"My lord, the traitor's family has all been obtained and sent to Wu Liang and Xu Xiuqing for interrogation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Huang Bao, director of the Security Department, reported to Li Xiao with a serious face.

He then lowered his voice and said: "My lord, when we went to arrest the wife Fang who betrayed Jiang Zun, she had already hanged herself in the room。。。。。。 ”

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, and there was a look of unbearability on his face.

Since he came to this world, he has been completely accustomed to bloody fights and the like, but even if it is completely necessary to suppress the weak with his power, it makes him extremely unbearable.

Seeing Li Xiao's face with emotion, Huang Bao, who used to be a Jinyi guard in Guangning, couldn't help but feel quite surprised.

This Master Li is too kind.

Huang Bao believes that the accidental death of the families of these rebel generals is too cheap for them, you must know that in the Daming Law, rebellion is a big crime, even if you don't punish the nine clans, you have to work on the street to be normal. If it were according to the Jinyi Guard's disposal methods, it would not have made them die so easily.

Li Xiao waved his hand, signaling that Huang Bao didn't have to say any more.

Subsequently, together with Huang Bao, he came to the interrogation room of Wu Liang and Xu Xiuqing.

This interrogation room is temporarily filled by a thatched hut of the Civil Affairs Department, and although it is simple, the area is still spacious.

At this time, the interrogation had just ended, and Wu Liang and Xu Xiuqing were discussing how to write a manuscript and report the relevant crimes of these people to Li Xiao.

When Li Xiao entered the house, the first thing that caught his eye was Fan Zhi who was kneeling on the ground and the family members of the rebels. These people, all with their heads bowed, fell to their knees.

Li Xiao quickly noticed that next to these family members, there was a chair next to it, and a small swaddling cloth was placed on it.

Li Xiao's heart suddenly felt like a knife.

He knew that this infant child was Bao'er, the child of the main betrayal of Jiang Zun, and he was only half a year old now.

Thinking that at noon, Fang gave the child's father New Year's money, but now the child's parents are separated from his yin and yang.

Wu Liang and Xu Xiuqing also saw Li Xiao enter the house, and hurriedly got up to salute, Li Xiao walked towards them and motioned for them to sit down.

As he walked past Fan Zhi, a rebel with his head down, Huang Bao spat hard at his head.

"My lord, according to the interrogation, although these family members deny it on the surface, they look down at their words and deeds, cover their words, and know that most of them are informed, but because of their own family members, they conceal it and do not report it. but there are many of them who are accomplices to the crime of cover-up. Wu Liang reported to Li Xiaoyu in a low voice.

Li Xiao sighed again in his heart.

Such a result was actually expected by him.

Chinese society is a society of human affection and blood ties. When one's relatives have done bad things and evil things, family members will cover them up, which is really human nature. If the bad deeds done by their relatives can bring real benefits to the family, then these family members will not only not feel guilty, but will be complacent about their own share of the pie.

This is also the reason why in ancient Chinese society, every dynasty had to formulate a cruel and ferocious Zhulian system, and the rulers hoped that such a cruel and inhumane legal system could be used to make those who rebel think about the cost of betrayal, so as not to easily itch their butts.

"Wu Liang, in your opinion, what should I do?" Li Xiao pondered for a moment, and then asked Wu Liang.

Wu Liang glanced at Li Xiao with complicated eyes, and then said in a low voice: "The traitor Fan Zhi, betraying the benefactor, plotting against the rebel, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, should be punished." In addition, most of these people have committed the crime of rebellion, knowing that these traitors intend to rebel, but they do not report it, and their hearts are unpredictable, in the opinion of the students, according to the terms of the Ming Law, they need to be beheaded. The students believe that only by dealing with it in this way can they deter Xiaoxiao and no longer dare to rebel. ”

"Adults, students think the same way." Xu Xiuqing interjected on the side.

Li Xiao was silent.

There was an oppressive silence in the room.

Suddenly, a loud baby cried, and the silence was struck.

Li Xiao turned his head to look, the swaddling clothes on the chair were shaking slightly, Na Bao'er was crying non-stop, and a small and thin little hand was poking out of the swaddling clothes, trying to grasp something in the air.

"Hmph, this traitor and son of a traitor, in my opinion, it is better to fall to death on the spot, so as not to grow up in the future, and it will also be a scourge." Huang Bao snorted coldly on the side.

Li Xiao ignored him, but walked over and held the child in his arms.

The child was picked up, and the cry was much quieter, Li Xiao, who had a gloomy face, brushed his fingers on the child's thin face, and when his fingertips brushed the child's mouth, the child thought that he had touched the breast. The head, grasped it with his hands, stuffed it in his mouth and sucked it soundly.

