Section 297 The King's Journey

The improvised execution tables were quickly erected, and there were as many as five in total.

As many as hundreds of felons lined up in order, from the side entrance of the plaza to the street corner in the distance.

All the propaganda teams were dispatched together, in groups of three, holding tin horns and rolling broadcasts in the streets and alleys. They had memorized the whole thing the day before, starting with the ancestors of these nobles and continuing to the present. The point is that they are guilty of trying to deceive the young King of the Thunder Bull and take what does not belong to them from the vast number of civilians.

"They have used their power to deceive you of your land and forced you to cultivate it for them. Think about it, how much food can you get for all year of hard work? ”

"You have all sold your sons and daughters for a mouthful of food, and what have you gained? Just a few dozen kilograms of grain, before the end of the winter, all the food will be eaten, how to live the next year? ”

"Is it because you are lazy? Or is it because you don't want to work hard? Why don't you want to know why? ”

"The One-Armed Girl" is a new drama written by the Propaganda Department of Panshiling. According to Tianhao's regulations, every seven people are a crew, with a large number of iron horns on the spot, with Thunderhorn City as the core, to carry out radiation performances towards all villages in the surrounding territory.

The plot is very simple: a sturdy and beautiful cow girl originally had a happy family. Loved by her parents and taken care of by her brother, she lives happily and is also a good hand at farm work. A young man in the village fell in love with the girl, and the two fell in love, and the families of both sides also discussed waiting for two years to save some food to marry the child. However, in the event of a natural disaster and a poor harvest, a nobleman invited the girl's brother to go out hunting, but the brother was bitten to death by a wild beast. In that winter when there was a shortage of food, my mother was forced to sell herself in exchange for ten kilograms of food, but it was far from enough for the family to consume. At this time, the nobles took the initiative to come to the door and bought the girl at a price of fifty kilograms of coarse grain.

She later learned that her brother was deliberately killed by a nobleman and faked the scene.

The girl escaped from the nobleman's house, but in the process of escaping, her left arm was cut off, and she has lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests ever since.

In order to raise food for that tragic winter, the infatuated young man went to the main city of the clan to sign up for the army. He fought bravely on the battlefield, and was appreciated by the king of the tribe and became the head of a thousand. When he returns home with glory and booty, he finds that his beloved girl is no longer there, and her parents are long dead.

In order to relieve the sorrow in his heart, the new head of a thousand people went up the mountain to hunt, and accidentally met a one-armed girl in the deep mountains and old forests. She lived on wild fruits, insects, and small beasts for food, and she had to wait until now. The girl cried everything to the head of the thousand people, and the head of the thousand people was furious, and the two of them left the village overnight and went to the main city of the tribe to ask the king for help.

The king of the tribe was a wise and just man, and he sent troops to seize the cunning nobles, pronounced a sentence in public, beheaded the entire family of the wicked nobles, and distributed their property to the maidens as compensation, and the one-armed maiden and the young thousand heads lived happily ever after.

It's ordinary, it's realistic, it's popular.

In this wild age where there is almost no entertainment, a simple chant can become pop music, let alone this kind of multi-person performance, plus voice-over drama.

A total of five seven-person crews, from the same moment that Tianhao ordered the arrest of people and their homes, performed publicly in five blocks in Thunderhorn City, which immediately attracted the attention of the people in the city.

They are like five super magnets with great power, firmly attaching everyone around the performance platform, performing in a loop from noon to night, harvesting countless applause, tears, cheers, and curses......

According to Tianhao's order, the speed of public execution of nobles should be deliberately delayed, and the time should be counted for each beheading. The time to kill these people must be done sooner rather than later, and the one-armed woman must be performed on a nearby platform, and when the wise king of the clan appears and orders the nobles to be severely punished, the executioner also wields a steel axe on the execution table and kills them.

In the minds of the vast majority of northern barbarians, the tragedy of family destruction and death is always associated with hunger. Because of the limitations of their position and their own circles, they seldom or never think about the connection. Marx did not belong to this era, Rousseau and Montesquieu were passers-by in another time and space, and the names of Cromwell and Li Zicheng were even more unfamiliar...... Tianhao has always felt that he is very lucky, these hungry barbarians live in such a harsh environment, and they did not rebel, but endured it until today.

