The Wang family's arrested guards confessed their crimes, and the crimes of the eldest wife were also exposed.
Although the first branch is the eldest direct descendant of the Langya Wang family, the entire Langya Wang family is not just their family. A large family like the Wang family values the interests of the entire family more than the head of the family.
Is the power of the emperor just talk?
The status and position of the Jiangnan Palace disappeared overnight.
What’s more, they are the Wang family of Langya?
Not to mention, the various new policies promulgated by Emperor Chengxuan in recent years have all been intended to support the new rich from humble backgrounds and suppress the aristocratic families.
If they don't know their limits, their century-old family will end up collapsing and never recovering.
After some discussion, the Wang clan of Langya immediately tied up the clan leader, his wife, their children and other members of the eldest branch of the family, and sent them directly to the government.
The current clan leader is Wang Xingxian’s grandfather who favored his concubine over his wife.
The former Princess Wang Yi of Jiangnan and the current wife of the Du family, Wang Ru, are both daughters of the patriarch of the Wang family and his current wife, Chen.
Chen also gave birth to a son for the clan leader, who has been designated by the clan leader as the next clan leader of the Wang clan.
But if nothing had happened to Wang Xingxian's family, then the current heir to the Wang family patriarch should be Wang Xingxian's father.
Xiao Shuangbao reported all the things he found out to Emperor Cheng Xuan.
"What a coincidence! I also happen to have collected all the records of the Wang family of Langya's crimes over the years, including secretly bribing officials, seeking personal gain, and enclosing and occupying land."
Emperor Cheng Xuan smiled and said, “These crimes were committed primarily by the eldest branch of the clan leader’s family.
"The Wang family of Langya represents the aristocratic families of the Eastern Qi State. If I were to destroy them all at once, it would surely provoke counterattacks from other aristocratic families. Therefore, I will remove their fangs bit by bit."
This time, Emperor Chengxuan only dealt with the eldest branch of the Wang family, where the patriarch was from.
All adults in the eldest house, regardless of gender, were beheaded in public.
All underage children were exiled to the border.
The Wang clan members of Langya were rewarded for reporting the clan leader's family for murder and the seizure of property.
This time, the report was made jointly by the second and third branches of the Wang family and other side branches.
However, Emperor Chengxuan gave all the rewards to the second house. This move was naturally to secretly make the third house and the side branches feel dissatisfied with the second house, causing a split within their family again.
The emperor's tactics were seen by Xiao Shuangbao and had a subtle influence on her.
However, there is another very important point this time, that is, Emperor Cheng Xuan recognized Wang Xingxian's identity.
Wang Xingxian is the real eldest grandson of the Wang family.
Emperor Chengxuan did not deprive Wang Xingxian of the eldest son's property.
The reason for this was, of course, that Emperor Cheng Xuan learned that Xiao Shuangbao said he wanted to support Wang Xingxian, and he didn't want his own little baby to spend money.
The Wang family's current situation also frightens the Du family, another major family in Jiangnan City.
The Du family simply followed the example of the second and third branches of the Wang family and reported together that the head of the family, Du Lian, and his family were secretly plotting to harm Princess Lingfu.
Emperor Chengxuan had long noticed the Du family.
Now that they had this opportunity and knew that Xiao Shuangbao's former vicious aunt was the daughter of the head of the Du family, they naturally would not show mercy and directly searched and confiscated the entire Du family.
The reason why he treated the Du family in this way, instead of using the same gentle approach as he treated the Wang family, was naturally because the Du family's influence was far less deeply rooted than the Wang family's.
If Emperor Chengxuan had not taken action, it would have been fine. But once he took action, he directly dealt with the Jiangnan Palace, the Langya Wang Family, and the Du Family, causing the Palace and the Du Family to disappear from then on. This thundering measure naturally intimidated many people.
But for little Shuangbao, these are all matters concerning the emperor father.
There is only one thing she is most concerned about now.
That is, where did the direct descendants of the Wang family's eldest branch get the method of sealing the coffin and refining the corpse?
As soon as Wang's people were thrown into prison, she took Wang Xingxian to interrogate them.
But after asking, she found out that these people were all under restrictions and could not tell each other's names or identities. They even didn't know whether the person who told them this method was from a cult.
However, they couldn't explain it, but Xiao Shuangbao was not completely clueless.
In fact, she only knew of one cult, which was the cult leader who was involved in the incident when Yun Wuchen kidnapped her. She still remembered that his name was Lian Keyuan, and it was Lian Keyuan who escaped at that time.
In addition to the cult, Jiangnan is located in the south and is very close to the Kingdom of Southern Yan.
Within the territory of Southern Yan, there is Miaojiang where witchcraft is prevalent, and Xiangxi where corpse driving is famous. Both have the practice of corpse refining.
Xiao Shuangbao made some guesses.
Wang Xingxian's family was murdered ten years ago.
At that time, Lian Keyuan probably didn't have such ability.
Then it is more likely to be the Southern Yan Kingdom.
Because Southern Yan and Eastern Qi had always been at odds, and with the precedent of Bai Luowan, it was clear that Southern Yan was very fond of using this kind of insidious and secretive means, specifically contacting the high-ranking officials and nobles of Eastern Qi to do bad things.
If it is the Kingdom of Southern Yan, it means that Wang Xingxian cannot take revenge for the time being.
"If you want to find your real enemy, you can only go to Southern Yan. But Brother Xingbao, now neither you nor I can go to Southern Yan. So, this revenge can only be put aside for now. But Brother Xingbao, don't worry, a gentleman's revenge is never too late. When we grow up, we can take revenge in the same way."
Xiao Shuangbao tried to persuade Wang Xingxian.
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