Bringing the farm to another world

Chapter 14705 Hunger Strike

Decai shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, Zhang Yi has disappeared since Prince Rui's rebellion. I think he must have hidden somewhere. With the strength of the Twelve Companies, it is easy to hide him. He may even have changed his appearance and identity. It is extremely difficult to find him."

Zuo Qiuwen snorted coldly when he heard what Decai said, "I will destroy the Twelve Companies sooner or later. We must keep tracking down Zhang Yi, but we have to deal with another family, the Lao family. Now that Prince Rui has been arrested, it is not surprising that we have found the Lao family by following Prince Rui. As for the Twelve Companies, we cannot touch them now, but we must send a message to the stars to prevent the people of the Twelve Companies from jumping off the wall in desperation. However, do not tell the people of the stars about the Twelve Companies. Just ask them to strengthen their vigilance to prevent anyone from returning. Do you understand?"

Decai responded, and Zuoqiu Wen let out a long sigh, then said in a deep voice: "Go, destroy the Lao family first and turn them into ghosts. I want to see what I can get out of their family." Decai responded and went to make arrangements immediately.

And the impact of Zuoqiu Zhi's rebellion this time was still enormous. Zuoqiu Zhi had a high reputation in the empire, especially in the royal family. You must know that the Zuoqiu family was a large family. Although there were only two brothers in Zuoqiu Wen's generation, that was because all their other brothers had died. And now Zuoqiu Zhi died because of the rebellion. The other people in the royal family were a little worried now. After all, some of them were quite close to Zuoqiu Zhi.

They are relatively close to Zuoqiu Zhi, and they also want to get some jobs from Zuoqiu Zhi. Although the Zuoqiu family is a large family, after years of development, some people from the side branches no longer have any special identities. Many of them even live the same life as ordinary people, or even worse than ordinary people. Zuoqiu Zhi used to help those people often, so those people naturally became closer to Zuoqiu Zhi. But now Zuoqiu Zhi is rebelling, and those people certainly will not avenge Zuoqiu Zhi. What they are thinking about is how to prevent Zuoqiu Wen from involving themselves. After all, Zuoqiu Zhi and Zuoqiu Wen are brothers, and if the two brothers fight, it is best for others not to intervene. If they do, the consequences will be disastrous.

In addition to those royal families, Zuoqiu Zhi has also had considerable influence in the military over the years. He controls the capital garrison, which is an elite army, and many officers have left this army. Originally, Zuoqiu Wen wanted to control other armies through this method, but this also helped Zuoqiu Zhi to establish a considerable network of contacts in the army. Now that Zuoqiu Zhi suddenly returned, how would those who had left the garrison think? They would be worried that Zuoqiu Wen would deal with them, so those people were also panicked, but they dared not rebel. Zuoqiu Zhi had already been dealt with, let alone them. If they dared to say that they wanted to rebel, their subordinates would probably arrest them as soon as possible and then send them to Zuoqiu Wen to claim credit. So all of them were in a constant state of panic.

Zuoqiu Wen was actually thinking about this matter. He trusted Zuoqiu Zhi very much at the beginning, so he wanted to use Zuoqiu Zhi to control those troops, but Zuoqiu Zhi was harboring evil intentions. If he dealt with all those people now, the consequences would be very serious. His arrangements for many years would be ruined. In addition, in Zuoqiu Wen's view, those people had no ability to shake his position. Now they must be very scared. If he forgave them at this time, would he be able to gain their loyalty? So in the end, Zuoqiu Wen decided to write to those people and comfort them, so that they would be loyal to him.

As for the major families, although they chose to sit on the sidelines and watch when Zuoqiu Zhi rebelled, Zuoqiu Wen cannot deal with them now. If Zuoqiu Wen wants to deal with them, it will definitely cause turmoil in the empire. At that time, the Twelve Companies may take this opportunity to take action. If that really happens, it will be really over. Therefore, those major families cannot move. Not only can Zuoqiu Wen not move them, but he also has to support them. As for the Twelve Companies, he must keep an eye on them to see what moves they make.

It can be said that Zuoqiu Zhi's rebellion this time involved too many things, and there was no way to calm it down in a short time. Zuoqiu Wen has been very busy these days just to deal with this matter. He knows very well that he must settle the people on each planet and at the same time prevent the army from making any unusual movements, otherwise the situation will be out of control, and this is exactly why he rewarded Xu Kang and his families before. Their strength in the army should not be underestimated. If they are won over, there will be no trouble in the army. As long as the army is not in chaos, the empire will not be in chaos. Even if the Twelve Companies suddenly launch an attack, the empire may experience some price fluctuations in a short time, but there will not be too much change, so that they can control the impact of the matter to a minimum. This is what Zuoqiu Wen has to do now, so he is very busy every day and has a lot of things to deal with.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye. Tian Decai suddenly received a report from a young eunuch. He then walked to Zuo Qiuwen and whispered to him, "Your Majesty, all the people of the Lao family have been executed. Please move."

