Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 114 The Era of Emperor Wu ([-])

a year and a half later

Changan
execution ground
"cut!"

Click!

Hundreds of human heads fell to the ground at the same time.

"No, Your Majesty!"

"cut!"

Click!

Another hundred heads fell to the ground at the same time.

"Your Majesty, please give me a chance to make meritorious deeds!"

"cut!"

"Do not!!!"

Click!

Another hundred heads fell to the ground.

This repeated cycle, as many as thousands of people were beheaded.

These are all local officials who were arrested after the promulgation of the Shen Ming Law.

After the millions of rebels were suppressed, Emperor Liu Che promulgated the Shen Ming Law.

The "Shen Ming Law" stipulates that if local officials fail to calm down any anti-people in the local area within three months, all officials, big and small, will be guilty and executed!

However, people who cannot afford to eat will not stop rebelling just because they are suppressed.

After the first wave of millions of rebels was suppressed, in just a few months, hundreds of thousands of rebels appeared in the world.

Therefore, thousands of officials, large and small, were all escorted to Chang'an for execution because of ineffective suppression.

Blood flowed on Chang'an Avenue, and the people watching were shocked.

In these years, since the emperor got old, people in Chang'an were beheaded almost every day, and they were tired of seeing it.

But today, more than 1000 court officials were executed at the same time. Such a terrifying scale still makes people shudder.

The people in Chang'an no longer had the festive celebration when Wei Qinghuo went to illness when they put up lanterns and festoons every year, and they were replaced by panic.

As Emperor Liu Che got older, the people of Chang'an became more and more frightened.

The emperor took away the world's wealth, and naturally he would not forget Chang'an under his feet. After all, the people in Chang'an lived in the imperial capital, so they were much richer than people in other places.

But even so, they have been shattered, and there are more and more bankrupts.

Now, there are even beggars in Chang'an at the foot of the emperor!

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Weiyang Palace

"Father, the world is in decline. The imperial court should rest and recuperate, and no more wars are allowed. Please revoke the order of relegating Qike." Prince Liu Ju advised Emperor Liu Che.

The relegation of Qike is to recruit seven types of people from all over the world to go to the battlefield. The seven types of people are guilty officials, fugitives, son-in-laws, and Jia people.

Emperor Liu Che wanted to expand his army by one million, to launch a super-large-scale Northern Expedition, and to wipe out the grassland Huns completely at once.

Therefore, after Prince Liu Ju heard about this, he hurriedly came to persuade him.

"Are you saying that I have resorted to militarism?" Emperor Liu Che was very displeased and snorted coldly, "My son is now educating me, ha ha!"

"Father!" It was rare for the prince to get angry once, and dared to talk back to his father.

"Get out!" Emperor Liu Che reprimanded Prince Liu Ju.

"Father!" Prince Liu Ju still wanted to persuade.

"I tell you to get out!" Emperor Liu Che was angry: "Get out!"

"My son...obey your orders." Prince Liu Ju had no choice but to withdraw.

After the crown prince left, Emperor Liu Che closed his eyes and felt a headache.

At this time, the eunuch Su Wen took the opportunity to say: "Prince benevolent, today's words must be bewitched by those gentry."

On the surface, Su Wen's words were to excuse the prince, but in fact he was taking the opportunity to belittle the prince, saying that the prince was benevolent, but in fact he was saying that the prince was weak.

Because Su Wen knew that the emperor didn't like the powerful nobles very much, and wished he could kill all the powerful nobles in the world and rob them of their money.

If the prince is easily bewitched by the gentry, it means that once the prince takes power, those powerful gentry will take the opportunity to gain power, and even control the benevolent (weak) new emperor.

This is what it means.

Emperor Liu Che naturally heard this meaning, so he became more and more dissatisfied with the prince in his heart, but after all, he was his favorite son, so he did not intend to abolish the prince, but just shook his head and said indifferently: "I hope he will understand my son in the future. painstaking efforts."

"His Royal Highness is benevolent, thinking about it, he will definitely understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts." Su Wen echoed, emphasizing the word benevolence (weakness).

