If they behave like those people in Yangzhou, defying the law and disregarding the court, their fate will not be better than that of those people in Yangzhou, and it might even be more miserable than that of the noble families in Yangzhou.
The noble families and wealthy merchants in Yangzhou were all raided. More than half of their clan members were beheaded, and the remaining half were either exiled or imprisoned. Although the Emperor did not completely eliminate them, their chance to rise again is utterly impossible.
The noble families that once wielded immense power in Yangzhou have, over the past one or two months, become mere dust in history. At the very least, in the coming decades or even centuries, they are unlikely to return to their former glory, and perhaps they never will.
The fate of those noble families in Yangzhou serves as a warning to all noble families across the land, a cold and dangerous warning.
