The puppet and the soldiers naturally did not stop Ying Si's sudden attack. They were quite a distance away from him, and the puppet and the soldiers were dissatisfied with the person who had pretended to be someone else to give orders to harm the people, so they did not stop him.
When the people of Lin County saw this scene, they were also greatly shocked. The puppet hurriedly explained the whole story, telling them that someone had pretended to be the Crown Prince and issued the order.
At this moment, the group of Di County people who had gone to Yueyang to pay their rations had also rushed back. However, they realized that nothing as terrifying as they had imagined had happened. Instead, the officials and guards had all fallen to the ground. When the people of Lin County learned that it was the puppet that had saved their clan, they thanked it once more.
After pacifying the people of Lin County, the puppet led the soldiers back to Yueyang. Ying Si naturally returned as well. However, not long after he returned, he was brought to the Zuo Shu Manor by the Old Empress Dowager and let Wei Yang deal with him according to the law. When Wei Yang saw the Crown Prince being tied up and thrown in, as well as the mother of the monarch, the empress dowager who did not care about political affairs, he was dumbfounded. At this moment, Wei Yang had just received information from the scouts that the Emperor and Li Xiang were safe and sound and were already on their way back. They would be able to return to Yueyang by tomorrow. The matter with the Mo family had also been perfectly resolved. He was happily drinking when this happened.
"Empress Dowager, what did the Crown Prince do wrong? Men, untie the Crown Prince first!" Wei Yang first bowed to the old empress dowager and asked someone to take away the food and wine on the table. He invited the empress dowager to take a seat and said. "Sigh!" The old Empress Dowager sighed and rubbed her aching head. Ever since her husband, Qin Xiangong, had passed away, she had been worried about the state of Qin and her son. Now that the state of Qin had finally undergone a reform, this was the result. "This unfilial descendant was taught by that brat Ying Qian to be full of murderous intentions. He actually called for the army to deal with the commoners. In the end, in order to push the responsibility to others, he even killed a descendant of an old aristocratic family. See, that group of old fellows came to complain to me.”"No! Grandmother! I told you, I really didn't give the order!”The young man, Ying Si, had just been untied. When he heard this, he immediately felt wronged.”The old empress dowager said resentfully. "I really didn't, Grandmother! Moreover, those old nobles were not present. What was the use of their testimony?”Young Ying Si said unwillingly. "You!" The old empress dowager glared at him, speechless. "Wait a minute, Empress Dowager. You can't judge the Crown Prince's crime based on one side of the story.”Wei Yang raised a hand to stop him. "Alright then! Wei Yang, interrogate this brat properly. I will listen from the side and not disturb you.”The old empress dowager did not want her grandson to make such a big mistake. She brought Ying Si here because of the pressure from the old family and the importance of the new law. "Good!" Wei Yang took a deep breath and began to ask about what had happened to Ying Si.
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"Are you saying that the Sect Master and a few other soldiers under the Grand Tutor were also present and helped the people of Lin County to stop the cavalry's attack?”Wei Yang frowned as he considered the veracity of Ying Si's words. A few people against a group of cavalry, could anyone really do it? At this moment, Wei Yang thought of Li Xiang's performance that night and immediately put away his thoughts. He knew that he could not deny it directly just because he had not seen it before.
"Empress Dowager, please go back and rest first. It's very likely that the Crown Prince's matter is really as he said. I'll go to the Sunken Fish Pavilion in Yueyang City with the Crown Prince now to look for that head shopkeeper.”Wei Yang stood up and bowed to the old empress dowager. He brought Ying Si out of the door and walked straight to the Sunken Fish Pavilion.
The puppets in Sunken Fish Pavilion left. Wei Yang and Ying Si waited for a while before they finally arrived.
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"In that case, this is the first time the noble clan has launched an attack, and the Crown Prince is just their chess piece.”After Wei Yang understood everything, he returned to the manor and began to ponder. He began to think about what their goal was.
After thinking through the night, Wei Yang realized that the original goal of this group of old families was not the current situation, but to make the commoners make trouble. If the Crown Prince had not been stopped after being lured and had really killed that Bai Liang, and if he had not been stopped by the puppet when he went to kill the commoners in Lin County, then the people would have definitely rebelled.
There must be a way to quell the anger of the people to incite a rebellion. The simplest way was to deal with it according to the law. In the new law, the Crown Prince was still young, and the person who needed to be punished was the Crown Prince's tutor, Li Xiang!
"How vicious." Wei Yang couldn't help but sigh. Slandering the commoners, attempting to kill the commoners, all for the sake of making Wei Yang and Li Xiang become enemies to deal with the new law of Qin!
