The young prince had no interest in the throne. After issuing the final imperial edict, he announced his abdication. After completing the funeral of Emperor Beiming, he prepared to leave.
He was particularly curious about the countries on the other side of the sea that Yan Jiu (Xia Yixin) had told him about before.
The remaining 40,000 Beiming soldiers, along with tens of thousands of ministers, palace maids, eunuchs, and so on.
Chu Mubai swiftly and decisively eliminated the eunuch leader, Eunuch Zhang, and his cronies, parading Eunuch Zhang through the streets as a public spectacle.
On the day of the parade, many angry people rushed forward to tear at the notorious eunuch leader.
Zhang Gonggong died a gruesome death, and none of his men escaped.
Chu Mubai assigned the later stages of the case to an upright official he had promoted who was fiercely opposed to evil.
Hundreds of thousands of Beiming soldiers surrendered, including the Imperial Guards. Apart from a portion that joined the Tiger Wolf Division that arrived later, some others who voluntarily laid down their arms and returned to their fields took the food they were given and left.
The other palace maids and officials, except for the royalists who were all imprisoned and executed, those who voluntarily went home were given food and left, while some who were willing to follow the new regime returned to the Beiming Palace to await the arrival of the new master.
As for the other princes who did not succeed to the throne, few survived the infighting, and most were crippled and no longer a threat. They will face judgment for their past misdeeds; none of them have a clean past.
Xia Yixin left the remaining matters to the scholars and talents promoted by Chu Mubai. Zhao Tuo stayed behind to handle the subsequent prisoners of war and the change of ownership of the Beiming Imperial Palace, while Xia Yixin returned to Mengcheng to pick up Zi Linglong and prepare for the next step of the plan.
The return trip was much easier than the outward journey.
The only downside was that it happened to coincide with the hottest month of June in the Northern Sea.
Over time, the soldiers felt that the atmosphere between Chu Mubai and Yan Jiu (Xia Yixin) was becoming increasingly peculiar.
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