The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 196 A Mountain of Heads (Part [-])
"Perhaps Mr. Shen is doing it for your own good. The amount of money he embezzled is not a small amount, and he can't just write a testimony. He knows that he will die.
Especially if you are judged, convicted and beheaded, it is better to go quietly like this. As long as there is no trial and conviction, he can better protect you and live, and you will not be branded as the daughter of a criminal minister. "

Su Tang persuaded her softly, "You know, and your father also knows that the daughter of a criminal minister cannot serve the prince. Although your father doesn't know that I will resign as the prince and take you back to Yanyang City, but there is a saying Call, but the beloved son of the parents has a far-reaching plan, and he is afraid of delaying your future."

"I don't want him to die, master. I hate my father for so many years, hate him for being bad to me and my mother, and hate him for being cold-blooded and ruthless, but he has silently loved me and my mother for so many years and suffered alone. When I think of this , My heart hurts like a drop of blood." Yingyue said as she spoke, big teardrops pooled in her eyes again.

Su Tang sat beside her and wiped her tears, "Can you tell me what happened? Why don't you hate me all of a sudden?"

Yingyue told Su Tang what Shen Congwen told her, "Master, do you think father's unbearable love is more tormenting than my mother's open hatred? I used to be cold-hearted towards him. He must have been very sad when we met each other, and it must have been very difficult for him to deal with the concubine alone every day."

"Master, I'm so sad. Whenever I think of this, I cry in distress."

"Your father must want you and your mother to live happily, including his happiness, so you should be happy, and your father will be happy watching him in the sky." Su Tang comforted her earnestly.

Su Tang just felt sad when he heard this. They are a family that loves each other, but they have tortured each other for more than ten years and couldn't love each other.

Yingyue sniffed, the ground was already wet with tears, "Master, I dare not tell my mother, I dare not tell her father that I only have her in my heart, and I will be husband and wife with her in the next life, I am afraid that my mother will be like me After knowing the truth, I can't get out of my heartache and regret."

At this time, Mrs. Shen, who was standing outside the door with a basin in her hand, turned and left silently, her tears fell like raindrops in the basin, causing splashes.

Su Tang comforted Yingyue for a long time before coaxing her to take a bath and let her have a good sleep.

This girl who is silly and happy every day suddenly experiences such a big thing, she needs time to digest and accept it slowly.

In the days that followed, the capital remained uninterrupted. Dozens of officials, big and small, were arrested, and countless family members and guests were taken away.

During the interrogation, they confessed more accomplices, and many people were still taken away.

Mrs. Qi's corruption case was more serious than Su Tang imagined. It involved high and low officials from the court, colluded with both inside and outside the harem, found out that the embezzlement amounted to nearly two million yuan, and even raised private soldiers, adding another charge of treason.

The emperor was furious this time, and directly ordered the chief culprit to implicate the nine clans, from the crime to the whole family, and all the little people who helped run errands to be beheaded. After half a month, they would be beheaded outside the city for public display, and all the people and officials in the city would have to watch.

The emperor has not been to the morning court for half a month, and the number of officials in the court has been reduced by a small half. The positions and tasks they have vacated need to be filled by others, and those officials who have not been implicated are also busy running around.

Later, the prime minister told Su Tang that His Majesty stayed in the palace without eating or drinking for several days, staring at the newspaper memorial in a daze.

The national treasury has been empty these years. In order to deliver food to the frontier army and to feed the common people, His Majesty and all the ministers have racked their brains to earn money and food for the national treasury.

Due to the recent drought, His Majesty is so worried that he can't sleep. There is food in the imperial court, but they can't use it all for disaster relief.

The imperial court needs to operate, and it needs some confidence. It is not that the victims of the disaster are resettled, and the Leng'an Kingdom will live in peace, and the countries on the border are watching.

However, His Majesty has already used all the food and silver that can be used for disaster relief, but the area of ​​the disaster is too large, with more than [-] people affected, and the daily consumption of food is also huge.

If all the relief funds and food are distributed, the south has not yet rained, and the court has nothing to do, and those people can only wait to die.

At this time, nearly a million dollars of embezzlement was discovered from the official's house, and His Majesty's mood can be imagined, those people are stepping on the bones of the common people for pleasure.

The prime minister also said that he and His Majesty started secretly investigating their corruption case a few years ago, but they couldn't act lightly before the matter was mature, and waited until the prime minister's plan was completed, and then used Master Shen's matter to turn against them, and hit them right away , it took half a month to find out the beheading.

On August [-]th, the huge capital city was extremely quiet. All the people and officials in the city went to watch the beheading outside the city. The people stood for hundreds of miles, and now a high beheading platform was set up, and heads rolled down from it. .

A large group of people stood in the dark, but they could hear the sound of the guillotine cutting into the flesh and cutting the bones. The executioner had long been stained with blood, and he raised the knife and fell down without emotion. Such a scene was so frightening that I was so scared that I didn't even dare to cry.

I heard that the beheading platform was covered with blood for several miles around that day, and the blood flowed into a pool for several days. Thousands of heads were piled up outside the city gate to form a hill as high as Mrs. Qi and his father on the top of the hill. s head.

These heads will be placed here for a long time, for people who come and go to the city to watch, as a warning to others.

It should be placed until the flesh and blood rot, maggots eat, and finally turn into bones.

The emperor's thunderous method is also very effective. In the past half month, the price of grain in the country has been rising, and it has dropped from more than two taels of silver per stone to one tael of silver per stone.

Needless to say, Su Tang also knew that after this incident, the common people were terrified. Those profiteers who hoarded grain to raise the price of grain to make a fortune, spit out the grain again out of fear.

The official's head was still placed outside the city gate, and those merchants felt that if they dared to distribute disaster money, the officers and soldiers would rush to his house and wipe his neck without hesitation, and then confiscate the property.

At this juncture, none of the officials in the capital dared to talk too much, they just kept their heads down and did their work. They were a low-level businessman, how dare they steal and play tricks.

Yasu and Yingyue insisted on going outside the city to see the hill where the head was completed, they wanted to see the fate of the villain who ruined their family.

From Yasu's family feud to Song's firm, and then from Song's firm to confess Shen Congwen, Shen Congwen wrote down the evidence against Mrs. Qi, giving His Majesty a reason to attack, and until now, a storm has been set off in the capital.

Su Tang didn't expect this, everything happened so fast, before she could fully react, the heads were already piled up outside the city gate.

(End of this chapter)