The deaths of Jin Yuji and Yang Qing'er marked the complete end of the Emperor's era.
If Liu Yufei and his followers are not taken into account, now, from the capital to the prefectures and counties, from the harem to the army, all power is firmly held by Emperor Guangde.
The Guangde "New Deal" replaced the utopian polarist Songun system of Liu Zhaosun's era, and Daqi was sliding into an unknown abyss along the millennium of inertia - of course it can be said to have been corrected.
In short, as time goes by, the traces left by the traveler in this time and space are gradually disappearing, until finally they completely disappear into nothingness, and no one will remember that he has been there, as if everything has changed and has never changed.
Just like the modern poet Xu Zhimo wrote in "Farewell Cambridge":
Gently I leave, just as gently I came;
I waved gently, saying goodbye to the clouds in the western sky.
From then on, among Liu Yufei's heinous crimes, the crime of matricide was added.
The news of the Queen Mother's death was tightly sealed and unknown outside Kunning Palace. This was not to keep the mourning secret, but probably because officials such as Kang Guangxu and Li Juying were still struggling to tell the story well.
Before and after the Empress Dowager's funeral, rumors spread in Nanjing. Overnight, news spread that the Empress Dowager had been assassinated.
Various versions of the rumors have similar contents: the Queen Mother was assassinated by assassins sent by the eldest princess. Of course, the difference between them is that the weapons used by the assassins to assassinate the Queen Mother were slightly different. Some people said they used fire blunderbuss, while others said they used poison.
As for Liu Yufei's reason for assassinating the Queen Mother, it is of course obvious. The purpose was to frame Emperor Guangde.
There are also rumors that the Queen Mother did not die from an assassination, but because they were worried about the eldest princess's rebellion, worried that they might be implicated, and were suffering from illness, so they... embarked on the road of no return. ·
All rumors are like a strong wind, they come as soon as they come, fill the city with wind and rain, and leave without a trace.
·The truth of the matter was finally submerged in various rumors, making it difficult to verify.
Fortunately, people don't care about the so-called facts and truth. They only believe what they see with their own eyes, or to be precise, what they want to see.
People in the capital always only care about the price of rice, vegetables, and tomorrow's rations.
As for whether the eldest princess rebelled, and whether Liu Yufei was born with a disdain for others, this really isn't the focus of everyone's attention.
The fact is that the rebellion in Junzhou has really affected the price of goods in the capital. The price of rice, vegetables and coal have skyrocketed. With this in mind, even if Liu Yufei is the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, she cannot escape the fate of being cursed by thousands of people.
Moreover, it was on the eve of Emperor Guangde's personal expedition, and with the imperial court fanning the flames behind his back, the criticism of the eldest princess from all the people in the Qi Dynasty was like a violent storm that was out of control.
Liu Yufei's various crimes were unearthed and sorted out by Yushi Yanguan and various Qingliu people, compiled into a volume, and together with the "Dazhongjue Milu" to educate the people, they were published in various provinces, especially in Huguang, where the people were almost everywhere. Book.
The original intention of the court was to make the people fully aware of Liu Yufei's heinous crimes, which were mainly due to greed for money and good goods, pampering men and women, and using the name of the Supreme Emperor to commit crimes in the land of fish and meat.
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Liu Kan was quite proud of this method. In his opinion, it was killing someone unintentionally.
However, according to the observation of Coin Yiwei, as long as they left the city of Nanjing, the people were not very interested in Liu Yufei's crimes. The "Record of the Crimes of the Rebel Liu Yufei" issued by the imperial court to all counties and districts was often used by the people as toilet paper.
Fortunately, after all this propaganda and agitation, Emperor Guangde thought he had occupied the commanding heights of public opinion. To put it simply, his legal authority was more stable.
Liu Kan was well versed in the essence of the political struggle methods of later generations. If you want to completely defeat an opponent, you don't have to focus on big things first. Don't think about a fatal blow, but a slow advancement process.
