The rising sun in winter is large and round, and the snow-covered plains are dyed gold. In the mountains, a small river winds downstream, and the ice of the river reflects the sunlight like a golden ribbon.

However, what is extremely incommensurate with this charming scenery is that by the small river ditch, more than 200 people were tied up with flowers, facing the river in a row, kneeling with no faces.

And standing behind them were soldiers with ghost-headed broadswords, all with their heads held high, their eyes like torches, staring closely at the prisoners in front of them.

Not far away, King Xinzhu stood tall on the chariot, stepped on the muzzle of the Franc cannon, took a deep breath, concealed his nervousness, and said slowly: "Chop!" ”

"The king has an order, behead!"

The herald dragged out a long voice and clearly delivered the word "chop" to everyone's ears.

The soldiers who were temporarily serving as executioners were already impatient. At this time, he finally got the order, and immediately raised the ghost-headed broadsword high, aimed at the back of the prisoner's neck, between the two most prominent neck bones, and slashed it fiercely.

I could only hear the sound of "click, puff, grunt", and the two hundred and thirty-two bandits, in less than ten seconds, all moved their heads!

More than 200 headless torso spurted blood wildly and fell into the small river ditch, instantly dyeing the originally shiny ice surface into a blood channel!

Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhu Youzhen was still frightened by this terrifying scene, and hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at it again.

Not long after, the lieutenant officer in charge of the beheading had a heavy bloody aura on his body, and strode forward to report: "Your Highness, Lord Qianhu: After the execution, the two hundred and thirty-two bandits are all corrected on the spot, please Your Highness and Lord Qianhu to test the punishment!" ”

"Don't look at it, don't look at it, let's hurry up!" Zhu Youzhen endured the overturning of the river and the sea in his stomach, jumped off the chariot, and wanted to turn over and get on the horse, but because his hands and feet were weak, he couldn't climb up several times.

Until all the soldiers of the Qi family army marched through the secluded canyon, the extremely bloody scene still lingered in Zhu Youzhen's mind.

This was the first time Zhu Youzhen ordered a killing. He just touched his upper lip and his lower lip, spit out a simple syllable, and more than two hundred living beings came to the end in an instant.

At that moment, Zhu Youzhen's mood was extremely complicated.

On the one hand, he found that it was a very cool thing to hold the power of life and death in his hands. As long as an order is given, countless heads fall to the ground, who dares not to obey their orders? No wonder how many people want to be emperors because they want to break their heads, it's really too tempting to have this power!

On the other hand, he traveled from a previous life. At that time, although the concept of the rule of law was not very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, such a life-threatening matter as the execution of criminals, it was necessary to go through the first and second trials, and if the case was complicated, it had to be retried repeatedly, and finally the death penalty could only be carried out with the approval of the Supreme Court. Often, after a lawsuit is tried, several years or even more than ten years have passed, and death row inmates have eaten and drunk in prison without worry, and their lives are quite nourishing.

But in this day and age, human life is like a mustard. Without any form of interrogation, just by his own anger, these more than 200 bandits were immediately beheaded!

Among these more than 200 people, are there any first-time offenders who have just joined and have not yet had blood on their hands? Are their families still at home stupidly expecting them to come back? At least, what are their names? All of this has fallen with the fall of the ghost-headed broadsword, and it can no longer be investigated.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it, he was afraid that those nameless ghosts would follow him in the air, and suddenly he would go crazy and gallop wildly!

Qi Meifeng saw that something was wrong with Zhu Youzhen, and it was very dangerous to gallop in the mountains, so she hurriedly chased after her, firmly grabbed the reins of Zhu Youzhen's mount, and slowly lowered the horse's speed.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Her gentle calls over and over again saved Zhu Youzhen from his chaotic and terrifying thoughts like hell.

"Meifeng, I... Did I order them all to be killed, a little too hasty? Zhu Youzhen muttered.

"Your Highness, they are not human beings at all, but animals in human skins, and keeping them will only harm the people!" Qi Meifeng persuaded, "If His Highness is not there, the last general will kill them all!" ”

Zhu Youzhen spat out the stuffiness in his chest, took a few steps forward, and said with relief: "My head has fallen off, but I can't grow anymore!" I didn't kill them wrong! ”

Qi Meifeng silently followed Zhu Youzhen's horse and looked at his back with admiration.

She secretly thought in her heart that today's royal family members have long lost the anger they had at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all indulging in their comfort nests and dreaming of death. The only exception is this His Royal Highness the King of Letters, although he is full of problems, but he dares to act, and can show unparalleled courage at critical moments. And for those ordinary people, even the bandits who do a lot of evil, he cares so much, and he is by no means like many high-ranking officials and dignitaries, as long as he can satisfy his own selfish desires, he doesn't care about the life and death of others.

What kind of person is he, and why is he so different? Qi Meifeng stared at him, and was a little stupid.

"Meifeng, what kind of Black Wind Mountain are you talking about, so close to Zunhua, how come the officials and troops of Zunhua don't know how to exterminate them? Are they all deaf or blind? Zhu Youzhen suddenly turned around and shouted.

Qi Meifeng was thinking about something, and was taken aback by him, and hurriedly collected his mind and said, "The last general also feels strange." This place is only more than ten miles away from Zunhua, last night our army and the bandits fought so fiercely, and also fired the Fran machine gun, why the defenders of Zunhua were indifferent and did not come to support? ”

"Let's hurry up, when we get to Zunhua, I have to scold the guards there! Ahh

"Your Highness! What's wrong with you? Qi Meifeng panicked.

