Chapter 32 Lin Xing escaped during the chaos
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At night, the rebellious families rushed into the palace and captured the substitute that Fu Jiangyu left in the palace. This substitute was similar in body shape to Fu Jiangyu, but looked completely different.
The leader of the rebellion was stunned when he saw this substitute. Could it be that His Majesty had already escaped from the palace?
But it doesn't matter. There are only a handful of people who have seen His Majesty. On weekdays, when ministers go to court, they have to lower their heads and dare not look directly into His Majesty's eyes. Only a few high-ranking and powerful ministers remember His Majesty's face.
He dragged the substitute out and killed him, just as if he had killed the emperor. Wouldn't the real emperor who ran out of the palace become a fake?
The rebel leader walked out of the palace holding the child in one hand and the fake emperor in the other, saying to everyone: "The emperor is dead, and the new emperor has ascended the throne!"
Everyone raised their weapons and shouted at him, but before they could shout, an arrow pierced the rebel leader's throat with a whoosh.
"He is His Majesty, then who am I?" Fu Jiangyu sat on his horse, holding a bow and arrow, and looked at everyone coldly.
When he said this, everyone was so frightened that their legs went weak.
"Didn't they say that His Majesty was seriously ill and wouldn't last much longer?"
"Didn't they say that His Majesty has become ill and confused, allowing the evil concubine to control the government? How could this be?"
"Capture them all." Fu Jiangyu gave an order, and the troops of Marquis Nan'an rushed in and captured those leaderless soldiers. Several officials from aristocratic families who were in charge were all beheaded on the spot.
All the soldiers who resisted were killed, and the remaining soldiers who surrendered were captured and temporarily detained.
That night, the palace was filled with the smell of blood, cries, and pleas for mercy.
Some palace maids and guards who helped the rebels pass on messages and open the palace gates were also killed, and the ground was stained with blood. At dawn the next day, the palace maids silently carried away the bodies and scrubbed the blood-stained floor tiles.
They were silently thankful that they were not involved in this matter. Many palace maids and eunuchs had been bewitched and almost did wrong things.
The palace maids and eunuchs who had participated in the rebellion once laughed at them for being timid and being palace maids and eunuchs of the lowest level for their entire lives, unable to turn their lives around. Now those smug faces have turned gray and lifeless.
After cleaning, the palace seemed to have returned to normal.
At the morning court this morning, Fu Jiangyu ordered that the properties of those rebellious noble families be confiscated and their entire clans be executed.
A group of Lin Xing's followers had been arrested last time, and now another group was arrested. The court carried out a major purge, and it was just in time for the imperial examination to begin, so a group of officials were added.
Fu Jiangyu took out the last exam registration list and tore it up on the spot: "Among them, some of Zhang Enxiao's deceased students are included, as well as some of the rebels' disciples. These people are not suitable to take the exam. I will issue an imperial decree to inform all scholars in the world that they can come to Beijing to take the exam."
This first batch of examinations was just the beginning. There was no complete system. All scholars could take the examination without having to pass the examination step by step from the level of scholar to the level of juren.
Lin Baige thought that talents were needed now, so he should first select a group to rejuvenate the court, and then improve it step by step.
The test papers were completed jointly by Mr. Zhang and Fu Jiangyu, and several officials were selected to mark the papers. More than 30 officials were selected first, and the final selected people came to take the palace examination, and were examined by Fu Jiangyu himself.
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This time, Fu Jiangyu did not let Lin Baige participate in the morning court. He asked him to memorize more books and prepare to take the imperial examination. After passing the examination, he could legitimately enter the court and become an official.
He also asked Fu Jiangyu not to sleep with him before the exam, and Fu Jiangyu agreed, but he still had to hold him to sleep at night, and he would not let go even when the weather was hot. Last night, he was sweating all over. Fu Jiangyu also said: "My beloved concubine, if you feel hot, take off your clothes. You see, I am not wearing any clothes."
Lin Baige's eyes widened, thinking that he was not wearing any clothes, and was naked, as if he was deliberately showing him his perfect body. Moreover, his chest and abdominal muscles were much better than those of the marginal male anchors that Lin Baige liked to watch before he traveled through time. As soon as Fu Jiangyu took off his clothes, his eyes couldn't help but stick to him.
Originally, after he came back, he was quite scared because so many people died in the palace, but when his face was pressed against Fu Jiangyu's chest muscles, he had no time to think about anything else.
Today, he was reading in his bedroom when he heard a palace servant come to report that his cousin wanted to see him and said he had something very important to tell him.
Lin Baige remembered that although the original owner had lost his parents, he still had an uncle and a cousin. His uncle and cousin helped Lin Xing do a lot of bad things, and these things were naturally blamed on the original owner.
This cousin is not a good person, and the important things he does will not be good things. He still has to meet him and listen to what conspiracies and tricks his cousin has to say so that he can be on guard.
As a result, when his cousin came in, he asked him to dismiss the palace servants and whispered to him, "I know that my brother likes Lin Xing. A while ago, I secretly bribed some people and let him go. If nothing unexpected happens, Lin Xing has already arrived in Jiang State."
"What?! Who said I like him? How could you do such a stupid thing?" Lin Baige's head was about to explode. This Lin Xing was indeed worthy of being the male protagonist. His tongue was pulled out and his hands were chopped off, yet he was able to escape. What was the point of escaping after such a situation? Could he rely on the protagonist's halo to grow hands and tongue again?
"Brother, stop talking in anger. I know you like him. Lin Xing hopes that you can continue to pass on information to him in the future." The cousin whispered to him.
Lin Baige remembered that in the original text, Lin Xing killed the original owner, but took this cousin into his harem. He suspected that Lin Xing and his cousin were in love with each other, but he tricked the original owner into paying for them. Who knows, maybe his cousin was laughing at the original owner for being love-brained behind her back.
"Seventeen! Seventeen, come in and take him down!" As soon as Lin Baige finished speaking, Seventeen jumped down from the beam and pressed his cousin, who was full of surprise, to the ground.
"Oh, how could I forget such important information? I thought that locking him in the water dungeon would be foolproof!" Lin Baige slapped his head in regret. Normally, when he read novels, he would forget the beginning after reading the latter part and only remember some major nodes. But now that he has traveled through time, everything is a matter of life and death.
He hurried out to find Fu Jiangyu, hoping he could stop Lin Xing.
When he ran out, Fu Jiangyu just came back and bumped into him.
Fu Jiangyu picked her up and said, "My beloved, do you miss me like this? You came running to greet me?"
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