The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 520: What on earth does Father want to do?
Except for the king of Wei, all the Southern Wei people in the capital were arrested, and no one was spared. Before the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty were arrested, the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty did not receive any news. When they were arrested, they had no idea what happened. By the time they reacted, they had been imprisoned in the big labor of Tingwei Mansion.

Being suddenly captured, the Southern Wei people in the capital had no time to send messages to their compatriots in other places. During this period, many Southern Wei people in other places were arrested. Those who were arrested basically had their homes confiscated. Then, those who deserved beheading were beheaded, those who deserved exile were exiled, and those who deserved hard labor were forced to do hard labor.

The people of Kou Nanyu's faction who made the magic pill were killed by the dragon guards. They were taken to Caishikou and beheaded in front of all the people in the capital.

When the people in the capital learned that the magic elixir that killed people was made by these people, they angrily threw stones, eggs, rotten vegetable leaves and other things at them, causing their heads to bleed.

Until they were beheaded, Kou Nanyu's group didn't know why they were arrested. Their whereabouts have always been secretive, and it is difficult for even the clan members to find them. Why can the court's hawks and dogs find them? What puzzled them the most was that the Tingwei Mansion did not try them, but directly sentenced them to death. Did the imperial court already know that they were from the Southern Wei Dynasty?
This time the imperial court encircled and suppressed the Southern Wei people, reducing the number of Southern Wei people in the Great Zhou Dynasty by half.

The remaining Southern Wei people who were not caught were so frightened that they clamped their tails and hid tremblingly, fearing that they would be the ones caught next moment.

The people of the Southern Wei Dynasty in foreign countries such as the Western Regions and Annan were very shocked when they learned that their compatriots in the Zhou Dynasty were captured and killed.

Over the years, the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty had always thought that they had been well hidden from the Great Zhou Court. Unexpectedly, the Great Zhou Court had always been aware of their existence and their whereabouts. If this were not the case, why would their fellow clan members in Da Zhou be captured in an instant.

The Southern Wei people who were hiding in foreign countries such as the Western Regions and Johore were angry, frightened and frightened when they thought that they had been monitored by the Zhou court all these years. They wanted to go back to Dazhou to save their fellow tribesmen, but they were afraid that they would be arrested once they returned to Dazhou.

These days are a nightmare for the people of Southern Wei. The people of the Southern Wei Dynasty who were not caught no longer dared to be as arrogant as before, and all of them became very honest.

"Lord, our business over the past few decades has been ruined." Wei Yan was lucky. When the capital arrested the Southern Wei people, he was working in the Western Regions and escaped, otherwise he would have met Tai Nai by now. "Decades of hard work have been ruined like this..." At this point, he broke down in tears.

Song Dachuan, who had taken refuge in Zhao Yao a long time ago, is now extremely grateful that he made a wise choice at that time, otherwise he would have been dead and in a different place.

After Zhao Yao, who was far away in Marsh Mansion, learned that the imperial court in the capital had ordered the arrest of Southern Wei people, he also began to purge the Southern Wei people hidden throughout Lingnan.

King Wei looked at the furious Wei Yan with cold eyes, and said in a mocking tone: "You know Kou Nanyu made the magic pill."

Faced with King Wei's eyes that seemed to see through him, Wei Yan could no longer deny it. He bit the bullet and said, "My lord, when I agreed to help Kou Nanyu and the others sell the magic pill, it was not because of money, but because he said the magic pill could control people."

Wei Yan knelt on the ground and cried, crying so pitifully that even Yu Hai, who had always hated him, couldn't help but pity him.

Song Dachuan's acting skills are still good, and he was successfully adopted by the Southern Wei people in Annan.

"Do you really think that I don't know what happened between you and Kou Nanyu?" King Wei looked at Wei Yan sharply, "You helped Kou Nanyu and the others sell the magic pills, and you made a lot of money from it, right?"

At this time, in the palace of King Wei in the capital.

When Wei Yan thought that their disaster this time was due to the magical elixir made by Kou Nanyu and his group, his expression immediately became ferocious.

The king of Wei was indifferent to Wei Yan's cries. He asked in an indifferent tone: "Who is to blame?"

"Lord, I really don't know, and I didn't help Kou Nanyu and the others." Wei Yan was horrified. He didn't expect that His Highness the King of Wei knew about this.

King Wei looked coldly at Wei Yan, who was still quibbling.

This sentence made Wei Yan freeze immediately, his eyes dodge for a moment, and then he denied: "Lord, I don't know about this."

His family members in the interior were also arrested, but because of Zhao Yao's intercession, his family members were fine in the end. However, Zhao Yao's rescue of his family was not without conditions. The condition was that their whole family had to do things for him. His family members continued to lurk among the Southern Wei people, monitoring their every move for him.

Because all the Southern Wei people in Lingnan were wiped out, Song Dachuan could not stay in Marsh Mansion, so Zhao Yao arranged for him to "escape" to Annan and let him join the Southern Wei people in Annan.

Song Dachuan's family had been imprisoned before and had gone through hell. How could they dare to continue to work for the Southern Wei people? For the sake of the lives of their whole family, they are willing to become His Highness the King of Han and work their lives for His Highness the King of Han.

"Lord, I don't..."

"You don't know?" King Wei raised his eyebrows and sneered, "If it weren't for your help, could the magic pill made by Kou Nanyu and others be sold to the Western Regions?"

