At the morning court session the next day, the emperor ordered the Dali Temple, the Minister of Punishment, and the Censor-in-Chief to bring the officials on the list back for investigation. Local officials were brought to the capital for investigation, and the prime minister and his party who had fled the famine were also brought back to the capital for investigation.
The officials who had been feeling a little lucky, collapsed to the ground after hearing this, their faces pale and colorless, knowing that this time it was all over!
The Prime Minister's party was still fleeing famine. They had experienced drought, locust plague, floods and epidemics. Only a few members of the original family were left, and some officials even died of illness on the road.
They insulted me! I regretted my short-sightedness in following the Prime Minister, which ended up destroying my family.
Before they could fully regret their actions, they were captured by Dali and taken back to the capital by officers and soldiers from the Ministry of Justice. What awaited them was the execution of their entire clan.
The Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate were all busy catching people.
Li Yun was also busy, giving the ill-gotten gains to the people to help them rebuild their homes.
Things were stable, the amusement park was almost completed, and Li Yun began to busy herself with her business empire.
Since God gave her a lot of modern things, Li Yun decided to move them to ancient times.
"Second brother, I called you here this time because I want to discuss the business empire with you?" Li Yun called Ouyang Mingxuan, and the two sat in the study and talked straight to the point.
"Business empire? Sister, have you thought about how to do it?" Ever since his sister mentioned the business empire, he has been waiting for her to build it.
"Yes, now that everything has settled, it's time to build a business empire." Li Yun said with a smile.
"Sister, what do you want to do? Just tell me, big brother?" Ouyang Mingxuan said excitedly and expectantly.
“The first step was for my second brother to buy shops from all over the place and renovate them according to my requirements.
The second step is to buy a group of reliable servants and train them.
In the third step, the younger sister will give the second brother the recipe and some food and sell them in the shop.
Then build a workshop and produce food according to the recipe.
The fourth step is to wait until the products start selling and then start recruiting people to join." Li Yun picked up the completed plan, handed it to Ouyang Mingxuan, and explained its contents.
"Okay, second brother, you will set off tomorrow to various provincial capitals, counties and towns to buy people and shops. We will try to buy people and shops within three months, and train them to take up their posts within half a year." Ouyang Mingxuan vowed to Li Yun.
"Okay, sister believes in second brother's ability." Li Yun said.
The two began to discuss the shop and workshop, and it was not until the evening that the initial outline of their business empire emerged.
After dinner, Ouyang Mingxuan returned to the Marquis' Mansion with the banknotes and drawings.
The next day, Ouyang Mingxuan set off with his servants. He was going to various provincial capitals to buy shops and servants. He was also accompanied by the carpenter that Li Yun had asked him to bring.
The days passed like this, and the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate all completed their reviews, and those officials also signed and sealed their names.
When the confession was presented to the emperor, he was furious and immediately ordered the confiscation of the emperor's property. He also issued an imperial decree to behead the emperor in public three days later.
The entire family of those officials was beheaded in public, and the remaining eight clans had their property confiscated and sent to work as miners. They were not allowed to take the imperial examinations for five generations.
When the people heard the good news, they took to the streets to set off firecrackers to celebrate.
On the day of the execution, the streets on both sides of the execution ground in the capital were filled with people, and there was no way to get through. There were more people than when the top scholar was paraded through the streets.
The people on both sides had something in their hands, such as rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, etc.
When the corrupt official was locked in the prison van and slowly driven to the execution ground, the people on both sides began to throw eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, and some even threw small stones.
The person on the first prison car was the prime minister. His hands and feet were chained, and his hair and face were disheveled. The arrogant prime minister was no longer there, and he only looked like a beggar.
"I'll smash you to death, you corrupt official! You've taken our hard-earned money!" A peasant woman, carrying a basket full of rotten eggs, angrily and ruthlessly smashed the rotten eggs on the Prime Minister's face and head. The eggs cracked, and the egg liquid flowed down his head and face, leaving the Prime Minister in a state of disarray.
"Throw you to death, you corrupt and incompetent official! You've caused us to go hungry and become homeless!" A burly man took rotten vegetable leaves and threw them at the prime minister's head with all his might. The look on his face was indescribable.
"Corrupt officials, incompetent officials who do not serve the people deserve to be put to death!" Several children held small stones, jumped and sang, and threw the stones with difficulty, with smiles on their faces.
Other officials were not much better, allowing the people on both sides to throw eggs, vegetable leaves and pebbles at them.
Their families had to walk with difficulty wearing iron chains and had to endure being pelted with eggs by the people. Their heads and bodies were covered with egg liquid, egg yolks, and rotten vegetable leaves.
Especially the women, who had always been spoiled and had never suffered such humiliation. When they smelled the stinky smell on their bodies, their stomachs churned and they almost vomited all the yellow bile. They were so embarrassed that they wanted to die.
The people on both sides smashed, threw things, cursed, and spit, and they were very angry. The officers and soldiers on both sides turned a blind eye and let the people vent their anger. They also hated the corrupt officials.
The prime minister and his entourage finally arrived at the execution ground and were taken to the platform. The chief executioner and the executioner were already waiting there.
When the time came, the executioner threw the token, raised the sword, sprayed a mouthful of water, and swung the sword at the corrupt official.
At the moment the head fell to the ground, the people shouted, some clapped, and some danced.
The prime minister and his party were beheaded, and the emperor went to see the second prince. The two talked for a long time before the emperor dragged his sad body out with red eyes, probably because he had been crying.
As for what the father and son said, no one knows except the parties involved.
The next day, the emperor issued an imperial decree, demoting the second prince to a commoner and exiling him to a Mongolian tower, never to return to the capital.
When this imperial edict came out, the people couldn't help but sigh. The second prince fought for so long, but in the end he ended up like this.
Concubine Shu was banished to the cold palace and was not allowed to leave without the emperor's oral order. She was not given any palace maids to serve her, and was left to fend for herself in the cold palace for the rest of her life.
All the palace maids and eunuchs who served Concubine Shu were beaten to death.
Then the emperor issued an imperial decree, saying that this year's imperial examination would be moved forward to the 18th of next month, and all those who passed the examination and became Jinshi and the top three would be immediately assigned official positions.
As soon as this imperial edict was issued, the whole country was in an uproar. Long Qi was a student, so he used a month to review and strive to get good grades in the exam so that he could become an official in the court.
Why did he study so much? Of course, it was to become an official in the court and realize his ambitions.
There is only one month left until the imperial examination, and everyone is preparing for it.
The Imperial College was also not in trouble. The chief academic wanted Dabao to give it a try to see if he could pass the examination and become a student.
Of course, the six people brought from Qingshan Village also took the exam. Song Haizhong also took the imperial examination. If he passed, he would be assigned an official position this year.
Dabao and Chen Bin started reviewing with the other five people, and often went to bed very late.
Li Yun felt a little regretful when she saw Dabao and the others working day and night.
Dabao is still young and staying up late often is not good for his health.
Then I thought that during the exam, the candidates would have to live in there for three days, and it would be impossible not to eat nutritious and hot food.
Li Yun thought of instant noodles. She found the recipe on her mobile phone and asked someone to start making instant noodles so that Dabao and the others could eat steaming hot instant noodles.
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