Outside Kaifeng City, there was a long procession coming from the direction of Luoyang in the distance.

At this time, the spring cold has just passed, and there is still a trace of coolness everywhere in Kaifeng City, and Chen Jian Men does not plan to come out of the gatehouse.

Hearing the report from his subordinates, he hurriedly came out to greet him at this moment.

I saw that at the front of the procession, there was a row of officials with gongs in their hands, and the speed of the procession was very slow, and the officials would strike the gongs before they had walked a certain distance.

Then someone shouted: "Fu Wangwei rebelled, and the bandit leader Gong Mengchun has been beheaded on the spot." The remaining prisoners were accomplices and exiled to Qiongzhou as slaves for 3,000 miles. ”

Nowadays, it is indeed rare for such a large number of criminals to be escorted in the Ming Dynasty. It was more common in the time of Taizu Taizong.

After a short time, the team arrived at the gate of the city, and Chen Jianmen got the news yesterday that there would be a team escorting criminals from here today, but he didn't expect it to be such a huge team. From the bottom of his castle, there was no end in sight.

The doorman asked him if he was at ease, and he asked the doorman to ask for the customs clearance document and send it to the Lu Governor's Mansion on the city tower.

Because of the large number of people, naturally someone reported to the Lu Governor of Kaifeng City yesterday.

Although he had already gotten the news, at this time, Governor Lu was above the city gate, looking at this line, he was afraid that there were thousands of criminals, and he couldn't help frowning.

Why is there no rumor of this Fu Wangwei's rebellion? This incident was so bad that before the approval of the imperial court, the first offender was directly beheaded and the accomplice was exiled for 3,000 miles.

Such a big event appeared overnight, and the prefect of Lu also felt that there was something strange inside, but he was not the prefect of Henan Mansion. It's good to take care of Kaifeng's one-third of an acre of land.

"My lord, the team has arrived at the gates of the city." The guards at the city gate sent the clearance documents and said.

"Let them into town." Governor Lu was very reluctant, but there was no way.

King Fu has an order, and the officials along the way will preach all the charges in the city. As the prince of today, everyone is not easy to offend.

What's more, this is a great crime of rebellion, and it is not strange to parade through the streets like this.

But it is strange why King Fu must let this procession pass through Kaifeng City.

And it was King Fu's repeated explanations that he had to come from Kaifeng, which made Lu Zhifu even more puzzled.

The team slowly walked through Kaifeng City.

"Grandpa, grandpa, is that girl a bad person too?" A child points to a girl in the middle of the line.

The girl was about ten years old, and she was almost unable to walk, but everyone in the team was tied up with ropes in front and back.

So it was half-pushed.

"Son, there are no good or bad people in the world. These are fates too! The child's grandfather said.

At this time, seeing that the escorting official came over, the old man hurriedly hugged his grandson and walked away from the crowd. It's better to be less troubled with this kind of thing.

The girl couldn't walk anymore, so she fell to her knees, and it must have been the girl's mother who stopped quickly, wanting to let her child rest for a while.

The team stopped in the middle of the road because she didn't move.

"Why? Why? You dead, get up and keep walking. At this moment, from the front of the line, a man who looked like an official came.

The official was holding a bloody whip in his hand, and he didn't know how many people he had beaten along the way to get so many blood stains.

When I came to take a look, I found that it was this girl, who couldn't walk on the ground, so it affected the speed of the whole team.

Come and give the girl a whip. At this time, the girl's mother pounced on the girl and protected the girl.

"Official, you can spare her this time. She was still a child...... I can't walk anymore. The woman quickly fell to her knees and prayed.

Smack, that official doesn't care so much, it's a whip to go up.

Because the woman was in front of the child, the whip was drawn all over the woman.

On the side, there was an old man in a dark purple robe, who was standing on the tavern on the second floor.

I'm looking down, and it's going to be too much to see.

Pointing to the woman, one of the people next to her hurriedly agreed, and went downstairs.

At this time, the official was also angry, raised the whip, and said a word to whip it.

