Emperor Yong'an looked at the bookcase full of confessions and physical evidence, and at the registers of stolen money and stolen goods piled up to half a person's height. He was so angry that his hands were shaking, his mouth was twitching, and he was speechless.
He had already expected that the case would be widely involved and the methods would be cruel, but when he saw these things, he still felt that kindness limited his imagination.
Before Emperor Yong'an ascended the throne, the first half of his life could be described as a bloody career, with countless lives on his hands. Having seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he still felt that the cruelty of this case was far greater than that of a battle.
This cruelty does not refer to the number of people, but to the state of death.
In addition to digging up a large number of corpses used in Gu techniques in Sese Tower, the Internal Security Department also found several other bone burial places from the mouths of King An and Song Huaide, all of which are located in several good farmlands in the suburbs of Beijing. .
These farmlands are all under Song Huaide's name, and the growth of the crops in the farmlands is unmatched by other surrounding farmlands.
The guards dug up hundreds of corpses in layers from the farmland. The corpses at the bottom had turned into bones, but the corpses at the top still had intact skin and flesh.
It can be seen that the time span of this case is not just one or two years.
After these corpses were dug out, they were all neatly arranged in the field. They were so densely packed that even the internal guards who were used to killing people couldn't help but feel numb when they looked at them.
Each of these corpses was either missing arms or legs, or was twisted into unimaginable postures, showing that it had suffered inhuman torture before death.
Along with the confession file, which was presented to Emperor Yong'an's desk, there was also a thick stack of forensic booklets compiled by Sun Ying, which described the death of each corpse in detail and truthfully.
It can be said that none of the hundreds of deceased people died in the same way.
The dossier details the scale of the Four Holy Sects in the capital over the years, the numerous means used to win over people's hearts, and the amount of property they have amassed.
Emperor Yong'an was horrified when he saw it, his hair stood on end, and he was burning with anger.
Among the people attracted by the Four Holy Sects, there were traders and lackeys, housewives, scholars and businessmen, and even courtiers and wealthy businessmen.
Who can say that these people are ignorant? It can only be said that these people are greedy and have other agendas.
Emperor Yong'an was angry.
The courtiers whom I support with lots of real money every month actually have different intentions and join forces to deceive him.
I have lived frugally for three years, three years old, three years old, mended, and three years more. I have also deducted the money saved from the rouge and gouache of the concubines, which is a fucking advantage to these shameless moths.
I worked hard day and night on state affairs, and even the charming concubine was left out in the cold, but the lies could not win over people's hearts more than the lies of a few liars.
Damn it, even if you are taken advantage of, there is no way you can trick someone alone.
Among the emperors throughout the ages, there is probably no one more miserable and aggrieved than him.
In short, the saint was very angry and the consequences were serious.
On the second day after Han Changmu entered the palace with many confessions and evidence, Emperor Yong'an's handling of the matter spread throughout the court and among the people.
The decree was written extremely concisely and clearly, with anger hidden in the calmness, and a bloody storm swept through Chang'an City.
Song Ying, the Minister of Rites, Zheng Bin, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Kuanyi, the official minister of the Ministry of War, all had their property confiscated and their female relatives exiled.
It stands to reason that these female relatives should either join the Jiaofang or Yeting, but Emperor Yong'an really couldn't hear the names of these three families. When he saw the female relatives of these three families, he thought of the snowflakes and silver that they had ruined and the treasury that was depleted.
But if the disaster does not affect his wife and daughter, and he cannot be killed, then he will be exiled far away. It is best to die on the thousands of miles of exile.
The other people who intervened in the case were all sentenced to beheading, their property confiscated, and they fell from the clouds into the quagmire overnight, and their good status was replaced by a low status.
The only one who had some luck was King An. According to Song Huaide's treatment, he also belonged to the Yi clan, but he was the half-brother of Emperor Yong'an. If he was sentenced to the Yi clan, I'm afraid only half of them would The descendants of the royal family would tremble in fear, but if this was not the case, Emperor Yong'an would be so angry that he could not sleep well all night.
After thinking about it again and again, Emperor Yong'an had no choice but to do the next best thing. According to the treatment of the other people who intervened in the case, King An was sentenced to beheading, his wife and daughter were exiled, and all his family property was confiscated.
But after checking the house raid records of Prince An's Mansion, Emperor Yong'an was shocked to discover that Prince An's Mansion was so poor that even thieves with better craftsmanship were not interested in visiting it.
He was puzzled. Prince An lived such a miserable life, why did he need so much money? Is it just for money?
He thought of Prince An's old and skinny face again, and became even more confused. He was already so sick and frail that he still practiced witchcraft to seek immortality. Is this because he felt that living was not enough?
On March 24th, four days before spring, the entire city of Chang'an was immersed in a bloody storm, and the bright spring scenery was stained with blood.
As the salary robbery case and the witchcraft case were solved one after another, Emperor Yong'an issued a decree that these two cases should be dealt with strictly and quickly. Those who should be killed and those who should be exiled should be dealt with clearly before the Spring Examination.
