078 “Blessing from Heavenly Official” Chapter 77

☆、Chapter 77 Xianleluan Prince returns to the world

With a crowd of displaced disaster victims like Yong’an, trying to fight against the Xianle Imperial City army would be like hitting a rock with an egg, or blocking a chariot with a mantis’ arm.

However, those who have no way to retreat are those who have the courage to hit the stone with eggs and block the car with the arms of the mantis.After a riot, tens of thousands of Yongan people finally left the city gate, withdrew some distance and set up camp in another place.

They just refused to leave.You might die if you walk on the road, but you might die if you waste your time here. What’s the difference?Relying on the water and food distributed by the previous ruler, the bark, weeds, vegetable roots, insects, snakes, rats, and ants in the wild, as well as the grievances and unwillingness that had been accumulated for many days, these people carried on with unimaginable tenacity.A few days later, more than a thousand people hurriedly gathered together and fought back with some hoes, rakes, stones, and branches.

Although this battle was a messy one and the defeat was complete, with more than half of the more than a thousand people killed or injured, it was not nothing.Lang Ying rushed into the city tower alone and carried several large bags of rice and bundles of weapons back. Although he was seriously injured, it aroused the fighting spirit of the desperadoes.

At this time, their nature is closer to that of bandits.Once, twice, three times.Xianle’s soldiers discovered that these “robbers” were making rapid progress.

The originally inexperienced and scattered attackers gradually found their way out. The people who came were more and more troublesome each time, and the number of people who returned was more and more. There was also an endless stream of new waves of victims who heard the news and came to join, strengthening their team.There was a huge quarrel in Xianle over how to deal with these “robbers”, and after five or six such ridiculous battles, Xie Lian could no longer sit back and watch.

He had not reported to the Heavenly Court for many days. This time he returned to the Immortal Capital and went straight to the Divine Martial Palace without making a sound.When I broke in, Jun Wu was sitting at the top, and all the priests were bowing their heads and obeying orders, seeming to be discussing important matters.In the past, Xie Lian would have chosen another day to visit again, but now, he couldn’t wait any longer, so he went straight in and said: “Emperor, I want to return to the human world.”

All the priests were shocked, and then they kept silent, not wanting to show too much emotion.Junwu thought for a moment, stood up from the throne, and said warmly: “Xianle, I probably know what happened, but please calm down first.”

Xie Lian said: “Emperor, I am not here to inquire, but to inform. My people are in dire straits, please forgive me for being unable to remain calm.”

Jun Wudao: “Everything in the world has its own destiny. Do you know that if you go down here, you will be violating the ban?”

Xie Lian said: “If you break the ban, you will break the ban!”

Hearing this, the expressions of the priests suddenly changed.There really has never been a priest who dared to say this confidently and resoundingly.Even if Jun Wu favors Prince Xian Le who has risen to the top at a young age, he is still too bold.

Immediately, Xie Lian bowed his head and said: “Please open your eyes and give me some time. Now that the war has begun, casualties are inevitable, but if I can quell this war, let the least number of people die, and control the matter to the smallest extent, after the war is over, I will voluntarily come back to plead guilty, and then I will be at your disposal. Whether you press me under the mountain for a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years! – I will never regret it.”

After speaking, he maintained his bowed posture and retreated out of the hall.Jun Wudao: “Xianle!”

Thanks for the meal.Jun Wu looked at him and sighed: “You can’t save everyone.”

Xie Lian slowly straightened up and said: “Whether I can save everyone, I have to try to know the answer. Even if God says I must die, if the sword doesn’t pierce my heart and nail me to the ground unable to move, I will still be alive, and I will still fight for my breath and struggle to the end!”

Returning to the human world this time is different from every time before.Xie Lian felt that something had been left behind.Some are light and some are heavy.In the first step, he couldn’t wait to return to the palace.

The king and the queen were behind the royal study, looking solemn and tired, and talking in low voices.Xie Lian came to the door. He was slightly nervous for a moment, then calmed down, lifted the curtain, walked in, and said: “Father.”

The king and the queen both turned back, stunned.After a while, the queen stood up first and said happily: “Your Majesty!”

She stretched out her hands and came to greet him, thanking him for supporting her.Before the funny feeling faded away, the king suddenly saw his face darken and said: “What did you do to get down here!”

Xie Lian’s smile froze.

Having heard his parents talking behind their backs in the palace before, Xie Lian felt that his father still missed him and did not have as many opinions on him as he seemed to.I thought that when I came back, the king would be somewhat happy. In that case, he would definitely soften his attitude.Unexpectedly, the king of the country reacted like this and was not good at it. So, Xie Lian also became angry and said solemnly: “Why did I come down? Isn’t it all because of you? There is today’s chaos in Yong’an. Ask yourself, do you also have some responsibility?”

The king’s expression changed drastically and he said sternly: “My responsibility? Is this what you should say to me?!”

He was so angry that he didn’t even pay attention to himself.The queen cried and said, “It’s already like this, why are you still arguing?”