Wei Yang was now sincerely grateful to the puppets and the soldiers. If not for them, the new law of the State of Qin would have been destroyed.
If the two of them hadn't stopped it back then, what could Wei Yang have done if there had really been a rebellion? According to the law, if the Crown Prince killed someone, because he was still young, the Crown Prince's Grand Tutor should be sentenced to the punishment of cutting off his nose. Even if Wei Yang had a heart of stone and tortured Li Xiang, what would happen then? Extinguishing the anger of the people would cause public outrage! Even Old Gan Long did not dare to be Li Xiang's enemy because he was afraid of Li Xiang's reputation. Even if Li Xiang killed him, he would be the one who would be notorious for thousands of years after his death.
Once Wei Yang used torture on Li Xiang, no matter what, any country in the world would have an 'absolute justice' reason to attack the Qin country, or even destroy it. This was different from the rumors about the tyranny of the Qin State. This was the truth. Not to mention other things, Qi and Wei would definitely not let Qin off. Even if Qi and Qin did not share a border, they might borrow it to attack Qin.
However, if he did not punish them, the anger of the people would not be appeased. The reform would be just a piece of paper. Everyone knew that Wei Yang had bent the law for personal gain. The reform to strengthen Qin would disappear like a mirror.
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This was also why Wei Yang was so glad that he had the puppets and soldiers to stop the development of the matter. Even if the matter had not ended, it was still much better than before. It turned out that the Qin country would be destroyed anyway. One was destroyed because of his lack of virtue, and the other was weak and chaotic. It was no different from death.
After Wei Yang understood the whole situation, he heaved a huge sigh of relief and began to think about how to solve the problem of the old aristocratic family. To expose their conspiracy, evidence was necessary, but the situation was chaotic at that time, and there was definitely no evidence. The only two people who could testify were the puppets related to Li Xiang. Wei Yang thought for another day without drinking a drop of water. He got up and drank a mouthful of water. When he returned to his seat, he immediately fell asleep.
At the same time that Wei Yang had fallen asleep, Li Xiang and Ying Quliang had returned!
Li Xiang almost laughed out loud when he learned about what had happened in the past few days from the puppet. He didn't expect that these people from the old aristocratic families would be so impatient that they would fall into the muzzle of a gun.
Then, the puppet told him that he wanted a name, and Li Xiang named the puppet "Li Yu."”
But why was Li Xiang laughing? Didn't they have no evidence to punish them? Could it be that Li Xiang was going to use his personal strength to cross the line and kill them?
Of course not. Don't forget that Li Xiang had just returned from the Mo Family and had gotten a chance to make a move. Moreover, he could not do it to other countries. He could only do it to the internal affairs of the Qin Country. He didn't know when he could use this useless compensation. He couldn't possibly wait until the Qin country unified the world and when the survivors of the six countries rebelled, then ask the Mo family to help the Qin country sort out the 'internal strife,' right? That would be too stupid. And if nothing unexpected happened, the Mo Family at that time was already the personal tool of a certain Crown Prince (Yan Crown Prince Dan). How could they become the Qin country's "lackey" for the promise they made to Li Xiang a hundred years ago?
In short, it was too easy to solve the current situation. Half of it was done according to the law, and the other half was handed over to the Mohist rangers who could not be punished by the law of the State of Qin. Li Xiang took out a machine-operated bird from his pocket and took out a piece of cloth. He wrote down the course of this matter and what he wanted the Mo family to do. He hung the Giant Token on the machine-operated bird's claw and threw it out.
At this moment, some people in the old aristocratic families still had not settled down. Rumors gradually spread in Yueyang City that the Crown Prince had broken the law and that Wei Yang wanted to impartially enforce the law and punish Li Xiang.
It seemed that they had been waiting for too long. Ying Quliang and Li Xiang had returned. If they did not force them, they might really not have a chance anymore. After all, this was far from their original plan. Crown Prince Ying Si had only killed a disciple of a noble family out of anger.
Ying Quliang, Li Xiang, and Wei Yang knew that this rumor was false, but Ying Quliang's irascible elder brother, Ying Qian, did not know about it. Ying Qian had always admired Li Xiang, but he didn't know whether it was because of his martial arts or his knowledge of beautiful women. But when he heard this rumor, he immediately led a group of people into Zuo Shu Chang's residence and pointed his sword at Wei Yang.
"Wei Yang, what kind of punishment are you going to use on the Grand Tutor? Ah! Speak!" Ying Qian shouted.
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