"Haha, a food stall in a refugee area actually has a plaque with the word 'Royal' on it. The emperor is indeed a tyrant. How ridiculous!"
Unlike refugees like Li Kuanchen and Lu San, most people in Qinjing didn’t actually know much about what happened in Cuiping Mountain.
Their most intuitive feeling is that in the past few days, the number of refugees sneaking into the city to beg has decreased.
People living outside the city feel the impact more directly, but they just feel that petty theft is less rampant.
As for what happened to the refugees, not many people actually cared.
Although the capital city is only a few dozen miles away from Cuiping Mountain, it only takes two hours to get there by horseback.
But the distance of dozens of miles seems like two completely different worlds.
At this moment, the topic of discussion in the capital was still about the Fang family. In addition, there was another matter that also attracted the attention of the people in the capital.
It is said that the emperor invited a great scholar back from Bingzhou, but some people said he was a liar because this great scholar, whose surname was Ning, had no fame before.
It's as if it popped out suddenly.
Moreover, how could there be any great scholars in such a barren and remote place like Bingzhou?
However, no matter whether he is a great scholar or a liar, one thing is certain: the emperor seems to particularly respect Mr. Ning.
In fact, the emperor had never expressed such admiration in any public occasion, but it was not known where a lot of information came out saying that the emperor particularly admired this great scholar.
There were even rumors that the emperor wanted to hire him as his imperial teacher.
For the people in the capital, such things are naturally more interesting than talking about refugees.
Moreover, news has come out in the past two days that this great scholar named Ning is actually going to give lectures in the capital.
And the first game was held at the Imperial College.
Everyone in the capital, from the sons of aristocratic families to the wealthy, nobles, and even peddlers and hawkers, was shocked.
Some people are very disdainful of this.
I even heard that some students from the Imperial College threatened to teach this liar a lesson and expose his true face. He even dared to deceive the emperor. He was so bold!
However, to ordinary people, such words seemed to be upholding the dignity of the emperor.
But when the children of the aristocratic families heard this, they immediately understood what he meant. This undoubtedly meant that the emperor was ignorant. Otherwise, how could he be deceived by an unknown fake Confucian?
This was also because of the previous incident with the Fang family, in which the aristocratic family suffered a loss. So at this time, Ning Zhuo, as the person brought back by the emperor, was actually ignorant of the danger and wanted to give lectures in the capital.
I also have to give lectures to these students.
The aristocratic families naturally would not miss this opportunity. Even if they could not deal a substantial blow to the emperor, it would be good to at least undermine his prestige.
But Nangong Shang is a little different from those people.
Compared to Ning Zhuo, he cared more about what happened in Cuiping Mountain.
Because using the refugees' issue as a fuse to instigate conflicts between the aristocratic families and the imperial court was the strategy he and Han Zhuowu had previously formulated.
Both of them agreed that as long as the wealthy families did not recruit people as they did in the past, then a large number of refugees would gather in the capital.
The imperial court will definitely not be able to bear it, and will definitely reach out to the wealthy families.
As for the characteristics of aristocratic and wealthy families, no one knows it better than Nangong Shang, who is also from aristocratic family.
Greedy, stingy, and a little arrogant.
This is the biggest characteristic of wealthy families.
Will they easily open their wallets before seeing enough benefits?
Don't even think about it.
Even after seeing the benefits, they are likely to take the benefits and then turn around and eat the labor of these refugees alive.
But the emperor had finally gotten rid of his in-laws. Would he be willing to hand over power and interests to the aristocratic families again?
That's also impossible.
So both of them expected that the emperor would do something crazy if he was forced into a corner.
Sure enough, the emperor acted faster than he expected.
Before things could fully unfold, the emperor decisively mobilized the Jinyiwei to attack the Fang family, who was known as the top wealthy family in the capital.
There was no prelude between the two sides. The emperor didn't even give them an opening statement. He just arrested the entire Fang family and confiscated all their properties and land.
But what he didn't expect was that the emperor didn't even mention asking the aristocratic families to help the refugees.
Generally speaking, at this time, wealthy families are often called upon to donate money and materials.
But the emperor didn't mention it at all.
The reason for killing the Fang family was that the Fang family colluded with the Cui family and were the remnants of a rebel party.
This disrupted all the family's preparations.
And before the noble families could react, the Embroidered Uniform Guards had already confirmed all the charges.
Afterwards, the emperor and the court seemed to have had their fill and did not take any follow-up action. Apart from issuing an imperial edict to reprimand the Supreme Court and shocking the wealthy families, they did not take any further action.
Such performance made other wealthy families feel vaguely relieved.
After all, no one really wants the emperor to be destroyed.
But all the plans of Nangong Shang and Han Zhuowu came to nothing.
Nangong Shang was unwilling to give up, so after hesitating for a long time, he chose to go to Cuiping Mountain in Pingyang County to see the situation in person.
I was shocked when I saw it.
It's only been a few days, but I feel like I don't recognize the Cuiping Mountain area anymore.
Isn’t this just barren mountains and wilderness?
Why are there so many more houses?
What are these refugees doing? They are actually clearing the river channel and working so hard.
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