As the head of the boss of the Yongxing Shop fell to the ground.
Once again, Xu Qingnian’s iron-handedness silenced everyone.
It was true that these merchants deserved to die, but everyone knew that they could not die.
It was because they had not made any major mistakes, they were just cheating and deceiving.
The people wanted them to die, but everything had to be done in accordance with the laws of the Great Wei.
This was known to the King of Western China, the three Shang Shu, all the powerful people, and even the people.
But Xu Qingnian, in this situation, simply beheaded him on the spot, this was no longer an iron-blooded wrist.
It was a single-handed act.
“Xu Qingnian!”
“You are truly lawless.”
King Zhen Xi couldn’t suppress his anger anymore.
There was no other reason, what was the purpose of his coming over this time? It was to reconcile!
It was not to suppress Xu Qingnian, but to give these merchants a show of support, to tell Xu Qingnian that you cannot touch these merchants.
Of course, he knew what these merchants had done and knew that it would be difficult to settle the matter today.
But when Xu Qingnian made such a fuss, they had also discussed the matter and thought that Xu Qingnian was just trying to blackmail them for a sum of money.
So before he came, he had already negotiated with the others that as long as the money was not too much, they would give it to Xu Qingnian in a few years’ time.
However, what he did not expect was that Xu Qingnian would really dare to do it, and he would do it to death.
The few people they had killed had a lot to do with them and could earn them a lot of silver taels every year.
What’s more, Xu Qingnian’s killing was to establish his authority, and once this man was killed, all these merchants would be so scared that they would P*ss themselves.
He would be a plaything in the palm of Xu Qingnian’s hand, and it was this that he would not allow, not the actual killing of two people.
There was nothing he could do to save those who were dead, but those who were alive, he must not allow Xu Qingnian to do so in vain.
“Your Majesty!”
“This is the second time that I have reminded you, today’s court hearing, I alone will be the judge.”
Xu Qingnian spoke indifferently, undaunted by King Zhenxi’s angry roar.
“Even though you are the sole judge of today’s trial, the King will not allow you to take human lives. What did they do to deserve such punishment?”
“Even if they beat a woman in the street, even if they insulted her with their words, even if they forced to buy and sell, you could have fined them silver, made them apologise, or even put them in jail, but you ignored the law and over-executed them.
“According to the laws of the Great Wei, all capital offences must be personally determined by the Minister of Punishment, otherwise no order may be given.”
“This king would like to ask, is this Great Wei law, made by you Xu Qingnian?”
King Zhenxi said angrily.
The point of his attack on Xu Qingnian was simple, it was not written in the law that beating women, uttering insulting words, and forcing people to buy and sell were crimes of death, crimes of killing.
The law does not state that beating a woman, insulting her, or forcing her to buy or sell is a capital offence.
Xu Qingnian, however, was directly beheaded on the spot, overstepping the rules.
“Beating a woman! Acting out to humiliate! Buying and selling by force! It is true that the crime is not punishable by death.”
“But! The Great Ancestor had an edict that any foreigner who insults the people of Wei will be killed without pardon.”
“Has Your Majesty forgotten this?”
Xu Qingnian spoke coldly, it was true that the laws of Great Wei did not say that beating a woman was a capital offence, but the Great Ancestor had said so.
Back then, the Great Ancestor of Wei, who established the Great Wei Dynasty, relied on the Iron Riders to kill all the foreigners and pacify the turmoil.
Why else would this group of foreigners respect Great Wei as their sovereign state? Was it because they were conquered by the charismatic personality of the Great Ancestor?
It was not by iron-blooded means that they killed the foreigners and made them cry out in fear.
So in those days, those who insulted Wei were indeed killed without pardon.
It was just that such things would not be written down in the laws, but they were clearly recorded, and Xu Qingnian could indeed take out this one oral instruction from the Great Ancestor.
“Xu Qingnian, you are confusing things, what the Great Ancestor meant was disobedient foreigners, they are merchants of Great Wei, they are not the same at all.”
The King of Zhenxi denied it.
“Merchants of Great Wei?”
“Yes!”
“Your Majesty, then I will ask you a question.”
“You say that these Fan merchants are merchants of my Great Wei? Have they ever paid a single penny of tax?”
“You say these merchants are merchants of Wei? Have they ever done a single thing for Wei?”
