Chapter 646: Che Ming's long-distance expedition asks for transfer to the southwest!
Under the butcher's knife, no one among those involved in Shen Congyi's treason dared to stand up and speak out.
This included the Liu family, the chief clerk of the Imperial Observatory who had joined Shen Congyi early on.
The only use of the Liu family was to predict the auspicious date for Shen Congyi to ascend the throne. The only special thing was that the son of the Liu family married Shen Yuanxin, the concubine sister of the current emperor.
It was the Dali Temple that sentenced the Liu family. The chief clerk Liu Mao would certainly not escape execution. The rest of the people were reported to Shen Lanxi because they implicated Shen Yuanxin.
"Your Majesty, everyone in the Liu family has been imprisoned, including Shen Yuanxin."
Shen Lanxi understood that he came to ask her how to deal with Shen Yuanxin.
"According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, what should we do?"
Wei Jie thought for a moment and said, "The family will be exiled or sent to the army."
Shen Lanxi has already thought of a place for them to go.
"Let's go to Dongchuan."
Wei Jie thought for a moment and realized that if it weren’t for the person sitting on the dragon throne, the Shen family might still be in Dongchuan.
Shen Yuanxin has now been exiled again. I really don’t know whether it is a murder or a way to escape.
The next day, the Liu family and all related people were sentenced to exile in Dongchuan.
Shen Yuanxin almost went crazy in prison. No matter how she screamed, cried, or made a fuss, no one paid any attention to her.
From the time she received the verdict until she set off, no one from the Shen family came to see her.
She became an abandoned daughter of the Shen family.
They haven't left the capital yet. Even if the Liu family members hate the Shen family and Shen Yuanxin in their hearts, they dare not show it at this moment, but they can no longer hide the look in their eyes.
Shen Yuanxin saw malice in the eyes of the Liu family.
She wants a divorce and she wants to leave the Liu family.
"My elder sister is the current emperor Shen Lanxi. I want to see my elder sister. Go and tell her quickly that I want to divorce Liu Yun..."
The escorting officers had already received instructions and ignored Shen Yuanxin at all.
At this time, a familiar-looking person appeared in front of Shen Yuanxin.
"Miss Shen, we meet again."
This person was Liu Lao Hu, who escorted the Shen family to Dongchuan.
"I was the one who escorted your Shen family to Dongchuan. I never thought I would be able to escort them for the second time in this life."
"Don't waste your voice yelling, let's go. For the sake of our old acquaintance, I will take care of you on the way."
Shen Yuanxin recognized Liu Lao Hu. Looking at the familiar man, she could no longer hold back her tears and burst into tears with grief in her heart.
"Why is this happening?"
You've already returned from Dongchuan, why are you going back?
…
Just after clearing out the remnants and stabilizing the situation, Che Mingyuan, Cheng Zheng, Qian Feng and others found Shen Lanxi.
"Your Majesty, we are from the southwest. Now that the world has been pacified, we want to return to the southwest to garrison."
That's where they came from, especially Zhao Zheng. Their Zhao family has an inseparable affection for the southwest.
Shen Lanxi looked at Zhao Zheng and said with a smile: "Even if you didn't come to find me, I would send you to the southwest."
Che Mingyuan was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that His Majesty did not send capable people to garrison the southwest.
It turns out that this vacancy has been left for a long time.
Zhao Zheng was delighted and immediately thanked the Lord for his grace.
The difficult part is Che Mingyuan. Over the years, Che Mingyuan has been like her right-hand man. She really feels reluctant to let Che Mingyuan go to the southwest.
"Military advisor, the governor of the southwest can only be you!" Even if it is reluctant and inconvenient, you have to let go when it is time to let go.
If there is no capable person around her, she can still train one. But the southwest lacks a capable official like Che Mingyuan.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!" Che Mingyuan never expected that he would also reap the benefits of following the emperor. At the same time, he also understood His Majesty's further plans for the regime.
