After Qiu Fu replaced Liu Jing and occupied the palace city, the fires in the palace were mainly concentrated in the harem area. Many of the palace maids and concubines captured by the Yan army were also rushed to the harem and massacred, so that the main palaces such as Fengtian Hall were preserved.

Zhu Di entered the Fengtian Palace at noon and sat on the throne in the name of "temporarily taking charge of the affairs of state for his nephew whose whereabouts are unknown". He was known as the Yongle Emperor in history. The ministers shouted long live.

However, Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and other important ministers of Jianwen who were determined not to change their words were all executed, and all the surviving female relatives were tortured. This not only caused a certain degree of panic in the capital, but also made Lan Qiao feel discouraged.

He further strengthened his determination to leave the government and join the country.

After Zhu Di secured the throne, he began to reward Jingnan ministers. He promoted Qiu Fu as Duke of Qi, Zhu Neng as Duke of Cheng, Zhang Fu as Xin Anbo, and posthumously named Xu Zengshou as Duke of Ding. According to the previous agreement, he issued

"Jingnan Heroes" commends the contributions of many Jianghu gangs and characters who participated in Jingnan, and implements various rewards.

Among them, the Tianlian Sect, Huashan Sect, Jiangdu Clan, Huangshan Sect, Yanshan Sect, Xuanyue Pavilion, Fengyao Immortal Cave, Jiuxinghui, Changbai Sect and Kuanglong Gang were named the "Top Ten Baidao Gangs" and were allowed to operate in the capital.

Open a Taoist temple and recruit disciples.

Regarding Lan Qiao's driving into Hongwu Gate that night, Zhu Di asked him to enter the palace to inquire. Lan Qiao replied: "I wanted to bring Jian Wenwen to Your Majesty, but Liu Jing suddenly led his soldiers out and Jian Wen burned himself to death.

Liu Jing had a rift with me and wanted to kill me, but I had no choice but to break out with my wife."

Zhu Di nodded and sent someone to jail Liu Jing. He also wanted to promote Lanqiao as Marquis of Dingyuan. Lanqiao declined politely and said: "I am a country man. I have no intention of attending court. I just want to leave the capital and become a free and easy man."

"Yes, if I had three wives like you, I would never want to go to court." Zhu Di laughed loudly, "But I will still give you a reward when you leave the capital, so that your family can still be together even if they are far away.

Splendid."

So Zhu Di changed the title of Lan Qiao to the title of Marquis of Yueyang, and granted him a fiefdom and numerous rewards. Lan Feng was granted the title of Marquis of Dingyuan instead of Lan Qiao, and stayed in the capital to serve. They were two brothers in the family, but they were granted the title of two marquises, which became a good story for a while.

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Zhu Qingxiao, the princess of Jiangling County, was promoted to Princess Jiangling and returned to her former residence in Jingzhou.

Afterwards, Hua Yuxi commented: "His Majesty is still somewhat wary of us, so he kept the second young master in Beijing. Although he himself also has the intention of joining the world, he is still a thread that binds us."

Lan Qiao smiled and replied: "With a little witch like you here, who dares not to be afraid?"

When their family left Beijing, Zhu Di saw him off outside the city gate in his casual clothes. He took the opportunity to ask Hua Yuxi: "In Hua Yuxi's opinion, what should I do with Chushui City?"

Hua Yuxi replied: "The residents in the city can be broken into pieces and moved to other places, each with a few acres of land to live on. The remaining walls can be set on fire, and then there will be no more Chushui City in the world."

Zhu Di looked at Lan Qiao and said with some embarrassment: "I know Huaiyuan just wants to be free and at ease at the moment, but the Hundred Miles of Wilderness is near Yueyang, and everyone in Hua is familiar with Chushui City. The migration of the people of Chushui City, Huaiyuan

Can you help me share my worries one last time?"

Lan Qiao cupped his hands and said, "I obey your order."

After returning to the palace, Zhu Di appointed Lan Feng as the right deputy imperial envoy, and at the same time gave him the remaining Jingxuan Biezong of Erqihui. As the new residence of Dingyuan Marquis, he was extremely favored.

