The answer to this question was short.

Within two days, the emperor officially issued an order, all those who were found to be involved in the rebellion by Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, no matter what their identities, were all executed, and there was no need to wait for the autumn queen to be beheaded, once convicted, they were directly pulled to the noon gate for execution.

Among them, those who participated in the rebellion among the royal relatives of the clan were all given poisoned wine, and the children of the family members were abolished as concubines, and the genealogy was removed. If the princess, the county lord, or the in-laws of the rest of the clan daughters are involved, even the identity of this noble girl will be abolished. If the noble daughter herself is not involved, she can consider that as long as she reconciles with her husband and gives up her children, she can retain her identity and return to the royal clan, but in her lifetime, she will have to be in the royal nunnery with green lanterns and ancient Buddhas.

And after the honorable heroes, those who have Danshu iron coupons can only leave one person with one life, from the death penalty to exile for three thousand miles, if pardoned or not, other people in the family who participated in the rebellion cannot be exempted from the crime, Danshu iron coupons are recovered, the knight is dismissed, the female dependents are abolished, all the ancestors are recovered, the family property is confiscated, and the descendants of ten generations cannot be examined.

Not to mention the civil and military officials involved in the case, they were executed, their family members were canceled, and those who had meritorious service among their children were all stripped of their fame, their family property was confiscated, and their families were exiled for 3,000 li.

The punishment measures are very severe, but the government and the opposition have no objections, first, because rebellion and rebellion are unforgivable crimes, which can avoid rivers of blood, and the crime is not as good as the nine clans, and the emperor is already benevolent and kind, and the emperor does not intend to let the wives and daughters of the guilty ministers not enter the church, only let them be exiled, which is even more lenient; The second is that the emperor did not restrict it in his will, so he followed the laws of this dynasty. Among the exiles were the elderly over 60 years old, and the young children under 12 years old. Those who are jealous, those who have been ill for many years, and infirm women who have not committed serious crimes, may atone for their sins with gold and silver and be spared the penalty of exile. In this way, there are still many people who are not immune to the suffering of exile and migration.

Zhao Jue's situation is exactly in line with the article of the civil and military officials involved in the case. He himself could not escape the capital crime, even if he obediently confessed, and indirectly contributed to the early investigation of the case. But in front of the crown prince, he has already implemented the identity of a rebel, and no one can save him. However, it is up to him to confess the truth of the rebellion early, so that the governor of Jiangsu can arrive before the people sent by the imperial court arrive. and captured the main culprit who tried to murder the prince. The Emperor issued another decree and granted him a grace to allow his two sons, who were over twelve years of age, to be spared exile. However, other penalties are still in effect.

Zhao Jue's eldest son Zhao Ze and his second son Zhao Yan both escaped the catastrophe, but Zhao Yan only passed the county test and the government test last year, and he has the status of a child, so he will naturally be canceled at this time, and from now on, even he himself. Including the descendants of the next ten generations, they can no longer participate in the imperial examination, and his fame is directly ruined. In addition, the family property was confiscated. You don't even have to think about the life of a rich man, and how you will make a living in the future is still unknown. Zhao Jue's cow and concubine Qian, his youngest son Zhao Yan and his three daughters can all apply the method of redemption, but the problem is that the family property has been confiscated, where do they have the money to atone for their sins? For the sin of rebellion, the amount of money collected for redemption is not a small amount.

The Niu family's mother's family was also implicated in this big case, although they did not explicitly participate in the rebellion, but there is a lot of evidence that they had close contacts with Ying Wangfu, the Zhu family and others, and even under the instructions of King Ying, they helped Zhu Lifei to obtain the people left by the former Niu Taifei in the palace, which indirectly made Zhu Lifei grasp the power of the harem faster and easier. However, because the Niu family is not strong and has limited influence, they have never committed any important crimes, and this time, his family only got the punishment of dismissal and exile of the whole family, which is already very lucky.

There are many married women in the Niu family, among which the unlucky ones are also bad for the in-laws, they are naturally unlucky, and those who are lucky, the in-laws did not participate in the rebellion, and they were not affected by this turmoil, and there are two different ends: the in-laws are more merciful, and still recognize her identity, but they just confine her at home, cancel the right to be a housekeeper, and build a small Buddhist hall for her to cultivate; But if the in-laws are more mean, they will immediately leave the people home, and some of them will not even take away the dowry from her. The Niu family's vitality is greatly damaged, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, even if any of the divorced daughters bring back a little dowry, they will first redeem their relatives and relatives, as for Zhao Niu's family? I can't take care of it for the time being.

