On this day, Luoyi did not run red with blood, but the cries shook the heavens!
For half an hour, an entire street in Luoyi's inner city, ordinarily home to high officials and noble dignitaries, rang with heartrending wails.
The screams of old men, women, and children alike carried an unbearable sense of misery beyond all human endurance.
Yet no matter how miserably they wept, the Imperial Guards and Heavenly Patrol Division agents seizing people and confiscating their homes showed not the slightest softness.
On the contrary, anyone who offered even the slightest resistance was beheaded with a single stroke!
Those who resisted were to be killed without exception!
Meanwhile, in Qiankun Hall, dozens upon dozens of decrees appointing and dismissing officials were issued. Every Imperial Decree listed a great many names and positions.
Nearly a third of the noble officials had been purged by Founding Ancestor Ji Bang, so new officials naturally had to be brought in to fill their places.
Ordinarily, even if the prime minister and the current officials at every level made recommendations, this would have been an incomparably arduous task.
After all, most of the arrested officials had held critical positions of great authority.
Then again, if they had not occupied important posts, would those rebel kings carving up the realm have gone to such lengths to contact them?
Even with Great Zhou's deep reserves, filling the right positions with the right officials in such a short time would normally have been extremely difficult.
Yet Founding Ancestor Ji Bang had scarcely sought the opinions of any ministers before making one decisive appointment after another by imperial fiat.
Many of the newly appointed officials were names the surviving officials in Qiankun Hall had never even heard before.
Only after racking their brains for a long while