"This is natural, I can kill your whole family on the charge of treason, and what is the matter of raiding your house."

Zhu Youlang spread his hands and said, "It's up to you how you choose." ”

Ants still steal life, let alone people.

Sun Yuanfu looked extremely painful, but he also knew that he was certain to die at this point.

If he took the initiative to donate his family wealth and take responsibility, Zhu Youlang would only kill him.

If he resists to the end, the whole family will have to bury him.

What's the use of fighting for this breath?

"The grass people are willing to donate their family wealth, and I also ask Your Majesty to let the grass people's families go."

Sun Yuanfu cried bitterly.

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place."

Zhu Youlang shook his head and said, "That's it, I promised not to kill your family, so I will execute you as someone who violates the will of epidemic prevention." ”

After that, Zhu walked away with a hammer.

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As a death row prisoner appointed by the Son of Heaven, many people came to watch on the day Sun Yuanfu was executed.

Sun Yuanfu was like a stake on the prisoner car, his eyes were blank and lifeless.

He knew he was going to die, and he no longer struggled.

It's just that he didn't see the situation clearly, if he knew that this epidemic prevention order was issued by the emperor, he wouldn't dare to touch the tiger's whiskers no matter what.

But now it's too late.

"Kill him, kill this dog thief!"

"Someone in the house is infected with the plague and dares to rush out, and if you don't want to die, you will ask everyone to die with you?"

"Shameless thing, kill him!"

The people on both sides of the road called rotten vegetable leaves to smash at Sun Yuanfu.

These vegetable leaves smashed on Sun Yuanfu's body, but he did not react and let the people be humiliated.

The prisoner cart was moving very slowly, as if it was deliberately trying to let the people vent.

It was only after a stick of incense that Sun Yuanfu's prisoner car stopped in front of the execution ground.

The two soldiers opened the door of the prisoner cart and dragged Sun Yuanfu down like a dead dog.

Sun Yuanfu looked up and saw the anvil placed on the guillotine, and his body instinctively twitched.

On the guillotine, there is also a makeshift prison table, where the warden sits with a solemn face.

"Kill him, kill this dog thief!"

The people roared again.

"Behead him, cut off his head!"

It was none other than Zhang Huangyan who served as the supervisor of this beheading.

First, he is the most trusted civil official of Zhu Youlang in Nanjing today, and second, Zhang Huangyan once personally presided over the epidemic prevention work.

The execution of Sun Yuanfu is also a warning to the world not to go against the will of epidemic prevention.

No matter from which point of view, it is only appropriate for Zhang Huangyan to serve as this supervisor.

Zhang Huangyan was very grateful to the Son of Heaven for not executing Sun Yuanfu in Jinyi Weibei Town, but chose to publicly punish him and kill him with national law.

This is a warning to the people, and it is justified.

Otherwise, someone will have to jump out and say that the Son of Heaven is abusing his power.

The soldiers pushed Sun Yuanfu to the anvil and ordered him to kneel.

Sun Yuanfu naturally obeyed the order.

He was already disheartened and just wanted a quick death.

Zhang Huangyan glanced at the sky, and when he saw that it was almost time, he threw out a stick.

"Come on, behead Sun Yuanfu!"

Zhang Huangyan gave an order, and the executioner, who had been waiting for a long time, raised the sharpened broadsword high above his head.

Sun Yuanfu had been pressed on the anvil by the soldiers at this moment, like a dead fish.

"Slash!"

But listening to the whoosh, the big knife cut off Sun Yuanfu's head.

Blood gushed from his neck, and the headless corpse twitched for a while before collapsing.

The executioner lifted the tumbling head and showed it to the people, much to the excitement of the onlookers. Some people even wanted to take the first step forward and dip a rag in Sun Yuanfu's blood.

Zhang Huangyan had already completed the task, so he naturally had no intention of staying at the execution ground any longer, and left the execution ground with a flick of his sleeves and surrounded by his entourage.

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The execution of Sun Yuanfu did play a very large role in deterring people's hearts.

Those rich businessmen who were originally unruly and unruly all shrank at home and did not dare to make a mistake.

The few families who were found to be infected in the mansion were even more cautious to the extreme, and even took the initiative to send people to communicate with the officers and soldiers stationed outside their mansions, saying that they were willing to donate some money to help the imperial court prevent the epidemic.

This can be regarded as spending money to buy peace.

After all, Sun Yuanfu has learned from the past, and none of them wants to become Sun Yuanfu's second.

In front of the court, they are like chickens. It was easier for the court to pinch them to death than it was to pinch them to death a bedbug.

Not to mention anything else, if the imperial court really wants to clean them up and put on them the charge of going out without permission against the will of epidemic prevention, won't they die?

Reasoning? Who to talk to?

The court is reasonable.

They suddenly discovered that the plague had stirred not only people's hearts, but also their pockets.

Didn't the court kill them when they wanted to kill a fat sheep?

Rather than waiting for the court to raise its broadsword, it is better for them to bleed and seek peace with their own senses.

When sincerity is given, the court will naturally not hold on to them.

When the news reached the palace, Zhu Youlang was happy.

His move was to set an example for the monkey and kill Sun Yuanfu to show those rich businessmen.

I didn't expect these rich businessmen to be so timid, and they were so frightened.

According to Zhang Huangyan's report, the sum of the silver donated by the four families exceeded one million taels.

It is said that there are countless wealthy businessmen and giants in Nanjing, but if you really want to rank in the top five, it is really these few.

They are all rich and rival the country, even compared to Shen Wansan back then.

One million taels were divided by them, and one person was two hundred and fifty thousand taels.

Two hundred and fifty thousand taels sounds scary, but for these wealthy businessmen, it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

But for Zhu Youlang, this money is very critical.

He could use the money to pay his military salaries or invest it in the production of firearms.

After all, it takes real money to make firecrackers and artillery, and what the imperial court lacks most now is money.

Now Zhu Youlang can understand the helplessness of Emperor Chongzhen back then.

Before the city of Beijing was about to be breached by the Shun army, Chongzhen was still raising money in the city, hoping that officials and wealthy businessmen could donate silver to help him recruit troops to resist the enemy.

But no one has the same heart for him at all. The officials donated a few hundred taels of silver, and the wealthy businessmen simply did not pull out a dime.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen was angry and said that I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country.

Although it tastes like a dumping pot, it's not completely unreasonable.

These courtiers and profiteers really deserve to be killed.

In the final analysis, when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the People's Republic of China, he created a set of policies that emphasized agriculture and suppressed business.

It can suppress merchants but not to the roots, and it is unimaginable that the commercial tax of thirty taxes and one is placed in any dynasty.

The result was that these merchants were fed, but the Ming court had no money to spend.

These merchants would also honor some officials with silver, but the emperor had no money to spend.

It's sad and ridiculous.

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