Few people can survive the punishment. If they do, they either have extremely firm beliefs or have overwhelming anger.
Sun Shangjin belonged to the latter group. He was tortured to the point of death and even wanted to bite his tongue to commit suicide, but he still did not speak.
In fact, you cannot commit suicide by biting your tongue, you will only lose blood, and it is difficult to lose too much blood.
A small piece of tongue was stuck out, but he still didn't speak.
Zhou Tong, who was about to be executed, had a complex expression on his face. How he wished Sun Shangjin would speak up and say that it was all a misunderstanding and that his brother Zhou Xiao did not rebel, but was just deceived by the villain.
Zhao Xiong, who was silent next to him, winked at the two followers behind him. A quarter of an hour later, all twelve local officials and their family members were brought over.
The Zhao family's light cavalry all raised their heavy swords. Zhao Xiong told Sun Shangjin that these subordinate officials were all his colleagues and were in the same situation as him. But now that Sun Shangjin was involved in the rebellion, the officials here could not escape the relationship. Sooner or later they would meet Death, if he spoke now, he could promise on behalf of Han You to let everyone go.
Zhao Xiong is really an old fox. He knows officials from all over the country very well. He not only understands the "reason" of Sun Shangjin, but also understands the "essence" of Sun Shangjin. What is the weakness of Sun County Government? Officials who share the same.
Sun Shangjin cursed repeatedly, but after scolding, he finally spoke out of kindness.
The situation is similar to what Zhao Congyun said. Zhou Xiao and Zhou Tianfeng did hook up together. The two seemed to be good friends who agreed to enter a key university together, but the two idiots agreed to rebel together.
Seeing Sun Shangjin speak, Han You asked the most critical question: "Which official or family in the Southland has been bribed by Zhou Xiao?"
If only one Zhao Congyun said that Zhou Xiao was treasonous, Han You would call Zhou Xiao the eldest prince. Now that Sun Shangjin has confirmed this matter, no one will call him His Highness and call him by his first name without any respect.
"I don't know." Sun Shangjin looked at the trembling officials and their families: "Let them go."
"Okay, if you still try to lie to me, you won't catch them next time, but kill them directly."
Han You winked and all these people were released.
"Tell me, how did Zhou Xiao recruit you?"
This is also the issue Han You is most concerned about. If you want to rebel, you can't just post a notice. Write about the great cause of rebellion and invite those who are interested to join. Either you will stand out or you will die. If you don't want to be ordinary, then rebel with me.
Knowing how Zhou Xiao draws people over, you can guess who he draws into his thief ship through this method.
When Sun Shangjin saw that the subordinate officials and their families had been loosened, he lowered his head and said, "At the end of autumn, His Highness came to Zhi County with several followers, asking for food and grass."
Han You nodded: "Go on."
"I asked him what he wanted for food and grass, and His Highness said rebellion."
Han You was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"
"His Highness said he was going to rebel and asked me if I wanted to join him."
Han You was furious: "Believe it or not, I will cut off all your subordinate officials now with an order..."
Before he finished speaking, the officials who had just been released nodded in unison and started talking in various directions.
"That's what His Highness said. He even asked the official if he was interested in rebelling..."
"He also wants to put up a notice asking whoever here doesn't want to live can join him in rebellion..."
"Yes, yes, that's what I said, right in the courtroom..."
"So, I thought His Highness was joking..."
Han You was confused, and his friends were confused.
Zhao Xiong seemed to have remembered something, his gray eyebrows twitching: "Actually, I also heard about this at the beginning."
"Zhou Xiao went to Zhi County to find someone to rebel with him. How can he be honest and just to find someone to rebel with him?"
"It's not Zhi County, but Qiongzhou, Nanzhou, Lunxian and other places. Since the eldest prince arrived in the fiefdom, he likes to travel around the mountains and rivers. When he meets officials or soldiers, he says he likes them and asks these people if they are willing to cooperate with them. He rebelled together."
Speaking of this, Zhao Xiong smiled bitterly: "When I first heard this rumor, I thought it was just a joke. Even if it was not a joke, it was deliberately trying to anger His Majesty in order to spread it to the capital. But...it's just who imagined it, it's not a joke. The words are not just rumors, Zhou Xiao actually wants to rebel."
"I'm sorry..."
Han You was so impressed that he couldn't help but look at Zhou Tong.
Zhou Tong's face turned red: "Brother Huang has been... Zhou Xiao has been sincere since he was a child. He doesn't like to beat around the bush and is quite honest."
