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"My lord, it's best if Shi Biao doesn't die, in case he dies, it's best to hide the news." Guo Xiaochao built yì road.

"How to hide it?"

"The other party will definitely not believe the news released by us, but if it is the news from the East Factory......"

Meng Yan raised his eyes and looked at Lin Tianxing.

"Tianxing understands." Lin Tianxing is a smart person, and he still can't hear the meaning of this?

"Even if we conceal the news, I'm afraid we won't be peaceful along the way." Meng Yan said slowly.

"Anyway, Shi Biao was used as a gun, Shi Heng hates us, and he hates Dongchang and Guo Jing even more."

"Hmm!"

"In that case, we must plan for a rainy day from now on." Meng Yan said, "Fortunately, the official blackmailed Wang Zhen before leaving Beijing, without so much sophisticated equipment, our casualties will be even greater this time!" ”

"My lord is right, this time it was our equipment that gave us the strength to fight with these soldiers on the border!" Guo Xiaochao said.

"Didn't we capture a dozen people, can we use them for me?" Meng Yan asked with a deep groan.

"I asked, these people have been following Shi Biao all the year round, and they are all his most trusted subordinates, I'm afraid they won't defect lightly!" Guo Xiaochao shook his head slightly.

"This official believes that anyone has a psychological bottom line, these people are warriors, they are fighting for the imperial court, and they eat the food and salary of the imperial court, but they are not his Shi Biao's personal personal soldiers!" Meng Yan Road.

"My lord, these people are almost Shi Biao's personal private soldiers." Guo Xiaochao shook his head and said.

"So, you can't be reformed?"

"That's pretty much it." Guo Xiaochao said helplessly.

Raising private soldiers. This was not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, it was risky, of course, the main thing is that you are bold enough, powerful enough, and it is not a problem to raise some personal guards, but it must not exceed a certain number.

More than a certain number of people. If you are discovered by the imperial court, you will be determined to have the ambition of rebellion, and when the time comes, you will be directly arrested and your head will be cut off.

Moreover, the people who raise private soldiers are generally military generals and civilian officials, unless they have great ambitions, they rarely raise private soldiers.

Military generals raising private soldiers are generally not easy to detect, because their private soldiers can have legal status.

In this way, the private soldiers eat the food of the court, but secretly only give their lives to private individuals.

There is also a group of people who like to raise private soldiers. That was the eunuch, after the death of Cao Jixiang who was not degraded, there were many Tatar slaves in the family, numbering hundreds, all of them sturdy Tatars.

These Tatars only recognize Cao Jixiang as the master in their eyes, and as for the court, if it is not my race, its heart will be different.

"Your Excellency. Since these people are diehards, why don't they kill them? ”

"Kill?" Meng Yan raised his head. There was some surprise.

"Yes, these people are all private soldiers, not on the roster of the imperial guards, and even if they die, no one will be held accountable."

"Brother Xiaochao, do you think so too?" Meng Yan asked Guo Xiaochao.

"My lord, if these people can't be used by me. Then you have to kill. Guo Xiaochao said calmly.

Meng Yan's first feeling was that these two people were too cold-blooded.

But he held back, he knew that this was not in the later generations, this was in the Ming Dynasty. There are some issues that you have to put yourself in their shoes.

Even such cruel things as human martyrdom and the extermination of the Nine Clans can be saved, and killing people is really just a matter of words for those in power.

Human rights are not valuable here, when you don't have the strength to resist, you can only choose to accept it, of course, you can also resist, and the result is the same.

"I want to give it a try, and if it doesn't work, I'll do as you say." Meng Yan thought for a moment.

"My lord, how do you want to try?"

"In this way, Brother Xiaochao, you can arrange ......" Meng Yan said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Late at night, the atmosphere is solemn!

Shi Biao and his men captured a total of twenty-two people, of which eighteen were captured in the cave of the Dragon King Temple, and six were in Shiwei Village, where two were killed for resisting, and the remaining four were captured.

Of the forty-seven people in all, only twenty-three survived, all of whom were captured.

"Lord Lin, what are you doing here?"

"What do you say?" Lin Tianxing stood at the window and smiled coldly.

"It's not going to be all these people executed, is it?" Feng Shaoyu gasped.

"These people are Shi Biao's private soldiers, they can't be used by my lord, what's the use of keeping them?" Lin Tianxingdao.

"This, that's too cruel, isn't it?"

"Becoming a king or losing, since they have chosen this path, they know what the ending will be, and they can't complain about others." Lin Tianxingdao.

"What a ruthless person!" Feng Shaoyu's heart trembled, thinking to himself, if he hadn't succumbed to it in Mingyue Valley, I'm afraid he would have become a pile of rotten bones.

"Lord Lin, how should I reply when asked above?"

"Didn't you see that?" Lin Tianxingdao.

"Just said he was executed?"

"These people are all private soldiers who have no value, and those who stay behind are sent to take care of them, give them food and heal their wounds, and watch out for them, what's the use of staying?" Lin Tianxing said, "As for Shi Biao Qianhu, it's different, he is an official of the imperial court, how can he be executed at will?" ”

"That's right, Lord Lin's words made someone Feng open a stopper, like seeing the sun through the clouds......"

