Chapter 33: Execution + Exile

While the trial in Area 5 continues, the people of Area 4 are watching the excitement, and every now and then a group of young soldiers will come over with a criminal and send him to the makeshift execution table.

"Ouch, pull out another one."

"What is this identity?"

"Yo, it's the auction king, this old boy is not a thing."

"That's right, wasn't the heirloom of the Zhang family on Front Street snatched by someone he sent?"

"For the sake of treasures, people are destroyed at every turn, and this dog thing also has today."

“……”

"Click!"

After a crisp sound, the body of the auction king was separated, and his fate was not bad, a gangster who was beheaded in half over there is not dead yet, and he has been lying there wailing, which is simply miserable.

"Yo, another one came out, is it the shopkeeper of Tongrentang? Why is he here? ”

"Yes, Tong Ren Tang is just a medicine seller, I haven't heard that they have killed people."

"That's what you don't know, this bastard has sold hawthorn pills, and it is sold in large quantities, which has harmed a lot of people and ruined a lot of families, it is simply infinitely poisonous."

"I see, that's really damned, all those who sell hawthorn pills have to die."

“……”

The news spread more and more, and the number of onlookers also increased, and even the news had spread to other areas, and the people in other areas came to watch with lanterns, regardless of the fact that it was already dark.

But as time goes on, the onlookers gradually lose their previous mentality of watching the excitement, but one by one they are as pale as snow, and the more timid ones no longer dare to look at it, and quietly slip away, and the rest are watching with fear in their hearts - it is conceivable that tonight's construction is only afraid that it will be a collective nightmare.

It's bloody—more than twenty people have been pulled here for various executions since the beginning, and even the ground has been stained blood-red.

And these more than 20 people are also the number of underworld bosses who gathered this time, and it is their existence that supports the largest black market in Nanyang, it can be said that each of them is a deep sin, except for the broker Jin Boss who escaped by luck, only those few princes who are not in Luzon at this time can survive.

Each of these more than 20 people was sentenced to the harshest punishment, the best was hanging, and a whole corpse was left behind, and the worst one was also a human trafficker, and it was also a trafficker who specialized in abducting and selling children, I don't know how many were sold, but more than 50 children died in his hands, it was a great crime, and he was even sentenced to Ling Chi, it was said that he would have to be cut alive with 3,600 knives, and he was cut for more than three days. At the same time, with a hint of joy in his heart, such a scum deserves such a punishment.

And it seems that these twenty people are far from the end, because according to some people's speculation, since the imperial court has moved such a big battle and blocked the entire No. 5 or 6 area, then of course they can't just do it in a hurry, and the target is definitely not just these twenty or so underworld bosses.

After all, the existence of the black market is not because of these bigwigs, they are just the founders and rulers of the black market, the real core of the black market is actually those criminals from all over the world, among them are traffickers, mercenaries, pirates, robbers, smugglers, etc., it is they who provide a steady stream of various commodities for the black market bosses, so many bigwigs have achieved today, otherwise it is impossible to form such a large-scale black market if only these bigwigs do it themselves.

In other words, if Li Zhen only exposes the first evil today, and lets go of those low-level criminals, then even if he kills all the current batch of bigwigs, a second batch of bigwigs will soon emerge in this place, so that only the symptoms can be cured but not the root cause, and only by fundamentally solving all the cores, can the imperial court completely wipe out the black market. Therefore, some people think that the imperial court will definitely not let go of those guilty easily, and will definitely go on a killing spree.

What's more, the imperial court has moved such a big battle, according to their calculations, there are at least 10,000 elites alone, not to mention that when the crown prince of the court is in charge himself, most of the protectors of Luzon have appeared-if you just kill these more than 20 people, I'm afraid it won't be worthy of such a big scene, right?

And this is also the reason why they shudder - the blood of more than 20 bigwigs alone has already dyed the surrounding ground red, and the number of those low-level scum is even more, not counting those who are not guilty of death, just counting those who have really committed capital crimes, the number is dozens of times or hundreds of times far more than these twenty people, if they are really killed, God knows how much blood there will be? I'm afraid it's really going to be a river of blood, right?

Although these people are all scum, and each of them has committed a sin that is difficult to atone for ten heads, but if so many people are all executed together...... The impact on them is still very strong.

I have to say that there are still people in the audience who understand, but they only guessed half right, first of all, since Li Zhen has moved such a big formation, it is naturally impossible to kill only a few leaders, he came this time with the idea of destroying the black market, but he can't kill all the people who have committed capital crimes at one time as they thought, which is definitely impossible.

After all, the two areas of No. 5 and No. 6 are illegal areas, and it can be said that all the people living in them are criminals who have committed crimes and have their hands tainted with human lives, if Li Zhen really wants to kill, then more than one-third of the 100,000 people in this area will be killed, and more than ninety percent of the remaining two-thirds will be imprisoned - so many people, where will the imperial court have enough cells for them?

What's more, he had already caused the court to shake when he killed more than 100 people before, and Li Zhen even went back to Chang'an in person, promising Li Shimin in front of hundreds of officials that he would not do this in the future. If he breaks this oath today, not to mention what kind of punishment he will suffer for it, the damage to his reputation will be very great. Especially now that he has reached the critical juncture of approaching the throne, Li Zhen himself will never allow himself to make such a mistake at such a time, leaving himself with a huge weakness.

However, although they will not all be killed, some of the most heinous people will definitely be slaughtered, and Li Zhen, who is a little less guilty, does not intend to let them go - letting them stay in human society is simply disturbing social security......

"By the way, Lin Fa, have you done what this palace asked you to do?" Looking at the criminals who were dragged out one by one to be executed, Li Zhen suddenly turned his head and asked.

