It's late afternoon.
The scorching sun has moved westward above the head, but the heat wave shows no sign of abating.
Prince Xue Xing, whose limbs had been forcibly broken, was lying on his back in the middle of the yard, like a dead dog whose tendons were broken.
His robes were stained with mud and blood, and his formerly pampered white face was now distorted into a human shape, and he let out inarticulate wails of pain.
Zhao Yuanzhou and several brothers who also belong to Jinyiwei were sitting around in the main room.
"The matter has reached this point, and it is no longer possible to give in."
The person who broke the silence was a man named Zhang Tongmu.
He is about in his early forties, has an angular Chinese character face, and has a cultivation level of Six-Ring Soul Emperor. He is the person with the highest cultivation level among the Jinyiwei team, and is also one of Zhao Yuanzhou's most trustworthy old partners.
"In my opinion, it's better to do the opposite."
"As mentioned above, let me wait for the opportunity to act and be flexible."
"In this current situation, in order to save the lives of the people here and to save my own head, raising a flag to rebel is the only way to survive."
After he finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence, with only the painful moans of Xue Xing drifting in intermittently from the yard.
"It's easy to say it, but if you really want to do it..." Zhao Yuanzhou sighed heavily, "First, we don't have enough manpower, second, we don't have enough food and grass, and third, we don't have a solid foundation."
"Dengfeng County is only a small area as big as the palm of your hand."
"If you raise the flag now, what's the difference between raising the flag and sending yourself to death?"
He dipped his finger in tea, drew a small circle on the table to represent Dengfeng County, and drew dense arrows outside the circle.
"With our own strength, even if we can leapfrog and kill a Soul Douluo level warrior, what if we face tens of thousands of regular troops?"
"What about facing the overwhelming Soul Master Legion?"
"How can we carry this with so few people?"
"Brothers' lives are not to be thrown away in vain." He shook his head, his voice low and tired.
"Simple." A man sitting to the right of Zhao Yuanzhou spoke.
This person's name is Wu Jianzhong, Five-Ring Soul King. He is in his mid-thirties, thin and elegant. At first glance, he looks like a teacher in some academy.
But everyone who knows him knows that once this seemingly gentle teacher takes action, he will be killed Asura.
He is the brains of the team, and many key action plans come from his hands.
"Just report it." Wu Jianzhong said calmly, swiping his fingers along the Dengfeng county painted with tea stains on the table, "Sooner or later, your Majesty will take over the world."
"Instead of struggling here, we should make a mess of this Heaven Dou Empire first."
"Let the royal family lose the support of the people and make everyone in the court suspicious of each other."
He tapped his fingers lightly on the table and raised an imperceptible arc at the corner of his mouth:
"When these people turn their backs, Your Majesty will be able to take away Heaven Dou Empire."
"And we can be considered as having made our first great contribution to Your Majesty."
As soon as these words came out, the hall instantly became quiet.
After about five minutes of silence, Zhao Yuanzhou nodded slowly, but his expression was still solemn. "This plan is feasible, but it must be approved by an adult."
"Otherwise, no matter how much trouble we make here, we will still be an isolated and helpless army."
"Time waits for no time." Zhang Tongmu followed, "We don't have the kind of high-end Soul Tool that can communicate over long distances."
"Send someone to send the message out from here, wait until it is delivered to those adults, wait for the reply, and then send it back. This time, the day lily is getting cold!"
"Once the initiative is handed over to others, we won't even have a chance to raise the flag!"
Just when a few people were undecided--
"My lord--!"
Suddenly, the rough voices of Xiong Er and Xiong Da came from outside the yard.
"Sir! Take us to find a way to survive! We have no way to survive!"
"Yes, sir!" Another young junior's voice followed, trembling with tears and anger, "Those dog officials have no intention of giving us a way to survive!"
"They have only been here for two or three days, but they have already set up clever names, raided from house to house, and robbed us of all the little food we had saved through our teeth!"
"It's said to be confiscation, but who knows whose pocket it went into?"
"Sir!" Another voice joined in. This man was a stout man, but his voice was shaking badly at the moment. "We don't want to starve to death like those people outside the city!"
"Sir, please show us a way to survive!"
"Sir!" A slightly weak but still loud voice came from further away, "The little one has fled here, and the whole family is the only one left with the little one. It is you who gave me a piece of food to eat, and you gave me this life!"
"As long as you use the little one, the little one will be willing to do whatever it takes to kill him!"
"Sir--"
"My lord, please—"
Sounds and sounds came one after another from outside the courtyard wall.
If it weren't for the two Soul Master brothers who were guarding the door, these people might have broken open the courtyard door and poured in.
Zhao Yuanzhou Listening to the waves of shouts coming and going outside, I couldn't sit still anymore.
He stood up slowly with his hands on the edge of the table, walked to the door step by step, and looked in the direction of the courtyard wall through the half-open door.
After a short period of silence, Zhao Yuanzhou withdrew his gaze, then turned around suddenly and slapped his palm on the door frame:
"The government forces the people to rebel, and the people have no choice but to rebel!"
"For the lives of the people in this city, we decided to do this!"
Zhang Tongmu stood up suddenly after hearing this. He pointed at the dead dog-like Xue Xing and said in a loud voice, "Come here! Drag that dog prince to Caishikou! Use his head and blood to sacrifice our flag!"
About half an hour later.
Caishikou.
In Dengfeng County's largest empty space, the wooden shed used for the market had long been demolished and replaced by a temporary high platform.
A hunting flag was placed at each of the four corners of the platform. There was no time to embroider the pattern on the flag, which was just a plain large yellow cloth.
The area around the high platform was crowded with people.
Almost all the people in Dengfeng County came.
From the gray-haired old man to the infant baby, from the farmer carrying a hoe to the refugee holding a broken bowl, the black heads can be seen at a glance.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the center of the high platform, on those few people.
Prince Xue Xing, who was forcibly awakened, was pinned to the left and right in front of the high platform by Xiong Da and Xiong Er.
Zhao Yuanzhou stands in the center of the high platform.
In the center of the high platform was a long table covered with yellow cloth, with dozens of coarse porcelain wine bowls neatly stacked on the table.
Zhao Yuanzhou took a step forward and picked up a wine bowl.
He raised the wine bowl high, looked around at the dense crowd of people in the audience, took a deep breath, moved Soul Power as much as he could, and said loudly, "The sky is dead - Huang Tiandang is standing - he is as old as Jiazi - the world is prosperous!"
After saying that, Zhao Yuanzhou drank the strong wine in the bowl, then smashed the wine bowl to the ground, turned around and shouted, "Behead!"
Wu Jianzhong has already held the knife in his hand, but the lingering sound of the word "zhan" in Zhao Yuanzhou has not yet dissipated, and the light of the knife has already struck down from mid-air like a bolt of lightning!
"Plop!"
Prince Xue Xing's head rolled down, hit the table, and rolled to the edge of the table.
At this point, the "wisdom" prince who worked so hard in the original world line of the Douluo Continent has come to an end!