Chapter 372: Beheading
Under the non-stop expedition of Wu Sangui's 200,000 army day and night, Fujian was fully occupied by him, and Zheng Zhilong reluctantly led his courtiers and Emperor Longwu to Taiwan, and fought with the Dutch on the island.
After Wu Sangui occupied Fuzhou, the local people took the Fuzhou palace as their own palace. And sent troops to deploy in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces. These four places are already his last turf, and he can't afford to lose any more. Then Wu Sangui began to recruit troops again, and the number of troops soon reached 400,000.
Of course, due to the rapid increase in the number of soldiers, the food in his hands also began to be scarce. It was very certain that it would not work without food, so Wu Sangui ordered taxes and grain. Suddenly, the people of these four provinces were tossed and jumped. The rebels continued, countless displaced people were born, and many people starved to death on the streets. The corpses were unburied, and there were even scenes of dogs eating people.
Wu Sangui's brutal rule led to constant resistance, and the people here thought about the arrival of the Pingbei Army, and countless people fled to the places controlled by Liu Xiaping's Northern Army. For a time, the southerners fled to the north.
Wu Sangui naturally did not allow these people to escape his control, so he immediately sent soldiers to intercept them. In the end, Wu Sangui was angry and beheaded all the people who were captured as a deterrent.
When Liu Xia heard about this incident, he immediately came forward to pay tribute to these dead people, and the scene was grand. It attracted millions of people from all over the world. Liu Xia's move won the hearts of the people.
Although Wu Sangui killed so many fleeing people, he still couldn't stop the people from fleeing the four southern provinces. Comparing the behavior of Wu Sangui and Liu Xia, no one will think that Wu Sangui is a Ming Jun. Brutal people will never win the hearts and minds of the people.
As a result, the border between the Pingbei Army and the four southern provinces became two completely different worlds.
Once the people fled to the rule of the Pingbei Army, then Wu Sangui's soldiers consciously did not pursue and kill, but if they did not escape, the Pingbei Army would not go over to help. After all, Liu Xia is not ready to start a full-scale war now, so there are some rules that must be followed.
Time flies, and 1651 is history. The spring of 1652 had arrived. In the past eight or nine months, the activities of the Pingbei Army have been relatively stable.
The Jungar Khanate in the Western Regions has not yet been pacified, and the island of Kyushu has been completely captured. The southern part of the Korean Peninsula officially became the base of the naval army. Dolgon fled with those Tartar Hanchen to Horqin and other places in Heilongjiang. The strength has been greatly reduced. All the west of Shenyang was recovered, and so far, the Tartar rebellion was basically pacified.
Wu Sangui and Liu Xia in the south are still at a stalemate. Except for Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, and half of Jiangxi, which were controlled by Wu Sangui, all other places were completely controlled by Liu Xia. The war between the Beast Legion and the Burmese King has ended, and the Beast Legion has won a great victory, occupying all the provinces in northern Burma. And under Liu Xia's instructions, the local poppy was destroyed. Of course, it is not possible to destroy them all, but to expand a piece of land for planting, and ordinary people are not allowed to touch it. After the opium was made, it was sold to the West.
Opium actually became a tribute during the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, many emperors and ministers smoked opium, but because opium was expensive, ordinary people could not afford it. But Liu Xia knew the dangers of opium.
This is a drug that can turn a people into a sick man. While opium does have some medicinal properties, it must be used with caution.
Then Liu Xia began to explicitly prohibit any official in the Pingbei Army from smoking opium, and once discovered, he was directly dismissed. In this day and age, no one knows that a hundred years later there will be an opium war that humiliates the Chinese.
As a result, Liu Xia began to think about how to transport opium to the West. Earn money.
In April, the construction of Zhongyi Square was completed, and then Liu Xia personally went to Zhongyi Square for review, and after the audit was completed. Within two days, Hong Chengchou, who was in prison, was pulled out, and he would be the first person to be beheaded in Zhongyi Square.
In the center of Zhongyi Square is a guillotine. To the north of the guillotine are the three emperors and five emperors and the anti-captivity heroes of the previous dynasties, and to the south are kneeling traitors who have bought traitors.
In the past few months, Hong Chengchou has suffered physical and mental torture every day, and now he is no longer human, but his head is still very clear.
Today, the people in Luoyang City heard the news and surrounded the huge Zhongyi Square. Coupled with Liu Xia's personal arrival, the people rushed to come. As for whether to watch the killing of traitors, or to witness Liu Xia's heroic appearance, it is not very clear.
"Hong Chengchou, big traitor!"
"Hong Chengchou, big traitor!"
"Kill him!"
"Kill him dog. Mother-raised. ”
When Hong Chengchou was pressed up, countless crusades sounded in an instant, which was really deafening.
Hong Chengchou was kicked in the back leg by the soldiers behind him, and then knelt heavily on the guillotine platform. Standing next to him was a fat man who was sweating profusely. Another man next to the big man was gargling him with a bowl of wine.
A sharp machete in his hand was dazzling in the sun.
Liu Xia walked onto the stage, surrounded by several guards around him, and protected him closely. I only heard him step forward, looked at Hong Chengchou who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Hong Chengchou, have you ever thought about today's end?" ”
Liu Xia sneered, and glanced at Hong Chengchou, who was full of stench, cloaked, covered with pimples, and his eyes were already cloudy.
The wrinkled face slowly lifted, his eyes flashed with remorse, he looked at Liu Xia and looked a little scared and unwilling, his chapped lips spit out heavily: "Since it has reached such a point, how to deal with it, whatever the prince." With that, Hong Chengchou lowered his head and closed his eyes. seemed to be indifferent and indifferent, which made Liu Xia quite unhappy.
Liu Xia was thinking in his heart: "You are just a traitor, but now you are acting so righteously, as if this king is a dumb king." ”
Thinking of this, Liu Xia was even more unhappy. "You have betrayed the nation and the people. Willing to fall, aiding and abetting, killing countless fellow clansmen, and his hands are stained with the blood of the people, even if he kills you thousands of times, it is not enough to sacrifice the dead soul. Now that God has seen it, it is really gratifying that such a shameless person as you has fallen into the hands of this king. It is the blessing of the people, and not killing is not enough to anger the people, and not destroying is not enough to gather the hearts of the people. Three o'clock in the afternoon today is the time when your soul returns to the underworld and suffers the punishment of 18 layers of hell for 10,000 years. ”
After that, Liu Xia brushed his sleeves away, and after Liu Xia walked away, Hong Chengchou, who had been closing his eyes, opened his eyes and lowered his head. Two lines of blood and tears flowed. The snow-white hair blew in the wind. Liu Xia's words pierced him deeply, and these days, every day, he can dream that countless unjust souls have come to him to ask for his life. And he dreamed of being tormented in the underworld. This caused him to wake up from nightmares frequently.
It's still early today. Zhongyi Square was already three floors inside and three floors outside the outside, surrounded by the people who came to hear the news, Liu Xia saw that he couldn't get out, so he simply didn't go out, and prepared to wait until the end of the execution.
Slowly three o'clock in the afternoon finally came, after Liu Xia gave an order, the executioner next to Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "Cast a good baby in the next life and be a good person!" After that, before he could see the movement clearly, Hong Chengchou's head had already flown into the air, and the blood on his neck shot out like a fountain. The executioner's face was covered in hot blood.
Countless people outside the stadium shouted.