Chapter 5: Subtle Changes
"Your Majesty, how do you want to deal with these people?" After sending the Queen Mother away, Long Xizhao was the first to ask. As smart as she was, although she had thought of a lot, she had never thought that the abnormal rebellion would be solved so easily. Please remember our
"All soldiers who participated in the rebellion will be punished by being transferred to the border for three years of garrison. They can leave only after they have made up for their mistakes with merits. All generals with military ranks will be demoted by three levels and are not allowed to move around without military orders. Everything must be done by me. All these traitors will be imprisoned in the Sky Prison, awaiting their fate, and no one will be allowed to visit them. The entire Situ family will also be arrested, and anyone who deserts will be killed without mercy." She thought there would be a bloody massacre, but it did not end so easily. However, those who deserved to die would never live. She would listen to Luo Yu and spare the lives of those soldiers, but some people still had to be responsible for their choices.
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The court officials who had defected to Situ Changqin begged for mercy in fear, but under the command of Long Xizhao, they were all thrown into the Sky Prison. Qianhe Liyou's words were completely executed, and for a while, two-thirds of the court officials were locked up in the Sky Prison, and the military generals who were sent home were also in a panic. The entire imperial city was plunged into a tense atmosphere, and the battle situation outside the palace was much bloodier than inside the palace, because the rebels outside the palace did not know that Situ Changqin was dead and were still resisting stubbornly, and the secret force of the Qianhe family, "Hengdao", wiped out all these rebels without any hesitation. For a while, the roads outside the palace were stained red with blood, and the smell of blood was everywhere, which made people want to vomit. The timid people did not even dare to go out. The prosperous imperial city became like a dead city overnight.
"Your Majesty, the rebellion has been basically quelled, and I have already ordered the arrest of the remaining fugitives. Do you have any other instructions?" For three consecutive days, Long Xizhao was so busy that she didn't even have time to close her eyes. She finally dealt with the rebels. She hurried to the palace without taking a rest, only to find that the emperor was holding a book of unknown origin, reading it very leisurely. This made her jealous and she wanted to go crazy. It was a bad fate to be a minister.
"I heard that your brother is the concubine of the eldest son of the Situ family." During these three days, she did not live as leisurely as outsiders thought. Although she held a book in her hand, she was more thinking. It was a very novel experience to completely integrate the memory of this soul and spirit into her own memory.
From these memories, she also gained a detailed understanding of the palace inside and outside. Although this soul was incompetent before, he was still an emperor who could not be underestimated. In addition to the 50,000 secret troops, he also had the Dark Department responsible for secret operations and a business system called Hidden Dragon that included the five major countries on the continent. These two could be said to be the lifeline of the royal family. The foundation created by the successive generations of the Qianhe family should not be underestimated.
As for the matter concerning Long Xizhao's brother, that was information collected by both the Anbu and the commercial system Yinlong's intelligence systems. Almost on the second day of the rebellion, Qianhe Liyou had already learned the detailed list of rebels. According to her estimation, even if this body was still the same soul and spirit as before, with Situ Changqin's power alone, the result of the rebellion would still be a loss.
"Your Majesty, I dare not hide it. This is true. I have already imprisoned my brother in the Heavenly Prison for interrogation. I would never dare to bend the law for personal gain," Long Xizhao said solemnly while kneeling on the ground. Although her brother was secretly married to Situ Wenyu, the eldest son of the Situ family, as a concubine, she was not so ignorant as to think that no one knew about this. It was just that she didn't know what the emperor meant by asking this question. Alas, her foolish brother, why did he fall in love with that villain Situ Wenyu in the first place? Not only was he hurt in love, but he also lost an innocent life.
"Pass on my oral order, take your brother home, give him a good advice, and don't have any contact with the Situ family again." She didn't understand feelings. Although she thought that people who were hurt in love were very stupid, she also had a kind of admiration for him. Besides, Long Xizhao was a good person, and she didn't want her to have any regrets.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your grace. Long live the emperor." Long Xizhao's surprise was beyond words. The reason why she did not beg for mercy was that she thought that with the emperor's cruelty, he would never let her brother go. Except for the empress dowager's face, the emperor would not give face to anyone. However, she never thought that the emperor would take the initiative to bring it up. How could she not be surprised.
"Go down, do a good job of suppressing the rebellion, do what you should do, and don't do what you shouldn't do."
