Chapter 137 Demon Fruit

Capital, Imperial Palace, Longxing 131.

"Meet the wise, wise, civilized and martial arts, whose virtue is passed down to the common people, whose longevity is boundless, and who is the supreme emperor Longxing!"

"Enjoy immortal blessings forever, and live as long as heaven!"

Emperor Longxingsheng sat on a golden dragon chair.

After the ministers in the main hall saluted, the sound of mountain shouts echoed between the beams and pillars of the main hall, lasting for a long time.

"Your Majesty, the world is filled with great blessings. The rebellion of the unruly people in Qingzhou has come to an end, and the world is at peace!"

Nearly a year has passed since Qingzhou suppressed the rebellion, but there are still many aftermaths that are far from over.

In particular, those unruly people who took the lead in the rebellion have not yet been fully punished.

It had just been pacified before, but for fear of provoking another civil uprising, we focused on appeasing the rebels and letting them go home to farm in peace.

It has been a year since peace broke out, and most people are stable.

Now it's time to settle the scores and find out those unruly people one by one and kill them.

"There are still a group of meritorious ministers who have not yet been rewarded for their merits. Please take a look at them."

An old minister handed over a booklet, which was filled with densely packed names, at least several hundred people.

Some of these people have collected food for the front line, some have gone into battle to kill rebels, and some have set fire to rebel houses...

Anyway, it’s all credit.

At this moment, an official with white beard and white hair stood up. He turned out to be Jicang's master and glared at the old minister.

"It's almost enough, and batch after batch they jump out to receive the credit and reward."

"Don't you know the root cause of the Qingzhou rebellion? How dare you shamelessly accept the credit here."

He had been to Qingzhou with Ji Cang, and almost died there. He knew the situation in Qingzhou very clearly, it was a complete hell on earth.

It was okay for these officials to shamelessly ask for credit once or twice. He tolerated it and asked several times over and over again.

It seems that they have all made great achievements and want to take advantage of this rebellion to ascend to heaven.

"Chen Hongye, what do you mean?"

The old minister was very angry when he was criticized in public and asked immediately.

"Then tell me why those unruly people rebelled?"

When Chen Hongye was asked the question, he was stunned for a moment, then took a step forward and scratched his neck.

"Just say it!"

“Although Qingzhou experienced drought before, it was still 30% natural disasters and 70% man-made disasters.

The people have long been squeezed by these officials, who have repeatedly searched for money and water, and are extremely poor.

Local officials and wealthy households also took the opportunity to hoard food and drive up food prices.

Even the disaster relief grains allocated by the court did not fall into the hands of the people, but were sold on the black market at high prices.

The people of Qingzhou lost their livelihood and were reduced to eating bark, grass roots, Guanyin soil, and even Yizi cannibalism...

The people of Qingzhou initially rebelled just to seek a way out. "

"The Qingzhou rebellion is completely a natural disaster and a man-made disaster. The government forces the people to rebel, and the people have no choice but to rebel!"

Chen Hongye had already been filled with anger after witnessing the tragic situation in Qingzhou.

However, the situation in the officialdom is monolithic, and we cannot talk nonsense, so we have endured it for more than a year.

I said it all in one breath today. I breathed a long sigh of relief. My thoughts were clear and I felt much more at ease.

"Chen Hongye, your butt is crooked!"

However, just as he finished speaking, a cold voice came from behind.

"As an important minister of the DPRK, he actually sided with the unruly people and exonerated the rebels."

"According to what you say, the rebellion of the unruly people is justified!"

"Where do your current food, supplies, and all your expenses come from?"

"Once such remarks are spread, they will only encourage evil spirits!"

What Chen Hongye said just now was indeed heartening, but there are some things that everyone knows in their hearts, but they must not be said openly.

Everyone from the Great Zhou Dynasty, from Emperor Longxing Sheng to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and officials from all over the country, knew what was going on.

