Hearing Li Zhi's words, the crowd in the square fell into a deathly silence.

Da Ming is dead.

Although this matter was doomed after the decisive battle in Tianjin, at this moment, everyone was still a little unable to react. After all, the Ming Dynasty has ruled this land for more than 200 years, and its influence on everyone in this land is too profound. At this time, I suddenly realized that the Ming Dynasty had fallen and was gone, and everyone reacted a little.

It's as if someone in the heart has suddenly been sucked away and gone.

The people looked at Li Zhi on the Chengtian Gate one by one, and no one spoke.

The Ming Dynasty officials standing near the thousand-step corridor bowed their heads in defeat one by one. Even many people did not dare to stand anymore and knelt on the ground in fear.

The Ming Dynasty fell, and they were no longer officials of the empire. They have all become reservoir dogs, ready to welcome a new country full of unkindness. And in this new country, not only will all the people be liquidated against them, but the new government and its courts will scrutinize everything they have done in the past.

Although these officials who followed Zhang Guanghang were not as shameless as the Donglin Party, they were by no means Bao Qingtian who did not take bribes one by one. And more importantly, a considerable number of these officials had provoked the Son of Heaven to go to war in Tianjin, and this alone was enough to convict them of a felony.

Da Ming is over, everything is over.

The officials of one town and nine provinces were a little excited at this time.

Their more important identity is that they are officials of one town and nine provinces. At this time, the Ming Dynasty died, and then there was no doubt that a new country would be established. Li Zhi will definitely be the leader of this new country, and they, Li Zhi's followers, will undoubtedly be the administrators of this country.

The efforts of hundreds of thousands of people in the entire system of one town and nine provinces for decades have finally achieved positive results and changed the entire Ming Dynasty. Tianjin's happiness, civilization and prosperity are no longer in danger of being swallowed up by imperial power.

The officials of the "Qi State" standing at the front looked at Li Zhi on the Chengtian Gate with wide eyes one by one, their eyes flashing, and their breathing gradually became short.

Of course, these are rough estimates, and they don't know exactly what will happen next.

Li Zhi never revealed what kind of country he wanted to establish, and the officials of the "Qi State" in the square did not know whether Li Zhi would ascend the throne as emperor. The people of Li Zhi's one town and nine provinces are regarded as stars and have all kinds of incredible thoughts and concepts, and no one knows how Li Zhi will decide.

For a time no one dared to speak.

Zhu Youzhen, who had been demoted to a concubine, was still kneeling in front of Chengtianmen, looking at the huge doorway of Chengtianmen stupidly, his face was already at a loss.

Li Zhi on the Chengtian Gate did not speak, but just quietly looked at the people in the square, silent.

Time passed minute by minute, second by second, second by second.

One minute, two minutes.

The atmosphere in the square is gradually fermenting.

The people who were still immersed in the mood of the demise of the Ming Dynasty gradually reacted - now is not the time to be sentimental, and there are more important things to do now.

For these people, Li Zhi is a symbol of a better life in the future. And if we want to really ensure that this symbol becomes an iron-clad reality, the best way is to make Li Zhi an emperor who can dominate everything, and let Li Zhi, the administrator, have supreme power.

With absolute power, break all resistance.

The people of the Ming Dynasty did not believe in anyone other than Li Zhi, and they did not believe that anyone could implement public morality and order so thoroughly. If Li Zhi does not become emperor, if Li Zhi wants to share power with others or if he wants to give power to others after a few years, the people do not believe that others can achieve the level of Li Zhi.

This is determined by a myriad of factors such as ability, environment, power, character, and morality, and only Li Zhi has these conditions at the same time, and no one else can do it.

This is not the imagination of one person or two people, this is the consensus of all the people in the capital, this is the consensus of all knowledgeable Han people in the world, and this is an iron law that has been proven again and again by the facts of one town and nine provinces.

Li Zhi is a modern person, and Li Zhi does not have to be an emperor. But the hundreds of millions of people of the Ming Dynasty must have Li Zhi as the emperor, and only when Li Zhi ascends to the supreme throne can the future of the Han people be guaranteed.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were not modern people, they only believed in bloodlines for thousands of years. They only believe in Li Zhi, as well as Li Huan and Li Zhi's descendants who inherited Li Zhi's bloodline. Only when Li Zhi becomes the emperor and the descendants who inherit Li Zhi's bloodline will be supported and recognized by everyone, and only then will they have the motivation and conditions to continue Li Zhi's policy.

The people thought that after Li Zhi announced the demise of the Ming Dynasty, he would immediately hold an enthronement ceremony and establish a new dynasty.

However, Li Zhi stood motionless on the Chengtian Gate.

And the officials of one town and nine provinces also fell silent, and no one jumped out to persuade them. Obviously, Li Zhi did not design the script for how to do it after the destruction of the Ming Dynasty.

His Royal Highness the King of Qi has no determination to ascend the throne as emperor!

After realizing this, the people behind Chang'an Avenue and the Thousand Steps Corridor fell into a panic.

It's not just panic, it's panic. The people were ready to embrace the bright future that Li Zhi was destined to come after he ascended the throne, but if Li Zhi did not become the emperor, then this bright future may only be a flash in the pan.

What people fear most is not not not being able to get it. When Li Zhishang was in Tianjin, the people of the capital did not feel that they could live a good life like the citizens of Tianjin, and they only had some envy psychologically. The people in the capital thought that Li Zhi was implanted in Beijing, and a better future would come like iron, but now they found that Li Zhi might only be a short-term manager.

Could it be that Li Zhi is going to be a manager for a few years and then give power to others? Or do you leave the country to someone else when you die?

Li Zhi was still silent on the Chengtian Gate, but the people were in a commotion.

The people in the crowd looked at each other, exchanging their worries and fears.

Originally, it was not the turn of ordinary people to speak for such a thing as ascending the throne and becoming emperor. But at this time, for the sake of the people's own interests, the people of the capital can't help but speak out!

After a long silence, a young man without a turban on Chang'an Street strode forward. This man has his hair tied with a rope on his head, he is dressed in a short brown outfit, and he has calluses on one hand, and he is obviously a man who does rough work. He was standing at the front of the crowd at this time, only a little more than a hundred meters away from the Chengtian Gate where Li Zhi was.

His face was blood-red, and he strode past the cordon guarded by the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army.

The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army were also a little distracted at this time, and no one moved, and no one stopped this small people from crossing the line.

The man took five steps forward and bowed his hand: "Xiaomin Liang Road..."

"Xiaomin Liang Road..."

He mustered up the greatest courage and shouted, "Xiaomin Liang Dao! I implore King Qi to ascend the throne! “

"Xiaomindai's old mother, her younger brother Liang Xin, implore King Qi to ascend the throne as emperor!"

Hearing Liang Dao's words, the officials of the nearby towns and nine provinces all turned their heads and looked at the small people in the market.

Li Zhi's prestige in one town and nine provinces is like a scorching sun, and no one dares to challenge it. Li Zhi usually doesn't like officials to ask about some strategic issues, so officials in one town and nine provinces dare not discuss such things as "whether Li Zhi should be the emperor".

Unexpectedly, the first person in the world to persuade was such a small people.

However, Xiaomin Liang Dao's words were just the first splash in a pot of boiling water.

Beside Liang Dao, an old man on crutches pulled his six- or seven-year-old grandson, trembling and falling to his knees, with his head on the ground.

"King Qi!"

"If the king of Qi does not ascend the throne as the emperor, where will the people of the world go? Where does the blessing of the Han people go? “

"Lao Sue implores the king of Qi to ascend the throne as emperor!"