For example, start with attacking someone's personal ethics. The more absurd the content, the better, because it will quickly spread to a wider area. By this time, the other party has already fallen behind, and then throws out more incriminating evidence to the other party. Launch a fierce attack, and the opponent will be flawless at this time, but in the end they can only fail completely.
The vast majority of Nanjing people would not know what kind of person the eldest princess was, and most people just equated Liu Yufei with a traitor.
Just like in another dimension, the people don't know whether Yuan Chonghuan is a loyal minister or a female official.
However, this does not prevent everyone from vying to eat his meat first.
Everyone can eat Yuan Chonghuan’s meat, and of course you can also eat Liu Yufei’s meat.
The date for Wang Shi's expedition was getting closer and closer, and the eldest princess's crime had not been completely clarified, so Emperor Guangde ordered that the trial of the Three Laws Division should be expedited.
Finally, Emperor Guangde convicted his sister of a total of 108 crimes, and Liu Kan issued an edict to have the eldest princess Lingchi executed.
Since the eldest princess was far away in Huguang, Liu Kan's wish to be executed early could only be postponed.
Although rebellions were coming one after another like wildfire in the wasteland, Liu Kan believed that as long as Liu Yufei was completely eliminated - including physically eliminated - the resistance to the New Deal would truly collapse.
The eldest princess is a symbol of rebellion, or the spiritual totem of the rebels. Now, it is time to end it all.
On October 18th, the seventh year of Guangde, Emperor Guangde took the oath to go on an expedition at Longsheng Pass in Nanjing. This time the emperor personally led the expedition. The troops mobilized included the main corps, the Gyeonggi garrison, the main navy and air force, plus the local garrison in Huguang. The total force exceeds 200,000, which is also the largest force that Emperor Guangde can currently mobilize.
Compared to the Fourth Corps, which only had 40,000 to 50,000 men and was equipped with backward equipment and insufficient firearms, Liu Kan's counterinsurgency campaign could be described as a lion fighting a rabbit, striving for a complete victory.
"Commanders of all corps, today, I will lead you to Huguang to pacify the rebels! Liu Yufei is massacring your family members and your comrades in Jingxiang... She has the support of the White Lotus Sect and is surrounded by chaos, so she dares to act so boldly. The rebels are in Yunyang and have driven out all the big gentry families, even the rich peasants! I know that many of your captains, corps commanders, and flag captains are from middle-class families. I have always advocated that we are all brothers in the four seas, and we serve together in the army. Everyone is equal, but the traitor Liu Yufei insists on being divided into three, six or nine..."
Emperor Guangde raised his trumpet and shouted until his mouth went dry. He was in high spirits and completely entered the state of a trainer.
"Liu Yufei deliberately misinterpreted the Emperor's will. She deliberately divided the people into poor peasants, middle peasants, rich peasants, and then local tyrants and evil gentry. She asked her subordinates to incite the poor and rob the rich, and she even claimed that they were inheriting the imperial edict of her father! She didn't just know that Shameless, simply shameless!"
There was a high-pitched shouting and cursing at the Longshengguan Pier. Some of the officers present were from Huguang. Their families were involved in the eldest princess's rebellion, and they were regarded as conservative forces supporting the New Deal and were purged.
"Now she has occupied Junzhou and is attacking Xiangyang. She said that she will march eastward along the river and capture Nanjing. She will redistribute the land of the big households in the south of the Yangtze River and re-nationalize the mining and salt industries. This is not only shameless, it is simply outrageous. frenzied!"
When Emperor Guangde got excited, he stopped for a short rest.
At this time, the training officers placed in each corps immediately stood up and shouted:
"Protect Daqi! Kill Liu Yufei!"
"Protect Da Qi and kill Liu Yufei!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers' eyes were on fire, and they shouted in unison along with the training officers. They stood densely near Longsheng Pass, facing the northwest, and let out earth-shaking roars.
Dream of Wuyue
