"Your father is a dog."
It was just four words.
But the lethality of these four words was too great. Although the tone was calm, it was like a clap of thunder. Even Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai were frightened.
Although they loved Sun Lang deeply, they were still people of this world after all. They had grown up in this kind of environment. Loyalty, filial piety, trustworthiness, monarch, courtier. The strict hierarchy and the supreme imperial power maintained the order and stability of this country. Almost everyone was used to the rule of the Emperor, used to obeying and kneeling.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the people's bones had been engraved with the brand of monarchs and subjects, the sanctity of the emperor, the stability of the country, and the authority of the imperial court. Even the rebels and traitors did not dare to insult the emperor by name. At most, they only dared to declare the emperor's immorality in the proclamation.
But the immoral emperor was still the emperor, the son of God, the king who preyed on behalf of God.
Now Sun Lang said, "Your father is a dog." Opposite him was Empress Tensei, who was in charge of a huge military power, the most favored daughter of the emperor. Since ancient times, no one had dared to do such a thing, no one had dared to say such a thing.
Because Sun Lang was different from everyone. He was a person of another world.
He had no reverence for imperial power in his bones. His people had used more than a hundred years to completely remove the word "emperor" from the souls of the people, which was full of rotten and disgusting things, and would never think of returning to the so-called dignified and prosperous era of the past.
Because the beautiful things such as peace, happiness, freedom, and dignity did not originate from the benevolence of some high and mighty person. Instead, they were the rights that every human being was born with. They were the protection that the ancestors who had fought hard for had left for their descendants. It was such a matter of course that it was unquestionable.
If anyone wanted to take these things away, it would be the time to pick up the weapon again.
The Empress Concubine fell into extreme shock. It was as if even she didn't think that Sun Lang would be this crazy.
However, Sun Lang continued to calmly look at the Empress Concubine. His gaze was neither crazy nor ferocious. It was as if he was talking about something extremely normal, as if it was common knowledge. His expression was calm as he added, "Your father is a dog, your mother is a dog, you are a son of a bitch."
Empress came back to his senses. With a roar, he kicked the table into the air. The table that flew into the air split from the middle the moment before it hit Sun Lang. It was evenly divided into two halves and then fell to the ground.
The Tensei guards outside the door heard the commotion and immediately rushed in with their weapons. They saw the furious His Highness, General Lin and General Xue standing at the side, and a man sitting on a chair. His Highness was glaring at him as though he was an irreconcilable enemy.
Therefore, they also stared at Sun Lang. As long as His Highness gave the order, they would rush forward and chop him into meat paste.
Sun Lang did not look at them and said lightly, "This is my cousin's territory. Today is a joyous day to reunite with them. It is not suitable for blood to be spilled. Tell your people to get out."
Empress took a few deep breaths and waved her hand with a cold face. The guards immediately bowed and left.
She gritted her teeth and said, "The Prime Minister said that you are born rebellious and will rebel. It is true!"
"Don't say that. This is just a difference of political position and ideology."
Sun Lang said lightly, "Also, your psychological quality is still not good. Since you want to be the Emperor, don't be so naive. Do you think the throne is passed to you to please your father and coax him to pass it to you?"
"Wrong. The throne is snatched from your brother's hands. If necessary, you will snatch it from your father's hands. The supreme position can make brothers fight against each other and turn father and son against each other. You father and daughter are destined to be enemies. What's wrong with me scolding you?"
Empress said angrily, "Father has been humiliated. I am not so deranged as to let it go!"
"Your words are too shameless."
Sun Lang smiled. "Since you have already thrown away your conscience for the sake of the throne, you might as well throw it away cleanly and end all troubles."
Empress looked at him coldly. "It seems there is no need for us to continue talking."
Sun Lang nodded. "Very well. Shall we start fighting now?
After I kill you, I will immediately wave my sword and go south. Starting from Sui Province, along the way, all the military and political officials above the sixth rank will be killed. If an army gathers, I will disperse it. If a meeting is held, I will destroy it. If you think that the rules of the Empire's army are so strict that it is flawless, then I can only say that you are too naive. "
"If a commander dies, the command will be handed over according to military rank, which ensures the smoothness of command and the toughness of the troops to the greatest extent. The details of this military system were personally finalized and revised by me. But have you ever thought that when the structure of an army is not weakened but a large number of senior commanders die, can the command really be handed over smoothly?
If a captain can easily command an army, then your country would have f * cking rushed out of Houtu and entered the world. Do you think your army is already invincible?
What a joke! "
"Are you going to start fighting?
