Chapter 164: Step by step
At the same time, Yuezhou City Vegetable Market.
As noon got closer and closer, more and more people gathered in front of the vegetable market, and as Zhao Ling advised, even most of the victims gathered in the north of the city came.
At this moment, on the execution platform, which was surrounded by thousands of people, there were already armored soldiers stationed there, and the state officials were all full of spirit and with wide knives guarding around the stands.
But anyone with a little common sense knows what this vegetable market is used for, ordinary people don't like blood, so there are usually few people here, plus Han Fang's management of Yuezhou City is well-managed, and few people who are full of evil need to be beheaded here.
Therefore, there has never been such a crowded scene as today.
At this time, looking up at Xingtai, I saw that the red four-corner long table was placed in the middle position smoothly and steadily, and a wide chair with a crossed back was polished and placed behind the long table; There was nothing else on the long table, except for an inkstone and a wooden box full of arrows.
Obviously, such a decoration is placed in the ordinary, but the people who came to the scene smelled a different smell from it, and always felt that something unusual was going to happen here today.
Just as everyone was waiting and whispering a discussion, a pair of guards escorted a man on a horse to appear.
The man still looks very young, in his early twenties, wearing a dark red brocade dress on his tall and slender figure, which is even more outstanding and noble, although his handsome and compelling face seems cold, but it is extremely eye-catching, which makes many women in the crowd blush faintly.
They didn't know the man, but the people of Yuezhou Governor Han who followed the man were familiar with him.
At this moment, I saw Lord Han following the man in front of the horse, with a sense of welcome and respect on his face; Suddenly, many people guessed the man's identity.
With such a noble bearing of the emperor and grandson, who else can there be except His Royal Highness King Ling, who is rumored to come to the disaster relief?
For a while, the already noisy crowd was talking again, and when they saw the man slowly approaching, they all knelt down and saluted, not daring to look at the inviolable face again.
Zhao Ling came to the execution table, turned over and dismounted in a dashing manner, and walked towards the long table on the execution table; Han Fang followed closely behind him.
After the two of them sat on the wide chairs that had been prepared on the torture table, Zhao Ling glanced at the guards who followed him.
The personal guards followed Zhao Ling all the year round, and as long as he looked at him, he knew what the master meant.
The guard stepped forward and said to the people who were still kneeling and saluting, "His Royal Highness King Ling has been ordered to provide disaster relief, and he has traveled to the territory of Yuezhou, knowing that the city has also taken in many disaster victims. After His Highness goes to Jeju to provide relief to the victims of the Jeju disaster, he also invites the people who have fled the disaster far from their hometowns to return to their homes and reunite with their loved ones. ”
These words can be regarded as talking about the hearts of the victims who have left their hometowns, thinking that the imperial court actually sent a disaster relief mission so quickly, and that the disaster relief mission really considered everything for them, the helpless disaster victims, several people shed tears on the spot, shouting Chitose gratitude.
Zhao Ling looked at the victims who were kneeling and crying bitterly, got up from the cross-backed wide chair, and slowly walked to the torture table.
"The Jeju disaster has been reported to the court, and the Son of Heaven and all the officials have taken it to heart, and this king has been ordered to provide disaster relief this time, and he will definitely put the disaster first, and will never let Jeju and Yuezhou have starved all over the country."
Hearing this cold but warm voice, the victims were more like they had the backbone of the heart, and even their dull eyes were dyed with brilliant brilliance.
Zhao Ling made a gesture to signal the people who were kneeling on the ground to get up one after another, and at the same time said, "It's just that after this king came to Yuezhou, he heard about something very displeased. ”
The people who got up one after another were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't understand what King Ling meant.
Zhao Ling put his hands behind his back, like a leisurely walk in the backyard, and slowly walked along the torture platform, "The people of Yuezhou are simple and simple, and under the governance of the Han Governor's Mansion, it is not an exaggeration to say that they do not close their doors at night and do not leave them behind, but this king heard that there have been disturbances in many places in Yuezhou City recently, breaking into the homes of merchants to rob and injure people, and even breaking into the homes of innocent people, doing heinous things, I don't know if the people present have heard of it?" ”
Everyone didn't expect King Ling to mention this matter in public, and everyone's faces changed for a while.
