate Incident of Tang Taizong. Wanyan Honglie has been favored for many years, and his factional followers are spread throughout the court and the provinces; every unit has his people, and many young officers in the court are his people. If he were to imitate Tang Taizong at this time?" The young man stopped speaking after saying this.

After hearing the young man's words, Wanyan Hongxi no longer wanted to drink wine, nor did he have the mood to look at beauties. His face showed ferocity, and killing intent floated in his eyes as he asked the young man, "Mr. Zhang, how should I clean up Wanyan Honglie's factional followers?"