Information related to Sui Province's officialdom has been placed on my desk since the incident of Xuan Jia entering Ming Province. I have all the information on officials above the sixth rank in my head. I can use three days to turn this province's military and political system into a pile of trash. The deaths of a large number of key officials will cause this province to temporarily lose most of its military organization and logistical dispatching ability. Even if the court's high ranking official is peerlessly intelligent and has superb methods, he will still be at his wit's end! "
"I can use another three days to sink all the merchant ships along the banks of Sui Province's Grand Canal and collapse the mountain passes along the way. I can even use another day to set fire to all of Sui Province's major cities. As for the granaries and arsenals, don't even think about leaving a single thing behind. I don't even need to look at a map to see where those things are. Only two years have passed. I don't believe you can still completely change the locations of those important military areas!"
"Seven days. I only need seven days of time."
Sun Lang's expression was cold and severe. "Seven days can buy at least a month's time. In a month's time, Sui Province can be considered to be crippled. The army has basically lost its combat strength, and its logistical supply ability is zero. The Grand Canal is blocked, the military roads are destroyed, and the mountain passes have collapsed. All of the passages into Ming Province have become difficult to pass through. No army dares to gather and mobilize on a large scale because I am faster than them!
Of course, killing ten thousand pigs requires a lot of effort, but burning their food troughs and killing their heads is very simple, isn't it? "
"A month. I can buy at least a month's time."
"In a month's time, no army of the Empire will be able to reach Ming Province. Even if there are fish that slip through the net, they will still have to face Qi Guanyan and Zhao Yunlong, who are waiting at ease for the exhausted army. Their military strategy can't be said to be unparalleled in the world, but it really couldn't be more easy for an elite army to face an exhausted army!"
"A month's time is long enough. It's long enough for me to drive straight into the Imperial Capital. I can set fire today and kill some people tomorrow. I can chop off your father's dog head. I can let blood cover the entire golden palace. I can burn your bustling capital into a sea of fire. I can make the entire central court completely collapse. Your Emperor will die, your Prime Minister will die, your Generals will die, and everyone who can influence this country and control the lifeline of the Empire will die!"
"Then, everyone will turn into rabid dogs. Yes, I'm only one person. I can't kill everyone, but everyone will become my helpers. They will completely collapse sooner or later."
"More importantly … when the great Houtu Empire is shaken by the storm, when the Emperor dies, the country splits, and several princes announce their succession, when the military and political systems are completely paralyzed, and when a large number of civil and military officials are in danger, what will the friendly neighbors think?"
He looked at Empress, and his tone was so calm that it was almost cold. The resolute revenge and the merciless slaughter had been the fuel for the fire of revenge for countless sleepless nights, and it was burning more and more fiercely.
In this world, there was retribution.
He asked, "Now, do you still think that an ordinary man can't defeat an entire country?"
Empress's body was trembling slightly. There was no telling whether it was out of fury or fear. She tried to make herself stand straighter. She stared at Sun Lang and said fiercely, "I should've killed you back then!"
"If you knew it would be like this, you wouldn't have done it at the beginning."
Sun Lang said slowly, "Some things have to be paid for. Perhaps without me, the war would've been more miserable, and there would've been more sacrifices, but there was still hope for victory. It's a pity that you still wanted to give it a try.
"You made such a choice, but nobody cared about my thoughts. You would rather use coercion than be gentle. Human hearts are made of flesh. I could've considered the accident as an accident. After all, there was no turning back. I'm not heartless. Human hearts can be warmed. I even accepted my fate and thought that it was fine. Then, what happened?
"Then you simply did this to me, and things ended up like this. Two years ago, I couldn't fight an entire country alone, but now I can. In the end, it's all your credit. It's your sins, and now you have to pay for them."
Sun Lang looked at the woman in front of him and seemed to be sighing. "I said that good and evil will eventually be repaid. You said that I was childish, but everything you're facing now is linked by karma. Your selfishness and viciousness made you choose the worst path. Tell me, isn't this retribution?"
"No," Empress said sternly. "It's just an accident!
A coincidence!
A variable! "
"You're really hopeless." Sun Lang shook his head.
He seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.
The two girls were shocked. Even Xue Baochai, who had been perfectly controlling her emotions, was no exception. They were obviously shocked by Sun Lang's words just now.
That unforgettable hatred, that irreconcilable anger, all of it was vented through the plan of single-handedly fighting an entire country. How much hatred could make a person deliberately destroy a country, make peace no longer exist, make darkness descend, destroy the orthodoxy, destroy the country, and even lead foreign enemies to invade, making this glorious and ancient country fall.
Sun Lang didn't refute or explain. He just smiled. "I couldn't help it … As you can see, I've become like this. I'm really sorry."