As a result, the internal guards of the Internal Security Department were slightly insufficient. Therefore, Han Changmu, a fresh and popular internal security envoy, requested the order of Emperor Yong'an and transferred him from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Jingzhao Mansion. He recruited a considerable number of government officials and ransacked homes and arrested people all over the capital.
In the few neighborhoods in Chang'an City where wealthy families gathered, people were being dragged away almost every day, wailing and screaming, shouting "unjustly".
Flags were flying on the execution ground between Changshoufang and Fengyifang. Every day, hundreds of officials involved in the case lined up to have their heads cut off. The blood spattered after the execution flowed along the bluestone road and into the moat.
In the spring, the blue water is rippling, and the moat water reflected by the flowers is dyed scarlet. The smell of blood hangs over Chang'an City, and the wind will not disperse it and the rain will not stop it.
Every day, hundreds of heads are hung on the execution ground, fluttering in the wind, as a warning to people.
Warning to those who are serving as officials and those who are about to become officials, do not stretch out your hands, otherwise you will be caught.
In the past few days before the exams started in the spring of previous years, the candidates from all over the country who had no intention of studying would post everywhere and organize various poetry and book gatherings. However, in the past few days this year, the candidates not only had no intention of studying, but also had no intention of attending the banquet. .
As soon as I step outside, I step on a foot of blood, when I look up, I see a human head dripping with blood, and when I breathe, my breath is filled with the smell of blood. People who don't know it think they have some incurable disease.
No one who faces the streets and alleys of Chang'an like this has any hope of calling friends and reciting poems.
Some pretentious officials were driven crazy by the sight of heads. They felt that their talents in poetry and calligraphy had been humiliated by the executioners running around the streets. They did not have the guts to scold the person who ordered the beheading, so they settled for the next best thing. , all pointed their fingers at Han Changmu.
Wasn't he just a concubine who ran away with someone? As for murdering people to vent his anger?
The ones who abducted his concubine were not the ministers of the DPRK, so why couldn't they leave a way for her to survive?
These words are indeed unreasonable. The crimes of these people are clear and exposed to the world. However, the most slippery leaders among the officials claim that they are the most compassionate, but they pretend to be blind. No, I just focus on picking out some trivial things to criticize.
It seems that scolding can embolden people, so they walk at night under people's heads.
As the two cases caused more and more noise in the capital, some private secrets were also revealed.
The Song Huaide who died in Fenghe Garden at the end of last year was poisoned to death by his own father.
Several of King An's daughters who died young were also poisoned to death by King An.
Even the adultery case between Princess Rong and Huo Hanshan at the end of last year was a trap set by King An.
It is rare in the world for a father to harm his own daughter like this.
In Chang'an City, people have gone missing many times over the past few years. Although the number of missing people is not large, and it is just a chat among millions of people, for one family, the sky has fallen.
Jingzhao Mansion has also caught many kidnappers, but the missing people have never been found.
But this time, there is an accurate statement. The missing person was also poisoned by these people and died. After the case is concluded, the victim can go to the Jingzhao Government Office to identify the body.
There are different opinions on what these people are trying to do, but what everyone agrees on is that such a beast that can attack his own children is really an advantage to kill him with one knife, and he should be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.
The city of Chang'an is not peaceful these days, and Liquanfang's Wuwei Liquor Restaurant quietly reopened amid this unrest.
The charming female shopkeeper Cheng Chaoyan is still selling wine on the street, and the wine still has the same mellow taste as before.
When Wu Jin fell to the west, the door of the wine shop was lowered, and many familiar gourmets came in.
Some people joked about why the female shopkeeper had been gone for so long, thinking that the wine shop would never be closed from now on.
Some people missed the specialty dishes and signature wines in the wine shop, and made up their mind not to get drunk today.
It was dusk and the wine was half drunk. People who had drunk too much wine also talked more, and their mouths were missing. They said everything they could and could not say.
Cheng Chaoyan was carrying a wine bottle and shuttled between the dining tables, sometimes adding wine and sometimes chatting and laughing. He inadvertently glanced at the dark sky outside, then looked at the diners who stayed behind, and asked with an innocent smile: "I'm going out. It's been a long time. When I come back today, is there a new slaughterhouse opened in this city? Why is the smell of blood so strong?"
Hearing this, one of the diners laughed out loud, squirted a mouthful of wine and food, came out, pointed at Cheng Chaoyan in the distance and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Cheng, your mouth is not a slaughterhouse, it is a longevity workshop." On the execution ground between Fengyi Square and Fengyi Square, people lose their heads every day."
Cheng Chaoyan immediately covered his mouth, widened his eyes and said in shock: "What, dead man, what is going on?"
One of the diners enthusiastically told Cheng Chaoyan one by one about several major events in the past few days. Seeing the frightened look on her face, the man sighed: "Don't tell me, shopkeeper Cheng, you are a little lady who is scared after hearing this. I am the one who is so scared." Even a strong man was frightened after hearing this."
