Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 108 Rebellious Officials of the Former Dynasty 39

“Last year, your mother celebrated her sixtieth birthday with a lavish banquet that cost several hundred taels of silver.”

“You have eight wives and concubines, and every year the Jin Yutang (Golden Jade Hall) orders jewelry worth more than a thousand taels.”

"Your six sons have taken a total of twenty-eight concubines." Ling Yi circled around Sun Wenshu and chuckled, "Tell me, where are they innocent?"

Sun Wenshu's body suddenly slumped down, and he could only mutter, "They don't deserve to die, they don't deserve to die..."

"So, you also feel sadness when a loved one dies." Ling Yi kicked away the disgusting guy who was trying to grab her clothes. "Have you ever thought about how their families felt when those wounded soldiers died in agony without any cure?"

While the principle of punishing those who have wronged others may not conform to the moral principles of modern society, it was a powerful deterrent in feudal times.

She wanted to use the lives of this entire Sun family to give a sharp wake-up call to those who dared to reach out for their money.

Love money?

Let's see if the whole family is alive to enjoy the money!

How can those scouts compare to his mother and wife?

Sun Wenshu was indignant, but dared not show it in the slightest. He could only cry out, "Please, Your Highness, spare my life! Your Highness..."

Having grown accustomed to Ling Yi's coldness, he suddenly turned his gaze to Xiao Yao, who had remained silent and appeared to be of pure and innocent nature.

Then, he was kicked back.

"If you weren't so incompetent, how could the princess have ended up fighting on the battlefield and suffering so many injuries?"

Compared to Ling Yi, Xiao Yao was the one who wanted to kill the most.

"Alright, stop putting on that face. My patience is running out."

Ling Yi sat down listlessly and said indifferently, "You will personally expose Sun Gaoshuo's crimes in front of the soldiers. If you do well, I will send your whole family to a quick death. If you don't do well..."

Ling Yi finished speaking, then said with a half-smile, "You can try it too."

Sun Wenshu shuddered: "No... I can't."

He couldn't do that. Those soldiers knew everything he had done in the past. If he stood in front of everyone now and told them everything, wouldn't he be torn to pieces by them?

"Whatever you want," Ling Yi replied nonchalantly. "Your filial piety is nothing special."

Her cold, clear voice rang out again in the room. Sun Wenshu's expression changed several times, and after a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, Your Highness, please remember what I said today!"

Having said that, he was escorted out of the tent by the Imperial Guards.

Ling Yi's plan in the military camp this time did not go smoothly.

The lower-ranking soldiers were closely watched by their squad leaders and platoon leaders, and were not even allowed to go out to use the toilet; they could only urinate in their tents.

Some of the more stubborn people had been tortured and killed in the past, and this army was almost turned into Sun Gaoshuo's slave army.

Even after the tiger's death, his power remained. The soldiers, still reeling from his shadow, dared not, for a moment, expose their superior simply because of an order.

They feared that the actions taken were merely a passing whim, and that once they obtained evidence against them, they would abandon the matter or simply impose a minor punishment on their superiors.

Those who go out to report it will definitely not have a good ending.

"You all stay put and behave yourselves. Once that meddlesome princess leaves, I'll treat you to the best of everything!" The sergeant, his face ruthless, surveyed the blank-faced border soldiers in the tent. "But if anyone dares to betray me, I'll skin them alive!"

Listening to the soldiers outside, those troublemakers, vehemently accusing the logistics department of corruption, the sergeant sneered, "So what if they complain? The princess can't just kill all the officers and replace them, can she? She's not the emperor!"

Throughout history, there has never been a complete purge of generals from top to bottom, which is why these people are so fearless.

The general is dead, and you're still pursuing this matter? Are you trying to incite a mutiny among the border troops?

As he spoke, despair flashed in the eyes of the already listless soldiers. They all slumped on their beds like puppets, staring blankly at the tents above.

until……

"I am Sun Gaoshuo's clerk! I am reporting Sun Gaoshuo for embezzlement and bribery, and for misappropriating soldiers' pay. I am also reporting Deputy General Zhou Hua for embezzlement..."

The frantic, desperate voice reached the ears of all the numb people, causing their expressions to change.

The sergeants' expressions changed drastically. They suddenly stood up, lifted the tent flaps, and stared with bloodshot eyes as Sun Wenshu, escorted by the Imperial Guards, toured the camp, broadcasting Sun Gaoshuo's atrocities.

In officialdom, face is everything. Those who have read a couple of books are even more concerned about their reputation before and after death. Even if someone is guilty of heinous crimes or deserves to be executed, that is the official's business.

They might issue a formal document, politely informing ordinary people that the corrupt official had been killed, but they wouldn't use plain language to expose the dead man's true colors for everyone to humiliate.

Who knows if their murdered colleagues won't turn out to be just as wicked tomorrow? Giving them dignity is giving yourself dignity!

Even those who commit heinous crimes still want to maintain some semblance of dignity while wearing official robes.

But now, the Prince Rui and his wife, who don't play by the rules, have actually broken the unspoken rules of officialdom, exposing those sordid things to the public!

This is not a trivial matter; it goes straight to the heart of the problem!

Those brainless soldiers, incited by this so-called upright official, are bound to rebel!

How can this work!

The sergeants felt a sense of foreboding. They heard faint footsteps behind them and turned around to see the gaunt soldiers approaching the front of the camp like vengeful ghosts.

"How dare you! Go back now!" He suddenly drew his long whip from his waist and lashed it out, sternly rebuking the weak soldiers.

But this time, no one listened to him anymore.

The whip in mid-air was suddenly grabbed, and the soldiers shoved him to the ground, trampling over him, and swarmed toward the reporting point prepared by Ling Yi.

The soldiers didn't understand what Ling Yi's methods were in breaking down their psychological defenses.

All they knew was that the person who first reported them wasn't killed on the spot, the clerks who had previously exploited them on behalf of the officers also urged them to report, and most importantly...

General Sun's clerk also rebelled. The prestige that the Sun family had painstakingly cultivated in the military camp finally collapsed when Sun's clerk was dragged around like a dog and berated Sun Gaoshuo.

One weight after another was placed on these soldiers, finally turning them to the side that was seeking justice for them.

Soldiers with blank expressions emerged from the densely packed tents. Some had injured their superiors, while others, driven by rage, had simply killed them.

These people, living a life worse than death, care about nothing else but seeking fairness.

After Ling Yi reviewed all the accounts, she had the Imperial Guards make two more copies for record-keeping, while she stood quietly in the wind watching this scene unfold.

"I hate this scene."

Putting aside any sympathy for humanity, Lingyi instinctively loathed this kind of wasteful behavior.