"Okay, don't shoot my horses, I'm not those geldings from the East Factory, take a closer look, is there any Shi Biao?"

"Oh, don't look at it, what Lord Lin said makes sense, I don't think Lord Meng should do that......"

East of the city, mass graves.

Twenty-one people, in three rows, with their hands tied behind their backs, wearing black hoods, knelt on the cold ground.

As soon as Meng Yan waved his hand, a member of the Qin Messenger Guard had already stepped forward and removed the hoods from the captives' heads one by one.

There are brocade guards standing all around, and a circle of torches illuminates the place within a radius of hundreds of zhang.

But under so much firelight, I didn't feel a trace of warmth, but a biting cold!

There weren't enough executioners in Yi County, so they specially found four from Yi Zhou, and they were flaming red. The red cloth wraps his head, his chest is exposed, and the sharpened ghost head knife is shiny.

This qiē indicates that the next step is to behead and kill.

"Who has not died in life since ancient times, have you already thought of this day?" Meng Yan appeared in front of the captives wearing a brocade guard unicorn robe and a scarlet daze.

"Forgot. This official said this, for you, it is playing the harp to the cow! Meng Yan smiled, maybe he wanted to loosen the cold atmosphere, but it backfired.

"What are you thinking, this official doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know." Meng Yan walked over slowly, from among the captives.

He could clearly see everyone's body reactions, their eyes. And the trembling of the hands and feet.

Not everyone can face death calmly!

A person who is not afraid of death does exist, but it is either a murderous machine that does not distinguish between right and wrong, or there is something in his heart that must be insisted on, for justice, for righteousness, or for his parents, wife and children, or for love.

But what are these people under their feet for?

To survive, if only for this. The more they persist, the more they will lose their lives.

"What's your name?" Meng Yan walked up to a young man who looked to be about twenty years old. They pulled him from the ground.

"Shi Hu!"

"Who are you, Shi Biao?" Meng Yan asked.

"Same, same ......"

"No wonder, have you ever killed someone?" Meng Yan continued to ask.

"No, I haven't killed ......" Shi Hu trembled with fright, even if he hadn't seen this scene. You can guess a few points.

This is no different from killing the head at the mouth of the vegetable market.

"You really haven't killed it?"

"Really, I really haven't killed it." Shi Hu was about to cry, he was going to the capital for the first time, he originally came out to see the world, who would have thought that he would encounter such a thing.

"Drag it away!" Meng Yan beckoned. Two brocade guards stepped forward, came over to set up Shi Hu, and dragged him to the side.

"Ah......" Shi Hu's terrible screams made the captives on the ground tremble one by one, and they were terrified.

Click!

Shi Hu's screams came to an abrupt end.

Some people couldn't bear the huge fear and mental pressure, and they fainted and fell to the ground.

Meng Yan waved his hand indifferently: "Drag it away!" ”

"This official is not an indiscriminate killer, you have another chance to live, confess how Shi Biao's uncle and nephew did evil, as long as you say one of them, you can live, remember, one by one, you are not allowed to repeat!" Meng Yan said slowly, "This is called meritorious service, and it is also your only chance to live." ”

"Don't try to make things up, this official will verify everything you said, and if you say it is wrong, the crime will be increased."

The captives were stunned one by one, this was to make them completely betray Shi Biao and Shi Heng's uncle and nephew.

"Who's coming first?"

"See that hourglass over there, it's tea time to miss one, and if none of you stand up, I'll kill one, remember, it's random." Meng Yan pointed to the hourglass on the stool next to him.

All the captives had frightened expressions on their faces.

"The countdown begins, finish it early, and the official will go back to sleep." Meng Yan waved his hand, and Guo Xiaochao turned the hourglass upside down!

The hourglass doesn't look small, but it leaks up quickly.

Meng Yan looked coldly at the prisoner kneeling on the ground, with no trace of emotion in his cold eyes, as if he didn't care about the life and death of these people at all.

Seeing the sand in the hourglass leaking out quickly, the captives couldn't help but shorten their breaths.

There is only one tea time to consider, if no one comes forward, there is going to be a person who dies, this person is not specific, but random, that is to say, everyone is possible, how can this not make people nervous?

"Old Wen ......" Just about two-thirds of the hourglass, an older man stood up.

All the captives looked up in surprise, and some even called out his name.

"Good!" Meng Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if these people were all hard bones, he really didn't know how to sing this play, to say it in his heart, he really didn't want to kill people, after all, these people still shed the same blood as himself, there are mistakes and yes, but the crime is not to death, the only person who should die is Shi Biao, if it weren't for him, these people might not have suffered such a cruel fate.

"If I die, Ah Qiu and her mother will definitely not survive!" The man surnamed Wen explained with a guilty expression.

The captives are silent, everyone is together, they know each other, Lao Wen's situation is indeed like this, his wife is not in good health, the child is still young, if he dies, the two of them will definitely not survive. (To be continued......) R1292