691 execution, long live

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In the north of Zhuozhou City, on a large wilderness, a large number of people have gathered today.

Because, today is the day when Li Zixiao wants to publicly execute Yan Song, Ding Liang, Shen Bing and other court officials who surrendered to the Tartars, and the gentry and wealthy families.

Because Zhuozhou City has just been ravaged by the Tartars, many people have relatives who have died in their families, which makes the people of Zhuozhou City not only hate the Tartars, but also hate these traitors.

"Boss, second, you two little rabbits, grinding or something, hurry up and get out of the city."

In the east of Zhuozhou City, in the courtyard of ordinary people, a middle-aged man with a face full of vicissitudes shouted loudly to his two sons in the house.

"Here it is, Daddy."

Immediately, two sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers rushed out of the house with a cloth wrapped in something.

"Dad, my brother and I are going to bring my mother and sister's spirit cards, so that my mother and sister can also see Lord Li kill those dog officials and traitors with their own eyes."

The older one of them, the younger one, had a sad face at this time, and his eyes flashed with hatred, and said to his father.

At this time, the middle-aged father looked down at what his two sons were holding in their arms, which turned out to be the spirit cards of their mother and sister.

"Good boy, you did the right thing, take your mother and sister, and let's go with the whole family."

The middle-aged man touched his eldest son's head with relief, and when he looked at the spirit card in his arms, his eyes were a little sad.

The middle-aged man's wife and a ten-year-old daughter were tragically killed by the Tartars after they entered the city.

"Lao Qin, you haven't come out yet, if you don't leave, we won't wait for you."

At this time, a man's shout came from outside their courtyard.

"Your Uncle De is here, let's leave quickly."

Immediately, the middle-aged man went out with his two sons.

Outside their door, there were already seven or eight people gathered, all of them neighbors around them, and everyone agreed last night that they would go out of the city together today.

"Lao Qin, it's the slowest in your family."

"I'm sorry, let's go."

They walked to the north of the city, and found a lot of people like them, small groups of people, all of whom were gangs and gangs, all of them heading towards the north of the city.

"That's a lot of people!"

When they came to the north of the city, they found that it was already crowded.

Fortunately, Li Zixiao sent five thousand White Dragon Army soldiers today to maintain order here, although there are many people here at this time, it is not chaotic.

"I heard yesterday's announcement from the government that Lord Li will personally come to the scene at noon today to execute those dog officials who surrendered to the Tartars, and it is almost half an hour before noon."

"Then let's go over first and find a location on higher terrain."

"Yes."

Soon, Lao Qin's group of people found a higher hill in the west, and they could just look down on the situation in the east when they stood on it.

Like them, many other people have chosen this place.

"Hey, Brother Wu, you're here too."

"Yes, I brought a few children here, I heard that the fifth child of your family was ...... by the Tartars, and I mourned!"

"It's okay, it's all over, the fifth child is a hard-working child."

"Hey, those Tartars will not die well sooner or later."

Many people gathered here, and there were also many old acquaintances with each other, and they greeted each other after meeting.

It can be said that more than 150,000 people in Zhuozhou City, except for women, children, and the elderly, most of the others came at this time.

Fortunately, Li Zixiao had let Han Tong's scout camp investigate clearly, knowing that at this time, the Tartars had already withdrawn north to the capital, so he dared to gather the people outside the city with such fanfare to conduct a public trial of Yan Song and others.

"Have you received all the food from the government?"

"Received, Lord Li is merciful, thirty catties of grain per person, to be honest, the Tartars have not snatched so much food from our family.

Now we finally don't have to worry about going hungry.

Not only that, Lord Li also distributed cloth and livestock to each door, and we and the fourth family, Uncle Tian and their family, a total of one cow was shared.

The third aunt and their family got seven chickens, and even the second uncle and their family got a lamb.

You know, you also know what the situation of the second master's family is.

Before the Tartar came, he was an old man in his house, lonely and helpless, not to mention a lamb, not even a chicken. ”

"It's about the same on our side, because of the large number of people in our family, we have a ewe and two lambs, but we are happy that the bad boy is.

To be honest, I really didn't expect that this Lord Li would be so generous, not only sending back all the grain that the Tartars had snatched from us, but even giving more.

However, not everyone is satisfied.

There is a family next to our house, and someone in their family used to be an errand boy in the yamen, and the family was quite wealthy.

