Chapter 880: Decision
Pyongyang City.
The Caishikou, which is usually bustling and bustling on weekdays, is even more crowded and lively today.
A large number of soldiers, wearing armor and holding spears, were well prepared and arranged in a circle to isolate the people watching from outside. Among the people were aunts carrying vegetable baskets, rich people in gorgeous clothes, and elegant scholars.
They were watching the beheading.
In the middle of the soldiers was a simple execution platform made of wood.
The supervisor sat behind the desk and frequently raised his head to look at the sun.
There was a row of people kneeling in front of them. Everyone was kneeling on the ground wearing prison uniforms, with labels on their collars with their names written on them.
The main culprit was Liu Yichun, Dingfang Marquis of the former Jin Dynasty, his eight sons, ten grandsons, twelve clansmen, and nine evil slaves.
After investigation, the county magistrate Cui Yue sentenced these people to execution, confiscated their homes, and confiscated their wives, daughters, and underage children and grandchildren, and banished them to the government as maids.
It was reviewed by Wu Nian and approved by Zhu Bi.
"allow."
The dignified Dingfang Marquis line has been reproduced for more than ten generations. As for the powerful, wealthy and powerful Liu family, they were almost wiped out in one fell swoop and will never be able to stand up again.
Liu Yichun and others did not struggle. They struggled, cried, and asked for help. But there was no response.
There is only one ending, a decisive decision.
"I didn't expect that after decades of prosperity and wealth, I would be beheaded together with my sons when I was old. My wife, daughters, and grandchildren became other people's slaves, and my family property was robbed by Wu Nian. I have tried my best to plunder people's wealth and wealth over the years.
In the end, it became Wu Nian’s wedding dress, why on earth did I do it?”
Liu Yichun recalled his life, full of beautiful clothes, angry horses, fine food and beautiful women. Then he looked down at the prison uniform he was wearing now, and he couldn't help but feel sad and hateful.
"Wu Nian. I curse you to cut off your descendants as well." Liu Yichun had blue veins popping up on his forehead and he looked up to the sky and roared angrily.
The supervisor, the swordsman and the axemen, as well as the soldiers present, were all furious.
"He's about to die, but he still dares to be so rampant. Someone comes and chops off ten of his fingers." The supervisor shouted.
"Yes." A soldier was filled with indignation, took out the steel knife from his waist, and walked towards Liu Yichun.
Liu Yichun sneered, raised his head and said, "I'm about to die, am I still afraid of cutting off my fingers? Come on, call me the son of a turtle."
After the soldiers helped him untie him, he even stretched out his fingers and asked the soldiers to chop them off.
But when a finger was chopped off, Liu Yichun let out a scream and said with heartache: "Ah! Spare me, spare me. It hurts me to death, it hurts me to death."
Ten fingers connected to the heart, cutting off ten fingers is more painful and torturous than beheading.
The soldier looked cold and showed no intention of stopping. He chopped off Liu Yichun's fingers one by one.
What a joke.
He actually cursed us, the King of Han, to cut off his descendants? Only when the Han Dynasty prospered, the princes and descendants of the Han Dynasty prospered.
When Liu Yichun lost ten fingers and collapsed on the ground, sweating like a waterfall, and his face was as white as gold paper, the soldier was satisfied. He reached out and wiped the steel knife on Liu Yichun's prison clothes, then returned the knife to the sheath and jumped
After getting off the execution platform, he returned to the queue.
"This is really miserable. The dignified Marquis Dingfang. But why do I feel so happy?"
"Just be happy. You are so domineering in normal times, and now you deserve it. You are looking down on human life, bullying men and women, and taking advantage of others. There is nothing these people dare not do."
"That's right. Now the adult men of Dingfanghou's family and the strong men in the clan have also been killed. All the wives and daughters have become official maids, which is really a relief. I wonder what it feels like, Madam, Miss, to become someone else's maid?
hehe."
It is the common people who are applauded, and they are the ones who hate corrupt officials and lawless powerful people the most.
Since ancient times, seeing corrupt officials beheaded has been a popular sight for the common people.
"The King of Han is really decisive in killing. We scholars should not think about promotion and wealth. We should think about doing good work. Otherwise, don't take the imperial examination and go home to farm. Otherwise, if you become a corrupt official, you will be punished sooner or later."
"That's right. The King of Han hates corrupt officials deeply, and the criminal law is severe. Moreover, there is a meritorious official in the court, Wang Youxiao, known as Wang Yanwang. He stares at all officials with his eyes open and supervises the civil and military affairs. It's scary to think about it."
The mood of readers is more complicated.
Becoming an official is the ultimate dream of scholars. Although most scholars cannot even pass the exam, it does not prevent them from thinking about it.
Scholars both like and dislike the founder of the country.
I like the founder of the country for his great talents and strategies, and his vigorous and resolute actions, but I hate that the founding king is too shrewd and hard to fool.
What scholars like most is an obedient emperor.
That is to say, "sharing the world with the scholar-officials", "the punishment cannot be punished by the scholar-officials", etc.
What happened to being greedy for money?
What’s wrong with lusting after beauty?
What’s wrong with being mediocre and incompetent?
What's wrong with us studying hard in the cold window, and once we get to the top of the high school list, we just enjoy it a little bit?
All in all, the readers' feelings are very complicated.
The original dignitaries and clans of Goguryeo were different.
They didn't like Wu Nian at all.
A restaurant.
On the balcony on the second floor, three dignitaries sat together, looking at the fate of Dingfang Hou Liu Yichun, with complex expressions of anger, helplessness, and sadness on their faces.
The three of them are the heroes of the Jin Dynasty.
Li Ding, Zhang Xiang.
Jin clan.
Jin Yu.
The powerful people all intermarry with each other. The three of them have a very close blood relationship and a strong relationship, so they talk more casually.
Li Ding said: "It's true that the front is respectful and the back is arrogant. When Wu Niangang conquered Pyongyang City, he treated us preferentially. Now he has shown his fangs."
Zhang Xiang and Jin Yu suddenly broke into a cold sweat, and then subconsciously looked around to see if there were any ears and eyes. When they saw no one around, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Xiang scolded: "Now is not what it used to be. Be careful with your words and deeds."
"You're right. Be careful that you end up like Liu Yichun." Jin Yu also said with a solemn expression.
"Hey." Li Ding sighed and said no more.
Not just Liu Yichun, many people were arrested.
All three of them had clean or relatively clean feathers, so there was nothing to worry about. However, they also handed over a lot of property and slaves.
Even if you are not a miser, if you are deprived of most of your family property for no reason and become a "poor" family, you will still be heartbroken.
What's more, the rich and powerful families are marrying each other, and many of their relatives have been arrested. The Liu Yichun in front of me is one of them.
How to avoid being sad when a rabbit dies and a fox dies?
How not to be angry at Wu Nian?
But there is no way.
When the dust settles, resisting will only lead to a miserable death.
"I heard that Wu Nian was going to have a military parade. He also summoned the village chiefs of Goguryeo, famous people in the village, or squires and the like. I'm afraid tens of thousands of people came to Pyongyang to watch the military parade. He must be in Yingqing Mansion.
Jiangcheng, who is not in Goguryeo, is worried about the situation in Goguryeo, so he uses the army to frighten people's hearts."
Chapter completed!