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 outside. Among the common people, there are aunts carrying vegetable baskets, rich people in gorgeous clothes, and elegant scholars.
They were watching beheadings.
In the middle of the soldiers was a simple execution platform made of wood.
The supervisor sat behind the desk and frequently looked up at the sun.
There was a row of people kneeling in front of them. Everyone was kneeling on the ground wearing prison uniforms, with their names written on their collars.
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, ransacked their homes, and confiscated their wives, daughters, and underage children and grandchildren to work as maids in the government.
After Wu Nian reviewed it, Zhu Bi approved it.
"allow."
The dignified Dingfang Hou family has been reproduced for more than ten generations. As for the Liu family, which has countless dignitaries and rich people and is extremely powerful, 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 found someone to intercede. But there was no reply.
There is only one ending, beheading.
"I didn't expect that after decades of glory and wealth, I would be beheaded together with my sons when I was old. My wife, daughter, 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, with his 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 have no children or grandchildren." Liu Yichun had veins popping up on his forehead and looked up to the sky and roared angrily.
The supervisor, the swordsman and the axemen, as well as the soldiers present, were all furious.
"Death is imminent, 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 cut them.
But after one finger was chopped off, Liu Yichun let out a scream and said with heartache: "Ahh!! 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? The Han Dynasty prospered only when 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, 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 care about people's lives, bully men and women, and take 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 for the noble ladies and young ladies to become other people's maids? 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."
"Yes. 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 Yan Wang. He stares at all the 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 examination as a scholar. But that doesn’t stop them from thinking about it.
Scholars both love and hate the founding king.
I like the founder of the country for his great talent and strategy, and his vigorous and resolute actions, but I hate that the founder of the country is too shrewd and difficult to fool.
What scholars like most is an obedient emperor.
That is to say, "share the world with the scholar-officials", "the punishment is not as good as the scholar-officials" and so on.
What's wrong with 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 can just enjoy it?
All in all, readers have mixed feelings.
The original dignitaries and clans of Goguryeo were different.
They didn't like Wu Nian at all.
A restaurant.
On the second floor balcony. The three dignitaries sat together and looked at the fate of Dingfang Marquis Liu Yichun, with complex expressions of resentment, 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 or eyes. Seeing no one around, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Xiang scolded: "Now is not what it used to be. Be careful with your words and deeds."
"That's 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 feathers or were relatively clean, so there was no problem. But they also handed over a lot of land and slaves.
Even if you are not a miser, if you are deprived of most of your family property for nothing and become a "poor" family, you will still be heartbroken.
What's more, powerful and wealthy 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?
How can one not 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, probably tens of thousands of people, to come 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 scare people."
"Tell me. Does the Jin family still have a chance?" Li Ding looked around and then asked carefully.
