On this day, the Commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Liu Guang, publicly executed two scholars and detained their entire three generations of family members in prison; Marquis Weiyuan also captured several of the most violent rioters and threw them into the dungeon. The City Protection Army patrolled the capital day and night, immediately arresting any troublemakers they found.
The entire capital's population was panicking, seeing that the decree issued by the Imperial Concubine was real; the scholars no longer dared to continue causing disturbances. They had studied tirelessly for ten years purely for fame and fortune, and it made no sense to bring themselves and their families down now.
