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Inner Garden, Thousand Autumn Palace.

The weather turned cooler, and the Empress Dowager's health suddenly improved, her diet resumed, and she was even able to stay and take a walk. However, for this situation, none of the imperial doctors could be happy, and they all tactfully pointed out that the situation of the Empress Dowager was not really improving, but just a return to the light, and the Empress Dowager's situation was already quite unoptimistic. The Empress Dowager was quite clear about her situation, she was not depressed or sad, but was very optimistic about this qiē. Take a walk in the imperial garden every morning, bask in the sun on the long silhouette of the Qianqiu Hall at noon, and listen to the eldest princesses who come into the palace to talk about some news outside, and Yi Feng will also find time to accompany her every day.

"Sumeru, the old woman is rarely sober these days, and I have heard your aunt and Wuchou and her daughter talk about a lot of things inside and outside the government and the opposition after you ascended the throne. The old woman is very pleased, although you are young, but you are truly mature. Do things with a clear eye, have your own ideas, and have your own style of acting, and what is even more rare is that she is very calm and steady, and the old woman is really relieved. Da Sui is in your hands, and it is better than the old woman expected. Under the ginkgo tree in front of the Qianqiu Palace, Dugu Jialuo, who was sitting on the chair, was already full of silver hair, but her spirit was very good, and she held Yi Feng's hand, which was very kind. At this time, this strong woman could not see that kind of shrewdness and ability, only the kindness of the grandmother looking at her grandson. "The old woman's days are numbered, and she has nothing to say to you. You have no shortage of power, resourcefulness, and means, and even more decisiveness. The old woman only wants to say one thing to you, you need power for the monarch, but you can't lose that benevolence. You are a palace man. Forgive Yang Jun for their capital crimes, this is a rare benevolence, the old woman only hopes that you can always maintain this benevolence in the future, no matter when, do not forget to be lenient. ”

"Imperial Grandmother. The emperor and grandson kept it in mind. ”

"Zhuangzi. The world is full of clouds, the saints are born, and the kings are successful, all of which are originally in one. It is the way of the inner and outer kings, dark and unknown, depressed but not hairy. The people of the world, each according to his own desires, take himself as the party, this is the "way of the inner saint and the outer king". is not separated from the sect, called the heavenly man. does not deviate from the essence, called the man of God; Do not deviate from the truth, it is said to be human. Take the sky as the sect, take the virtue as the foundation, take the Tao as the door, sign the change, call the saint, and take benevolence as the grace. Take righteousness as reason, etiquette as action, and music as harmony. Smoke Ran is benevolent, called a gentleman, and is an inner saint. Take the law as the divide, take the name as the table, take the reference as the test, and take the audit as the decision. Its number one, two, three, and four is also, and hundreds of officials are toothed by this; Take things for granted. Mainly food and clothing, and hide livestock. The old, weak, lonely and widowed are all supported, and the reason of the people is also, this is the king of the outside. The Empress Dowager Dugu said a lot in one breath, and then stopped to look at Yi Feng, "Emperor, I know that when you followed Confucianism and became the grandson, you had already hired famous Confucian sects from all over the world, opened universities, promoted education, established teachers, made dictionarys, simplified fonts, etc., but don't forget it, the inner sage and the outer king, Fang is the way for the emperor to rule the world." ”

Yi Feng thought thoughtfully, "Grandmother Huang refers to the reversal of the case?" ”

"I heard that you are going to move the Changsun family, the Dou family, and the Wei family?"

"Did Princess An Cheng tell the imperial grandmother?" Easy air duct. The eldest princess An Cheng is also Dou Rongding's wife, Dou Kang Dou Qing's mother, and she is also the sister of Gaozu Yang Jian, and the eldest sister-in-law of the Empress Dowager. After Yi Feng became the emperor, there was an edict to standardize the names of the princesses, only the daughter of the emperor could be called the princess, the daughter of the prince was called the county lord, and the daughter of the county king was called the county lord. For the emperor's sisters, they are called the eldest princess, the emperor's aunt is the eldest princess, and the emperor's aunt and grandmother are at the level of the eldest princess. An Cheng Taichang princess is also quite a high-ranking figure in the royal family, and when Chen Guogong Dou Rongding was a heavy minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and then fully supported Gaozu on behalf of Zhou, that was a meritorious service, when Gaozu was the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, let Dou Rongding lead the palace uncle, so that the town guarded the rooftop, the president showed the title of the two compartments, and stayed in the ban, and became the commander-in-chief of Yang Jian's Janissary Guard, after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he was crowned as the Taifu in the three divisions.