“The ancestors of Great Wei, seeing their pity, allowed them to survive and exempted them from taxes, to show the prestige of our country, the prosperity of Great Wei, nurturing these barbarians for a hundred years, without expecting them to return to Great Wei.”
“But to my surprise, these merchants, with the help of the Emperor’s grace, have been running rampant in Wei, beating our people and humiliating our women.”
“Mister Xu would like to ask the King of Zhenxi!”
“Six hundred years ago in Great Wei, the Central Plains were invaded by foreign states, the foreigners trampled on them, how many people were like pigs and dogs, at the feet of these foreigners, the Great Ancestor drew his sword, the iron horseman subdued the world and killed the foundation of Great Wei.”
“Now, six hundred years later, the same scene is being played out. As a va*sal king of the Great Wei, you should have remembered it, but I never thought that you would support these foreigners today instead of supporting this official to severely punish the evil traitors.”
“In front of the people of the world, I would like to ask Your Majesty a question.”
“Are you, in fact, the king of Great Wei, or the king of the foreigners?”
Xu Qingnian’s words were impa*sioned, and they were extraordinarily terrifying, pulling the people’s anger up instantly, plus this last sentence was even more deadly.
In an instant.
Countless pairs of eyes fell dead on the King of Zhenxi.
Yes, what these foreign merchants are doing in Kyoto today is exactly what the foreigners did 600 years ago when they invaded the Central Plains.
This was the case six hundred years ago, and it will be the same six hundred years from now.
As a king, you are not only helping your own people, but also helping outsiders, are you still a human being? Are you still the king of Great Wei?
The eyes of the people fell on the King of Zhenxi like a torch.
The aura was not terrifying, but these pairs of eyes full of anger were public opinion, the most terrifying public opinion to kill people under the sky.
“You!”
King Zhen Xi pointed at Xu Qingnian, he took a deep breath, calming his heart, even though his anger was overwhelming, his gaze, he did not dare to have any hint of anger.
Because public opinion was too frightening, he knew he couldn’t say anything nonsensically anymore.
“Your Majesty, if you are still the King of Great Wei, sit down.”
“If you think that you are the king of their foreign tribe, then simply let your guards strike and save these Fan merchants.”
Xu Qingnian’s attitude changed as he once again dug a hole for the other party.
And after the latter’s mood calmed down, he continued to speak up.
“Xu Qingnian, you must not slander this king.”
“This king is since the king of Great Wei, and this king naturally looks towards the people of Great Wei.”
“But the reason why the king spoke out was not to help them, but to help the people of the world. Although these merchants have some faults, in the end they are merchants, and now that Wei has gone through the Northern Expedition and needs to recuperate, if they are killed.”
“I’m afraid that this will lead to war, especially since the people behind these merchants are all foreigners, if they have really committed a crime, kill them, the king will not say a word.”
“But because of this kind of thing, but caused their heads to fall, no matter what, it can’t be said.”
The King of Zhenxi thought of how to hit back at Xu Qingnian, and he spoke like this, standing up for the Great Wei to hit back at Xu Qingnian.
You want to kill people, it is not impossible, but the problem is that they have not committed a heinous crime, and they are merchants, I do not allow you to kill them, not because I am afraid of them, nor do I help them, but because they represent one small country after another.
Great Wei has gone through seven northern expeditions, the country’s capital is already gone, if we invite any more war, it will be nothing but pain for the people of Great Wei.
He was smart enough to speak from the perspective of the people of Great Wei, to skim off his own involvement, and to say something that would make him akin to a saint.
“Joke.”
Xu Qingnian laughed coldly as he looked towards King Zhenxi, his tone still cold.
“According to the king’s meaning is to say that nowadays, the state of Great Wei is not strong and cannot start another war, so we, the sons of Great Wei, should bow our heads and apologise in the face of such barbaric and foreign states.”
“Even if we, the sons and daughters of Great Wei, are beaten by a foreign state, we can’t say anything? Even if our women of Great Wei are humiliated in the street, we can only remain silent? Even if we are treated like pigs and dogs by these foreign states, we cannot say anything?”
“Your Majesty, six hundred years ago, we stood up!”
“After six hundred years, do you mean to say that we, the people of Great Wei, should kneel down again?”
