The sun shines on the bluestone pavement in Luoyang City, and a new day descends on the earth again.

For some, though, the new sun means not a new day, but the end of life.

On death row in Luoyang City, more than a dozen officials and Wang Bin who had been imprisoned for the military rations sat in their cells dejectedly.

When the sun shines through the tiny window into the prison, they already know that this will be the last time they will see the sun in their lives!

"It's time to eat!" Several soldiers of the Luoyang Army guarding the prison entered the death row, and the leading officer knocked on the wooden railing of the prison with the rod of a leather whip, and said to the more than ten people who were sitting in it: "Your Highness has made a special order to make you more meat and wine!" ”

More than a dozen death row inmates raised their heads to look at the officer, and one of them whispered, "We are all dying people, where can we eat?" ”

"That's a mistake!" The death row inmates didn't want to eat, but the officer smiled and said to them in a very calm tone: "Since you are dying, you will go to the Yellow Spring Road." It's a long way to go, so is it possible for everyone to be a starving ghost? ”

"That's it!" Listening to the officer's words, one of the prisoners on death row stood up, walked to the fence, put his hand out of the fence, and said to the officer: "Your Highness's kindness, we will take it to heart!" I have no chance to serve His Highness in this life, so I have to report it again in the next life! ”

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place!" Another death row inmate leaned against the wall of the cell, raised his face and sighed, saying, "If we hadn't adulterated the military rations, we wouldn't have ended up in such a field!" ”

Someone mentioned military rations, and all the death row inmates in the prison turned their faces to Wang Bin, and their eyes were full of resentment and anger.

Being stared at by a group of death row prisoners, Wang Bin suddenly panicked, and hurriedly said: "You also thought of the benefits before you watched the military rations enter the barracks!" ”

"I wanted to beat you to death, but you also want to be beheaded with us!" A group of death row inmates stared at Wang Bin but did not come forward to beat him, one of the death row inmates said to him coldly: "Wait until we go to the execution ground, I hope that after I can die of you, let me wait to see your head fall to the ground!" ”

"Alright, let's eat!" The death row prisoners took their anger out on Wang Bin, and the officer gently knocked the wooden fence twice with the rod of the whip, and said to them: "I will wait for you to wash later, and Your Highness also said, since you are going to die, let you wait for a clean road!" ”

"That's what the military master said!" A death row prisoner answered, walked to the fence, took the food handed to him by the soldier, looked at the meat in the bowl and sighed, and said, "I don't feel sorry for the evil death, but I pity my family." Now they are official slaves, and they don't know how miserable they will live in the future......"

His words immediately evoked the softest place in the hearts of most death row inmates, except for a few death row inmates whose family members had been pardoned and demoted to commoners earlier, the faces of the others suddenly turned gray.

"Official slave?" Seeing that the death row inmates were suddenly depressed, the officer whispered to them: "You are already dying, so I will tell you about waiting, what about it?" ”

When he spoke, the officer looked mysterious, none of these death row prisoners were people who had held great power in the past, and they were not fools, and they had already seen some clues from the officer's expression, and almost asked the officer in unison: "Could it be that His Highness has changed his mind?" ”

"Your Highness has already given an order, how can you change your mind?" The officer shook his head and said to the group of death row prisoners: "But I know that the time limit for you to wait for your family to be a slave is only three years, and during these three years, you are serving in the outer courtyard of the palace!" ”

Listening to the officer's words, including Wang Bin, the eyes of all the death row prisoners lit up instantly, and they asked him almost in unison.

"Your Highness has always opposed joint sitting, but your crime is too serious, so you have to do this!" The officer shook his head, sighed lightly and said to the death row inmates: "Is military ration something that you can fill your own pockets?" Knowing this, you should also be on the road with peace of mind! ”

As he spoke, the officer muttered to the soldiers behind him, who immediately brought their food to the front of the cell.

When the death row inmates learned that their families had not been sent to distant places and that they had only been slaves for three years, they knelt on the ground, facing the direction of the palace, and kept shouting: "Your Highness is benevolent, I will never forget life and death!" ”

Seeing that it was close to noon, many people gathered in the street market in Luoyang City who had received the news to see the killing.

On both sides of the market entrance, there were soldiers standing on duty.

All the soldiers of the Qin army were armed with Pu knives, standing upright, and it was strictly forbidden for the people to be too close to the execution ground.

At the end of the street, a team of palace guards surrounded Liu Wei and slowly walked towards the entrance of the market where he was about to be executed.

Riding on horseback, on the way to the entrance of the market, Liu Wei's brows were always tightly wrung up.

At noon, he had to personally supervise Wang Bin and others.

Wang Bin used to be an official and businessman, although he did not have an official in his body, but he also did something for Luoyang, and as for those officials who were about to be killed, they were all people who had followed him to build Luoyang.

Killing them, Liu Wei was really a little unbearable.