At this moment, several merchants and ordinary people who had been disturbed by Diao people stood up one after another, knelt on the ground and cried to Zhao Ling, "His Royal Highness King Ling, please be sure to be the master of the small people." ”
"Xiaomin originally opened a baked cake shop in the east of the city, a family of three generations, all loyal and honest businessmen, but just ten days ago, suddenly one day a group of disaster victims rushed into Xiaomin's baked cake shop with a sickle and sharp weapon, and robbed all the food and finance in the store. The poor Xiaomin's daughter-in-law was four months pregnant at the time, and after this fright, she was bleeding on the spot; After the incident, the doctor was called for timely treatment, and finally saved the life of Xiaomin's daughter-in-law, but it is a pity that Xiaomin's grandson, who has not yet met, left like this; Your Highness, Lord Han is a good person, and he can't bear to see the innocent victims displaced, so he opened the city gate to welcome them in, but some wicked people took the opportunity to make trouble and hurt us unarmed people, and asked His Highness to call the shots, catch the wicked, and seek justice for us victimized people. ”
"Yes, Your Highness, the small people's house has also been robbed by the wicked, and those who should be killed by heaven even smashed the only pot in the small people's house with a stone before leaving; Where are they the poor people who have been affected by the disaster, they are clearly bandits and hooligans, wandering in Yuezhou City, specifically bullying us ordinary people. ”
These two sufferers took the lead, and one after another, people stood up, knelt on the ground, and began to accuse the wicked people of evil deeds.
And this time, almost one-third of the people watching near the torture platform in Yuezhou City, everyone showed righteous indignation when they heard this bloody cry, and even worse, blurted out in public that they wanted to drive out the victims in the city.
You must know that the people surrounding the torture platform at this moment are not only the original people in Yuezhou City, but also the victims gathered from the north of the city.
When they heard that the people of the city were so repulsive to them, the victims who had come to take refuge, many of them hung their heads in shame.
No one can better understand the feeling of this parasitic fence at this moment than them, although Lord Han accepted them, but they also know that for outsiders like them, the original people in Yuezhou City did not welcome them very much.
Because of their arrival, the streets of Yuezhou City became crowded and chaotic, because of their arrival, there was chaos in the city's public security, and even in order to help them, I heard that Lord Han also took out all the food that the original state government used to comfort the poor people in the city for them to use first.
They are also people who have a conscience and know what it is like to be ashamed, of course, they know that their appearance has destroyed the original balance in Yuezhou City, and they have quietly taken possession of what should not belong to them; It is a great deal of generosity for the people of the city to be able to tolerate them to this point.
But what they didn't expect was that some of the victims actually gathered together to make the chickens and dogs in Yuezhou City restless; Now, when they go out into the streets, they can see the eyes of people pointing at them and looking at them with disgust, although they are also very aggrieved, but they must also bear this grievance, because those who are hurt are more innocent than they are.
At present, the most unbearable thing for the victims in the north of the city was brought forward in public, and looking at the tearful appearance of the victims one by one, they could only hang their heads, carefully hide the guilt on their faces, and did not even dare to say a word of rebuttal.
Zhao Ling always maintained an indifferent look, like a bystander who had nothing to do with himself, watching many people under the torture platform hang their heads, and looking at their clothes, he could recognize at a glance that these people were from the north of the city.
Glancing at the residents of the original Yuezhou City, who were very repulsed by the victims in the north of the city, Zhao Ling slowly counted the numbers in his heart, and finally, when the atmosphere of the scene had been rendered to the top, Zhao Ling glanced at Han Fang, who was restless.
Han Fang immediately jumped up like a child, trotted to the side, and hurriedly gestured to the official to escort the person who had been pressed forward towards the torture platform.
The people under the torture platform were still spitting and red-faced, Zhao Ling didn't interrupt them silently, just watched them slowly change from emotion to stunned at the moment when the prisoner was pressed up, and then, an exclamation suddenly broke out in the crowd.
"Your Highness, that person is a bastard who tried to bully my daughter-in-law, Your Highness, please let the little old man come up and know the life of this thief with your own hands."
With the outbreak of this sound, everyone came back to their senses, feeling that His Royal Highness King Ling had already caught the wicked people who were doing evil in the city, and they were going to be executed today.
No wonder the government asked the people to gather here today, no wonder His Royal Highness King Ling said such a thing, it turned out that it was all for the next thing.
Looking at the no less than ten criminals who were escorted up, Zhao Ling faced everyone and said, "There is no need for this king to explain more, presumably many people present at this moment have already recognized the person who was escorted up." ”
Looking at the murderers who bullied their families and robbed their families' belongings, many people under the torture platform were already red-eyed.
If it weren't for the soldiers stationed on the side at this moment, I am afraid that they would have already set off a civil unrest and rushed up to tear the murderer who knelt on the ground alive.