Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 528 - 272: The Murderer of Anhe Village!_2

Chapter 528: Chapter 272: The Murderer of Anhe Village!_2

It was this bastard who, at the time of the beast-demon’s attack on Anhe Village, stopped the soldiers who wanted to go to the rescue.

As a result, all eighty-one people in Anhe Village died tragically.

Including Sister Ye!

"Jiang Mo, it’s an honor to meet you."

He Benquan coughed a few times, a wan smile flickering across his pale face, "I was planning to look for you after finishing the business, but I didn’t expect to end up stuck here. It’s not easy being a good person, haha."

Jiang Shouzhong suppressed the killing intent in his heart and asked coldly, "What are you doing here?"

"Of course, I’m saving people."

"Saving people? Saving whom?"

"The people of Qingzhou." He Benquan closed his eyes, gasping for breath.

Jiang Shouzhong heard what seemed like the world’s biggest joke: "You would save the people of Qingzhou?"

"Having been the Magistrate here for a few years, I’ve inevitably developed some affection."

He Benquan, looking at the billowing smoke of the ruins, said with a smile, "My masterpiece isn’t too bad, is it."

"You did this?" Jiang Shouzhong said in shock.

He Benquan nodded slightly, "Actually, it could have been done better, but unfortunately I was just not strong enough. However, it’s good this way, at least it destroyed some of that dog Emperor’s plans."

Plans?

Jiang Shouzhong frowned at him, "What do you mean?"

Resting his head against a stone behind him, He Benquan looked at Jiang Shouzhong with a half-smiling face and asked, "Jiang Mo, do you think the court will send troops to help now that Qingzhou has turned out this way?"

Jiang Shouzhong was startled and said solemnly, "They definitely will, unless Dazhou wants to give up Qingzhou, which is absolutely impossible."

No country would allow the loss of its own territory.

He Benquan sighed, "That’s what everyone thinks, haha, those big shots are really good at chess. If I hadn’t been a Magistrate for a few years, perhaps even I would have been deceived."

Perhaps realizing that he wouldn’t live much longer, He Benquan no longer concealed the truth and revealed the reality to Jiang Shouzhong:

"Jiang Mo, when Zhou Chang first came to power, Dazhou was plagued with internal strife and external threats. Yet, in just a few years, Zhou Chang had quelled the internal turmoil and held off foreign aggression. How do you think he did it?"

Jiang Shouzhong remained silent.

He was an outsider when it came to governing a country.

To tell the truth, although he disliked Emperor Zhou Chang, this guy’s capability was indeed formidable.

To save a country from peril was a great feat in itself.

He Benquan said, "Originally, there were more than ten rebellions within Dazhou, and while some small forces were exterminated, a significant part of the larger forces were dealt with by means of amnesty. The rest of the forces were slowly worn down and dealt with over time.

But amnesties vary in size, and at that time, the court had no capacity to suppress the rebellions, so the conditions offered were incredibly generous, it was even... some of those conditions were a humiliation to the Dazhou Court and the royal family.

But there was no choice, Zhou Chang had to pinch his nose, put on a smile, bow his back, and go to those disobedient rebel leaders with rich benefits to appease them.

For an ambitious and proud Emperor, such humiliation, such hatred, do you think he could forget it?

After signing an alliance agreement with Nanjin Country, appeasing Yanrong with land cessions and reparations, thereby temporarily resolving the external threats, the first thing Zhou Chang did was to settle the scores with those appeased rebels.

Over the years, he used cunning strategies to divide those influential groups and eliminate those who were threats. But this was far from enough; when cutting weeds, one must pull out the roots.

He hated the rebels, he hated the rioters, he hated their families and friends. In his heart, these people would sooner or later rebel again, would still rise up for greater benefits. "

He Benquan took a breath and continued, "In order to stabilize those who came by way of amnesty, the rioters, and the forces of the rebels, Zhou Chang kept rewarding them with benefits.

Let me give you a figure, after Qingzhou restored order, nearly one hundred thousand immigrants moved here intermittently over a short span of ten years.

Do you know where these immigrants came from? Eighty percent of them were once part of the rioting forces and their families."

"The court gave them tremendous privileges, tax exemptions, telling them what they could earn in Qingzhou, what they could enjoy. Then they kept agitating amongst them, wave after wave, coming to Qingzhou...

By the time people slowly started to realize, they would see that the families of those former rebels, the rioters, the villains causing calamity... had all gathered in Qingzhou."

"And then there were the soldiers who didn’t want to retire. Some joined Shan Zi Camp, others joined Fengtou Camp. They were all tied to Qingzhou, made to band together here."

Ridiculously, even some officials from the court didn’t see through it; they were fooled by Zhou Chang until it was too late when they finally understood..."

As he listened to He Benquan’s story, Jiang Shouzhong felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, every bit of flesh and blood in his body as if wrapped in ice.

It was a trap!

A trap that had been setting for over a decade!

Zhou Chang had long anticipated that a day like this would come to Qingzhou; he had long expected this powder keg to explode, so he spent over a decade of effort to manage this chessboard.

He lured those connected to the past rebellion, their families and descendants, and anyone associated with them to Qingzhou with insidious means, deceiving and enticing them, only for them to be buried along with Qingzhou."

No matter what, everyone in Qingzhou had to die.

Yang Wufu slaughtered the people of Qingzhou for Liu Wuxu.

The monkeys sacrificed the people of Qingzhou in droves for the truth about Demon Energy.

Wan Yan Wu Hai used the slaughter of the people of Qingzhou as his spoils of war, for his own throne.

But the real executioner was the one who should have been the savior, the Da Zhou Dynasty, that Emperor.

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