But now Lord Li only gave their family a hundred catties of grain and a roll of cloth, and they were still not satisfied. ”

A middle-aged man next to him shook his head and said.

"Hmph, some people are so dissatisfied, if it weren't for Lord Li who led a large army to come and save us from the Tartars.

Now let's not talk about getting back these grains, it is estimated that they have been tied up by the Tartars and sent to the cold outside the customs to be slaves to the Tartars.

If you want me to say, those people are white-eyed wolves. ”

Old Qin said indignantly.

"Well, some white-eyed wolves can also understand, their white-eyed wolves are better than our Yan Governor's Mansion.

If it hadn't been for the notice issued by the government office yesterday, I still don't know that the reason why the Tartars broke the city was that someone deliberately opened the city gate and let the Tartars in.

And this person is also our nephew of the Yan Governor's Mansion, and this Yan Governor's Mansion also took the initiative to surrender the Tartars after they entered the city.

Their family is really a virtuous person, and they all like to make dogs for Tartars, and they really deserve to be killed. ”

"That's right, it really deserves to be killed."

Listening to the conversation between these two people, an acquaintance next to him also came over and said: "This Yan Zhifu is indeed not a thing, compared with the Lord Zhang Shoubei who died in battle and was slaughtered by passive Tartars, it is simply not as good as a pig and a dog!"

What a good person Zhang Shoubei is, the family is gone, not even an heir is left, the Tartars are inhumane, it's too pitiful. ”

As the man spoke, he couldn't help but show sadness, he was really sad for that Zhang Shoubei.

"Hey, brother, you don't know, but I heard the gossip that Lord Zhang's family was not all killed by the Tartars.

I heard that Lord Zhang Shoubei has a daughter-in-law, who has just been a full moon child, hid in a dry well and escaped the catastrophe! ”

Someone next to him came over and said mysteriously.

"Seriously."

When the people around heard that Zhang Shoubei and his widow had survived, they all showed joy and looked at the man who said this expectantly.

The man looked at so many people, silently back his head, looked a little embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "This...... It should be right. ”

This man is also hearsay, so he is not sure at this time, but seeing so many people looking over, he does not dare to say that it is fake, otherwise he is afraid that he will be beaten.

"It's really good, God really still opens his eyes." Someone next to him was happy with the news and said.

"Open your eyes and fart, if God opens your eyes, there will be no drought for many years, if God has long eyes, you will not let the court be incompetent and let the Tartars enter the customs wantonly."

As a result, this sentence immediately attracted rebuttals from others next to him.

Before Li Zixiao came, tens of thousands of people who had gathered here in advance were talking to each other, chattering crookedly, and there was a noise.

Knock knock!

When noon came, a dull drum beat sounded in the wilderness, and then a team of White Dragon soldiers and horses came out of the north gate of Zhuozhou, and a long line of prisoner carts was still carried.

In each prison cart, there were many prisoners detained, and even so, the two prison carts were more than two miles long, and there were more than 50 prisoner carts.

These prisoners, in addition to Yan Song, Ding Liang, Shen Bing, these officials who surrendered to the Tartars, and the head of the wealthy gentry's family, as well as their other family members, are all adult men, more than 700 people.

After all these prisoner carts were transported to this wilderness execution ground, Li Yan personally presided over the affairs here, and before Li Zixiao left the city, he had already arranged everything.

Soon, these more than 700 prisoners were escorted to the execution ground by the white dragon soldiers and knelt down, and behind the white prison uniforms, there was a wooden sign with their names written on it.

"Woo, I don't want to die, sir, spare my life!"

"I don't want to die, I'm only twenty years old, sir, please spare me, the little one is willing to be a cow and a horse for you!"

"Wronged, sir, the little one really didn't take refuge in the Tartars, it was all done by my father, and I was forced to do it!"

When the more than 700 prisoners were taken to the execution ground, many of them began to cry and howl.

"Kill them, kill them!"

At this time, the surrounding people let out the roar of the mountain and the tsunami, venting the anger in their hearts.

These people hate these traitors, especially those like the Shen family, who helped the Tartars to imprison and arrest the people before, which made many people hate them to the core.

"The lord has arrived!"

Li Zixiao was the last to go out of the city, and when Li Zixiao came to the high platform that Li Yan had temporarily erected in this wilderness, tens of thousands of people and the white dragon soldiers around him knelt down one after another.

