Sun Qi followed Zhou Hao and entered the study, without saying a word, "Poof!" and knelt down in front of Xue Wanche, and pleaded with trembling in his mouth: "The subordinate officials have no way to discipline their subordinates, resulting in the birth of greedy and shameless people like Diao Gui, Sun Qi asks the general to give offense!"

"Hmph, you also know that you are guilty? Lao Tzu heard that Diao Guiping was a petty thief, and his hands and feet were not clean, why didn't you find him out before?" Xue Wanche said coldly.

The cold sweat on Sun Qi's forehead plummeted, but he didn't dare to reach out to wipe it, and said in his mouth: "It's just because!"

"Just because that guy is Zhang Ba's brother-in-law, you don't dare to do it! Now that Zhang Ba has been let out by Lao Tzu, and Diao Gui is guilty of Lao Tzu's personal guards, you dare to do it, right?" Xue Wanche's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Sun Qi.

"Bang bang bang!" Sun Qi knocked his head on the mountain, sweating like pulp, and shouted in his mouth: "The general is aware of everything!

"Hmph! If it weren't for Lao Tzu's fact that you are very upright and have a good reputation among the soldiers, plus Haozi has repeatedly interceded for you, Lao Tzu would have cut you and Diao Gui's guy together!" Xue Wanche's slightly narrowed tiger eyes suddenly widened, and he said angrily.

Xue Wanche also had the intention to elevate Zhou Hao, so he deliberately exaggerated the process of Zhou Hao's intercession for Sun Qi. Let Sun Qi, who is in charge of the money and food of the pro-military camp, owe Zhou Hao a lot of favors from then on.

"The subordinate officials have thanked the general for not killing!" Sun Qi lay on the ground and hurriedly thanked him, not daring to raise his head at all.

"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable! You, the other Sima of the seventh grade, have been demoted to the eighth rank Langzhong, and you still take care of your affairs for Lao Tzu; in addition, you will be fined for half a year to see the after-effects! If you commit it again in the future, you will definitely be killed!" Xue Wanche said coldly.

"General Xie! General Xie!" Sun Qi breathed a sigh of relief and quickly kowtowed again.

Although this army is the territory of the generals, it still depends on civilian officials to hold the pen and rod of grain, grass and silver, survey and nuclear exploits, and documents exchanged in the army.

The rank of the Chinese officer of this army is from the nine-rank deacon, the eight-rank Langzhong, the seven-rank Beibu Sima, the six-rank military Sima, and the five-rank long history.

Although Sun Qi was directly promoted from Sima of the other department of the seventh grade to Langzhong of the eighth grade, he was demoted two levels in a row, but he still held the power of the money and food of the pro-military camp. As long as you don't make big mistakes in the future, it's only a matter of time before you are promoted from another department to another department. The fine for half a year is really no punishment for an official like Sun Qi who is in charge of money and food.

Xue Wanche raised it high this time, but in the end he put it down gently, and Sun Qi escaped a catastrophe.

Sun Qi, who was lying on the ground, couldn't help but tilt his head slightly, cast a grateful look at Zhou Hao, and thought: Although Zhou Hao is young, he is very righteous, and he can speak in front of the general, so he will have a good relationship in the future!

"It's none of your business here, get out of here!" Xue Wanche waved his hand and drove Sun Qi out.

When Sun Qi, who was soaked in sweat and his legs and feet were weak, gradually walked away, Xue Wanche took an arrow from the table and threw it to Zhou Hao: "You kid go and pass on my order, immediately cut Diao Gui's waist, hang the corpse at the door of the punishment hall, expose the corpse for three days, and set an example! Also, your kid should be beheaded by the way, if anyone dares to obstruct it, take it down for Lao Tzu together!"

"Yes, General!" Zhou Hao took the arrow, turned around and walked out of the study, and went straight to the punishment hall.

This beheading is the most cruel punishment, and the person who is cut in two by the waist will not die for a while, but will still struggle in pain for a moment, and even crawl all over the ground, blindly looking for his lower body.

