Li Nan stood quietly aside, looking at the corpses of Zhao and Liu in the raging flames, silent.

Under Miranda's torture beyond many people's imagination, the two guards who betrayed Li Nan were not as pious as they imagined, and the god of light of Mingjiao did not appear to save them, so they chose to commit suicide after telling everything.

There is a saying in China that the human heart is not enough to swallow an elephant, and greed is also one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism, and these two people are ruined on this.

In the second year of Li Nan's adventure in the Ice and Fire World, the people of the Ming Sect secretly came to the land of Lingnan and began to spread their theory of entering the Elysium after death.

Whether it is Buddhism or Catholicism, every sect in the world has a similar commitment to its believers, but Mingjiao paints a much better and more concrete picture of the world after death.

An empty but perfect picture is displayed in front of everyone, Washington, food, mansions, the most beautiful women in the world, endless money, endless rights, and so on......

It is the greedy people who use these illusory things, who have no worries about food and clothing, and have a bright future, to secretly join the Ming Sect, and secretly send out information about Lingnan and other places.

The flames slowly extinguished, and Li Nan said to everyone: "After all, they once had merit, collect their ashes and bring them back, and say to their families that they sacrificed their lives for the country, and the monthly income will be distributed as usual." ”

"Yes!" Many guards responded in unison, all with gratitude on their faces.

The convoy continued to march towards Yangzhou, and after experiencing such a thing, the atmosphere was a little gloomy, and Li Nan, who was riding on a horse, suddenly chanted:

"Running around all day long is just for hunger, and only when you are full will you think about clothes.

I have enough food and clothing, and I want to be beautiful and beautiful.

Marry a beautiful wife and give birth to children, hating no land and no foundation.

Buy a lot of farmland, in and out of the boat less horses to ride.

The head of the trough buckled the mule and the horse, and sighed that he had no official position and was bullied.

The county master book is still too small, and he has to hang purple clothes in the middle.

As the emperor seeking immortality, he wants to climb to the sky and fly across the crane.

If you want the world to be satisfied, except for Nanke's dream......"

Yangzhou, known as Guangling, Jiangdu, Weiyang in ancient times, the history of the founding of the city can be traced back to 486 B.C., the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, there is "the famous capital of Huaizuo, the best place in Zhuxi".

Every city in the south of the Yangtze River is very beautiful, especially in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yang, and the three places, which are beautiful as far as the eye can see.

After Li Nan led people into the city, while inquiring about the whereabouts of Ludia and others, he contacted the passenger ship and prepared to continue north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The swiftness of the Great Song Dynasty's actions this time was really beyond Li Nan's expectations, because according to the urine nature of Song Huizong and the ministers of various factions in the DPRK and China in the past, in order to fight for their own interests, they did not quarrel for a year and a half, and it was difficult to have a unified result.

The Great Song Dynasty was able to react so quickly, one of the reasons why the two southern Zhejiang generations were the granaries and economic powerhouses of the Northern Song Dynasty; The second is that the Ming Sect members excavated the tomb of Cai Jing's father and ancestor, exposing his bones.

Song Huizong and many ministers had their own interests in Jiangnan, and they were all anxious to get their money bags back as soon as possible. And Cai Jing, the prime minister of the dynasty, wanted to kill the group of Mingjiao Fangla at all costs because of hatred.

This time, the action of the Great Song Dynasty was not small, and when conquest of Li Nan, it was just to send soldiers and horses from the Wulu Prefecture Capital, and this time it was the Western Army supervising the army and the inspector of the school, Tong Guan was the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huainan, and Tan Zhi was appointed as the envoy of the two Zhejiang systems, and mobilized the forbidden army of Gyeonggi and 150,000 soldiers of the Shaanxi Liulu Fan and Han to go south to exterminate the Ming Sect and the rebel party.

Li Nan originally planned to continue to go north to find people, but when he heard that the Western Army had arrived, he thought about it and decided to stay and observe the strength of the enemy in the future.

When Li Nan knew the generals of the Song army, he was really surprised, the two leading figures sent by the Song Huizong were very strange, the commander Tong Guan was a eunuch, and the deputy marshal Tan Zhi was also a eunuch, I have to say that the Song Dynasty's suppression of military generals was really the peak.

There are many talented eunuchs in history, is Tong Guan a eunuch capable? The answer is yes, otherwise he would not have been able to hold the army for 20 years and be in power for a while.

