After exposing the Wang family's crimes to the public, there will be a legitimate reason to deal with them.
Within the imperial city, all properties belonging to the Wang family were immediately seized and confiscated. Outside the imperial city, Ye Jingchen had also made preparations.
The entire family was completely under Ye Jingchen's control in just three days.
All members of the Wang family were also imprisoned. The largest number of Wang family members were in the capital city, and the prisons of the Ministry of Justice and the Jingzhao Prefecture were almost overflowing.
Officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Jingzhao Prefecture, and even the Dali Temple were seconded to investigate the Wang family.
Those who have not violated the laws of Daeyu are released directly; others are punished according to the sentencing standards stipulated in the law.
The review process is open and transparent, allowing the public to watch and supervise.
After the Wang family's downfall, officials in the court who belonged to the Wang family lineage were naturally unwilling to accept it and tried to mediate on their behalf.
However, once the charge of treason was brought against them, none of them dared to act rashly.
In the imperial court, the highest-ranking member of the Wang family faction was Prime Minister Wang. He had many members of the Wang family under his command, but Ye Jingchen had already investigated these people. They were self-disciplined and had no blemishes on their bodies. They also did not have close contact with other members of the Wang family, which was probably intentional on the part of the Wang family.
On the third day after the Wang family's incident, Prime Minister Wang requested to retire and return to his hometown during the morning court session.
He was a veteran official of two dynasties, and had been diligent and conscientious for many years. If the emperor did not want to be known as a cruel and bloodthirsty official and to discourage his court officials, he could not make trouble for Prime Minister Wang.
When Wang Xiang left the capital, he took some of the young talents of the Wang family with him, and all of them were clean.
They left the capital openly and legitimately, and Crown Prince Ye Jingchen even went to see them off, since Prime Minister Wang was also his nominal teacher.
When the Prime Minister left, he was calm and composed.
Ye Jingchen didn't make things difficult for the people he took away, because they hadn't violated the laws of Dayuan.
While dealing with the Wang family, Ye Jingchen also instilled in the people of the imperial city, and even the people of the entire Dayuan, a concept that the law should be above all people and things.
The biggest beneficiary of the punishment of the Wang family was the emperor; the money seized alone multiplied the national treasury and his private coffers several times over.
Ye Jingshu and her group reaped just as much as the emperor. They seized the opportunity to consolidate many of the Wang family's assets, doubling their business empire.
The people rejoiced at the decline of the royal family.
Over the past few centuries, the land seized by the royal family will eventually return to the hands of the people.
One whale falls, and all things come to life.
Similarly, when a powerful family falls, the lives of countless ordinary people will improve.
While Ye Jingchen was dealing with the powerful families, Ye Jinghe left the Eastern Palace and moved into the Prince's Mansion.
The emperor summoned the Imperial Astronomical Bureau to calculate an auspicious time. Before he could even give any hints, the chief of the bureau calculated that the day would be the first day of the fourth month.
Because of this auspicious day, the emperor decided to keep the supervisor in office for a while longer.
What he didn't know was that someone else felt the same urgency as him to have Ye Jinghe leave the Eastern Palace as soon as possible.
The day after Ye Jingchen's coming-of-age ceremony, in addition to appointing Ye Jingchen as the Grand Chancellor, the emperor also bestowed titles upon several princes who had established their own palaces.
Ye Jingming was granted the title of Prince Duan, Ye Jingyu was granted the title of Prince Rui, Ye Jingyu was granted the title of Prince Xian, and Ye Jinghe was granted the title of Prince Qian.
Ye Jinghe disliked the word "humility" very much. He had reasonable grounds to suspect that the emperor was targeting him. However, as soon as the emperor bestowed the title, a plaque was hung in his mansion, and the words on the plaque were written by the emperor himself.
On the day Ye Jinghe moved into the Prince's Mansion, Ye Jingchen invited everyone to the Prince's Mansion to celebrate Ye Jinghe's housewarming.
From a young age, Ye Jinghe was cared for by Fang Xi and Fang Rui. Ye Jingchen allowed the two of them to leave the palace with Ye Jinghe.
The large palace needs someone to manage it, and these two young ladies are indeed getting on in years; it's time for them to start thinking about the rest of their lives.
Besides these two girls, Ye Jingchen will also let Fangfei and the others leave the palace.
In the past few years, they have become familiar with life outside the palace with Ye Jingshu, and even if they leave the palace, their lives will not be bad.
The emperor bestowed royal residences upon the princes and naturally arranged for servants to be assigned to them. With these well-trained people, they were naturally able to put on a good show at a banquet.
However, Ye Jinghe had lived in the East Palace since childhood, and Ye Jingchen had made all the decisions about his food, clothing, housing, and transportation. He himself had no idea how to arrange servants.
Therefore, Ye Jingchen pushed the task of dealing with the Wang family onto Xie Chang'an, while he himself busied himself with Ye Jinghe's affairs.
Xie Chang'an was naturally very dissatisfied with this.
But who told him to lose his mind in order to coax Ye Jingchen into calling him husband, and to promise Ye Jingchen that he would do a hundred things for him.
Dealing with the Wang family is just one of a hundred things to do.
When it comes to governing subordinates, Ye Jinghe only knows how to lead troops, but leading troops and managing a mansion are two completely different things.
Ye Jingchen was stationed at the Prince Qian's residence, directing the servants to prepare for the banquet, while Ye Jinghe learned from him.
The most fun part of the housewarming party was the gifts everyone gave Ye Jinghe.
As everyone knows, Ye Jinghe has always been perfunctory and careless when giving gifts since he was a child, so the housewarming gifts that everyone gave him this time were also very perfunctory.
Ye Jingshu gave him a bowl, saying in a serious tone, "Of all the things to do, eating, drinking, playing, eating, clothing, shelter, and transportation, eating is the most important. I'm giving you this bowl so you can take it with you wherever you go, and you'll never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life."
Ye Jingyu then gave him a pair of chopsticks, and said to Ye Jinghe with a smile, "I hope that Fifth Brother will learn more from chopsticks in the future and not be so roundabout."
Ye Jing'an presented a large-bellied cup as a gift, saying, "I hope that Fifth Brother will be as generous as this cup and not so stingy."
Ye Jingyan gave her a myna bird as a gift. From the moment she brought the myna bird into the mansion, it kept quacking excitedly and tirelessly.
"With this myna bird, even if the Fifth Prince doesn't say anything, the Prince Qian's mansion will still be very lively."
Ye Jinghe looked at these four guys and felt a surge of murderous intent.
If his brother hadn't been watching over them, he would never have allowed them to set foot in the Prince Qian's residence.
Ye Jingming gave a paperweight, Ye Jingyu gave a piece of ink, and Gu Beichen gave a brush. The three of them couldn't even put together a complete set of brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.
Ye Jingning's gift was probably prepared with the help of Consort Shu; he sent a set of writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone all by himself.
Yun Shu gave him a pink feng shui stone. The stone looked very ordinary, but Yun Shu said it was a divine stone that could change Ye Jinghe's fate of being alone and widowed, and that Ye Jinghe must place the divine stone in his bedroom.
Ye Jinghe wanted to throw the stone and the person out together.
Ye Jingyan presented a screen embroidered with the rising sun, which was the most normal gift among everyone.
Ye Jingyu gave a small, pure gold wolf cub figurine, the size of a palm, which was more valuable than all the other gifts combined.
Although most of the gifts were meager and full of sarcasm, the Prince Qian's mansion was bustling with activity that day, and all the guests, except for the mansion's owner, were enjoying themselves immensely.
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