In the capital, inside Zhao Prison.
As the eunuch who carried the edict read out the imperial edict, the princes who still had a glimmer of hope for the future, as well as Yong'an Marquis Guo Ping and others, were instantly confused, followed by a rather crazy roar, unwilling to accept the edict.
"Impossible, how could this happen?"
"We are his biological uncles, how could he treat us like this? I want to cry to the Ancestral Temple and ask for instructions from my ancestors!!"
"Tyrant! O foolish king!"
Compared to the collapse of those princes, the calmest one at this time was Yong'an Hou Guoping, because when he was captured, he had no hope of leaving alive. After all, he was not a royal family, and could only be regarded as a relative of the emperor at most. The probability of being pardoned from a capital crime is very low.
In addition, his wife, who is now very strange to him, has stolen all the emperor's internal funds and the assets of hundreds of officials. He knows that no one is willing to intercede on his behalf. If he cannot catch his wife, he may have no choice but to He poured out his anger on him, so in his opinion, it was completely expected that he would end up being exterminated.
At this time, my heart feels more like the dust has settled.
And suddenly realized what her daughter-in-law said in the past:
"No wonder, no wonder she kept saying that she would make me regret it. I thought she wanted to attack my other children, and even sent more people to protect me. I didn't expect, I didn't expect, I didn't expect that she would be so crazy. , actually wanted to rebel and drag my nine tribes to die together!
If I had known this, if I had known this...
well……"
Although Yong'an Hou Guoping already regretted not being able to protect his and Princess Jiahe's only son, and then allowing his concubines and concubines to attack his own grandson, which made Princess Jiahe completely crazy, but the matter was already settled, and he would regret it again. It was useless, and because he didn't want to be beheaded in public, Guo Ping finished sighing, thinking that he had finally figured out the cause of his death, and now that he was no longer a fool even after death, he completely calmed down and used the help of a run-up. He hit the wall and committed suicide on the spot.
And besides scaring the prince next to him.
There are no other results.
The jailer called the prisoner in as usual, checked him, registered him, and reported him.
Then the body was dragged out and temporarily preserved.
After the whole clan was beheaded in two days, they would be dealt with in a unified manner. Emperor Xuanwu was kind and specifically allowed them not to be thrown into mass graves and eaten by wild dogs after death, but to be directly cremated and buried together with a monument or something like that.
It also left a burial place for them.
It can also serve as a warning to the world.
At the same time, most of the yamen and officials in the capital are still busy, and the palace is also busy, busy checking all the underground passages, and busy checking some of them to make sure there is no gold, silver, or jewelry. The passages and missing areas are filled and compacted.
And they were busy searching the northern and southern districts.
The basic layout of the capital is that the east is rich and the west is noble, and the south is poor and the north is humble. The DC area is mostly populated by wealthy business families, the XC area is mostly filled with mansions of nobles or officials, the Nancheng district is mostly populated by ordinary people and petty officials, and the Beicheng district is mainly populated by Tianjin. Lao Zhao Prison, even Jin Yiwei and the like were there, which was a bit unlucky and looked down upon by civil and military officials.
Underground passages are mainly concentrated in the underground areas of DC and XC. After all, the other two urban areas may be much richer than other cities.
But in comparison.
It is indeed much worse than the other two urban areas.
Because of this, many officials suspect that there may be many followers of the White Lotus Sect's demons hidden in these two cities, and they may be helping Princess Jiahe.
Even some gold and silver jewelry are suspected.
It may be hidden in these two urban areas.
So of course we need to conduct a thorough investigation of these two places and hope that we can find something missing. That would at least have some clues, right?
But, after a busy day and night.
Although some officials and nobles found some things that were suspected of being lost by their families, after being severely tortured and following the clues, they found out that although those things were lost by their families, they were not lost recently at all.
The ones that were lost were stolen and sold by servants, servants, or even housekeepers a long time ago.
Then, because their families had suffered too much loss and were even driven crazy by poverty, some officials who were eager to get something to make themselves feel at ease began to target their own housekeepers and other close associates, and finally gained some blood by ransacking their homes and so on.
Some nobles whose whole families were illiterate and didn't know much about their business even counted the money for others after being sold, and even found more gold and silver from the houses of housekeepers and other servants than the money they had lost. .
It can be considered an unexpected surprise.
In addition to the relatively injured servants of these housekeepers, the White Lotus sect, which has not been very active in recent years, is really sitting at home. Misfortune comes from the sky. I used to live a good life, but I have been following the rules recently and have neither engaged in any Propaganda for rebellion and nothing else.
Then some strongholds were suddenly destroyed.
Some people were also arrested suddenly.
As the matter escalated, some of the White Lotus Sect's senior leaders couldn't sit still. While they were angry, they thought about it privately and decided to go against it. That was to send people to rescue the captured believers, and at the same time, they started to carry out operations in some disaster areas. , or in areas where corrupt officials are more serious, to encourage local believers and people who have been ruined by corrupt officials and have nothing but their lives and hatred to rebel.
Of course, the imperial court could only rush to suppress the disaster and provide disaster relief.
And the effect is very poor, worse than in the past.
The reason is actually very simple. It is still Qu Jie's fault. Under normal circumstances, the money distributed to disaster relief areas is usually exploited layer by layer, with half or about 60% deducted. But this time, the ministers who handled it were all different. Is the loss heavy? The loss is too heavy and cannot be recovered for the time being. Naturally, we can only make up for it from other places.
The top was scratched too hard, and the bottom was unaware.
Just follow the usual routine.
When the last one million silver arrived in the disaster area, not even one hundred thousand was left, and the price of food soared again. The result can be imagined!
The same goes for the military pay used to suppress the refugees. Some generals who suffered excessive losses lost a lot of money. The final result was that the army mutinied and joined the refugees, attacking the city and conquering the village all the way.
Wait until Emperor Xuanwu figures out the specific situation.
One-tenth of the world has fallen into chaos.
Let’s talk about Qu Jie.
As soon as she left the capital, she immediately led her private soldiers and quickly headed south. More than half a month later, she met her two personal maids and her biological granddaughter on Nanwan Island. Then, of course, she temporarily became a rare person in the world. , and at the same time, Nanwan Island, which is not small in area, settled down and used it as a basis for transit.
Be a transit between the Daqian Dynasty and overseas.
They continue to search for people from the Daqian Dynasty, transport them to Nanwan Island for training, and then transport them to other large overseas islands. They are temporarily climbing the technological tree and waiting for the future.
