Chapter 281: Buying People's Hearts

It has been half a month since the Chu army occupied Luojing, and Luojing City has gradually regained its former vitality, more and more Luojing people have returned to their homeland, and many fugitive ministers have also returned to Luojing one after another, looking for their own positions in the new dynasty.

On this morning, Luoshui was particularly lively, and hundreds of thousands of Luojing people rushed to the south bank of Luoshui with their children and the elderly.

After half a month of interrogation and identification, the Chu army identified more than 800 Qi soldiers who had committed serious crimes from tens of thousands of Qi troops, and they committed serious crimes such as murder, arson, and silver annihilation against the people of Luojing.

This will play an immeasurable role in buying the hearts of the people of Luojing, this news has been widely publicized by the sergeants in the capital as early as three days ago, and everyone knows it, so when this day comes, Luojing City is like celebrating a grand festival, and there is no need for people to initiate it, and hundreds of thousands of Luojing people have spontaneously organized and came to Luoshui to see the grand occasion of killing people and relieving hatred.

The crime of the Qi army in Luojing lasted for more than a month, from the beginning of the night robbery slowly evolved to the later organized public violence in broad daylight, from the official eunuch family slowly spread to the whole city, most of the family suffered minor or serious injuries, the shop was burned, the family property was robbed, and many women were raped and committed suicide in shame.

The chopping platform is set up on the river, lined up by 20 large ships of 1000 stones, about 100 steps away from the south bank, and the scene of the decapitation on the boat can be clearly seen on the shore.

At this time, the 2,500 executioners on the ship were already in place, and more than 800 bound abusers were kneeling on the deck, their mouths gagged and their eyes blindfolded, and everyone trembled, waiting for death.

The shore is already crowded with people, and the embankment that stretches for ten miles is crowded with hundreds of thousands of Luojing people, and all the victims registered with the government sit in the front row, most of these people are victims of burning shops and houses, or relatives have been killed.

"Boom!"

The first soul-chasing cannon sounded, and the chief beheader began to read out the crimes committed by the people, but no one could hear his voice, and the shore was drowned out by a sea of cries and curses, and many people who had lost their loved ones were even more crying and paralyzed on the ground.

"Boom!" The second soul chasing cannon sounded, and the executioner slowly drew his long knife and raised it high, while the other pulled out the wooden sign of the death row prisoner behind the prisoner.

At this time, the shore suddenly fell silent, hundreds of thousands of people held their breath, staring at the execution of the ship, and the supervisor finally gave the order for the execution.

"Boom!" With the sound of the third soul-chasing cannon, a cold light glittered with a big knife slashed, and in an instant, more than 800 human heads fell, and the shore suddenly erupted in a tsunami-like cheer, beating gongs and drums, and joyful shouts and gongs and drums resounded all over the south bank of the Luojiang River.

On the side of a bridge in the distance, Zhang Jinjie and Zhao Bingming, the servant of the ministry, sat in a carriage and watched the execution meeting that bought people's hearts. ”

"What, does Zhang Xiangguo think it's inappropriate?"

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it, Your Highness wants to buy people's hearts! It's just that this kind of interrogation by the military, quick knife and chaotic execution, inevitably has some omissions, and there must be many people who are guilty of not deserving of death are also executed, and the evidence and witnesses in this are very rough, I just hope that the government will do this kind of thing in the future, and the army will not interfere too much. ”

Zhao Bingming smiled, "Actually, I think His Royal Highness also understands this truth, now is an extraordinary period, he can only use extraordinary means, and when the situation slowly stabilizes, he will slowly get on the right track."

"Perhaps! I'm looking forward to him getting on the right track. ”

At this time, a guard rode over and gave Zhang Jinjie a salute on the horse, "Zhang Xiangguo, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has an invitation to say that there is something important to discuss." ”

The guards saw Zhao Bingming and hurriedly said, "Zhao Shilang, Your Highness also invites you to go with you." ”

"Let's go!"

Zhang Jinjie smiled at Zhao Bingming and said, "I guess there is any news from Yongjing, let's go together!" ”

The carriage started and headed for the Imperial City.

......... Huangfu Wujin did not live in the palace, his identity is the regent of the prison country, he has not yet ascended the throne as the emperor, he cannot live in the palace without authorization, he now lives in the former Liangwang Mansion, that is, the old mansion of the prince of Lanling, after the death of the king of Lanling County, only the princess lives in the mansion.

At the beginning, as the Yongqi coalition approached Luojing, a large number of officials began to flee, and Princess Lanling, like countless ordinary officials, fled Luojing with her family and took refuge in Jiangning Mansion.

When the Qi army robbed large households on a large scale, the vacant Lanling Royal Mansion also suffered robbery and destruction, and two of the five old people who stayed to watch the house were killed, but the Qi army never found the iron door of the basement of the palace hidden in the pond in the backyard, and most of the property of the palace was saved, despite this, the palace was still greatly damaged, and the slightly valuable things were looted, and even the gold-plated copper tripod in the middle courtyard was scraped off the gold dust.

However, the office of Huangfu Wujin is not in the palace, but in the Fengluan Pavilion of Ziwei Palace, which was originally the joint office of Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province, and later Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province each had a new place, which became the place where the imperial court held important meetings, and now it is the office of Huangfu Wujin.

