I'm only one year old, what the heck is a Overturning System?!-Chapter 538 - 225: They All Deserve to Die! (Seeking Monthly Votes)_3
Chapter 538: Chapter 225: They All Deserve to Die! (Seeking Monthly Votes)_3
Furthermore, Guan Wu... Guan Wu is also very wary of Yuan Er...
"Yuan Er, the reason why Grandpa is telling you the truth is to hope that you can be on guard."
"The Demon Court has had grand designs on our Wei Dynasty. Since a millennium ago, they have been preparing and scheming to overthrow the Wei Dynasty in one fell swoop."
"I, the old man, agreed to be an inside man for the Demon Court, not because I was unaware of their intents, but also worried that the Wei Dynasty would thus be destroyed."
"Therefore, I have also made some precautions to prepare for unforeseen events."
"What precautions?" Chen Yuan asked, his gaze slightly cold as he stared intently at him:
"Your precautions, don’t tell me, are to sell your grandson to the Demon Court as well?"
Zhou Tiance shook his head, smiling bitterly: "My precautions are the arrangements the Demon Court has within the Wei Dynasty."
"Among them, there are people lured by the Bai Shen Sect, and also the courtiers and noble families manipulated by the Demon Court over the years."
"I originally thought, if my involvement with the Demon Court were exposed, I could use this as a bargaining chip to seek leniency from the Holy Emperor..."
Chen Yuan’s lips twitched, hesitant to speak: "Grandfather, doing this, truly... truly..."
For a moment, he didn’t know what to say.
Since Zhou Tiance knew working with the Demon Court was like "seeking skin from a tiger", attempting to achieve "revenge" with their power, and yet he still hoped the Holy Emperor and the court would be lenient towards the Duke Jingye Mansion...
Utterly senseless and incomprehensible!
Zhou Tiance’s smile grew more bitter, his head lowered slightly, gazing unfocusedly at the wine cup on the table:
"In the battle of Beixiong Pass, the descendants of the Zhou Family were cut off, leaving the old man dispirited."
"If the old man was not trying to investigate who in the court falsely accused Guan Wu, I might have already fought desperately to kill those damned bastards."
"But after discussing with Xie Jing, I made the decision—to seek inheritance for the Zhou Family, to avenge the Zhou Family!"
"But," Chen Yuan’s voice involuntarily rose a bit, saying:
"Grandfather, you wishing to continue the Zhou Family is understandable, wanting to investigate the original cause is also understandable, even wanting those who falsely accused Uncle to pay the price is not a problem."
"But why did you collude with the Demon Court? How many innocent people were harmed and killed without cause by doing this?"
Upon hearing his near-reprimanding question, Zhou Tiance’s eyes flickered with a few shades of sorrow, nodding:
"Yuan Er, you’re right, the old man has made mistakes, but to make those people pay, some things the old man had no choice but to do!"
"Do you know who were the ones who falsely accused Guan Wu back then? The former Left Minister, the former Military Department, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Personnel Chiefs, and a group of ministers!"
"Those people completed their objectives and then suddenly disappeared!"
Zhou Tiance spoke with a pained expression: "Back then, I thought they colluded with the Demon Court, only then would they target Guan Wu."
"Therefore, when people from the Bai Shen Sect first came to me, I wanted to use the Demon Court’s internal resources to investigate the real reasons behind that incident."
"But..."
Chen Yuan took over, said in a cold voice: "But you didn’t expect, that incident was not orchestrated by the Demon Court, but by someone else, am I correct?!"
Zhou Tiance was taken aback, suddenly looking up at him: "You know?"
Chen Yuan pressed his lips, did not answer, only looked at him with cold eyes.
"Yuan Er, you know who is behind it, don’t you?"
Zhou Tiance showed a hopeful yet anxious and resentful expression, gripping his hand and asking:
"Yuan Er, tell me, who is behind it, who is secretly orchestrating to frame my Zhou Family?!"
"Speak, quickly say it!!"
Chen Yuan remained silent for a long while before shaking his head: "I do not know either; some things have not yet been fully investigated."
"But I can tell Grandfather that the secret behind the Beixiong Pass battle not only involves the Zhou Family but also the dynamics of the court and changes in the Demon Court."
This was told to him by the former Left Minister, Xie Jing, rather than something he found out himself.
Besides telling him that the court has discovered some clues, he also mentioned some balance between civil servants and military generals, and the occurrences before and after the Fengyue Demon Emperor ascended the throne and led troops south.
Especially after the battle at Beixiong Pass ended, the Fengyue Demon Emperor unexpectedly gave birth to a half-demon offspring, and to this day, no one knows who the father is.
And on this side of the Wei Dynasty, the fall of the Zhou Family directly resulted in a group of civil servants gaining the upper hand.
Moreover, Xie Jing discovered a very interesting thing, that many civil servants who rose later were from noble families.
Although they all studied Confucian classics, they did not attend various academic sacred lands but mostly learned from family teachings.
Just like Xie Jing himself, before entering the court as an official, he studied in his family’s school and did not have the qualifications to go to academies.
Initially, Chen Yuan did not understand these things until Xie Jing patiently laid them out for him, and only then did he realize the connection with the Beixiong Pass battle.
And because of this, when the Old Marquis returned to Kyoto Prefecture to seek revenge against a group of ministers, Xie Jing specially came to persuade him.
It’s just that Xie Jing didn’t expect the Old Marquis’s obsession to be so deep, leading him to repeatedly make mistakes.
"Is that so..."
Zhou Tiance sat back defeatedly, his face dark and ugly, letting out a tragic laugh saying:
"Yuan Er, if possible, the old man hopes to find out the truth of that battle before he dies! Who exactly framed my Zhou Family!"
"If I don’t figure out this matter, the old man, the old man will die with regrets!!"
Seeing him in such misery close to wailing, Chen Yuan sighed inwardly, nodded, and said:
"Grandson also wants to investigate that old grievance; if I make any discoveries, I will surely inform Grandfather."