Spring is unpredictable, sometimes warm, sometimes cold, and it is a time of day when people are sick and a nightmare for those in exile.

The situation of the "Chu Liumin", who were escorted by the army and forced to march on a daily basis, was even more difficult than that of ordinary refugee groups, with no food and medicine, and no adequate rest, and a small number of deaths, as a large number of infected people appeared, a large number of deaths were inevitable.

From the very beginning when the order to forcibly expel all Chu people in Yangshan County was given, it was destined to be a brutal massacre.

In a sense, killing these ordinary people in this way is more brutal than the direct slaughter of the city in a brutal strangulation.

This cruel order came from the Changling Imperial Palace, from the hands of Empress Zheng Sleeve.

In the deep Changling Palace, in the long corridor outside the queen's study, there were many officials kneeling densely.

These officials came to ask the empress to retract her mandate, and in their view, any dynasty in history that was too brutal would often lead to an early downfall.

Even if it is a means against the enemy, but the reputation for brutality will also make the people of this dynasty feel insecure.

It's just that these officials know Empress Zheng Sleeve too well and know that words are impossible to impress, so they just use the method of silent hunger strike.

Zheng Sleeve sat in front of the bookcase.

The door of her study was closed, and she couldn't see the expressions of these officials directly, but her powerful perception allowed her to clearly know the status of each official kneeling outside.

There was a hint of sarcasm on her perfect countenance, which shone with an almost porcelain light.

The indifference and ridicule were not that she didn't care about these people's opinions, that they were dispensable, or too lowly, but that they couldn't figure out her mind at all, and didn't understand that some things were her tricks in the first place.

Starting from the Minshan Sword Society, in the eyes of outsiders, it seems that she has suffered too many failures and lost the aura that she will never fail, but everything is going on with her heart.

As long as the end goal can be achieved, it doesn't matter how the process is.

It's like two players playing chess, one player seems to have lost a lot of discs in the early stage, but the big picture has been laid out.

From the time she killed the three family members and completely controlled Jiaodong County, she began to really fall.

This drove away the Chu people in Yangshan County, and it was another son under her who began to fight back.

The order was originally to be withdrawn, but when it was withdrawn, it was a clever opportunity, and at the right time, it could be transformed into a killer move.

The most important thing is the human heart.

Everyone has feelings.

Isn't any killing an emotional killing in the end?

Use the soldiers as the bottom, and the heart as the top.

The officials outside the study had already knelt down for a day and a night, and some of the elderly officials were already approaching their limits, and for her, walking out at this time could not only get the results they wanted, in exchange for their gratitude, but also make them more in awe, knowing that they had to pay enough price in exchange for her consent. If this happens again, it will at least need to be like this.

She stood up, the sneer on her face completely disappeared, and she walked through the spiritual spring with an expressionless face and pushed open the door of the study.

"I can take it back, but I have one request. ”

Without any superfluous words, she looked at the officials who were kneeling on the ground, and said plainly and with a strong majesty.

All the officials raised their heads.

She continued, "Help me spread the word throughout Changling... If I don't want to exile those Chu people in Yangshan County, I must have a Chu person of sufficient weight to exchange. In other words, if you want to save the lives of those Chu people, you have to exchange at least the life of a Chu person with sufficient weight. ”

These officials felt a little happy at first, but the next moment, they felt a chill because of the coldness contained in her words, and many of them were originally close to the limit, and their bodies were even more cold as frost at the moment.

"What if the Chu people don't have enough weight to stand up?"

One of the officials at the head couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice.

"That's their own business. ”

Zheng Sleeve shook his head and looked at the official who spoke out, "If even their Chu people themselves can sit back and watch, then what do we Qin people have to worry about?"

The official froze for a moment, unable to speak.

"Can you let those Chu people stop first? An official took a deep breath and looked at Zheng Sleeve and asked.

He knew that there could be no Chu people in the vicinity of Changling without a sufficient amount of hidden people, but the current situation was that every day that passed, a large number of people in that exiled team would die.

"That's also something that they Chu people need to think about. Zheng Sleeve said lightly: "If you stand up one day later, you will die more, so I hope that those who can exchange their lives for the lives of these people do not hesitate." ”

Hearing her words, many of the officials who were kneeling here couldn't help but be angry again, but they had nothing to say.

Because this in itself is her most usual method.

She had done so more than once many years ago.

Shameless, but effective.

The message was swiftly preached.

No one doubted the truth of her will.

Because it's her promise to all these officials, unless she can lose all of them.

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When such a decree spread throughout Changling, all the cultivators on the corner tower of Changling raised their vigilance, for fear of missing a single detail.

Even if it is destined to die, the kind of Chu people who have enough weight may do very crazy things.

However, they didn't have time to see the Chu people who came out of the alley somewhere.

This man came from the depths of the palace.

Deep inside the palace, there are several ditches and streams that lead to the nearest river outside the palace.

The source of the ditch stream is several square wells.

There are a lot of clothes, bedding and other materials that need to be washed next to the well.

When this will came by word of mouth, a very old palace maid let go of the dirty clothes she was washing in her hand and slowly stood up.

No one noticed her abnormality.

Knowing that she walked out of the gate of this courtyard and walked in a direction that would never go forward on a normal day, someone suddenly woke up.

When she drank a few times, but she didn't hear it, these people who shouted to her, including some palace cultivators who happened to bump into her along the way, began to react that she might have something to do with the queen's will.

A terrible siren sounded in the palace.

The clothes on this palace maid were very filthy, and she exuded an indescribable unpleasant smell, her hair was very disheveled, and her eyes were bright at this time, giving the impression that she was only forty years old, but her face was at least fifty years old.

After the warning was useless, a flying sword finally appeared in front of her walking, turning into a cold flame of light that devoured her heart.

The palace maid smiled slightly.

She had a very simple haircut.

In her "leisure" to cut her hair, she caught the flying sword between her fingers, and then dusted it out like throwing out a fallen hair on her head.

With just a casual movement, the flying sword pierced the hearts of several guards along the way, and then cut off the head of the flying sword owner.

"If you have come to answer the order, why do you want to kill people, and you are not afraid that I will make excuses again?"

The moment the head landed with hot blood, a cold and majestic voice rang out at the end of the road in front of the palace maid.

This is the voice of Empress Zheng Sleeve.

"If you don't kill people, how can you understand that I have enough weight?" The palace maid raised her head, looked at Zheng Sleeve, who was coming to the extreme, and laughed, "It's you, who are in a hurry to talk to me, for fear that I will die too quickly?"