Your Majesty, please beg for mercy. The prince's rebellion was successful.

Zhou Zheng asked softly, which instantly made the originally lively atmosphere a lot more depressing.

The smile on Xun'er's face also came to an abrupt end.

"The Su family is gone..."

These four short words suddenly made the mood in the entire hall tense.

Everyone knew the meaning of this. Although they had been prepared, they still felt an unprecedented indignation when they heard the news!

At the beginning, Emperor Tianjing took advantage of Zhou Zheng's absence from Kyoto to ascend the throne again and reshuffled the entire court.

Everyone knows that this kind of purge will not be limited to the court, but will definitely spread to the entire Kyoto.

In the court, Gong Tan, Mu Yun, Sima Cheng and others are the core, and outside the court, it is the Su family!

The Su family, one of the five major families in the Great Zhou, holds the economic lifeline of the Great Zhou and is wealthy enough to rival a country.

It can be said that when Zhou Zheng just ascended the throne, the national treasury was empty, and everything was in ruins. Coupled with the repeated wars with the Great Xia Kingdom, the already weak court was already on the verge of collapse.

If the Su family had not helped in secret, if the Su family had not disregarded all their efforts and even took out all their money, Zhou Zheng would not have been able to hold on for too long.

In order to better help Zhou Zheng, Su Xun'er had already entered the Su family as a woman.

Over the years, under the leadership of Su Xun'er, the Su family has long become a truly first-class family and even Zhou Zheng's money bag.

But the more this happens, the more dangerous the Su family will be after Emperor Tianjing ascends the throne.

If it weren't for the spy that Yunxi left in Kyoto reporting that the Su family still existed, Zhou Zheng would have long ago taken action to look for Su Xun'er.

But what I didn’t expect was that when they met again, the first words Su Xun’er said were, “The Su family is gone!”

Rumble!

This news was undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue, making everyone's heads buzz.

No one knew what Su Xun'er's words "the Su family is gone" really meant, but a sense of foreboding quietly spread in everyone's hearts.

You must know that Emperor Tianjing will never allow the Su family to continue working for Zhou Zheng.

And Su Xun'er would never betray Zhou Zheng.

Therefore, the final result will definitely be that the imperial court will wipe out the Su family, even though the Su family is one of the five major families.

When they thought of this, everyone started to panic.

Given Emperor Tianjing's temperament, it is possible that he would wipe out the entire Su family.

Whoohoo!

Everyone was breathing rapidly, but Zhou Zheng didn't say anything. He just stared at Su Xun'er quietly. He knew that Su Xun'er had not finished speaking.

"The court continued to put pressure on the Su family, but in the end the Su family still couldn't withstand the pressure."

As Su Xun'er slowly explained, everything about the Su family finally emerged before everyone's eyes.

It turns out that Emperor Tianjing never gave the Su family any chance from the beginning.

He did not directly wipe out the Su family like he did with Mu Yun, Gong Tan and others, but began to ask the Su family for money and resources with various reasons and excuses.

After all, the court was short of money, and no matter how capable Emperor Tianjing was, it would be impossible to keep the court running.

Almost all of the Su family’s wealth was taken away by Emperor Tianjing.

And this is not the most important thing. The imperial court began to place people in the Su family, obviously preparing to take away all of the Su family's assets.

Unfortunately, the Su family was powerless to resist this approach.

After all, money is useless in the face of power.

Su Xun'er thought about rebelling and breaking away from the court completely, but unfortunately the elders of the Su family disagreed.

They held the idea that if they took a step back, they would have a broader horizon. They thought that as long as the Su family showed enough obedience, they would be able to keep their kingdom and foundation. But now it seems ridiculous.

Although Su Xun'er became the person in charge of the Su family, she was ultimately no match for the elders in the family.

They could only watch helplessly as the Su family was devoured step by step by the imperial court.

She tried to make the elders of the Su family realize that the Su family and the current court could not coexist. Unfortunately, at that time, everyone in the Su family, from top to bottom, had only one thought, which was to preserve the Su family.

As long as the Su family is still there, they think all other losses are not worth mentioning.

