Chapter 375

Zhangsun Wugou smiled.

"It seems the Empress has recovered quite well."

Qin Mu looked at Zhangsun Wugou and, seeing that she was indeed fine, couldn't help but feel some emotion.

The Soul-Returning Pill is truly awesome!

"System, can your update ever be finished?"

Qin Mu shouted in his mind, feeling annoyed.

The system still had no response.

It's ridiculous!

"Alright, Brother-in-law! Don't be so busy all day; let's go to the Huang Helou for a big meal and celebrate properly." Changle pulled Qin Mu's arm and walked out.

But no matter how hard she pulled, Qin Mu remained motionless.

"You go ahead, I don't want to go."

Qin Mu said indifferently.

"You're not going, right? Fine! If you don't go, then I'll go cook for you!"

Changle pouted and said mischievously.

"Whoosh!"

Qin Mu sprang up from his seat and said solemnly: "I think the food at the Huang Helou should be quite good."

"Hehehe!"

Bursts of laughter came from the main hall.

Great Tang, Chang'an City.

Inside the Taiji Hall, the atmosphere was solemn.

Li Er paced back and forth in front of the imperial steps with his hands behind his back, his face terrifyingly gloomy.

All the officials in the hall lowered their heads, their expressions nervous.

Qin Mu's fatal blow had almost plunged the Great Tang into the abyss of destruction.

The conflict between the noble families and the common people was like lifting the lid off a volcano, erupting completely.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the imperial court had no preparations, and the county government offices in various places were almost in a state of paralysis.

More than half of the official positions in the Great Tang were controlled by noble families; regardless of whether they were corrupt or not, they could at least control the local situation.

But now,

the noble families were gone, and the common people were having a field day.

Miraculously, they were living quite well.

Without the oppression of those unscrupulous noble families, the common people in various places ushered in a brief period of freedom.

No private grain collection, no forced abduction of women, no clever extortion.

The local bullies also dared not oppress the good excessively, because the noble family backers they were in cahoots with had collapsed.

However, the common people were not without conscience.

In some places, the noble families and government offices were not affected at all, because those noble families and officials were truly working for the people.

But that was only a very small portion.

After Li Er returned to the Great Tang, he immediately handled this matter.

After months of effort,

the Great Tang finally managed to restore stability.

The normal operation of officials across the Great Tang must be restored quickly, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Er was in a state of confusion, looking at the officials and asking: "Speak up! Where should the Great Tang go from here?"

"Your Majesty, the Great Qin has wolfish ambitions and deliberately disrupted our Great Tang; they truly deserve to die!"

"Well said, Your Majesty, we absolutely cannot let the Great Qin off!"

"A fugitive who rebelled from the Great Tang has now actually turned the world upside down; is this acceptable?"

"Yes, yes, yes! We must punish them severely!"

As soon as Li Er's words were spoken, the entire Taiji Hall exploded.

The officials gritted their teeth and cursed Qin Mu and the Great Qin angrily.

In their eyes,

Qin Mu was the culprit behind all of this.

If it weren't for him, the noble families could not have suffered such heavy losses.

So many centuries of foundation!

Destroyed in one fell swoop!

These officials from noble families in the Taiji Hall were all bleeding in their hearts.

"Hmph! Punish severely? How to punish severely? Do you think the Great Tang today is still the Celestial Empire that had ten thousand nations coming to pay tribute? Do you think the Great Qin and Qin Mu are still as weak as before? Now you think of punishing them severely; it's too late!"

Li Er sneered, his teeth itching with hatred.

He had said long ago that they needed to reform!

If this group of bastards had helped with all their might, the Great Tang would have already changed, the influence of the noble families would have gradually decreased, and perhaps the common people would not have had so many complaints.

But in reality?

Reform was blocked at every turn, and plans were delayed again and again!

The national policies Li Er had racked his brains to learn from the Great Qin and Qin Mu were like being thrown into the mud, unable to move at all.

After being reprimanded by Li Er, the officials calmed down a lot, each lowering their heads and remaining silent, unable to breathe.

The Great Qin could wipe out 300,000 Turkic cavalry in just one day; what kind of terrifying strength was this?

Let alone the Great Tang today, even in its peak period, it could not have had such powerful combat capability.

And they wanted to punish the Great Qin and Qin Mu with just this little bit of assets?

Keep dreaming!

"Your Majesty, no matter what, we must think of a way."

Fang Xuanling took the initiative to stand up and speak.

He felt more pain than anyone else regarding the current situation of the Great Tang.

Qin Mu was truly too poisonous!

With just one move, he stirred up the Great Tang so that it could not be at peace.

Both the noble families and the common people were of utmost importance to the Great Tang.

Now, they must think of a way that satisfies both sides so that the Great Tang can overcome this difficult hurdle.

"At this moment, only one method is feasible."

Li Er said coldly.

The officials raised their heads one after another, their eyes filled with anticipation.

"Sacrifice the chariot to save the commander!"

What!?

Sacrifice the chariot to save the commander?

Hearing this, the officials representing the noble families suddenly changed their expressions.

They had a faint, bad premonition in their hearts.

"Let your respective families prepare, and also notify the noble families in various places,"

"arrest the people in your families who have committed the most crimes and punish them all severely. Only in this way,"

"can we eliminate the hatred in the hearts of the common people."

This was the best method Li Er had thought of after thinking for days and nights.

The common people absolutely could not be touched; they were the foundation of the Great Tang.

The noble families could not be completely eradicated at present; after all, with the Great Qin as an external enemy, they must unite with the noble families to have a possibility of turning the situation around.

The only way was to sacrifice the chariot to save the commander.

Preserving the foundation of the noble families was the most important thing.

After all, which of these noble families in the Great Tang did not have tens of thousands of clan members?

Picking a few out to appease the world was not a very troublesome matter.

In this way,