"Emperor, you misunderstood what I meant." The Empress Dowager Dugu shook her head slightly, and her face became solemn. "The eldest princess An Cheng is the elder sister of Gaozu, and the old Chen Guogong Dou Rongding has made great contributions to the Great Sui, but this does not mean that their descendants can do anything wrong. If it were just some corrupt things like that, my old woman would have to intercede for them herself. But since they even dared to support the rebel ministers who killed the king and usurped the throne, then all the old feelings between Gaozu and their Dou family back then were gone. Princess An Cheng did come to cry with the old woman several times and wanted me to come forward to intercede. But I tell you today, don't pay attention to those, the more a family of lords like the Dou family, or even a national relative, the more you can't condone it. For these rebellious ministers and thieves, kill them all, and don't let any of them go. ”

Yi Feng was stunned, he didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Dugu would say such cruel and ruthless words.

"Emperor, I am telling you to be benevolent, but you can't be benevolent at this time, it is a matter of the Great Sui Dynasty, and there is no room for the slightest ambiguity."

Yi Feng was deeply impressed by the Empress Dowager's words, and after returning to the Ganlu Palace, Yi Feng immediately summoned Liu Wenjing.

"Let's do it."

Liu Wenjing showed an excited look in his eyes, he didn't care about dirty hands, anyway, there were many aristocratic officials talking behind his back, calling him the new emperor's flattering minister, the emperor's dog, and so on. Liu Wenjing doesn't care, as long as he can get the emperor's trust, others don't have a chance to be this dog.

"First take the eldest grandson's family, the Dou family, and the Wei family, and deprive all the official titles of the three families, and all the family property will be confiscated into the official." Speaking of this, Yi Feng paused, and finally did not decide to execute all the men of the three families, but only to put the three families in important positions in the puppet dynasty, and gave advice to the two anti-kings to lead the soldiers and horses. The rest of the men were deprived of their official titles and demoted to commoners, the men of the three families were only allowed to keep their wives, and the rest of the concubines were all sentenced to divorce, and they all returned to their parents' homes, and the slaves and servants were also all confiscated. All three were sent to the northeastern frontier, and each of them was given 100 acres of land to be cultivated by themselves, and the local government took care of it.

"Do you want to move only these three?" Liu Wenjing had a feeling of unfinished.

"Let's move these three first, it can be regarded as an example of killing chickens and monkeys, so that some people can understand that I am not just a group of amiable people."

"Understood."

The decree was issued from the palace. Liu Wenjing went to the Yamen of Jinwuwei in the north with an order, read out the emperor's will, and summoned Wang Bodang, the general of Zuojin Wuwei, to arrest the Qin prisoners and copy the three clans of Changsun, Wei and Dou.

"Command!" Wang Bodang took the will, his face was excited. As a Kwantung man, he was born unhappy with the Guanlong nobles, which was a contradiction that began since the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into the Eastern and Western Wei dynasties. Those people in the entire Guanbei Qi old land were discriminated against and suppressed by the Guanzhong Imperial Court. Now that he is a Kanto man, he wants to copy the top three wealthy families in Guanlongmen, and there is no need to say that he is excited.

The eldest grandson is the Xue State Mansion, and the Dou family is the Chen State Mansion or the Taifu Mansion. The Wei family is even more remarkable, Wei Xiaokuan's family back then, Wei Xiaokuan and his nephew Wei Shikang, the two branches, were the top three top gate valves in this dynasty, and even the prime minister Gao Gong had to smile when facing Wei Shi in the past. Last year, the crown prince Yang Yong and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, competed to marry Wei's daughter as his daughter-in-law, and Yang Guang was the second son Yang Jian, who set Wei Shikang's brother Wei Chong Wei Shichong's daughter as the princess of Yuzhang. Last year, after the eldest son Yang Zhao retired from Cui's daughter, he specially took the daughter of Wei Xiaokuanzi, Wei Shou, the prince of Huaguo, as a concubine. And Yang Yong is the eldest son, Yang Yanjuan, and the daughter of Wei Shi is the princess of Changning. There are three princesses in one door, who can reach this glory? In the last year. The Wei family has gone further, and even has the hope of replacing the Li Mu family as the top gate valve in the Great Sui. Then after a short period of glory, the Wei family waited for the catastrophe. The Wei family originally made a multilateral bet, but in the end, what they never expected was that it was Yang Lin who won a single game in such a short period of time, and they didn't even have a chance to change sides.

Especially because Wei Chong firmly stood on the side of Yang Guang, his daughter's in-law. not only refused to obey Yang Lin's order to hand over Yingzhou, but also led the Goguryeo people into western Liao. This became the fatal cause of the collapse of the Wei family. The new emperor used this as a reason to bulldoze the Wei family. No one dared to speak for them. Those in-laws, those world friends, are far away at this time, and no one is willing or dares to reach out to help.

Xue Guogong Mansion.