“And!”
“When has the Great Wei Dynasty ever feared war? These foreign barbarians, when they really dare to commit crimes, the iron hors*men of Great Wei will trample through all mountains and rivers.”
“My people of Wei! Are they afraid of war?”
Xu Qingnian’s voice was not loud, but every word was as sharp as the sharpest sword in the world, and every word made King Zhenxi’s face turn gloomy.
At this moment, everyone present was infected by Xu Qingnian’s words, and the people immediately raised their voices.
“We, the people of Great Wei, are not afraid!”
“The people of Great Wei, never fear war.”
“If he wants to fight, Great Wei will fight.”
“Six hundred years ago, we stood up, six hundred years later, there is no way we will kneel down.”
“The people of Great Wei, even if they die, they die in battle!”
The voices rang out one after the other, the voices of the people, shouting in droves.
The eight gates of the capital soldiers were also boiling with fervour at this moment, they were soldiers and felt it most deeply, Xu Qingnian’s words were simply too good to be true.
Six hundred years ago they stood up, and six hundred years later they still want us to kneel down?
Moreover, when has Great Wei ever been afraid? The seven Northern Expeditions have lost the nation’s capital, not our backbone!
“Lord Xu is mighty!”
In the crowd, I don’t know who shouted, and in an instant all the people who didn’t know what to say, but were infected, couldn’t help but shout along.
“Lord Xu is mighty!”
“Lord Xu is mighty!”
The voices were deafening and resounded throughout Kyoto, and the people going backwards, although they did not know what had happened, could not help but shout along in unison after hearing the voices again.
At this moment, the eight gates of the capital soldiers could not hold back any longer, and their blood boiled as they held their spears in their hands and shouted in unison.
“Lord Xu is mighty! Great Wei is mighty!”
The aura was terrifying, this voice, shook the clouds in the sky, this aura was like the sharpest sword between heaven and earth.
All the auras were added to Xu Qingnian’s body, and at this moment, Xu Qingnian’s aura, instantly climbed up.
“Six hundred years ago, Great Wei stood up! Six hundred years later, no one will be able to bring Great Wei to its knees! Everything is a delusion.”
Zhou Yan, the Minister of War, could not help but speak up at this moment. He was a minister, but at this moment, he was also infected by Xu Qingnian’s words.
The Minister of Household Affairs, Minister Gu Yan, and Minister of Penalty, Minister Zhang Jing, were both silent, but this silence meant that they supported Xu Qingnian unconditionally.
Not saying anything is the greatest support.
Faced with the unanimity of the people, King Zhenxi’s face was blue, his gaze was gloomy, but the public opinion was so strong that he dared not speak out in anger.
He sort of understood why Xu Qingnian wanted a public trial.
He just wanted to use public opinion, just wanted to use public opinion to press himself, really good tactics.
Bang!
He did not say anything else, nor did he dare to say anything else. If he said anything else, he was afraid that he would also get into trouble.
But King Zhen Xi was not convinced!
He was not convinced at all!
“Pa*s it on, Changping Shopkeeper.”
Seeing the Zhen Nan King fall into his seat, Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out once again, summoning the Chang Ping Shopkeeper to come.
Hearing Xu Qingnian’s summons, the Changping Shopkeeper was directly frightened and turned pale, kneeling on the ground and crying out in panic.
“Lord Xu, Lord Xu, I am known to be wrong, I am known to be wrong, I am willing to pay them three times the amount of silver, and I am also willing to go to jail to be punished, Lord Xu, I am known to be wrong.”
He knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards Xu Qingnian, crying out.
And Xu Qingnian ignored him, but looked at the official of the Ministry of Punishment and said in an incomparably stern voice.
“This official reiterates for the last time.”
“At today’s hall meeting, whatever this official says, you will do, and this is the third time I’ve stressed it.”
“Unless His Majesty himself is present, otherwise this official will tell you to kill whoever you want, if you have any half-hearted hesitation, you will be guilty of the same crime as him, and your heads will fall to the ground, do you understand?”
Xu Qingnian ignored the cries of the Changping shopkeeper for the time being, and instead looked at the officials of the Ministry of Punishment.
The way they behaved just now was too hesitant, it was an obstacle to law enforcement, he wanted to kill, kill cleanly, kill clearly, if they kept hesitating, it would only let these people have a fluke mentality.
