Chapter 166: Is trash like this worth my support? [Bonus update, please subscribe to all chapters]
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The next day, distant morning bells rang through the Forbidden City. As a secret order left the West Depot, the Imperial Guard and Embroidered Uniform Guard patrolling the streets receded like a tide, and the lockdown of the Capital began to lift.
The terrified commoners immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Every lockdown of the Capital cost many lives. Thus, although they had no idea what had happened when the city was sealed last night, many had been too frightened to sleep. They had spent the entire night in dread, afraid the Imperial Guard or Embroidered Uniform Guard would come knocking and make them targets of the purge.
The lockdown being lifted so quickly this time came as a surprise to many.
Still, no one dared discuss it. Everyone went about their business, giving anyone from the Imperial Court a wide berth.
This had already become customary in the Capital.
The commoners had simply been frightened too badly.
After the Prince of Fu's Heir failed in his rebellion, tens of thousands had lost their heads. Over ten thousand of them had been brought back to the Capital for public beheading, and the stench of blood had permeated almost the entire city.
Countless witnesses still remembered that horrifying sight vividly, suffering nightmares in their sleep.
Since then, public order in the Capital had become remarkably good. Even the petty thefts so common before had vanished, truly reaching the point where people could leave their doors unbarred at night.
The commoners' awe of the Imperial Court had risen to new heights. The West Depot Eunuch who had ordered the killings was regarded by countless people as an asura reborn—the Ming God of Slaughter!
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