Yanmen.

Several military captains knelt in front of the emperor holding Liu Wuzhou's head.

Luo Cheng looked at the head that was still blind until he died, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

"Your Majesty?" Wei Zheng saw that the emperor had been in a daze, and woke up in a low voice.

Luo Cheng came back to his senses.

"What about Liu Wuzhou's body?"

"Liu Yi's body was exposed to the sun in the city." A lieutenant whispered.

"Liu Wuzhou was killed by you?" The emperor asked.

The captain nodded, "Sin General Zhang Lun, the former captain of the Yingyang Infantry of Yanmen County of the Yiwu Army." ”

"You don't have to be afraid, since you responded to the call of the court and killed the rebels, it was a great achievement. Previously, the imperial court issued an edict to offer a reward, and those who killed Liu Wuzhou were named the founding marquis, and now I will give you the title of the founding marquis of Wutai County, and give you the real seal of 500 households, 1,000 taels of gold. ”

That Zhang Lun never thought that this reward would really be cashed out. Originally, he was embarrassed to see the situation, and he didn't want to follow Liu Wuzhou to the end, but he really won a big fortune, and he knelt down excitedly to thank him.

Song Jingang and Yuan Junzhang, the two generals of Liu Wuzhou, were forced to surrender after opening the city.

Both were escorted up, and both turned pale when they saw the emperor.

Luo Cheng only glanced at the two of them and didn't say anything.

"Although the traitor Liu Wuzhou was awarded the head, his sin is unforgivable, and he will be punished by the nine clans!"

As soon as this sentence came out, even Song Jingang and Yuan Junzhang couldn't help but shudder, which was almost unimaginably harsh.

You must know that this Lianjiu clan can be regarded as the most ruthless hand that Luo Cheng has ever played.

Nine clans, four fathers, three mothers, and two wives.

The fourth father's family is his own family, the family of the aunt and her son, the family of the sister and nephew, the daughter and the grandson of the marriage.

The third maternal family, the maternal grandfather's family, the maternal grandmother's mother's family, the aunt and her son's family.

The second wife's family, the father-in-law's family, and the mother-in-law's family.

Basically, all the clan in-laws were implicated.

The emperor gave preferential treatment to the Sui Dynasty clan, and also made marquis to former opponents such as Wang Shichong and Li Mi, but he was extremely strict with Liu Wuzhou this time.

Even if he once opened up to Wang Junkuo and only degraded his official position and exiled him, he was extremely ruthless to Liu Wuzhou.

"The Cheng Ding of the Nine Clans of Liu Wu and Zhou, the rest of the men are all reduced to slaves, and the women are not in the Yeting Palace and the Teaching Workshop."

Song Jingang trembled.

Even if the emperor does not hold him accountable, as Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law, he also belongs to the scope of Zhulian.

What's more, the emperor didn't plan to let Song Jingang and Yuan Junzhang go.

"Song and Yuan are abused and abused, and they are all punished by the nine clans."

After convicting all three of them to the Nine Clans, Luo Cheng also beheaded the other rebel generals of the Yiwu Army. It's just that it's better than the three of them is that only one of them will be punished.

Those who are below the third grade to the fifth grade of the pseudo-representative country will only be punished themselves, and will not sin their wives and children.

Those below the fifth rank are not killed, but are exiled.

And those who have no rank are forgiven and not guilty.

Song Jingang begged for mercy, but Yuan Junzhang remained silent.

The emperor waved his hand, and a team of guards came over and dragged the man down.

"Your Majesty, now that the rebellion in the north has been settled, why don't you forgive it?"

Luo Cheng said with a cold face, "Only by combining grace and power can people fear Weihuaide, just blindly showing grace, how can people respect the law of the court?" What's more, Liu Wuzhou was burdened with the grace of the country, and instead of wanting to repay the service, he betrayed, and led the Turks into the Kou and declared himself a vassal to the Turks, which is not only betraying the king, but also treason! Such thieves must be severely punished in order to warn future generations! ”

Because of this, Luo Chengcai rarely used such a severe punishment as the Zhulian Nine Clans.

Wang Junkuo rebelled, firstly, it was only in the rebellion plan, and there was no actual action, nor did it cause any impact and bad consequences, and secondly, he was also a meritorious hero of the imperial court, and he had made many great contributions, and he also had a death free coupon issued by the emperor, so he was lightly distributed.

But Liu Wuzhou is different from the Yiwu generals, Liu Wuzhou himself has no credit, but the emperor gave him a high position, but he was not grateful at all, and rebelled. And he declared himself a vassal to the Turks, leading the Turks into the army, and causing extremely bad effects and consequences.