Su Wen once wanted to stand on the prince's side and become the prince's henchman. After all, everyone knew that the emperor's favorite was the prince, and the probability of the prince becoming the throne was very high.

But such things as party members are not something you can become if you want to, it depends on whether the other party accepts it or not.

Most of the prince's henchmen are powerful nobles. These people are born to dislike the concentration of imperial power. Because they dislike the concentration of imperial power, they also dislike the sword of imperial power-eunuchs.

They dare not fight against the imperial power openly, but they still have the guts to fight against the sword of the imperial power.

Therefore, people like Su Wen couldn't get into the prince's circle at all, and the gentry in the prince's circle didn't even bother to join forces with Su Wen.

Under such circumstances, the eunuch Su Wen could only hug the thigh of his new relative Li Guangli, try to slander the prince, and at the same time try to elevate Mrs. Li's son.

When the people's livelihood in the world is in decline, the emperor is keen on militarism. He obviously loves the prince, but he dislikes the prince's policies.

All of this reminds many interested people of the late Qin Dynasty, the end of the Qin Dynasty, the prince Fusu who was loved by the first emperor, but disgusted with Fusu's policy. Ming Ming people's livelihood is dying, and the emperor will continue to use force.

It seems that the history of the end of Qin Dynasty is repeating itself.

In this context, some powerful gentry are already considering which new power to invest in after the change of dynasty, and become the heroes of the new power.

For example... the royal family of Liaodong.

In the past two years, the royal family of Liaodong secretly trained private soldiers overseas and built armors, preparing to wait for the day when the troubled times of the end of Qin Dynasty restarted, to start a war of heroes, or to take refuge in a certain side of the princes.

Not only the Liaodong Wang family was making such preparations, but also the Langya Wang family, Nanyang Wu family, Runan Chen family and other families.

Even the prefects and magistrates in various places are secretly contacting the powerful gentry, and when the world is in chaos, they will use the private soldiers in the hands of the powerful gentry to compete against each other.

Even those princes who were split by the Tweet Order began to prepare for chaos in the world.

The big man...will perish!
This seems to have become the subconscious consensus of people all over the world.

However, Emperor Liu Che didn't seem to feel these crises.

When he was worrying about the fact that the crown prince's policy was not in line with his own, another eunuch announced outside the door: "Report to Your Majesty, the witch has an audience."

Emperor Liu Che was old, and he couldn't hear the voice outside the door, so he asked the eunuch Su Wen beside him, "What are you talking about outside?"

"Your Majesty, the witch is here." Su Wen replied.

"Quick! Let them in!" Emperor Liu Che was overjoyed.

Since he suppressed a million rebels last year, he felt that his time was running out, so he became obsessed with various legends of immortality and recruited various alchemists to increase his life span.

But most of the alchemists soon revealed their secrets and were executed by the angry emperor Liu Che.

But there are some witches who know witchcraft and seem to be useful, so they were kept by Emperor Liu Che for reuse.

"Caomin greets His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

At this time, three witches with the appearance of beautiful girls entered the room, knelt at the feet of Emperor Liu Che, and saluted Emperor Liu Che respectfully.

"The three immortal masters, please." Liu Che was very anxious, and asked the three witches: "Have the three immortal masters found the way to live forever?"

The three beautiful witches looked at each other and smiled, and then the leader of the witches respectfully said to Emperor Liu Che: "We communicated with the world through witchcraft, and found that the fate of heaven is vague and unreasonable."

"What do you mean?" Liu Che frowned. Now he is most concerned about longevity.

Another [-]- or [-]-year-old witch said with a smile: "It is necessary to build tall buildings, and the sky and the earth can be communicated more clearly on the tall buildings."

"Just build tall buildings?" Emperor Liu Che couldn't wait to recruit people from all over the world to build tall buildings.

"We still need countless treasures and gold to be dedicated to the heaven and the earth, so that the heaven can be moved, and then we can take the opportunity to perceive and communicate with the heaven's destiny." The third witch smiled.

"Treasures and gold are simple, I just need to add more taxes." Emperor Liu Che said calmly, he couldn't wait to get immortality from these witches.

(End of this chapter)