Chapter 223: Willing to enter the game
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Not yet, two moments.
Yuhua was crowded under the stage.
Chen Ning sat on the prison seat with a solemn face, and on the main seat in the middle of the left head, sitting was Su Hongyu, the minister of the Qin Mission, who had just vomited out his breakfast, had a pale face, and was forcibly dragged to the execution platform.
There were four columns of thirty-two prisoners kneeling on the platform, and a column of eight people, lined up in turn, almost occupying the entire length of Yuhuatai.
The prisoners were tightly tied up and had notices on their chests with their names and charges written on them. The executioners stood in a row behind the prisoners, with their arms folded and their broadswords on their shoulders. Just waiting for the prison officer to give an order, he raised his knife and sent these people to the underworld.
The prisoners struggled in vain, shouting loudly that they had been wronged, and their voices were drowned out by the tidal wave of shouts and curses from the audience.
Angry people threw eggs, stones, and rotten leaves at the stage, still unrelieved, trying to break through the siege of the officers and soldiers and rush to the stage.
The scene was chaotic for a while.
"Master Su," Chen Ning poked his head and reminded in a low voice: "The people's grievances are boiling, you should conform to the will of the people and act for the sky." The hour has come. ”
Su Hongyu's hands trembled, looking at the fire order with the eye-catching word "chop" written in the signing cylinder, and he couldn't stretch out his hand for a long time.
"Lord Chen, it's not in accordance with the rules to do this. In case ......"
In case of the East Window incident, in case the court is held accountable, wouldn't the Su family's reputation be ruined? That's sixty-three lives.
Chen Ning's face turned cold, and his tone was stiff and abnormal: "Extraordinary methods are practiced at extraordinary times." The sage book that Master Su read only tells adults to follow the rules, but has he ever taught adults to respond to emergencies in order to protect themselves?
These people are heinous murderers, and the Holy Emperor personally approved it and decided to be beheaded after this autumn. For them, it's just the difference between living a few more months and living a few months less.
It's different for you and me.
I can't do this, I can't keep the hat on my head, how can you get rid of it, my lord? It's better to go home and wash your neck, just wait for the next Qin to arrive, and hand over this head to the imperial court. ”
The plotters behind this incident are quite old-fashioned. A group of people were selected in advance to be placed in the crowd, all of whom were usually outstanding in their behavior and had considerable prestige and influence in the neighborhood.
Naturally, these selected people have shortcomings, such as love of money, love of sex, love of collection and other color habits, so that people can do the game and get in the pocket.
As early as three days before the incident, these people began to operate in secret, spreading some appropriate remarks, which not only planted the seeds of suspicion and anxiety, but also did not arouse the vigilance of the government. The accuracy of the proportion, the fine grasp of the human heart, and the careful thinking about it, it is simply creepy.
Therefore, this civil unrest seems to have erupted suddenly in a short period of time, but in fact, it was a premeditated detonation after a long period of brewing and fermentation.
If the planning is thorough, the people involved will definitely not be able to catch it.
Of course, Chen Ning's busy work is not without gains. At least none of the treasurers and men of the Shang Clerk's Office, who helped print and distribute the false decrees, ran away.
This is not that Chen Ning is able to do things, but that the other party deliberately left this group of people to him.
As for why the other party did this, after Chen Ning was invited to the secret room to discuss by the shopkeeper of the Shang Bookstore, he completely understood.
The shopkeeper only told Chen Ning that Shang Bookstore was an estate under the name of Xiang Shang, the brother-in-law of the emperor's own uncle, Liu Yu, the king of De.
Chen Ning is the one who has wallowed in the muddy pool in Jiankang, how can he not understand the doorway. With Liu Yu's arrogant and domineering virtue, does the bookstore opened by his brother-in-law still have such a reason to act in a low-key and secretive manner? I'm afraid it's a den for hiding criminal evidence or money laundering.
Immediately, Chen Ning led people to withdraw from the Shang Bookstore. Secretly, he sent his own soldiers to kidnap the shopkeeper and a few cronies who were obviously in the know.
Then he told Su Hongyu, who was very happy, that the person who issued the false decree had been found, but because he had some personal grudges with the boss of the Shang Bookstore, in order to avoid the suspicion of personal revenge, he asked Su Hongyu to personally bring someone to check it.
There are a total of eighteen people involved in the case, and the remaining fourteen are prisoners proposed by Chen Ning from the prison, as for whether they are death row prisoners, Su Hongyu doesn't know the doorway, how to say it all depends on Chen Ning's mouth.
As long as these thirty-two people are beheaded today, Su Hongyu will fall into Chen Ning's hands.
Moreover, King Yide has the temperament of revenge, and the Su family is afraid that it will not be able to stop from now on. Jiankang City is lively again.
Chen Ning sincerely admired the person behind the layout.
He is well aware that in this person's calculations, he is also a pawn. But even so, he willingly drove it.
That man wants chaos in the court, and he wants the Su clan to fall and Fang Rong to rise again.
They are all on the same road, a comrade-in-arms.
Su Hongyu is a talent, but he is not a capable minister, in the face of the angry crowd and Chen Ning, who is pressing step by step, he is simply at a loss, his white fingers are clenched tightly on the fire order, and he is reluctant to throw it down.
"Lord Chen, it's too hasty at this time, it's better to write a book and ask the saint, please make a decision......"
Speaking of the back, he himself is not confident enough. No matter how close Jiankang is, it will take at least a day to come and go, and this has to be delivered to the emperor in time and the emperor immediately approves it. If we follow the usual practice of acting in the past, we will first discuss in court, and several opposing parties will first jump out and quarrel, and if there is no result, the discussion will be put on hold, and then it will be discussed in a few days...... So back and forth, it is possible to drag on for more than ten days.
But look at the excitement of this group of people, let alone delay for ten days, even if it drags on for one day, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it.
Unexpectedly, Chen Ning didn't refute this time, and nodded lightly: "Since Master Su insists, it has to be like this." ”
Su Hongyu suddenly had a feeling that he was about to swallow back the breath he exhaled, choked in his throat, and his chest swelled. In fact, when he said this, he just hoped that Chen Ning's attitude would be tougher, and even if he had to be responsible, he would have room to shirk.
At this time, Chen Ning suddenly softened.
Su Hongyu looked at the black head under the stands, he really didn't have the courage to step forward, and turned his head to look at Chen Ning: "Lord Chen......"
Chen Ning sneered in his heart, flicked his sleeves and got up, walked to Yuhuatai, and shouted: "Quiet, everyone be quiet, please listen to me"
The crowd was still agitated, but the noise was noticeably quieter.
Although the people were disappointed with the government, their fear remained.
Chen Ning cleared his throat, his face was solemn, his expression was arrogant, and he said: "After reading the file by the lower officials, it was found that there were 32 criminals, and the confessions were not true and vague, and they still need to be further verified. And such people have wolf ambitions, intending to subvert the national capital of the Great Southern Dynasty"
Saying that, he solemnly faced the southeast, hugged his fist into the distance, and said: "It's about the community, and I have to invite the saint today."
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