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Chapter 38 The Princess Takes the Blame and is Granted Death (38)

As Emperor Tianwu left, no matter how shocked the remaining people in the Temple of Heaven were, or how much they wanted to communicate and discuss, no one dared to speak, and they could only keep silent.

Some people of high status and position hastily retired.

The rest will clean up the mess.

But overall it was actually okay. The only thing that bothered them was the pile of rotten meat of Prince Lu that was torn into pieces. They didn't know what to do with it. Finally, the Minister of Rites and the Chief of the Imperial Clan agreed to carefully shovel up the pile of meat and temporarily store it in a box.

Wait until Emperor Tianwu remembers what to do and gives instructions before dealing with it.

Or wait a couple of days and ask if that doesn't work.

No one would dare to ask now.

As time went by, the common people of the entire capital gradually realized that the previous sound could not only be heard by people in their small area, but also by people several miles away from them. It seemed that the entire capital could hear it, and it was the same sound.

It's like heavenly music, penetrating every pore.

In addition, there was more than one deaf person in the capital. As the voice disappeared and some inspectors severely interrogated those who were deafened and could speak, the words that suddenly came out before could be heard even by those who were deafened. They spread quickly, and everyone soon realized that the person who was speaking was probably not a human, and King Lu must have suffered a punishment from heaven.

Then everyone suddenly became bolder.

After all, they were not the only ones who heard it, everyone in the capital heard it, so there was nothing that everyone was afraid to discuss in private, and could they really silence everyone in the capital?

As long as it's not discussed openly.

"I was so frightened by the voice accusing Your Majesty that I didn't quite hear Prince Lu's crimes. So, what evil did Prince Lu do?"

"The previous rumors were all true. The palace's chief secretary and other officials, including the recently executed Princess Lu, were all blamed for the Prince of Lu. In reality, it was the Prince of Lu who committed the crime. Some of them may not have even known about it, and even if they did, they were powerless to do anything. As a result, they were slandered as the masterminds."

"I remember it very clearly. King Lu, in his quest for immortality through alchemy, killed over 700 people, including over 100 unborn babies. The locust tree lady in that ghost story I read last time was a thousand-year-old demon. Over that thousand years, she only killed over 300 people."

"Fortunately, we live in the capital. Under the watchful eye of His Majesty, those princes will be more cautious."

"He's really crazy. The current emperor is in his early fifties and hasn't even started seeking immortality. Why would he, who's in his early twenties, ask for immortality? He's simply an animal."

"Will Your Majesty ever do that?"

"Don't scare yourself, it won't happen!"

"So, King Lu has now suffered divine punishment and his soul has been scattered? I wonder if you can confirm this?"

"Let's see if Prince Lu is still alive!"

"If Prince Lu dies, we can't just keep it a secret. We have to at least have a funeral or something."

"It's over, it's over. I feel like Duke Shu is going to be in trouble. I'm afraid another daughter of his family will die. You should still remember that some time ago, His Majesty granted a marriage to the third daughter of Duke Shu, making her the second wife of Prince Lu, and the marriage was to take place a year later.

So the third daughter of his family.

Shouldn't she be considered the Prince of Lu's fiancée now?"

"You're not married yet?"

"What's wrong with your brain? Three years ago, wasn't it Zhu Feng, the Prince of Jiang, who had just been crowned and was preparing for his wedding, who suddenly fell ill and died six months before the wedding? As a result, his fiancée, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Jing'an, was buried alive with him.

If the current emperor still insists, can the daughter of the Duke of Shu not be buried alive with him?"

"Not necessarily. Didn't that voice earlier say that it would record all the innocent lives that the current emperor had killed and settle the accounts after his death? If it were me, I would definitely do more good deeds in the future, but your majesty..."

"It's hard to say, alas..."

"Why should we worry about this? He has been living a life of luxury for over a decade. Even if he is buried alive with the emperor, he still makes money! Ordinary people don't even have the chance to be buried alive. Take that Prince Jiang for example. Besides his fiancée, weren't many palace maids and eunuchs in the newly built palace also buried alive?
If they died of natural causes, there would be no chance for them to be buried in the royal tomb.

Even on the edge of the royal mausoleum.

Moreover, their relatives also received many benefits. Even the lowest-ranking palace maids and eunuchs could get one hundred taels of silver. After the palace maids of higher status were buried alive, their brothers or younger brothers got the position of a centurion.

That's a sixth rank, what a joke, a direct promotion to heaven, and it's a hereditary position."

"It's so unfair. I studied so hard for more than ten years, and finally became the top scholar. But at best, I can only be a sixth-rank Hanlin.

It's normal to be a seventh-rank official if you are unlucky.

Just because a sister dies, he becomes a sixth-rank official?"

"How can they accept the position of a hundred households with a clear conscience? Confucius said, 'He who first made burial mounds of clay will have no descendants!'"

"So what if they can't accept it? Are they going to yell at His Majesty to return their daughter's life? Or their sisters' lives? Do they think the head on their neck is too heavy? Or do they think the nine clans are too many?"

"Aren't all officials taught by the sages? Why isn't anyone trying to stop it? Even the sages couldn't stand the practice of burying human figurines with the dead, yet Your Majesty continues to bury living people in place of the princes. If this becomes a common practice, and even spreads from top to bottom, how many innocent people will die?"

“How many people dare to speak out?”

"The grass on the graves of the entire family of the censor who impeached Prince Lu is now over three feet tall, and no one is cleaning it."

"Hey, don't be so depressed. Isn't there a change now? The unknown being who attacked King Lu probably can't stand watching these things."

"I don't know if it's truly sacred or truly evil."

"How can someone who acts on behalf of Heaven be considered evil?"

"The winner is a god, the loser is a demon. If Zhang Jiao had succeeded, he would have been Huang Tian, but if he failed, he would have been just a demon!"

……

The private discussions of the people of the capital eventually alerted more people. The officials and nobles who had participated in the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony at the Temple of Heaven, including Emperor Tianwu, only gradually realized more than an hour after the ceremony ended that the events that had taken place were known not only to those who had participated in the ceremony, but to the entire capital. It was just that the others had not witnessed how the Prince of Lu was torn to pieces and his soul was shattered.

Then Emperor Tianwu's mentality collapsed even more.

He never expected that what he thought was controllable was actually completely uncontrollable from the very beginning.

How to cover up something that the whole capital knows?

Could it be that we have to guard against the people's mouths more than we have to guard against the river?

Furious, he quickly drew his sword and went to settle accounts with those useless monks and Taoist priests. After all, he hadn't even seen the murderer yet, and he only suspected that the other party might be a woman. He knew nothing else, so Emperor Tianwu could only blame those monks and Taoist priests for their incompetence.

(End of this chapter)