At night, Qianyuan Palace, Imperial Study.
Bang!
Li Wei kicked open the door of the palace, her pretty face so gloomy that water seemed to drip out of it.
As soon as she entered, the seven or eight ministers who were discussing matters with Gu Jinzhi in the imperial study suddenly knelt on the ground, trembling and calling out, "Long live the Queen, long live the Queen, long live the Queen!"
Li Wei's eyes swept over these figures, some familiar and some unfamiliar, and she snorted coldly.
A murderous aura that was almost condensed into substance instantly covered the entire imperial study. Except for Gu Jinzhi, everyone else was oppressed to the point of suffocation.
Lu Zhenyan and others crawled on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads, and cold sweat quickly soaked their clothes.
Gu Jinzhi was a little surprised to see Li Wei's furious look and waved to her.
Li Wei strode over with a bad temper and sat down in the middle of the dragon throne, pushing Gu Jinzhi to the side.
Gu Jinzhi was not annoyed, and even had a faint smile of indulgence on his face. He poured Li Wei a cup of hot tea and handed it to her.
Li Wei took the teacup and drank it in one gulp. The depression in her chest seemed to be relieved a little bit.
Gu Jinzhi then spoke with a bit of curiosity: "What did you do during the day? Why are you so angry?"
Li Wei clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white, and her voice was cold:
"Nothing much, just ripped off every single one of the wealthy landlords within a few dozen miles of the eastern suburbs..."
Before she finished speaking and Gu Jinzhi made any response, a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, wearing an official uniform with a peacock patch, among the ministers kneeling below, shuddered violently and let out a shrill cry:
"Father! Mother! My son!"
Li Wei blinked and turned her head to look at Gu Jinzhi with a questioning look.
Gu Jinzhi lowered his voice and explained in her ear: "Minister of Personnel, Wang Rulin."
"My parents, wife, and children all live in the eastern suburbs. They are quite powerful local gentry."
"Oh? Last name Wang?"
Li Wei's beautiful almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly, flashing with a dangerous cold light.
Lu Zhenyan, who had been secretly watching Li Wei out of the corner of her eye, saw this and said in her heart, "Not good!" and was about to speak up to plead for Wang Rulin.
Then Li Wei asked coldly, "Minister Wang, is your father Wang Wenyu?"
Wang Rulin's crying was interrupted by this sudden question. He suddenly burped and nodded blankly.
Clang——!
A brilliant sword light flashed across.
Wang Rulin's head flew up into the sky, and the column of blood spurting out of his neck seemed to be rushing up to the beams of the hall.
Li Wei didn't even look at the head that rolled to the ground. She just said calmly, "Wei Xun, have Chu Hong take people to search the house."
Wei Xun, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department who was kneeling not far away, felt his legs go weak when he heard this and he almost collapsed. He managed to reply, "I obey your order," and then he crawled out of the imperial study to pass on the message to Chu Hong.
He actually didn't dare to say that he also had several large farms in the eastern suburbs.
The Empress's thunderous attack today has left countless loyal servants dead...
No, no!
After returning, I have to sell off all the land under my name as soon as possible!
From now on, I will never own anything else. I will just stay in the palace and serve my mother... ahem... serve His Majesty and His Majesty.
What is this called?
This is called duty!
As for Chu Hong, haha, our family has no obligation to remind him.
......
On the Dragon Throne...
Gu Jinzhi reached out his hand helplessly and gently patted Li Wei's tense back. At the same time, he signaled the eunuchs standing in the hall to quickly dispose of Wang Rulin's body.
He looked at the other ministers, who were already pale with fear and trembling like sieves, and said gently, "My dear ministers, let's stop here for today."
The ministers were as if they had been pardoned. They were terrified and supported each other as they fled from the imperial study.
Li Wei was a little dissatisfied when she saw that everyone had run away.
I'm still holding back my anger, but I can't find a place to vent it.
Suddenly, she felt a big hand gently patting her back, and her sharp gaze like a knife suddenly hit Gu Jinzhi's face.
Gu Jinzhi smiled awkwardly and withdrew his hand naturally, as if nothing had happened. He asked slowly, "What happened to make you so angry?"
It would have been better if he didn't mention it. As soon as he mentioned it, Li Wei's mind uncontrollably emerged with the tragic scenes she saw during the day.
The dead babies under the bridge, the starving people outside the city, the hanged old men, the oppressed tenant farmers...
Her breathing suddenly became heavier. She didn't want to keep the matter in her heart, so she simply told Gu Jinzhi everything she had seen and heard during the day.
After saying this, she gritted her teeth and spoke word by word, "I will wipe out all the gentry in the world! All of the world!! Not a single one will be spared!!!"
Gu Jinzhi listened to Li Wei's story quietly, his expression gradually darkening, with a cold light glimmering in his eyes.
But he finally suppressed his boiling anger and tried hard to be a qualified listener.
After Li Wei calmed down a bit and her breathing became more even, he spoke seriously, "Jiang Xue, have you ever considered that killing alone can't solve the fundamental problem?"
Upon hearing this, Li Wei suddenly turned her head and glared at Gu Jinzhi, saying coldly:
"What, Young Master Gu, are you going to speak for those powerful and wealthy people? Oh~ I forgot, you, Gu Jinzhi, also come from a top-tier family. Your butt naturally determines your head, hehe..."
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