In less than a day, the people in the capital knew what happened at the birthday banquet, and their first reaction was absurd!
Everyone was talking about this, and the original singing and dancing ceremony stopped, and the trumpets and drums stopped beating.
Everyone went back and took off their gorgeous clothes, respected the emperor's order, and the whole city was dressed in veil.
When the white lanterns were hung up one by one, the city was banned for three days at night, and the streets became depressed.
Xie Linlang was in the palace, and from time to time, he heard someone hurried into the palace, and then hurried out of the palace.
But across a wall, she couldn't see anything. She was not free in the inner courtyard of the palace, especially since the palace is still under martial law. There are many experts patrolling in the dark. Anyone who wants to sneak out of the palace, no one Exceptions were caught.
Qin Jue was studying the poisonous classic at this time. No matter what the situation in Zeguo was, whoever became the emperor could not be executed.
Even if he is so crazy that he wants to kill him, he still has the ability to protect himself, and the people who come to meet him are coming soon.
At this time, Xie Linlang was re-engraving the previous chess game with Chang Qiyin.
After re-engraving, she went down and asked Qin Jue.
"Which country's envoy is the person who proposed to fight at the banquet this morning?"
Qin Jue thought for a while and said, "It's Zhou."
The position of Zhou State is probably between Ze State and Tianyuan State. It is a coastal country. It has fought with Ze State before, and it is estimated that there is an old grudge against Chang Qiyu.
Xie Linlang sighed, "There are still too few people who can use it. I have yet to find Chang Qiyin's helper. After all, he has no power or power, and it is impossible to instruct foreign envoys."
Xie Linlang was inexplicably alert to that potential enemy, perhaps because of the opponent's methods, or because of the unusually large man he had seen before.
Qin Jue reassured her, "Linlang, don't worry, when he leaves, I will let Bai Heng follow him, and contact Zhou Guo's dark pile to check him."
Xie Linlang suddenly smiled when she heard the words.
"You still know what I mean!"
But after laughing, she sighed again, "I heard from a distance that the lord of Zeguo was urging the emperor to buy and sell slaves. It's all like this. And this thought, can't they notice the turmoil in the capital?"
Qin Jue heard the words, but gave her an answer, "When I was a child, there was a drought in Sulong, and many people died, but some people still strongly expressed that the repair of Sulong Palace could not be stopped, and it was necessary to speed up the progress and recruit corvée."
"Obviously, even princes and ministers, many just live in a small world, they only see what they want to see, they only care about what they want to get, the drought is starving for thousands of miles, even if they know it, they are not hungry. abdomen.
I think the lords who came to Zeguo thought the same thing. There are slave riots in Zeguo every year, so what? They were not the ones who died in the riot. "
Xie Linlang was convinced. In fact, she also understood this idea. As a bystander, she felt that they were ignorant, but when they were in it, they might feel that they were doing something more meaningful.
At this time, it was already completely dark, and after nightfall, there seemed to be some kind of change on the quiet streets of the capital...
The next day before dawn, 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 whips, he doesn't move.
When asked why, they actually said that Chang Qiyu was wronged. Unless the emperor let him go, they would strike to the end!
Then ask them why they asked for Chang Qiyu's life.
It turns out that so far, only the prince Chang Qiyu has managed the life and death of slaves, and only he has taken great pains to revise the slave law, so the slaves think that only when Chang Qiyu becomes the emperor, they will have a good life!
This is the time to poke a hornet's nest! Before the emperor died, they had decided who they wanted to be the emperor
The emperor, who was already suspicious of Chang Qiyu, immediately got up from the bed, and rushed into the dungeon with his clothes disheveled, and scolded Chang Qiyu!
"Nizi! Are you going to rebel?!"
Chang Qiyu, who had not slept all night, heard the words and was a little unclear.
"Father, what happened?"
"You still have the face to ask what happened!"
The emperor did not dare to go in, only dared to teach through the iron fence.
"The slaves in the entire capital went on strike collectively, saying that you were wronged, and they forced the widow to let you go! Are you wronged? If so, why do you need to use slaves to force the widow to let you go in such a hurry?!"
Chang Qiyu gradually understood, and his expression was a little complicated.
"You said that the slaves used strikes to force you to let go of your servants?"
This is simply a joke of the world! Who doesn't know that what slaves hate most is Chang Qiyu
At this time, people came to report one after another.
"Report - Your Majesty, Lord Dongchen asks to see you!"
"Report - Your Majesty! The slave owners in the city are making a fuss, and I ask Your Majesty to let the Third Highness go!"
The continuous sound of reports made the emperor's head hurt more and more. He stared at Chang Qiyu and said angrily.
"Those who know each other, stop those slaves immediately! Otherwise, the widows will send troops to wash them! Anyone who dares to make trouble will die!"
After he finished speaking, he walked away like a gust of wind.
The sky gradually brightened, and the whole city was full of screams and howls. Because the slaves refused to move, the slave owners would naturally not let them go, so they beat them desperately.
The originally obedient slaves, for some reason this time, would rather die than do it, and say when the emperor will let Qi Yu come out, and when will they work!
As soon as the slave owner heard that there was a reason for the incident, and it was impossible to kill him, he joined forces to ask the emperor to let Chang Qiyu go.
After all, in their opinion, it is impossible for Chang Qiyu to kill Chang Qiye on the spot, and they have a good sense of Chang Qiyu, as long as he can make the slaves obedient, it will not hurt them to let it out.
It's just that they couldn't help but mutter in their hearts, when did Chang Qiyu have such a high prestige among slaves? Wasn't he often assassinated by slaves before
When an absurd threat reached Xie Linlang's ears, she knew that Chang Qiyin was about to start.
It's a pity that the emperor and others can clearly feel the incongruity, but for various reasons, they stubbornly suspect Chang Qiyu.
They still had a fluke mentality, thinking that as long as the slaves were beaten, they would be obedient.
As a result, hundreds of slaves were killed in the morning, and the rest remained motionless.
This caused the entire capital to fall into panic in an instant.
There is no one to deal with the sewage, no one to pull fiber and move goods at the dock, no one to transport rice, grain and vegetables, and no one to drive carts to feed horse pulp to wash clothes.
Because slave labor is extremely cheap, many of the things people in the capital are unwilling to do are handed over to slaves. The entire capital suddenly became smoky and messy.
At this time, the common people realized the importance of slaves to them, and begged the emperor to let Qi Yu go out.