On that day, people from Wang Lei's supervisory department, with the cooperation of the army, ordered the arrest of all those who had committed the crime, and announced to the people that the Qu family was merely supervising the crimes poorly and would only impose appropriate financial penalties and that they could go back to work.
When all the people heard that the Qu family was acquitted, they all thought it was a cover-up. The Qu family was because Qu Xi was the top businessman in the Han Dynasty and Qu Lingchen was the wife of the King of Shu. All those who were acquitted felt strong dissatisfaction with the government.
But the next moment, they were all stunned. The Qu family was acquitted, and then the government announced that it was the Huang family who committed the crime.
When it comes to official strength, the Qu family is not as powerful as the Huang family. Qu Lingchen's status is not as good as that of Huang Yue. No one in the Qu family is in the officialdom. Huang Quan is the number one civil servant in the Sichuan Army.
There is no longer any suspicion among the people that it is a cover-up. It is impossible for the government to dig out the Huang family for a small Qu family. If the Qu family is dug out for the Huang family, it is a cover-up.
And it's not just that. When the Qu family committed the crime, they just gave up their business in Peking. But this time it was discovered that it was the Huang family who robbed the Qu family's business at the cost of soldiers' lives, and there were too many people involved.
A construction accident suddenly escalated to the level of conspiracy to kill someone and official corruption. These crimes are so many.
There are more than 100 Huang family members to be arrested, nearly half of whom are to be executed, and nearly 1,000 officials are implicated. The officials supervising the project in Peking alone have implicated more than 100 people. This is a much greater result than the Qu family had to bear before.
Too much.
Only then did the people know that this time it was a relative of a high-ranking official in the Sichuan Army who committed the crime, and that he was a denouncement of the crime.
In the past, these common people thought that the Sichuan Army was thinking about the common people. After all, under the leadership of Liu Zhang, countless policies to benefit the people, and the obvious prosperity of the areas under the jurisdiction of the Sichuan Army compared with Jiangdong and Hebei, convinced the common people.
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Precisely because they feel that the Sichuan Army cares for the people, the people of Youzhou and Hebei have no objection to the Sichuan Army.
But now I know that there is also a dirty side in the Sichuan Army. There are also officials who are corrupt, and there are many of them. There are also those who play with power to benefit their families, and do so by any means.
Moreover, this family is also the family of Sichuan army officials like Huang Quan.
The people woke up from their blind admiration for the Sichuan Army.
However, this did not affect the people's hearts. In the past, the people of Sichuan were just grateful to the Sichuan army for bringing them a good life. After the aristocracy was eradicated, taxes became lower, and after various new measures, food production increased. The people at the bottom only need to work hard.
You can become an official even if you study.
They completely and unconditionally support the Sichuan Army. Many people will look angrily whenever someone speaks ill of the Sichuan Army.
But the people in other places, such as Youzhou, Jiangdong, Hebei, and other places, are just looking forward to the arrival of the Sichuan Army. They feel that as long as the Sichuan Army arrives, the government will be as clean as water, and they can live a good life like the people in Sichuan.
So the Sichuan army unified the world, and they cheered.
And now this case has awakened them from their dreams. Their blindness has become rational. They know that the Sichuan Army also has a bad side and is not so perfect.
But the people will not be disgusted or suspicious of the Sichuan Army because of this. What they have to wait for now is a result.
So many Huang family members were arrested. So many officials were arrested, including close relatives of Huang Quan and Huang Yue, and so many officials were killed at the same time, which would inevitably cause some chaos.
Liu Zhang is about to proclaim himself emperor. Will the Sichuan army dare to deal with it? Will it end in an anticlimax?
If the answer is yes, that is when the prestige of the Sichuan Army plummeted.
After hearing that a nest case had occurred in Peiping, the Empress Dowager Fu Shou was "furious" and brought most of the civil and military personnel from Chang'an, including all the upper-level officials, to Peiping to supervise law enforcement.
But no one quite understood why the execution had to be done in Peiping even though the case occurred in Peiping. Most of the officials who committed the crime were from other places, and they were all escorted to Peiping.
The aristocratic families from Jiangdong and those arrested in Hebei, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Yangzhou were also escorted to Peiping.
After all the criminals arrived in Peiping, Liu Zhang ordered the members of the Huang family who committed the crime, as well as the officials who committed the crime, to be executed together with those aristocratic families.
Everyone was astonished again. Was Liu Zhang slapping himself in the face? It was obvious that those noble families resisted the New Deal and were arrested by the violence of the Sichuan army.
Now these officials and families who came up with the New Deal committed the same crime and selfishness, but Liu Zhang executed these people together with the previous members of the traditional family. Isn't this a slap in the face?
However, in this kind of surprise, the people suddenly felt very at ease in their hearts. They originally doubted whether Liu Zhang would severely punish his officials and relatives of honorable ministers when he was about to become emperor.
Now not only do we need to be punished, but we also punish ourselves by slapping ourselves in the face. This is similar in nature to the edict of sinners, but it is more severe than the edict of sinners.
Although the Sichuan Army did commit crimes involving many officials and honorable ministers, such public handling made the people feel more reliable. They got rid of the blind support at the beginning and now see the pragmatism of the Sichuan Army.
