After transmigrating into the villain's daughter, I lie down and win

Chapter 786 The whole family is a rebel (70)

The crown prince was deposed, and the remaining princes fought fiercely for the position of heir. The common people in various places rebelled one after another. The powerful families pretended to obey the orders but secretly deceived their superiors and subordinates. The ministers in the court either colluded with each other or fought to the death. The whole court was shrouded in chaos.

There were also many foreign tribes outside the border who were eyeing Daxia covetously. The civil strife in Daxia was a golden opportunity for them, so they united and began to invade Daxia's borders again.

Internal troubles have not been resolved, and external threats are already imminent.

At such a critical moment, the emperor suddenly fell ill.

The ambitious people who were originally vying for the crown prince position and following the emperor's lead were suddenly stunned when they learned that the emperor had a sudden serious illness and was incurable.

Is Your Majesty really ill?
Everyone tried every possible means to get information from the palace, wanting to know the latest news and to know how bad the emperor's health was.

This is naturally not because they care about the emperor so much and are reluctant to see him pass away, but only by obtaining the latest intelligence can they make choices based on the situation and maximize their own interests.

How can supporting a crown prince who may or may not be able to successfully ascend the throne in the future be as meritorious as directly supporting the emperor to ascend the throne and becoming his close minister?

But before these people could take any action, the emperor who was rescued by the imperial doctors took the lead in issuing an order, which was to confiscate the property and exterminate the clans of several ministers who had been most active in supporting the prince to compete for the position of crown prince after the crown prince was deposed.

Ministers: "..."

Before he could succeed in becoming a dragon, the disaster of annihilation of his clan came first?
When their entire family was taken to the execution ground awaiting execution, countless people regretted in their hearts why they did not join those wealthy merchants without any background and defect to the North.

Even if we send a few young men to serve in the north, the whole clan will not be wiped out and the bloodline will not be cut off!

For several days in a row, more than a dozen big families were killed and the city of Chang'an was flooded with blood, but all the people who needed to be killed had not been killed yet, because the emperor's anger had not yet dissipated.

At this time, a line of poetry that was tantamount to rebellion spread throughout the streets of Chang'an.

"Poor at midnight, I don't ask people to ask ghosts and gods."

Once this poem was spread, many people were shocked and frightened.

Who in the world doesn't know that the current emperor favors alchemists and not only builds a magnificent and luxurious astrology tower for them, but also grants them extremely high treatment and privileges?

Just as the poem says, in the past year, His Majesty has summoned the alchemist late at night countless times. Even when His Majesty was sick this time, the alchemist was always by his side to predict good and bad luck, and he took the elixir made by the alchemist. The people from the Imperial Hospital have become just a foil.

Immortality?

joke.

If there really is a way to achieve immortality, why do all those sorcerers grow old and die? And why did the emperors of the previous dynasties die?
But even though I knew it in my heart, I could never say it out loud.

Now, not only have some people said this, but they have also used the very ironic contrast between "the common people" and "ghosts and gods". What is the difference between this and directly scolding the emperor for being incompetent and a disaster to the common people in front of him?
Of course there are differences.

If you curse him in person, you will die on the spot and all your nine clans will be buried with you.

Writing poems to curse nine generations of the clan is not enough, even the ancestors in the underground must be brought out and their bones must be crushed to dust!
It depends on whose dust it is.

Your Majesty just executed nine clans of several major aristocratic families, and right after that this anti-poem spread throughout Chang'an City. Who would believe you if you said that the emergence of this poem has nothing to do with the aristocratic families?

Not to mention the suspicious emperor, even the most stupid people would not believe such nonsense. The result is self-evident. Another group of officials and noble families were killed, and all their property was put into the national treasury. The executioner was the recently appointed Li Cong, the new Minister of Justice.

That night.

Li Cong, looking like a ferocious monster and covered in blood, returned home, only to see his wife, Mrs. Wei, walking around the hall anxiously. Only when she saw him return safely did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Wei came up and grabbed his hand, looking him up and down, and only felt relieved when he was sure that he was not injured.

"I heard that many people died in the palace today."

Wei's voice was slightly hoarse, revealing uneasiness and worry about the unknown, but Li Cong just nodded lightly, as if he was used to it. "At the morning court today, His Majesty killed two adults in the palace..."

Before he finished speaking, Wei covered his mouth with her hand. When they returned to the house and there was no one around, Wei asked, "Your Majesty, aren't you following the Taoist priest to cultivate your Dao? Why would you kill someone yourself?"

Li Cong: "One of the two gentlemen was from the Imperial Censorate, and the other was a civil servant who was specially transferred from the local area to the court by His Majesty because of his outstanding political achievements. He advised His Majesty to expel the alchemists to win back the people's hearts, which angered His Majesty, and he was stabbed to death by His Majesty with a sword."

After listening to this, Wei remained silent for a long time.

Li Cong didn't say anything. He took off his clothes that were stained with the blood of countless people, asked someone to bring him hot water to take a bath, and after changing into clean clothes, he walked to Wei, who was still in a daze.

He gently held Wei's hand, stroked the palm of Wei's hand with his calloused fingertips, and asked her in a gentle voice, "How's Shu'er? Is your injury better?"

After the message came back from the Beidi Palace that day, Shu'er was captured by the Langwei Army and taken into the palace. When he was sent back, his body was covered with wounds and he was already unconscious.

His Majesty suspected that the escape of the "rebel brother and sister" from the Beidi Palace was related to him, so he first arrested his son and interrogated him severely, and then threatened the couple with their son, wanting to hear them tell the whereabouts of the young princess and others and admit the crime of colluding with Beidi.

Your Majesty is right.

He is indeed in collusion with the North.

It was not just "collusion". This cruel official who killed people without hesitation even volunteered to go to Chang'an to act as an insider.

As the young princess said: "I will repay your kindness on the Golden Terrace and die for you, holding up the Jade Dragon."

The general is the wise lord in his mind.

It was his wish to die for his lord and for the righteousness he believed in.

However, Shu'er cannot die.

In order to protect Shu'er, he had to announce the "secret" that everyone knew to the world again.

Shu'er was conceived before Wei married him. She was the son of Qin Yu, a great general of the Jin State. Qin Yu died at the hands of Xiao Sui, and Xiao Sui was successfully granted the title of Guannei Marquis by virtue of this battle. The entire Xiao family benefited from it. Wei, Shu'er and the Xiao family had a blood feud. Everyone knew that he loved his wife and doted on his son, so how could he collude with the enemy of his wife and son?

During the days when he was arrested, he said a lot of things, some true and some false, some true and some false. Many of his words were so ridiculous that even he himself found them ridiculous. However, His Majesty believed his words full of loopholes and promoted him to be the Minister of Justice.

What he has to do is to be the knife in His Majesty's hand until the knife rusts, becomes blunt or even breaks, and completely loses its use value.

By then, there will be no need for Your Majesty to issue an order to kill him. The survivors of the nobles and aristocrats whose families he had confiscated and exterminated, as well as the many aristocratic families who hate him to the core, will pounce on him like vicious wolves, eat his flesh, drink his blood, break his bones, and return to him tenfold and a hundredfold for everything he had done, making him pay the price for his actions.