Ninth Princess and Jin Feng came out of the well and happened to see a team of forbidden soldiers running through the Wu family compound.
Seeing the imperial army, everyone in the Wu family turned pale.
Especially the female relatives, they were all so frightened that they couldn't stop trembling.
One female family member even stood up and banged her head against the courtyard wall, preparing to commit suicide.
"Quick, stop her!"
Jin Feng shouted quickly when he saw this.
Kita Chihiro took out a pebble from his sleeve and threw it away.
Whoosh!
The woman who was about to commit suicide bent her legs and fell to the ground.
The Imperial Guards who arrived later took her back.
In order to prevent her from committing suicide again, she directly pressed the woman to the ground.
"Your Highness, please give me a happy life for the sake of our friendship in reading together!"
The girl who was pushed to the ground begged in the direction of the ninth princess.
The female relatives of officials in the capital had more or less heard about the process of confiscating their homes and knew what was waiting for them next.
At this time, they were no longer high-ranking official ladies, but became family members of the prison officials.
When their homes are searched later, the imperial guards will invade them and then be sent to the Jiaofang Department.
Where is Jiaofangsi?
That's a government-run brothel.
From the eldest daughter of an official family to a brothel girl who can be humiliated, this identity change is more cruel than killing them directly.
"Let her go!"
The Ninth Princess stepped forward and asked the imperial guards to let go of the girl, her face full of helplessness.
Wu Ding was a romantic man by nature when he was young. He had dozens of wives and concubines, not to mention those slaves and maids who had no status.
If there are more women, there will naturally be more children.
Wu Ding had more than 20 sons and more than 40 daughters.
The woman pinned to the ground by the imperial army was Wu Ding's twenty-second daughter.
Because of her cleverness, Wu Ding liked her very much, so she went to find Chen Ji and sent her to the palace to study with the prince and princess.
"Fan Jin, you don't have to be so excited. The Imperial Preceptor said that this time only the guilty officials will be punished and no joint sitting will be carried out. After the review, if you have not participated in corruption with your father and have not killed any servants, you will be punished soon.
I will let you out!"
The ninth princess looked at the woman and said.
"I have never participated in dad's affairs, and I have never killed any servants!"
The Wu girl quickly shook her head.
"Then when you get to the prison, explain everything properly and you'll be out soon."
The Ninth Princess sighed and turned to look at Qin Zhen: "Let your people be honest. If I hear that someone's hands and feet are unclean, I will chop off his hands! Also, don't molest the female members of the Wu family!
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"yes!"
Qin Zhen clasped his fists and said, "I will ask the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau to support a team of female escorts later and guard the female family members alone."
"Okay!" The Ninth Princess nodded: "One more thing, when the seal is affixed later, the seal from the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau must be affixed. When we come back to search the house, someone from the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau must be present to break the seal and count the supplies. Do you understand?
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"Yes!" Qin Zhen bowed and responded.
According to normal procedures, Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is not an official organization and does not have the right to affix seals.
But what the Ninth Princess and the Emperor trusted most now was not the Forbidden Army, the Secret Service, or the Dali Temple, but Jin Feng's Zhenyuan Escort Agency.
The atmosphere before the Dakang court was so bad that the Ninth Princess and the Emperor could not guarantee whether the Secret Service, Dali Temple and the Forbidden Army would guard against theft.
This kind of thing is so common in Dakang that it can almost be said to be an unspoken rule.
When the Imperial Guards ransacked a house, they would prepare cloth bags under their robes in advance. When the raid was over, who would not have had their bags filled to the brim?
As for the female relatives whose homes were confiscated, their fate was not much better.
But everyone knows that they will be sent to the Jiaofang Department later, so no one cares.
Qin Zhen was naturally unhappy with the decision of the emperor and the ninth princess, but he could not say anything.
The imperial army could not have known that the prince had forced his way into the palace before, but they failed to rescue him in time.
Although the main reason was that his father Qin Peng was assassinated and the command of the Forbidden Army was taken away by the Feng family, the Forbidden Army still has an unshirkable responsibility.
Qin Zhen asked himself, if he were Chen Ji, he would not dare to trust the Forbidden Army again before they were completely eliminated. Instead, he would trust Jin Feng and the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau.
Although Jin Feng was aloof and a little careless, and did not take the imperial power seriously, without him and the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, Chen Ji would be finished.
Coupled with the relationship with the Ninth Princess, if Chen Ji doesn't trust him, who else can he trust?
Ninth Princess and Jin Feng came out of Wu's house and rushed to the next house.
The next family was the Minister of Rites, less than two miles away from the Wu family. The two did not ride in a carriage or ride a horse, but walked side by side.
"National Master, do you really want to cancel the continuous sitting?"
The Ninth Princess asked as she walked: "We raided Wu Ding's house. The descendants of the Wu family and the clan must be resentful. If we don't eradicate it, I'm afraid they will cause trouble!"
"Wu Yang, I just said not to sit together, but I didn't say not to judge."
Jin Feng said: "You said that in strict accordance with the law, how many men in the Wu family are not guilty? Will those who are not guilty really hate us?"
"I'm afraid there aren't many." Ninth Princess shook her head.
The Wu Party has become more and more powerful in the government in recent years, and the Wu family has become more and more domineering in their affairs.
If the trial is strict, no male member of the direct line of the Wu family will be able to escape, and a large number of collateral members will be found.
"Those collateral men who have not been tried, will they really resent us?" Jin Feng asked again.
Hearing this, the Ninth Princess showed a look of surprise: "I understand."
The male members of the Wu family's lineage who have not been tried will definitely not be reused by the Wu family.
If you are not reused, you will not get any benefits, and you may even have conflicts with the Wu family.
Such a person would naturally not go against the imperial court for the sake of the Wu family.
Therefore, in Jin Feng's view, whoever commits a crime will bear the punishment, and sitting in jail is unnecessary and meaningless.
Even if the surviving Wu family really resented Jin Feng, he didn't care.
When Wu Ding was still there, Jin Feng was not afraid of the Wu family, not to mention that Wu Ding was arrested and the Wu Party was wiped out?
To forge iron, you need to be strong yourself. The best way to scare your opponents is to strengthen yourself.
"If you want to ban the group sitting, just ban the group sitting..."
Halfway through Princess Ninth's words, Qin'er beside her suddenly pressed her down.
Kita Qianxun also pressed Jin Feng.
"Enemy attack! Protect sir, protect your highness!"
Da Liu gave a cold shout and immediately led his guards to surround Jin Feng and Ninth Princess tightly.
Qin Ming, with the guards of the Ninth Princess, surrounded the guards.
The next second, dozens of arrows flew towards him!
But both Jin Feng's bodyguards and the Ninth Princess's bodyguards were all wearing black armor, and arrows hitting them were almost like tickling them.
"Kill!"
"Capture Jin Feng alive! Capture Chen Wen'er alive!"
Hundreds of masked men rushed out of a courtyard opposite, waving long knives and charging towards Jin Feng and Ninth Princess.
"I thought they were going to continue to be cowardly, but in the end they couldn't help it anymore!"