So if anyone dares to hesitate again, Xu Qingnian will kill them all together.
Although this was a little excessive, it was necessary for the sake of Mingji.
“We obey orders!”
The officials from the Ministry of Penalty opened their mouths, and they indeed did not dare to act recklessly.
“Changping shopkeeper, since you have confessed your guilt, sign and pledge.”
Xu Qingnian threw out the confession of guilt and said so.
The latter was still terrified, kowtowing to the ground and begging for mercy, not daring to sign the confession.
But the official of the Ministry of Punishment didn’t care about you, so he grabbed his hand and pressed it towards the confession.
Since you had already confessed, you had to sign and pledge.
“Beheaded on the spot!”
Xu Qingnian didn’t hesitate either, and threw out another decapitation order.
The shopkeeper of Changping Shop was scared Sh*tless on the spot, he shouted in panic and looked towards the King of Zhenxi, his lips turning white.
“Your Majesty …… Your Majesty!”
Poof.
The human head flew up, stained with blood, and rolled down to the ground.
A constable from the Ministry of Punishment was the first to cover the white cloth, although this killed to relieve the anger, but still to take care of the people’s emotions.
“Where is the Chang’an shopkeeper?”
Xu Qingnian spoke again.
His voice, at this moment, was like the voice of the King of Hell demanding his life, and as the voice rang out, the merchants trembled in fear.
The shopkeeper whose name was called was incomparably more calm than the previous two.
“I don’t confess my guilt!”
He knelt on the ground, knowing that to confess would mean death, so he simply denied his guilt.
“Pa*s on the human and material evidence!”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, but as soon as he finished speaking, the latter’s gaze was incomparably fierce as he said.
“Even if you pa*s on the evidence, I won’t admit my guilt, I just won’t admit it, all sales are fair deals, Xu Qingnian, you are a sinner for trying to win the hearts of the people of Great Wei, even at the risk of causing war.”
“You are the one who deserves to die!”
The shopkeeper of the Chang’an shop had a lot of backbone, he refused to admit his guilt, regardless of the evidence, he knew that the King of Zhenxi had been trying to save him, but once he admitted his guilt, the King of Zhenxi could not even try to save him.
Because of the horrible public opinion, all the people support Xu Qingnian, the King of Zhenxi does not dare to help.
But if he didn’t admit his guilt, would Xu Qingnian dare to kill him?
“I don’t admit my guilt either, Xu Qingnian, you killed an innocent person indiscriminately for the sake of the people’s public opinion, the one who deserves to die is you.”
“Xu Qingnian, you are not fair in judging the case and you are killing people.
“Xu Qingnian, do you know who my brother is? If you kill me, my brother will be accountable to the Great Wei, and you cannot afford to take the blame.”
“My father is a good friend, a general of the Pingtan clan, if you kill me, it will cause a war between the two countries, and then at least tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Great Wei will die because of it.”
Many of the merchants spoke up, they also realized that if they confessed directly, they would still end up dead in the end, instead of that, they would rather die and not confess, while all kinds of self-reporting, so that Xu Qingnian could not enforce the law normally, anyway, the words have been said, if you really dare to kill us.
The consequences of that will be your own to weigh.
At the same time, if you do this, the King of Zhenxi will have the opportunity to make a move instead of being held back by Xu Qingnian like this.
Indeed.
As the merchants refused to admit their guilt, King Zhenxi’s eyes showed approval, but he quickly regained his composure.
He knew what Xu Qingnian wanted to do, to kill four or five of them, to establish a fierce authority, and then to pinch these merchants and make them bleed heavily.
But if all the merchants deny their guilt, what can you do, Xu Qingnian?
You can make an example of them.
Do you still want to kill all these merchants? Do you have the guts to do that?
And in the hall.
Xu Qingnian looked at the shouting merchants and did not say anything.
When these merchants saw Xu Qingnian’s silence, they subconsciously thought that their actions had indeed scandalised Xu Qingnian, so all kinds of words rang out again.
“You killed one of me, the Great Wei will have to pay tens of thousands of lives, Xu Qingnian, we are not committing a great wrong of ten evils, you over enforce the law, then the world’s foreigners will come after you.”
