Emperor Chen Wu only sneered, as he flogged him to death with a whip.
He cursed, "The world's parasites should all be whipped to death!"
That time, the implicated finally involved as many as ten thousand people, many of whom were innocent. We do not know how many, but it was also the beginning of Emperor Chen Wu's and Siming's final, complete falling out.
Emperor Chen Wu took control of the government, supporting a branch of the Imperial Family as the new Emperor, while Ji Chengfeng was a surviving branch of the original main line. At the age of four, he personally witnessed all his elder relatives being crushed to a pulp under the wheels of war chariots, with one of his subjects hiding him away.
