Chapter 258

Realizing something was wrong, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately roared hoarsely.

"Jiang Huan, Jiang Huan!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang called out a few times, Jiang Huan among the ministers looked up in confusion and said to Zhu Yuanzhang,

"Your Majesty, I am here."

Zhu Yuanzhang stared fiercely at Jiang Huan and demanded in a harsh voice,

"What are you squatting here pretending to be? Where has that brat Su Qiao run off to?!"

Hearing this, Jiang Huan was stunned.

"Your Majesty, is it really not you who ordered Lord Su to do this?"

Hearing this, a trace of ruthlessness instantly appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's face.

"If you talk nonsense again, do you believe I'll throw you into the Jin Shuihe?!"

"Where is Su Qiao now?!"

Jiang Huan lowered his head and said,

"Reporting to Your Majesty, before entering the palace, I saw Lord Su heading toward the Wei Duke Prefecture."

Zhu Yuanzhang took a quick step and walked toward the Chengtian Sect.

After walking two steps, he did not forget to turn his head and roar at the hundred officials behind him,

"What the hell are you all standing there for? Follow me! Do you not want your own homes anymore?!"

Struck by Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden shout,

the hundred officials barely came to their senses.

Immediately, they followed Zhu Yuanzhang out of the palace.

Surrounded by a crowd of officials wearing python robes and court attire,

Zhu Yuanzhang, in less than the time of a cup of tea's merit,

had already rushed to the Wei Duke Prefecture.

And at this moment, the entire Wei Duke Prefecture had already been emptied.

Everywhere on the streets of Jin Ling, hurried servants and panicked common laborers could be seen.

And behind the various residences, strips of white silk had long been strung up.

"All retreat behind the line!"

"Come on, all retreat behind the line!"

After the last servant dragged the master's chest out beyond the white line,

the Deputy Commissioner looked at Su Qiao and said,

"The Eastern Ward has been fully inspected!"

"The Western Ward has been fully inspected!"

"..."

Listening to his subordinates' reports,

Su Qiao slowly raised a torch from behind him.

Looking at the group of officials from the Commissioner's Office in the distance, he shouted,

"Everyone, remember this moment; the history of our nation has turned a brand new page from this point on!"

Before Su Qiao finished speaking,

Zhu Yuanzhang, rushing over from the distance, stared at Su Qiao with wide eyes and mouth agape, and shouted at the top of his voice,

"Su Qiao, have you gone mad? What are you doing?!"

Su Qiao heard Zhu Yuanzhang's voice.

He simply had no patience to turn around and immediately slowly threw the torch in his hand toward the distance.

A "Crack!" sound came.

A fuse as thick as a wrist sparked with fire.

After burning for several steps,

it split into thin fuses rushing toward the "Imperial Construction Wei Duke Prefecture" in the distance.

Zhu Yuanzhang in the distance had not yet had time to react.

In an instant, a loud explosion came from the Wei Duke Prefecture in the distance.

"Boom! ~"

Immediately came a second sound, then a third.

Amidst the continuous explosions,

the entire "Imperial Construction Wei Duke Prefecture" turned into dust filling the sky like a cookie.

Immediately followed by the Xinguo Duke Prefecture and Kaiguo Duke Prefecture in the distance.

The explosions, starting from the Wei Duke Prefecture, stretched across several wards.

Until the sound of explosions gradually faded away,

the people of the Baochao Commissioner's Office saw Zhu Yuanzhang and the entire court rushing over.

And at this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was already stunned in place by the empty ground before his eyes.

Looking from afar,

the towering Jin Ling city walls could already be vaguely seen in the distance.

These were the residences built for the meritorious officials, costing hundreds of thousands of taels in total!

This could no longer be described as heartache.

Zhu Yuanzhang nearly closed his eyes and fainted on the spot.

"What on earth is going on?!"

"Su Qiao, what are you doing?! Where did you get the money?!"

Su Qiao looked back at Zhu Yuanzhang with a puzzled expression.

"I... I sealed it myself."

Sealed it himself!

Sealed it himself again!

Su Qiao himself printed Great Ming Treasure Notes, bought the entire Jin Ling, and then blew it all up with a single fire!

Hearing Su Qiao's words.

Xu Huizu and the others instantly came to their senses.

"Surname Su! How dare you deceive us?!"

Su Qiao stared back at Xu Huizu and said.

"Your Grace, you can't say that, can you? You signed a contract. Money first, goods second; how can this be called deception?"

"You!"

Xu Huizu gritted his teeth, staring at Su Qiao.

Then he turned his head and cried out to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Majesty, you must surely stand up for the Xu family!"

In an instant, the crowd of officials behind Zhu Yuanzhang all knelt to the ground.

"Your Majesty, you must stand up for us!"

With just this one move, Su Qiao blew up more than a dozen ducal and ministerial mansions in one breath.

Along the entire Jin Shuihe River, broken walls and ruins lay everywhere.

Zhu Di, watching the scene before him in the chat group, couldn't help but stand there stunned.

"Good heavens... When I fought for Jin Ling back then, Jin Ling was never beaten this badly..."

Jiajing whispered a suggestion from the side.

"Great-Grandfather, this matter is not simple... but, what Su Qiao did is indeed too excessive."

Jiajing could feel that everything Su Qiao did, though seemingly absurd, still revolved around the Treasure Notes.

But for Su Qiao to act this way was indeed a bit excessive.

So many ducal and ministerial mansions, just blown up like that; how could these people possibly let it go?

Zhu Yuanzhang stared coldly at Su Qiao.

"Su Qiao, do you not wish to explain this to us?"