There was silence in the prison, and everyone gasped. This guy was too ruthless!
Fang Zhiyi scratched his head and said, "Oh right, I'm just a scholar, and I wrote a letter cursing the emperor's eight generations of ancestors, plus the charge of treason, which means I'm probably going to exterminate three clans. Everyone, see you later."
Suddenly, there was crying and cursing in the cell. Fang Zhiyi looked at them and shook his head.
Rebellion? He really had that ability, but this emperor was a good emperor, so why should he rebel? Moreover, Yuan Yu also deserved this ending. It was too stupid. Because of him, those people had to endure so much.
With Zhang Qi's identification, batches of armor were unearthed, along with weapons, defense maps, dragon robes, and the letter cursing the royal family. The new emperor felt like his temples were about to explode.
Next came the other crimes committed by the interest group headed by Fang Zhiyi in the prison. They were all sorted out one by one, which saved a lot of trouble and almost reached the point where they could be convicted directly!
"Behead! Behead them all!" The new emperor was furious at this moment. He had not expected that Fang Zhiyi would be so arrogant. If Zhang Qi had not come all the way to inform on him, Qingzhou would probably have rebelled!
In order to give an explanation to the people and to maintain the dignity of the royal family, punishment must be carried out.
The next day, outside Qingzhou City, blood flowed like a river. There were many people with the surname of Qi watching. When they heard that the corrupt official Zhiyi and those people had been arrested, they all applauded.
Everyone who was dragged onto the platform had their legs limp. Some of them cried out that they were innocent, some cursed loudly, and some fainted from fear.
Fang Zhiyi's family was placed at the end. First was Fang Zhiyi with his head held high, then Fang Yan and Fang Heng who could hardly stand, and finally Fang Hongyuan whose hair turned white overnight. He stared blankly at Fang Zhiyi who was at the front. He had a dream last night, in which Fang Zhiyi was the only one beheaded.
He seemed to understand why Fang Zhiyi did this.
But why? Why did a lowly bastard like him kill the entire Fang family?
Because he wanted to kill Fang Zhiyi, the emperor went to the scene specially. He and Fang Zhiyi looked at each other from a distance. The latter suddenly smiled. The emperor was a little stunned. What did this person mean?
Isn’t he afraid?
As Fang Zhiyi's head fell to the ground, everything fell into silence.
"Your Majesty, we've investigated those private soldiers and found out they're all refugees from the northwest. They really don't know anything..."
The emperor took one last look at the execution ground and nodded, saying, "Let them go. They are just surnamed Qi." He needed to use thundering means to intimidate those people, but he was not a bloodthirsty emperor.
"Speaking of which, why is Fang Zhiyi a corrupt official?" Someone surnamed Sanqi who was watching suddenly asked.
"Is that even a question? He buys and sells official positions, he extorts money, he... huh?"
Someone fell into deep thought and said that ever since Fang Zhiyi started forming cliques, the oppression of the Qi clan has actually decreased a lot. Instead, the Qi clans have been fighting each other, and many ordinary people have taken advantage of them.
"Anyway, he is just a corrupt official!" someone concluded.
"Um!"
Because of his meritorious service, Zhang Qi was rewarded with a nominal position by the emperor, but he did not accept it. Instead, he asked the emperor to allow him to collect Fang Zhiyi's body. The emperor agreed. This case involved countless people, and some officials in the court were also held accountable. The confiscated property was even more than the money in the national treasury. The emperor was inexplicably in a good mood.
After his rage, he also wondered why Fang Zhiyi, such a corrupt official, would collect all the evidence against him and record them one by one in a book. Was he crazy?
He had a vague idea in his mind, but he extinguished it as soon as the idea sprouted. It was impossible. How could that guy be a good person? Anyway, he had money in his hands now, and he should do something beneficial to the Qi family.
Zhang Qi, who buried Fang Zhiyi, still remembers that when Fang Zhiyi took out the thick book of evidence and gave it to him that day, a strange look flashed on his face that he had never seen before. He still didn't know why the adult wanted to commit suicide, but he had already developed the good habit of being obedient.
The adults said that Zhang Qi's life should be saved because he was the only one who understood and was friendly to the other party.
Zhang Qi didn't understand, but he knew that there must be a reason why the adults asked him to do it.
"Jinghe 25-Jinghe 27, the notorious corrupt official, Qingzhou prefect Fang Zhiyi, did the only right thing: hiring a large number of laborers to dig a canal and reclaim barren hills. Historians analyze that he may have simply done so to occupy more farmland and smuggle more goods."
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