Chapter 224: Ending the Rebellion (I)
Of course, the printing technology that Gao Yuan said is some theoretical knowledge, and it takes the efforts of craftsmen to transform these theories into reality, but since Lin Wenqing was told the principle of printing, Gao Yuan simply threw all the research on printing to Lin Wenqing and handed it over to her to manage.
Lin Wenqing did not refuse, one came to business is her business, the purpose of the plateau to make paper, printing is not to sell to the countries to make money, the second is from the fall of the Zhao State, his mother and son have been protected by the plateau, Lin Wenqing is indeed very grateful to the plateau, and also hopes to do something for the plateau, can report to the plateau.
After accepting Gao Yuan's commission, Lin Wenqing also immediately took action, on the one hand, he paid attention to the progress of papermaking, and on the other hand, he recruited carpenters, and first carved out a set of [Sun Tzu's Art of War] character molds.
Everything else went smoothly, and after a few days, the population that had migrated from Yan had settled down and began farming. Fortunately, these fields have not been abandoned for a long time, so the population migrated from the Yan Kingdom can just catch up.
Although Yan Min also knew that these fields were not allocated to him, he now had a place to live, and his labor was paid, so he could support his family, and the Daijun government also promised to allocate fields to them next year, so they all lived in Daijun with peace of mind.
At this time, Shen Shen came to report to Gao Yuan, and after the trial, Shen Shen first determined the list of people who should be beheaded and submitted it to Gao Yuan for inspection.
Because these people have been arrested for almost a month, the identities and origins of the vast majority of them, and what they did during this rebellion have been largely clarified, so the trial work has also proceeded relatively quickly. Of course, it is impossible to complete the trial of more than 25,000 people in the next few days, but it is still possible to first determine the people who really want to be executed.
In addition, the first thing to do is to identify the person to be beheaded and carry it out immediately, so that it can be carried out in such a way as to deter people, and secondly, to show the other people who have been arrested that those who should be killed have been killed, and the rest will not be executed at least. It can also give them peace of mind.
Shen Shen drew up a list of 1,057 people to be beheaded. And attached the identity of each person and the reason for the beheading. Gao Yuan only briefly skimmed through this list and approved the implementation.
Although compared to 25,000 people, this thousand and fifty-seven people is not a lot, but this number is not small, and there will definitely be some innocent people among them, Gao Yuan also knows very well in his heart that there is no time for detailed investigation and careful examination, and the follow-up of this rebellion must be concluded as much as possible, and in the troubled times, it is necessary to use heavy canons, and under some specific conditions, the strict punishment law can indeed have an immediate effect in a short period of time.
In the early days of the Shang Dynasty's reform, the Shang Dynasty was a cruel and high-pressure method of killing and poking through guò, forcibly implementing the new law in the Qin State, and at most, killing more than 700 people who violated or opposed the new law in one day, and it is said that the cry was earth-shattering, and even the Weishui River was dyed red. Therefore, this has also become the pretext of some later generations to belittle the Shang Dynasty's reforms, believing that the strict torture law formulated by the Shang Dynasty was an important reason for the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty, and some people even classified the Shang Dynasty as a cool official.
However, in terms of practical effect, Shang Ying's use of severe torture in the early stage of the reform was an important reason to ensure that the reform could be implemented smoothly in the Qin state. After all, changing the law is not a matter of inviting guests to dinner and discussing good quantities, but a struggle between emerging forces and conservative forces, and the two are destined to not coexist. If we hold on to the ideal of having something to say, hello, hello, hello, everyone, then the change of law will not be possible at all. Moreover, after Shang Ying's new law was fully implemented in Qin, the people gradually accepted the new law, and the number of people who violated the new law was fewer, and the number of people killed was also much reduced.
Therefore, at this time, the plateau must not be soft. And if you think about it from another angle, if this Haoqiang rebellion succeeds, will they be soft on the plateau side? At that time, the killing poke must have been several times this number.
So Gao Yuan ordered that three days later, outside the city of Daijun, Haoqiang's execution would be carried out publicly, and at the same time, all the other people who had been arrested and were waiting for the rebellion to be punished with hard labor were brought to the execution ground to watch. Of course, residents of the Daigun-gu area are also allowed to watch freely.
Since a notice was issued three days in advance, many people from the surrounding areas of Daijun rushed to watch the execution, and more than 100,000 people were present to watch the execution that day, and in order to maintain order in the court, Gao Yuan also dispatched 30,000 troops, plus the people who were arrested, the total number of people present at the scene will exceed 150,000.