Xie Lian said: “It’s not about arguing, it’s about being reasonable. Even if you are the head of the country and my father, if you have the responsibility, what can’t I say? Why don’t you do your best to provide disaster relief? Even if the disaster relief money is swallowed up layer by layer, why not punish corrupt officials? If you act vigorously and resolutely, and catch everyone, who dares to be corrupt? Will the situation not be better than now?”

Veins popped up on the king’s forehead, and he slapped the table and said: “Stop! You think the national treasury is a bottomless pit. How many gaps can be filled? How many gaps are there to be filled? If it is so easy, if it is so easy, you can have immediate results with just one order from the king. How come the corrupt officials have never been eradicated in the past dynasties? What do you know, you ignorant boy, come and talk to me about governing the country!”

Xie Lian said: “Okay, I don’t understand. Even if there is no place for the victims in the Imperial City, evacuation is inevitable, but why don’t you give these victims more money? Why don’t you comfort them and send troops to escort them to move eastward?”

The king’s eyes widened with anger, and he pointed at the sky and said: “Get out. Get out! Go back to your heaven! I’m annoyed by you! Don’t show up again!”

Xie Lian came down full of enthusiasm and met his parents for the first time. However, he heard his father tell him to go back to the sky. Without saying a word, he bowed to him and retreated.The Queen chased him out and grabbed him, saying, “Your Majesty!”

Xie Lian said warmly: “Mother, don’t worry, I just went to the capital for a walk to see the current situation.”

The queen shook her head and said: “Your Majesty, I don’t understand these national affairs, but I understand your father. I can see how he is the leader of the country for so many years. You can feel that he has not done well in the bottom of your heart. Sometimes I feel the same, but I just don’t say it. But don’t say that to your face. After all, he is your father. It’s really heartbreaking for you to say to his face that he doesn’t care.”

Xie Lian hesitated to speak.The queen said: “Although you are the prince, you have never been the head of the country. Running a country is different from your practice of Taoism. When you first entered Huangji Temple, the imperial master said that practicing Taoism only cares about your heart. Is that what you said?”

Xie Lian nodded slowly, and the queen held his hand and said: “However, for many other things in the world, only intention is useless. You must also have ability; not only do you have to be capable, but the people under you must also be capable; not only must they be capable, but they must also be of the same mind as you.”

Xie Lian remained silent.After a long while, he said: “Is the national treasury very deflated? I don’t need temples, so tell him not to build so many temples for me, and demolish all those golden statues.”

The queen said helplessly: “You child… you certainly have your father’s selfish motives for building the temple. He wants to give you good things and want you to be prosperous in the sky. But, do you know how many of the eight thousand temples were actually built by your father? You don’t know, right?”

Xie Lian really doesn’t know.He thought for a while and said: “…Half?”

The queen said: “If your father really used the money in the treasury to build more than 4,000 princely palaces, before the people of Yong’an started to make trouble, the imperial city started to riot first. Since the treasury is empty, where did the money come from to build so many palaces? Your father only built more than 20 palaces, and others followed his lead and followed suit in order to please him and you. Do these things also have to be counted on him?”

Thanks for the pity: “I…”

The queen whispered: “What your father did was not good enough, but he… tried his best. However, in this world, just trying your best is not enough.”

After a pause, she continued: “You are looking at the pity of those Yong’an people, so you blame your father. But they are all his people, are we the ones bullying them? In fact…”

Halfway through the words, the king made an angry noise in the imperial study: “Why are you talking so much nonsense to him? Tell him to go back to heaven!”

The queen turned back and sighed: “Your Majesty, you…don’t come down. You’d better go back.”

After leaving the palace, Xie Lian walked along an alley on the side of Shenwu Street, when Feng Xin and Mu Qing arrived.As soon as Mu Qing came, she said in disbelief: “Your Highness! Did you invite yourself to come down to earth? Did you go to the Shenwu Palace to talk to the emperor??”

Thanks for the pity: “Yeah.”

Mu Qing said: “Why don’t you tell me first?”

Feng Xin was surprised: “What do you mean? Does His Highness need to explain to others in advance what he wants to do?”

Mu Qing lost her composure and said, “Why not? We are his people. We are tied to him now. Every move he makes is closely related to our situation. I want to know what he plans to do. What’s wrong?”

Feng Chuang: “Don’t we have to follow His Highness in everything he does? He has his own ideas about what he wants to do, heaven or earth. What are you afraid of?”

“You!” Mu Qing said: “I’m not afraid! I’m just…”

Xie Lian waved his hand: “That’s enough. Stop arguing!”

Fengxin and Muqing shut up immediately.At this time, a parade passed through the street, and thousands of people shouted loudly: “Unless there is eternal peace, there will be no peace in the country!”

“It’s a cancer that causes chaos in the country and it’s too much bullying!”

The Xianle people had never been so aggressive towards anything, and they still held such a vigorous parade. Xie Lian couldn’t help but feel strange.Feng Xin frowned and said, “Why is there a woman here?”

Sure enough, a young girl was at the forefront of the parade.The girl has a slender figure, a snow-white complexion, bright black eyes, and crimson cheeks, but she is not shy, but angry, which is very eye-catching.Mu Qing had adjusted her mood at this time and said coldly: “Don’t you know her, Your Highness?”

