bestfiction Chapter 119 ends quickly.
Chapter 119 ends quickly.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be so few guards in this stronghold, but because there was no support from the Liangzhou prefect, and Zheng Luoqi's attack was unexpected.
The battle lasted from night until the next morning.
Zheng Luoqi looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground; this small village had been stained red with blood.
All members of the Wen clan have been arrested, including many elderly, weak, women, and children, as well as many children, both boys and girls.
Some of the concubines who had already been trained but hadn't had a chance to be sent away were attacked by Zheng Luoqi, who stormed into their headquarters. They were also very panicked.
Many men who were trained to be liaisons have been tortured and turned into unrecognizable beings; each of them has that special pattern on their face.
These people were surrounded by soldiers, kneeling there, waiting for Zheng Luoqi to deal with them.
Zheng Luoqi felt that the Wen clan members were not worth pitying. Even the elderly, weak, women and children, having lived here for a long time, must have known what they were doing. Since they had not stopped them, they had indirectly harmed them.
If they are considered innocent, then the innocent civilians outside who were implicated are even more innocent. Therefore, Zheng Luoqi gave the elderly, weak, women and children of the Wen clan a quick death.
Before their deaths, the Wen clan members kept cursing Zheng Luoqi:
"You'll die a horrible death, you corrupt official!"
"You don't even spare the children!"
A woman begged Zheng Luoqi to spare the Wen family's child, but Zheng Luoqi still killed him. What kind of good child could be raised in this environment?
Call her cold-blooded or ruthless, does Zheng Luoqi really intend to leave these children behind and wait for them to return for revenge? How ridiculous!
Before the Wen clan did these things, they should have thought about their own fate. Their children were innocent, but weren't the children who died in the sacrifice also innocent?
The women kept kneeling and kowtowing, begging Zheng Luoqi to spare their children, but Zheng Luoqi remained unmoved.
Amidst curses, pleas for mercy, and screams, these members of the Wen clan ended their lives.
The captured children, along with the trained concubines and their handlers, who were watching Zheng Luoqi carry out the execution, trembled and turned pale at the sight.
Zheng Luoqi randomly picked a woman who had been raised to be a concubine and asked, "Do you know how these children were captured?"
The woman trembled with fear and replied in a shaky voice, "Yes...yes, sir...most...are sold here."
The woman being questioned looked like she was about to burst into tears.
"Sell? Explain more clearly?" Zheng Luoqi continued to ask.
"Your Honor, it is the Prefect. The Prefect of Liangzhou has established an orphanage. Every year, he pays a price to take in some children. He says that if any poor families cannot afford to raise their children, they can sell them to the orphanage. The Prefect will take good care of these children!"
“We came here after we were sold!” A girl who had been brought here from the crowd replied.
"Has no one come back to see you or look for you?" Zheng Luoqi asked, looking at the woman who spoke.
"Three taels! Three taels is already an astronomical price for ordinary people! Besides, they've already sold their child, do you really expect them to come back to redeem him?" the woman said sarcastically.
"Even if they do, so what? The prefect won't let them see us!" the woman continued.
Zheng Luoqi finally understood why there had been no news for so long. Three or four ounces might not be enough to keep people quiet, but what about five or ten ounces?
Now that I've discovered this way to make money, how can I tell others?
It is said that even tigers do not eat their cubs, but human nature is something that really cannot withstand the test.
The temptation of money and the oppression of power mean either you keep your mouth shut and continue living as if nothing happened, or you are discovered, the news gets out, and your whole family is killed.
Zheng Luoqi looked at these people, unsure of what to say, but he had promised Yan Huan that if they were innocent, he would not kill them. Zheng Luoqi kept his promise and did not lay a hand on them; they were indeed innocent.
Those who are still here are those who haven't had a chance to be sent to work yet. Zheng Luoqi doesn't plan to get involved. She'll leave the aftermath to the Emperor. In any case, the credit won't go to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the end.
Zheng Luoqi didn't want to be the nice guy either.
Moreover, Zheng Luoqi had everyone examined; they were all poisoned and wouldn't live past thirty. There was no antidote, not even the children…
Zheng Luoqi went to the village to see if she could find anything related to the previous dynasty.
Sure enough, they found many books related to the previous dynasty, as well as various stories about the previous dynasty.
Zheng Luoqi ordered his men to move all these items away as evidence, and then set off back to Xuzhou.
A few days later, the prefect of Liangzhou died under mysterious circumstances, and rumors about his past were spread. Public opinion was in an uproar, with many different opinions that were difficult to quell.
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After Zheng Luoqi wiped out the stronghold, Grand Commandant Wen received the news and was furious: "How dare Xue Huaiyu treat me like this, how dare he join forces with the Prime Minister!"
Enraged, the Grand Commandant smashed many things in his residence, shouting as he did so, "I swear I will make the Prime Minister's residence pay for this blood debt!"
After venting his anger, the Grand Commandant calmed down and summoned his steward, asking, "Where's Yixuan? Wasn't he told to keep a close eye on Zheng Luoqi and report any news? Where is he? How come there's no news at all about something this big?"
"Reporting to Your Excellency, we haven't heard from Young Master Yixuan for a long time. He's probably been discovered!" The steward lowered his head, not daring to look up at the Grand Commandant's face.
The Grand Commandant's face was terribly gloomy at this moment, and he was already thinking about how to kill the Prime Minister and his son, as well as Xue Huaiyu.
"That good-for-nothing Xue Huaiyu, I actually let him trick me!" the Grand Commandant said fiercely.
"Enter the palace! I wish to see the Empress Dowager!" The Grand Commandant ordered his servants to deliver the invitation to the palace.
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Zheng Luoqi, He Jinyu, and Zisang have already returned to Xuzhou.
Zheng Luoqi quickly wrote a letter to the emperor, asking him to send people to the capital with the evidence related to the previous dynasty and the people arrested by the prefect of Liangzhou.
It was only after Zheng Luoqi returned that Wen Yixuan and Lin Zifeng learned what Zheng Luoqi had been doing.
When Wen Yixuan saw Zheng Luoqi return to the government office, he stared at her with bloodshot eyes, as if he wanted to tear her to pieces.
Zheng Luoqi also saw Wen Yixuan's look of wanting to devour her. She walked over and whispered provocatively in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Lower your gaze. You're being too obvious. Do you really want everyone to know that your Wen family is a remnant of the previous dynasty?"