“Blackmailing money is nonsense, we have always been honest in our business, it is you, the people of the Great Wei, who slander us.”
“Yes, yes, it is you, the people of Great Wei, who slander us, because you hate us because you see that we have earned more silver, and that is why you take revenge like this.”
“You don’t think of making good money yourself, but come to envy others, is this your Great Wei?”
Their voices, one after another, perhaps because someone had led the way to strengthen their voices, or perhaps because of Xu Qingnian’s silence, grew bolder and their shouts grew louder.
In the hall.
Xu Qingnian looked at these Fan Shang foreigners, and the reason for his silence was simple.
It was hard to imagine why this group of foreigners had so much courage, and why they were so arrogant.
What kind of people are they?
What kind of arrogance do they have in their daily lives?
Then he looked at the weeping Li.
Xu Qingnian wondered how many people in Great Wei had been bullied by these people, and although Li’s incident happened on the 15th of June, was there nothing like this before the 15th of June?
There was, but it was only because the officials had stepped in and this group of Fan merchants did not blackmail them for money.
He took a deep breath.
Xu Qingnian tossed the order box on the long table straight out, and then his gaze was calm.
“Behead the three hundred and ninety-one people under the hall.”
The voice rang out, filled with calmness.
However, this sentence was no less than a bolt from the blue.
Beheading the three hundred and ninety-one people under the hall?
Kill them all?
This time, even the three Shang Shu were shocked.
They knew that Xu Qingnian wanted to establish his authority today, so killing four or five people would be enough to establish his authority, and then he would do his job slowly.
But what they didn’t expect was that Xu Qingnian was much crazier than they had imagined.
The three officials all looked at Xu Qingnian, especially Gu Yan, the Minister of Household, who first wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw that a merchant had already been beheaded, he didn’t know what to say.
There was no other reason, the officials of the Ministry of Justice were also shocked, but the next moment there was no hesitation, they took people over and beheaded them, fearing that they would be guilty of the same crime.
Poof!
Poof!
Poof!
Poof!
The four beheaded merchants could not rest in peace, and their eyes were still full of shock and resignation.
The four merchants who were beheaded died with their eyes still full of shock and dismay, shocked that Xu Qingnian had the courage to give the order.
And dismayed that they had to end up like this just because they had blackmailed someone for money?
“Xu Qingnian, you’re crazy, you’ve gone crazy.”
“Xu Qingnian, you can’t kill me, if you kill me, Great Wei will really be in big trouble.”
“My grandfather is the chief of the tribe, my grandfather is the chief of the tribe, if you kill me, my grandfather will take revenge for me.”
“Don’t kill me, Lord Xu, don’t kill me, I’m wrong, I’m wrong, I’m willing to testify against others, Lord Xu, spare my life as a dog.”
The cries of the foreign merchants rang out one after another, some pointed at Xu Qingnian and cursed him as a madman, others were still screaming about who their fathers were, but most of them were panic, were scared, crying for mercy.
They simply did not expect that Xu Qingnian would really dare to kill them all.
Not to mention them, the people also did not expect that Xu Qingnian would really be so ruthless.
It was not enough to kill a few, but to kill hundreds of merchants.
This was too fierce, wasn’t it?
He didn’t give everyone a chance to react at all.
“Stop it all for this king.”
At this moment, King Zhen Xi was completely unable to sit still.
If Xu Qingnian had killed three or five people to establish his authority, there was nothing he could do, public opinion was here, what did he have to say?
But Xu Qingnian wanted to kill all the merchants in one go, how could he allow that? These three hundred and ninety-one people, if they were really killed cleanly, would be a huge disaster for them.
It was definitely not a trivial matter, so he would rather risk the people’s anger, and he had to step in to stop it.
Because Xu Qingnian had completely torn his face off, it was not something as simple as involving interests or not, but Xu Qingnian would not let them live.
The King of Zhenxi’s roar rang out, his powerful martial artist aura suppressed, and the officials of the Ministry of Punishment could not move at once.
“Xu Qingnian!”
“You’ve really gone too far.”
“Although what these merchants have done is a bit excessive, in the end it is only a matter of money.”
“If you kill a few people to make a statement, the king will allow you to do so as a way to relieve the people’s hatred, but if you kill so many merchants, do you really not know the power behind them? Do you really not know how much trouble this will lead to?”