Jingxuan Villa is located in the southern suburbs of the capital. Lan Feng was riding to the imperial court one day. Since he got up half an hour early, he ordered the driver to detour along the Qinhuai River to the former Goddess Tower to see what was going on.

The Goddess Building has been blocked by soldiers for more than a month. The officers and soldiers surrounded the Goddess Building and put all the women in the building under house arrest in order to clean up Liu Yueyao's old troops and eradicate them.

In this regard, the original opinion of the Ministry of Punishment was to interrogate Liu Jing to learn about the remaining members of the February 7th Society. However, Liu Jing hanged himself with a braid shortly after being imprisoned. The Ministry of Punishment then arrested some of Chang Hong's men and women in the Xu Mansion.

After being interrogated by the nursing home, it was difficult for these people to know the inside story, so there were no clues.

"I would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go." Zhu Di was not worried about this and said calmly: "In my opinion, it is better to simply burn down the Goddess Tower and end it all."

Lan Feng was startled, and hurriedly knelt down to persuade: "As far as I know, most of the women in that building are just their tools to make money, and they don't know the dirty inside story of Erqihui. Those who really follow Liu Yueyao are causing trouble.

, it’s just a very small number of people who would set off such a fire and kill innocent people, I’m afraid it would be detrimental to His Majesty’s wisdom.”

Zhu Di stared at him for a moment with burning eyes. Seeing that Lan Feng didn't flinch at all, he laughed and said: "They say that love and romance cherish flowers, and it's true. Well, for the sake of your great contribution to me.

, I will give you full authority to investigate this matter, and you will deal with it after it is found out. Whether these women in the building are killed, exiled, or any other punishment or arrangement is made, it is all up to you.

, I won’t ask any more questions. However, if there are Liu Yueyao’s accomplices who come out to cause trouble in the future, I will be the first to question you.”

He paused, then suddenly looked at him with a smile and said, "Maybe you have a crush on someone among them and want to stay in the house to serve him. You can do whatever you want."

For the girls in the Goddess Building, this was the most humiliating month they had spent in recent years.

Since the night when King Yan entered the capital, their building door has been heavily blocked by soldiers, and no one is allowed to enter or exit.

Since the daily food was rationed by the officers and soldiers, they had to put on a smile or even pay more to avoid unnecessary suffering.

The leading general was named Shen Si, a partial general under Zhu Gaoxu. He was responsible for guarding the women who were under house arrest in the Goddess Tower. He also wanted to take the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

Relying on Zhu Gaoxu's support, he refused to hand over Huanhuan and Xiaoxiao, the two girls who were closest to Liu Yueyao in the past, to the Ministry of Punishment. Instead, he was directly taken into the dungeon of the Goddess Building and ordered the soldiers to torture and interrogate his comrades day and night. However, Liu Yue

Although Huan Huan Xiaoxiao often followed her, she knew very little about the rest of the personnel arrangements. Therefore, even though she was tortured by the soldiers until she was dying, she could not provide any more information.

But hearing their screams from the dungeon, the other women trapped in the building were still frightened and lived with their hearts in their throats every day, fearing that they would become the next poor person to be imprisoned in the dungeon and tortured.

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Wang Lin, who was twenty-six years old at the time, took over as the shopkeeper of the Goddess Building after Liu Yueyao left. As one of the sixteen sisters who had followed Hua Yuxi in the Jinan Labor Army, she had been constantly comforting the officers and soldiers in these days, keeping the people in the building calm.

The girls try to be bullied as little as possible, while at the same time comforting her frightened sisters and asking them to serve the officers and soldiers who can control their destiny as thoughtfully as possible.

She racked her brains for this and often couldn't sleep at night. She even had to let Shen Si sleep in her room many times, but with little success.

Huanhuanxiaoxiao couldn't survive the torture, so in order to survive, she finally had to start making blind guesses. Without evidence, she randomly identified some sisters as "maybe Liu Yueyao" based on some clues, so every day there were new girls He was dragged into the dungeon and put on trial.

As a result, the remaining girls became even more frightened and had to endure the blackmail from the soldiers in their lives. Every day they closed their eyes, they had endless nightmares.
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