Fengluan Pavilion is a huge building covering a vast area, which has ten large conference rooms and a main conference room that can accommodate thousands of people, and the office room of Huangfu Wujin is next to the main conference room.

In the outer room of the office room, more than a dozen clerks are busy sorting out the documents sent from all over the world, there are a large number of affairs pouring in every day, the official in charge of the entire Fengluan Pavilion is called Luantai Shilang, in fact, it is the secretary general of Huangfu Wujin, responsible for arranging meetings, delivering orders, this person is none other than the staff who was abandoned by the King of Qi Huangfu, he finally despaired of King Qi, defected to Huangfu Wujin, and was reused by Huangfu Wujin.

Gao Gao was born as a Jinshi, not only resourceful, but also talented, upright, not good at flattery, Huangfu Wujin took a fancy to him and reused him as his staff.

Gao Gao was sorting out the papers, and when he looked up and saw Zhang Jinjie and Zhao Bingming walking in, he hurriedly bowed down and said with a smile: "Two adults, Your Highness is already waiting." ”

Zhang Jinjie saw that the door was closed, so he pointed to the room and asked with a smile: "Is His Highness a person?" ”

"No, Pei Xiangguo, Yu Shangshu, Lu Shangshu and He Shangshu are already inside."

Zhang Jin nodded and walked directly into the room.

In the room, Huangfu Wujin is talking with several important ministers, Zuo Xiangguo Pei Ji served as a subordinate servant in the era of Huangfu Xuande, and is the left minister of Huangfu Heng, and is still appointed as the left minister of the Zuo Xiang's subordinate and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the criminal department Shangshu Yu Zhongji is the original Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department, the household department Shangshu Lu Xuan is the original Taifu Siqing, and the military department Shangshu is He Qianjue, he has resigned from the military and changed to a civilian official, this is the cleverness of Uncle Shen Guo's evaluation of him, and he handed over the army to Huangfu Wujin in time and resigned into the prime minister.

In addition, Zhang Jinjie's right minister and secretary of the ministry, there is a lack of Su Hanchang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who is on his way back to Luojing from Jiangning Mansion.

"We're late!" Zhang Jinjie and Zhao Bingming walked into the room and smiled apologetically.

"It's just waiting for the two of you."

Huangfu Wujin smiled and beckoned them to sit down, and the two sat down, Zhang Jinjie smiled at everyone: "Zhao Shilang and I went to Luoshui to watch the excitement, why don't you go?" ”

When everyone heard that they went to Luoshui, they suddenly came to the spirit, and asked about the situation, Zhang Jinjie said: "It's over, more than 800 people chopped it with a knife, that magnificent, I don't dare to look at it." ”

He smiled at Huangfu Wujin again: "It is estimated that tonight, many families in Luojing will have to offer His Highness, and if this knife goes down, His Highness will be the immortal in their hearts." ”

Huangfu Wujin smiled, he heard that Zhang Jinjie's joking tone was more or less dissatisfied, knowing that he did not approve of such a large-scale murder of himself, Huangfu Wujin didn't want to mention this matter more, so he changed the topic and said: "Since Zhang Xiangguo and Zhao Shilang have arrived, let's have a meeting!" ”

Zhang Jinjie smiled: "Can you first reveal the theme of today's meeting?" Let me be mentally prepared. ”

Generally, when Huangfu Wujin convenes a meeting, he will send a meeting information in advance, with the specific time, place and content of the meeting, so that everyone can be prepared, but today is very sudden, so Zhang Jinjie guessed, could it be that something big happened in Yongjing?

Huangfu Wujin nodded, gave Pei Ji a makeover and look, Pei Ji handed a document in his hand to Zhang Jinjie, "This is the latest information sent by Yongjing, 30,000 scholars opposed the Queen Mother [***], was bloodily suppressed by Shenji's army, it is said that more than 500 people died on the spot, and later more than 100 people were seriously injured and died, and nearly 700 people died, almost all of them were Tai students." ”

Zhang Jinjie read the news record, he frowned, how could he be so brutal, didn't Yongjing even understand the most basic truth when he was in power? Offend the scholars, they will completely lose the legal surname of the court, and now the world is already criticizing Yongjing as the Shen dynasty, if this news spreads all over the world again, I am afraid that even Jinzhou and Shuzhou will no longer support this court.

At this time, Huangfu Wujin said slowly: "Shen Ji is a martial artist, it is said that he still appeared at the scene of the killing, maybe he really doesn't understand the power of this, but the Empress Dowager Shen should understand, I heard that Bai Mingkai also specially persuaded her, but in the end, this result still appeared, only one thing is explained, the power struggle after the Yongjing Prime Minister has reached a white-hot level, I heard that after Uncle Shen came back, he never went to the Huaqing Palace, and the Empress Dowager Shen suffered from huge political pressure, so she was forced to use high-pressure means to suppress the students. ”

Huangfu Wujin paused for a moment and said: "This matter should be a good thing for us, I thought about it repeatedly, I decided to do one thing, which is why I gathered everyone together, I plan to set up a political hall in Luojing." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up at the same time, and they couldn't help but be a little excited, Huangfu Wujin smiled and said: "The six important ministers here, plus Su Hanchang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry on the way, a total of seven people, by the seven of you officially set up Luojing's political affairs hall, Yongjing can't win the system with blood, we Luojing to implement." ”

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(To be continued)