After the imperial examination, Xiao Li handed over the affairs of the court to Song Junzhan. Xiao Li managed the country like a company. She was the chairman and had absolute controlling rights over the company.
Song Junzhan and others are the presidents she hired at high salaries. She sets a direction and they are responsible for completing it.
Of course, there are essential differences between companies and countries. At least companies cannot kill people or usurp the throne.
Therefore, what Xiao Li needs to do is not how to manage the world as a benevolent emperor, but to control the armed forces and hold Rong Qing and others and all the hot weapons in his hands. In this way, Song Junzhan is a civil official, and no matter how good his civil official is, he will not be able to rebel.
Lu Cang dared to rebel because Xiao Jingyun was stupid. If it were Xiao Li, Lu Cang's rebellion would be a joke.
In a word, use force to control culture, and use force to control force.
Holding the truth and making good use of talented people, the emperor can feel at ease.
The court gradually got back on track, and with some free time, Xiao Li began to clean up the group of people who had been imprisoned before.
Xiao Li packed up the royal family and other relatives and sent them to guard the imperial mausoleum.
She doesn't need relatives to support her, nor does she need ancestors, and she certainly doesn't need elders who dictate her affairs.
Therefore, they were all sent to accompany the ancestors.
The honor of being crowned a king or given a noble title like before?
That's even more ridiculous. She doesn't even know these people, so she has to support them just because they are relatives?
This question sounds like a brain drain.
She was an emperor as a woman, and the people who wanted to dethrone her the most were these people. How stupid was she to raise a group of rebels with her own hands?
After dealing with the royal relatives, the next thing to deal with are the civil and military officials. The military officials are the easiest to deal with. Those with ability can be kept and recruited. Once they see those weapons, they will not be able to hold on for a few days and will completely surrender.
Weapons that can cut through iron like mud, armor that is invulnerable to swords and spears, and thermal weapons with great destructive power are temptations that no military officer can refuse.
Those incompetent good-for-nothings will first be investigated, then their homes will be searched, and finally they will be driven away.
The civil servants had picked and chosen some of the lower-ranking ones for use, but as for the higher-ranking ones, well, most of them were blown to death, which saved trouble.
Most of the other families had been dealt with, and the largest one left was only Wang Changwen.
Xiao Li hesitated for a while between killing and not killing, and finally gave the Wang family a package of confiscating their property.
I have to say that the Wang family is really rich. Among so many families raided, they have the most treasures.
A horse cannot grow fat without night grass, and a man cannot become rich without unexpected wealth.
Xiao Li is now like a bandit, raiding one house after another. The national treasury during Xiao Jingyun's period is empty, with a lot of corruption and bribery.
After Xiao Li ascended the throne, he expanded the national treasury by two hundred da in one month by confiscating property, and is still expanding it.
There is so much money that I can’t spend it all. I am truly rich.
Sure enough, the only way to get rich quickly is to transfer other people's wealth.
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Wang Changwen had been mentally prepared for the raid on his family's property. Both his son and grandson had died, and he had endured every blow, but now he was calm.
As a result, as soon as he was released from the palace, he learned that his daughter had become an official.
Wang Yizhu?
When Wang Changwen first heard the name, he felt familiar with it. It was said that she was the new runner-up and the only woman.
Just as he was about to express his feelings, he suddenly realized, Wang Yizhu? Isn't this his daughter?
I'm used to calling my daughter the Queen, so I'm not used to hearing people talking about her name.
But he soon became confused again. His daughter was Xiao Jingyun's queen. Now Xiao Jingyun was dead and even expelled from the royal family. She couldn't even go to the imperial mausoleum. His daughter became a deposed queen.
Logically speaking, even if the empress didn't kill her, she should have sent her away and settled down.
According to my daughter's personality, she should find a house or a nunnery to spend the rest of her life in peace.
Listen to what they say, a woman took part in the imperial examination, was recognized by other candidates, won the second place in the public vote, and became the glorious runner-up.
How could it be possible that she was his daughter, who had taken the exam, had her talents recognized by everyone, and became an official in the court?
It must be the same name.
But reality did not allow him to escape. When he returned home, he found that his house was being ransacked and there was crying everywhere.
A group of people pulled him and asked him to go to Wang Yizhuo to plead for mercy.
It turns out that this Wang Yizu is the same Wang Yizu, the former queen who now serves as an official in the court and is highly valued by the empress.
After Wang Changwen figured out what was going on, he was speechless for a long time.
Good news: The Wang family may not fall.
Bad news: the one who succeeded was Wang's daughter, a daughter who had long since alienated him.
Wang Changwen was too embarrassed to ask his daughter for help, and he felt that even if he asked the empress, she would never pardon the Wang family just because of Wang Yizhuo.
But he was open-minded, but the other members of the Wang family were not reconciled.
In order to maintain their wealth and glory, the Wang family found ways to make trouble in front of Wang Yizhuo. It was also at this time that everyone finally knew her identity.
The daughter of the Wang family, the former queen.
This is simply... as shocking as a princess becoming emperor.
However, no matter what others said, Wang Yizu went on duty as usual, and the empress personally sent people to protect her.
Everyone was shocked for two days, and then... accepted it.
Originally, they had already accepted the woman serving as an official with them. The fact that this woman was the former queen didn't seem to have changed much. The only difference was probably that they felt it was quite an honor. This woman was the queen, an existence they had never dared to even imagine.
Before the Wang family had completely left, the Lu family's judgment came down.
The Lu family was also raided and all direct descendants were executed, leaving no one alive.
The remaining tens of thousands of Lu clan members were divided into four groups by Xiao Li, and all of them changed their surnames.
After changing their surnames, they were exiled to four directions, directly splitting the family.
Of course, the Lu family is unwilling to change their surname, but if they don’t, they will die.
Xiao Li has become numb to killing people now, and there is no need to kill the entire Lu family, so instead of confiscating the property and exterminating the clan, he will instead kill the ancestors.
Lu family: They have become obedient.
Lu Family Ancestor: ...
After scaring several officials of the Lu family faction to death, the corpse puppet Lu Yanzhi was chained up by Xiao Li.
I haven't taken care of it for so many days until now.
Looking at the corpse puppet chained to the iron pillar, with its limbs broken and nailed down, Xiao Li was actually a little curious whether he still had any consciousness.
However, remembering the rough, unpleasant and strange voice of the corpse puppet last time, she decided to suppress her curiosity.
It’s not that I’m afraid, I just don’t want to experience that creepy feeling.
She asked someone to bring her secret jar and pour it directly on the corpse puppet.
The corpse puppet could not feel pain, so he did not move from beginning to end, and just turned into a pool of black sticky water in front of Xiao Li.
Since you are dead, you should die completely.
However, unlike the first time he tried to kill him, this time Xiao Li just wanted to witness his complete disappearance with his own eyes, without any emotional ups and downs from beginning to end.
Even if he was Lu Yanzhi, he could no longer arouse any emotions in her.
Prince Consort? Ex-husband?
In her eyes, he was a dead man from beginning to end.
Not dead, dead, pretending to be dead, and now completely disappeared.
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