"Kou Nanyu!!!" If Kou Nanyu's group hadn't been beheaded by the court, Wei Yan would have wanted to tear them apart with his own hands.

King Wei said with a cold face: "You actually hid the matter from me about the magic pill."

Wei Yan lowered his head, not daring to look at King Wei, "My lord, you have always hated Kou Nanyu and his gang. If you were to know that Kou Nanyu and his gang had made a magic elixir that could control people, you would definitely object." At this point, he spoke sharply. Turn to, "Lord, now is not the time to talk about this. Why did the imperial court suddenly arrest our people? Why did the imperial court know about our existence? How did the imperial court know the whereabouts of our people..." They have obviously hidden a lot of things over the years. Well, the imperial court has never discovered their existence, so why did it suddenly notice their traces? Are there spies among them?
"What do you think?"

"My lord, our people have been hiding very well over the years. It is impossible for the court to know about us. Someone must have betrayed us." "You actually always think that my father does not know the existence of the Southern Wei people?!"

"Did the Emperor know about it all along?" Wei Yan had an expression of disbelief on his face, "Impossible, how could the Emperor know..."

"You really underestimated my father."

"It's impossible. If the emperor knew about our existence, why didn't he pursue us all these years?" Wei Yan said, "If the emperor knew that there were still people among us, he would definitely kill us and never let us survive."

Back then, when the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, the late emperor and the emperor hunted and killed the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty. They fled everywhere, hid in many places, and lived cautiously.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty could not tolerate the Southern Wei people just like the previous emperors. If the emperor really knew that there were still people alive in the world, he would never let them go.

"Lord, someone must have betrayed us." Someone who was not them told the court that the emperor could not know. "Lord, we must find the traitor as soon as possible, otherwise the remaining people will not escape death."

King Wei asked: "What do you want to do?"

"Lord, if you can trust me, I will investigate the traitor."

"It's up to you." King Wei didn't think it was a traitor who betrayed them, but Wei Yan insisted on thinking so, so let him investigate.

"Lord, what should we do next?" Wei Yan asked worriedly, "Will the imperial court continue to hunt us down?"

"Haven't you seen it yet?"

Wei Yan asked in confusion: "What do you see?"

"My father ordered the arrest of our people this time because Kou Nanyu and the others made the magic pill, which offended my father." Previously, because the Southern Wei people acted without authorization to assassinate Zhao Yao, the King of Wei was asked to punish Wei Yan and the others. Very dissatisfied. Now they were hiding it from him and cooperating with Kou Nanyu's gang to sell the magic pill, which made him feel more and more that he could no longer keep them.

Before the emperor ordered the arrest of the Southern Wei people, the King of Wei received a letter from Zhao Yao, and then he knew that someone was secretly making the magic pill behind his back. From then on, he asked his people to leave the capital temporarily and go to foreign countries such as Johor and Pyu to hide for a while. Therefore, among the Southern Wei people arrested this time, there was no one from the King of Wei.

"It's all the King of Han's fault. If it weren't for the King of Han, the court wouldn't have discovered there was something wrong with the magic pill, and wouldn't have sent people to arrest our people." The culprit who caused their decades of business to go to waste was the King of Han. If it weren't for the King of Han's meddling, their magic elixir would sell very well, and more people would be controlled by them. When the time comes, the Zhou Dynasty will also be controlled by them, and then they will be able to restore the Southern Wei Dynasty.

After all calculations, they did not expect that the King of Han would notice that there was something wrong with their magical elixir, let alone that the King of Han would order a strict ban on the magical elixir. The most hateful thing is that the King of Han reported this matter to the imperial court in the capital, making the imperial court aware of their existence.

"Lord, the King of Han has ruined our affairs more than once. He can't stay any longer..." Before he could finish his words, he was kicked away by the King of Wei. With a bang, his whole body hit the wall hard.

King Wei stepped on Wei Yan's chest and said in a solemn tone: "You have sent people to assassinate your tenth brother again and again. I have not killed you because of your hard work over the years. How dare you still mention this?" Damn it, do you really think I don’t dare to kill you?”

Wei Yan grabbed King Wei's ankle with both hands and begged for mercy with a painful look on his face: "My lord... my lord... have mercy on me..."

"If you dare to touch the tenth brother again, I will make your life worse than death!" King Wei originally wanted to deal with Wei Yan and his group, but he didn't expect that when the Shendan incident happened, all those who had been unfavorable to Zhao Yao were arrested.

"No... I don't dare anymore... I don't dare anymore."

It wasn't until Wei Yan rolled his eyes and was about to die that King Wei let him go.

"Get out."

Wei Yan hurriedly got up from the ground and stumbled out of King Wei's study.

King Wei glanced at Yu Hai and ordered: "Send someone to keep an eye on him."

"Yes, Your Highness."

King Wei walked to the window and looked at the imperial city to the east with a thoughtful expression.

He had long known that his father knew that there were still remnants of the Southern Wei Dynasty. His father had not killed all the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty in these years. There must be some purpose to make the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty mistakenly think that he did not know their existence. Now, my father's decree to arrest the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty is a warning, so wouldn't it be in vain that my father has turned a blind eye all these years?

Father, what exactly does he want to do?
What does he want to get from the Southern Wei people? Is it for that thing?
That thing had disappeared a long time ago and was of no use to my father. There is no need for my father to go through all the trouble to get that thing.

Apart from that thing, there was nothing else in the Southern Wei Dynasty that the father could plot.