Chapter 301 The Emperor Compromises

After taking care of the burial of Lord Cheng'en, it was time to visit the prison in Tianlao.

This time, Li Yaoguang and Ji Mo went together again, bringing a lot of food and drinks. When they got inside, they still asked Uncle Ni to deliver a package of things to the Shen family, and each of them said goodbye in the hall with the rest.

When they met the Shen family one after another, they told the people they had entrusted with the matter about Lord Cheng'en.

After Fang knew her husband was properly buried, she was completely relieved and had nothing else to say except thank you. On the other side of the men's prison, Ji Mo also spoke up to inform them.

"Brother Lu, the matter is settled. Your father has been buried in the blessed land behind the Lingyin Temple. To be on the safe side, I will temporarily erect a tombstone, but I have marked it. When you are all out safely, I will lead you there."

The three brothers looked at each other, and led the illegitimate children behind them to bow to Ji Mo, "Brother Ji, your kindness is great, and our Lu family will never forget it. We have no way to repay you right now, so please accept our bow, Brother Ji."

"No, guys, please stop doing this. We are friends, it's too formal to do this."

Unexpectedly, the Lu brothers were serious and bent down despite Ji Mo's resistance. As for getting out, the brothers had no hope at all.

They stood up one after another, worried that Ji Mo would be tired from running around for them again and again. Lu Fang received a warning from his brother and turned around to look at Ji Mo with a serious face.

"Brother Ji, you are so kind. We brothers have no way to repay you. But we won't bother you with the matter of going out. With the character of the current emperor, how could he let us go easily? We have no intention of running around. Brother Ji, please don't make things difficult for us."

"Things haven't come to that point yet. Everything depends on human effort. How can we know if it works if we don't try? If we watch our friends fall into trouble and do nothing, I'm afraid Yaoguang and I will have a grudge in the future. Lu Fang, and Big Brother Lu, please cheer up unless it's absolutely necessary."

Ji Mo tried to comfort them, and even thought in his heart that if the operation failed and the emperor insisted on executing the Shen and Lu families at the risk of universal condemnation, even if he bribed all the connections and got some fake death drugs, he would not let them all lose their lives.

He had made a complete decision in his heart, but he did not like to show off. He just suppressed his plan, said goodbye to the Heavenly Prison, and after returning, Ji Mo buried himself in the pharmacy and started to improve the recipe of the fake death drug. While keeping a close eye on the medicine, he did not slacken his external actions at all.

First, in previous years, less than three Yama Orders were issued in a year, but in this month alone, ten were issued.

Not to mention the face value of the ten-sided token, the cost of the patients who came to him with the ten-sided Yama Token was astronomical. After all, which patient who came to him with it for treatment was not terminally ill? Moreover, he secretly manipulated and gathered other people to speak for the Shen and Lu families.

But even though the price was so huge, for the sake of his friends and more importantly to put the girl's heart at ease, Ji Mo never complained, and didn't even tell Li Yaoguang about the difficulties.

Fortunately, their efforts were not in vain.

Overnight, because of their secret actions, the entire Xinjing was in turmoil.

First, the court officials who had been protected by Duke Cheng'en began to advise, and then those who were wavering and taking advantage of the situation followed closely. The emperor, who was determined to make an example of someone, felt the pressure, but he still refused to let go.

After all, he is the king, the emperor! All under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people are his subjects. As a great emperor, he just doesn't believe that he can't be outdone by these court officials. The stalemate in the court lasted only a few days, and the news spread in the blink of an eye. Ji Mo and Li Yaoguang, one of them controls medical resources, and the other controls entertainment channels. Some people with ulterior motives fanned the flames. Within two days, all the Qinlou and Chuguan in the streets and alleys of Kyoto, restaurants and teahouses, storytellers, theaters, small buildings, famous actors, female roles, etc., who received the new and strange scripts for no reason, all said so and performed and sang. Xinhai Pavilion also changed the Yue Fei play. In an instant, the whole Xinjing, no, to be more precise, the whole Dajing, especially the Dajing in the south, was boiling.

