October fourteenth, night, midnight.
This is destined to be a night that will be written into the history books.
Many people in the Jingjiu Dynasty were still wondering why the Black Flag Battalion had stopped taking action after taking over the Wang family, and while they were eagerly asking about it secretly, there was a bang, and a "fire" burst out from the darkness, lighting up. The haze that has shrouded the Jingjiu Dynasty these past few days has been lifted, allowing everyone to see the murderous intention hidden under the haze for a long time.
That night, with the Golden Sword Guards of Fenghong Villa as the spearhead and the soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion as their henchmen, they launched a surprise attack on more than forty aristocratic families and Daxiu clans from all over the Jingji Dynasty at almost the same time.
It's hard to resist the Wang family's sect gloves that have been hidden for more than a thousand years, let alone these families who don't have so much background and trump cards?
By the time Yinshi arrived, the dust had fallen to the ground in just two hours, and the killing had ended.
As the main attacker, the Golden Sword Guards were very measured. They formed a group of twenty or thirty people and launched a surprise attack on a major cultivator or aristocratic family. After the main force was eliminated, the Xuanqing Guards who followed up would take over.
Whether to take someone or kill someone, this has been clearly stated in the plan before the operation, and it is not only the difference between "taking" and "killing", but also the difference between how much to kill.
During this operation, some black flag battalions dared to arrest people and ransack their homes;
Some were engaged in the errands of capturing people, collecting corpses, and searching homes;
There are also soldiers from the Black Flag Battalion who collect corpses and ransack homes. What? Why not take someone, you ask? Because everyone is dead.
The attitude of this operation against the more than 40 aristocratic families was three levels: "kill", "exile" and "severe punishment". Therefore, some families had few deaths, and most of them were captured and then waited to be exiled. Some of them will die less, and they will be punished later. They may not become destitute, but they will definitely no longer be worthy of the title of a noble family in the future.
Finally, some aristocratic families need to be killed. Even a dog in the family cannot be alive. Therefore, for the people from the Black Flag Camp of these families, they must either make up for the damage and collect the corpses, or directly collect the corpses.
I don’t know if it was done intentionally, but the people who died in the hands of Jin Jianwei were all complete corpses. Generally, the wounds were not big, and there was even very little blood stains. To put it nicely, it means "clean and tidy".
However, when the soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion came up and saw these neat and clean corpses, they could only curl their lips secretly. There was no "clean and tidy" praise in their hearts, and some were just complaints about "half-done things", and then drew their swords to kill them. The heads of each corpse were chopped off and checked against the portraits. Once they were correct, they were simply processed and put into special boxes for stacking. All of this had to be reported.
Even these heads will not stay in the local area for long. After being chopped off and authenticated, they will be packed up and sent to Fengri City. They will be crossed out according to their names and portraits in Fengri City. Those who are missing will be hunted down to sea and documented documents will be traced. .
Moreover, the Yamen commanding the Black Flag Battalion in Fengri City is not the final destination of these heads. In the end, these heads will fall into the hands of the Criminal Department through the command.
There is a saying here, which is to cut first and then report. The truthful words are actually not appropriate, but the Black Flag Battalion bites the bullet and kills it. It is "kill first and then report". What can the Ministry of Punishment do?
Don't forget, the Minister of Justice and the Zuo Shilang are still in the prison of the Black Flag Camp. The Right Shilang, who is in charge, has his feet tightened now. How can he dare to confront the Black Flag Camp?
The news spread throughout the Jingji court and the public, much faster than the last time the Black Flag Battalion took action against the Wang family. After all, the Wang family's affairs only happened in Shanngling, and this time they targeted more than 40 aristocratic families. The geographical span covered almost every region in the Jingji Dynasty, and the news naturally spread faster.
The first reaction of everyone who heard this news was "This is impossible!"
No one believes that Black Flag Camp has the guts to touch the family members, because the family members have always been regarded as the "foundation" of the dynasty, and there is even a saying in private that "the emperor is an emperor who is made of water, and the family members are made of iron". It can be seen that The influence and connections of these aristocratic families in the Jingjiu Dynasty.
This is actually not surprising at all. Even the royal examinations are almost all about princes competing to see who has more support from the family members. The status of the ruling and opposition parties has gradually been infinitely elevated by the noble families, so much so that even the emperor is second best.
Perhaps it is also related to the fact that emperors of all dynasties always showed preferential treatment to members of the aristocratic families and the long-term existence of the aristocratic families.
Now the Black Flag Camp is like that bastard who beats gongs and drums at the door at night, waking up countless people sleeping in the room. The first time these people are sleepy is not to consider "why", but to be surprised and reluctant. I believe that shouting "impossible", in their subconscious mind, how dare the Black Flag Camp dare to touch the family members? That is a taboo that even the emperor will not touch!
Is it taboo to belong to an aristocratic family? Of course not, at least in the eyes of the emperor, he never thought so.
It's just that the previous emperors received benefits from aristocratic families, and they were given long-term preferential treatment out of trust and self-confidence over the aristocratic families. But this does not mean that it is taboo for aristocratic families. Even if it is, if the emperor says "no", then it is no longer true.
Just like now, more than forty of the most outstanding aristocratic families and Daxiu clan in the old Jing Dynasty were wiped out in a glance. Boxes containing human heads filled the street in front of the Black Flag Camp Commander's Yamen in Fengri City. , each Black Flag Battalion soldier took the portrait and the roster and compared them one by one. They should be sent to the imperial city soon, right?
The most exciting thing is that the officials who have been silent for a long time and have lost their backbone are now grasping something big. They start writing memorials together in twos and threes, and jointly want to go to the palace to meet the emperor to accuse the Black Flag Camp of lawlessness and indiscriminate killings. innocent. But the palace door was closed, and none of these officials could go in to see the emperor.
What are the officials? They are just monkeys in the temple. They have no real power and rely only on their mouth. If what they say is useful, they will naturally be praised by others. If it is useless, no one will pay attention to them.
The ones who really see the essence of the matter are the big guys in the temple and the officials in charge of the political parties in various places.
Obviously, the Xuanqingwei Black Flag Battalion does not have the courage to attack the family members. Looking at the news that came back this time, we know that it is not the Xuanqingwei Black Flag Battalion who is really rushing to take action, but the Golden Sword Guard of Fenghong Villa.
What does this mean? This shows that the one who really wants to deal with these aristocratic families is not Xuanqing Wei, but His Majesty the Emperor!
What is your Majesty doing? Is it in revenge that all the noble families felt sorry for him during the royal examination? Or is there another reason?
However, no matter how you guess, the time is too short. The Black Flag Battalion has not even sent their heads to the Imperial City yet, so it is better to wait and see and say less and do less.
As for those officials blocking the entrance to the palace?
They are just fools, who cares whether they live or die?