Zuo Qiuwen immediately understood what Decai meant. The Lao family was just a small family, but at this time, if they wanted to touch their family, they had to be careful, because those big families were also very sensitive and worried that Zuo Qiuwen would settle accounts with them, so they took a few days to execute the Lao family. Zuo Qiuwen immediately asked, "Does anyone suspect anything?"

Decai shook his head and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there is absolutely no such thing. The people in their family have left the capital planet in batches these days, and there are records of everything. Some people even saw people from their family leaving the capital, so no one will suspect anything."

Zuo Qiuwen nodded, and then followed Decai directly to the underground space, where there were many corpses. The Lao family was not a big family, but there were dozens of people in the entire family. Now they had all become corpses, including the elderly and children. Zuo Qiuwen looked at the children, the elderly and the women, and then said in a deep voice: "Let the ghost guards bury all the elderly, children and women." Decai responded and immediately asked the ghost guards to bury those people. Several ghost guards came and took away the corpses of the elderly, women and children. For the remaining corpses, Zuo Qiuwen released the black fog to surround them. After that, Zuo Qiuwen returned to the study again. As soon as he returned to the study, a little eunuch came in, saluted Zuo Qiuwen and said: "Your Majesty, Prince Rui has been on a hunger strike for three days. Please make a decision, Your Majesty."

Although Zuoqiu Wen claimed to the outside world that he had just given Zuoqiu Zhi the white silk, he had not actually killed him and had locked him up secretly. When he heard the eunuch say this, he was stunned, and then he said in a deep voice: "Lead the way." The eunuch responded and led Zuoqiu Wen forward. After a while, they arrived at a secret room behind the palace. This secret room was also underground and was built a long time ago. There were also ghost guards guarding it. Except Zuoqiu Wen and his friends, no one knew that Zuoqiu Zhi was here.

The reason why Zuoqiu Wen did not kill Zuoqiu Zhi was that he actually felt a little reluctant. After all, Zuoqiu Zhi was his brother, and they had such a good relationship. Zuoqiu Wen really could not bring himself to do it, so he kept Zuoqiu Zhi. However, he did not expect that Zuoqiu Zhi would go on a hunger strike now, so he had to meet Zuoqiu Zhi in person.

Zuoqiu Zhi was sitting in a transparent room with a soul-binding ring on his hand, which blocked all his energy. Although his clothes were very clean, he looked very haggard. Now he was sitting on the bed with his eyes closed. There was only a bed and a small bathroom where he was, and everything here was transparent.

Zuoqiu Zhi also heard the footsteps, then he opened his eyes and saw Zuoqiu Wen coming over. When he saw Zuoqiu Wen, a trace of anger flashed across his eyes. He suddenly stood up and looked at Zuoqiu Wen and said, "Zuoqiu Wen, I failed this time. You can kill me if you want. Why do you treat me like this and lock me up here like a monkey? What do you want to do?"

Zuo Qiuwen was stunned, then he couldn't help but sighed and said, "I just don't want to kill you. I really don't mean anything else. We are the only two brothers in this generation. I really don't want to kill you. If I lock you up here, at least you are still alive, right? You know, people outside think you are dead. I really don't mean to torture you."

  What Zuoqiuwen said was true, but Zuoqiuzhi looked at Zuoqiuwen and snorted coldly, then he suddenly laughed again, and then he said: "Zuoqiuwen, Zuoqiuwen, I know now why you can beat me, really, I really understand, you locked me up here, if you really want me to live, then it proves that you can still survive in such an environment, you can endure what I can't endure, in this respect you are better than me, if you don't really want me to live, but want to torture me, but you can say these words here, then it proves that you are more shameless than me, you are still better than me, no matter what you are "My son is better than me, and you are better than me, so it is normal for me to lose to you. But Zuoqiu Wen, I must tell you clearly that I can't live like this. You should just execute me. I really don't want to live like this anymore." Zuoqiu Zhi finished speaking, and looked at Zuoqiu Wen with both eyes fixed. Zuoqiu Wen also looked at him. He really didn't expect that Zuoqiu Zhi actually thought like this, but he thought about it again, and seemed to understand Zuoqiu Zhi again. If he was in Zuoqiu Zhi's position, he was afraid that he would not be able to live. Zuoqiu Zhi was right. He would rather die than live like this. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sighed lightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll fulfill your wish."