Sun Hong, the head of Xue Guo, knelt in the courtyard with hundreds of men in more than a dozen rooms of the side branches of the family to listen to the order, Liu Wenjing personally announced the order, and there was the gold-robed general of Jin Wuwei on the side, and there were more heavily armed Jinwu guards who had already surrounded the Xue Guogong Mansion, in addition to Liu Wenjing and Wang Bodang, there was also Liu Ying, who came to supervise the mysterious Supervision Yuan, with a group of brocade-robed guards.

The eldest grandson Hong knelt on the ground and listened carefully to the edict, his heart was like ashes. Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the branch of the Shangtang Wang Changsun clan has been inherited for so many years, and the glory of so many years has now turned into nothing. Forty-seven men of the eldest grandson's family were sentenced to beheading, and the remaining hundreds of male sons were all stripped of their official positions, even the blessings were gone, and all the family property was confiscated. The people of the eldest grandson clan who were not executed could only keep their wives, and then a few pieces of clothes, and everything else would be confiscated, not even the jewelry on their bodies. Except for a few cloth robes, not even a piece of silk could be left. They would be escorted north of Yanshan, where the imperial court would give them a hundred acres of land for each male, and then cultivate the land by themselves, and they would have to pay rent and pay the same rent as ordinary people, and they would have to be subject to special supervision by the local government.

The eldest grandson family really suffered a catastrophe this time, but at this time, the eldest grandson Hong still had to kneel down and show his gratitude to the emperor to the messenger who conveyed the will. I feel that the emperor has not rushed to kill everything, and thanks to the emperor for leaving a way for the eldest grandson family. If you can't be a rich and wealthy family, you can be an ordinary ordinary person in the future, and you can be self-sufficient and safe.

"Long live thanks!"

The eldest grandson Hong kowtowed and thanked him and took the holy decree. The soldiers of the Jin Wuwei had already begun to raid the house, and the scribes were carrying the same books as they were registering and making books. There was a sound of panic everywhere in the courtyard, and the slaves and servants stood there helplessly in confusion, and the former masters of the house were now weeping.

"Gong Liu, I don't know how His Majesty will deal with Changsun Sheng and Changsun Chi?" The only thing that Changsun Hong cares about now is this. Changsun Sheng is considered an old acquaintance of the new emperor, if he can take this opportunity to avoid this catastrophe, then there is still hope for the Changsun family, and when the next emperor is elected, he may be able to turn over again in a few decades. Otherwise, they all became border farmers, and the eldest grandson's family would never be able to come back.

"Changsun Chi was dismissed and returned home, and General Changsun Sheng was awarded the rank of Four-Rank Shenwu General Wusan, and he has reported to the Ministry of Rites, and there will be a new appointment soon."

Eldest Sun Hong nodded. There was a glimmer of hope in his eyes. He turned his head and shouted at the young children of the eldest grandson family who were crying, "What kind of mourning, Lao Tzu is not dead yet, you can howl when Lao Tzu is dead." Right now. They all listened to the angels' poor arrangements. ”

Chen Guogong's Mansion, Dou Family.

Princess An Chengtai, who was over sixty years old, held a dragon head cane and blocked the gate of Chen Guogong's mansion, resolutely refusing to let the people of the court enter the mansion.

"The old body wants to see, who dares to be so bold and dare to copy the Dou family!"

It was Wei Zheng who was responsible for coming to the Dou family to announce the seizure of the house, looking at this energetic old princess. Wei Zheng only sneered in his heart, it was too late to make a score at this time. The emperor doesn't really care about you, your aunt and grandmother, who dared to rebel at the beginning, and now you have to accept the consequences. He waved his hand. Immediately a group of guards rushed forward.

"The Empress Dowager wants to invite the eldest princess to the palace to meet her, please!"

No matter how the eldest princess An Cheng tore it, after all, she was an old woman in her sixties, how she tossed a group of dragon spirits and fierce Jin Wuwei, and in a few clicks, she was put on the carriage that was already waiting beside her. The people of the Dou family watched as the old ancestor was taken away, but none of them dared to come up. The carriage carried the eldest princess away, the last bit of the backbone of the Dou family. The last bit of attachment is gone.

Wei Zheng entered the palace of Chen Guogong, read the edict in public, and then the guards stepped forward to raid the house. Dou Qing and dozens of other Dou family men who were convicted of treason and wanted to be beheaded were taken away one by one and temporarily imprisoned in the prison of Dali Temple, awaiting public execution.

