The emperor looked at Chu Xuan and nodded: "Yes, it is my order. What's the matter? Do you have any questions?"

Chu Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Father, there was a war in Fengxi, and these people had no choice but to leave their homes and come to Tianji, just for a chance of survival. We can't say that we have helped them a lot, but we shouldn't order people to arrest them."

"What do you know!" The emperor was a little unhappy. "Fengxi has always been easy to defend but difficult to attack. This civil strife is a great opportunity for us. We can use these people to negotiate with the Lord of Fengxi. In order to get these prisoners back, they will definitely agree to all our requests."

Chu Xuan sneered in his heart, thinking that the emperor was daydreaming. Not to mention that Fengxi Kingdom was currently in civil strife, just a group of exiled people alone was not worth the king of a country ceding land and paying compensation for this!

"Father, the people are innocent. We are a great country like Tianji. We should not use this as a threat to other countries. This is not in line with the style of Tianji. Please think twice!"

"Shut up!" The emperor lost his patience and shouted, "You are not yet the emperor. It is not your turn to worry about this. Wait until you sit in my position before you comment on my decision! Get out of here immediately!"

"Father..." Chu Xuan did not give up and wanted to try again.

"Your Highness." The eunuch who was serving beside him was very discerning and stepped forward to stop Chu Xuan: "Your Highness, His Majesty has made up his mind. Why should Your Highness risk His Majesty's face?"

The young eunuch showed a warning in his eyes and shook his head slowly. Chu Xuan followed the eunuch out of the Taiji Hall.

As soon as he got outside, the young eunuch bowed his head and apologized: "Don't blame me, Your Highness. I just overstepped the bounds."

Chu Xuan’s focus is now on Feng Xi and his group, and he understands the eunuch’s intention in stopping him.

"I understand. I can't blame you." Chu Xuan looked a little unhappy.

The young eunuch sighed, "Lord Kong came this morning and told you a story that made His Majesty very happy. He believed his words. It is useless for Your Majesty to persuade His Majesty to change his mind now, except that it will offend His Majesty. Your Majesty should not waste his time and effort, as it will only make His Majesty unhappy."

"I understand." Chu Xuan looked back in the direction of Taiji Hall, then turned and left.

The emperor has been fooled by Kong Chenyang's so-called profiteering. Instead of persuading the emperor to change his mind, it is better to go back and find a way to solve the matter himself.

But at this moment, the Fengxi people who were captured were already in dire straits.

After Aleshilan and his group were arrested, many Fengxi people were arrested in the government prison one after another. They were all civilians who were dispersed by the enemy troops at the border and scattered in various prefectures of Tianji. Now they were all arrested by the government and brought back to the capital.

The captured Fengxi people did not have a good life in prison. The jailers beat and scolded them at every turn and looked down on them as foreigners. The meals delivered to them every day were either rotten or there was no food at all.

The people of Fengxi were on the verge of collapse, and those who were weak were even worse off and died.

Just when everyone was imprisoned with no way to call for help, the prison door was finally opened, and a group of men in black came in from outside, dropped dozens of sacks, and beat them skillfully, revealing the bodies inside.

The person who came was Lu Yanluo.

After Chu Xuan returned home that day, he told Lu Yanluo the emperor's attitude. Lu Yanluo was immediately very annoyed, and finally decided to go all out and break the prison.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Lu Yanluo and her men collected a lot of corpses in the surrounding area and used a trick to replace the real ones.

Aleshilan and others were suddenly shocked and panicked when they saw strangers breaking in.

"You... who are you? What are you going to do?"

Lu Yanluo explained very quickly: "Don't be afraid, everyone. I am here to save you. The situation is urgent right now, so I don't have time to explain to you. Please follow me out quickly!"

Hearing that someone was coming to rescue them, the people of Fengxi looked at each other in disbelief. Seeing this, Aleshilan said, "Okay, I'll go with you. Rather than being beaten to death or starved to death by these people here, it's better to take the risk and leave."

"Yes, I don't want to die here. Since I can't escape, I might as well take a risk!"

With one person taking the lead, the others also began to waver. Seeing that time was almost up, Lu Yanluo could not wait any longer, so she ordered people to settle the bodies they brought and immediately take everyone away.

A group of people came out of the prison and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Early the next morning, Taiji Hall.

The emperor was furious, his face was livid, and he angrily asked: "How could this happen? Why did all the captives of Fengxi die overnight? Who can tell me what happened?"

Early in the morning, people from the criminal justice department rushed to the palace to plead guilty. All the Fengxi people who had been detained in the capital recently died overnight for unknown reasons.

For the emperor, this was like a beautiful dream being shattered. Moreover, Fengxi people died inexplicably in Tianji. If this news were to reach Fengxi country, it would certainly lead to a war between the two countries. In this way, he would end up losing more than he gained.

"Your Majesty..." The prison official had a sad face and felt extremely miserable. He had no idea why. If he knew, those people wouldn't have to die.

Kong Chenyang, who came after hearing the news, comforted him, "Your Majesty, don't be so anxious. These Fengxi people fled to Tianji because of the civil strife. Now that they are dead, Fengxi will not know about it. Even if they know, Fengxi has just experienced war and will not openly confront Tianji just because some people died. So Your Majesty does not need to care about the lives of these people."

The emperor thought it made sense. A country that had just experienced a war would never start another war because of a trivial matter.

Having said that, the emperor still felt it was a pity that he had lost an opportunity to ask for benefits from the Fengxi Kingdom.

After leaving the Tai Chi Hall, Kong Chenyang frowned. He had a hunch that there must be something strange about this matter. How could a group of people die overnight?

Kong Chenyang paused on his way back home, thought for a moment, and went to the prison. He wanted to go to the prison to confirm it in person.

Kong Chenyang arrived at the prison, took out some silver to bribe the jailer, and quietly entered the prison where Feng Xiren was.

The body inside had been covered with a white cloth by the jailer and placed on the ground. Kong Chenyang walked over, lifted the white cloth, and then frowned unconsciously.

These are not Fengxi people at all. Those Fengxi people live in the open air all day long, so how could their skin be so smooth?

Kong Chenyang lifted the white cloth one by one to check and found that the bodies here were of various kinds and the causes of death were also various. It was obvious that the bodies were collected from other places.

Someone secretly switched the person. Thinking of how Chu Xuan had strongly opposed the arrest of Feng Xiren, Kong Chenyang's face darkened. He knew who had done this without even thinking about it.