Pei Xuan was beaten so hard that two of his teeth fell out and his cheeks were burning with pain.

He looked up dizzily and saw Chen Qingzhu, dressed in a white Taoist robe, staring at him coldly under the candlelight of the prison.

"Do I have to cut off your tongue before I can tell you to keep your mouth shut?"

These words made Pei Xuan feel cold all over.

Only at this moment did he truly realize how powerful and terrifying the power of His Majesty the Divine Emperor was.

The person before him was an emperor with the power of life and death, a mysterious god, and no longer the biological mother who had selflessly devoted herself to him.

He didn't care about anything else, and quickly struggled to get up and kowtowed to beg for mercy:

"Mother, I know I was wrong! I will never have any bad thoughts towards Rong Niang again! Please forgive me!"

Chen Qingzhu looked at him indifferently:

"Zhou Zixuan, you are just a wandering ghost occupying Pei Xuan's body. How can you have the nerve to call me mother?"

Pei Xuan looked at her in disbelief, with horror in his eyes.

How could she know!

Even the Emperor Yong'an, the supreme ruler, was beheaded by her without mercy at the Meridian Gate.

If she didn't acknowledge that he was her son, would she still spare him?

"No... I am your son. I just haven't forgotten the memories of my previous life. I grew up in this body since I was a child. I am Pei Xuan!"

He hastened to defend himself.

He continued to beg for mercy:

"Please don't kill me. I will never dare to disrespect Rong Niang again. Please don't kill me!"

Chen Qingzhu looked at him coldly:

"It's too late. I gave you several chances, but you didn't cherish them."

After saying that, she stretched out her hand, sucked Pei Xuan to the cell door, and directly destroyed his vocal cords.

She could not tolerate this lonely ghost continuing to insult Rong Niang.

Pei Xuan only felt a pain in his throat, and then he was horrified to find that he could no longer make any sound.

Chen Qingzhu threw him to the ground without mercy, turned around and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Pei Xuan spent the next day and more in endless fear.

When the execution time came on the third day, when he was dragged to the Wumen execution ground, he was completely limp as mud, with tears and snot all over his face.

He whimpered, trying to beg for mercy and call for help, but no sound came out.

In this way, he was dragged to the execution platform and his head was cut off with a knife.

This time, there was no more time travel and consciousness disappeared forever.

In addition, all the adult male members of the five powerful families who participated in the assassination of the prince were beheaded.

Even Wu Yingbo, who had previously assisted Yan Rong in the rebellion and opened the city gate, was not spared.

Everyone saw the God's determination to secure his daughter's position as Crown Prince, and no one dared to have any ill will towards Crown Princess Rong Niang.

*

In the first year of Shenqi, Chen Qingzhu personally participated in the appeasement of the Qin provincial righteous army and the remnant Wei army.

The remaining Wei army was in dire straits, but was quickly subdued by the propaganda offensive of Zhang Liu's Ministry of Civil Affairs.

It was the Qin Provincial Righteous Army, the dragon slayer eventually became the evil dragon.

These people were originally just civilians who had nowhere to go because of natural disasters and heavy taxes. Later, in order to distribute land to the people in the occupied areas and to get the pay for their soldiers, they began to rob and slaughter local wealthy people indiscriminately.

However, due to the stalemate in the war with the imperial court, they were unable to conquer Qin Province for a long time. In addition, there had been successive years of drought in Qin Province. After looting the wealthy, the rebel forces could only target ordinary people.

The villages and towns were looted, and the people, having lost their food and homes, were swept up in the rebel army.

These rebel armies, which were accustomed to looting, would still gather together to loot even if they were disbanded on the spot because they were used to looting.

To this end, Rong Niang and Zhu Changming spent a lot of effort to eliminate these scattered bandits and restore peace to Qin Province and its surrounding areas.

In the southwest, Zheng Baizhan and his son Zheng Yuannai were fighting against the rebel army sent by the King of Shu on the border of Hunan Province.

After the fall of the Wei Dynasty, the defenders of Hubei Province, who had been fighting a life-and-death battle with the Shu King's rebels, switched sides to the Shu King, the last orthodox Wei leader, under the persuasion of the Shu King.

The King of Shu proclaimed himself emperor and continued to fight against the Du'e Army under the pretext of recovering the Wei territory and avenging Emperor Yong'an.

In order to peacefully incorporate the army in your province that was controlled by Xiao Guangyu, Huiyun did not go to Beijing, but went directly westward along the river from Nando, trekking thousands of miles to your province.

In the end, the army led by Xiao Guangyu was successfully persuaded to surrender.

After Chen Qingzhu pacified the wars in Liaodong and Qin Province, he personally went to the southwest battlefield.

The King of Shu had been preparing for the rebellion on the battlefield for many years, and it was indeed a tough nut to crack.

He knew how to treat soldiers well and how to control public opinion in the army. The soldiers were far superior to the soldiers of Wei in terms of loyalty and combat effectiveness.

This made all the tactics that the Du'e Army used to use in the past ineffective.

Even though Chen Qingzhu personally joined the battle and took the lead in killing the King of Shu and many of his generals, those soldiers loyal to the King of Shu still refused to surrender to the Daxi Dynasty.

They retreated back to Shu and engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Du'e Army.

Shu is a mountainous area, and they often looted villages or ambushed the local Du'e Army garrisons and hid in the mountains. It took Chen Qingzhu a long time to wipe out all these rebel troops.

Of course, the long time is only relative to the Liaodong battlefield.

By the end of the first year of Shenqi, Chen Qingzhu had wiped out all the rebel forces and restored peace to the entire Daxi country.

After the war, it is natural to reward people according to their merits.

Chen Qingzhu awarded titles to his subordinates according to their contributions.

Among the civil officials, Yuan Songbo, Huiyun, Yan Rong and Yan Qingzhi were all conferred the title of first-class marquis.

Qin Dafu was conferred the title of first-class earl.

Among the military generals, Hui'an and Zheng Yuannai were conferred the title of first-class marquis.

Huiming and Zhu Changming were conferred the title of second-class earl.

All the subordinates who loyally followed Chen Qingzhu and were capable were rewarded generously.

Originally, civil officials such as Yuan Songbo, Yan Rong, and Yan Qingzhi would never be granted titles in their lifetime.

But now, they have also become founding nobles with titles passed down from generation to generation.

Hui'an, Huiyun, Huiming, Zhu Changming and others, either women or peasants from the lower classes, originally had no chance of being granted titles, but now they have completely changed their status and joined the upper class.

In addition, Chen Qingzhu himself also received rich rewards for his merits.

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