binnovel Chapter 207: One emperor and one courtier?
Chapter 207: One emperor and one courtier?
You see, Gu Chen’s prestige is now this high.
In the past, the Emperor must have had his own deep meaning when he did this.
Now that Lord Gou Chenxing is doing this, there must be a deeper meaning behind it.
Faced with such a long list of names that Liyue officials want to liquidate, the people feel a little bit reluctant.
But when they heard that this was Gu Chen's idea, everyone agreed!
It can be seen that Gu Chen's prestige is comparable to that of the Rock King Emperor, which is not an exaggeration at all.
As for the person involved, Gu Chen, after hearing about this, he just smiled bitterly in his heart.
He could understand why the attitudes of the people of Liyue changed so quickly.
On the one hand, it is because I would rather die than let my fellow Taoist die.
Although these people are numerous, they deserve to die, so they will die.
On the other hand...
The people of Liyue were truly terrified.
Especially after the terrible disaster that happened to Osel, they felt even more uneasy.
Not only did Keqing realize that Liyue still needed the protection of the gods' power, but the people of Liyue also realized it.
Now, the Geo Emperor has fallen into a deep sleep and is unable to protect Liyue.
The only one who is capable and willing to protect Liyue is Gu Chen, the Gou Chen star.
In this situation, the ordinary people of Liyue naturally had to appease Gu Chen.
They were afraid that Gu Chen would abandon Liyue one day and no longer care about her.
After all, Gu Chen is a traveler, so it is not impossible for him to leave here one day.
Precisely because of such uneasy concerns, the people of Liyue generally have a favorable attitude towards Gu Chen.
This also led to the fact that when the people heard that it was Gu Chen's intention to carry out such a thorough settlement of Duke De Ran, their attitude changed so quickly.
It was precisely because he understood the mentality of the people that Gu Chen smiled bitterly in his heart.
Why do I feel like I have really become the human emperor of Liyue?
If I cough even a little bit at the top, the people below will be frightened.
As soon as you reveal the slightest idea, the people below you will immediately change their minds and do what you want.
Fortunately, I don't usually get involved.
If I really want to take charge of Liyue.
With his current prestige and the people's pleas for him, there would probably be no obstacles in his way of doing anything he wanted to do.
Gu Chen felt that even if he did something evil, the people of Liyue would be willing to accommodate him in the early stages of his evil deeds.
I guess they will only give up on themselves when their evil deeds reach a certain extent and the people of Liyue can no longer bear it.
Tsk.
In this situation, how could Gu Chen not smile bitterly?
But it's not without its benefits.
After this incident, those who continued to visit every day and wanted to curry favor with Gu Chen completely stopped.
It was finally completely quiet in front of Gu Chen’s residence!
The main thing is that these opportunistic people have figured it out.
Gu Chen, the star of Gou Chen, had long been above the rest of the world in terms of status and position. Their previous intrigues were completely meaningless!
For example.
When Emperor Yanwang was still around, Gu Chen's status as the Gou Chen Star was roughly equivalent to that of a crown prince.
This is just an analogy. It doesn't mean that Gu Chen is Zhongli's son, it just means that his status is similar to that of the crown prince.
Although the title of Crown Prince contains the word "Jun", he is not the monarch after all, but one of the ministers.
Therefore, there will definitely be princelings in the court.
There must be many people who want to become the prince's subordinates and want to use this to gain personal connections.
As long as the prince successfully ascends the throne, they will be the dragon's followers and their rise to prominence is just around the corner!
Those who want to curry favor with Gu Chen probably have this mentality. They haven't figured it out yet.
But now, after witnessing Gu Chen's prestige and realizing his transcendent status and position, combined with the current overall situation in Liyue, these people finally came to their senses.
Gou Chenxing’s identity is no longer that of the crown prince.
Now the Emperor has fallen into a deep sleep, and no one knows when he will wake up. The main protector of Liyue has become the Gou Chen Star...
This is equivalent to the crown prince successfully ascending the throne, and the original emperor abdicating and becoming the emperor emeritus who has no business at all!
He has already successfully ascended the throne, why does he need you to scheme for favors?
Everyone in the court is the emperor's people, and you still bother to curry favor with him. Isn't that ridiculous?
This is the analogy.
From this analogy, we can roughly see the change in Gu Chen's current identity.
In fact, this analogy is not particularly vivid.
Because neither Zhongli nor Gu Chen is the true emperor who rules Liyue, but rather gods who are higher and more ethereal than this.
Gu Chen can’t be considered a god, but his status and position are almost there.
To describe it as detached from the outside world is really appropriate.
Anyway, after the incident with Lord Deran, the upper echelons of Liyue already understood Gu Chen's identity.
Knowing that this person was not someone they could get close to, they all stopped their efforts and Gu Chen was left in peace.
Time continues to flow forward.
Two or three days later, Duke Deran and those who were involved with him, that long list of names, were all executed by the Liyue authorities!
Unlike the public execution of Dr. Slicing, this time it was not made public.
After all, these people are Liyue’s own people.
It's not a good look for one's own people to kill one's own people, so they can only do it behind closed doors.
After the killing, there was another public announcement saying that these people had been liquidated.
Although the announcement contained the word "liquidation", everyone understood that no one on the list would be left!
The people of Liyue cheered and called for the eradication of all evil.
As for the big businessmen or politicians in Liyue’s upper echelons, they are still frightened.
Duke Deran is also one of them, and an outstanding one at that. He once competed with Ningguang for Tianquan Star.
But now... it's gone just like that!
Not only did he disappear just like that.
Three generations of his family and all the people involved in his family, whose number exceeded three digits, were all gone!
Alas... I feel so sympathetic.
While feeling sympathetic, these people began to be alert, and some even felt insecure.
Because people who climb to this height usually have dirty bottoms.
People like Ningguang who have climbed to this height at such a young age and still have a clear conscience are a minority among the minority.
Most people have dirty hands.
At most, the degree of dirtiness is different.
Now they are horrified, they are afraid, they realize that a new emperor means new ministers!
Isn’t that the principle?
The Emperor fell into silence and hid himself, and now it is the Gou Chen Star that protects the entire Liyue Harbor.
In the past, the Emperor was relatively lenient and turned a blind eye to their petty tricks. He would only take ruthless action when they went too far.
But now this Gou Chenxing...his actions are really ruthless! He really can't tolerate any sand in his eyes!
No, that's not right. That's not accurate.
Because Gou Chenxing never took any action personally from beginning to end, he just expressed such a stern meaning.
The Seven Stars of Liyue happily changed their governing style and became extremely tough.
Alas... this is just like a new emperor appoints new ministers.