chsdbacks Chapter 56, Go ahead and stir things up, go ahead and stir things up.
Chapter 56, Go ahead and stir things up, go ahead and stir things up.
On the third day after the pacification of the southwest, the imperial court's disaster relief grain was successfully transported to the Southwest Regional Military Command.
With food supplies available, popular uprisings in various regions were quelled.
The people rebelled simply because they couldn't survive and had no food.
Now that we have food and the Holy Emperor has punished corrupt officials, who would still want to rebel?
If they had enough to eat, they wouldn't rebel.
The few ambitious individuals who stubbornly resisted were also wiped out by Huo Yang and his men, and their bodies were hung on the city gates for public display.
Huo Yang had been based in Southwest China for ten years and knew the situation in various parts of the region very well.
Huo Yang knew exactly where they were hiding.
The name of the Holy Emperor spread far and wide among the people, throughout the entire southwest region.
In the folk storytelling tradition, the Holy Emperor is described as great, possessing boundless power, and being the sun in the sky.
The Holy Emperor has arrived, and the sky in the southwest has brightened!
Many people were grateful for the emperor's kindness and spontaneously organized to build temples to worship him.
At this time, the Holy Emperor had already embarked on his journey back to the capital.
No, it should be flying back to the capital!
The Holy Emperor threw a large club, then embraced Liu Ying, stepped onto the club, and flew all the way to the capital.
When the big stick lost its strength halfway through, it threw out another one and continued flying by stepping on the big stick.
It took half a day for the Holy Emperor to appear in the capital from the southwest.
"boom!"
The massive stone pillar crashed down in front of the Taiji Hall with a loud bang.
The guards around them were about to hack the uninvited guest to death when they suddenly realized that the person who came was none other than their beloved Holy Emperor.
Although the Holy Emperor had become very young, as his most loyal guards, they naturally recognized him.
"Long live Your Majesty!"
The respectful shouts rose like a tide.
The Holy Emperor embraced the Holy Maiden, reached out and pinched her ample bosom, chuckling, "I told you long ago I could fly, do you believe me now?"
Liu Ying rolled her eyes.
Laugh at me!
Dog Emperor!
"vomit!"
Liu Ying suddenly started gagging.
The Holy Emperor stretched out his arms.
Eunuch Wei had been waiting with his men, and upon seeing this, he quickly signaled to the palace maids to help His Majesty remove his clothes.
The Holy Emperor strode towards the Taiji Hall and said with a faint smile, "Bring all my ministers here!"
"I'll go change my clothes first!"
"Issue an imperial edict!"
"Summon all officials to court!"
The Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern Depot's Inner Guard developed extremely rapidly and had long since infiltrated the entire capital.
Even before the ministers planned to escape, the Imperial Guards had already knocked them unconscious and sent them to prison.
……
The officials soon received the imperial edict to attend court.
Upon hearing this news, everyone was completely bewildered.
Attending court?
Isn't Your Majesty in the southwest?
Now, upon suddenly hearing that they were to attend court, the officials were immediately filled with dread.
After preparing the coffin and instructing his clansmen to prepare the funeral rites, he put on his official robes and went to the palace.
This is all routine practice.
Every court session was a life-or-death test.
The officials gathered in front of the palace gate and soon discovered that many of their former colleagues were missing this time.
As the palace gates opened, the officials stepped inside with trepidation.
With three cracks of the whip.
The officials who had been waiting outside the Taiji Hall entered the hall one after another.
The moment the officials entered the hall, they all looked up at the dragon throne.
They had also heard some things about the Southwest.
Everyone thought the Holy Emperor was doomed, but who knew he would actually come back alive.
Time passes little by little.
The officials grew increasingly nervous.
Finally, footsteps came from the rear.
"His Majesty has arrived!"
The voices of eunuchs and palace attendants rang out in the Taiji Hall.
The officials all bowed in respect.