"You, I'll let you stop, I'll let you stop. ……”

The official said a word and went down with another whip.

In a short time, the woman was whipped more than a dozen times, and her garment was beaten so that a cut broke in her back, and blood seeped out of it.

"No...... Don't hit my mother! The girl pushed her mother away and stood in front of the official.

"Yo, you little girl, you're quite bold and knowledgeable!" The official sneered and raised the whip again. It's going to be pumped in the girl's face.

If this whip goes down, the girl will definitely be out of shape.

The official was pushing down, but found that the whip could not be waved.

When he looked back, there was a man who had grabbed his whip in one hand and prevented him from whipping it.

The official tried harder, but found that the whip did not move at all, as if it had grown in the man's hand.

"Who are you? Dare to attack an official? The official said angrily.

"She's just a child!" The man spoke. Then he let go of the whip. It just so happened that the officer's strength had not yet been used up, and at this time, one of them stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

He got up, looked at the man and said, "Don't meddle in your business, this is the prisoner named by His Royal Highness King Fu to be distributed." ”

The official didn't look like he was to be messed with. It's just a matter of talking about it and building up its momentum.

"This is Kaifeng, not your Luoyang!" After the man said this, he stood aside majestically.

When the official heard this, he was immediately angry, and pulled out his knife with a bang.

"Our Fu Wang Ye is the prince, the whole world is not the king's land, who doesn't know that the most favored by the saint today is our prince, you Kaifeng naturally have to listen to our Fu King."

"Wait!" Then the man held up a sign and shook it in front of the official. The official suddenly lost his temper when he saw it.

"My lord, do you see anything else?"

The official immediately flattered the man and said.

"Let's go!" The man shook his head.

At this time, the old man in purple also walked in front of this person.

"Wang ...... The man ......bowed his head and saluted the old man. It turned out that this person turned out to be Zhu Suqin, the old prince of Zhou.

"It's okay, this kind of thing happens all the time, you can't stop it." Zhu Suqin said.

At this time, the girl's mother saw that the person just now bowed her head to the old man.

Hurriedly ran out of the crowd suddenly.

"Sir! Master! Please, save the child! Please, save the child! ”

The woman rushed out of the crowd and knelt in front of Zhu Suqin.

"The slave family is useless, but this child can still serve you and bring you tea and water. ...... you"

The woman fell to her knees and said hoarsely.

The girl stood behind her mother with a resolute face.

"Mother, don't worry, I won't leave my mother!" The girl said.

"You guys! What for? "The official had planned to come over and whip him again, but the man was still there.

When the woman saw this, she quickly knelt down and said to the official, "Brother official, please, let the child go." The slave family is willing to send the child to this master as a slave and a servant. If the master is willing to give some silver, the slave family is willing to give all the money to the official to make some tea. ”

The official looked at Zhu Suqin, although he didn't know Zhu Suqin's identity, but he must be a character who couldn't afford to be guilty.

Just waiting for this big man to speak, of course, if they spend money to buy it, they will naturally be very happy with it.

Zhu Suqin glanced at the woman kneeling on the ground, as well as the girl with a dirty face.

"Alas! Ni Ying, give him silver, and buy the girl. Zhu Suqin said to that person, that person is Ni Poyu's father Ni Ying.

Ni Ying hurriedly took out a piece of silver and handed it over to the official.

When the official took the money, he immediately took it in his mouth and bit it, and sure enough, there were two tooth marks there.

Confirming that it was real silver, he immediately wrote a contract in the stall on the side to find a letter writer and asked the woman to stamp her handprint.

Just like that, he sold the girl to this old man.

In fact, this kind of selling criminals to be slaves along the way has always existed.

With an exile team of thousands of people like this, I am afraid that there will be less than 100 people who will finally arrive in Qiongzhou. Most of them have already been sold out along the way.

The escorted officer can earn an intermediary fee. Exiled prisoners can also escape because of this.

Because there are very few people who can really go all the way alive. That's how it is in this era.