Can Tong Guan's combat ability to lead troops be stronger than the generals of the Western Army's Seed Family, Folding Family, and Liu Family? Obviously, it can't, but this is the sorrow of the Great Song generals.

In any case, soldiers and horses were assembled outside Yangzhou one after another, and Tong Guan and other generals also held banquets in the city, indulging in pleasures, and waiting for the arrival of the big war.

On this day, Li Nan, who was already familiar with many businessmen in the city, received news that Tong Guan planned to deal with the families of the prisoners, so he invited everyone to secretly go to Yangzhou Prison.

Fang La caused a lot of chaos in Jiangnan, and the officials who died in the battle were just that, not to mention whether they had merit or not, at least they were not guilty. And those officials who fled, were defeated, and did not have money to give gifts to dredge up their bad luck.

The punishment of the Great Song Dynasty basically followed the five-punishment system of the Sui and Tang dynasties in terms of system, and the "Song Criminal System" stipulated that the sentence should be based on five punishments, but due to a large number of codification adjustments, supplements and even changes to the provisions of the "Criminal System", it was no longer five punishments in actual implementation, but mainly four kinds of punishments: rod, management, servitude, and death.

At present, a large number of officials and family members who have been defeated and fled are all imprisoned in Yangzhou City Prison, because more and more people have been caught, so Tong Guan, the Xuanfu envoy, decided to engage in some small business to reduce the number of prisoners.

The main way to deal with the families of convicts is to serve in military service and hard service.

Military service refers to the inclusion of prisoners in the military register, and the military or forbidden army to perform miscellaneous service, commonly known as "filling the army".

Labor is assigned to serve in the industrial and mining premises run by the government, such as boiling salt, brewing wine, firing kilns, mining, iron smelting, coinage, etc., including the workshops under which the prison belongs.

Regardless of military service or hard labor, there is basically no way to survive except to wait for death, but this is also a hundred times stronger than the experience faced by those female dependents, because most of the female prisoners will become camp prostitutes to reward the soldiers.

Although Tong Guan was greedy for money by selling prisoners privately, in a sense, he also did a good deed, at least the prisoners who were bought by the merchants ended up much better than the original.

Li Nan is very interested in this kind of transaction, the lack of people in Lingnan is on the one hand, and more importantly, most of the children of convicts are literate and hyphenated, and they are more likely to return to themselves when they are desperate in the Great Song Dynasty.

A wooden shed was built in the open space outside the Yangzhou prison, and there were even tables and chairs to serve tea, and many businessmen sat and drank tea, waiting for the start of the sale.

This kind of trivial matter will naturally not be brought forward by Tong Guan himself, so it is Tong Guan's distant nephew Tong Cheng who presides over the sale, and it is estimated that it means that all the money in the world is in the pocket.

"The prisoner is twenty-three years old, with a beautiful face, smooth and white skin, and has given birth to a son, and the reserve price is ten yuan, and the one with the highest price will get it!"

"The prisoner girl is fourteen years old, with outstanding appearance, smooth and white skin, a virgin body, and a reserve price of 20 yuan......"

Hearing the servants of Tong Guan's family loudly introducing the prisoners, Ashur, who was standing beside Li Nan, said with feeling: "It feels like I have returned to Rome." ”

There were many prisoners in the field, some sobbing in a low voice, some kneeling and begging, some shouting wishes, and some scratching their heads at the surrounding merchants and buyers, only one woman held her head high and showed an unyielding face.

Li Nan raised his hand and pointed at the maverick little lady, and asked, "Steward Tong, what is the origin of this woman and how much is it worth?" ”

This time to sell the prisoners, Tong Shu also sent out an invitation after learning about the merchants here, and the steward of the Tong Mansion also knew that Li Nan had a lot of money and a lot of money, so he hurriedly walked over when he heard the call.

After glancing at the stubborn little lady, the steward of the Tong Mansion replied with a smile after flipping through the Chinese book in his hand: "This little lady's surname is Liang, she is from Chizhou, and her father has been beheaded according to the crime after delaying the fighter. She's still a virgin, worth 20 yuan, can you inspect the goods? ”

Li Nan said: "I want to ask her a few words, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

"Absolutely." The steward of the Tongfu said to the soldiers standing beside him, "Bring that little lady here." ”