"Your Highness, what you say makes sense, but you've executed too many at once. Couldn't you have executed those officials one by one?"
"Keep them here to waste food?" Zhao Yao snorted coldly. "The grain for those corrupt officials would be better used to feed the people."
Tong Xi was left speechless by Zhao Yao's words and could only reply, "Yes, yes, you're right."
"Besides, it's a case of killing the chicken to scare the monkey, and the effect is already half-achieved." Zhao Yao had no intention of executing all the officials of the twelve prefectures in Lingnan. If he killed them all, there would be no one to govern. "I'm just waiting for the remaining officials to come to me submissively to confess their sins. If they obediently come to me to surrender, I won't drive them to extinction."
"They've committed so many crimes, all deserving death. Do they really dare to come to confess?"