But now they dare to adulterate in the military rations, if this matter is not treated, I am afraid that favoritism and fraud will become common in the future, Liu Wei can no longer bear it, but also want to kill them, in order to warn future generations!

The people who gathered in the market and waited to see the head of the murder saw Liu Wei coming from a distance, and they all talked about Liu Wei personally supervising the beheading and killing people related to the falsification of military rations.

"His Royal Highness occupies Luoyang, as if he has never killed like this today!" Looking at Liu Wei, a young man whispered to the old man beside him: "Fourth uncle, this time His Highness has killed a little too much?" ”

"Many?" As soon as the young man's words fell, the old man turned his head to look at him and whispered to him, "Do you know why Your Highness wants to kill those people? ”

"It is said that sand is added to the military rations." Turning his head to look at the old man, the young man asked with a puzzled expression: "Fourth Uncle doesn't know why His Highness killed someone?" ”

"The military rations are mixed with sand, so why don't the soldiers eat sand and soil when they fight with the enemy?" Glaring at the young man, the old man said angrily: "On the battlefield, the soldiers have no food and grass, and there are only a dozen people killed?" ”

When the old man asked him this, the young man was stunned, and said with a sudden face: "I see, I really should be killed!" ”

The people talked about Liu Bian's killing of Wang Bin and more than a dozen officials involved in the case, and Liu Biao had already arrived at the entrance of the market surrounded by Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and a group of palace guards.

More than a dozen straw mats have been placed at the entrance of the market, and Jia Xu, who is in charge of supervising the beheading, has already led a group of officials to wait here.

Seeing Liu Wei coming, Jia Xu hurriedly greeted him, hugged his fists and bowed to Liu Wei and said, "Your Royal Highness, the death row prisoner is ready to stop, just waiting to be escorted to the execution ground for beheading!" ”

Looking at Jia Xu, Liu Wei nodded at him, didn't say anything, and walked straight to the top straw mat.

"Escort death row inmates to the execution ground!" Seeing Liu Wei nodding, Jia Xu whispered an order to a soldier waiting on the side.

The soldier was commanded, and hastened to answer, and hurried in the direction of the prison.

Originally, Jia Xu wanted to set up the execution ground in another relatively distant street so that the people could see the death row prisoners parade through the streets, but Liu Wei vetoed his proposal and just asked him to escort the death row prisoners to the execution ground as soon as possible.

The soldiers who gave the order ran to the prison and as soon as they entered the prison gate, they shouted loudly: "Your Highness has an order, escort the death row prisoners to the execution ground!" ”

The officer in charge of escorting the death row prisoner was already ready, and when he heard the soldier's shout, he shouted to the soldiers who had been waiting in the cell for a long time: "Escort the death row prisoner!" ”

More than a dozen death row inmates were taken out of the cell by the soldiers, and when they were about to leave the cell, they could still lift their spirits in the morning, but they were all wilted like frosted eggplants.

Two of them, knowing that they were about to be escorted to the execution ground, were already weak in their legs and unable to walk, and were almost dragged out of the prison by the escorted soldiers.

The death row prisoners were dragged out of the prison one by one, and under the escort of a team of Qin soldiers, they walked out of the prison gate and walked in the direction of the execution ground.

Since Liu Wei did not intend to let them parade through the streets, they were not locked in a cart, but walked to the execution ground on foot under the escort of the Qin soldiers.

Along the way, the soldiers of the Qin army who were in charge of escorting them did not embarrass any of them, and the two death row prisoners who were so weak that they were so weak that they couldn't even walk on the road also had soldiers carry them to the execution ground.

When they arrived at the execution ground, the soldiers made the death row inmates kneel in a row.

Then the officer escorting the death row prisoner trotted down in front of Liu Wei, clasped his fists and bowed to him and said, "Your Highness, all the death row prisoners have been escorted!" ”

Liu Wei nodded, waved his hand at the officer, and waited until the officer left, then slowly stood up and looked at the more than ten death row prisoners kneeling on the execution ground.

"Do you know why the king wants to kill them?" After staring at the death row prisoners for a while, Liu Wei looked around at the people and officers and soldiers present, and said to everyone: "In the past, this king rebuilt Luoyang, and they all made great contributions, killing them, this king is really sad!" ”

Not only the onlookers and the officers and soldiers on duty all turned their heads to look at him, but even the officials present also bowed down with their fists and stood facing Liu Bian, quietly listening to what he said.

"They fill their pockets in the sand mixed with military rations!" After a moment of silence, Liu Biancai continued: "The army is on the march, and this king can't let the soldiers eat sand?" Once there is a problem with the military rations, countless soldiers will die unjustly on the battlefield! ”

At this point, Liu Wei glared at the death row inmates kneeling on the execution ground, and asked them in a loud voice: "You wait to do such a thing, maybe you will give this king a reason not to kill you?" ”