Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
After a series of explosions, the men of sacrifice who had rushed over were all hit and fell into a pool of blood.
Those who were directly beaten to death were still fine.
Some of them who were not completely dead were lying on the ground and wailing.
The entire Forbidden City had become a living hell!
"Die!"
Thrust!
Another servant was cut into two by Azure Dragon.
The Embroidered Uniform Guards had also wiped out almost all the men of sacrifice.
The remaining few men of sacrifice were still covering Duke Dingguo and the others as they tried to escape.
He saw the painstaking efforts of his ancestors being easily killed by the Embroidered Uniform Guards and the new army.
Duke Dingguo Xu Yunzhen, Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi, and Xiangcheng Earl Li Guozhen felt their hearts ache!
If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have done such a risky business!
Wasn't it good to be a duke or marquis?
It was all that witch's fault for deceiving him, saying that Ming's fate was over and that if he did not surrender to Roaming King, his bloodline would be in trouble!
If it was already like this, why did it have to be in the beginning?
The only way out now was to flee the capital and join the raiders!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
……
The sound of bowstrings vibrating could be heard as a few guards were shot in the throat.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
……
"Ah! My bones! My bones!"
"Does it hurt Lord Marquis to death? Who set this trap here?"
“……”
After a few metallic sounds, Duke Dingguo and the others had their legs clamped by the traps used by the mountain people to catch beasts.
"Hahaha, Yuanjing, I can't let you and the Embroidered Uniform Guards dominate!”
After a burst of hearty laughter, Yu Qian walked out with dozens of guards dressed like mountain hunters.
This was a special weapon that he had specially trained to ambush raiders.
Those hidden arrows and traps were set up by these strange soldiers.
Duke Dingguo and a few others who had made great contributions to collude with the Hu Sect to rebel had not even been an hour when they were completely annihilated under the joint encirclement of the Brocade Guard, the new army, and the surprise army.
"Men, stop the bleeding and heal them. How to deal with these crafty sycophants still needs His Majesty's approval. Before they met His Majesty, they would be spared their lives.”
Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, also appeared.
As the leader of the Ming Dynasty's auxiliary ministers, Zhang Juzheng didn't need to personally lead the army.
That was why he did not show up when they surrounded the rebel army.
However, now that the rebel army had been wiped out and Duke Dingguo and the other meritorious officials who had rebelled had been captured, he, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, naturally had to come out and deal with the aftermath.
"Lord Zhang! Lord Zhang! I'm willing to atone for my sins and expose the remnants of White Lotus!”Duke Dingguo Xu Yunzhen pleaded loudly.
"Get lost! Something that betrays His Majesty!" Zhang Juzheng waved his sleeve in disgust.
Long live today's genius!
He was a wise ruler that was hard to come by in a thousand years.
Even if he didn't become the chief assistant, it was still a supreme honor to be a small official!
These crafty sycophants actually didn't know how lucky they were?
He really deserved to be cut into pieces!
Zhang Juzheng and the others ignored Duke Dingguo and the others. After handing them over to the Embroidered Uniform Guards for custody, they directly entered the palace to meet the emperor!
He didn't expect Emperor Si Zong and Empress Dowager Zhou to come over.
"Emperor, no matter how guilty Uncle Jia Ding is, his entire family shouldn't be executed! After all, he is your biological grandfather and also Imperial Mother's father!”
Before Zhu Ci Xin could speak, Empress Dowager Zhou spoke first.
Hmm?
How did the Empress Dowager know?
One had to know that he had given strict orders that no one was allowed to mention the matter of the Jiading Manor in front of the Empress Dowager.
Who was so talkative?
Zhu Ci Xin glanced at the embarrassed Emperor Si Zong and instantly understood everything.
It seemed like Emperor Si Zong had let it slip.
"Mother, it's not that your son doesn't care about kinship. It was really because the wealth that Jia Ding Bo had plundered was too much, not killing them was not enough to appease the anger of the people.”Zhu Ci Xin said indifferently.
"How much did your grandfather take?”Empress Dowager Zhou asked.
Zhu Ci Xin immediately stretched out his palm.
"Five thousand taels?" Empress Dowager Zhou asked.
Empress Dowager Zhou came from a small family and had never seen money since she was young.
After entering the palace, she did not need to worry about food and clothing.
So in Empress Dowager Zhou's mind, five thousand silver was a huge sum of money.
Even so, she wouldn't sell her jewelry to gather five thousand taels and send it to the palace for Zhou Kui to donate.
"No." Zhu Ci Xin shook his head.
"Could it be fifty thousand taels?" Empress Dowager Zhou asked in surprise.
"Not really."
"Could it be five hundred thousand taels?"
This time, even Emperor Si Zong was surprised.
"Wrong, it's a full five million taels! It was even more than a year's worth of Great Ming's taxes.”Zhu Ci said.
"What is it? Five million taels? How was this possible? Your grandfather doesn't have any official position, so how can he get so much silver? Emperor, you wouldn't be deceived by the people below, right?”
Empress Dowager Zhou said in disbelief.
Even Emperor Si Zong was skeptical.
"Naturally it's Yan Guo Ba Nian. He's not happy with the Empress Dowager and even embezzled two thousand of the five thousand taels of silver that you gave to Jia Ding Bo. With such methods, would he still be afraid that he would not be able to gather five million taels?”
Zhu Ci Xin sneered.
"If that's the case! That Zhou Kui really deserves to be killed!"
This time, even Emperor Si Zong, who was especially particular about kinship, couldn't help it.
In order to take care of him, he handed over many projects that should have been contracted by the Ministry of Works to Zhou Kui.
He had wanted to let him take the opportunity to make a small fortune, but he didn't expect Ao Zhoukui to be even more ruthless than those corrupt officials in the Ministry of Works!
"Empress Dowager, this is the list of items that the Embroidered Uniform Guards took from the Jiading Earl's Mansion.”Zhu Ci Xin gave a list to Empress Dowager Zhou.
"Sigh! It seemed that Uncle Jia Ding had indeed brought this upon himself!”
After looking at the list, Empress Dowager Zhou let out a sigh.
Zhou Kui's actions were pure. Fruit. He was digging up Da Ming's roots!
No emperor would allow such a person to exist.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just as Emperor Si Zong was about to comfort Empress Dowager Zhou, there was a sudden shout and the sound of firearms outside the palace.
"What happened? The raiders have invaded the capital?"
Emperor Si Zong and Empress Dowager Zhou were shocked.
" No, I'm the one who's mobilizing the troops to kill," Zhu Ci said calmly.
"Murder? Kill who?" Emperor Si Zong asked in surprise.
Shouts of killing were so close. Could it be that the eunuchs in the palace had rebelled?
"The city is full of merit."
"Son, you can't kill him! These were the merits of resting with the country!”Emperor Si Zong was shocked.
"Why can't I kill him? This was just the beginning. Hu Sect, raider, Eastern Krupp, remnant Yuan, Japanese…
Those who have failed to live up to my grace…
It's all pointed out by my soldiers!"
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