Chapter 359 Slave Strike
In less than a day, the people in the capital knew what happened at the birthday party, and their first reaction was absurdity!
Everyone was talking about this matter, and the original singing and dancing ceremonial war stopped, and the trumpet and drum beaters stopped.
When everyone went back, they took off their gorgeous clothes, respected the emperor's orders, and the whole city was covered with mourning.
When the white lanterns were hung one by one, the city was forbidden for three days and the streets became depressed.
Xie Linlang was in the palace and heard people hurriedly entering the palace from time to time, and then hurriedly leaving the palace.
However, she couldn't see anything through a wall. She was not free in the inner courtyard of the palace, especially the palace was still under martial law now, and there were many experts patrolling in the dark. Anyone who wanted to sneak out of the palace was arrested without exception.
Qin Jue was studying the poison scripture at this time. No matter what the situation in Zeguo was, no one could become the emperor.
Even if he is so crazy that he wants to kill him, he has the ability to protect himself, and the person who comes to pick him up is almost here.
At this time, Xie Linlang was replicating the game of chess played with Chang Qiyin before.
After the reproduction, she asked Qin Jue while going down.
"Which country's envoy was the person who proposed to fight at the banquet in the morning?"
Qin Jue thought for a while and said, "It's the State of Zhou."
The position of Zhou State was probably between Ze State and Tianyuan State. It was a coastal country. It had fought with Ze State before, so it was probably a resentment towards Chang Qi Yu.
Xie Linlang sighed, "There are still too few people who can use it. I have not found Chang Qiyin's helper yet. After all, he has no power and no power, and it is impossible for him to force foreign envoys."
Xie Linlang felt inexplicably alert to that potential enemy, perhaps because of the other party's methods, or perhaps because of the somewhat abnormal big guy I had seen before.
Qin Jue comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Linlang, when he leaves, I will ask Bai Heng to follow him, and contact Zhou Guo's secret stakes and check him carefully."
Xie Linlang immediately smiled when he heard this.
"You know what I want!"
But after laughing, she sighed again, "I heard from the distance that the lord of Zeguo was urging the emperor to buy and sell slaves. It's like this. Is there such a thought? Can't they notice the undercurrents in the capital?"
When Qin Jue heard this, he answered to her, "When I was a child, there were many people who died in the drought in Shilong, but some people still strongly expressed that the renovation of Shilong Palace could not be stopped, and the progress should be accelerated and corvee labor should be requisitioned."
"It is obvious that even princes and ministers are just living in a small world. They only see what they want to see and only care about what they want to get. They are hungry for thousands of miles due to drought and starvation. So what if they know, they are not hungry.
I think the lords of Zeguo think so too. There are slave riots every year in Zeguo, so what? They are not the ones who die in the riots."
Xie Linlang was convinced, but in fact she also understood this idea. As a bystander, she felt that they were ignorant, but in it, they might feel that they were doing something more meaningful.
It was completely dark at this time. After nightfall, some change seemed to have occurred on the quiet streets of the capital...
The next day, the emperor was woken up by the palace servants. The reason was very simple, because the slaves in the entire capital were on strike! No matter how the slave owner whipped it, he just didn't move.
Asked about the reason, they actually said that Chang Qi Yu was wronged. Unless the emperor let Chang Qi Yu go, they would strike to the end!
Then ask them why they asked for the appointment of Chang Qi Yu.
It turns out that so far, only the prince Chang Qi Yu has been in charge of the life and death of the slaves, and only he has worked hard to modify the slave law. Therefore, the slaves believe that only Chang Qi Yu becomes the emperor can they have a good life!
Now they poked the hornet's nest! Before the emperor died, they had decided who to be the emperor?
The emperor, who was already suspicious of Chang Qi Yu, immediately got up from the bed, was disheveled, and rushed into the dungeon and scolded Chang Qi Yu!
"Rebellious son! Are you going to rebel?!"
Chang Qi Yu, who had not been asleep all night, was a little confused when he heard this.
"Father, what happened?"
"You still have the face to ask what happened!"
The emperor did not dare to go in, but dared to teach through the iron fence.
"The slaves in the capital went on a collective strike, saying that you were wronged and forced me to let you go! Are you wronged? If so, do you need to be so anxious to use slaves to force me to let me release you?!"
Chang Qiyu gradually understood, his expression was a bit complicated.
"You said that the slaves forced you to let your son-in-law go with a strike?"
This is simply a big deal! Who doesn’t know that the slaves hate the most is Chang Qi Yu?
At this time, people came to report one after another.
"Report—Your Majesty, Lord Dongchen asks for your meeting!"
"Report - Your Majesty! The slave owner in the city started to make trouble and asked Your Majesty to let the third prince go!"
The continuous reports made the emperor's head hurt more and more. He stared at Chang Qi Yu and said angrily.
"You know the truth, let the slaves stop immediately! Otherwise, I will send soldiers to slaughter them! Whoever dares to make trouble will die!"
After he finished speaking, he left like a gust of wind.
The sky gradually became brighter, and the whole city was filled with screams and howlings. Because the slaves refused to move, the slave owner naturally would not let them go, so he beat them desperately.
The slaves who were originally very obedient this time, somehow, would rather die than take action, and would also say when the emperor would let Qi Yu come out and when would they work!
When the slave owner heard that there was a reason for the incident, he could not have done anything to the death, so he asked the emperor to let Chang Qi Yu go.
After all, in their opinion, Chang Qi Yu could not kill Chang Qi Ye on the spot, and their sense of Chang Qi Yu was pretty good. As long as he could make the slaves obedient, it would be no harm to them if they were released.
But they couldn't help but mutter in their hearts, when did Chang Qi Yu actually have such a high prestige among slaves? Didn't he be assassinated by slaves in the past?
When an absurd threat reached Xie Linlang's ears, he knew that Chang Qiyin was going to take action.
Unfortunately, the emperor and others could clearly feel the incongruity, but for various reasons, they stubbornly doubted Chang Qi Yu.
They had a lucky mentality, thinking that slaves would be obedient as long as they were beaten.
As a result, hundreds of slaves were killed in one morning, but the rest remained still.
This made the entire capital panic in an instant.
No one deals with the sewage, no one carries out the fibers and carries at the wharf, no one carries rice, grain and vegetables, and no one rushes to feed horse paste and wash clothes.
Because slave labor is extremely cheap, many people in the capital don't want to do everything they don't want to do. What's wrong with them now? The entire capital suddenly became chaotic and dirty.
Chapter completed!