Early in the morning, Zhang Xiu met Cheng Yu inside the government office.
Looking at Cheng Yu, who was dressed in black and exuded a cold aura, Zhang Xiu frowned. He knew that the sudden deaths of Gao Cheng and the other bandit leaders last night must have been Cheng Yu's doing.
Although Zhang Xiu despised Cheng Yu's actions, Cheng Yu's actions did indeed help him a great deal.
Looking at the young general before him, Cheng Yu revealed a kind smile, then took out a stack of secret letters and handed them to Zhang Xiu.
"General, this is what I found inside the Gao residence! It contains evidence of Gao Cheng's plot to rebel with powerful local lords in the Sanfu region! I urge you to send troops immediately to wipe them out one by one!"
"Thank you, sir!!"
Zhang Xiu received the secret letter, bowed to Cheng Yu, then gathered his subordinates. After a short rest, he left Gaoling and headed straight for the remaining rebel forces in Zuo Fengyi.
Not long after Zhang Xiu left, Song Feng also led a thousand elite cavalrymen into Gaoling.
"These traitors are truly hateful!!"
The rescued Wang Yun, along with other officials from Gaoling, wrote a joint memorial filled with anger and sent it by express courier to Luoyang.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Yun, in the name of Zuo Fengyi, urgently issued an official notice to all counties within the territory, calling on the local governments to take immediate action to cooperate with the imperial army in suppressing the local rebels.
Soon, with the assistance of Song Feng's elite guards and secret agents from the Investigation Bureau, everyone related to the Gao family and the other families was arrested and brought to the gate of the government office.
"Gao Cheng and his accomplices have rebelled, committing heinous crimes. According to the law, their entire family, including nine generations of relatives, shall be executed!!"
At Wang Yun's command, Gao Cheng and the rest of his family and clans all turned pale and collapsed to the ground.
By sunset, nearly a thousand relatives of Gao Cheng and his family had been slaughtered, leaving a scene of carnage in front of the Gaoling government office.
Of course, that's not all. You should know that the Gao family and several other families have intermarried with Shandong gentry families quite a bit over the years, and those families that have intermarried are naturally within the scope of the Nine Clans.
Although Wang Yun was also a scholar, he showed no mercy to those who had almost killed him for their treason.
Immediately afterwards, another memorial was sent to Luoyang, this time accompanied by a list that clearly recorded those who were associated with the Gao family.
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