The King of Zhenxi looked at Xu Qingnian angrily as he questioned loudly.
“Your Majesty, this is already the third time.”
“I would like to advise you, Your Majesty, to stay out of the way, I don’t want to cause any more trouble.”
Xu Qingnian didn’t put words in his mouth, but the meaning was too obvious; it wasn’t that he hadn’t killed the king before.
Disrupting his own trial three times was not a trivial matter if he really had to follow the rules.
“Good!”
“Xu Qingnian, you have guts.”
“Today, this king wants to see how long you can be arrogant!”
“I also want to see if His Majesty cares about this matter or not.”
As he spoke, he took out a heavenly decree, and when the guards handed him a brush, he directly poured ink, obviously knowing that if he talked to Xu Qingnian here, he would not be able to talk to him at all.
So he wanted the empress herself to come and deal with this matter.
If the empress herself came, then these merchants’ lives would be saved anyway.
But if Xu Qingnian was allowed to stay here, more people would only die.
As he watched the King of Zhenxi write the decree, Xu Qingnian’s gaze fell on the Emperor.
Xu Qingnian’s gaze fell on the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, and he took out the Dragon Talisman of the Great Interior, and in an instant the aura of the King of Zhenxi disappeared, and the officials returned to their normal state.
“Behead.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, still with the word beheading.
You write yours, I’ll kill mine.
It was clear that he was going to fight against King Zhen Xi to the end.
In a flash, he finished writing the zheng chapter and gathered a flame in his hand, directly burning the heavenly decree clean.
At that moment, a figure came beside Xu Qingnian, a capital army commander, and he kept his voice down.
And when Xu Qingnian heard the other party’s words again, a shocked look appeared in his eyes.
Yes.
Xu Qingnian was stunned.
In the next moment, Xu Qingnian also took out a heavenly decree, the writing brush coalesced in his hand, and he quickly put pen to paper.
After writing, the heavenly decree was burnt.
Xu Qingnian took out another one, wrote again, and burned it again.
In a quarter of an hour’s time, Xu Qingnian had already written fourteen heavenly decrees, compared to the one taken out by the King of Zhenxi.
The difference between them was obvious.
But what everyone was curious about was what this Commander of the Capital Army had said in Xu Qingnian’s ear. Why did Xu Qingnian look shocked? Why did Xu Qingnian not treat the heavenly decree like a treasure, writing one after another?
Everyone was curious, even the King of Zhenxi was curious.
But the King was curious, but when he saw the heads of the merchants fall to the ground, his heart was filled with anxiety and anger.
The only good news was that there were only four officers from the Ministry of Justice to carry out the execution, four to kill, there was still time to fight.
More than seventy percent will not work.
And at this moment.
In the Great Wei Palace.
A figure, extremely fast, arrived inside the Palace of the Feeding Heart.
A trail of white smoke floated into the Hall of the Nurturing Heart.
And in the hall, the empress also had an additional heavenly decree in her hand.
“My old servant, Li Guangxiao, has met Your Majesty.”
“May Your Majesty, Long Live Long Live Long Live.”
Li Guangxiao looked a little hurried as he stood in the hall and bowed towards the empress.
“Teacher, stand at ease.”
The empress spoke out, her gaze still falling on the heavenly decree, not looking at Li Guangxiao.
And Li Guangxiao’s voice immediately rang out.
“Your Majesty.”
“Xu Qingnian is now outside the Ministry of Punishment, establishing his authority to kill people, that Fan merchant is indeed vicious and has no regard for the king’s law, killing a few people is deserved, but if we kill more, we are afraid that it will only lead to trouble.”
“These merchants, not to mention their influence in Kyoto, are also important people from foreign countries and tribes, if we kill them all, it will lead to war.”
“I suggest that Your Majesty should step in, and there is no need to punish Xu Qingnian, but to stop it in time, otherwise, it will lead to a big mistake ah.”
Li Guangxiao’s voice rang out, he came here today on purpose to speak to the empress about this matter.
Xu Qingnian had killed the Fan merchants, and he supported it.
It was time for these merchants to be taught a lesson, and killing a few people would not be a bad idea.
But Xu Qingnian had gone too far.
The three hundred and ninety-five merchant leaders are among the top merchants in Wei, so it would be unjustifiable to kill them all.
