The next day, in Jicheng, the school field was full of murderous atmosphere, standing full of captured children of the family and the steward of the grain store, and three thousand elite horsemen stood aside and watched, scaring some timid children of the family into trembling and sweating.

After yesterday's night's storm, except for the Liu family, the Kou family, and some of the families who stood on Wei Shuo's side, the remaining more than 20 families, all adult males, totaling more than 500 people, were all arrested.

After raiding the grain depot of the family, Wei Shuo finally raised enough food, and the grain price in Jicheng returned to normal early the next morning.

On the school ground, Wei Shuo took Lu Chang, Liu Han, Han Shou, Liu Yao, Neng Chen, Duan Wenyang and others to stand on the viewing platform, watching the crowd of black pressure under the stage.

Liu Han glanced at Wei Shuo, who was gloomy, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, it's rare that you really want to kill today?

Looking at the children of the family who looked a little miserable under the stage, Liu Han couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, only to see him gritted his teeth and took a step forward to kneel down in front of Wei Shuo, and persuaded with a bit of sadness:

"My lord, my subordinates know that the people below have committed capital crimes, and they shouldn't intercede for them, but after all, God has the virtue of a good life, and slaughtering hundreds of people at once is afraid that it will hurt the name of the lord's mercy. Please be merciful to your lord and spare their lives! ”

"Alas, Mr. Wuzi, it's not that Wei is ruthless and vicious, it's really that your family is too ignorant of restraint, do you really think that no one in this world can cure your family? Do you think I've given you a chance? But you still don't know what to do, and since you can't wait for the coffin to cry, then I have no choice but to fulfill your wishes. ”

"My lord, spare my life, I'll know my mistake!"

"I am willing to dedicate all the land, tribes, and money to the adults, and please spare my life!"

"Lord Liu, please help us say something!"

"Spare your life. Lord Wei! ”

As the officials of the family represented by Liu Han stood up to intercede for the children of the family who committed the crime, a cry of mercy immediately sounded on the school ground. Listening to the soft voices in his ears, the corners of Wei Shuo's mouth twitched, and he was not moved at all.

It's not that Wei Shuo has to take the family sacrifice flag in front of him, but he knows the virtues of the family too well. The families of the Wei and Jin dynasties have long been accustomed to being sick by the emperor, and the families of the Wei and Jin dynasties have all kinds of deaths. In the period of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang will have to cut off his head and kill the corpse.

"Now that they have realized their mistake and are willing to sacrifice their property to make amends, can't the lord deal with it lightly?"

Liu Han's background is destined that he can't watch the children of these five hundred families being beheaded by Wei Shuo, otherwise Wei Shuo will be named tyrannical in the history books, and he, Liu Han, will not be able to escape the evaluation of a minister. Seeing that he couldn't say what Wei Shuo should do, Liu Han pinned his hopes on Han Shou and Lu Chang.

"Lord Han, Lord Lu, you two also help to say a word? If these hundreds of heads fall to the ground today, the name of the lord's tyranny will spread all over the world tomorrow! As the lord's vassals, are the two willing to bear such an infamy? ”

I have to say that Liu Han's words can be regarded as talking about the hearts of Han and Lu. Han and Lu are both from poor families, so they naturally have no good impression of those big families. If Liu Han only blindly interceded for the family, Han Lu and the others would definitely not help.

But these two are Wei Shuo's henchmen, and they have always been loyal to Wei Shuo, as long as it involves Wei Shuo's affairs, the two of them will definitely not stand idly by. Sure enough, as soon as Liu Han's words were finished, the two of them were still old-fashioned. It becomes abundant all at once.

I saw Lu Chang think for a while and stand up and say, "Lord, how many words does Chang have that I don't know if to say or not?" ”

Wei Shuo knew that Lu Chang was quick-witted. He was about to speak, but he must have thought of a good word. Originally, Wei Shuo didn't intend to spare the person in front of him easily, but he couldn't help but give Lu Chang face, so he said with a little impatience: "Master Lu, I know what you have to say, but I advise you not to talk in vain." If the person in front of him has the courage to provoke someone, he has to bear the consequences caused by it. ”

Lu Chang didn't care about Wei Shuo's warning, and only continued expressionlessly: "Lord, my subordinates don't want to exonerate the crime in front of them, but want to remind the lord. You've broken the law! ”

"Huh?!"