But it must be the fault of the unruly people, who failed to abide by their duties.

Now that he has said this, it is equivalent to tearing off the fig leaf. The main responsibility for the Qingzhou rebellion is no longer the unruly people, but the local officials.

Who can tolerate him if he breaks the official rules of Zhou Dynasty?

As a result, he stood on the opposite side of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty questioned Chen Hongye.

"Your Majesty, in order to curb the evil spirit, I recommend that Chen Hongye be dismissed from his post and imprisoned."

"Chen Hongye should be beheaded!"

At the request of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Emperor Longxingsheng, who was sitting on the dragon throne, finally agreed.

At that time, several golden-armored guards came in, took off Chen Hongye's official uniform, and escorted him to the court.

After dealing with the strange people in the court, everyone continued to discuss matters.

A large number of officials who made meritorious service in countering the rebellion were also rewarded.

Then there is the treatment of the unruly people in Qingzhou.

If previous practices were followed, all those who participated in the rebellion would have their homes confiscated and their clans exterminated.

But this time the scale was so great that almost the entire Qingzhou people participated in the rebellion.

If the killing continues like this, all the people in Qingzhou will be killed.

It's definitely not possible to kill them all, as there will be no one left to work on the land.

But we must also deter those unruly people.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty discussed for a long time and finally decided on a compromise.

Only the leader should be killed, but a group of people must be killed in each county to serve as a warning to others.

Soon, Emperor Longxingsheng issued an imperial edict, ordering all regions to track down the unruly people who participated in the rebellion. Each county must kill a group of people.

The imperial edict reached Anchang County. Magistrate Ding, who always loved the people like his own son, felt very sad when he saw the edict.

As the parent official of a county, the people in the county are all his darlings, how could he be willing to kill him...

On Shekou Mountain, Er Gouzi, who was devoted to farming, naturally didn’t know what was happening in the court.

The demon-transforming fruit tree that he transplanted into the gourd last time, after so long, has finally matured.

The fruit of the white fruit tree is red when it matures.

There are only five fruits in total, but he has eight geese.

It seems difficult to divide them.

After thinking for a while, he fed one to the goose king first.

This goose has been in prison with him, so it is always a little biased.

After the goose king ate one, there were still 4 left, which was easy to divide.

8 geese, each goose got half a fruit, which was quite fair.

After these geese ate the demon-transforming fruit, their breath didn’t rise much, but the whole mountain suddenly became lively.

In broad daylight, the male and female geese were pulling each other.

In the next few days, these geese began to lay eggs.

Finally, the geese were seen laying eggs again. Er Gouzi hurriedly improved the food for the geese and prepared a large number of Pei Yuan Gu Ben pills for the geese.

The geese had replenished their spiritual energy and had been laying eggs almost all these days.

"Yushan, didn't you say last time that the demon fruit could enhance the strength of the demon beasts? How come it has become an aphrodisiac?"

Yushan blinked his big eyes and blushed for a rare moment.

"Ordinary mutant beasts can really mutate into demon beasts after eating the demon fruit."

"For demon beasts, aphrodisiac is also a way to enhance their strength and reproduce more offspring."

"Master, whoever dares to stop the rutting geese will definitely be beaten to the ground by the geese."

After Yushan's quibbling, Er Gouzi thought about it and felt that it made sense.

The fighting power of the rutting geese has at least doubled several times.

"Yushan, is this demon fruit useful to humans?"

Er Gouzi's mind suddenly lit up and he thought of some ideas.

"Use it on humans?"

Yushan hesitated and shook his head again.

"I don't know. We use it for animals. We have to try it to know."

Then, Yushan saw Ergouzi looking at him and felt a sense of danger.

"Master, I am your most loyal servant, but I am not a human being. It's useless to try."

"Besides, there are only snakes and geese on this mountain..."

Yushan even thought of the terrible scene after he accidentally ate the demon fruit, and he shuddered at the thought.