"Your Highness, what are you doing?"
"I think there must be a misunderstanding!”
Ying Ziyun remained unmoved by the old man's doubts. He coldly ordered the soldiers beside him.
"Bring those people in!"
"Yes!"
Soon, six corpses were carried back neatly by the armorers and piled on the ground.
Then, Ying Ziyun threw the six tokens on the ground.
"You should recognize these tokens, right?”
"Hmph, I found it on the assassin!”
As soon as these two words came out, the old man directly took two steps back.
The assassin's matter was of great importance, and he would lose his life.
All he knew was that Jixia Academy had been in frequent contact with various anti-Qin factions over the past few days.
Moreover, it seemed that an anti-Qin force had been plotting to assassinate Ying Zheng.
But he had never heard of assassinating the Ninth Prince!
However, these waist tokens were right in front of him, irrefutable evidence.
"Your Highness, this waist token truly belongs to the scholarly faction!”
"But…"
"Since you admit it, there's no buts!”
"Capture this old man!"
Ying Ziyun interrupted him, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward!
Ying Ziyun spoke again.
"Jixia Academy has attempted to assassinate me, and has already committed the crime of treason!”
"According to the Qin law, his entire family should be executed!”
"Seal off the school. Bring all the people in the school to the execution ground of the supreme court and behead them!”
Seeing that Ying Ziyun was getting serious, a great scholar from Jixia Learning Palace called Yan Qingyuan panicked and begged for mercy with a bitter expression.
"Young Master, I'm really wronged!"
"Our Jixia Learning Palace has never thought of such a treacherous thing as an assassination!”
"Someone must be trying to frame us.”
Hearing this, Ying Ziyun smiled.
"Since you feel that you have been wronged, I have always been merciful and will never kill a good person by mistake. I will give you a chance to produce evidence!”
Yan Qingyuan, who had already lost all hope, did not expect Ying Ziyun to give him a chance.
"Please speak, Your Highness!"
Ying Ziyun's expression was serious as he said,""Seven million taels of gold. If you can gather it within two hours, you can prove your innocence!”
"If you can't achieve that, all of you in Jixia Academy will be considered traitors and traitors. You will be executed in the name of rebellion!”
Ying Ziyun faintly smiled.
"Let me remind you, quickly inform the families of these Confucian scholars to collect their corpses at the execution ground.”
After saying that, Ying Ziyun turned around and left. He also signaled for the soldiers to release Yan Qingyuan.
A large group of soldiers escorted more than three hundred Confucian scholars to the execution ground behind Ying Ziyun.
In the end, Jixia Learning Palace was empty except for Yan Qingyuan, an old man.
"Hmph, this isn't the Imperial Court, this is clearly bandits!”
The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.
Wasn't the so-called proof of innocence nothing more than extortion?
However, on second thought, if he could take out seven million taels of gold to save the lives of those Confucian scholars, it wouldn't be a loss.
In any case, it wasn't like the scholarly faction had to fork out the money themselves.
One had to know that in this era, those who could afford to study came from extraordinary families. They were either dignitaries or aristocrats.
Three to five hundred families of aristocrats and dignitaries had gathered seven million taels of gold.
Simple!
What the old man needed to do now was to find some people to send the news back to the Confucian scholars 'homes and then sit there waiting for the money.
At this moment, Meng Yi had just beheaded Zhao Gao's entire family in the Provincial Court. Soon, he found that 300 - 500 Confucian scholars had been escorted to the execution ground.
Judging from their attire, they should be from Jixia Learning Palace.
Looking at Ying Ziyun respectfully, Meng Yi asked with doubt,"Young Master, this…"
Ying Ziyun chuckled and ordered,""If Jixia Learning Palace doesn't send over seven million taels in two hours, we'll kill all these Confucians!”
Meng Yi turned his gaze to the three to five hundred Confucian scholars with a troubled expression.
" Young Master, are we going to kill them all? Will this…"
"The vast majority of these Confucian scholars are from wealthy families, with power and money. There are even children of ministers in the court!”
"If the evidence isn't solid, or if the crime isn't serious enough to warrant death, then beheading him will probably cause a huge commotion!”
To Meng Yi, he had a long-standing grudge with Zhao Gao. He didn't even frown when he executed Zhao Gao's entire family.
Moreover, there was conclusive evidence that Zhao Gao had arranged for people to assassinate the current prince!
Therefore, Meng Yi did not hesitate.
But now that he was going to kill three to five hundred Confucians, and the evidence was not clear, he really hesitated.
It was not that he was afraid of the power and background of these Confucian scholars, but that he was one of the nine ministers and was in charge of the law of Xing Prison.
Killing was fine, but there had to be sufficient evidence. Otherwise, it would be disregarding the laws of Qin!
Ying Ziyun chuckled." The Jixia Learning Palace token was found on the assassin's body. This is the evidence!"”
"Assassinating a prince and preparing to rebel is a crime!”
"These crimes are enough to kill their nine clans and thousands of people. Now, this young master has only pursued three to five hundred of them.”
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