Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1120 Jia Yu is in jail

 Chapter 1118: Jia Yu is in jail

The news that Hao Tong and Sima Fang were imprisoned shocked the entire Bingbei officialdom.

The officials who were arrested before were not of high rank, and were only at the level of county magistrate at the highest level. Sima Fang was a close minister around Qin Wen, and Hao Tong was a Conglong minister who had been following Qin Wen since the Yanmenguan era.

These two political tycoons are now both sent to jail to reflect, which shows the intensity of this purge.

After Hao Tong and Sima Fang, an unexpected person was imprisoned. She was Qin Wen's only wife, his mistress Jia Yu.

"Madam, the vast majority of Shanxi merchants are still clean, and those Shanxi merchants who took refuge in Yuanmeng are the result of their own self-destruction and have nothing to do with you. You don't have to blame yourself." Qin Wen persuaded with a wry smile. road.

"No."

Jia Yu didn't appreciate it, and said with a serious face: "I am in charge of all the business affairs of the Qin family, but I failed to strictly check all Shanxi merchants, so that there were so many rebellions. I can't explain this. Please husband, please send me to prison to enforce the law."

“Madam, this incident has nothing to do with you. Who knew those families could be so cruel and ruthless..."

Qin Wen was still trying to persuade her, but Jia Yu's face was firm, when she sighed and said, "Madam, why are you doing this?"

“In order to restore the Qingming Dynasty to the Jin army, I am willing to go to jail, and I beg your husband to fulfill my wish.”

Looking at the resolute wife, Qin Wen was also extremely shocked, because whether it was Hao Tong, Sima Fang, or his wife Jia Yu, they were all trying their best to eliminate the Jin army's troubles, but these troubles were It was all caused by his indulgence.

Qin Wen let out a long breath, with tears in his eyes, helped Jia Yu up, and said with a smile: "How can I ask for a wife like this?"

 “Come here, put the lady in jail to reflect.”

Hence, after Hao Tong and Sima Fang, even the mistress Jia Yu was imprisoned for self-examination, which set off a storm in the entire Bingbei officialdom.

 For a time, all the officials of the Jin army, big and small, were panicked, fearing that they would also be on the list of purges by the lord Qin Wen.

Everyone knows that Hao Tong, Sima Fang, and even the mistress Jia Yu are innocent. But even so, they were still severely punished. So what would happen if they really committed a crime? I'm afraid it will never come back!

In just five days, all the people involved in the case were arrested. This is of course not because all the culprits have been arrested, but because they cannot continue to arrest them.

　Too many people have been arrested now. In addition to Shanxi merchants, all walks of life are involved, and Lian Junzhengdu has not let them go.

If the arrests continue, more people will definitely be involved. By then, I am afraid that the Jin army will really be in chaos before the Yuan army comes over.

Therefore, after confirming that 95% of the rebels had been arrested and brought to justice, Qin Wen promptly stopped the purges on the surface. As for the secret searches, of course they would never stop.

The Great Purge is finally over, which makes everyone feel relieved, but the storm is still not over, because the next trial is crucial.

As many as forty-five Shanxi merchant families were arrested this time. The number of people arrested in each family ranged from a dozen to nearly a hundred. In total, there were two to three thousand people. During the arrest process, Nearly a thousand people were arrested and killed.

Three thousand people were arrested in the business community alone, while nearly a thousand people were involved in the case from other walks of life, including the military and government, and a total of four thousand people were arrested and brought to justice.

Among these four thousand people, there will definitely be people who have been wrongly accused and wrongly arrested. Many of them did not commit any crime themselves and were only arrested because they were implicated by their family members. But in this special period now, it no longer matters whether they were wrongly accused or not. . Regardless of whether these people have committed a crime or not, they will only be found guilty in the end. The rebels are all among them, but the severity of the sentence will be different.

Of course, Qin Wen could not kill all the four thousand people who were involved in danger and rebellion. This would inevitably stain his perfect reputation.

 In the end, Qin Wen decided to execute him directly in Jinyang City. Led by the Qiao and Chang families, there were a thousand rebel core people from the business, political and military circles.

As for the remaining three thousand people, whether they were wrongly accused, implicated, or simply ignorant, they were all reduced to slaves or official chickens for life and would never be hired.

Among the people who were executed, there were also sixteen brothers named Qin, more than fifty Jin army officials, and nearly a hundred low-level and high-level people in the Qin family's caravan.

Originally, Qin Wen wanted to hand over the Qiao family to Qin Jian, but after seeing all the evidence of the Qiao family's crimes, Qin Wen couldn't help it for a moment and directly ordered the entire Qiao family to be executed.

On the day of the execution, Jinyang City was surrounded by people. After all, there were many profiteers and corrupt officials among them. Since the establishment of the Jin Army, it was unique for thousands of people to be executed at one time.

Qin Wen personally supervised the execution, and following his order, thousands of people were beheaded amidst sounds of regret and begging for mercy, while the people all shouted happily.

With the deaths of thousands of people and the imprisonment of Jia Yu and three others, all officials in the Jin Dynasty were in awe of corruption and collusion between officials and businessmen.

In a short period of time, the Jin army's officialdom was quickly restored, and the purity reached an almost extreme state. No official dared to break the law, and the entire Bingbei seemed to have returned to the Yanmen Army era.

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At the same time, Yang Ye of Ningxia County and Wang Meng of Yinchuan County also joined forces to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against Murong Ke who had fled into Ningxia County.

Although the strength of Yang Ye and Wang Meng after the round was as high as 100,000, the 70,000 troops facing Murong Ke were all cavalry, and Murong Ke never stayed in one place for long, so that several encirclement and suppression operations by Wang Meng and Yang Ye failed. It's a waste of time without starting.

 “This Murong Ke is really difficult to deal with.” Yang Ye gritted his teeth.

"Report...to the general, Murong Ke led the army to the east."

When the generals heard this, they were all shocked. The east side was in the direction of Taiyuan, and the lord was in Jinyang, where the governor was.

The generals of the Jin army suspected at first that Murong Ke was just playing tricks. On the surface, he wanted to attack Taiyuan, but his actual target was Zhenbeiguan. But now it seems that the real target of the Yuan army should be Jinyang, Taiyuan.

"Captain, there must be no mistakes in our lord's safety. The general believes that we should go immediately to block the Yuan army's eastward advance." Luo Yi said with a serious face.

After Yang Ye glanced at the positions of the enemy and our armies marked on the sand table, he secretly thought that it was still too late to block this distance, so he immediately ordered: "The entire army marches westward..."

 “Captain, wait a moment.”

Wang Meng quickly stood up and said: "It is too early to judge Murong Ke's true purpose based on this."

 (End of this chapter)