Those who do not rebel are good people, because they need a wise, great, benevolent monarch.

Ah Ju took three thousand Niu women from Rock City and took root here as early as when Tianhao went to Black Corner City. still follow the old method of the past, go door-to-door to ask for warmth, and often ask about the situation. Women always communicate better with each other than men, and the elderly and children are not so wary of women. A handful of dried apples, a few cute white-flour steamed buns, and a small bag of salt...... With Rock City's strong logistical supply and production capacity, these gifts are extremely inexpensive, but they have received excellent results.

All the sins are the work of those damned nobles.

Wu Yuan is the most typical example, the king is such a good person, he actually succeeded and killed the king's entire family.

There are still wicked people in Thunderhorn, and the new King of Thunderhorn is the messenger sent by the gods to save you.

In the evening, when the pig engineering team returned, Tianhao also left the palace hall surrounded by the escort of the brigade and began his first tour of Thunderhorn City.

He wore a delicately made bearskin shoulder, tied with a belt, and covered with a deerskin robe, wide and warm, and the whole person looked very lean. The guards surrounded the area, holding torches, with the young acting patriarch as the core, illuminating a radius of about five meters.

There were more than a dozen ox carts in the procession.

The god of the night was clearly particularly fond of him, and it was a night when there was no snow and almost no wind.

Of course, Tianhao will not tell the people below that this is his long-term experience in observing the weather, and he deliberately chose to go out for a cruise tonight.

The fear of kings is as deep as a brand in the hearts of every barbarian. Watching the procession slowly approaching surrounded by a mighty army, they knelt down on both sides of the street, quietly looking at the young new king with humble and somewhat curious eyes...... Surprisingly, there was no cold and stern gaze back as expected. He was handsome, smiling all the time, releasing an extremely comforting gentleness.

In front of her left was a middle-aged woman kneeling on the ground, her hands apart, holding her four children who were also kneeling. Her clothes were in tatters, and several children had dirt on their faces, ranging in age. Seeing this, Tianhao deliberately stopped in front of her, took the steaming steamed buns from the guards next to her, and handed them to several children.

The woman was stunned.

It was the first time she had received a gift from a stranger when she was so big.

And he is also the king of the clan.

Tianhao turned around and took a rattan basket from the guard's hand, which contained a bag of rice, a bag of thick noodles, some dried fish, and a small bag of salt. He handed the rattan basket into the woman's arms, lifted her up from the ground with both hands, and said kindly, "Eat these grains first, and everything will be fine later." ”

After a pause, he continued: "If your man dares to trouble you again, go to the palace to find me, and this king will help you solve it." ”

After speaking, Tianhao smiled and turned to leave.

Standing there stunned, looking at his distant back, the woman felt her eyes moisten, and tears flowed down her cheeks uncontrollably.

This is the new King of the Clan!

He knew I needed food, and he knew I was struggling with my four children. My husband is a slacker who doesn't do anything at home every day, and he even plans to sell me and my children to spend the winter in exchange for firewood and food.

The child is very sensible, they gathered around the woman, the eight-year-old eldest son raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes for her, raised the steamed bun in his hand, and asked timidly: "Grandma...... Mantou, we ...... Can you eat it? ”

"Yes, of course I can." She sniffled vigorously, wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, hurriedly pushed the shoulders of the four children, and urged again and again in a trembling voice: "Kneel, kneel, kowtow to the king, kowtow to the king!" Remember, it was the king who gave you a chance to live, and it was the king who helped us. ”

A lot of people have seen this scene.

The parade continued onwards.

Tianhao stopped in front of an old man in his fifties.

The old man had only one arm. He was wearing a dirty old leather jacket, which had been gnawed by insects, and his hair, which had not been cleaned for many years, looked dirty and messy, and there was a foul smell all over his body. It was cold, he was shivering on his knees, and there was a girl about six years old next to him.

Tianhao bent down to help the old man up, took off his leather robe and put it on for him, helped the girl up again, took the rattan basket containing rice noodles from the guard, and handed it over.

