After the news came from Gwangju that Feng Wensheng had been successfully killed, good news came from Jiasi, according to which Yu Dayu and his team had captured Feng Wensheng's accomplices in Gwangju.

The investigation revealed that all the powerful people who instigated Feng Wensheng behind the scenes and those who were related to this incident were charged with treason.

This was an order issued by Ling Moxiao himself. When he thought about how these powerful people were trying to slander Dong Su and harm Dong Su and the twins, he wished he could kill all nine clans of these people!

If Dong Su hadn't repeatedly advised, Chang'an shouldn't have any more big storms. The New Year was approaching and the people couldn't be allowed to celebrate the New Year in panic.

Small punishments and severe warnings are the most important thing, as long as the world is at peace.

Ling Moxiao did not tell Dong Su that these powerful people wanted to slander the bloodline of the twins, so he was so angry.

He had long known that there would be rebellion among the powerful and influential people. Duke Su was the first group, and the second group would soon appear among those powerful and influential people who did not want to move the capital.

He even left some of the royal family in Chang'an to give them a chance. If you want to rebel, do it quickly. I will destroy you sooner, and the world will be at peace sooner.

It’s okay for you to rebel, but we can start a real war with real guns and swords. I still respect you as a man and will leave your body intact.

As a result, you even used a despicable guy like Feng Wensheng, and wanted to use him to go to Gwangju to find the Queen's relatives, insult the Queen's reputation, and slander the bloodline of the twins.

How could he bear this? He did not even show Dong Su the letter sent by Jia Si.

He didn't want to make Dong Su sad, and even felt that if Dong Su heard such words, it would be a blasphemy to her.

He wanted to let those people know that the dragon's reverse scale cannot be touched, otherwise it would mean death!

The Queen and the twins are Ling Moxiao's Achilles' heel!

Although no one was implicated, the homes of all the participants were searched and the Jia Si did not cause a sensation in Chang'an, as they brought people to the door in the middle of the night.

The next day, the common people discovered that a certain marquis's mansion was empty and guarded by soldiers, and they only talked about it in private.

What crime had this noble family committed? The government was really quick in its actions! Unlike in the past, when a powerful person's house was confiscated, it would last for months.

Nowadays, the confiscation of property of the powerful and wealthy can be resolved in one night.

However, the people went to watch the beheading at Caishikou. From the 20th to the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Caishikou was crowded with people every day.

Batches of prisoners were executed. The dignitaries, nobles, and royal relatives who had once been high and mighty were stripped of their clothes, put on prison uniforms, and knelt at the vegetable market, becoming no different from ordinary people.

After a batch of people were killed, a thick layer of blood and ice formed at Caishikou. The soldiers cleared it overnight and transported it outside the city by carts, piling it up into small hills that looked like red ice.

The people were even more afraid to comment, but they were thankful that our new emperor did not like to implicate others, unlike before, when he would kill a powerful official and implicate his entire clan, resulting in the deaths of at least several thousand people.

Once upon a time, the emperor's uncle committed treason, and up to 20,000 people were implicated. That was a sea of ​​blood and a mountain of corpses!

Compared to the sensation caused by the last rebellion by Duke Suguo, this time the case of treason by the powerful was much more low-key, and our army didn't even lose a single soldier.

Jia Si was both satisfied and dissatisfied with this situation. He was a general who fought bravely on the battlefield, but it was too suffocating to be tied up in a place like Chang'an, which was full of spider webs.

That bastard Chen Xingyao said such nice things to him when he went to drink with him, saying that the two of them could defend Chang'an together.

As a result, he turned around and went to Youzhou and never came back. When he requested to be transferred back to Youzhou many times, His Majesty always said that the time was not right.

I hope that after this killing, the powerful people in Chang'an will be more honest. This general just wants to return to Youzhou!

It’s no wonder that after this bloodbath, the dignitaries and nobles who did not move to Youzhou were indeed much more obedient.