In order to quell the rebellion, the imperial court dispatched hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, killed and wounded more than 10,000 soldiers, and spent millions of money, food, and equipment.

He was able to pardon Li Mi and Wang Bodang, Wang Bo, Wang Shichong and others, it was because the other party was not his subordinate in the first place, and because of their final annexation, more casualties and losses were avoided, which was a positive side, so he still treated these people more favorably, but he could only be ruthless when he treated Liu Wuzhou, who betrayed him.

After the emperor's words, no one persuaded Kuanren to be retained.

The seventh day of August.

Under the city of Yanmen, a group of rebel generals were executed.

first pulled out Liu Wuzhou's body, although he had been assassinated by his generals, he was still pulled out.

The emperor ordered someone to sew up Liu Wuzhou's head first, and then erect it with a wooden stake, so that the executioner first peeled off Liu Wuzhou's skin in its entirety, and then let the hundred officials and generals shoot arrows at Liu Wuzhou, who had no skin.

There is also a reward for the middle.

After the whole body of the shot was full of feather arrows, the executioner cut it with a thousand knives, and finally burned it, and even the bones were crushed and scattered.

Only a pair of human skins were left, which were filled with straw, and then stood in front of the memorial monument outside Yanmen City, and made people kneel there for Liu Wu Zhou Yongshi.

Under the city of Yanmen, more than 1,000 people were beheaded that day.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and ordinary people watched together, and there was even a phenomenon of people grabbing the flesh of these traitors, and many people took steamed cakes to dip the blood of these people to eat.

At one point, the scene almost got out of control.

After some Turkic nobles were brought up to be charged in public, they were directly stoned to death by the people.

Li Shimin, Chai Shao, Li Shuliang, Li Deliang and other Li Tang prisoners were also forced to visit the whole process, looking at the fanaticism of those soldiers and civilians in Yanmen City, their faces were frightened one by one, and even Li Shimin couldn't help but sweat all over his body.

He didn't want to be killed by such arrows and knives, and he didn't want his skin to be made into a scarecrow, and he didn't want his flesh to be eaten, his blood to be dipped in bread, or his bones to be burned to ashes.

After returning from the execution ground, all of them were glazed over, their faces were pale, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.

In the second year of Kaiyuan.

August.

The emperor is still in Yanmen, but the envoy has already arrived at Hejian Leshou City.

The envoy read out the emperor's edict, crowned Dou Jiande as the Marquis of Chongli, and canonized his daughter Dou Hongxian as the Zhaorong of the nine concubines, and welcomed him into the palace.

Dou Jiande summoned Le Shou Wenwu.

A group of Xia courtiers found that the emperor was not wearing a dragon robe and crown robe today, but was wearing a black round-necked robe and a black soft-footed head.

"The Luo clan owns the world, and it belongs to the calendar, and now there are two thirds of the Central Plains in the world. There are no two days in the sky, there are no two lords in the people, and now the emperor is removed, and the north is canonized, is it okay? ”

Cao Bao said dissatisfiedly, "Sui died in the world, heroes competed, called the king and the emperor, and carved up the Dingzhi." The Qin State is just a land with Guanwai and Hedong, Henan and Huainan, and there are still my Hebei Xia Kingdom in this world, Li Yuan in Guanzhong, Shuofang Liang Shidu, Jianghan Xiao Milling, Jiangnan Lin Shihong, Shen Faxing, Huainan Li Zitong, etc., Daxia is in Hebei, not to mention that His Majesty is already the Son of Heaven, how can he accept other people's officials? If you have to take a big thing, the minister thinks that you can follow the example of the Western Liang in that year, call yourself Emperor Liang and call yourself a minister to Zhou. ”

Cao Bao, as the brother of Empress Dou Jiande, is also a representative of the military generals faction in the court, and they all mean that they are unwilling to submit to Qin like this.

They were willing to be vassals to Qin, but they could only follow the example of the Western Liang and Northern Zhou dynasties, and at most they would be a vassal state, and they would never be willing to be completely vassals and subordinate.

After all, the territory that everyone has laid, wouldn't it be happy to be a prince and a marquis, why should you go to Qin. Although Luo Cheng is powerful, he has not reached the point of dominating the world, and there are so many forces, Luo Cheng may not be able to unify the world.

Perhaps, one day Luo Cheng died, and his Qin State collapsed? Or maybe Luo Cheng went south like Fu Jian, and after a big defeat, his Qin state collapsed?

There are still various possibilities, why rush to surrender, Great Xia still has 200,000 soldiers, and it can still fight.