"I..."
"Agree to step down..."
The old clan head slowly let out a long sigh and gave the order for his abdication.
After saying that, he seemed to lose all his strength and slumped completely...
Seeing their goal achieved, Noritoshi Kamo and Akutagawa Shang exchanged a glance and smiled at each other.
"Well, that settles it, doesn't it...?"
Akutagawa Shang spoke, his voice full of amusement.
Noritoshi Kamo also nodded with a smile.
He turned and pointed at the old clan head, who was still slumped before them.
"How about..."
"We heal him up after all...?"
Although Noritoshi Kamo really did not have much affection for this father he had acquired,
Still...
They would need him for something in a little while.
If the people below saw the old clan head covered in injuries when he announced his abdication, it might affect their plans going forward.
Although their methods really were not all that legitimate,
Still...
They had to keep up appearances, didn't they?
Just like every coup in history, no matter how bloody the process or how unsavory the methods and objectives were,
The first thing the victors did after taking power was revise the history books, glorifying everything they had done.
They portrayed themselves as righteous heroes and cast the losers as reactionary villains.
That way, everything they had done became reasonable and justified, as natural as justice triumphing over evil...
After that ever-so-filial son, the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, successfully rebelled in the Jingnan Campaign,
Hadn't he conjured up another four years of life for his long-dead father,
Making his father, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, climb out of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum specifically to write him an edict passing on the throne...?
"Don't worry. Even if he's healed, my blood is still inside his stomach..."
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