Han You scolded directly: "What the hell is this called honesty? If you are honest, he is rebelling?"
Zhou Tong whispered: "A very honest rebel."
Han You: "..."
Zhao Xiong looked at Sun Shangjin: "Everyone else thought what Zhou Xiao said was a joke or crazy, and they avoided him like a snake or a scorpion. Why did you believe his words and seek refuge with him?"
"I didn't believe it at first. I asked him how to prove it, and the eldest prince said..."
"say what?"
"Zhou Ke's entire family died."
Everyone present was silent.
Or maybe they are members of the royal family, but their rebellion is so unconventional.
Han You was overjoyed: "Fortunately, my surname is not Zhou."
Sun Shangjin lowered his head: "His Highness said that I will kill you first to sacrifice the flag."
"I..." Han You grinned: "Why?"
"If I kill you, the imperial court will send a large army to put down the rebellion. The person who will lead the army will be either the Dog Emperor or your father Han Bairen."
The more Han You listened, the more confused he became: "Did our Han family offend him?"
"I don't know, His Highness said that he just wants to be killed by your father or his father, or his father and your father."
Han You was even more confused. Could it be that Zhou Xiao had no grudge against the Han family, but only had a grudge against his "father", regardless of whether his father was someone else's father.
A group of people looked at each other and wanted to kill Lao Ba. Everyone could understand, what did it mean to kill Lao Han?
It's true that Lao Han had been living in the border back then, but at that time Lao Ba had not yet ascended the throne, and Zhou Xiao had not yet obtained a fiefdom.
After Lao Ba ascended the throne, Zhou Xiao came to Nandi, but Lao Han returned to Beijing. The two had no intersection at all, and they couldn't go together.
Zhao Xiong seemed to have thought of something, glanced at Han You slightly, and continued to ask: "According to my investigation, Zhao Bao obviously fled to Yizhou, why did he come back to assassinate General Han? Is it because of the maze formation, or for other reasons? ?”
"I was going to Yizhou, and on the way I heard that his son Zhao Congyun was hung on the city wall of Qiongzhou. Old man Zhao was so humiliated that he brought his dead men back to rescue his ungrateful son Zhao Congyun. He also heard that the Tian family When Han You, the eagle dog, came to Zhi County, he cooperated with me inside and outside to get rid of him. His Highness originally wanted to kill this emperor's bastard, so I thought that in this case, it would be better to do it without stopping and kill this bastard..."
"Just wait a minute." Han You couldn't stand listening anymore: "I'm still standing here, can you respect me a little bit."
Sun Shangjin sneered: "Aren't you the emperor's bastard?"
"So... right?"
With a snort, Sun Shangjin continued: "I wanted to endure the humiliation and deceive this pro-soldier bastard into getting away with him first. Who would have thought that Zhao Bao had already lost a lot and just wanted to take this bastard's life and ambush him..."
Halfway through, Sun Shangjin suddenly glanced at Jiang Zhui beside him: "Which one of you two is the real pro-military dogleg?"
Jiang Zhui didn't dare to pretend anymore and pointed at Han You.
Sun Shangjin gritted his teeth and said, "Then why do you claim to be my commander?"
Jiang Zhui lowered his head, not daring to look directly into Sun Shangjin's eyes.
"Then why are you wearing a goggles?"
Jiang Zhui still lowered his head, still not daring to look directly into Sun Shangjin's eyes.
Han You sighed: "Take him to Qiongzhou, then to Beijing, and inform your majesty that only Sun Shangjin is secretly seeking refuge with Zhou Xiao in Zhi County, and other officials do not know about it."
Sun Shangjin looked at Han You and said in a bitter voice, "Thank you very much."
"Get out of here, uncle."
Han You rolled his eyes. He couldn't make the decision on this kind of thing and this kind of person.
Scratching his chin, Han You sighed silently. After all, he was still against it. He really was against it.
But there was one thing he couldn't figure out. He and his father didn't know this idiot at all. Why was Zhou Xiao so determined to kill him, and why he wanted to kill him and lure his father here? Could it be that his father had ever offended this guy?
Looking at Wang Hai, Brother Hai shook his head. He knew what Han You was confused about.
Looking at Lu Baichuan, Lu Baichuan also shook his head. He didn't know why Han You was confused. He only knew that Wang Hai shook his head, so he shook his head.
Han You scolded: "Why don't you know anything? You always ask questions and don't know. What do I want from you?"