Looking down at the old man's severed arm, Tianhao asked seriously, "Are you a knife wound?" ”

The old man had obviously never had been so close to the king of the clan. He was too frightened to look up, but the new leather robe he wore was so warm that he felt an indescribable sense of comfort and satisfaction. The old man stretched out his right hand and crossed it in front of his chest, performed a military etiquette, and replied in a low voice: "Left over from the war with the Tiger Clansmen in the past." Although I lost one hand, I also hacked two to death, which is considered to be earned. ”

Tianhao praised with a smile: "It is worthy of being the warrior of my Niu clan." ”

The old man's face was slightly red, he was not very suitable for this kind of occasion, the praise from the superior made him excited, and he was also a little instinctively timid, very embarrassed, and whispered: "...... King...... I...... It's dirty and smelly...... Stinky ......"

Tianhao didn't care about this, he looked down at the girl standing next to the old man with a basket in her hand: "This is your granddaughter?" ”

The old man put one hand on the girl's shoulder, nodded, and his mood became a little low: "My son was later conscripted into the army and died in battle. The daughter-in-law had a sudden illness the year before and also went. Now there is only one little granddaughter left to follow me for my life, I ...... I...... I'm really afraid that one day I'll die with two kicks, leaving her behind...... So what should I do......"

Looking at his sad face close at hand, Tianhao squatted down, bent the little girl to pick him up, and said seriously to the old man: "No matter what the rules were before, after this king took the position of patriarch, all of them have changed. You go to the military affairs department tomorrow to register, as long as you have fought a war, shed blood for my cattle clan, and worked hard, you can get a job. ”

The old man's eyes were a little red, and his face showed infinite gratitude: "Thank you, Great King...... But...... I, I don't have a hand ......"

"This king has always been true to his word!" Tian Hao raised his voice, which was deafening to the ears of the people nearby: "As long as it is a meritorious warrior, whether it is disabled or healthy, it is the same in the eyes of this king. I will raise you until you are old, and your family will be responsible for it to the end! ”

These words resounded repeatedly in the old man's eardrums like thunder, and he looked at Tianhao blankly, and involuntarily opened his mouth wide: "This...... It's true? ”

Tianhao patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "This king went to Suolong Pass and cut off hundreds of white people's heads with his own hands. ”

This works better than any guarantee.

……

There were more and more onlookers on both sides of the road.

Tianhao controls the time and pace of talking to everyone, three to five minutes, and does not time out. The gifts given to the other side were nothing more than leather robes and rattan baskets containing rice flour, both of which were placed on ox carts and followed the march of the group.

It's still quite troublesome to say, walking through two streets, Tianhao has changed into four leather robes.

He was well aware of the significance of this kind of people-friendly parade, and also understood the huge difference between a "tunic" and an "ordinary robe".

The former was worn by the king of the clan and brought with him a gift of body temperature. The latter is much more ordinary, and although it is a new garment, it loses that special and precious weight in the hearts of the recipients.

In fact, the gifts distributed were not much, a total of 100 leather robes, 1,000 rattan baskets containing rice noodles, and steamed buns.

Aju's women's task force has achieved remarkable results. They conducted a preliminary investigation and understanding of the civilians at the bottom of Thunderhorn City, and numbered and filed these people in just one week. Different standards of assistance have been developed to suit the different circumstances of each household. Even tonight's parade was secretly promoted by them, and Tianhao gave gifts to them according to the list reported by Ah Ju to select individual targets that needed to "send warmth on the spot".

Behind Tianhao, groups of people knelt down one after another, and countless people shed tears of emotion and shouted "Long live the king".

It was destined to be a sleepless night.

The story of "The One-Armed Girl" can soon spread throughout Thunderhorn City, and then the entire Thunder Cow Division's large and small villages.

All the nobles on the list were arrested, from the old man to the child, and all died.

Tianhao needs their heads to show power. It is true that there must have been unjust deaths and manslaughter among these people, but no one shouted slogans such as "keep people under the knife" before they died.

As long as ten civilians stood up at the execution site and said that one of them did not deserve to die, Tianhao would gladly accept their opinions.