The sudden sharp rise in grain prices in the capital caused a panic among the people, who stayed at the door of the grain store all night to prepare to rush to buy grain. Even if the government came forward to explain, it still couldn't stop the almost crazy crowd, and the family that set off the turmoil hid to the side and laughed secretly.

While transferring food from Guanzhong, Sima Shu dispatched scouts from the Intelligence Agency to investigate the ins and outs of the matter. The foundation of the two Han Dynasty and the four hundred years has created a large number of gate valve families, among which the Yingchuan Xun family, which originated in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, is one of the leaders. Yingchuan County was a place full of heroes and heroes in the Han Dynasty, among which Xun and Chen were its two representatives.

In Xunfu, "Hahaha, now the prince knows how powerful our family is, in just a few days, the price of food in Luoyang has risen a hundred times, see what the prince will do next!" Xun Kai touched his beard and smiled after listening to the news that the people had inquired about.

"Father, are we going to let the families of other counties start to act next, and we must let the prince get busy. By the way, is there any news from King Qi's side? Xun Lie's face was full of smugness, he very much agreed with the action planned by his father, and the family should show their strength to the prince with great fanfare, instead of retreating under the pressure of the prince step by step.

"The King of Qi, the King of Chengdu, and the King of Hejian have formed a strategic alliance, and after our side provokes civil strife, they will take the opportunity to raise troops." Xun Kai is very satisfied with his handwriting, and now that the Yang family and the Chen family are launched together, they must let Sima Shu know what internal and external troubles are.

Just when the family was fanning the wind everywhere, the crown prince Sima Shu had already received a report from the Intelligence Agency, "What!? The person in charge behind it has been found, and he will tell me who it is. After Sima Shu heard Zhang Bin's report, he immediately became excited, and finally had a clue.

"Your Highness Qiqi, according to the information handed over by the Intelligence Bureau, the Yingchuan Xun clan is the mastermind of this incident. And according to our investigation, we also found that the Xun family is inextricably linked with Sima Jiong, the king of Qi. The ministers were worried about disturbing the price of grain in the capital, but the family and the princes and kings wanted to make us mess up. ”

"The most likely thing is that the King of Qi will take the opportunity to rebel, so that there will be a family inside and an army of princes outside, and the situation that we have managed to stabilize is likely to collapse." Zhang Bin said with some concern.

"Humph! These big families seem to have made up their minds that Lone would not dare to punish them severely! This time, Lone has to let them know that there are some things that must not be contaminated, otherwise even if the king of heaven comes, he will not be able to save them. Saying that, a cold light flashed in Sima Shu's eyes,

"Your Highness, do you really plan to take out your anger on the Xun family? You must know that they are a hundred-year-old family, and they can raise thousands of elite soldiers just by their family tribes. Zhang Bin was shocked when he heard this, although he was also angry that the family was making a trick behind his back, but he never expected that the prince would use his troops to kill the family, so I am afraid that the family in the world will really hate the prince in the bone marrow.

"Mr. Mengsun, don't say it anymore, Gu has already made up his mind, you let Li Te, Sima Ya and the two lead 6,000 troops to secretly block the capital Luoyang, and raid all the family grain stores in Luoyang City, and detain all the stewards in the store, it is of great use to be alone."

"Yes, the minister obeys!" Seeing Sima Shu's resolute attitude, Zhang Bin had no choice but to bow down and accept the order.

That night, Li Te, Sima Ya led the two-box army out of the barracks secretly, the streets and alleys of Luoyang were dissatisfied with the hurried forbidden army, and came to Luoyang East City, Li Te's big hand waved, and the soldiers began to rush into the grain stores on both sides of the street. Suddenly, the screams were particularly clear in the silent night.

"What for, what for? Do you know whose grain store this is? Get out, get out, get out of here, you bunch of Qiuba! ”

As soon as he crashed into a grain store, an arrogant voice came from inside, and a cold light flashed in Li Te's eyes, and he yelled: "Those who dare to resist will be killed!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers drew their knives one after another, and stabbed the guys who came to block the grain store!

"Ahh The leading guys were cut to the ground at once, and the people behind were dumbfounded when they saw that the soldiers really dared to kill. The steward of the Xun family, who had been hiding behind, had to stand up tremblingly, "Dare to ask this general, what crime did our Xun family grain store commit, so that you are so swords-and-soldiers?" ”

"Humph! Steward Xun, you are playing tricks, and I will be ordered by the prince to come to investigate the annihilation merchants who wantonly disturb the grain prices in the capital! This time, none of your Xun family, Wang family, and Yang family want to run! Brothers, do it! Don't let a person go! Li Teh pushed away the Xun steward who was blocking in front of him, and ordered his subordinates to hurry up!

In addition to the Xun family grain store, all other family grain stores such as the Yang family, the Chen family, and the He family who participated in the price hike were all raided by the prince overnight.

Early in the morning, the food prices that had risen wildly earlier quickly fell back to normal levels, and after getting the grain from the family in the capital, the prince Sima Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he survived these few days, after the grain arrived in Guanzhong, Sima Shu would no longer be afraid of the family fighting a grain price war with him.

After the storm had passed overnight, the family clan trembled a little in the face of such a stormy thunderous method of the crown prince. Especially Wang Rong, Yang Zhen and other officials of the big family, they were afraid that the prince would settle accounts with them.

Above the court, after the crowd shouted long live, they were lined up on both sides. Wang Rong glanced at Sima Shu with a gloomy face in a nervous mood, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and instinctively panicked. Without waiting for the prince to ask, Wang Rong fell to his knees all of a sudden, "The ministers deserve to die, please atone for your sins!" ”

"Lord Wang, raise your head and look at Lone!" Sima Shu's tone was as cold as Wang Rong thought, like the cold wind of winter, which made him feel a biting chill.

