When I returned to my home's gate, I saw dozens of Da Xia soldiers guarding outside the gate.

Liu Mo suppressed his emotions and walked towards his home. The soldiers immediately stepped forward to interrogate.

"Who is responsible here?" Liu Mo asked them.

The leading officer soon appeared. The man was about forty years old, with a long face and a well-trimmed beard that had begun to turn gray. He was wearing bright silver armor, a red cloak on his shoulders, and a red tassel at the front of the water-milling lock guard helmet.

"You are Liu Mo, Lord Liu?" he asked.

"That's right!" Liu Mo replied, "Do you know me?"

"I am Zhu Min's brother, Lu Sheng!" the officer whispered.

"Lu Sheng?" Isn't it one of the several armies I have spent money to support?

"Haha, I didn't expect you and I would meet on such an occasion." Lu Sheng said, taking off his helmet, "Here, I thanked Lord Liu for the soldiers."

"Brother Zhu and I are sworn brothers, and my brothers are also brothers!" Liu Mo said, "General Lu's affairs are naturally also my Liu Mo's affairs."

Let’s build a relationship first and get along better in the future!

"Well said! Unfortunately, when I first met, I had to... Alas, I'm so ashamed!" Lu Sheng said, "But please don't worry, Lord Liu, I will never make things difficult for your father-in-law."

He only talked about his father-in-law? He didn't talk about Gong Xiaorou!

"General Lu, what do you mean?" The soldiers beside him looked solemn! "Miss Gong..."

"I learned that Miss Gong had already married into Lord Liu's mansion, so she had no relationship with the Salt Gang. The eldest prince wanted us to capture the Salt Gang thief, not others!" Lu Sheng said sternly.

This was deliberately told to me, Liu Mo thought to me, and I would like to give me a favor! "Thank you, General Lu, but I don't know my father-in-law?" He asked in a low voice.

"The edict should not be violated," Lu Sheng sighed, "Lu can only assure you that you will not make things difficult for Mr. Gong..."

Liu Mo frowned. When he met for the first time, I couldn't force him to disobey the eldest prince's order. "Thank you General Lu."

"You don't have to be polite. If nothing else is going to happen, I will take the person away first!"

As he said that, he winked at his subordinates. In less than a moment, several soldiers took Gong Changyi out of the house.

"What are you doing?" Gong Xiaorou yelled in a crying voice, "What crime did my father commit? Why did you arrest him?"

Although I don’t know what happened, the soldiers of the Daxia Dynasty who came to arrest the people were soldiers, so Gong Xiaorou naturally knew how serious the matter was.

Gong Changyi seemed to have guessed this day, and he comforted his daughter with extraordinary peace, "Xiaorou, don't worry, follow Mo'er well, and don't be like a young lady in the future.

The other brothers of the Salt Gang...it's up to you, Mo'er!"

Liu Mo's heart was like a knife, I couldn't help them! He thought to himself that they could not escape death!

"No, no!" Gong Xiaorou cried, "Husband, save my dad quickly and don't let them take him away!"

Seeing this, Liu Mo was so angry, but so powerless.

He could only watch Lu Sheng take Gong Changyi away, and hear Gong Xiaorou crying heart-wrenchingly.

~~~

On a morning with a north wind, an army of three hundred cavalry and nearly one thousand infantry arrived at Rongcheng.

The soldier's spear tip blinked in his pale eyes. A soldier walked in front of the team, beating a drum bigger than others, "dong, dong, dong", hitting a slow and thick marching rhythm.

These soldiers were obviously from the north of Daxia. They were all tall and strong, with a fierce look on their faces, and had murderous auras that they had only experienced on the battlefield for a long time.

Liu Mo knew that this was the eldest prince's direct army.

"How many people have arrived before?" When the army commanded Gao Qi and his generals passed through the outer wall of Rongcheng, Liu Mo asked Zhao Da.

"About a thousand people."

"The army is close to two thousand people in total!" Liu Mo was bitter, "The only good news is that these people don't need to spend money to raise them."

Fear hurts people more than sharp swords. This is a sentence Liu Mo learned on Earth. And now he feels fear is like moldy steamed buns, just like blisters on his toes after a long journey.

He thought he had already tasted fear, but the arrival of these two thousand troops had subverted his perception that it turned out that the evil people could reach such a level.

Gao Qi came to Rongcheng for seven days, and every day someone died.

The Rongcheng Salt Gang members were arrested the next day, and thousands of gangs were even unable to accept them.

Of course, this is not a problem for Gauwei.

They circled a piece of land west of Rongcheng, drove away all local residents, and then spent two days transforming all the houses into temporary prisons.

One of the warehouses used to store grain was transformed into an interrogation room.

Every morning, Gao Qi finished breakfast and entered the warehouse and randomly selected a prisoner for interrogation.

Prisoners never dared to look up at him. Perhaps they thought that if they didn't pay attention to him, they wouldn't notice them... But this didn't work. He would pick whoever he wanted. There was no place to hide, no tricks to play with, and no way to escape.

Those who are not selected must observe the interrogation from the side to understand the consequences of joining the Salt Gang as a thief.

The question was conducted by a soldier named Wei. This man looked ordinary, had dark skin, and always had a strange smile on his face.

"The Wei family has a way to teach the thief to the salt gang to scream and make the shit and urine flow!" This is what everyone commented on the interrogation soldier.

Why interrogation?

It’s very simple. According to Gao Qi, the Salt Gang should be punished for rebels.

In addition to the "rebellion" salt gang members, their fathers, brothers, wives and children, and even friends should be arrested and waited for their defeat.

Since the salt gang members were spread all over Daxia, Gao Qi was worried that there would be fish that would miss the net, so he forced the caught salt gang members to reveal all the suspicious characters, which would have to be caught.

During the entire interrogation, Gao Qi would stand by and watch and listen without moving until the victim dies.

After asking questions, they all have the same questions: Does the Salt Gang privately hide "dirty silver", and which Salt Gang rebels are in Rongcheng? Have you received the news of the storm and escaped secretly? How many people are there?

There is another most critical question: whether there are collusion with officials in the government, especially the Salt Transport Department!

After several days of inquiry, they found some "dirty silver" and asked for some news about other "rebels".

However, in the end, no member of the Salt Gang could survive the interrogation. Whether it is men, women, or children, they can only last until dusk. That's right, children are also thieves in Gao Qi's eyes!

At night, their bodies would be piled up on top of the firewood pile and burned!

The Daxia Dynasty, like the ancient earth, emphasized the need to be buried in peace, but Gao Qi believed that these rebels were not worthy of burial treatment and did not throw them into mass graves, which was already the greatest kindness.
Chapter completed!