I am the empress, you still tell me to run away?

Chapter 98 Sima Zhao, punishing the Nine Clans!

Empress Ji Handan watched Cheng Butang play calmly.

Sima Zhao is dead, and the Sima family should also be exterminated and seek rebellion, but it's not enough for one Cheng Butang to say it, more ministers need to stand up and say it!

If she made a statement prematurely, she would undoubtedly tell these ministers that it was she, Ji Handan, who wanted Sima Zhao to die, and the royal family wanted Sima's family to be exterminated.

After all, not long ago, she had just decreed that five or six aristocratic families in Tiandu should be wiped out. Anything that cannot be done is too obvious, and the effect will be worse if it is too obvious.

These can be regarded as recently learned from my mother Li Ningyan, but my mother also specially explained these "skills", some people can't use them!

"Your Majesty, I have something to announce!"

The chief minister of the cabinet, Liu Zongheng, stepped forward.

Because Sima Zhao assassinated the empress and plotted against him, he naturally became the chief assistant of the cabinet, with a high position and authority.

At times like this, you have to stand up and say something.

"Sima Zhao's assassination of His Majesty, collusion with the enemy's country, disasters and chaos, conspiracy to rebel, heinous crimes, of course, it is not too much to punish the ten clans, but I have my own laws, and I think it is enough to punish the nine clans!"

"If Sima Zhao can be captured, then divide by Ling Chi's death penalty!"

Seeing that Liu Zongheng had said this, the other ministers agreed one after another and supported the extermination of the Sima family.

Empress Ji Handan said neither joy nor sorrow, "Cheng Butang, you are in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, what do you think?"

Holding the wat board in his hand, Cheng Butang replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, the nine clans of Sima's family can be punished! I have also found many other criminal evidences against Sima Zhao, and I still need to ask Your Majesty to make a decision."

As soon as these words were spoken, some of the ministers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony began to sweat on their foreheads.

They are usually very close to Sima Zhao, and they have cooperated on many things. God knows what things Sima Zhao recorded?

These files are invisible things.

Now His Majesty will undoubtedly kill the nine clans of the Sima family, if they are implicated because of these criminal evidences, can they survive?

Your Majesty will definitely go crazy!

Does Cheng Butang want everyone to be buried with him?

"Have you brought these things?"

Empress Ji Han asked calmly, her eyes looked like a giant dragon that would choose someone to devour.

"Your Majesty, these are all outside."

The relationship inside is too big, almost related to the entire court, but if it is not reported, it is not suitable, and there is no guarantee that it will encounter hidden dangers in the future.

The eunuch An Yiyan immediately asked the guards to bring in several boxes of criminal evidence.

In fact, Cheng Butang carried not only a few boxes, but dozens of boxes of bamboo slips, which definitely couldn't fit in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Besides, His Majesty would not look at one item after another, so only a few boxes were brought in.

Empress Ji Handan walked directly off the dragon chair this time, walked down the steps, came to one of the opened boxes, took out one of the bamboo slips and looked at it, then put it down.

Then, Ji Handan picked up some bamboo slips and looked at them.

Every time a bamboo slip was read, the atmosphere in the Hall of Supreme Harmony became more depressed, and almost all the ministers present were terrified.

Throwing the bamboo slips back into the box, Empress Ji Handan glanced at the two boxes in the hall, and then at the boxes outside that hadn't been brought in yet.

According to what is in this box, it is estimated that all the officials present will be pulled out and chopped up. Even if they are not chopped up, their homes will be ransacked, exiled into the army, and exiled, and then there will not be many people left in the entire court.

The most important thing is that if you really want to do this, I am afraid that many of these people will immediately rebel.

To put it simply, to deal with these directly is no different from directly flipping the table.

"Everyone, do you all know what's here?"

Empress Ji Handan walked in the main hall, her gaze swept over all the civil and military officials present.

Under such glances, two ministers fainted and were carried away by the guards who came in.

I don't know whether to send him for treatment, or to the Ministry of Punishment, or the prison.

All in all, the situation is not going to be too good.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty!"

Seeing someone being carried out, a minister immediately knelt down and said incoherently that he was deceived by Sima Zhao before and made some mistakes and so on.

Of course, these are all ways to avoid the important and take the light. It is better to admit it to yourself than to make a brief introduction to the empress Ji Handan later.

Seeing a minister knelt down, many more ministers knelt down, crying and calling out what mistakes they had committed, and begging His Majesty to punish them.

"Your Majesty, the subject is guilty!"

"Your Majesty, I was coerced by Sima Zhao..."

"Your Majesty, Sima Zhao once got his subjects drunk and arranged for some shrews..."

"..."

This apology is really getting more and more outrageous.

Empress Ji Handan raised her hand, and everyone fell silent.

"Sima Zhao, punish the Nine Clans!"

"Everyone who is involved in the Sima Zhao case, go to the Ministry of Officials to register on your own, be demoted, and fined!"

Throughout the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the ministers wept bitterly, thanking the empress Ji Handan for her justice and kindness.

It's just that they are still worried about the boxes in the hall.

With so many boxes of bamboo slips and documents, Sima Zhao really deserves to be hacked into pieces!

Empress Ji Handan pointed to the outside of the hall, and said, "As for these bamboo slips and documents, they were taken out and burned outside."

"Yes!"

The eunuch An Yiyan immediately called the guards to come in and moved all the bamboo slips to the square outside the hall.

In order to burn these bamboo slips conveniently, everything in the box was poured out.

In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the affairs of the court meeting continued.

Empress Ji Han glanced at the officials and said, "Zhongli, what do you want to report?"