Although the people were happy with the killing, the consequences of the killing could not be underestimated.
So he came here first, hoping that the empress would step in and more or less round up the situation and punish the merchants.
“No! They deserve to die!”
What Li Guangxiao did not expect was the Empress’ reply, which was so direct and unconditionally supportive of Xu Qingnian.
“Your Majesty, these Fan merchants do deserve to die, but …… If they were to be executed for this reason, it would really be unjustified.”
“Furthermore, the trouble caused by killing them is not a good thing for the Great Wei today.”
Li Guangxiao did not directly reject the empress’ intention, but explained seriously.
Were the Pan merchants abominable? Definitely abhorrent.
Should they die? Definitely deserved to die.
But the problem was that using such a reason to kill them did seem a bit strict, and once they were dead, the forces behind these people would definitely not let Wei off the hook.
In a few months’ time, the Empress’ birthday will be celebrated.
What if their heads fall to the ground because of blackmail?
What if their heads fall on the ground because they spoke out of turn?
Even in the heyday of Great Wei, it would not have been possible to do this unless it was in the reign of Taizu.
In its heyday, Wei was even more favourable to foreigners, and for what? It was a way to bring in the foreigners and to show the world what Wei was doing.
This was a good thing for the dynasty, sacrificing money and silver in exchange for the prestige of Wei.
But not now, there is absolutely no point in doing this now.
There’s nothing to be gained by killing these people, and it’s going to cause a lot of trouble, so why bother?
So you can’t kill these people, you can’t kill them at all, not just a few, but so many! Definitely not!
“Teacher, take a look.”
The empress did not say much, but threw out a sheet of heavenly decrees.
The heavenly decree floated in the air and then fell into Li Guangxiao’s hands.
The merchant of the Yong Xing Shop, who is a merchant of the Great Wei, has committed crimes, cheating and deceit, and has been unforgivably evil. I hope Your Majesty will appreciate this.
[The merchant of Wei, the head of the Changping shop, has 200,000 taels of Wei treasure notes, 5,000 taels of gold, 600,000 taels of pearls and jade, and 100,000 taels of silver, of which paintings and antiques are not counted, and the land of the house is not counted.
[The merchant of Wei, the head of the Chang’an shop, has 300,000 taels of treasure, 7,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of pearls and jade, and 50,000 taels of silver, of which paintings and antiques are not counted, and the house and land are not counted.
As a sheet of heavenly decrees appeared in Li Guangxiao’s eyes.
The latter’s eyes gradually changed.
A small shopkeeper in Yongxing had close to 8 million taels of silver, and this was not even counting the land, paintings and antiques, which was equivalent to 5 million taels of silver.
Li Guangxiao was frozen in his tracks.
He knew that these merchants were making a lot of money in Kyoto, but what he didn’t expect was that their income was so horrible.
One person’s a*sets were as much as the total tax revenue of a county in Wei today, and even some poorer counties did not have that much, right?
How much money had they ama*sed?
Although the last two were a bit less, they weren’t bad either, they were almost close to two million taels.
If each of the three hundred and ninety-five people had three or four million taels of silver, even if each of them had one million taels of silver, if they were copied together, that would be 39,900,000 taels of silver.
This is equivalent to nearly four years of tax revenue of the Great Wei, this knife down, the Great Wei treasury can be said to eat a full meal ah.
This …..
Li Guangxiao was dumbfounded.
He completely understood why the empress said it was good to kill.
This is certainly good to kill ah, four years of taxation, and also do not need to spend, enough for the Great Wei long sigh of relief.
As for these foreign states who wanted to come and kill them?
Then come and kill them.
You’re a foreign nation that would declare war on Wei for a mere two to three million taels of silver?
Are you not out of your mind?
If they really want to come, then let’s fight. The state treasury has 40,000,000 taels of silver, so we can’t afford to fight the Northern Expedition, but what are we afraid of in a small-scale battle?
Aren’t the military officials of the court waiting to be fed? Don’t they clamour for war every day?
Go on, fight.
Come on.
No one really thinks that Wei is afraid of war, do they?
“Teacher, what do you mean now?”
Looking at the silent Li Guangxiao, the empress asked calmly.
As the Empress’ voice rang out, Li Guangxiao pondered slightly before looking extremely serious and saying.
