Chapter 645: Verdict!
"Liar, Shen Lanxi, you've deceived us so much!"
"Sure enough, if they weren't raised by the Shen family, they can't be tamed!"
"You are just like the people in the palace. They raised you so that you can turn against them at any time. You don't consider us as family at all."
"Shen Lanxi, don't forget that your last name is Shen. If you dare to touch us, the men of the Shen family will never let you go!"
“Yuan Xu, Yuan Jing, Yuan Kun, Yuan Jun, Yuan Qing, Yuan Peng, Yuan Hao… they all command a large number of troops!”
Madam Shen looked at Shen Lanxi provocatively, as if she had finally found her bargaining chips.
"If you dare to touch us, all the men in the Shen family will resent you, and the Great Zhou you conquer will be in chaos!"
"If you let us go now, I will take Lao Si's family to Dongchuan and never return to the capital!"
Shen Lanxi quietly watched Madam Shen use up all her chips one by one, her face expressionless and cold as ice.
“You can go back to Dongchuan, Shen Congyi’s family, don’t even think about it!”
Old Madam Shen stared at Shen Lanxi fiercely: "How dare you? Are you really not afraid of angering the son of the Shen family?"
Shen Lanxi laughed sarcastically: "If I can send them up, I can naturally pull them down."
Threaten her?
No one can threaten her yet!
"Chen Lanxi, if you let your fourth uncle's family go, I, as your grandmother, will beg you for it!"
Shen Lanxi turned around and said, "Grandma, please take a good look at this palace. I will have someone send you back to Dongchuan tomorrow!"
After saying this, she left without looking back.
"Shen Lanxi, stop! You are not allowed to leave!"
"Chen Lanxi, you dare..."
She screamed at the top of her lungs, and was locked up in the Cining Palace. Shen Lanxi turned her back to him and walked out of the harem step by step.
That night, news came from Cining Palace.
"Your Majesty, Madam Shen hanged herself in the Cining Palace, and left a blood letter before she died."
The eunuch presented the blood letter.
"read!"
"Use my life to save the lives of my son and his family!"
In short, the blood has not yet dried.
"Send the blood letter to the Shen family!"
"yes!"
Soon, the whole capital city knew that Madam Shen hanged herself to death in order to save the lives of her son and his family!
The moment Shen Congwen received the blood letter, he fainted.
Shen Congli and Shen Congli were not much better, they both muttered with pale faces.
"Isn't the verdict yet? Why can't mother wait?"
"Lan Xi is not a heartless person. Why can't mother wait a little longer?"
The family is already preparing to go to the palace to beg.
In the Golden Palace
“Before, Shen Congyi pushed all the blame on the old lady, saying that he did the wrong thing because of the old lady’s instigation.”
"I have already found out that this is not the case. The real situation is that Shen Congyi took the initiative to take the position. He secretly instigated the old lady, and he also called back Shen Yuankang and others who were stationed outside."
"Shen Congyi is the mastermind and wanted criminal. According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, his entire family shall be executed!"
"Forcing the emperor to abdicate is an unforgivable crime!"
"I reconsider!"
"I will review this matter!"
The old master thought about it and gave some advice.
"Your Majesty, the Great Zhou law was revised a while ago. One of the clauses states that people under the age of fifteen can be exiled to a bitter cold place to work in exchange for their lives!"
After all, Your Majesty is from the Shen family. If you ignore the consequences and blindly act according to the laws of the Great Zhou, I am afraid you will not be able to give an explanation to the Shen family members stationed outside.
Mr. Ruohua: "I agree with the old master. The children are innocent. They were just implicated by their family members. There are countless lands on the border of our Great Zhou. Exiling them there can be considered as a contribution to our Great Zhou."
Liu Mingxin: "I will review the matter!"
Many officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites reviewed the matter.
Shen Lanxi made a decision quickly.
"Anyone under the age of fifteen in Shen Congyi's family will be exiled!"
"In the capital, the Shen family members who were not involved are innocent."
"Officials who have pledged their allegiance to Shen Congyi will be investigated and punished by the Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Personnel will work together to handle the matter."
"I give you five days. After five days, I don't want to hear any news about forcing the emperor to abdicate or plotting rebellion in the capital!"
"Your Highness obeys your order!"
The emperor only needs one word and his ministers will run themselves ragged.
At such a fast speed, before the Shen family even got over the grief of the old lady's death, Shen Congyi's family had already been beheaded or disposed of!
It was so fast that it didn't even alarm the Shen family.
The criminals who forced the emperor to abdicate and plotted treason do not deserve to have their bodies intact and be buried by their families after their death.
When Shen Congwen climbed out of his sickbed, Shen Congyi and his gang of traitors had already been buried in the earth in a mass grave.
The imperial edict did not even tell them where they were buried.
Five days later, the capital city was flooded with news of the victory of the Eastern Expedition.
Not many people care about how Shen Congyi died?
They were more concerned about how Zhou Ruyuan died.
The storyteller in the teahouse described the battle situation in Tianjin in vivid detail. He looked so confident, as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
"Your Majesty, holding the Double Star and Moon Sword, charged into the enemy's army single-handedly, killing them three times. Wherever Your Majesty went, blood flowed like a river..."
"Zhou Ruyuan was chopped off his horse by our Majesty, and he immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, shouting, 'Your Majesty, please spare my life...'"
"What if he cries for water three times a night? Our Majesty can chop him in half with one strike. Your Majesty is truly the God of War descending to earth, the true dragon emperor returning to the throne. From now on, our Great Zhou will take back all the hinterland, and Your Majesty will unify the thirteen states with your own strength!"
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"Really killed him?" Zhou Xinrou smiled, unable to suppress her joy.
"Killed him. I saw the executioner do it myself. Afterwards, I ordered someone to go to the mass grave to confirm it myself. It was correct."
Zhou Xinrou smiled with a gloating smile on her face: "Quick, tell Yuan Jing and the others that Shen Lanxi killed the fourth brother's family!"
Nanny smiled and responded: "I will ask someone to write a letter right away. I will definitely ask someone to write something more exciting. In addition to Shen Congyi's family, there is also Old Madam Shen."
"Madam Shen died in the palace. Who knows how she died? Our Great Zhou governs the country with filial piety. Shen Lanxi's actions are simply digging her own grave."
Zhou Xinrou didn't expect that even though Old Madam Shen was dead, she could still help her.
"Please include this message as well."
"yes."
On second thought, although she was happy that such a big thing had happened to the Shen family, she was also unhappy.
Shen Lanxi's prestige has become even higher, and the people and officials have already accepted the fact that she is a woman and has become the emperor.
This is a good thing, but Shen Lanxi shouldn't have so much military power in her hands.
Those generals shouldn't all listen to Shen Lanxi.
"The person sent to Song Daoxi, can he use him?"
Nanny: "Thanks to Shen Congyi forcing the emperor to abdicate, the imperial guards have relaxed their guard in the palace. We sent a woman as good as Pi Nang over there. Even if he doesn't use her now, he will use her sooner or later."
Zhou Xinrou nodded with satisfaction. What she had to do now was to divide the generals and win over the people from Guigu.
I didn't expect that Song Daoxi, the successor of Guiguzi, was actually a greedy and lustful person.
Humph~ Men~ can never escape from money, power and sex.
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