Li Xiao stood like a puppet, he held the child like this motionlessly, and let him suck his fingers.

Li Xiao, who was in this quiet and silent room, felt the heat emitted from this small body, felt the different eyes cast by everyone, and suddenly felt like a world away.

"Pass on the official's order, the rebel general Fan Zhi, change the punishment from chopping to rebellion and beheading, and immediately execute. The rest of the family members, if the evidence is obvious, will be beheaded in accordance with the law. If the evidence is unclear, the penalty shall be hard labor in a quarry or lime factory, and the sentence shall be 10 years. In addition, all children under the age of 7 are not prosecuted and are given care by others. ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, some of the family members below fainted on the spot, and others had obvious relief on their faces, but they began to cry in a low voice.

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that the most excited person was Fan Zhi.

Tied up like a zongzi, he had tears in his eyes, walked to Li Xiao on his knees, and then knocked his head with a bang: "The offender Fan Zhi, I am grateful to the adults to stay in the lower bloodline, and let the next person be able to lead the knife into a fast, if there is an afterlife, it will be repaid as a cow and horse." ”

Li Xiao didn't look at him, he was stunned for a while, didn't say anything, and then handed Bao'er to Wu Liang, told him to find a good home for this child, and then turned around and walked out of the room.

At dusk, Fan Zhi and 4 family members were beheaded according to the law, and the whole fort soldiers and civilians watched silently.

The other five family members were moved out of the fort, and the men were arranged to go to the quarry, and the women were arranged to go to the lime factory, and they began their ten-year life of hard labor.

Jiang Zun's child, Bao'er, was adopted by a childless carpenter couple under Chang Dali's knees, and at the same time, the couple also received twenty taels of silver.

Wu Liang told them that the silver was given by Li Qianhu as a child support fee in the future, but asked them not to tell anyone about it.

The honest and honest carpenter couple had a mixture of surprise and emotion on their faces, and they carefully held the child in their hands, while nodding their heads in agreement.

Including the beheaded rebel general Fan Zhi's daughter, the other three children were also adopted by the craftsmen and the family members of the fort.

The remnant sun was like blood, the twilight was dusk, Li Xiao sat alone in his room, silently looking out the window.

Sitting silently, he suddenly felt inexplicably lonely and indescribably tired.

I came to this world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, I was nameless and powerless, struggling to survive, what the protagonist's halo, what invincible gold finger and the like, I didn't encounter it. But in the past six months, he has experienced too many swords and swords, flesh-and-blood combat, deceit, calculation and use, betrayal and assassination. Although he still acts strong on the surface, who knows what kind of loneliness and loneliness he has in his heart, who seems to be strong and fearless.

It's just that I don't have any room to retreat.

In this cruel world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you don't want me, you need me to figure people, not for the sake of knives, but for fish and meat. Any hesitation and cowardice will be crushed to pieces by the cold reality.

Do you have any other choice than to forge ahead head-on and grit your teeth forward?

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, he closed his eyes gently, and was about to lean back on the chair to rest, but found that on his shoulder, at some point, a pair of light and soft hands were kneading him.

Li Xiao was excited, hurriedly turned around and looked back, and saw Zu Wan'er smiling faintly at herself, but her hands that kept pinching did not pause at all.

Li Xiao sighed, didn't say anything, turned around again, closed her eyes, and quietly enjoyed her comfortable massage with the right strength.

"Li Xiao, you did the right thing."

Zu Wan'er whispered behind her back.

"Oh, really?"

"Well, this world is already so difficult and cruel, there is really no need to make it more cruel and inhumane. Li Xiao, you can deal with you so benevolently, I really appreciate you. ”

Zu Wan'er's words were soft, but there was an inexplicable stabilizing power.

Li Xiao smiled lightly and didn't answer her, but there was a bitterness in his heart.

Am I really right?

In later generations, this system of crimes only affected the offender, and in the Ming Dynasty, an era when families were connected at every turn, it may only make more people feel that this is the benevolence of women.

It's just that as a general, he can only rely on killing to keep his subordinates loyal, which is too low-level.

Perhaps, what I can do is to let the change start with me.

Li Xiao turned around and gave her a warm smile back. "Thank you for your support."

Zu Wan'er smiled, and there were two charming dimples on her face. Li Xiao breathed in the fragrant breath on her body, and the negative emotions in her heart unconsciously dissipated a lot.

The two were talking something intimate, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, this guy who knocked on the door at this time came really badly.

"Who?"

"Teach Mr. Guan Yi to see Master Qianhu." Guan Yi's duck voice screamed outside the door.

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