Chapter 642: You will have to pay the price for treason!
"Archers, get ready, shoot the fake person below!" Shen Congyi immediately gave the order.
Shen Lanxi smiled as she watched him give the order, then raised her right hand calmly.
"Royal Guards, listen up! Open the city gates!"
A bad feeling suddenly hit Shen Congyi's heart.
Impossible, everyone in the palace has been conquered by him, no one will listen to Shen Lanxi.
She is just acting like this for him.
He is already the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, an emperor recognized by all officials. Shen Lanxi is just a woman, and no one will listen to him.
"Your servants receive your orders!" A response suddenly came from the palace.
Shen Congyi shuddered, and the panic on his face could no longer be concealed.
"No, no one is allowed to open the city gate without my order."
"I have already ascended the throne. I am the emperor of the Great Zhou. If you dare to disobey my orders, it will be a heinous crime that will result in the extermination of all nine generations of your clan!"
Unfortunately, no matter how urgently Shen Congyi shouted, he could not stop the Imperial Guards from opening the city gates.
"I am a man, and the throne should belong to a man."
"You are all men, how can you listen to a woman!"
Shen Congyi's sharp eyes were useless, he just shouted out what was in his heart.
This sentence can definitely stop the Royal Guards.
The imperial guards were men, so they would understand him. They would not want to have a woman as their king, and the one sitting on the throne should be a man.
With a loud "boom", the gate of the imperial city was opened directly.
"No……"
"Yuankang Yuanning, quickly have your men close the city gates."
"They are crazy. They are willing to serve a woman as their master rather than let a man sit on the throne."
"Are they still men?"
Shen Congyi stood on the city wall and shouted at the top of his lungs.
When Shen Yuankang, Shen Yuanning and others saw that something was wrong, the first thing they thought of was to escape.
The total number of troops they brought back this time was less than two thousand.
The prerequisite for my father to sit on the throne is that Shen Lanxi must be dead.
Now that Shen Lanxi is not dead, they will be the ones to die.
The thought of running away only flashed through their minds, and was ruthlessly rejected. They couldn't escape, Shen Lanxi came back with soldiers, they were members of the Shen family, even if they did something wrong, they would not lose their lives.
Escaping is different. With Shen Lanxi's personality, there are many ways to make them die accidentally.
"Father, we lost."
"Father, surrender!"
"Your Majesty, we also believed the rumors and thought you died in Jinmen. A country cannot be without a ruler for a day. We just did what we should do to ensure peace in the Great Zhou."
"If something really happens to you and there is no successor for a long time, the Great Zhou will be in chaos. We are just trying to stabilize the government and the people's hearts."
The carriage drove smoothly into the imperial city. Shen Yuankang and others found that the personal guards they brought with them were kneeling respectfully on the ground, and no one stood up to encourage them to make a desperate attempt to take the throne.
They are finished.
Today's enthronement drama is simply a joke.
"Father, go ask grandma for help!"
Apart from this, they have no other choice.
All the officials followed Shen Lanxi into the palace. Officials above the fourth rank were all calm and composed, but a few officials below the fourth rank were sweating profusely, their clothes soaked with cold sweat.
They chose the wrong side, but they didn't expect that all the officials and soldiers, even the fact that Shen Lanxi was a woman, didn't care.
The world has changed.
Shen Lanxi looked at her grandmother, whose face was pale, sitting on the dragon throne, and walked slowly towards her, step by step.
"Grandma, is this chair of mine comfortable to sit on?"
Madam Shen stared at Shen Lanxi intently, her whole body trembling.
It's fake, it's all fake. Shen Lanxi doesn't look injured at all. They are all lying.
"Humph, you were in a state of uncertainty about your life or death when you entered the family, and your family was grieving for you and taking care of the affairs of the capital. But you are fine, and you don't even know how to write a few letters to the capital."
Old Madam Shen turned around and looked at the officials. These people were all fence-sitters. They kowtowed when her son ascended the throne just now.
Now that Shen Lanxi is back, they have already bowed down. They will obey whoever sits on the dragon throne.
"When I was in Tianjin suppressing the rebellion, I did not receive any letters from home. It can be seen that grandma's worry was just lip service, not real."
"Nonsense!" At this point, how could Mrs. Shen admit it.
It was expected that Shen Lanxi would not dare to deal with her.
"You should thank your fourth uncle and his family. If it weren't for them helping you stabilize the government, the capital would have been in chaos a long time ago."
Shen Lanxi smiled coldly: "Although I am not in the capital, I know everything that happened in and outside the capital."
Old Madam Shen tensed her body and silently confronted Shen Lanxi.
"Since you are fine now, I will take my children and grandchildren back to the mansion to recuperate!"
As soon as she stood up, she heard Shen Lanxi say, "I'm afraid you can't go back!"
Madam Shen's face changed drastically. She could no longer maintain her dignity and asked angrily, "Do you still want to detain us in the palace?"
Shen Lanxi: "There is no question of detention. Since some people dare to rebel, they must bear the price!"
"Even my blood relatives cannot escape the guillotine of the law."
Madam Shen's heart sank. After hearing this, how could she not understand what Shen Lanxi meant?
At the beginning, she ordered people to break her grandson's legs with just one word, so that her grandson died on the way to exile.
Her cold-bloodedness towards her relatives was already revealed when she was exiled to Dongchuan.
Just now she thought Shen Lanxi would show mercy to her children and grandchildren. She overestimated Shen Lanxi.
"What do you want to do to your fourth uncle and the others?" Old Madam Shen asked sternly.
Shen Lanxi slowly put away her smile, her face expressionless and her eyes cold.
"Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Personnel, Dali Temple, what is the crime of treason?"
Ministry of Justice: "Kill all nine clans!"
The Ministry of Personnel said: "None of the three clans will be spared, and the other six clans will be exiled!"
Dali Temple: "The law says that if the emperor, the emperor's relatives or the ministers commit a crime, they shall be punished as common people. Regardless of merit or blood relationship, if they commit a serious crime, they shall be punished according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
Shen Lanxi glanced at Wei Jie and asked, "According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, how should they be dealt with?"
Wei Jie: "The entire family involved will be beheaded, and the officers and soldiers involved will be exiled according to the severity of the crime!"
Old Madam Shen fell to the ground with a pale face.
"Shen Lanxi, how dare you!"
"They are all your relatives, just try and see if you dare to touch them!" Old Madam Shen threatened at the top of her lungs.
The difficulty of this case lies in whether Your Majesty will be soft-hearted towards his relatives.
After all, your majesty is among the nine clans that will be exterminated.
Shen Lanxi: "A country has its own laws, and a family has its own rules. There is no order without rules. The law will not make exceptions for anyone!"
As soon as Shen Congyi and others were brought in, they heard Shen Lanxi's news of their death, and they shouted in dissatisfaction.
"Your Majesty, I am just worried that there will be no one to inherit the empire you fought so hard for!"
"Your Majesty, ignorance is not a crime. We have indeed received news of your death."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life..."
Seeing that Shen Lanxi's heart was as hard as iron, Old Madam Shen forced herself to stand up.
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