Zhao Jue also has a wife Jiang Shi, who is still imprisoned in Dali Temple, and has not been sentenced to death because of the care of his mother's Jiang family. But this time, the Jiang family itself is also difficult to protect, and his family's involvement in the rebellion is not very deep, but it is also suspicious. When Hong Wencheng was in Liaodong in the past, he was dismissed on suspicion of corruption, and the case was later closed, including the handwriting of the Jiang family. However, the Jiang family had deep connections in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and there was no evidence to prove their guilt, so they barely saved their lives, but they were dismissed with an excuse, and the family was gloomy and ready to return home. It is said that the old lady couldn't stand the blow and couldn't afford to get sick, and Jiang's brothers and sisters-in-law were dissatisfied with this sister who had affected her mother's family for a long time, and they didn't want to take care of her anymore. Jiang's treatment in prison dropped sharply, and because of the shortage of cells, she soon moved to live with more than a dozen female prisoners, and the food was also poor. She was sick herself, and she heard that her in-laws and mother-in-law had suffered, and her son didn't know what was going on.

At this time, news came that the chief officer of the Criminal Department actually remembered her case at this busy moment, and ordered her case file to be transferred to check it, and learned that her case was clear, but for some reason it had not been judged, so he ordered Yousi to quickly close the case, and the sentence that should have been sentenced was just in time for the execution after the autumn. This chief officer has only been transferred to the Criminal Department for four years, and he has served as the chief officer for less than two years, although he has never handled Jiang's case, but he must have heard of it, he didn't speak before, but now he suddenly mentioned it, and everyone knows that he is going to fall into the ground. The officials of the Criminal Department did not say much, and hurriedly received the order, but because of the recent chaos, the case had to be postponed slightly. The chief officer also knew that the trial of the treason case was the first priority, and he did not oppose it. secretly sent someone to send the news to the second room of the Zhao family.

And the daughters of Zhao Jue's family didn't pay much attention to this news, and the Jiang family was for them. has long been a dead person, only her biological daughter Zhao Xiang was worried about how her mother would be sentenced, and secretly shed tears. For other Zhao Jue's family members, it is most important to find someone to redeem the money as soon as possible.

The Niu family and the Jiang family can't help, Aunt Xiao Qian's maiden family is in the south, and the whip is out of reach, and Aunt Lian's maiden family doesn't have that silver at all. Moreover, it is also far away in Liaodong. Seeing that the time was already in mid-March, the emperor repeatedly urged that people were beheaded every day at noon. It's time for these prisoners and their families to embark on the road of exile, and if they can't raise any more money to redeem them, will they really have to suffer from the 3,000-mile journey?

Aunt Lian cried again and begged for the second room.

Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu, the brothers and sisters, did not block her from the door, and did not hurt them in the small long house in the past. There wasn't much bad feeling.

Aunt Lian is most worried. In fact, it is her own youngest daughter, Zhao Mei, who is only six years old. As for Niu's mother-in-law, who has never had a good face for her, as well as Aunt Xiaoqian, a good concubine who tortured her a lot, and the concubines and concubines born to the latter who were degraded by their mothers and daughters with their biological mothers, she really didn't have a good impression at all. She came to beg Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu's brothers and sisters, just to ask for a sum of money so that she could redeem her daughter.

Zhao Xiu was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked more clearly: "You mean." Do you only want a piece of silver that can redeem Zhao Mei, but only one of her? ”

Aunt Lian nodded solemnly with tears in her eyes: "Yes." I don't dare to ask for more, just a piece of silver, if I can have a few more travel expenses, the second master and the girl are my great benefactors! ”

Zhao Wei heard her tone: "You plan to take your daughter out of the capital after ransom her?" ”

Aunt Lian choked up and said, "Otherwise, what else?" She is only six years old, and if she stays, she will bear the name of the daughter of the thief for the rest of her life, how will she live in the future? I just want to ransom her out and take her back to her mother's house, although my mother's family is not rich, but I can still afford to support our mother and daughter. When she grows up, wouldn't it be better to find a solid family in Liaodong who doesn't know her roots and marry her than to continue to stay in the Zhao family and work hard? ”

Zhao Wei didn't know how to react, he had never heard of this kind of thing, although Zhao Jue was no longer a member of the Zhao family in his heart, but Zhao Mei was the daughter of Zhao Jue, with a grandmother and brothers-in-law, and she was young, how could she leave home and let her biological mother, who was a concubine, take her back to her parents' house to raise her? This is so unconventional! Besides, if she only redeems the young daughter and ignores the mother of the husband and the son-in-law, this Aunt Lian is not afraid of the world's criticism?