The Holy Emperor strode confidently to the dragon throne, looked down at the assembled officials, and said loudly, "My recent trip to the southwest has left me with many impressions!"
"I've seen a lot too!"
The moment the emperor spoke, the hearts of the courtiers trembled.
"I was too merciful!"
The Emperor's voice suddenly rose, his smile vanished, and he said coldly, "Are you all so eager for my death?"
"What benefit will you gain from my death?"
"After I die, will you be able to sit on this throne, or will you obtain a position as a prince, duke, or minister?"
"When have you ever thought about your country?!"
"When have I ever thought of the Great Qing Dynasty!"
"Let some people stir things up!"
"They're determined to wreak havoc on Daqing and disrupt the peace of the entire nation!"
"It caused a civil uprising in the southwest, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the war. It also deprived the north of military supplies, allowing the Tartars to advance south and ultimately destroy the Great Qing Dynasty!"
Upon hearing this, the courtiers immediately knelt down.
"We await your demise!"
The Emperor stood up, pointed at the kneeling officials, and said coldly, "I have given some people chances!"
"But they betrayed us, preferring to flee north to the Tartars, to the Western Jin, or to the Southern Chu!"
"They left, fine, but they even took my money with them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the imperial guards outside had already escorted more than a dozen court officials into the Taiji Hall. They were all loyal ministers of the court.
The Emperor pointed at the court officials brought into the hall and said coldly, "Take a look at them all!"
"It was them! They all put on airs, acting all high and mighty, claiming to be poor and destitute with me, yet they left with millions of taels of silver!"
"A tyrannical ruler!"
An elderly man with gray hair struggled violently, his disheveled hair glaring at the emperor on the dragon throne, and angrily rebuked him: "You kill court officials at will and treat us like dirt!"
"We officials are less than a bunch of piglets in your eyes!"
"For the sake of a bunch of worthless weeds, they confiscated our property and exterminated our entire families!"
"A bunch of peasants, now they dare to look down on officials!"
"The laws and rituals of the world have collapsed, the ancestral laws have been abolished, you are disloyal and unfilial!"
"Our rebellion against you is merely in accordance with the general trend of the world and the voice of the people."
The Imperial Censor Zhao spoke louder and louder, his face turning red.
The assembled officials all looked at Zhao You, the Imperial Censor, who had angrily rebuked the Holy Emperor, and silently praised him in their hearts.
No wonder he's a censor of the Censorate, a professional troll!
How brave!
The Holy Emperor sneered, "The people?"
"You mean you?"
"Or are you referring to them?"
"Are you also considered one of the people?"
The Holy Emperor pointed a finger, his tone icy: "You are all acting out of selfish desires, why bother with such high-sounding words!"
"You 'pure' types have always looked down on the northern barbarians, yet now you've gone to collude with them. Is this your code of conduct?"
What the Holy Emperor could not tolerate most was their collusion with foreign tribes.
No matter when, there is only one outcome for the rare.
dead!
"Just you wait and see!"
"I want to establish a truly peaceful nation, where everyone can afford to eat and everyone has a place to live!"
"Drag it away!"
"Execute their entire family!"
They oppose him, and the Holy Emperor can tolerate them and play games with them, but using the lives of the people as a trump card is something the Holy Emperor cannot tolerate.
The Emperor waved his hand, his gaze falling on the remaining officials in the court, and said coldly, "I do not wish for the same thing to happen a second time!"
All the officials remained silent.
In fact, apart from a few individuals, most people had long since given up the idea of opposing the Holy Emperor.
The mighty power of the Holy Emperor is beyond the reach of ordinary forces!
Just then, a eunuch entered the hall, holding a scroll in his hands, and announced loudly:
"Your Majesty!"
"The Western Jin Dynasty sent envoys to the capital!"
Another eunuch entered the hall and announced loudly, "The Southern Chu has sent an envoy to the capital!"
"Your Majesty!"
"The Jin Dynasty of the grasslands has sent envoys to the capital!"
Three envoys arrived in the capital in one day!