Liang Qiao bowed down and bowed: "The lord, the minister is loyal to the lord, those wealthy families are rampant, speaking in their hearts, the minister has long been unaccustomed to it, every time he looks at the moon and sighs, he can't sleep at night, he wants to kill them all, but the strength is insufficient, now fortunately the lord is here, and Wuling Qingming Qiankun, I Liangqiao will wholeheartedly support the lord, and vigorously promote the four branches of the office, the land order, the price limit order and other policies to cover the world, the lord is eloquent, brilliant in history, immortal. ”

"Brilliant in history, immortal." The other officials of Wuling were reminded by Liang Qiaoyi that they would come to their senses and shouted together, although their voices were stiff, they were not loud.

Liu Zhang laughed: "Great, I have Liang Qiao better than Gaozu Xiao He, but in order to show your loyalty, you still need to do a small thing for this official, which is called a vote." ”

"Vote?" The officials looked at each other.

Liu Zhang raised his hand, and Zhang Ren immediately shouted: "Stop the execution." ”

Liu Zhang led the officials to the front of the wealthy families who had not yet been beheaded, walking among the corpses, the officials wanted not to step on the blood, but there was no place to foot, and some officials vomited on the spot.

Liu Zhang pointed to the children of the wealthy families who were shrunk into a ball, and his eyes were frightened and scattered, and said to the officials: "You take a knife and kill eight prisoners of different clans each, oh, forget it, it's good to kill five, Wuling City is small, there are not so many wealthy clans, this is your vote." ”

More than two dozen soldiers came forward with broad-edged knives, and the officials took it tremblingly, and the soldiers escorted the children of the wealthy families to them, and these officials held the knives, trembling and convulsing all over, but they could not do anything.

The north wind was blowing, everything was quiet, the wind blew into the wide robes and hunting, and the Wuling official stood motionless in place with a knife, his lips, five fingers, and calves, trembling with the wind.

"Ah, I'm going crazy." An official suddenly shouted, looking at his head with frightened eyes, it turned out that this head was still the one he once knew, his head was blank, he threw the knife and ran, and before he could take two steps, a sharp arrow shot at the back of the neck, and fell into the pile of corpses.

The official was frightened, Liang Qiao's old face trembled, he held the handle of the knife tightly, he was ruthless, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and finally waved it down, but the force was wrong, and he slashed at the prisoner's middle face, the skull was hard, and the big knife was stuck in the prisoner's face, the prisoner screamed again and again, but he was not angry, Liang Qiao seemed to see a ghost, the big knife was taken off, and he sat down on a corpse, and he couldn't get up again.

The prisoner was howling and rolling on the ground with a big knife, an official couldn't stand such a tragic scene, fainted, Liu Zhang pressed one hand on his chest, and said in a deep voice: "Pour a basin of cold water, if you don't wake up, kill on the spot." ”

As soon as Liang Qiao heard this, he stood up all of a sudden, summoned all his courage to retrieve the big knife, the blood drifted away, and the prisoners finally lost their breath, under the leadership of Liang Qiao, the other officials finally made their hearts down and clenched the big knife in their hands, and the remaining prisoners were already so frightened that they were unconscious, except for those who fainted, everyone else looked at the big knife approaching him with empty eyes.

"Your Excellency spares your life." An abrupt voice sounded from among the prisoners, and the master was hoarse, and he could hear all the strength of the desperate fight after being extremely afraid: "My lord, spare my life, I am Liao Li, a citizen of Shu, and I am from Yizhou." ”

Liu Zhang looked over coldly, a young man of about twenty, with messy hair and a blue face, looked at Liu Zhang with great anticipation.

"Liao Li? What's that? Liu Zhang asked Yan Yan next to him suspiciously.

Yan Yan thought about it and shook his head, and Fa Zheng said on the side: "At the beginning, the Ghost Festival sacrificed to the sky, and at night on Yushu Street, there were families who said that there were wealthy families who left Yizhou before the main sacrifice to the sky, and among them, the Liao family moved to Wuling, I don't know if it was this Liao Li's family." ”

"Oh, I remember." Liu Zhang slapped his forehead, he still remembered that when he was playing mahjong, a chubby family said, turned around and said to Liao Li kindly: "Did your Liao family move out of Yizhou on the eve of Halloween?" ”

"yes, yes." Liao Li saw that Liu Zhang remembered, and his face was kind, and he immediately nodded busily: "At the beginning, I didn't know the eloquence of the adults, and I repented day and night after arriving in Wuling. ”

"Well, the prodigal son will not change his money." Liu Zhang nodded and said in a deep voice: "Liao Li, you are really loyal, but the official is afraid that if you are released, you will flee to Jiangdong, so let's do it, the official will go to hell to implement the new policy, you go and help the official find the way." ”

Liao Li's face changed color.

Liu Zhang turned around and walked to the high platform, and said as he walked: "Execute the Liao family first, this official hates to ride the wall and speculate the most in his life." ”

Liu Zhang sat back in the main seat, his eyes were level with the front, Xiao Furong was holding a jar of wine with one hand to drink, suddenly felt that his little hand was tightly held by Liu Zhang, stunned for a moment, and felt that Liu Zhang's strength in holding his hand was very strong, Xiao Furong looked at Liu Zhang, and saw that he looked calm, but the power in his hand came, Xiao Furong knew that Liu Zhang was in pain, and silently buckled Liu Zhang's hand, and continued to drink and eat with the other hand.

When the officials finished killing, their faces were already snow-white, and they couldn't even stand steadily, the generals were better, and those literati and scholars only felt that the sky was dark, and all their previous moral and ethical values collapsed at this time.

"There is a singing and dancing bonfire waiting for everyone in the back, so the official will not accompany him, so he will go first."

Liu Zhang got up, Xiao Furong hurriedly abandoned the chopsticks in her hand, lifted the sword and stood up, with a slight use of force in her hand, and left the main seat with Liu Zhang, and walked to the door of the stage, Liu Zhang stopped and said to Zhang Ren: "Reward the rich daughters of the wealthy family to the three armies, and confiscate the grain." ”

Zhang Ren hesitated for a moment, hugged his sword and replied, "Yes." ”

Liu Zhang didn't stop after speaking, and walked out of the official dam with Xiao Furong, looking at the eyes of Wuling officials, they only felt that Liu Zhang was too terrible, killing so many people, and still being so light-hearted, holding the hands of his wife and concubine and leaving the execution ground calmly, infinite fear rose in his heart, now they, not to mention that the defenders were co-opted, all the wealthy families were punished, and they had no capital to rebel, even if they were given 10,000 troops, they did not dare to have the intention of resisting.

"You can sleep." As soon as she arrived at the county mansion room, Xiao Furong immediately supported Liu Zhang with both hands, Liu Zhang's five fingers clasped his forehead tightly, closed his eyes and shook his head vigorously: "It's okay, I can't sleep, I still have some things to do." ”

Liu Zhang's illness made Zhang Zhongjing see it, Zhang Zhongjing said that it is not treatable by medicine, he only said that it is not advisable to overwork, and the most important thing is not to force himself to do what he does not want to do, which will bring pressure to his heart, but since he has embarked on this road of conquering the world, how can he be happy in everything.