Entertainment of Spring and Autumn

Chapter 699: The capital is stained with blood

That night Xue Mu stayed in the Qixuan Valley branch, sitting in front of Mo Xuexin's bedroom window and writing a manuscript. He wanted to write all the follow-up manuscripts of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms before his young apprentice came.

Snow began to fall outside the window, and the cold wind brought snowflakes to the window lattice. After breaking away from the recent tense atmosphere, I felt that this was already the deepest winter, and this year was about to pass again.

Somehow, Xue Mu felt a sense of urgency.

What he saw during the two days of rest, although it had nothing to do with things like fighting, still gave him a vague premonition that the decisive battle might not be too far away. If things change in the future beyond my ability, I can't let the Romance of the Three Kingdoms eunuch go...

Mo Xue walked over heartily, holding a bowl of chicken soup and placing it beside the table. She sat with her chin in her hands and watched him write, her eyes gentle.

She liked it very much, like a couple, the husband was at work and the wife was spooning. There was such a time when Xue Mu lived in Qixuan Valley, and when it reappeared in the capital thousands of miles away, she was able to deeply realize that the original lingering was not just a cloud of smoke, nor was it a demon that had been eaten away and wiped away. Just run away, but you can go on forever.

The snow outside the window is deep and cold, but the warmth of the candlelight inside the house makes people feel extra soft.

"Drink the soup while it's hot." She said softly, "There's no rush in writing a manuscript."

Xue Mu raised his head and smiled, took the chicken soup and drank it slowly: "Xue Xin can actually make soup..."

"I didn't mix the ingredients, I'm afraid I'd poison you to death." Mo Xuexin smiled and said, "But I made the fire with my own hands."

This is called the world's top Dharma caver, who uses his power to control the five elements to stew chicken...

Xue Mu then laughed: "Even if it's poison, I'll do it."

Seeing him finish drinking, Mo Xuexin stood behind him and gently kneaded his shoulders. She also looked at the manuscript paper for a while and asked: "With your current status, why do you still write stories like this?" Writing a long novel is very labor-intensive.”

Xue Mu looked at the snowflakes outside the window for a while, lost in thought, and whispered: "I don't know... maybe it just proves that I have been here."

Mo Xue was puzzled by what he meant, and just took it as proof that ordinary people said that their life would not be in vain, and said: "You did not live in vain."

Xue Mu leaned into her soft embrace, closed his eyes and smiled: "Yes, the Master of Qixuan Valley is squeezing my shoulders. For this alone, I did not come in vain."

"You know that's not what I'm talking about. Look at your potential!" Mo Xue said in anger, and suddenly laughed: "I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe you are the only one in the past thousand years who doesn't rely on you. You are the one who can make the whole world move for you with your own strength."

"Is the whole world moving for me?" Xue Mu whispered: "Why do I feel that I am just moving along with the world?"

"How could it be possible? At least the current capital city will have heads rolling in because of your words."

"They deserve it."

………

Xue Mu deliberately hid in Qixuan Valley to avoid the earthquake that was bound to occur in the capital in the past two days.

He ignored everything and devoted himself to writing the Outline of the Three Kingdoms, which took two days to write. Just when Xia Houdi and Liu Wanxi missed him and sent people to find him, Chutian Mingxing asked to see the queen at night.

Chu Tianming is her direct spy and has always been directly responsible to her. Now that his authority has not been revoked, Xingye must be here for important matters. Xia Houdi had no choice but to suppress the idea of ​​going to find Xue Mu and let Chu Tianming go to the imperial study to talk.

Then her desk was piled up into a mountain.

All of them are evidence of various illegal activities of the honorable nobles collected by Chu Tianming, including bullying the market and oppressing the people over the years, rape, robbery and wanton killing, as well as the recent massive occupation of the property that was originally owned by the Jingtian Sect and Ji Wuyou's gang and should have been nationalized. Some people even went directly to Wangyou Garden and transplanted all the natural materials and treasures inside. A garden that combines the beauty of heaven and earth has now been turned into a mess, with broken walls and scattered flowers and branches everywhere.

