After Chang Sun Chong captured these people, he didn't say much nonsense. Regardless of whether you are willing to confess or not, based on your identities, everyone knows what is going on. They stuffed their mouths with things along the way, and two soldiers guarded each person because they were afraid that something might happen among them.
For Chang Sun Chong, the only thing he wanted now was to capture them and transport them back as soon as possible. Only by capturing these people and transporting them back could he consider that he had completed his task. If something happened in the middle, he would be in big trouble. You must know that these people were the ones who directly handled the matter. If he captured them, he could start capturing other people even if King Song was not around.
What Li Xiang said was very reasonable. The common people just wanted a result. It didn't matter whether the result was someone from one of the Five Surnames and Seven Families or a prince from the Tang Dynasty royal family. There had to be a person of weight. If there wasn't a person of weight, even if they just picked a few small shrimps, I believe these people wouldn't believe it.
So after being pulled back to the Imperial City Office, Chang Sun Chong found those people who were good at interrogation. Today you can give full play to your abilities. As long as you don't kill these people, you can use whatever abilities you have. As long as you can make these people confess, your mission will be accomplished.
That night, many people in the Imperial City Office were working overtime, and screams that made people's hair stand on end were heard from inside. No one knew what these people had experienced. In short, the next morning, the Imperial City Office cooperated with the people of the Left Guard to start arresting people in large numbers around Chang'an City and Luoyang.
There is nothing more to say now. These people's mouths have been pried open, especially those businessmen. At the beginning, they did not believe that the Five Surnames and Seven Families would kill them, so they pretended to eat poison. In fact, they had already reached an agreement with Changsun Chong.
Li Xiang didn't think about doing anything with these small characters. He just used them to do things. In the future, he would send them abroad to find a place to live, and that would be the end of the matter. The most important thing was the main personnel, especially some core personnel within the Five Surnames and Seven Families.
These people originally lived like aristocrats. It is almost impossible to ask them to give up their dreams. For these people, they must realize their dreams and restore their former glory. If you interfere with them, you will become their enemy and stand on the opposite side of them. These people will never make any form of compromise.
To put it bluntly, these people are stubborn elements. It is useless to say anything to them. They have their own obsessions in their hearts. If you want them to listen to you, you might as well believe that tomorrow's sun will rise from the west. So after arresting these people, Li Xiang didn't even interrogate them.
I have all kinds of evidence here, and I just need to get these people to sign and seal it. Although they keep saying that this is a wrongful case, in the face of all the evidence, the common people and other officials have their own ability to distinguish. What's more, now the Five Surnames and Seven Families are not the same as before. They don't have that much power in their hands, and whatever the court says is what you have to do.
Of course you can also raise an objection, but when you want to raise an objection, you must also produce evidence. The court has taken such a large-scale action that even the old farmers in the countryside know what is going on. Who would want to be associated with you traitors? The court has already labeled you. Now those friends from the five surnames and seven families don’t even have time to hide. If they bite the bullet and run around for you, what if the court holds a grudge against us, then our days will be over. Will the whole family die?
If we were to owe you a great debt of gratitude, then we could still do something. But the question is, what debt of gratitude have you given us? Even when we were working together, you constantly oppressed us and didn't give us any way out.
Now that all of you are in jail, we don't need to worry about this matter anymore. If you force us to take care of this matter, we will be talkative and may say something that will make you even more uncomfortable. So in this case, let's not interfere with each other. You will die peacefully in the mouths of the court, and we will bury some of the things that happened in the past.
Obviously, Li Xiang did not start to pursue other people, but stopped at the Five Surnames and Seven Families. Li Xiang did not intend to pursue them, including some people within the royal family, because if he really pursued them, it would be very likely that he would be unable to control it. Once he could not control it, there would be bloodshed in Chang'an.
When they started planning this matter, both Li Xiang and Li Shimin believed that this matter should be investigated further. We are not easy to mess with, and we should dig out all the people involved and let them know how big a mistake they have made. Only in this way can they understand that they will not do such things again in the future, which can also serve as a warning to others.
But then again, in this situation, just as Li Xiang said, if so many people were captured and thrown into the prison, the entire prison would probably be squeezed to pieces. Moreover, there were many people around those people, and in the end, it was very likely that tens of thousands of people would be killed.
In this situation, the people's thoughts are also very important. The imperial court directly killed tens of thousands of people, which is not a good thing for anyone, so Li Xiang stepped on the brakes in time. Only more than 2,000 people were caught in the sky prison. As for the rest of the people outside, Li Xiang would certainly not let them go directly, but just find someone to talk to them.
The matter to be discussed is very simple. You are to give up all your property in the Tang Dynasty and take your people to the Western Regions. This is considered to be a leniency to you. Moreover, you can enjoy the treatment of the common people of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, that is, you will be given the land you deserve and the houses you deserve.
If you agree, you can go directly when the army is replaced next month. Of course, you have to move out of your home tonight and live in the military camp outside the city. This is considered to be a great consideration for you.
If some people are unwilling, then we have nothing to say. There is still room in the prison.
