Chapter 272: The Cat Who Steals Fish (Part I)
At this time, the owner of the shop has completely lost the shrewdness of Li Hun and the others when they first entered the store, as if he had changed a person, his eyes were filled with tears, and he begged Jiang Tuozi to say: "This lord, look at the love of you who was originally a person from Qidi, can you intercede with Li Gongzi, before my old sister died, she entrusted her only daughter Xiao Xi to the care of Xiao Lao'er, I never expected that this Nizi would make a stabbing move, fortunately, she was young and had little strength, and she never hurt Li Gongzi half a point." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info begged Li Gongzi to raise his noble hand and let her live, the little old man was willing to go to the official to be punished on her behalf. ”
Jiang Tuozi's face was embarrassed, he glanced back at Li Hun, who was still angry, and said to the shopkeeper in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, you are a little embarrassed old man." If you want me to say, Yang Changshi, who stayed in the Eastern Capital, is an old customer in your shop, and the old man will persuade the son to hand over the two of you to Yang Changshi, you might as well go and ask Yang Changshi to send your niece lightly. ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, his face changed greatly, and he shook his head and waved his hand again and again: "By all means, I'm afraid that my uncle and nephew will not be able to fall into the hands of Yang Changshi." ”
Yang Guang sat on the side, heard the questions of the two clearly, and when he saw this situation, he couldn't help but ask the shopkeeper, "Why is this?" Although Feng Xiaoxi wanted to assassinate my son-in-law, but you didn't commit a capital crime, why did Qinghe Gong execute the two of you? ”
When the shopkeeper heard him call Yang Su Qinghe Gong, his eyes lit up, and he immediately saw that it was the eagle boy with the eagle on his shoulders in Li Hun and his party who was speaking, and his eyes became dim again, as if there was something unspeakable, showing an embarrassed look of wanting to say and stopping, and hesitating whether to tell Jiang Tuozi and Yang Guang the truth he knew.
"The surname is Li, I will do things by myself, as long as you promise not to hand over my uncle to the government for disposal, I will die in front of you now." When the shopkeeper and Jiang Tuozi were talking quietly, Feng Xiaoxi, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly raised his head and shouted at Li Hun in a fierce voice.
Li Hun sneered: "Then you will die for me to see." ”
Feng Xiaoxi reached out and picked up the boning knife that fell in front of her, and wiped it off her neck when she raised the knife, so bluffing that the shopkeeper who was kneeling beside her hurriedly hugged her, and snatched the knife in her hand, and shouted desperately: "Xiao Xi, if you die, how can my uncle explain to your dead mother." ”
Feng Xiaoxi couldn't beg for death, so he fell on his uncle's shoulder and cried bitterly.
Just as the two of them were hugging their heads and crying, they heard someone outside the hall shouting at this side, "Is the shopkeeper here?" My old man Yang has arrived. ”
When everyone in the hall heard this, their spirits were immediately lifted, but the shopkeeper and Feng Xiaoxi were so frightened that they silenced their sorrows and became overwhelmed.
"You go, please come to the hall to meet and talk." Li Hun glanced at Yang Guang and instructed Yu Xiaoren beside him.
Yang Guang didn't want Yang Su to recognize him on the spot, and when he heard that he was coming to the store, he hurriedly waved to Zhang Xutuo, asking him to stand in front of him, block himself with his body, and at the same time twist his body and sit facing in, so he waited for Yu Xiaoren to come out of the hall to bring Yang Su into the hall.
How did Li Hun, Yang Guang and others know that Yang Su was going to stay in a "unique place" tonight, but in fact, he came to have fun in the midst of suffering and meet beauties privately.
It turned out that Yang Su was invited by Xiao Xiao, a maid in Yang Guang's mansion, to suggest to Yang Jian that he wanted to use Xie Wei's identity as a member of the Jiangzuo family to carry out a plan to win over people's hearts and provoke the relationship between the Jiangzuo family and the Nanchen courtHowever, the reputation of the Great Sui Imperial Court for respecting Jiangzuo's talented people has spread to Jianghuai and Kanto.
Regardless of the unforeseen circumstances, just as Yang Su and Xie Wei were flowing on the bank of Luoshui and doing elegant things, because Wang Shao and others had previously suggested to Emperor Yang Jian that they should beware of the Turks sending heavy troops from the western Xinjiang, the imperial court urgently transferred Dou Rongding, the governor of Luozhou, to serve as the marshal of the Guanlong Road march, and recruited 100,000 Ding Zhuang to join the army in Guandong, Central Plains and other places.
When the news came, the people in Kanto, the Central Plains and other places were full of voices, and the vast majority of the people were unwilling to send their brothers and heirs to join the army, so there were hundreds of incidents of Ding Zhuang fleeing in order to avoid forced military service by the imperial court, especially in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Luoyang, the eastern capital, and even repeated incidents of not wanting to enlist in the army at the expense of self-harm.
Yuan Xiaoju, who stayed in the eastern capital, was given the responsibility of sitting in the eastern capital because his daughter was the crown princess, and took over the important tasks of all parties, seeing that the imperial court had been under the edict of the western frontier for many days, and he had recruited less than 100 people to enlist in the army, worried that once the imperial court was to blame, he could not afford to bear the guilt, so he urgently recalled the long history Yang Su, who sang and sang with a so-called famous scholar and wine on the bank of Luoshui all day, and strictly ordered him to recruit 15,000 Ding Zhuang within ten days in the territory under the jurisdiction of the eastern capital, and follow Dou Rongding to the western frontier.
Yang Sucang suddenly received the order, thought about it repeatedly, and thought that in terms of the current situation, if you want to recruit a team of tens of thousands of people within ten days, there is really no other way to find it except to use high-pressure means to coerce the people under his jurisdiction to send their sons to join the army, so after obtaining the consent of Yuan Xiaoju, he ordered people to build a starry night construction in the center of Luoyang City, and built a "murder mill" about ten zhang high, and affirmed to the people inside and outside the city that anyone who commits a serious crime (naturally first includes violating the imperial edict, evading military service) was to be executed in public under the mill.
In order to give full play to the deterrent effect of this huge murderous weapon that he had painstakingly developed, Yang Su also ordered that 20 felons be specially proposed from death row to be used as a test machine.
On the day when the "Murder Mill" was officially opened in Luoyang City, the government drove more than 10,000 people to observe the execution.
Because Yang Suyuan designed and built this "killing mill" on the basis of the giant warship he designed, because the incident happened in a hurry and the future had to be considered, this killing machine used to bluff people inevitably has such and such design and construction shortcomings, for example, its top is a huge sail running by the wind, and he has not considered how to adjust the wind power by itself when the wind is insufficient or too strong, so as to achieve the effect of uniform operation; And the row of guillotines it used to cut the head of the criminal is also unable to achieve uniform force, and it is inevitable that there will be different degrees of light and weight, and the phenomenon of position deviation.
However, this kind of shortcomings have played a huge deterrent effect that Yang Su never expected, the first batch of 20 felons who were escorted to be beheaded in public died in this "murder mill" in a tragic state, it is simply to the point that people can see it at first sight, almost unforgettable: some guillotines deviated from the position where it should have fallen, and the prisoner was shoulder-to-shoulder into two sections, which was still the luckiest, and the most unfortunate thing was that the guillotine knife entered the prisoner's body, but due to the lack of wind, back and forth in the prisoner's body more than once, that kind of taste, It's even more uncomfortable than Ling Chi.