"What, let me personally wield a knife and execute?"

Wang Mang's eyes were cold, and he was about to speak.

At this time, a group of men and horses came in the distance, the guards opened the way, and the servants accompanied them.

"The emperor has arrived...", a eunuch shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty?"

"What is he doing here?"

Many officials on the high platform looked at each other, and they didn't know why.

Wang Mang looked at Feng Yi, wanting to see if Liu Xin was attracted by him.

Feng Yi was also a little strange when he saw Wang Mang's eyes, and shook his head, saying that he didn't let Liu Xin come over at all.

Wang Mang straightened his expression and looked in the direction of the person who came.

At a glance, he not only saw Liu Xin, but also the heads of the Huo family, the Wei family, the Wang family and so on. The leaders of these big families, none of them were bad, and they all came over.

He walked quickly to Liu Xinluan's car, and said prostrately: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Weichen didn't know that my emperor had arrived, so please surrender! I don't know what hadith your majesty has? ”

As soon as he fell to the ground, many other soldiers and people around him also fell down and shouted long live.

All of a sudden, the heaven-shattering shouts rang out, shaking the nine heavens.

Liu Xin, who was sitting on the Luan car, heard this shout and felt very useful.

He coughed slightly, and said to Wang Mang: "Wang Aiqing is flat, I am here because I am temporarily entrusted by Li Zhongsan Bohou and others, and I have to come, Aiqing does not need to be suspicious." ”

"They? Hum. ”

Wang Mang snorted secretly, "Your Majesty, you are the Venerable of Ten Thousand Vehicles, infinite and immeasurable, and you must not be disturbed by blood. Right now, Weichen is about to behead a criminal, and His Majesty doesn't have to get too close, lest the blood of the criminal impact on the emperor's prestige. ”

Liu Xin replied: "What Aiqing said is very true, you can watch this matter, I will just go through the motions here, you don't have to care." ”

Wang Mang nodded yes, walked to Li Zhong's side, and said coldly: "Li Zhong, I didn't expect you to be so despicable and bring His Majesty and the masters of the family here." But what's the use of you inviting them? Didn't you just want this official to kill the master of the Shangguan family with his own hands in front of them, so as to disgust me? Hum. ”

Li Zhong's face remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "Lord Wang, with such a grand event today, how can you miss the ministers and Your Majesty to watch the ceremony?" Now that time has been delayed a lot, you might as well hurry up and execute. If you miss the hour, I'm afraid that those people in the Shangguan family will not be reincarnated, and they can only be lonely ghosts. ”

"If this matter is not secure, you say, I have my own measure. Li Zhong, I advise you, it's best to look at your feet a few more times when you walk in the future, don't accidentally find the way and lose your life. ”

"Hahaha, my lord, you really know how to laugh. I'm sure I'll outlive you. Also, please send a message to the Gongsun Ce for me when you are free, and tell him that betraying me is the only way to die, it is useless to take refuge in anyone, and no one in the world can protect him. Li Zhong laughed.

"Don't be ashamed!" Wang Mang said: "Since ancient times, there has been much help for the righteous, and little help for the unjust. You have acted perversely in Yuzhou, slaughtering living beings, causing the people to complain and make life miserable. Gongsun Ce couldn't get used to your actions, so he specially abandoned the darkness and turned to the light and took refuge in my account, which shows that he is a real chivalrous and righteous man of the country.

It's ridiculous that you have been so wise and good before, but you don't cherish it. And now even more arrogantly beheading him? Li Zhong, a person in a high position like us, is destined to leave a strong mark in history in the future. If the historian writes your deeds truthfully in the future, what face will you have to face the world?

Since I was born, I have done some unkind things, but I have been able to face history with a clear conscience. ”

"Hmph, what is the history, it's not your turn to talk about it."

Wang Mang didn't say much about this, and came to the center of the execution site in person.

He looked at the hundreds of prisoners of the Jia family and the Shangguan family, and said to the executioner: "Under the order of beheading, you can do it." ”

The executioner said, "Yes, sir! ”

After that, they pulled out the wooden sign behind the prisoner, waved the butcher knife in their hands together, and slashed down at everyone's necks, leaving only a few important figures of the Shangguan family waiting for Wang Mang to be killed.

Poof....

Now....

A knife fell, and the head rolled.

Suddenly, hundreds of people who were originally alive fell to the ground as headless corpses in an instant, and their lives were lost.

Their blood stained the earth red and the sky red.

The breeze blew again, and the hearts of the people who blew were cold.

At the moment, whether it was the many people watching or the officials and soldiers who were beheaded, they couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, and a desolate feeling surged into their hearts.

At this moment, they all involuntarily stood on end, and the thought of following the law was deeply imprinted in the depths of their souls.

Hundreds of prisoners were executed together, which is a rare major event in Henggu, not to mention that the prisoners who were executed this time have special identities.

"The law..."

At this moment, everyone seemed to hear these two words full of majesty.

It constantly beats the souls of the people, knocks on their consciences, and shocks their hearts.

The head of the Huo family, the head of the Wang family, and the head of the Wei family, and other people who really have high positions, have also derived the psychology of the rabbit and the fox. At first, I was a little afraid of Wang Mang, and some didn't dare to face Wang Mang.

Wang Mang looked at these dead bodies lying in a pool of blood, without sorrow or joy, as if his soul had sublimated to another world, and it seemed that these dead prisoners had gained true transcendence.

He strode to Shangguan Yu and said to the young man who had been muttering that he was going to follow him on the expedition: "Shangguan Yu, just now Taifu Feng said that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck. No one can predict what will happen in the next moment. I know a lot about your Shangguan family.

Indeed, if you are counted by the law, it is not a pity for you to die. Ethically, you will not sin unto death, because you have saved far more suffering people than innocent people who have been killed by mistake.

As an important minister of the court, I can't bend the law for personal gain, and I can't condemn me by ethics, otherwise who else in the world will follow the law? Now that I am going to execute you, what do you have to say? Do you have any last words to confess? If I can do it for you, I swear I can do it for you. ”

Shangguan Yu replied: "Brother Wang, as a member of the Shangguan family, I deal with death every day, and the day is precarious. Now that I can die under your knife, I have no regrets. My only regret is that I didn't get to the border with you to kill the enemy. I hope that in the next life, I can go with you, and I hope that in the next life you will not reject me on the grounds that I am not old enough. ”

"You want to follow me to the border? Is this your last wish? Wang Mang asked.

"Yes, Brother Wang, this is my wish. I really don't want to kill those corrupt officials, I just want to kill those foreign barbarians who invade my borders. Because they are the real enemies of our Kyushu. Shangguan Yu said.

(End of chapter)