When he returned to the front door of his home, he saw dozens of Daxia soldiers guarding the door.
Liu Mo suppressed his emotions and walked towards his home. The soldiers immediately came forward to question him.
"Who is in charge here?" Liu Mo asked them.
The leading officer soon appeared. He was about forty years old, with a long face and a neatly trimmed beard that was starting to turn gray. Wearing bright silver armor, a red cape over his shoulders, and a red tassel on the front of his water-milled chain-top helmet.
"Are you Liu Mo, Lord Liu?" he asked.
"Exactly!" Liu Mo replied, "Do you know me?"
"This general is Zhu Min's brother, Lu Sheng!" the officer said loudly.
"Lu Sheng?" Isn't he one of the several armies I spent money to raise?
"Haha, I never thought that you and I would meet on such an occasion." Lu Sheng said as he took off his helmet, "Here, I would like to thank Mr. Liu on behalf of all the soldiers."
"Brother Zhu and I are sworn brothers. Brothers of brothers are also brothers!" Liu Mo said, "General Lu's affairs are naturally my, Liu Mo's, affairs."
Let's build a relationship first, and it will be easier to get along with him in the future!
"Well said! It's a pity that when we first met, this general had to... Oh, I'm so ashamed!" Lu Sheng said, "But please don't worry, Mr. Liu, this general will never embarrass your father-in-law."
He only said father-in-law? Not talking about Gong Xiaorou!
"General Lu, what do you mean?" The soldier on the side looked solemn! "Miss Gong..."
"This general learned that Miss Gong has already married into Mr. Liu's house and has nothing to do with the Salt Gang anymore. The eldest prince wants us to capture the Salt Gang rebels, not anything else!" Lu Sheng said sternly.
This was deliberately told to me, Liu Mo thought, return me a favor! "Thank you, General Lu, but I don't know about my father-in-law?" he asked in a low voice.
"The order cannot be violated," Lu Sheng sighed, "Lu can only promise you that he will not embarrass Mr. Gong..."
Liu Mo frowned, "This is our first meeting. I can't force him to disobey the eldest prince's order." "Thank you, General Lu."
"You're welcome. If there's nothing else, I'm going to take the person away first!"
As he spoke, he winked at his men, and within a moment, several soldiers led Gong Changyi out of the house.
"What are you doing?" Gong Xiaorou shouted in a tearful tone, "What crime did my father commit? Why did you arrest him?"
Although he didn't know what happened, the people who came to arrest him were soldiers from the Great Xia Dynasty, so Gong Xiaorou naturally knew how serious the matter was.
Gong Changyi seemed to have guessed such a day, and he comforted his daughter in an unusually calm manner, "Xiaorou, don't worry, follow Mo'er well, and don't act like a young lady in the future.
The other brothers of the Yan Gang...it depends on you, Mo'er! "
Liu Mo is heartbroken, I can't help them! He thought to himself, they were bound to die!
"No, don't!" Gong Xiaorou cried, "Husband, please save my father, don't let them take him away!"
Seeing this, Liu Mo felt so angry, yet so powerless.
He could only watch Lu Sheng take Gong Changyi away and hear Gong Xiaorou's heartbreaking cry.
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On a northerly morning, an army consisting of 300 cavalry and nearly 1,000 infantry arrived at Rongcheng.
The soldier's spear point blinked in his pale eyes. There was a soldier walking in front of the team, beating a drum that was bigger than others, "dong, dong, dong", beating a slow and heavy marching rhythm.
These soldiers obviously came from the north of Daxia Dynasty. They were all tall and strong, with fierce expressions and a murderous look on their faces that could only be seen in battles.
Liu Mo knew that this was the army directly under the eldest prince.
"How many people have arrived before?" Liu Mo asked Zhao Da when Gao Qi, the commander of the army, and his generals passed through the outer wall of Rong City.
"About a thousand people."
"There are nearly two thousand troops in total!" Liu Mo said bitterly, "The only good news is that I don't need to spend money to support these people."
Fear is more hurtful than a sword, this is a saying Liu Mo learned on earth. And now he feels that fear is like moldy steamed buns, like the blisters that develop on toes after a long journey.
He thought he had already tasted the taste of fear, but the arrival of these two thousand troops subverted his knowledge. It turns out that evil people can be so evil.
Gao Qi came to Rongcheng for seven days, and people died every day.
All members of the Rongcheng Yan Gang were arrested the next day, and there were thousands of members so that the Rongcheng County Government could not accept them.
Of course, this does not trouble Galway.
They enclosed a piece of land in the west of Rongcheng, drove away all the local residents, and then spent two days transforming all the houses into temporary prisons.
One of the warehouses used to store grain was converted into an interrogation room.
Every morning, Gao Qi entered the warehouse after breakfast and randomly selected a prisoner for interrogation.
The prisoners never dared to look up at him, maybe they thought that if they didn't pay attention to him, he wouldn't notice them either... But it didn't work, he picked whoever he liked. There's no place to hide, no tricks to pull, no way to survive.
Those who are not selected must observe the entire interrogation process to understand the consequences of joining the Salt Gang and rebelling against thieves.
The inquiry was led by a soldier named Wei. This person looks ordinary, has dark skin, and always has a weird smile on his face.
"The guy surnamed Wei has a way of teaching the Salt Gang rebels to scream weirdly and make shit and urine flow!" This is what everyone said about this interrogating soldier.
Why interrogation?
It's very simple. According to Gao Qi, the nine tribes should be killed for the Salt Gang's anti-thief crime.
In addition to the "rebellious" members of the Salt Gang, their fathers, brothers, wives, children, and even friends should all be arrested and await punishment.
Since the members of the Salt Gang were spread throughout Daxia, Gao Qi was worried that some fish would slip through the net, so he forced the arrested members of the Salt Gang to confess all the suspicious persons, and he was bound to catch them all.
Throughout the interrogation process, Gao Qi would stand motionless and watch and listen until the victim died.
The questions kept coming back and forth were always the same: Did the Salt Gang secretly hide "dirty silver"? What other Salt Gang rebels were in Rongcheng? Did anyone get wind of it and escape secretly? how many people?
There is also the most critical question, whether there is collusion with people in the government, especially the Salt Transportation Department!
After several days of questioning, they found some "dirty silver" and asked for some information about other "rebellious thieves."
In the end, however, no member of the Salt Gang survived the interrogation. Regardless of whether they are men, women, or children, they can stay up until dusk at most. That's right, in Gao Qi's eyes, children are also rebels!
At night, their bodies will be piled on the pyre and burned!
The Great Xia Dynasty, like ancient times on earth, paid attention to burial. Gao Qi believed that these rebels did not deserve burial treatment, so it was the greatest mercy not to throw them into mass graves.
Seeing what Gao Qi and his men did, Liu Mo thought of a saying on earth, "Hell is empty, the devil is in the world!"