During the New Year, they paid tribute more devoutly than in previous years. Even the old Empress Dowager in Xishan did not dare to complain to the Emperor and Empress.

Unlike before, when she complained when a noble came to visit her, she actually refused to take her to Youzhou! This is extremely unfilial!

The case of Duke Su dealt a heavy blow to the roots of the powerful, while the bloodbath in December uprooted them completely.

Duke Chen, the head of the aristocratic family, was clearly not implicated this time, but he submitted a memorial after the New Year, requesting that the title be given to Chen Xingyao.

He was devoted to Taoism and went to a Taoist temple outside Chang'an to seek the truth.

The emperor approved his petition and transferred Chen Xingyao back to Chang'an.

However, this time Chen Xingyao has an important task. Momen College, Medical College, and the Agricultural Science Academy of the Minister of Agriculture are going to open branches in Chang'an, and Chen Xingyao will be responsible for the implementation.

In addition, the emperor was dissatisfied with the progress of land reform in Chang'an. This time, Chen Xingyao was responsible for redistributing the confiscated land of the rich and powerful and the gentry to the farmers.

More importantly, the development of Liangzhou cannot avoid Chang'an. As an important city in the northwest, Shen Dongsu does not want Chang'an to decline.

She doesn't want to gather the whole world to support Youzhou, but to use Youzhou's success to drive the prosperity of the whole country.

The emperor gave Chen Xingyao a bunch of tasks, and Shen Dongsu continued to support him. She originally wanted to meet Chen Xingyao before he returned to Chang'an, and it would be better to talk to him in person.

I don’t know what Ling Moxiao was thinking. He said there was no need to meet and it would be the same to just issue an imperial decree.

Dong Su had no choice but to write down the tasks regarding infrastructure and female officials into an imperial edict and send it to Chen Xingyao. Not long after, he received a memorial from him, saying that the other tasks were fine, but as for the female official, he asked the Queen to send a female official to Chang'an to assist him in completing it.

Shen Dongsu originally thought so, but the candidates for this faction had not been selected yet. She asked Chen Luoxue and Xie Qingzhi who they recommended?

Unexpectedly, Xie Qingzhi volunteered to go by herself. Shen Dongsu was a little surprised and told her that the atmosphere in Chang'an was not like Youzhou, and female officials would encounter many obstacles when carrying out their missions there.

You are constrained everywhere. Not only do officials hinder you and do not take female officials seriously, but the noble ladies in Chang'an will also regard you as an alien. The people of Chang'an are also used to being proud and do not support the government as much as the people in Youzhou.

As she spoke, she felt like giving up. She would rather develop female officials in Jiangnan first than send anyone to Chang'an.

Unexpectedly, Xie Qingzhi became more and more excited as she listened, and felt that the more difficult it was, the more she wanted to challenge it.

She expressed her thoughts. She knew that the queen wanted to change the world's views on female officials, and the most difficult place was Chang'an.

People in Chang'an are like that. There are some things they won't believe even if they hear them a thousand times. They will only believe it when they see it with their own eyes.

Just like the development of Youzhou was already obvious to everyone, but Chang'an just didn't believe that Youzhou could become strong. Needless to say, both the deposed prince and the deposed emperor were defeated miserably.

Xie Qingzhi said that if they wanted the people of Chang'an to change their views on female officials, they had to let them see it with their own eyes and defeat their self-righteous arrogance. Only then would they know how powerful the Queen was and recognize the female officials.

The female official system in Youzhou is already mature, and it is not a problem to have Chen Luoxue lead it alone, so she wants to go to Chang'an and bring our Youzhou's new look to Chang'an.

Why would Shen Dongsu disagree? Of course, we should support such a young man with a challenging spirit.

Perhaps influenced by the Queen and the energetic female officials, and considering the lack of talent in the governance of Goryeo County and Beijiang County, Ling Moxiao decided to hold an imperial examination.

In May of this year, Youzhou held a spring examination. In addition to selecting 300 Jinshi scholars through a special examination, it also added 1,000 "public officials".

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