Sun Shangjin will definitely not survive. Assassinating the emperor's soldiers is no different from treason. Besides, he himself is treason.
If a prince rebels, the emperor may give in because of family ties, as long as the trouble doesn't go too far.
As for the people below who followed the prince to rebel, they started to separate their families and put the nine clans to death.
Zhao Congyun is not a tough guy, but Sun Shangjin is. You can tell without using his hands. He just looks like I am not afraid of death, I won't say anything, and I will piss you off to death.
In fact, Han You had no fewer than ten ways to pry open a tough guy's mouth, but he didn't want to do it.
There must be a reason for a person to "break the law"
There must be a reason for a person who is caught breaking the law and refuses to speak out.
There must be an extraordinary reason why he would rather suffer torture than speak even though he knew he was about to die. This reason was already more important than his life or death.
Han You was very curious and wanted to know the reason.
Jiang Zhui pulled out his knives, wanting to avenge the sneak attack.
"Thieves, it's okay if you don't tell me, this leader... I want you to know what life is worse than death, the dilemma of life and death, the inability to die, the narrow escape from death, the chance of death, the shamelessness, the life and death, the uncertainty of life and death..."
Han You kicked Jiang Zhui away: "Just die and leave."
Crouching in front of Sun Shangjin, Han You looked directly into the former's eyes: "Speak, and I will give you a happy death. Believe me, if you don't open your mouth, a happy death will become a luxury."
"Dream!" Sun Shangjin was about to say "Oh shit" when Jiang Zhui kicked him in the face, causing him to swallow back the thick phlegm that reached his mouth.
"Hey." Zhao Xiong sighed: "This person is also a miserable person."
"What's the meaning?"
Zhao Xiong looked at Sun Shangjin and spoke slowly.
Han You and his group didn't understand Sun Shangjin, but Zhao Xiong did. Just as Lao Deng said just now, among the officials in the Southland, even the small prefects, he remembered it in his heart and understood it very well.
Zhao Xiong had already guessed the reason why Sun Shangjin followed Zhou Xiao in rebellion, at least he knew the "cause".
In the sixth year of Chengtai, a great epidemic occurred in the south, that is, smallpox was raging.
Some people say that the source is from foreign tribes outside the pass, while others say that it was brought by a group of blond and blue-eyed barbarian merchant ships in the southern Xinjiang basin. There are different opinions.
There is only one thing that is not controversial, and that is that this catastrophe almost swept through the entire Shangyang Road among the three roads in the South.
Sun Shangjin's youngest son was killed in this catastrophe. Of the seven members of his family, he was the only one to survive.
To be fair, the imperial court far away in Beijing should not be held responsible for such a disaster, but their actions are chilling and chilling.
A total of 110,000 people in the two cities and seven counties in Shangyang Road were sealed off in the towns. Soldiers from Zhechong Prefecture of each prefecture patrolled outside the city day and night. Anyone who dared to leave the city would be shot without asking for a reason.
You must know that not all of the 110,000 people are infected, maybe only two-thirds, maybe one-third, maybe less, maybe not even one-tenth or two. As for how many there are, the court has no idea. Too lazy to investigate. For them, anyone could be infected. If the foot hurts, treat the foot. If the headache occurs, treat the head. If it hurts again, just cut it off.
In nearly three months, 50,000 of the 110,000 people died, and nearly half of them were shot to death by soldiers and horses sent by the imperial court with bows and arrows.
Because of this incident, the court also dismissed several captains of Zhechong Prefecture, and three captains were convicted. Even the border troops were implicated, because they were unwilling to use weapons against the people, even if they formed a human wall outside the city. He will not shoot sharp arrows at the people.
Zhi County was also sealed back then, and Sun Shangjin was just a warehouse guard at that time. He didn't know what purgatory was like. If purgatory really existed in this world, then he must have experienced it.
If his wife, children, and children had died of illness, Sun Shangjin would not have become what he is today, but his wife, children, and children were shot to death.
Even if he was shot, even if all the people who ran out of the city were shot, Sun Shangjin would not become what he is today.
But not all those who were infected were shot. It was only three months later that he learned that there were classes in hell.
