Of course, in the end, it all came to nothing.
Meanwhile, in secret...
The Wei Imperial Court never again organized any real large-scale operations to apprehend or surround and kill Yang Erlang.
Emperor Xiping never mentioned Yang Erlang's name again, as if there was no such person as Yang Erlang and no incident of Yang Erlang killing Prince Ning.
And the officials from various ministries who survived and returned to the capital from the Huai'an River section were ordered by Emperor Xiping to keep their mouths shut, strictly forbidding them to spout nonsense to the outside world.
Of course, even without this order of silence, the surviving officials from the six ministries who had fled back to the capital were few who wished to recall that bloody scene at the Huai'an River section.