“Your Majesty, I am of the view that.”
“If Xu Qingnian is sure of it.”
“Uh …… You can kill a few more.”
Li Guangxiao gave his answer.
This was his answer.
The reason for his previous concern was that killing these merchants would not do any good to Great Wei.
But how could he have known that Xu Qingnian had taken it upon himself to copy them?
In that case, it was not that there was no benefit, but that there was a great benefit.
If we were to ask Wei to pay these foreigners, would the empress agree to it?
The empress would definitely not agree.
Because once she opened her mouth, everyone in the world would have to laugh at Great Wei, and the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty would even use it to humiliate Great Wei.
The Great Wei, an existence above all nations and respected by all the eight parties, would actually go to another foreign country to borrow money?
It would be a big joke if word got out.
“Your Majesty!”
“Xu Qingnian, you really have astonishing talent! Your Majesty must reuse such a great talent!”
“He, can be called the talent of a Qilin, this is a move that kills three birds with one stone, the old minister is convinced.”
At this moment, Li Guangxiao knelt on the ground and bowed towards His Majesty, he felt emotionally from the bottom of his heart because at this moment, he finally understood what Xu Qingnian was actually doing.
Xu Qingnian’s move was truly unspeakably wonderful.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Xu Qingnian was simply voicing his displeasure for the people and then, in a fit of rage, killed these merchants.
But in reality, Xu Qingnian was killing three birds with one stone.
By allowing the merchants to do wrong, they would lose their minds and increase their greed, leading all of them to reveal their true nature.
In this way, the people’s grievances will rise, and when the moment of truth comes, when the people’s anger is at its peak, Xu Qingnian will immediately take action and wipe out the merchants with the speed of lightning.
The reason for this is to break the pattern in Kyoto and to punish the merchants severely.
And secretly, the good people had already prepared to take their families to the treasury to give Wei more strength.
If these foreigners dare to make trouble, then they will really fight, and they are not afraid of you.
The moment he strikes, he has already thought of a way out.
How could he not be impressed by this?
At such a young age, he was able to think things through so thoroughly, it would not be too much to say that he was an astonishing genius.
Then he thought of the white sheet of paper he had seen on his first day at Shouren Academy.
Li Guangxiao inexplicably felt that the white paper …… seems to be a real possibility, coming true ah.
“I understand.”
“I, too, mean this, but teacher, I feel that this matter is by no means so simple.”
The empress opened her mouth, she actually had some emotional turmoil, so much money, how much silver does this cost?
Although she was aware of everything that was happening in the capital of Wei, she did not expect that these merchants would be so good at collecting money.
One of them could be worth millions of dollars at any one time.
“Your Majesty’s meaning is ……”
The first time I saw the woman, I was able to understand what the emperor meant, but when I got to the halfway point, he didn’t go on.
“En.”
The empress nodded lightly and continued immediately afterwards.
“But yes or no, let’s put it aside for now and wait for the final result.”
The Empress spoke, and then her voice rang out, reaching outside the hall.
“Pa*s on my decree!”
“Xu Qingnian holds my dragon talisman, see the talisman as you see me!”
“All the right and wrong of the foreigners of the Fan Shang clan will be dealt with by Xu Qingnian.”
“Anyone who dares to obstruct Xu Qingnian in his case will be considered equally guilty.”
“Moreover, the Ministry of War will immediately dispatch 30,000 troops each from the Divine Machine Battalion and the Qilin Army to be temporarily controlled by Xu Qingnian.”
“The matter outside the palace.”
“Xu Qingnian is like me.”
The voice was not loud, but it was instantly transmitted by word of mouth to the outside.
“Your Majesty’s decree!”
“Everything that is right or wrong, the Fan merchants and foreigners, everything that is right or wrong, will be dealt with by Xu Qingnian.”
“Those who obstruct the case are equally guilty.”
“The Ministry of Military Affairs, by decree, will immediately go to the Divine Mechanism Battalion, the Qilin Army, and dispatch 30,000 troops, temporarily under the command of Xu Qingnian.”
The decree was sent out.
The capital of Great Wei.
Outside the Ministry of Penalty.
The King of Zhenxi’s face was completely and utterly gloomy.
The people, on the other hand, were excited.