It seems like we have gone back to the time when Liu Zhang ordered Ling Chi to kill Liu Mao. The people of Yizhou at that time and the people of the Han Dynasty now had the same thoughts.
The fact that such a big case occurred at such a sensitive moment before he ascended the throne and was dealt with so harshly immediately became the talk of the town.
But soon, another news came. Master Zhang Lu of the Tianshi Dao accidentally saw a red light rising into the sky from the northeast on Mount Emei. He then took his disciples to Hebei and discovered the Palace of Immortality that had not been seen for thousands of years north of Peiping.
Legend has it that the Palace of Immortality will appear only when the Holy King comes to court. When the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors ascended the throne, the Palace of Immortality will appear in the city where the Holy King reigns.
After Xia Yu, the Palace of Immortality disappeared. The last time it appeared was in 1056 BC, when King Wu of Zhou inherited the throne. After that, King Wu visited Mengjin and gathered a thousand princes. The Battle of Muye defeated King Zhou of Shang and created the Great Zhou Dynasty.
foundation.
The Palace of Immortality means that the Holy King is about to come to court, and it also means that the world is about to be governed, which is the greatest sign of good fortune.
When the people heard about it, they soon knew the reason for the appearance of the Palace of Immortality. It was not only because Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, was about to ascend the throne, but also because Liu Zhang ordered to kill the bad apples among the officials and the children of the Xunchen family who were only seeking profit and harming the people.
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Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that just after Liu Zhang gave the order, the Palace of Immortality came out.
But the only thing that confused the common people of the Han Dynasty was why the Palace of Immortality was not born in Chang'an but in Peking? Is it because Peking executed those prisoners?
The Palace of Immortality was born in the city where the king ruled. Does this mean that Peking will become the capital of the Han Dynasty?
No one can make the Palace of Immortality appear for the second time in such a short period of time, and no one believes it at all. If the capital is Chang'an, it is obviously giving up on Furui.
In other words, if you want to achieve great governance, do you have to make Peiping the capital?
In addition to the people in Youzhou who were crazy happy, the people in Hebei were also happy. The people in other states were depressed and complained why the prisoners were not executed in Chang'an or Luoyang. You know, Peking is too remote.
Although many of these people will never be able to leave their hometowns in their entire lives, after all, in their impression, Chang'an and Luoyang are much closer to their homes.
The people in Guanzhong and the merchants were even more frightened. If the capital was located in Peiping, the prosperity of Chang'an would definitely be reduced by half, which would directly affect their interests.
A palace of immortality may not allow the Han Dynasty to make Peiping its capital. The people, officials and businessmen all thought so.
But then, Zen Master Hongye, the Buddhist Zen master with the highest status among Chinese missionaries, announced that seeing the light of ten thousand feet of Buddha in Kongtong Mountain east of Peiping (located in Tianjin) was a sign of the coming of ten thousand Buddhas.
Buddhism has just experienced its first wave of large-scale preaching under the support of Liu Zhang. Although it is still far less influential than Taoism, it already has many believers, and Buddhist speech cannot be ignored.
Zen Master Hongye led the monks to worship Kongtong Mountain, claiming that this was the Western Paradise. The Buddha discovered that the Eastern Holy King was coming to the court, and came to spread the benevolent Buddha's light. This was not only to congratulate the Holy King, but also to help the Holy King, so that the Han Dynasty could be ruled by the Holy King.
, more prosperous.
On the edge of the primeval forest in the northeast of Beiping, many hunters discovered the auspicious mythical beast Qilin.
The people of Peiping also saw the bells and tripods of the Red Emperor's capital on the backs of many bees and butterflies. The people didn't recognize them at first, but it took some old people who had studied onmyoji for generations to see the clues and recognize them.
Various visions came one after another, all pointing to one point: Liu Zhang was the reincarnation of the Red Emperor, the Holy King came to the court, and Peiping was the city where the Holy King ruled and the capital of the Red Emperor.
At this time, except for the disappointed people in Guanzhong, no one objected to setting the capital at Peiping. In fact, they didn't care much about where the capital was. They just felt that Chang'an and Luoyang had always been the administrative center, and they were not used to moving to a remote place.
The rest are businessmen and officials. Many large businessmen have their headquarters in Chang'an. Relocating to Peking will cause losses. This is still a small matter. The key is that if Peking is the capital, then business will obviously center on Peking.
But it's too far here. Not only is the domestic route for transferring goods long, but it's also far from the Western Regions and the Southwest Silk Road, which will increase their business costs.
They were unwilling to move the capital to Peking.
Most of those officials were brought up by Liu Zhang from Jingyi and Yongliang. Everyone wanted the capital to be closer to their hometown. The most important thing was that most of their influence was in the west. Now that the capital was moved, they had to take root in Peiping again.
This is what they don't want.
In addition, factors such as remoteness, coldness, and being too close to the grassland have made many officials dissatisfied.
But what can happen if you are dissatisfied?
The Palace of Immortality, the vast Buddha's light, the unicorn mythical beast, the bees and butterflies carrying bells and tripods are all in Peiping. If you oppose making Peiping the capital, don't you want to reject these auspicious things?
Even if some more enlightened people know that this is fake, they dare not tell it. That is an act seeking death.