The interior of the Imperial City, Chang'an Palace, and the Government Hall.

The more important officials basically arrived one after another half an hour after darkness, and there was a lot of discussion.

"What happened just now?

Why is there no news from the Qintian Prison, and it doesn’t look like a solar eclipse? Mr. Zhang, do you know? Have you ever seen it in a book?"

"I have lived for more than seventy years, and this is really something I have never seen or heard of. I saw the last solar eclipse with my own eyes, and it has nothing in common with this darkening.

A solar eclipse is when the sun gradually becomes dim, and it is a gradual process, and the sun will not disappear completely. In most cases, there is still a small circle of thin light on the outermost periphery of the sun.

The darkness is at most almost the same as night. Those with good eyesight can still see people not far away, but this time it is really different. It is really impossible to see even the five fingers of one's hand.

No light can be seen up, down, left, or right.

It’s really scary!”

"That's true. Isn't it a divine punishment?"

"Let me tell you, the darkness is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that there happened to be a lamp next to me at that time, so I specially lit it, thinking that after lighting the lamp, the surrounding environment would not be so dark.

Already.

But, do you know what happened?

Although the lamp was lit, no light was emitted at all. Only the fingertip-sized candle flame was on. The area outside the candle flame that should have been illuminated by the fire was still dark.

I don't know how to describe that feeling.

It really felt like seeing a ghost.

It was as if there was a candle the size of a fingernail in the darkness. That candle couldn't illuminate the surroundings, nor could it illuminate the candles below. It seemed to be independent from thin air.

There is no support for up, down, left, and right.

How evil!"

"I was relatively far away at the time and was about to go to a village at home, so I could clearly see a large area in front of me, which was plunged into absolute darkness.

But outside of that darkness everything remained the same.

The sun is still the same sun.

Light also shines on us normally.

So I think that this matter is probably not a natural disaster, but may have something to do with strange forces and chaos.

It’s so evil, it looks creepy!”

The ministers present had just been discussing for a while when Emperor Yu Qian came in a hurry, and directly said that he would be free of courtesy, and then looked at the ministers with a serious expression and said:

"Everyone should have seen what happened today.

The area covered by darkness is not large. According to the information I have learned so far, the dark area is almost a circle, and the center is at the execution ground.

And this time, those who should have been questioned and executed in public.

Most of them have fled now.

Therefore, this sudden darkness must have been deliberately designed by someone in order to rescue those rebellious officials and traitors. Although I don't know how the traitor did it, it should be the case.

Therefore, there is no need to discuss this matter too much. You should quickly coordinate your efforts to capture all those rebellious officials and traitors, whether dead or alive, and immediately put out a list to explain the reasons to the people, so as to prevent them from making random guesses."

The reason why Emperor Yu Qian came relatively late was mainly because he was collecting information and thinking of countermeasures, thinking about how to explain the sudden darkness based on the information.

And when he knew that the range of dark radiation was not large.

Even when the execution ground is in the middle.

The reason for the explanation was found by him.

In order to prevent those ministers from speaking first, he specifically explained the situation as soon as he came up and clarified the matter, so that no ministers would come forward again and talk about divine punishment and divine inspiration, and he would issue an edict to sin against himself or something like that.

He wants to be the perfect emperor for eternity.

How can we blame Ji Zhao for such a flaw? Even if a natural disaster does occur, it will definitely be someone else's fault.

When the ministers heard this, most of them immediately understood that the emperor was very determined. They wanted to pin this matter on the relationship between heaven and man, and it was also very difficult to limit the imperial power in this way. The most important thing was that Yu Emperor Qian really dared to kill people, and one kill would cost tens of thousands.

They dare to use their heads to clear their name.

But I don’t dare to fight against my family.

So even if someone had an opinion, no one dared to criticize it in public at this time, so the final judgment on this matter naturally came out. It was someone who wanted to rob the prison, and that was why such absolute darkness was deliberately created.

At the same time, officials responsible for public security in the capital.

He immediately requested an order to block the gates of the capital, and immediately mobilized all the city's government soldiers and even the imperial guards to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the capital.

For a time, the capital city was in turmoil, and most ordinary people closed their homes. Only those who were responsible for comprehensively investigating the capital city were wandering around and walking on the streets, and arresting suspicious people, or in other words, arresting those who still have blood on their bodies. People wearing prison uniforms.

You know, the fugitive who escaped this time.

They are not gangsters, most of them are just people who are used to living well. Not to mention their investigative ability and response ability, they are not very good in terms of physical strength and understanding of some common sense.

Some of them haven't been able to get clothes to change into yet.

It's even more normal.

Such fugitives should not be easy to catch. It didn't take long for most of the people who escaped this time to be re-arrested. Some of those who resisted were even killed on the spot. Ding Yun and his family were because of Because he had to change clothes and go out for dinner, he was delayed a lot of time and was unable to escape from the capital in time.

By the time they received the news, the entire city was under martial law and all the city gates were closed, no one was allowed to enter or exit.

However, at this time, the original father still didn't think about how to escape. Instead, he kept mumbling about how this could happen. He was mumbling that such a big thing had already happened, why didn't the emperor issue an edict to punish himself?

How could you not grant amnesty to the world or something like that?

The annoyed Ding Yun couldn't help but give him a critical blow: "Father, have you ever read the criminal law?

Haven't you heard of the Ten Unforgivable Sins? Rebellion is among the Ten Unforgivable Sins. Although we were not directly involved, we were implicated in the rebellion by the prince's party. What sin do you think we are guilty of?

Rebellion or auxiliary rebellion?”

Ding Yun actually wanted to say this a long time ago, but he didn't want to hit them too hard before, but now that they have reached this point, they still don't give up. This is really too much.

If they don't let them recognize the reality clearly, life will be even more difficult in the future, and they may be killed by their personality soon.

As soon as Ding Yun said these words, her father and eldest brother really couldn't stand it any longer. At the same time, her mother, sister-in-law and other people who had read basically understood what the so-called heinous crimes meant, because this word was really If you don’t understand the difficulty, it’s exactly what the name implies.

In just an instant, the hope they had built up with great difficulty completely collapsed.

Some people even cried because of it.
Chapter completed!