As soon as Ye Chen left the city, the 50,000 imperial guards in the imperial city also began to move. More than 20 teams were separated from the imperial guards camp, each with a hundred people, and rushed towards the mansions of various ministers.
Suddenly, the capital city was filled with torches and the sound of horse hooves. Every time someone entered a mansion, the leader would hold up the imperial edict and announce, "The Emperor has decreed," followed by another sentence: "Everyone in the mansion, regardless of master or servant, must go to the front yard. Anyone who disobeys this decree will be killed without mercy."
After that, they started calling people according to the names on the imperial edict. Both masters and servants were called. In the end, all those whose names were called were taken away by the imperial guards. They did not say why, what would be done with them, or when they would be released.
When they arrived at Chen Qingyun's house, the first person listed in the imperial edict was Gu Ruojin, followed by her wet nurse who came with her as a dowry. Almost all the dowry that Gu Ruojin brought was on the list.
Chen Qingyun was, after all, a high-ranking official in the imperial court. Looking at the imperial edict in the hands of the imperial guards, he still asked, "What happened? When will my wife be released?"
The one who brought the imperial edict to the Chen family was the deputy commander of the imperial guards. "Master Chen, I don't know either. I only know that someone has been sent to arrest the person. There is no instruction on when to release him. I have something else to do and must leave first. Take him away."
In addition to the residences of various officials, the courtyard of a royal merchant, the Gu family, was also surrounded by the imperial guards tonight. When the Gu family arrived, their property was directly ransacked, all the people were sent to prison, and their property was confiscated.
Almost all the ministers in the court were sleepless all night, not because they were staying up all night, but because they didn't know what had happened. The scene was clearly like a house search, but in the end, only a few people were taken away. Why were they taken away? Will these people return? No one knew, and no one dared to go out and inquire.
After the imperial guards left, all the mansions were closed tightly, and people were not allowed to move around freely.
The patrol battalion also acted together with the imperial guards. The imperial guards went to the minister's residence. Although they had the imperial edict, they would not use force as long as they arrested enough people according to the edict.
The patrol battalion went to the brothels and casinos in Kyoto City. Once they entered, they were not as easy to deal with as the imperial guards. They first surrounded the area from the outside to ensure that no one would be let go.
Ye Chen and his men even found out whether there were secret rooms or secret passages in each brothel or casino, and where they were located. After the patrol battalion broke in, they found that some prostitutes had stripped the bodies of men.
All the people in the brothel, whether they were patrons or people in the brothel, were arrested directly, and the same went for those in the gambling house, and then the place was sealed off.
For a moment, the entire city of Kyoto was filled with the moving shadows of torches, the sounds of galloping horses and shouting for justice.
at the same time
Ye Chen and Bai Li rode at full speed all the way. When it was almost midnight, Bai Li outside finally stopped the carriage with a "whoa".
"Master, are we here yet?"
"Yes, we're here." Then Bai Li lifted the curtain and Ye Chen got off the carriage.
In front of the carriage was Xiao Mu, who was wearing armor, and a large group of soldiers in the woods.
"What's going on down there?" Ye Chen walked down and looked at the dense forest under their feet. The forest was brightly lit, and patrolmen passed by from time to time.
"That's normal. They just sent a team out to patrol the mountain. Just as it was marked on the map I brought back, they send out a team every two hours. Each team has fifteen people."
"Well, after we get rid of those people, let's go down. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can go home." This was the third time Ye Chen had killed someone since he came back. The first time was the Shen family. The second time was Wuzhou. This was the third time, and it was also the most so far. If he killed all the people he captured this time, it was estimated that the capital city would be a river of blood.
As soon as the fifteen people came out and reached the mountain, Ye Chen's men slashed their necks one by one.
"Let's take action"
Xiao Mu set off the action fireworks, and then the torches that illuminated the entire forest were lit up, and the people in the yard suddenly panicked.
The yard was surrounded on all sides and they had nowhere to escape. Soon many people came out of the house. As soon as they stood still in the house, dense arrows were shot at them.
Feather arrows fell like rain, and after one wave, most of the yard fell down, and those who avoided it went into the house.
Then there was silence.
The people led by Ye Chen did not shout or cry for war, but directly surrounded the yard.
After entering the yard, a massacre began. The people here were different from the spies sent to Kyoto City. Many of them were masters. The people under Ye Chen's command were the defenders of Kyoto City. Naturally, their martial arts could not be compared with those masters, but they had the advantage of numbers. Two fists cannot beat four hands. No matter how powerful you are, you cannot defeat a number of people that are several times or even dozens of times more than you.
Although these people fought desperately, in less than two quarters of an hour, there were not many people left alive in the yard.
"What gives you the right? We haven't done anything illegal?" A square-faced man was forced to kneel on the ground, staring at Ye Chen with wide-open eyes and asked.
"You know it yourself. I won't tell you your true identities here. You will confess naturally once you enter the Ministry of Justice prison." Ye Chen waved his hand and asked people to take him away.
Afterwards they began to search the house, and no books or treasures were left behind. Just like the Luojia Manor in Wuzhou, there was also a secret passage.
"Report~"
"explain"
"Someone escaped through the secret passage. It was a woman."
"Another woman? Can we catch her?" Ye Chen could almost conclude that this woman was the one who escaped from Wuzhou before. He didn't expect that this person was so fast.
"We've already chased them. The secret passage leads out of the forest."
"I have arranged people outside the forest. It all depends on his ability." Xiao Mu is a very careful person. He thought of the secret passage in Wuzhou and took it just in case this time. He didn't expect that he would actually use it.
"Senior Xiao is still very thoughtful..." Before he could finish his words, a sharp arrow shot towards Ye Chen.
Bai Li had been following behind Ye Chen, pulling Ye Chen back a step. The sharp arrow pierced through Ye Chen's chest, tearing through his coat and revealing the golden soft armor he was wearing underneath.
"There" Bai Li had just finished speaking when Xiao Mu had already arrived at the place where the sharp arrow was shot.
Xiao Mu chased for a while, but still didn't see any shadow.
"How about it?"
"No, that guy's skills are not very good. The arrow has little power at this distance, but his martial arts skills are quite good. When I chased him out, there was no trace of him at all." Xiao Muluo returned to the yard.
"It seems that this is the person who escaped. He can go out of the secret passage and come back so quickly. His lightness skills are really amazing." Bai Li nodded in agreement. With such a distance and in such a short time, Bai Li could not guarantee that he could go back and forth.
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