All parties moved together.

Officials and scholars from various prefectures and cities, respected elders and filial and honest people in villages and towns, and even common people from all sides who had heard the news spread by word of mouth, spontaneously brought dry food and luggage and went to the capital. They joined many common people in Kyoto to form a flood, and sat in silence at the gates of the Sifang Palace every day, taking turns to block the palace and make suggestions.

For a time, Kyoto was in chaos, the palace was in chaos, and the emperor's heart was even more confused.

The emperor in the palace was very restless, and the question he asked most often every day was to ask the chief eunuch whether the people outside the palace had dispersed. However, the news he got was that the number of people was increasing day by day, and more were coming in from all over the country.

The emperor was completely panicked.

The ministers in the court, even those from the lineage of Prime Minister Qin, as well as those who remained neutral and silent, felt uneasy day and night when they saw this situation. When they saw that the emperor was helpless and wanted to suppress it, they turned around and found that the court seemed to have no soldiers or generals available except Shen Yue. After losing the support of the people, they dared not mobilize the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards to suppress this group of traitors who had no respect for the law and no loyalty to the emperor.

As a last resort, in order to protect themselves, neutrals followed suit and were forced to take sides. Even Prime Minister Qin broke out in a cold sweat, fearing that he, the instigator, would be pushed out by the heartless emperor to rectify the world. At the court meeting, he quickly led a group of officials behind him and pretended to plead for the Shen and Lu families.

The situation was irreversibly one-sided, and the emperor felt that he was powerless to save the situation. He had no choice but to issue an edict, posthumously conferring the title of Empress on her, granting her a posthumous title, pardoning Duke Cheng'en for the crime of contempt for the emperor, and pardoning the lives of nine generations of his clan. He only sentenced the entire family to exile in Lingnan.

As for the Shen family, the trigger...

After much deliberation, the emperor announced to the world that he first encouraged Shen Yue, conferred the title of Marquis of Dingbei on him, and increased his rewards. He also issued an order to show his great favor and send all members of the Shen family out of prison safely and to the north to reunite with Shen Yue to show his appeasement. However, secretly he handed all members of the Shen family over to Prime Minister Qin, acting like a kind-hearted emperor who was forced into a desperate situation.

Its real purpose...

The emperor, who had calmed down, had reviewed the situation behind his back and found that the prime minister Qin, who had jumped up and down and finally betrayed him and stood on his side, was not innocent. So why did he completely throw away the hot potato?
Xinjing is more than a thousand miles away from the north. The journey is long. As long as you are determined, there is no place where you can not find a burial place to vent your anger.
After the matter is accomplished, he will stand up and point a finger at Prime Minister Qin. Isn't it a great thing to kill two birds with one stone?

The emperor's plan was very good, but he didn't expect that as soon as his plan was formed and before he could implement it, things started to go further and further out of control.

Prime Minister Qin was an old and shrewd man. He sensed something was wrong. He saw that he was being grilled on the fire, with no way out on either side. He was also being forced into a corner by Qijier, so he simply turned a blind eye. When he sent his trusted confidants to escort the Shen family to the north, he secretly made moves. Before they crossed the Yangtze River and reached Pengcheng, all the members of the Shen family were sent to Qijier without exception. What was waiting for them was...

Of course, these are things to follow.

However, at this moment, the imperial edict issued, and the Lu family was pardoned from the crime of confiscation of property and death penalty. Their punishment of confiscation of property was commuted to exile to Lingnan. When the Lu family learned the news in the Tianlao, the Shen family was secretly taken away. Even if Ji Mo and Li Yaoguang had intended to do so, they could not react in time.

The Lu family was unaware of it either. They all watched the eunuch coming with the bright yellow imperial edict in his hands. As soon as he finished reading it, the whole family burst into tears. When the eunuch left, holding the imperial edict in his hands, the Lu Fang family knew that these were all the efforts made by Li Yaoguang and Ji Mo behind the scenes.