When the new emperor issued a decree to set up an administrative office, many officials, especially the civilian clique, immediately developed a strong sense of crisis.

In particular, the fact that criminals can be arrested directly without the consent of the three divisions is even more frightening.

In other words, if the emperor says that you are guilty, you will be guilty, and you can directly take people away and deal with them without even trial, and no one can control them.

Although the imperial power is supreme, the establishment of the three divisions by the imperial court is to reduce the occurrence of unjust and wrongful cases, which is part of the checks and balances of power.

However, this government directly bypassed the three divisions and exercised the right to be arrested without trial against hundreds of officials and ordinary people, which has seriously violated the rules set by Taizu, and this matter must not be tolerated.

As a result, many officials, including the Imperial Historical Observatory, led by civil officials, strongly opposed the establishment of the Imperial Office.

It is said that it violates the ancestral system, and it is very easy to produce unjust cases and wrongful convictions, which is unfair.

In the face of the opposition of so many officials, Zhao Yufeng, the second prince who has now been proclaimed emperor and changed his name to Shuntian, has a sense of excitement that he is in power.

This trick really works, and if you want to deal with these stubborn rotten people, you have to be ruthless.

So Emperor Shuntian suppressed all opposition and insisted on setting up the Arrest Office.

and also promoted his brother-in-law, Wu Kanggui, the son of the Marquis of Changchun, to the commander of the Imperial Government. He was in charge of the entire Imperial Palace, and first carried out a search for rebellion in Beijing.

This matter must be in an uproar.

Wu Kanggui, who was originally unofficial and unemployed, was more than as simple as a fish in water after receiving this position of great power under the command of the Governor's Office, and he was even more proud than a mouse entering a rice tank.

In order to repay his brother-in-law for the emperor's reuse, he immediately entangled a large group of like-minded gentlemen and many hooligans, and began to attack the civil officials who supported the prince one by one. This is also what the brother-in-law emperor wants him to do.

At first, he didn't dare to trouble a high-ranking court official, but only dared to find those low-level civil officials with low official positions and poor reputations.

Wu Kanggui's most used trick was to take the other party and his family directly back to the torture room of the Arrest House for interrogation on the grounds that the other party was related to the traitor.

However, the so-called interrogation is completely tortured into a trick.

In order to make the victim confess, Wu Kanggui also specially found an old official who was familiar with all kinds of torture and asked him to teach his subordinates how to torture prisoners.

These tortures can be painful at least or fatal.

In order to increase the intimidation effect, they usually torture their subordinates to death in front of the victim, and the victim is so frightened that he does not dare to disobey.

If the victim still refuses to confess his sin, they will attack his wife and children in front of the victim, and do all kinds of dehumanizing things.

In this case, in order to protect the family from humiliation and torture, the victim can only be forced to confess.

Once the victim signs the confession, it will be a very tragic end for him.

The crime of rebellion is a heinous crime, ranging from raiding homes to beheading, and at worst destroying the three tribes, implicating a wide range of people.

For a time, the major execution grounds in the capital were full of people, and more and more officials were beheaded by raiding their homes, and ninety percent of them were civil officials who had supported and supported the prince.

The strong smell of blood permeated the entire capital, and everyone was in danger.

Many civil officials were frightened by the new emperor's thunderous tactics, and they submitted their resignations one after another, begging to return to their hometowns.

However, almost all of these resignations were rejected by Emperor Shuntian, he just looked coldly at these civil officials who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and he wanted to take all the anger he suffered back then on them.

At this time, everyone knew that the new emperor was going to settle accounts after the autumn.

In this case, these civil officials who once supported the eldest prince can see clearly how their character and personality are.

People with a bottom line and a backbone will choose to stay by themselves, and then try their best to send their families to other places incognito. In this way, even if something happens at home, you can keep a trace of blood.

And those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, in order to save themselves, will take the initiative to report their colleagues to the Detective Office in exchange for a glimmer of life. And there are not a few people who choose to do so.

As a result of receiving reports from these people, the Detective Office has been more vigorous in arresting people. Wu Kanggui would take a large group of men to raid homes and arrest people almost every day.

In the later stage, Wu Kanggui, who was already more and more fearless, when he raided the house, once he took a fancy to a beautiful little lady in the victim's house, he would even drag the other party directly to the nearest room to do whatever he wanted, completely unscrupulous.

As for his subordinates, of course, they all dragged the other women in the house into the room like beasts.

After the atrocities of this kind of beast and beast and loss of conscience gradually spread, it shocked the entire capital, and everyone changed color when they heard about it.

As a result, many officials' families even carried poison with them, and once they heard that the people from the government came to arrest people, they immediately swallowed the poison and committed suicide to protect their innocence.

Regarding the various atrocities of the Detective Office, no official in the court dared to protest.

Because once someone makes a statement, it is likely that as soon as he gets out of the court, the people from the Arrest Mansion will come to the house to arrest people and seal the house.

In this way, naturally no one dared to protest again.

Not only the court, but the entire capital was shrouded in an atmosphere of terror where everyone was in danger.

If it weren't for the heavy guards at all checkpoints in the capital, a large number of civilian officials would definitely flee overnight.

