Chapter 433 Heading back to Beijing? Yunzhou is like a chicken!
Due to Zhu Gaojie's order, these officials in Yunzhou City were unlucky.
Not only was he kept outside the barracks all day eating and drinking, but he was also asked to ask questions about the inside story from time to time by people from other families.
After all, after Shen Qingyu received Zhu Gaojie's order and directly started to attack the arrested families, the blood all over the city immediately made almost everyone else unable to sit still.
God, that's hundreds of lives!
Just like that, he was dragged to the execution ground one by one by the Jin Yiwei and the big-headed soldiers and had his head chopped off alive!
After a few days, not only the people of Yunzhou who came to watch the beheading out of curiosity were frightened, but even the officials who had been somewhat at ease gradually began to become panicked.
It seems that His Highness the Crown Prince was so angry that he went on a killing spree because of the assassination?
After killing these big families, will it be our turn?
The other families also panicked.
what happened?
Previously, they only chopped off the heads of a few people. How come in the past few days, they have almost killed all the members of those families?
Look at the behavior of His Highness the Crown Prince, are we going to be in trouble soon...
Finally, someone couldn't hold it any longer and recommended a few leaders, who quietly came to the house of the magistrate of Yunzhou City late at night.
There is no way, now Yunzhou City has been ordered to be under military control by Zhu Gaojie. The streets are full of military sergeants and soldiers maintaining order and patrolling. There are even large armies stationed outside the city, and knights are wandering around. They can't run away even if they want to, and they want to gather for discussion.
And for fear of attracting Zhu Gaojie's attention, he could only come here secretly at night...
"Master Zeng, you must save us!"
As soon as they met, among these people, whether it was the head of the family or the clan leader, they all spoke in unison, and their expressions looked particularly urgent.
"Now that the army has sealed the city, His Highness is very murderous. We are really afraid that we will follow in the footsteps of the Zhang family and die without a burial place..."
Hearing this, Zeng Zhizhou couldn't help but smile bitterly, and didn't express his position. He just responded in vain:
"Sit, everyone, sit down, drink tea first, and then discuss after drinking tea."
Everyone was already anxious, fearing that their family would become the next Zhang family the next day. They had no intention of drinking tea at the moment. They just gathered around him and kept pleading:
"Sir Zeng, His Highness the Crown Prince is clearly trying to scare the monkeys, just using the topic as an excuse. Now the Zhang family and other families have been confiscated and exterminated, almost uprooted. Isn't that enough? He must kill this Yunzhou City.
Is there a river of blood?"
"Exactly, Mr. Zeng, he is about to return to the capital to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. It is so inappropriate to see blood here. Why do you have to stare at us in Yunzhou and fight to the death?"
"Well, now I don't even dare to go out on the streets. The streets are full of those barbarians, all of them are so fierce. They are afraid that they will come into my house at any time and cause death..."
Seeing everyone crying to him, Zeng Zhizhou finally couldn't escape. He suddenly put the tea cup in his hand on the table, making a loud bang and the tea splashed everywhere!
"You also know that he is trying to scare the monkeys!"
"You also know that he is about to ascend the throne as emperor!"
He looked around at everyone, his tone was neither sad nor happy, his face was heavy:
"From ancient times to the present, in many dynasties, whoever dared to assassinate the Prince of the East Palace would have a good ending?"
"Not to mention that ours is an out-and-out heroic hero, experienced in hundreds of battles!"
"The Zhang family is committing suicide by participating in the plans of the other families in the capital, but they don't know that with their little bumpkin strength, they can barely live as local gangsters here in Yunzhou. Once they participate in this kind of royal family
If you go through a major event, your body will die immediately, your family will be destroyed, and everything will come to an end! Thousands of family wealth, and the inheritance of dozens of generations, will disappear in the blink of an eye!"
"What about you? Ask yourselves, have you ever received a summons from the Zhang family? Have you ever thought about getting involved?"
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, he calmed down and continued to speak:
"I know you are all anxious, but don't be too anxious yet."
"Because at the moment, His Highness the Crown Prince is only pursuing the attitude of only punishing the first culprit and not correcting the rest. He is just pursuing the people and things related to the assassination case."
"If you keep jumping up and down and make him dissatisfied, when an order comes down, you can just wait to go down and keep company with the Zhang family!"
Seeing Zeng Zhizhou speaking like this, everyone suddenly fell silent and remained silent for a long time.
One person thought about it and finally couldn't help but said:
"Master Zeng, my family has definitely not been involved in this, and it can withstand the search, but we were all involved in the matter of food and supplies..."
Previously, there was chaos in the capital, and messengers were specially sent there to deliver urgent news, asking the forces in Yunzhou, no matter how big or small, to delay the matter of food and fodder logistics.
At the beginning, no one here in Yunzhou was optimistic about Zhu Gaojie's lone expedition to Mobei. Despite the great victory against the Tatars, as the old emperor's "unexpected death" and other news came, many people suddenly became suspicious.
thoughts.
You must know that the amount of food, grass and supplies for the army is astronomical. Even if it is delayed for just one day, you can still get countless additional benefits and benefits by relying on that day's share.
Therefore, officials of all sizes and aristocratic families in Yunzhou City were more or less involved in this matter, and they cooperated with each other tacitly to get a piece of the pie.
As for whether Zhu Gaojie will be defeated because of this, what does that have to do with them?
Even if the sky falls, there will be tall people holding it up. Besides, the law does not punish everyone...
Even the severe punishments of the two grain inspectors could not sway this group of people from delaying the supply of grain and stealing profits, so that the logistics of grain and grain were delayed.
It wasn't until Shen Qingyu led five hundred Jinyi guards to suppress them forcefully, and then took out Zhu Gaojie's gold medal of king's order, that the momentum was stopped and the army's logistics supply was restored.
And although all of this was done secretly and supported by explicit reasons, in the final analysis, it was still a serious crime that could not be circumvented.
The Zhang family and other families who had taken a big hit now had their homes confiscated and exterminated. Although it was because they participated in the assassination of Zhu Gaojie, it also shocked the rest of the forces in Yunzhou.
If the food and grass issue were revealed again, wouldn't they all be doomed?
Seeing that everyone was uneasy, Zeng Zhizhou sighed and said helplessly:
"I waited outside the military camp for three days before His Highness the Crown Prince said a word."
"The army is about to leave for Beijing. He doesn't plan to make any big moves here in Yunzhou."
"However, His Highness the Crown Prince hopes that we will honestly explain to him all the causes and consequences!"
"Otherwise, the Zhang family will be our only fate in the future!"