"Huh?!"

I have to say that no one at the scene, including Wei Shuo, could keep up with Lu Chang's train of thought, Liu Han was stunned and didn't know what Lu Chang was talking about.

Wei Shuo was also a little confused, he frowned and asked, "Lord Lu, what do you mean?" ”

"Lord, you have broken the law!" Lu Chang emphasized again, he looked at Wei Shuo very seriously and said: "My lord, you govern Liaodong, advocate the rule of law according to the law, and always do things according to the law, so that Liaodong can prosper in just two years." But this time, when you punish the family who broke the law, you violated the law you made. ”

"The law committed by the family this time is nothing more than disrupting the normal market order by malicious means, and at most it is only a fine and a few years of hard labor. But if the lord acts according to his own preferences and forcibly enforces the people with severe punishments, how is it not a violation of the law? ”

After listening to Lu Chang's words, whether it was Liu Han or the family members who were about to be convicted, all of them had a surge of longing from the bottom of their hearts. Especially Liu Han's eyes lit up, with his understanding of Wei Shuo, there is a chance that this matter will take a turn for the better. Don't look at Liu Han's contact with Wei Shuo for a long time, but he knows that Wei Shuo recognizes and maintains the rules.

"Lord, what Lord Lu said is very reasonable, you have indeed violated the law."

Wei Shuo glanced at Liu Han who was beating snakes with sticks, and then at Lu Chang with a serious face, he knew that he would not be able to execute the original plan today. Originally, he was ready to sacrifice thousands of people, but now it seems that he will not need to. This isn't exactly a bad thing for Wei Shuo.

In fact, Wei Shuo knows very well that as long as the heads of the children of hundreds of families fall to the ground in front of him, it won't be long before smoke will spread everywhere in Youzhou, and then think about Shi Le's current predicament, I am afraid that Wei Shuo may not be much better. It's just that he has been forced into a corner by the Jicheng family, and if he gives in and doesn't fight back, he doesn't know how greedy the family will swell in the future.

Fortunately, Lu Chang's quick wit made Wei Shuo put down the butcher knife, as long as the head did not fall to the ground, Wei Shuo and the Youzhou family would not move towards a comprehensive confrontation, and in the future, the Liu family, the Kou family and other families would make peace from it, and there was still the possibility of reconciliation between him and the family.

"Lord, please keep someone under the knife! Just as Master Lu said, the people in front of them are indeed not guilty to death, whether it is the crime of losing family property or the punishment of hard labor, it is their deserving crime, but they really want to cut off their heads, not to mention the merciful name of hurting the lord, and it is contrary to the concept of governing the country according to the law that the lord insists. Why would you insist on doing such a thankless task? ”

"Lord ......"

"Lord Wei spares his life!"

Finally, under the bitter pleading of everyone, Wei Shuo finally nodded and agreed to the plea of Lu Chang, Liu Han and others, I have to say that Lu Chang has done a beautiful job, although these dozen or so Youzhou families will not be the only ones in the future, at least this life-saving feeling will be accepted.

However, although more than a dozen children of Youzhou families escaped with their lives, they also paid a huge price for it. Not only was a large amount of money confiscated, but most of the land and property were handed over to resettle the displaced people. In the end, they had to be exiled to Liaodong in accordance with the law, and fined five years of hard labor.

Even so, after learning of the final verdict, the hundreds of people present all cried with joy and shouted for Wei Shuo's mercy. Compared with the loss of life, giving up part of the family property and exile to the cold land of Liaodong is nothing to the big family. As long as they pass this hurdle, they are confident that the family will rise again.

Besides, today's Liaodong is no longer the barren land it used to be, and after Wei Shuo's governance, it is even better than Youzhou to some extent, and the exile of Liaodong is not a major event. Obviously, those big families also knew the inside story, so when they heard that Wei Shuo had exiled them to Liaodong, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After dealing with the Jicheng family, no one in Yanguo and Shanggu dared to obstruct Wei Shuo's implementation of the Juntian Decree and the Slave Release Order, and in less than a few days, a total of nearly 300,000 people in the two counties became self-cultivators under Wei Shuo's rule. (To be continued.) )