"Huh? Oh. Lin Fa was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "Your Highness Qiqi, we have found it, but it is not within the jurisdiction of our subordinates, but within the jurisdiction of the Dagang fleet, Your Highness can rest in Luzon for two days, Situ has already learned the news and has set off, and will soon bring his fleet to meet His Highness - when the time comes, it is just right for him to bring these criminals back." ”

"That's right, that's fine."

Li Zhen nodded, Situ is Situ Chen, the Metropolitan Governor of the Dagang Fleet, who is also the first graduate of the Naval Academy, and Lin Fa and the other two outstanding graduates are known as the four heroes of the new generation of the Navy, and now the four of them have achieved the position of Metropolitan Governor of the Fleet, the difference is that Situ Chen and Lin Fa are the Governors of the Strengthened Fleet, while the other two are only in command of the Class A Fleet.

As for what Li Zhen ordered Lin Fa, it was very simple to say, and it was related to the criminals this time - he actually learned the experience of England in later generations, and exiled the prisoners to a remote place, and did not allow them to step into human society again.

The difference is that Li Zhen does not have the courage of the ruler of England, who dares to use an entire continent as a penal colony, and now he can only choose one or a few overseas islands with harsh conditions but barely able to survive, and then throw all the prisoners to fend for themselves.

In fact, for these criminals, the best place to deal with them should be in the slave camp of the subordinate division, but with the development of society, the local ideas of the Tang Dynasty have also been released, and various theories have emerged in an endless stream over the years, among which some of the ideas of the virgin have begun to spread, and the brilliance of humanitarianism has spread all over the world, and some people have even proposed pardon for the sins of prisoners, or began to call for the abolition of the death penalty.

Of course, this is certainly impossible to pass, but under the influence of some people, the imperial court finally exempted Han sinners from being thrown into the fate of the subordinate division, and this is one of the reasons why the local crime rate of the Tang Dynasty has soared in the past two years (the other reason is that with the development of Nanyang and other places, the subordinate division has a sufficient source of slaves, and it is no longer as good as a few criminals in China).

After all, the cost of crime is too low, and the reason why I didn't dare to commit a crime before was because there was a shadow of Liyu Si, everyone understood that it was a hell, and if you went in, you didn't want to climb up again, there was only one end there, and that was death, so no one wanted to enter there, and naturally they didn't dare to commit crimes. But now it is different, the subordinate has an abundant source of slaves, and there are all kinds of appeals from the Virgin outside, so there is no longer the confinement of that shackle, and the evil in human nature begins to be released......

Fortunately, Li Zhen has thousands of years of insight beyond this era and has more ways to deal with it than others.

If you don't want to let the criminals suffer inhumanely, then we promise you, but although we promise not to fill them in the devil's cave of Liyusi, there is no need for the state to feed them in vain, and it is a waste of resources to feed a group of scum with the food of the state—so exile becomes a matter of course.

In fact, the earliest group of people in Luzon were exiled (of course, the number was far less than that at that time), but the group of people in the imperial court underestimated the potential of Luzon, they did not expect that in just less than seven years, Luzon has changed from a wild place that can only exile criminals to the most important overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the annual tax contribution almost exceeds the taxes of more than ninety percent of the state capitals of the Tang Dynasty, and even Li Shimin once privately called Luzon the most shining pearl in the crown of the Tang Emperor- snatched the name that should have belonged to Tianzhu.

However, the pearl or something does not have any special significance, the main reason why Tianzhu can occupy this name is actually that it belongs to one of the earliest developed territories in England, if they were the first to develop Luzon or Borneo, this title is not low on the head of Tianzhu.

And now Li Zhen's plan is to exile all the criminals to a deserted island, except for the most heinous ones who must be killed. Therefore, Li Zhen had already told Lin Fa a few months ago to pay attention to it, and see if there were any islands under his jurisdiction that were large enough, the environment was very harsh, and the geographical location was also very remote, but it was barely able to make people survive.

It's just that I didn't expect that after a few months, there was no result on Lin Fa's side, but Situ Chen's side found several places with similar situations - but it is not surprising to say that the main part of northern Luzon that Lin Fa is in charge of is actually Luzon Island, which is a fairly large island, and there are not many small islands around, but Situ Chen is different, the main jurisdiction of the Southern Fleet under his control is more small islands, although there are also several large islands, such as the port of Da where the main fleet is stationed is located on Cotton Island (Mindanao), But more often than not, it's still dominated by broken islands.

In such a place, it is actually very simple to find a lonely and desolate island, but it can still be survived, especially at this time the development of Luzon is mainly concentrated in the north, only the three ports where the fleet is stationed in the south have been developed, the average population of each city is less than 200,000, the desolate islands are everywhere, and the environment is even more innumerable, the only thing to pay attention to is to be remote enough, it is best not to have islands within a few hundred nautical miles around, this is the only place to stump Lin Fa and Situ Chen, Fortunately, with good luck, Situ Chen finally found five such islands.

"Your Highness, these are the islands that Situ found."

Coming to another room, Lin Fa unfolded a map, which was a map of the area, indicating only some of the islands in southern Luzon, and Li Zhen noticed that there were five islands on the map that were circled in red, which should be the appropriate islands in Lin Fa's mouth.

These five islands are not concentrated together, the largest is a small island located in the south of Luzon, if Li Zhen is not mistaken, this place should be called the Cuyo Islands in later generations, the main island Cuyo Island covers an area of more than 50 square kilometers, although the area is not large, but it is just an island prison, and it does not need too good conditions - not to mention that it is an exile, which is to let them suffer, not to let them enjoy happiness.