When the time for execution came, the prison officer first announced the guilt of the beheaded people in public, and the first batch of people who were brought up for execution were 37 people, representing the 37 heroes who organized and planned the rebellion this time, although more than half of the heroes died in the battle, but they were replaced by their relatives who participated in the rebellion, and 37 people were still gathered.
Every time someone is brought up, there will be a voice announcing their name and identity and the person they represent, which naturally caused the onlookers to exclaim, because these people are all leading figures in the area of Daijun, very famous, and the vast majority of the people can only greet them, and now they are all tied up, kneeling on the ground and waiting to be beheaded.
After all 37 people were escorted up, with the order of the prison officer, the executioner swung his knife and slashed, blood gushed out like a spring, and the 37 heads rolled to the ground almost at the same moment, and the onlookers also let out a burst of exclamation again.
Subsequently, the dead bodies were taken away and a new batch of executors were brought in, and the prison officials again pronounced the sentence in accordance with the established procedures.
After a few rounds of slashing in a row, there were already human heads rolling on the ground, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers, and many of the onlookers turned pale, and the people who were caught participating in the rebellion were even more frightened, because everyone could imagine in their hearts that they almost became one of them, and some of them did not dare to look any further, and some of them were so frightened that they pulled their pants.
And beside them, there are also government personnel who are constantly reminding them: "Look at it, compared with the fate of this group of people, you are lucky enough, but you are sentenced to hard labor, at least you don't have to be beheaded, after the hard labor is over, you can still be released and live a normal life, if you are not honest, these people will be your end." ”
As batches of prisoners were pushed out and beheaded, the atmosphere reached a peak. At this moment, on a high slope two or three miles away from the execution ground, dozens of people gathered, and many of them knelt on the ground, crying in the direction of the execution ground. There are also people who swear to God that they will avenge their relatives, and this group of people is the fish that has slipped through the net of the powerful forces.
However, Zhao Xin and Zhao Ping were one of the few people in this group who remained silent and watched from the sidelines, because there were no relatives among the executed.
Originally, when Haoqiang rebelled, Zhao Xin and Ma Yu were ordered to contact Yan Guo, hoping to cooperate with the Yan army and deal with the regime on the plateau together, but when Zhao Xin and Ma Yu arrived at Yan State, the Yan army had been completely defeated by the Wu'an army, and after two battles, the loss of soldiers reached almost 300,000, and Yan Guo had also fully accepted the strict conditions offered by the plateau, and it was impossible to cooperate with the powerful forces of Daijun to continue to confront the Wu'an army. Therefore, the two of them went around Jijing for a few days, and they also found that Yan Yan had no intention of fighting with the Wu'an army, so they had to return to Daijun in a huff.
But after the two returned to Daijun, they learned that the Haoqiang rebellion had completely failed, and not only the 37 Haoqiang who participated in the matter, but even their families, property, and fields were also arrested or confiscated by the government.
Fortunately, although the powerful forces have been destroyed, there are still some people who have escaped by chance, among which Zhao Ping is among them. It turned out that when Haoqiang sent troops to attack Daijun, Zhao Ping was also among them, but Zhao Ping had experienced the battle of Linhe Village after all, and knew the strength of the Wu'an army, so the Haoqiang army killed under the city of Daijun, but the city gate was not opened as promised, Zhao Ping found that the situation was not right, and the Haoqiang army seemed to have fallen into the trap of the Wu'an army, so Zhao Ping also quietly left the battlefield and hid. Sure enough, after the First World War, the powerful forces were wiped out, but after the end of the war, Zhao Ping successfully escaped from the battlefield, that is, he was not killed in battle or captured.
Subsequently, the Daijun government suppressed the powerful forces in the Daijun area, and Zhao Ping was also hiding in Tibet, not only evading the capture of the government, but also pulling a team of more than 100 people from the remnants of the powerful forces. However, Zhao Ping also knew that more than 15,000 powerful troops had been wiped out, and what role could he have with a hundred or so people, and he resisted the Wu'an army hard, just hitting the stone with an egg, so Zhao Ping led the team and hid in the mountains, only occasionally came out to rob households, get some food, money and his own.
However, Zhao Ping also knew that Zhao Xin and Ma Yu were ordered to contact Yan Guo, afraid that after they came back, they would fall into the hands of the government, so they also sent people to inquire about their news, and fortunately, Zhao Ping responded and found Zhao Xin and Ma Yu and took them into the mountains, so that the two escaped this difficulty.
After everyone met, it was also a reunion after the catastrophe, so they hugged each other and cried, of course, they all swore to the sky that they must kill the plateau and avenge their families. However, after arriving at the law field, I found that the entire law field was heavily guarded, and if I wanted to rob the law field to save people, there was no chance at all, so I could only watch the execution from a distance and cry for my family.