"Lord Wang, you come to tell Gu what the crime of wantonly raising the price of grain should be!"

Wang Rong listened to the prince's cold and silent tone, and his legs suddenly softened. The aura of danger came to his face, and his palms were covered with sweat, and at this time, he finally regretted that he should not easily listen to Xun Kai's provocation, so that he put himself in danger.

"Your Royal Highness, the minister is guilty, please look at the courtier's love for serving Emperor Wu, spare the minister's family, and the minister is willing to take all the responsibility!"

"You are so bold, don't you know that the stability of food prices is related to the national economy and people's livelihood? You dare to collude to raise the price of food, and Gu Gu has always had great expectations for you. I always feel that you families are the elite of the court and the country, and you can understand and support the reform of the government carried out by Lone. ”

"Humph! Unexpectedly, not only did you not support Lonely, but you also secretly made trouble and pulled Lone's back. Do you feel that Lone dare not punish you? Lone will tell you today, what is called the anger of the Son of Heaven, and millions of floating corpses! Come on, drive outside the city! ”

Sima Shu walked out of the Taiji Hall first, Zhang Hua, Pei Wei and others followed, and the rest of the family ministers glanced at each other and followed behind the large army nervously. At this time, the surrounding area of the school was already full of forbidden soldiers, and in the middle were more than a thousand members of the family.

Luoshui flows into the Yellow River, Luoyang stands on the tributaries of Luoshui, starting from the Western Han Dynasty, Luoyang leads Luoshui as a moat, sanitation of the first largest city in the Central Plains.

To the east of Luoyang, outside the moat, is a large field, when Sima Shu rectified the capital, set up a military camp here, and at this time outside the camp, thousands of forbidden troops stood with spears, surrounded a large square area, two hundred swords holding a broad-backed broadsword standing in the center.

In the city, the children of the Shi clan were escorted out of the city gate one after another, pressed to the ground by the arrogant forbidden soldiers, and the woodcutters, fishermen, and farmers who passed by couldn't help but stop and watch, until the prince came out of the city with a large number of people and horses, and the military camp was surrounded by a sea of people, and these Luoyang people did not know what was going on, and there were many discussions.

Dozens of offending family grain store stewards, thousands of family disciples and men were detained in one place, there were more than 2,000 people, Sima Shu was guarded by the generals, holding his sword and walking to the high platform, Sima Ya and Li Teh stood on both sides, Zhang Hua and Zhang Bin stood on the first step, the two of them clenched their palms together, until now they still can't believe that the prince really dares to attack so many families.

After receiving the prince's signal, Du Xi took out the edict that had been prepared long ago and read it aloud: "Check the Yingchuan Xun family, the Hongnong Yang family, the Yingchuan Chen family, the Jinyang Wang family, the Langya Wang family and other family grain stores, raise the price of grain in order to make huge profits, skillfully take the people's ointment, and use the law of the Great Jin Dynasty to behead!" ”

Li Teh pulled out the horizontal knife and raised it to the sky, and immediately a sergeant escorted the Xun family and other stewards to the center of the square, and thirty swordsmen raised their big knives in their hands, and the Xun family steward and others knew that the prince was playing for real, when death was imminent, the arrogance of Ping Yue was gone, and his face was white with fright, and he wanted to shout something, but found that his throat could not make a sound.

"Slash!" Li Teh shouted angrily, and the thirty executioners raised their knives and fell, and the heads of the thirty family stewards rolled to the ground. Yang Zhen, Wang Rong and others closed their eyes, and the surrounding people let out a burst of exclamations. These days, they hate the stewards of these grain stores, and now that they are cut down by the prince, they can't help but be even more in awe of Sima Shu.

Yang Zhen's mind kept coming back to the scene just now, at this moment he began to fear the prince from the bottom of his heart, as people continued to fall to the ground, among them were still the children of the Yang family, Yang Zhen's courage before was long gone, and his body trembled involuntarily.

"Lord Wang, what is the prince doing? What is he doing here? Will we be okay? You speak. Yang Zhen's lips began to tremble, "It's not true, it's not true, the prince must be scaring us and forcing us to bow to him." We still have the capital, we'll be fine! ”

"Lord Yang, after we go back, let's consider the big farm plan proposed by the prince!" Wang Rong seems to have aged for dozens of years all of a sudden, and the whole person has become sluggish. Although the crown prince did not move the core members of the family this time, the killing of thousands of children on the periphery of the family at one time still gave a great shock to the family.

The prince seems to want to convey such a message to the family through this matter: those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will die! It was precisely when he saw the prince's determination that Wang Rong said those words to Yang Zhen. The Yang family is different from the Xun family, and the main forces of the Xun family are distributed in Yingchuan County, which is the territory of the King of Qi.

Even if the prince wants to find trouble with the Xun family, it is estimated that he will not be able to reach out for a while, but the Yang family is different, the prince only needs to give an order, and the army stationed in Tongguan can quickly drive to Hongnong. If you really want to fight with the prince, I'm afraid that in the end, the Yang family may disappear.

Yang Zhen can't gamble with the entire family, so after this purge, the attitudes of all the families and heroes in the Sizhou region have softened. Although there are still a small number of powerful and stubborn families, they are waiting to be captured under the conquest of the imperial army.

All of a sudden, wolf smoke spread all over the Central Plains, and some families began to transfer their family power to other places in the capital area, colluding with the princes in various places.

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