This Governor's Mansion is too terrible, and this new emperor is also too terrifying.

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Just when Emperor Shuntian was wantonly eradicating dissidents in the capital, the Xie family, who had made the greatest contribution to the mutiny, was very low-key.

An Guogong, the head of the Xie family, except for the previous dynasty, lived in seclusion for the rest of the time and rarely showed up.

That night, in An Guogong's study, An Guogong's eldest son Xie Yukun said with a worried face: "Father, now the entire capital is in a miasma of smoke and smoke by the Arrest House, and everyone is in danger.

I am afraid that if this continues, the government will be unstable and people's hearts will be in turmoil.

Otherwise, we persuade the emperor and ask him not to push those civil officials too hard, otherwise I am afraid that things will be reversed. What do you think? ”

An Guogong did not answer, but asked him another question, "What do you think of the emperor to my Xie family?" ”

"The emperor has been close to our Xie family since he was a child, and he was able to successfully ascend the throne this time thanks to the help of our Xie family.

And you are his grandfather, I am his uncle, as long as there is this blood relationship, our Xie family has no worries. ”

"Worry-free? The first emperor still grew up under the knees of the queen mother, but what was the result? ”

"The emperor is different from the previous emperor, after all, he has the blood of the Xie family in his body."

"So what, don't forget, his surname is Zhao and not Xie.

To him, our Xie family is just a relative.

Just like the relationship between the former emperor and my Xie family, almost nothing has changed. ”

"Father, what do you mean?" Xie Yukun looked at his father in surprise.

An Guogong said in a deep voice: "Over the years, the Xie family has done too much to make wedding clothes for others.

But the people who received the favor of the Xie family were not grateful, but regarded my Xie family as a thorn in the flesh and wanted to get rid of it quickly.

When I was alive, the Xie family was indeed carefree.

But when I'm dead, it's hard to say.

It's enough for our Xie family to raise a white-eyed wolf, and I don't want to raise a second one. ”

"Father, what do you mean?" Although it was still the same question, Xie Yukun's face was full of expectation.

An Guogong said coldly: "That chair, it's time for our Xie family to sit on it." ”

Hearing this, Xie Yukun instantly trembled with excitement.

After regaining his composure a little, Xie Yukun asked in a low voice, "Father, what should we do next?" ”

"At this stage, we don't have to do anything, we just have to sit on the sidelines.

Unlike the previous emperor, the emperor was not a far-sighted person. And he is young and vigorous, and he can't hold half a grain of sand in his eyes.

I had known for a long time that he would sooner or later come into conflict with those civil officials, and as I expected, he set up the Detective Office to carry out a great reckoning with these civil officials who had supported the Great Prince.

But he forgot that those civil officials represented most of the Shilin.

The more ruthless he pressed those civil officials, the worse his reputation among the scholars became.

In all dynasties, military generals have always established the country and ruled the country by civil officials.

In doing so, he not only damaged his reputation among Shilin, but also the foundation of Great Wei.

If I really wanted Feng'er to ascend the throne smoothly, I should have let the former emperor 'recuperate' in the palace for a long time, as the civil officials wanted, and be put under house arrest as a powerful emperor.

In this way, although Feng'er is suspected of being in the wrong position, it will not make the civil officials feel cold.

But I have long been disappointed in the ungrateful Zhao family, instead of raising another white-eyed wolf, it is better to force him to kill all the bloodlines of the Zhao family except him, so that he will be infamous for unfilial piety and injustice through the ages.

Even this government was set up by the eunuchs around me at the instigation of him.

Didn't he want revenge? I did what he wanted, and let him toss until he was satisfied.

All I want is for him to be a tyrannical ruler who acts recklessly and is hated by everyone.

When everyone hated him, the emperor, and despaired of the entire Great Wei, it was the best time for our Xie family to replace him.

In the future, when our Xie family succeeds, not only will the people of the world not regard us as rebellious ministers and thieves, but will also regard the Xie family as a benevolent and righteous teacher who conforms to the will of heaven.

This is the human heart, this is the way of the emperor. ”

"My father is clever, and he is really clever." Xie Yukun admired convincingly.

He really admired his father for thinking so far-reaching, and he was simply a last resort, which made him a little ashamed of being a son.

In fact, in addition to using the soft knife of incitement, An Guogong also prepared a hard knife.

After taking control of the capital, An Guogong immediately summoned his two sons and several grandsons to quickly lead most of the southwest army to the capital to converge.

These people will replace the four palace forbidden guards of Jin Wuwei and Yu Lin Wei, who were almost killed, as well as the four guards of the outer government army, the middle guard, the left guard, the right guard, and the front guard, who did not obey the command during the mutiny.

In this way, all the armies in the entire capital are within the power of their Xie family, and outsiders have no room to interfere at all.

So no matter how much the new emperor makes trouble or tosses, it doesn't matter, because everything is under the control of An Guogong.

Although the second prince is his grandson, as long as his surname is Zhao and not his surname is Xie, he will not really treat him as his own, and this line An Guogong is very clear in his heart.

In order to get the world, what should not be abandoned?

It's just a grandson, and it's not a pity to die.

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