At the same time, there was also an impeachment report submitted by Li Yingqing on Xia Houdi's desk. It detailed various data and evidence that Ji Wuli had intercepted various public funds from the General Administration of Transport and embezzled them. It also involved Many noble accomplices.

"Bang!" The Long Case was smashed to pieces, and Xia Houdi stood up angrily: "Do these bastards think I am a clay puppet!"

The capital's cavalry came out in all directions, and countless princes' mansions were surrounded in the starry night. The entire capital was illuminated by torches and was as bright as day.

Xiahou Di has a very contradictory attribute. Many people know in their hearts that this guy is actually quite ruthless and can be scary when he goes crazy. But she always shows her public heart, and is often restrained and emotional in doing things. This makes it easy for people to ignore the first attribute, and always subconsciously think that the queen is a good person, an upright official, a benevolent monarch, etc. …

Facts have proved that no one who can be an emperor is a good person in the absolute sense.

Especially when all the powerful forces in the capital are controlled by her and Xue Mu, as long as she wants to be a tyrant, she can be a standard tyrant.

In December of the 24th year of Chong'an, the new queen had just ascended the throne for less than five days. She had not even passed the Spring Festival, she had not been given a reign title, and her position was still under people's scrutiny... On this day, hundreds of nobles in the capital were buried. He was expelled from the nobility and demoted to a commoner, and all his family property was lost to the official. Among them, more than ten households were slaughtered, and more than a thousand people were killed. An unknown number of people were imprisoned and exiled.

Those who were beheaded included An Guogong's family. What he predicted to Qian Jin that day, "It's unclear how long those moths will be able to escape" became a reality.

Except for Xue Mu's participation in the initial introduction, the whole process had nothing to do with Xue Mu. No one instigated the queen's rage. It was Xia Houdi who decided it all. With a raised hand, thousands of butcher knives fell, and the capital's blood flowed into a river, dyeing the snow in the capital red.

"There are no dignitaries who are above the law." Xia Houdi announced coldly at the court meeting: "The useless imperial guards will be disbanded from now on, and the Jinyi secret agents will be established from now on, headed by Chu Tianming, the six-door gold medal catcher, to deal with the nobles. Officials do not enforce the law. Those who test the law with their own lives, Caishikou Rentou is an example!"

The government and the public were shocked.

No one dares to treat Xia Houdi as a mascot puppet anymore.

In fact, if Xue Mu was in charge of this kind of incident, he would not be as ruthless as Xia Houdi.

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for any emperor to take action on this system of nobles and nobles left over from history. That would shake the foundation of rule. But the current situation is not routine, and Xia Houdi's rise has nothing to do with these people. With the support of absolute force, doing this kind of thing can't even arouse any backlash. This is the real queen with real power, not a puppet!

If it had a shocking effect in the court, Xiahoudi's reputation among the people reached its highest peak in just one day.

Originally, many people were worried that Xia Houdi would liquidate his old ministers and start a white terror. However, the butcher's knife was not used for such a thing, and he actually chopped off the heads of the nobles, not for his own power, but to control corruption. Censorship of lawless affairs, risking political instability, and return a peaceful world to the capital!

The capital city, which was already slightly depressed, was bursting with firecrackers on this day just like the Chinese New Year. You could hear the voice of "Long live the Queen" wherever you went, and the crowds of people watching at Caishikou were bustling. Suddenly, the capital city, which was depressed in the severe winter, actually had a few people. The scene of the arrival of spring.

"The Spring Festival will be held in a few days." Xia Houdi continued to announce: "On the day of the Spring Festival, the year will be renamed Jianyuan. I hope that you will work together, put the public spirit first, fight against the difficulties, and build this new year."

"Jianyuan..." Xue Mu, who was hiding in the Qixuan Valley at the helm, listened to the report from the young apprentice who had just arrived in the capital. He scratched his head and said, "Why does this sound familiar..."

After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized: "Hanwu...my queen is so powerful."