Total extermination. This huge incident implicating a vassal Prince, defending general, and literary official had shaken every level of society, and left an impression upon the people most deep.


    Han Yuan was beheaded, the Prince of An’s fiefdom was taken away, and Jin Yunfeng had killed himself. There had been more than a dozen people in the Jin family — young and old, male and female — but not a single one had the fortune to flee.


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