Your Majesty has arranged two capable civil and military officials in each place to supervise and assist each other.
For example, Xiao Fang and Yuan Lang from Dongchuan.
Ten days later, Shen Lanxi personally saw the group off.
"The Southwest is left to you!"
The flag of the Zhao family army will once again fly in the southwest.
Zhao Zheng, Che Mingyuan and others each took on their own tasks and set off towards the southwest with the ambition to build the southwest.
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Many people in the Shen family died one after another, and the sky above the entire Shen residence seemed to be shrouded in a layer of dark clouds, which was oppressive and weighed on the hearts of everyone in the Shen family every day.
The Shen family waited for three days, but saw no response from the palace regarding Old Madam Shen's death, so they buried her hastily without even holding a grand funeral.
The situation in the capital was complicated during those days. Even though the Shen family hung a white cloth, no one dared to come to their door.
Madam Shen's death caused a great deal of commotion, but her afterlife did not cause any ripples. Afterwards, a rumor about her spread quietly in the capital.
"Old Madam Shen threatened His Majesty with her life to spare Shen Congyi's family, but she didn't expect that due to her old age, it would come true."
"Your Majesty enforces the law impartially and would rather bear the reputation of being unfilial than let traitors go."
"His Majesty even let the old lady live in the Cining Palace, intending to make her the empress dowager. Unfortunately, why is the old lady so depressed?"
"The world has only been peaceful for a few years, and Shen Congyi is causing trouble. They have all forgotten that without Your Majesty, they would still be in exile in Dongchuan."
Amid all the rumors, the Shen family members stayed indoors until half a month later, when Zhou Xinrou opened the door of the mansion.
Huang Yu broke into the horse thieves' lair and seized countless gold, jade, jewelry, grain, cloth and horses. He had already escorted them back to the capital a few days ago and will arrive today.
Shen Lanxi selected several people with a red pen to fill the vacancies in the Imperial Observatory, two of whom were women and three were men.
The women all came from women's academies, two of the men were from Dongchuan and one was from the northwest.
"Your Majesty, Huang Yu is already waiting outside the palace!" the eunuch delivered the message.
Shen Lanxi looked up from the memorial.
"Enter!"
Huang Yu arrived in front of the palace and knelt respectfully: "Your Majesty, I have fulfilled your mission. In one year, I have eliminated 3,681 bandits and rescued 684 civilians. I have seized 20 boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, 12,000 kilograms of grain, 10 carts of various weapons, and 630 horses. I now present them to Your Majesty."
The eunuch took the booklet and put it in Shen Lanxi's hand.
The thick gift list, in addition to the detailed record of the amount of gold, silver and jewelry, also recorded the places where Huang Yu went, the places where he uprooted bandits and horse thieves, and also recorded many places where officials and bandits colluded.
"Have any measures been taken against the collusion between officials and bandits recorded in it?" she asked, pointing at the booklet.
Huang Yu: "Your Majesty, I am only following orders to suppress the bandits. I do not have the power to deal with officials appointed by the court. I can only detain them in prison and wait for Your Majesty to deal with them."
Shen Lanxi nodded with satisfaction.
“You did a great job!”
Huang Yu was delighted: "Thank you for your praise, Your Majesty. I just did what I should do!"
Shen Lanxi put the book aside and began to make arrangements for Huang Yu.
"You have made great contributions in suppressing the bandits. Now that you are back, don't go out."
"I believe that the ministers who have opinions about you will have nothing to say after reading this booklet!"
"The Beijing Guard Camp is too small. With your current military achievements, you are qualified to lead the city defense army. You can go back and rest for two days. I will discuss with the court officials what official position to assign to you in the city defense army."
The city defense army has more soldiers than the Imperial Guards and the Beijing Guards combined.
Shen Lanxi said in a kind tone: "I am a woman, I know how difficult it is for a woman to achieve this!"
"After I came to power, I vigorously promoted women. Do you know why?"
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