Such a cruel punishment cannot be used by those who are not guilty of the most heinous crimes. It can be seen from this to what extent Xue Wanche hates corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

Of course, the advantage brought by Xue Wanche's heavy punishment of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is that in the entire Liaodong Army, every weapon and armor is meticulously worked, and no one dares to slack off; in all warehouses, grain, grass, and military materials are piled up, and they can cope with the army's march at any time; all the salaries and silver are all distributed to the generals in the hands of the generals, and the whole army is well-trained and has high morale, and can go into battle to kill the enemy at any time!

These are the reasons why the Liaodong Army is known as the strongest army in Northern Yan, and even the Praetorian Guards guarding Gyeonggi are much inferior!

Besides, Zhou Hao held the arrow in his hand, walked quickly to the punishment hall, and took out a puddle of mud from the prison, so frightened that he even pulled the crotch of his pants with feces and urine, and tied it to the high execution table and prepared to behead.

Zhou Hao looked at Diao Gui on the stage coldly, and said in a deep voice to the executioner: "Cut it when you're ready!"

Everything was ready, and the three executioners in red on the execution table, one held down Diao Gui's head, and the other pressed Diao Gui's feet, and pressed Diao Gui to death on the execution table. The other executioner sprayed a mouthful of soju on the thick-backed butcher's knife and raised it high.

Diao Gui, who was dying, suddenly came to his senses, struggling and howling in despair: "You can't kill me! You can't kill me! My brother-in-law is Zhang Ba and Zhang Luzheng, if you dare to kill me, he will definitely destroy your whole family and avenge me!"

Then he stared at Zhou Hao viciously with a pair of dead fish eyes, and shouted: "You little bastard who kills a thousand knives! Lao Tzu will not let you go even if he becomes a ghost!"

"Hmph! I am afraid of everything, but I am not afraid of ghosts!" Zhou Hao snorted coldly.

Then, a word popped out of Zhou Hao's mouth coldly.

"Slash!"

The butcher's knife raised high by the executioner in red was ready to be slashed with one sword!

"Keep people under the knife! Keep people under the knife!"

At this moment, a tall figure rushed in from outside the punishment hall, shouting, "Keep people under the knife!"

The tall figure instantly rushed to the front and roared angrily: "Who the hell would dare to kill my brother-in-law Zhang Ba?"

When Diao Gui saw that there was a savior, he hurriedly shouted: "Brother-in-law, help!

Zhou Hao turned his head to look, only to see someone with a red face and a beard, who else was not Zhang Ba?

"I've seen Lord Luzheng!" Zhou Hao arched his hand, neither humble nor arrogant.

Zhang Ba's eyes widened angrily, looked Zhou Hao up and down, and said angrily: "It's you kid! You fucking want to kill Diao Gui?"

Zhou Hao's face turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "It's not that I want to kill Diao Gui, I'm just carrying out the general's orders!"

"How could the general give such an order? It's just that I'm greedy for two hundred taels of silver, and I'm Zhang Ba ten times and a hundred times the silver, and I'll pay the silver! The general must have been encouraged by the villain, so I'm going to beg the general to take back his life, and before I Zhang Ba comes back, I'll see who dares to do it!" Zhang Ba glared at Zhou Hao angrily, believing that Zhou Hao was the villain who bewitched the general.

How do you know that Zhou Hao not only did not encourage Xue Wanche to do anything, but also said two good words for Zhang Ba.

"Hmph! How can the general's order be withdrawn so easily?" I saw Zhou Hao raise the arrow in his hand and said in a loud voice: "The general's order is here, and I, Zhou Hao, am ordered to supervise and behead Diao Gui! If anyone dares to obstruct it, unify it and take it!"

Zhang Ba saw the arrow raised high, his eyes shrank slightly, his arrogant arrogance suddenly weakened a lot, and he quickly sank his face and said: "It's not that I, Zhang Ba, want to obstruct it, but please execute it later, and after I meet the general, it's not too late to make a plan!"

"Lord Luzheng wants to meet the general, so please go by yourself! The order that I, Zhou Hao, received is: Immediately behead Diao Gui in half! The corpse is hung at the door of the punishment hall, and the corpse is exposed for three days, so as to set an example!" Zhou Hao said coldly.

"Zhou Hao, you kid is too deceitful! Do you have to fucking get along with me Zhang Ba?" Zhang Ba said angrily.

Ignoring Zhang Ba, who was on the verge of losing control, Zhou Hao turned his head and said to the red-clothed executioner in a deep voice: "Listen to my orders!"