They also believed that the Su family was one of the five great families after all, and the current imperial court would not be able to kill the Su family.

After all, the Su family was once watched by Emperor Tianjing as it grew step by step.

The elders of the Su family even tried to hand Su Xun'er over to the court for disposal in exchange for the existence and development of the Su family.

Unfortunately, before the Su family handed Su Xun'er over to the court, something unexpected happened!

The five great ancient families took action and provided strong support to the imperial court.

This wiped out the last bit of mercy that Emperor Tianjing had for the Su family.

The imperial court began to investigate the Su family and directly took action against their assets.

At that time, Su Xun'er was still hoping that the elders of the Su family would wake up, but unfortunately those elders were stubborn and refused to change.

They even thought that as long as the Su family showed enough obedience, the imperial court would not kill all of them.

But it turned out that they were wrong again.

What kind of personality does Emperor Tianjing have? !

That's revenge, there will be no mercy!

The harder the Su family had helped Zhou Zheng, the more revenge Emperor Tianjing would have taken.

The imperial court did not wipe out the Su family at once, but killed them off slowly.

From the Su family's peripheral business to the Su family's core assets.

From a relative of the Su family's illegitimate clan to a direct relative of the Su family's clan.

It was not until this time that the elders of the Su family came to their senses.

It’s a pity that at this time, the Su family has long been of no use to the imperial court, and has no trump cards that the imperial court is wary of.

The mass killing began without any concealment.

The imperial court wants to use the blood of the Su family to tell the world that anyone who stands by Zhou Zheng, no matter what his identity or background, will be killed by the imperial court!

The elders of the Su family resisted at that time, but they were powerless.

They could only watch helplessly as the Su family’s hundreds of years of foundation collapsed like a building, with a roar filling the world.

The collapse of the behemoth was a huge event for the entire Kyoto.

Countless families watched and waited, but unfortunately, no one dared to take action.

"How are the others?"

Yun Yun looked at Su Xun'er with some distress. She naturally knew the feeling of helplessness and despair, especially when seeing her own people being killed, the mental breakdown was something that others could not understand unless they experienced it themselves.

"Most of the Su family's disciples were killed."

"There are still some old people and young people who are imprisoned by the court."

"Perhaps after the war is over, the imperial court will also take action."

Su Xun'er bit her red lips lightly, her eyes were moist, and her fists had already been clenched in anger.

The huge force made her nails dig deeply into the flesh, and blood flowed everywhere.

But Su Xun'er seemed not to notice and just kept clenching her fists.

She hated herself for being so incompetent that the entire Su family collapsed in front of her.

She once promised her father that she would make the Su family thrive, but now it seems that she has not done it at all.

Everything is ultimately due to my own incompetence.

"I'm holding you back again..."

Taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing her emotional fluctuations, Su Xun'er turned around and looked at Zhou Zheng with a guilty look.

She once thought she could become Zhou Zheng's right-hand man.

Even if she couldn't help Zhou Zheng deal with national affairs like Gong Tan did, even if she couldn't provide Zhou Zheng with help from neighboring countries like Yun Yun, at least she could make money so that Zhou Zheng wouldn't have to worry.

But now it seems that what Zhou Zheng was left with is a mess.

The Su family was destroyed, and the elders of the family used all their last means, sacrificing the lives of countless family members, before they were able to barely escape from Kyoto.

She naturally knew the purpose of the family elders doing this.

It's nothing more than placing the last hope on Zhou Zheng.

She was extremely disappointed with these stubborn and even treacherous elders of the tribe, but when she saw these tribe leaders risking their lives to protect her and leave, she knew that she could not be so ruthless and cold-blooded after all.

And now, what I have to do is to find Zhou Zheng and ask him to find a way to protect this group of people who have never really stood by Zhou Zheng.

It sounded so funny that even Su Xun'er herself found it funny.

To some extent, it is even shameless.

She wanted to refuse and even wanted to die outside.

But she still couldn't do it.

It’s not because Su Xun’er is afraid of death, but she knows very well that there are some things that she cannot get rid of by dying.

At least, she couldn't bear to see the entire Su family destroyed.

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