Chapter 90: The Eve of the Great Pilgrimage
The cruelty of the royal family is reflected in the word 'absolute'.
The end of the struggle for power means the beginning of a river of bloodshed, although your competitor is dead, but the children and grandchildren of the competitor are still alive, or the immediate family of the competitor is still alive, as long as they are alive, it is a trouble.
And this aftermath means that the remnants of political dissent are still there, and a potential force for revenge is still there.
The problem is not that these young and young children and grandchildren will grow up to avenge their fathers, but that no one can guarantee that in the future there will be no ill-intentioned people who will take advantage of their hatred and use their banner to stir up trouble.
Since ancient times, the Chinese have emphasized that 'if the tiger returns to the mountain, there will be troubles.' ’
Therefore, for the sake of peace in the future, solving these troubles is something that every person in power must do.
Massacre is inevitable.
After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin, the Tang Emperor of the Li Tang Dynasty, slaughtered the ten sons of the crown prince and the king of Qi, as well as a hundred cronies of these sons.
Feng Hong, the monarch of the Northern Yan Kingdom during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, slaughtered more than 100 of his eldest brother's sons, nieces, wives and children after seizing power.
Xiao Luan, Emperor of Qi Ming in the Southern Dynasty, after ascending the throne, killed his brother and nephew, and more than 100 members of the royal family were tragically destroyed. "It means that to see who has different intentions, you must start first, be ruthless, and be fast!
Xiao Baojuan did not live up to his father's expectations, and soon after he ascended the throne, he killed all the auxiliary ministers, and a group of brothers were killed by 7788, about Xiao Luan's slaughter brother, Qing Dynasty historian Zhao Yi commented: "Qi Gao, Wu descendants, were killed by Emperor Ming alone, and its cruelty has never been seen since ancient times." ”
In fact, these are just the tip of the iceberg in royal history, and the massacres of blood are staged all the time, those overt and covertly, and there have been countless times in the long history.
The most ruthless emperor family, this position determines that only by mastering the 'absolute' can he become a god king....
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Although Jiang Yin is also very ruthless, killing people is not difficult for him.
But when those who are noble relatives of the emperor and the country, but in fact they are just women and children, he really can't do it, these people just suffered unjustified disasters, but their status determines that Jiang Yin can't let them stay in the Great Song Dynasty.
I can't kill it, I can't keep it, but fortunately, Jiang Yin has a strange stone and threw all these people to North America.
During the three days of the redecoration of the Taihe Palace, Jiang Yin sent a total of 298 people, including the sons, nephews and uncles surnamed Zhao of the Great Song Dynasty, to North America.
For a time, all the palaces in Bianjing City were empty.
There are various episodes of the prince being killed in Bianjing City, Jiang Yin is too lazy to stop it, and it is good for public opinion to report it, after all, he has just ascended the throne, the foundation is unstable, and as soon as the news of the slaughter of all the royal family is released, it is estimated that no miscellaneous hair will dare to disobey him.
In fact, it is precisely because of this that the efficiency of catching people with strange stones in Jiang Yin's mind is too high, and many subordinates in the family of the emperor's relatives did not realize that the master of his family was arrested.
In Bianjing City, everyone was in danger, and those forces who originally wanted to reach out were all like fish in boiling water, and they all hid.
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In this way, the time came smoothly to the big court meeting three days later.
Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was still bright, the civil and military officials living outside Bianjing City began to set off for the palace, before leaving, their mood was apprehensive, because the current emperor His Majesty suddenly changed people some time ago.
The emperor suddenly changed, this matter is not unprecedented, at least the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin did it once, when he led the army out to quell the rebellion, the result of the rebellion is fake, the mutiny is true, Chen Qiao mutiny, this old man was put on the apricot yellow flag by the soldiers, was embraced as 'check to be the son of heaven', and then overthrew the Zhou Dynasty and built the Great Song Dynasty himself.
And this time the new emperor was even more ruthless, the Great Song Emperor Zhao Guangyi went to quell the rebellion against him, but not only did he not quell the rebellion, but he was also killed, and the 200,000 army changed hands overnight, and the new emperor took the 200,000 army back to the Great Song Dynasty.
Fortunately, the new emperor also seemed to be a disciplined lord, and instead of ordering burning and looting, he quietly entered the imperial city.
Although His Majesty the Emperor did not strike at the official class, he was indeed very ruthless to the imperial family, in the imperial city, in just three days, as long as the imperial family in Bianjing was not spared, all of them disappeared, these missing royal families, thinking with their toes, also knew where they were now.
The new emperor is very brutal, this is the first impression of Jiang Yin by civil and military officials.
The second impression is that it is decisive.
Although I don't want to admit it, at such a time, killing the entire imperial family is indeed the fastest way for the new emperor to stabilize the regime.
The officials saw the royal struggle very thoroughly, and it was natural for Jiang Yin to kill the royal family, but this matter must be contrary to Renjun's practice, and the historian will definitely write it into the history books.
In short, the contradictions of the royal family have been cleared up by Jiang Yin, and next, it is to the official class, no one knows the real attitude of this Jiang Yin towards the official class, and I don't know if he will slaughter officials.
After all, the current officials in the court are all Zhao Guangyi's team, and they are all Zhao Guangyi's henchmen, so such a courtier will definitely not be at ease when he uses it, and he will not be entrusted with important tasks.
But it is difficult to say who this Son of Heaven will replace and who he will reuse.
In short, the great reshuffle within the civilian clique is probably about to begin.
Those petty officials are eager to try, as long as they can strive to make the new emperor appreciate themselves, it must have a bright future, but the big officials are trembling, for fear that Jiang Yin will take one of them.
After all, no one wants to be the chicken that is killed and makes an example of the monkey.
So in this kind of apprehension, civil and military officials continued to gather towards the imperial city, and those officials who were more familiar with each other would greet each other.
In short, the road at the gate of the imperial city was a busy scene.
Officials who have some money at home will ride horses, those who have no money will ride bulls, and those who are poorer can only walk, but there is no shortage of big officials among these people, and big officials naturally have the style of big officials, and everyone goes to the palace by horse-drawn carriage.
By the time the sun was first born, there were no officials on the roads of the imperial city, and most of the officials had already arrived at the royal square outside the Daqing Palace.
At this time, in the square covered with white marble, there were already many officials gathered, and the colors of these officials' uniforms were different, some were purple, some crimson, some green, and blue, and the color of their official uniforms determined their official status.....
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