Zhongli, the chief minister of Taifu Temple, came out holding a wat board and said: "Qizou Your Majesty, the fairy grain corn and sweet potatoes in the Royal Manor have been harvested, of which 1000 mu of sweet potatoes have been harvested, 18 tons of sweet potatoes have been harvested, and 1000 tons of corn have been harvested." Mu of land, 16 dan of corn."

"There are 5 mu of land for planting immortal grains this time, and Taifu Temple is still sending more people to harvest."

As he spoke, some eunuchs carried several baskets of corn and sweet potatoes into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Yellow plump corn like pearls.

Sweet potatoes that are as red as jade look delicious.

For just a moment, all the ministers could not take their eyes off the fairy food in the hall.

Sweet potatoes, 1000 mu of land, 18 Dan!

Corn, 1000 mu of land, 16 Dan!

This is only a part of the 5 mu Royal Manor, if all of them are harvested, how much fairy food will there be!

With a little more harvest, the famine in Xiangzhou can be completely solved.

To be precise, after the successful harvest of Da Si Nong Zhongli in Taifu Temple, the famine in Xiangzhou can come to an end.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, His Majesty!"

"This is God bless me!"

"Your Majesty, the people of Xiangzhou are saved!"

The ministers congratulated again, as if all the disasters that happened just now had become a thing of the past.

After all, it was only Sima Zhao who was killed by the Nine Clans. The real joy is the harvest of immortal grain and the solution of the famine in Xiangzhou.

Empress Ji Handan showed a smile on her face: "Good! Good! Good! Zhongli, pass on the order that all those who participate in the harvest of the Royal Manor will be rewarded!"

Before switching to the previous one, one had to consider how much money was in the treasury when it came to rewards.

However, there is nothing to worry about these few months.

Not to mention the treasury of a few family exterminations, the treasury has been easily filled to seven or eighty eight, and the gold and silver treasures seized from Sima Zhao's mansion...

There are 1 million taels of gold pancakes alone, and 3000 million taels of silver pancakes.

The remaining silk and satin, pearl and jade jewelry, various shops, houses, fields, etc. are still being counted.

To put it simply, in the next few years, Dagan will not need to worry about where the military salary and food will come from for the battle.

"An Yiyan, take these two baskets of sweet potatoes outside and roast them with the burning bamboo slips."

Empress Ji Handan issued an order.

The eunuch An Yiyan was slightly taken aback, roasting sweet potatoes with bamboo slips?

This is somewhat incomprehensible, but this is His Majesty's will, and it has to be obeyed.

So, a group of eunuchs carried the sweet potatoes and went out to roast the sweet potatoes.

"Everyone, I will bring back a cooked roasted sweet potato later."

Empress Ji Handan returned to the dragon chair and continued the court meeting.

Regarding the bumper harvest at the Royal Manor, the ministers discussed for a while, and basically finalized the plan for the disaster relief with immortal food.

After the court meeting is over, there will be a letter from the Pojun Mansion arranging everything for disaster relief.

When this wave of fairy food is delivered to Xiangzhou, the people of Xiangzhou will be able to live and work in peace and contentment.

However, when it comes to Xiangzhou, the follow-up placement of the 15 Xiangzhou Army has become an unavoidable problem.

According to the original plan, the 15 Xiangzhou army will be split up, part of it will be incorporated into Fan Yangbing's army, and part will be sent back to Xiangzhou to resume production.

However, because the 15 Xiangzhou Army slaughtered too many aristocratic families, they became the target of public criticism.

If some of them were assigned to Fan Yangbing's Zhennan Daying, it would be inevitable that Zhennan Daying would be targeted.

In this way, there may be situations on the issue of guarding against Chu.

But it's not okay to dismiss directly.

There are already many aristocratic and powerful families eyeing Xiangzhou, and when these people are released back to their hometowns, they can clean up and take revenge one by one.

Don't doubt the determination of the aristocratic family, they really will take revenge and eradicate the grass and roots to the end.

Otherwise, they would not have been accumulating wealth until now.

"Your Majesty, the famine in Xiangzhou has been resolved, but the remaining 15 Xiangzhou troops still need places to settle."

Qin Shao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, held the wat board and said.

Did it come?

Empress Ji Han smiled faintly.

Regarding the placement of the 15 Xiangzhou Army, she had already had a plan in mind, but this plan still had to be carefully considered.

In the past, they were worried about the lack of food and grass, and the lack of disaster relief in Xiangzhou, but now that there is enough food and grass, and the money in the treasury is overflowing, it will inevitably be too much to let the Xiangzhou army "mutine".

Although according to Lin Xuan's suggestion, after the mutiny, the families could continue to be slaughtered, but the difficulty of operation was not so high.

In addition, this strategy is based on the possible annihilation of the 15 Xiangzhou Army.

Correspondingly, the strength of the aristocratic families, King Zheng, King Yue, King Chen, King Xu, and King Zheng will be greatly weakened.

Ultimately, it's a bloody strategy, and it doesn't hurt to give up if there's a better one.

"Indeed, how do you think the 15 Xiangzhou Army should be placed?"

Empress Ji Handan asked calmly.

At present, the captives of the Nanyue Kingdom who acted as scapegoats have killed hundreds of people.

Therefore, for the time being, no ministers asked to hand over any "murderers" in the Xiangzhou Army. What they want now is the destruction of the entire Xiangzhou Army.

"Your Majesty, Chengjiang Kingdom is about to make a move in the near future. It seems that it is dispatching troops and planning to prepare 20 troops to invade the northeast border of our country. The Huan people in the grassland in the north have unified 36 tribes in the east of the grassland. They claim to have 40 cavalry. They will go south soon. .”

A young minister from the Ministry of War stood up, holding a wat board and said: "I propose that these 15 Xiangzhou troops be placed in the northeast to prevent foreign enemies from invading!"

Empress Ji Han frowned slightly.