Qianhe Liyou's indifferent tone made Long Xizhao, who was surprised, immediately become cautious. The emperor was different, really different. She didn't know whether the emperor hid it too deeply or this incident stimulated her. But she could feel that the cruel and terrifying emperor before had changed, become deep, cold, and even more frightening. Moreover, this time the fear came from the bottom of her heart. Just such a light sentence made her whole body cold. This was a feeling she had never had before.
"Yes, I obey your command."
Looking at Long Xizhao who retreated cautiously, Qianhe Liyou also threw down the book in his hand and stood up.
The court was in turmoil and the people were in panic. She said nothing but had already thought of everything. She just waited for all the rebels to be caught, killed those who should be killed, punished those who should be punished, and then made a major reshuffle to kick those useless people out of her sight completely. The emperor's way of employing people requires checks and balances, but she is not the emperor and will not manage the dynasty in that way. She will govern the country in her own way. To her, the whole country is like her toy. She wants to experience a different life here and wants to live her own way.
However, court affairs were easy to handle, but some things made her feel troublesome, and the chief of these troubles was the person in charge of the harem, Empress Dowager Luoyu. She didn't even know what attitude she should use to deal with Luoyu, which made her a little annoyed. In addition to Luoyu, there were dozens of concubines in the harem, from Empress Luo Weiqing to attendants whose names she didn't even know. As long as they were people she had touched or had a status, in her cognition, they already belonged to her. She had the responsibility to be responsible for these people and take care of their lives. This also made her feel troublesome, because she had only taken care of "food" and was very confused about how to treat these people. If she treated these people in the same way as before, it would obviously be inappropriate, and she was not very Although she liked some of these people, naturally she would not do anything intimate with them. She was a ten-thousand-year-old zombie, so she naturally understood intimacy in bed, but she had never experienced it. After all, a zombie body could not have it. But now she had a human body, and would not reject physical contact with humans, but she would not be as indulgent as before. It was just that according to the customs here, those people in the harem had no choice but to stay in her harem. If she asked them to live, they would live, and if she asked them to die, they would not even have the ability to resist. As for such fragile existence, someone as powerful as her would not care, but these people were her responsibility. So, after thinking about it for three days, although she still felt it was troublesome, she reluctantly made a decision.
They are her responsibility. She will take care of them, let them live a comfortable life, and protect them from bullying and oppression by others. But she will never indulge these people, nor will she force herself to do things she doesn't want to do. The country has its laws and the family has its rules. She is also extremely principled in doing what she wants. She hopes that no one will cross her bottom line.
"Your Majesty, are you going out?" A cautious voice asked from behind Qianhe Liyou. It was the Queen Luo Weiqing who had always been by her side. She had given an order that her food and daily life were all to be taken care of by the Queen herself, as if she were an ordinary male servant. But who in the palace dared to say anything?
The reason why she does this is because of her habit. Keeping "food" by her side is one of the zombies' hobbies.
"Queen, I don't like the intrigues in the harem. As a queen, you should have the courage of a queen. Convey my order and ask the concubines and servants in the harem to behave themselves. The dishonest demon concubine is a lesson for them. Do you understand?"
The emperor was cruel and ruthless in the past, and concubines would die on the dragon bed every now and then, but the major families still sent men to her continuously. It was self-evident why they did this. The intrigues and conspiracies were no less than those in the court. This was what she hated the most and would never allow it to happen again.
"Yes, I understand. I'll do it right away." The emperor had always allowed the concubines to fight with each other and seldom intervened. He didn't know why there was suddenly such an order. But since the emperor woke up again, he felt that the emperor was a little different. The disgust in his eyes that used to look at him became indifferent, and he also let him serve by his side, which surprised everyone.
Moreover, what surprised everyone the most was that the emperor used to favor the concubines every day, and he was different every day, and was licentious and immoral, but since the rebellion, he left the queen alone to serve in the bedroom every day. Moreover, everyone thought that the emperor would favor the queen, but the emperor did nothing, and slept on a separate bed at night. The servants who served him saw these things clearly, and slowly the word spread, so naturally everyone knew about it.
Everyone speculated on the reason, and the answer that everyone could accept was that the rebellion had sobered the emperor, but no one knew how long he would stay awake.
But in any case, the emperor has changed. This change is not obvious, but it can be felt by everyone who comes into contact with her.
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