He thought for a moment and asked, "If you do this, won't the rest of the family object?" Although your mother-in-law is still in prison and Zhao Zeyuan is in his hometown, Zhao Yan has been released, and you haven't seen him? ”

Aunt Lian said with a look of resentment: "Naturally, I have seen it!" It was because of him that I was determined to leave with Sister Mei! After he was released from prison, when he saw that his house had been seized, he inquired that I had taken the things from the house and sold them, and rented a house for some money, so he came to me and asked me to take the money out, and he wanted to ransom his mother and sister. It was after listening to the girl's persuasion that day that I took out a private house and a few furnishings before the officers and soldiers sealed the house, and only made a total of two or three hundred taels of silver, and I don't know if it was enough to redeem one person. If he takes them out and gives them to him, he will definitely only redeem Aunt Qian, the second girl, the third master, and even the old lady and the eldest girl, he doesn't care, let alone our sister Mei? Pity her at such a young age, she has been in prison for more than two months, and if she can't come out again, she will die inside! The people of their Zhao family refuse to take care of their own flesh and blood, and they don't recognize me as the Zhao family, so what does it matter if I take away the daughter they don't want?! ”

Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu looked at each other, never expecting that there would be such an inside story in this matter. Thinking about it, the Niu family instigated her husband Zhao Jiong to drive her step-mother-in-law Zhang's family out of the mansion, and sent her eldest grandson to Fengxian's hometown, and she has ignored it ever since, and now she is abandoned by her second grandson, which can be regarded as retribution. The descendants of Zhao Jiong's lineage are really selfish and self-interested, and although Zhao Ze prevented his father from hurting the Zhang family, he may not be strong.

Zhao Xiu thought about it, and said to Aunt Lian: "You can go back with peace of mind, prepare your bags, I will discuss the redemption with my brother, and I will inform you if there is news." ”

Aunt Lian hurriedly knelt down and pleaded: "Girl, Sister Mei is young, and it only takes a small amount of money to redeem it, really, very little." ”

Zhao Xiu smiled slightly: "I didn't mean to refuse you, but if you think about it, do you know which yamen you want to go to to pay the silver?" Do you know what you have to do to redeem people? ”

Aunt Lian hesitated, she really didn't know.

Zhao Xiu said: "That's why I let you go back first, this kind of thing, we are more convenient than you to do, and we are not afraid that people will be embarrassed." When we get people out, we'll naturally send them to reunite with you. ”

Aunt Lian was overjoyed and kowtowed several times: "Thank you, girl, thank you!" He left the address of his current temporary residence before leaving.

Zhao Wei asked Zhao Xiu: "Is my sister going to agree to her request?" But...... It doesn't seem like a good thing to redeem only one girl Zhao Mei? If you tell the people in the Criminal Department that you pity her for being a child, what about the younger Zhao Li? Or do you want to redeem him all together? His brother was fine, so he handed him over to his brother. ”

Zhao Xiu said: "Brother, you have thought about it, although Zhao Ze prevented his father from hurting his grandmother, he is still the son of an enemy to us." He just did the right thing with his father, but his mother was the enemy who killed our parents. I don't want to be friendly with him. ”

Zhao Wei was silent: "I think the same thing in my heart, but ...... After all, he saved his grandmother. In the past few years, the Zhang family has become more and more soft-hearted, and when they hear that relatives and friends of any family are in trouble, they can't help but help each other. Judging from her letter, she was very shocked that Zhao Ze was injured in order to save herself, and she also felt a little pity for this child, feeling that he may not be a good child, but he was not a good parent.

Zhao Xiu said: "We were not at the scene, and I don't know what the situation was at the time, maybe he saved my grandmother, but for me, I would rather regard this matter as if we owed him a favor." owes a favor, and he pays him back, but how can he pay it back. Brother, do you remember the letter sent by the family of Shangshu of the Criminal Department yesterday? ”

Zhao Wei's face changed: "You mean the Jiang family?" Are you worried that Zhao Ze will beg for revenge and ask us to exonerate the Jiang family? How is that possible?! ”

Zhao Xiu said sternly: "Even if we don't exonerate her, but let her continue to stay in prison half-dead like this, we can't accept it." Even if she dies in prison, I don't want to do anything for her. I think that in order to stop Zhao Ze's mouth and make him have no position to ask us to do anything, we had better strike first. ”

Zhao Wei was completely persuaded by her: "You plan to help him redeem the rest of the family?" ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "If you want to be beautiful, I don't want to look at Niu's face!" We'll help him ransom his younger siblings, and we'll leave nothing else to worry about. When he arrives in Beijing, his brothers and sisters will pester him, and he will save us from trouble! (To be continued......)