Those who planned to go to the capital to file a complaint were beaten to death by local gangs and buried in the suburbs.
After that, the wages of workers stipulated by the imperial court were all halved under his management.
However, the price reported to the Ministry of Commerce was not reduced by a single cent.
Once private armed forces are involved, it will undoubtedly touch a nerve with the officials in the court.
During the Song Dynasty, scholar-officials were even more concerned about the rise of local power than about border troubles.
Therefore, the atmosphere in the imperial court has been so oppressive that it's suffocating lately.
More than a thousand members of the Chen family had just been executed and chopped into mincemeat.
The officials involved were escorted back to the capital overnight from their local posts.
A few days later, the heads of more than 300 officials fell to the ground.
The whole world was shocked.
The Council of State Affairs and the Privy Council began assigning new officials in a flurry of activity.
According to some observant people, this major purge eliminated nearly half of Xu Churen's close associates from his time.
Some conspiracy theorists privately speculate that this was an order Yu Yunwen gave to the emperor in order to consolidate his own authority.
Some people believe that this involves the current position of the crown prince. As is well known, Yu Yunwen once advised the emperor to appoint Prince Zhao Chun as the crown prince.
The supporters of Duke Chongguo, Zhao Chen, were Tang Ke and the old-school officials of the new policies.
These people believe that this purge was actually a move by the younger generation, represented by Yu Yunwen, to consolidate their power in the future, namely, to suppress the supporters of the Duke of Chongguo and to support the supporters of Zhao Chun.
While Li Bao was killing people in Tokyo like cutting cabbage, he received an imperial edict from the emperor.
Now that we have a legitimate reason to send troops, we are preparing to launch a distant expedition against Chalice and punish this foreign land!
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