Thanks for the pity: “I don’t know him.”

Feng Xin frowned and said, “It seems a little familiar?”

Mu Qing said: “That is one of the sources.”

Xie Lian asked: “What is the source?”

Mu Qing said: “The source of the incompatibility. Previously, because there were more and more Yong’an people in the imperial city, some of them did not stay together well, and moved around to cause trouble. The court was discussing the expulsion, and the news had already spread. There was a Yong’an person who wanted to stay and didn’t want to leave, so he took the risk. One night, he sneaked into a wealthy family and abducted the daughter of that family.”

When he said this, Xie Lian had not yet reacted: “Why did you kidnap the daughter of a rich family if you don’t want to leave?”

Mu Qing glanced at him and said: “I want to marry her. However, if it is not abducted, no daughter from the Imperial City family will be willing to marry a Yong’an person.”

He didn’t say it clearly, but Xie Lian also understood.

He had never thought that this could be possible, that there could be such a person in the world, that such a thing could happen, and he suddenly felt a nauseating urge.Feng Xinze scolded him on the spot and said: “Disgusting!”

At this time, a group of aunts and ladies hurriedly came up and tried to pull the girl down. It seemed that she ran out while the family was not paying attention.But the girl refused, saying: “What are you afraid of! What should I be ashamed of? It’s not my fault!”

Feng Xinqi said: “This girl has quite a strong temper.”

Admiringly said: “Yes. Unfortunately, her family is not an ordinary family. Her father is an important minister in the court, and her mother’s family is a wealthy businessman in the imperial city. She is not willing to suffer such a boring loss, let alone marrying for the sake of face, so she beat the Yong’an man to death first.Soon, all the wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the city signed a letter, listing the numerous crimes committed by the Yong’an people since they entered the city, and imploring His Majesty to put all these people in prison and punish them severely, not to mention the position of the ministers.”

After a pause, he said lightly: “I heard that this woman’s father once wanted to send her to the palace to fight for the position of crown princess. His Highness should have met her a few times a long time ago, but he didn’t recognize her.”

Xie Lian finally discovered that everything was more complicated than he imagined.

The situation inside and outside the city has long been at odds.The subjects are all furious and wish they could all be killed in one sweep. If the ruler’s decision still favors the Yong’an people, wouldn’t it be a slap in the face of his own people?In the end, it was decided to allocate a sum of money from the depleted treasury to give them money to withdraw. Although it looked shabby enough, I’m afraid it would still arouse the dissatisfaction of a large number of people.

What is more terrifying than the dissatisfaction of the enemy is the dissatisfaction of the subjects under one’s own rule.Although all of them were originally subjects of Xianle, now, I am afraid that few people think so.

He is aloof and has not known human affairs for a long time, but his father is still in the world.As the head of a country, he needs to use money and people, his position, the pressure he is under, and the people and things he needs to worry about and coordinate with him. How can he be the same as him?Just like the foreign Yong’an people occupying land, making noise, stealing, etc. in the imperial city, to a martial god living in the temple, it is probably a trivial matter, not worth getting angry about, and it will be over with patience.But for the people in the imperial city, it was real, lingering, intolerable torture, and a crisis that could break out at any time.It feels simple or trivial, but it’s just because it’s not him who is in that position.

Xie Lian couldn’t help but think that the king’s temples were even more gray than the last time he saw them.Last time I said I wanted to dye it, but I probably don’t have the energy to do it anymore.

When he was young, he firmly believed that his father was the greatest king in the world. As he grew older, he realized that this was not the case.Although his father is the head of the country, he is not unparalleled in wisdom. Sometimes he is a little pedantic and often makes mistakes. Apart from his extremely noble status, he is just a mortal.

The more he understands, the more disappointed he becomes. The king is aware of his disappointment, so he becomes increasingly intolerant of his every look of disapproval, words of disapproval, and, most intolerable, seeing his own failure.

No father in the world wants his son to see his failed side.Every father hopes that he will always be tall in front of his son.And he appeared at this time and scolded his father: You did such a bad job!It’s so bad that I can only come down to help you save the situation – whether as a country leader or as a father, how can I feel better after hearing this?

The girl was finally dragged back by her servants, while the rest of the people continued to protest, waving flags and shouting for one thing: kill!Let the war begin!Let the Yongan people outside the city look good!

After a while, he said with admiration: “Your Highness, you’d better apologize to the emperor and go back. When things have reached this point, the weather, the right location, and the harmony have all been lost.”

Just as Jun Wu from the Shenwu Palace said to Xie Lian: Things in this world have their own destiny.Isn’t this sentence telling him: Your Xianle Kingdom energy has been exhausted, let him go.

Even the queen, his mother, looked forward to it day and night, just looking forward to seeing him.But when she really saw him, she tearfully told him to go back and leave him alone.Xie Lian didn’t know that they didn’t want him to face this difficulty, and would rather he just sit back and live his own life.

But how is this possible?

“…”

Xie Lian said in a deep voice: “No!”

After saying that, he strode out.