Li Mi took the holy decree and the guards of the Yulin Army to the Wei family to announce the decree, and there were many children of the Wei family, including Wei Xiaokuan and Wei Shikang's brothers, Wei Xiaokuan died at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty. He had six sons, two of whom were the Duke of the Kingdom, a founding uncle and a Shangshu. Weshikang series. The five brothers are all in high positions. Both Wei Xiaokuan and Wei Shikang have passed away. Most of Wei Xiaokuan's six sons have also died, and Wei Shikang's five brothers are now only two. Most of the titles of several national dukes and counties have also been passed on to the second and third generations. Li Mi first went to the Yunguo Mansion to announce the decree, but the contemporary Yun Guogong, that is, Wei Xiaokuan's grandson Wei Yuancheng, did not open the door at all. Wei Yuancheng is the eldest son of Wei Xiaokuan's son Wei Zong, and his youngest brother Wei Yuanzhao married Princess Fengning, the daughter of Emperor Yang Yong, last year. Through this relationship, the Wei family refused to open the door and refused to accept the order, Wei Yuanzhao even climbed the ladder directly to the wall, and showed Li Midian an edict from the emperor, saying that the emperor had pardoned the Wei family's guilt, and let Li Mi go back.

"I have the emperor's edict in my hand, but I don't care about anything else. That is, you open the door immediately within a quarter of an hour to meet the holy decree, otherwise you will bear the consequences. Li Mi shouted to Wei Yuanzhao in a deep voice.

Wei Yuanzhao shrank back, and then the Wei Mansion didn't move anymore.

Wei Yuancheng, the Duke of Yunguo, asked Wei Yuanzhao, "Just ignore them?" His face was full of worry, even trepidation. Wei Yuanzhao was actually nervous, but he pretended to be calm, "Don't worry, my wife is the emperor's sister, Li Mi has to give me this face." ”

When the words fell, there was no movement outside. Wei Yuanzhao looked out through the crack in the door, and saw Li Mi turning around and walking back, and he was excited at the moment, "Look, Li Mi is just a dog of the emperor, I am the emperor's brother-in-law, and he dares to come to my door to spread wild!" ”

When Wei Yuancheng heard this, he felt a lot more relieved.

"Brother, do you want to let the princess enter the palace immediately, go to the emperor and the emperor to ask for another intercession, and let the emperor forgive us."

"No, you don't." Wei Yuanzhao patted his chest to his eldest brother and bragged, "They don't dare to break into our Xunguo Mansion at all." ”

Before the words fell, I heard a sudden shout from everyone, and then I heard a loud noise from the door of Zhu Qi, and then the gate began to shake.

"Bang!" Another loud bang.

Wei Yuancheng figured it out now, and the door was banging outside. His face turned white, "Didn't you say that Li Mi didn't dare to break in, he had already started to bang on the door." ”

Wei Yuanzhao felt embarrassed in front of his eldest brother and a mansion person, and immediately became angry and shouted at the family, "Bring my bow, I want to see who dares to break into our Wei family!" ”

The family quickly brought the bow, Wei Yuanzhao took the bow and climbed up the wall, shouting angrily below, "Whoever dares to hit the door again, I will shoot him." ”

Li Mi glanced at him, and said coldly to the leading officer of the Yulin Army next to him, "Refusing to accept the edict and resisting the decree with arms is to rebel, General Wu, do you know what to do?" ”

Wu Shi Tong held the hilt of the sword in his right hand, slowly pulled out the sword at his waist, and pointed towards the Wei family.

"Take down the traitor, dare to have a rebel, kill on the spot, on!"

Wei Yuanzhao was still scolding on the wall, and he had already drawn an arrow on the side, and was about to set the string, but a white feather arrow had already whistled and hit him in the face. A sharp pain struck, Wei Yuanzhao's eyes went black, and he fell into the courtyard. Wei Yuancheng and the others in the mansion just watched Wei Yuanzhao go up to the wall with a bow in a hurry, but in a blink of an eye, the son-in-law of the Emperor Taishang, the brother-in-law of the emperor, had already fallen to the ground with an arrow stuck in his face, blood flowed turbulently, and a family member stepped forward to check, but he was already dead.

Wei Yuancheng's eyes widened, unable to believe what was happening in front of him.

Before he could figure out how to react, the gate had been slammed open, and a large group of Feather Forest soldiers rushed in with swords, and then rushed towards them. Wei Yuancheng stood there at a loss, but the soldiers of the Yulin Army directly chopped down with a knife on the head, Wei Yuancheng felt that he was flying, no, his body was still there, but he had no head, he flew higher and higher, looking at the Yunguo Mansion that was getting smaller and smaller, a team of Yulin Army rushed in, as long as there was a moment of hesitation and did not immediately hold his head and squat down and surrender, he was immediately killed on the spot. The sword flashed in the house, blood splashed everywhere, and screams erupted.

"The Wei family is finished." This thought finally flashed through Wei Yuancheng's mind, and he fell into boundless darkness. (To be continued)