"Long live, sir!"

That's right, those people are shouting not other slogans, but indeed shouting long live.

After Li Zixiao heard this, he also hesitated, and looked at Li Yan next to him, Li Zixiao thought that this scene was deliberately arranged by Li Yan.

As a result, Li Zixiao saw that Li Yan was also stunned at this time, and he was obviously stunned.

Only then did Li Zixiao know that most of the shouting 'long live' was shouted by the people at the scene, and it was not arranged by Li Yan.

"Sir, my subordinates are not doing well." Li Yan hurriedly knelt down and admitted his mistake.

"Forget it, it's none of your business, the people are just shouting nonsense, it's all our people here, no one will spread it, it doesn't matter."

Li Zixiao waved his hand and said lightly, which made Li Yan breathe a sigh of relief.

At the same time, when Li Yan saw Li Zixiao just now and heard the people shouting 'Long live', his eyes obviously flashed with a fine light, which showed that Li Zixiao was not disgusted by the people shouting like this.

"It's time for Daming to be finished, I believe that the lord has the best chance to ascend to the position of the Ninth Five."

At this time, Li Yan thought excitedly in his heart.

"Let's get started!"

Li Zixiao's words pulled Li Yan's mind back.

Then, Li Yan walked to the front of the high platform, stretched out his hand to press it, and shouted loudly: "Be quiet." ”

"Silence! Quiet! ”

After Li Yan finished shouting, there would be several white dragon soldiers with loud voices every other mile, shouting loudly at the nearby people, acting as a microphone.

There is no way, in this era without horns, they can only use this most primitive way of communication.

It took a long time for the surrounding people to quiet down one by one.

Li Yan returned to Li Zixiao and said, "Sir, it's time for you to play, do you want to say something to the people?" ”

"Forget it, needless to say, killing people is Benjue's purpose today, and blood is the best oath."

Li Zixiao said indifferently.

He didn't intend to speak on such an occasion, looking at the black around him oppressing a large area of people, stretching for miles.

Looking at the words of those White Dragon Army soldiers one by one, Li Zixiao felt tired when he looked at it, so he wouldn't bother to do this.

Li Zixiao walked to a desk on the high platform, took out a token from it, and then slowly walked to the execution ground.

On the execution ground, more than 700 prisoners kneeling at this time, among which Yan Song, Ding Liang, Shen Bing and others were taken to the front column.

There are a total of 100 people in each column, and there are seven columns in total, and the scene looks spectacular and shocking.

"Governor Yan, I knew today, why bother in the first place, as a Ming official, but when the court and the people needed you, you devoted yourself to doing things for the Tartars, you said you deserved to die!"

Li Zixiao walked to the front, stared at Yan Song at the front, and said coldly.

"No, Lord Li, you can't kill me, you are the prefect of Zhuozhou, a fourth-grade official of the imperial court, you have no right to kill me, please let me go!"

Yan Song is unwilling, the best pleading.

"Why can't Benjue kill you, just because the sin you let go, fall into the hands of Benjue, and he will definitely kill you."

Looking at Li Zixiao's unmoved appearance, Yan Song felt sad in his heart, knowing that he was probably going to die today.

He really couldn't imagine that Li Zixiao was so bold that he simply didn't take the court seriously.

A fourth-grade official like him killed him when he said he would kill him, and he was executed in front of tens of thousands of people like this, which was simply a slap in the face of the imperial court!

To be honest, over the years, there have been quite a few court officials who have died directly or indirectly in the hands of Li Zixiao, and many of them have three or four grades.

Like when Li Zixiao first entered Jiangbei, Chongzhen wanted to send new prefects to Huai'an and Yangzhou, but these people were killed when they encountered bandits on the way.

In fact, these people were all killed by Li Zixiao by pretending to be bandits.

And this year, after Li Zixiao acquired Henan, in order to slowly get rid of those corrupt officials in Henan, Li Zixiao also killed many officials.

It's just that those officials were all conclusive, and then reported to the imperial court for conviction and were sent to the capital by Li Zixiao for execution.

It can be seen that although Li Zixiao did not respect Chongzhen and the court before, on the surface, he still maintained the face of Chongzhen and the court.

But like this time, Li Zixiao didn't even report to the imperial court, and directly publicly executed a fourth-grade member of the imperial court, which was really the first time.

(End of chapter)