On April 30, 128th year of the Universe, the archaeological team of the Ouya Cross Kingdom was conducting a series of tracing on the underground location of the spacecraft that the Dion Empire had obtained from Noah.
On the same day, major domestic media outlets in the Tianyi Empire were broadcasting live in front of the gate of a marquis's mansion.
The Marquis was a man named Tadeusz, who was a hero in the destruction of Weng and was once a major general of the Tianyi Mercenary Group.
At this moment, Marquis Tadeusz had his hands handcuffed behind his back and was dragged out of the gate of the Marquis' Mansion under the escort of a team from the Criminal Department and the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
While being dragged, Marquis Tadeusz struggled and shouted, "Long Fei, you bastard! We brothers fought for you and helped you conquer the entire Martian sphere so that you could be the emperor of this planet! I never thought you would kill us heroes! When the rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked! You are a fucking ungrateful emperor!"
Marquis Tadeusz was shouting hysterically, and those who didn't know thought that Marquis Tadeusz was being eaten up by Long Feilai.
Marquis Tadeusz continued to curse and was then forced into an escort van by the relevant law enforcement officers with his head pressed down. Reporters filmed the escort van driving away.
Local reporters at the scene reported that the national authorities had taken strong measures in recent days and arrested many nobles involved in fraud.
It turned out that 8 days ago, a piece of news shocked the Tianyi Empire. It was that the three electromagnetic rail elevator stations currently under construction in the Tianyi Empire were revealed to involve serious fraud and shoddy construction.
Long Fei and the ministers immediately set up a relevant investigation organization to conduct an investigation, and Long Fei even granted great power to the investigation organization.
Three electromagnetic rail elevator stations were discovered, two of which had shoddy construction and cutting corners. At the same time, collusion between officials and businessmen was also uncovered. In addition to officials, those involved in the fraud also included nobles from the meritorious service faction.
Long Fei immediately ordered that all nobles were not allowed to leave the country. The investigation would be conducted by an investigation organization, and all nobles had to cooperate.
Many nobles were involved in it, and some of them sold the resources or raw materials needed for the electromagnetic orbital elevator station in their own fiefdoms, selling inferior goods at the price of good goods.
Faced with irrefutable evidence, the nobles involved had no choice but to plead guilty. In addition to being sentenced to jail and having their properties confiscated by the court, their noble identities were also directly confiscated by Long Fei. After being released from prison, they were just like ordinary civilians. However, the effort these nobles would have to put in to improve their opportunities in the future would be several times that of others.
Some nobles were also deeply involved. In addition to colluding with related businesses, they even cut corners in contracting projects or produced a lot of shoddy products.
Among these nobles were the group led by Marquis Tadeusz.
Nobles like Marquis Tadeusz were tried by the court when there was irrefutable evidence, and their noble status was stripped, all their property was confiscated, and they were sentenced to become criminal slaves.
Officials, businessmen and participants involved in these frauds may face imprisonment and heavy fines at the very least, or even confiscation of their property and enslavement at the worst.
In the past few days, countless children of nobles, businessmen, etc. who were involved in fraud all knelt in front of the palace gate, begging Emperor Longfei to show leniency.
Many children of nobles held up banners, asking the emperor to show leniency to their parents in consideration of their parents' merits.
Some nobles even came to ask the emperor to forgive those meritorious officials.
During the court session, many ministers and meritorious officials pleaded with Long Fei for mercy.
"My dear ministers, do you think I have never thought about the contributions of these noble heroes? These things really cannot be dealt with lightly. Just imagine, if the electromagnetic rail elevator station collapsed because of their cutting corners and shoddy construction, countless precious lives would die in this accident. Who will be held responsible for these debts then? It will be held on my head." Long Fei pointed to his head.
"The people who lost their loved ones will not resent these nobles, but me. I ordered the construction of the electromagnetic orbital station, and it was because of my order that these people died. I will bear all the blame in the future."
"It's not that I don't want to let them off easily, but I must be responsible for the millions of people in the Tianyi Empire. Severely punishing these nobles and heroes is also to tell all the heroes not to do whatever they want just because they have made great contributions to me in the past, and use their contributions in the past as a golden ticket to avoid death."
Long Fei's words left everyone speechless, but some ministers were worried because more than 10,000 officials were involved in the fraud.
These officials being imprisoned will cause some departments to be understaffed, which will affect the operation of the government because it takes time to train officials.
In just a few days, more than 10,000 officials were imprisoned, which has more or less affected the operation of some departments.
Some ministers told Long Fei about these problems, hoping that the emperor could let go of some officials who were involved in less serious frauds and allow them to return to their posts.
But Long Fei refused, "No matter who commits a crime, no matter how big or small, they must be punished, and this is also to explain to the people of the empire. No matter whether they are officials, nobles or rich people, they will be sentenced according to the laws of the empire."
Everyone knew that the emperor's attitude was to use these people as an example to others.
One of the electromagnetic rail elevator stations that has no problems is still under construction, while the other two electromagnetic rail elevator stations are temporarily suspended for a series of inspections.
In addition, many properties of officials, nobles and businessmen were confiscated. The total amount of cash confiscated alone currently exceeds 2 trillion Earth coins, not to mention real estate.
Those nobles who had fiefs and could receive part of the taxes had their original fiefs taken back by the state after being sentenced. The state no longer had to allocate part of the taxes collected from the reclaimed land to these nobles.
Salamanda was processing and signing documents in his own Ministry of Justice building, looking at the documents where his former colleagues and subordinates were either sentenced to prison or sentenced to slavery.
Salamanda looked at the fate of these people and could only say: "Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant. However, the fiefdom nobles were so greedy as to receive taxes, and they ended up like this. It can only be said that it was their own fault." After saying this, he could not help but shook his head.
On May 10, 128th year of the Universe, the archaeological team of the Ouya Cross Kingdom, after unremitting efforts, found some relevant evidence and confirmed that Noah was the god recorded in their country's scriptures.
The team sent by the Ministry of Culture of the Tianyi Empire followed the archaeological team. There were also spies mixed in the team to keep an eye on the archaeological team's every move.
A search was conducted in the underground layer around the location of the spacecraft, and some carvings, texts and cultural relics left by the Noahites were discovered.
The archaeological team even suspected that the Dion Kingdom had not conducted a series of carpet searches, otherwise why would there be so many cultural relics and carvings left around the entire area.
Some of the cultural relics are technological products. The archaeological team investigated these technological products and confirmed that they have been left in the original place for more than 500 years.
The archaeological team only found some things after a long period of exploration, which only recorded some living habits and historical records of the Noah people. Most of the technological products were machines for daily use.
Just when the archaeological team thought that they could only make such progress, one member of the team accidentally touched a mechanism.
Suddenly, the basement below was opened, and the archaeological team made a major discovery.