At first, there was no epidemic in Zhi County, but the disease was brought to Zhi County by those young masters who were accustomed to riding horses to travel around the mountains and rivers.
But after Zhi County was closed, these so-called young men, rich and powerful, and young masters of various houses could leave openly and seek treatment from doctors, and were carefully cared for, while the common people who had no roots fell outside the city walls. , covered with arrows.
For people like Sun Shangjin, who comes from a grassroots background, family is everything. In the purgatory of class, he lost everything.
He is extremely disappointed with this world, and even life and death cannot be fair. There is no fairness in this world, and it is the other way around.
He wanted to take revenge on the court ministers who caused countless people to die unjustly with just their words.
It's just that he is just a warehouse guard in a place full of prisoners. He doesn't even have the money to buy a good knife or a fast horse to go to the capital. How can he take revenge?
People who have lost everything must live because of something. If they can't find it, they can only use hatred to support this body.
After Lao Ba ascended the throne, he changed the name of Kang Dynasty to Zhou Dynasty, but the courtiers were not changed. The court was still the same court, and the aristocratic family was still the same aristocratic family. For Sun Shangjin, the Zhou Dynasty was no different from the Kang Dynasty. The person who killed his whole family was still sitting high. Temple.
Sun Shangjin followed Zhou Xiao to rebel, not because he wanted to be a minister of Conglong and enjoy all the glory and wealth. He just wanted to follow Zhou Xiao to the capital one day and kill the imperial officials in the capital, that's all.
Smallpox was not caused by his anger.
Zhi County was surrounded, which was not the reason for his anger.
Those who were clearly infected with the disease could walk out of the city wall without hesitation, step over the corpses of his wife, children, and children who were not infected at all. This was the real reason why he was willing to follow Zhou Xiao in rebellion.
As Zhao Xiong analyzed Sun Shangjin, the county magistrate, in an extremely confident tone, Han You, who listened silently, had mixed feelings.
Sun Shangjin, who was kneeling on the ground, remained silent from beginning to end, letting Zhao Xiong talk about the catastrophe that year. The humanity and evil in that catastrophe were magnified to the extreme.
"People with unstable minds will lose themselves and reason in hatred. Only by constantly hurting others can they obtain self-righteous salvation or short-term peace."
Han You stepped forward and pulled off Sun Shangjin's clothes, and saw the numb scar on the latter's chest.
This kind of dense scars, which people call pockmarks, is very scary.
Smallpox can actually heal itself. As long as it can heal itself, the only sequelae will be pockmarks. Apart from the medical and aesthetic technology of later generations, there is no other way to remove scars.
However, if the condition is particularly severe, complications such as osteomyelitis, encephalitis, sepsis, and meningitis may occur, which are the main causes of death.
According to probability statistics, the fatality rate is 12% to 25%.
It's just that most ancient people were malnourished and had poor resistance, so this probability will continue to be amplified.
Han You stared at the two hairs on Sun Shangjin's head that were like cricket whiskers, those two extremely ridiculous hairs.
"If you were in Beijing at that time and could make the decision in the court, even if you were the emperor."
Han You shook his head: "What will happen to you?"
"Dog officer!" Sun Shangjin spat on the ground: "I will never let soldiers shoot civilians!"
"That's not the point. The point is that your wife, children, and children were shot and killed without contracting the disease, while the young man who contracted the disease was able to leave without hesitation, right?"
"Officials protect each other and the court kills a thousand people, why don't they rebel?"
"What if you rebel and let the people become rioters and rebels, and are eventually massacred by the imperial army?"
“Only through great destruction can we achieve great success!”
"Okay." Han You saw that this guy was in need of food and salt, so he turned back to Zhou Tong and said, "Take it to the backyard and tie it to a stool, face it up, put a sweat towel on your face and keep pouring water on it. He will cough violently. , will keep struggling and in extreme pain, don’t really let him die, ask everything about Zhou Tianfeng and Zhou Xiao.”
Zhou Tong finally learned his lesson for a while. Even though he didn't understand, he didn't ask. He grabbed Sun Shangjin by the neck and took him away.
Han You hesitated for a moment and then said: "Master Sun, you and I have no personal grudges at all. Work is just work. If you see your wife, children and children after your death, tell them that you did your best."