"What's that... It's nothing, didn't you just care about the war last night, and forgot about that... Detox, maybe a little seizure! It's okay, I can hold it! ”

Qi Meifeng's head was full of black lines, and a red cloud flew up her cheeks, and she secretly sighed in her heart: This person is really good, why is he not serious for a while!

In less than an hour, after turning the last mountain beam, the terrain suddenly opened up, and in the midst of the mountains, a valley with a radius of more than 20 miles appeared.

In the middle of that valley, a majestic city sits here, guarding the key points from south to north.

"Zunhua has arrived!" Zhu Youzhen exclaimed excitedly.

"Wait!" Qi Meifeng's eyes were sharp, and she pointed to the large round tent outside the city wall, "Isn't that a yurt?" How did the Mongols come here? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, he saw hundreds of yurts of different sizes planted around Zunhua City, among which there were Mongolian riders on horses, flashing between the tents.

Qi Meifeng was shocked: Could it be that the Mongols called? She shouted: "All the troops are on alert!" ”

The soldiers of the Qi family army hurriedly set up a driving formation, pulled up a good posture, and waited for the battle.

However, Zhu Youzhen and Qi Meifeng observed for a long time, and only felt that the atmosphere around Zunhua City was very strange.

The gates were wide open on all sides, and the drawbridges were lowered, and from time to time people with carts and goods came and went.

At the head of the city, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army were lazily reclining on the battlements, not even holding weapons. Some Mongols actually rode horses to the city and talked with the officers and soldiers on the city through the city walls, and the atmosphere seemed to be very harmonious.

Zhu Youzhen and Qi Meifeng were in doubt, when they suddenly saw a group of Ming cavalry rushing out of the south gate of Zunhua, coming from afar.

After walking more than 100 steps, the leader of the general shouted loudly: "Is there a chariot battle for His Royal Highness King Xin? ”

Zhu Youzhen shouted at the top of his voice: "I am the king of faith Zhu Youzhen!" Who are you? ”

When the general heard this, he galloped over, rolled the saddle and dismounted ten steps away, and saluted: "The last general Zunhua General Zhang Ming, who is late to welcome the car, I hope His Highness will forgive his sins!" ”

Zhu Youzhen saw that the person who came was deer-headed and mouse-eyed, and described him as obscene, but he didn't expect that he was actually a dignified three-grade general, and the chief general of the border army in Zunhua City. He stepped forward to help Zhang Ming up, and asked suspiciously: "General Zhang, why are there so many yurts outside Zunhua City?" Is it Mongolian? ”

Zhang Ming smiled flatteringly: "Your Highness, that's a Mongolian from the Duoyan Division. They're here to trade with each other. ”

After his introduction, Zhu Youzhen learned that the Ming Dynasty was bounded by the Great Wall and separated from the Mongolian tribes. But the Mongols could only graze and not farm, and had nothing to produce except cattle, sheep and horses. And as long as there is a slight natural disaster, the water and grass are not abundant enough, and there will be a famine.

And the nomads are also accustomed to this situation, and every time they encounter such a situation, they have only one word to deal with it: rob.

For hundreds of years, the Mongol tribes repeatedly invaded the border and plundered on a large scale. Although the Ming army was strictly defended, it was always unable to prevent it, and there were many defeats and few victories, and even caused a huge disaster like the "Tumubao Change".

It was not until the Longqing period that the court and the Tatar Khan finally reached a tribute agreement with the Tatar Khan Alta under the planning of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the dynasty. In addition to giving a large amount of money and grain to the Mongols every year, the Ming Dynasty also opened 11 border cities and allowed the Mongols to enter the customs and markets.

This Zunhua is one of the eleven cities. A large number of Mongols, especially the Duoyan tribe who were close to Zunhua, set up tents outside Zunhua for several months of the year, and traded with the people in the city and merchants from all over the country, selling horses, furs and other grassland specialties in exchange for salt, ironware, and tea necessary for daily life. Those tents of different sizes, that is, trading stalls.

Only then did Zhu Youzhen suddenly realize. Qi Meifeng also put her mind at ease and asked the Qi family army to lift their guard and drive into Zunhua City.

On the way back to the city, General Zhu Youzhen told Zhang Ming about the incident of being attacked by a large number of bandits on the way, and asked with a calm face: "General Zhang, there are so many bandits outside Zunhua City, why don't you send them to exterminate them?" ”

Zhang Ming hurriedly said: "Natural disasters have been frequent in recent years, and the people in the vicinity are struggling to make a living. However, some mud-legged people had crooked ideas, and secretly hid in the mountains, looting from time to time. But these people are very cunning, they are cowards when they go out, and they are for the people, and they are often scattered and have no trace. The last general sent troops into the mountains to suppress them several times, but he couldn't even touch their shadows. Or is it Your Highness that the heavens are mighty, and these bandits are wiped out, and the last general..."

"Okay, okay, stop!" Zhu Youzhen interrupted him impatiently, "After talking for a long time, you haven't fought with bandits in a single battle!" ”

"The last general is ashamed!" Zhang Ming salivated and said, "Your Highness has worked hard all the way, please go into the city to rest first!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was just about to ride his horse into the city, but he saw that among the hundreds of yurts, there was a sudden commotion!