After the villagers of Caen Village surrendered, the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army who surrounded them did not immediately step forward, in order to prevent these villagers from faking to surrender, and then attack after the soldiers approached, Ouyang Yu ordered the villagers to come out in batches of thirty people to accept the binding, the villagers did not dare to resist, and obediently followed Ouyang Yu's order Thirty people at a time, and they were all tied up after several times.

After dealing with the villagers, Ouyang Yu ordered the army to advance towards Caen Village, and the villagers who were tied up were also escorted by the soldiers to Caen Village in groups of thirty people.

When Ouyang Yu came to Caen Village, the village was already crying, and the women, children and old people who stayed in the village saw their husbands, fathers or sons being tied up with flowers, and there were thousands of soldiers with guns like wolves around them, and their daughters, children and even some of the old people all cried.

"Sir, please let my man go!"

"We are willing to pay taxes, we are willing to pay taxes, please don't embarrass my son!"

"Let go of my dad, let go of my dad!"

Agitated villagers tried to get close to the men but were blocked by the soldiers, and an officer of Ouyang Yu's army shouted at the villagers: "Don't get close, if anyone dares to approach, they won't be killed!"

The soldiers drove the villagers with rifles loaded with bayonets, forcing them not to approach the captured men, Ouyang Yu took the captured men to the village threshing floor and ordered all the captured men to kneel.

Ouyang Yu stood on the threshing floor and motioned for the villagers to be quiet, and the villagers finally closed their mouths under the threat of the soldiers, but the sound of crying rang out from time to time.

"Villagers, I am your new lord Ouyang Yu!"

Ouyang Yu began to shout to the villagers, and the villagers were also very surprised that their new lord turned out to be a beautiful girl, and they couldn't help but stare at her to hear what she had to say.

"This time, I came to Caen Village to see the living conditions of the village, but I didn't expect that someone would come to collect high taxes in my name!"

"Wow!" ×N.

Ouyang Yu's words made all the villagers in an uproar, they all thought that Ouyang Yu ordered the officials to come to collect taxes, but they never thought that it was the private behavior of the tax collectors.

"Bring him in!"

The tax collector was brought to Ouyang Yu, "Tell all the villagers, how did you plan to collect taxes in my name, and what are your plans after receiving the taxes?"

The tax collector did not dare to conceal his crimes, and the villagers were so excited that they wanted to beat him to death on the spot.

"Quiet, quiet!"

After the villagers quieted down again, Ouyang Yu continued: "Fellow villagers, please rest assured, I will hold a public trial against him!"

"My lord, since it's all the tax collector's fault, the misunderstanding has been resolved, can I let my man go?" asked a villager aloud.

Ouyang Yu sank his face, "No! These are two things, the tax collector will naturally be punished, but you resist taxes and beat officials, and you despise the master!"

The villagers, who had already thought that they were fine, instantly turned sad with happy expressions on their faces.

"When these people were chasing and beating the officials and mercenaries, the master of the power was on the scene, and after revealing their identity, not only did they not stop and lay down their weapons, but they also spoke wild words and despised the master of the power, which is a great disrespect to me and must be punished! Who is the initiator of this tax resistance? Who was the first to beat people? Stand up yourself. ”

After Ouyang Yu finished speaking, the captured men did not move at all, and none of them were willing to stand up, the crime of disrespecting the nobles can be big or small, the largest is to receive two whips, and the smallest is only sentenced to three months of hard labor, but the crime of resisting taxes is big, and it will definitely be hanged and the corpse will be dried for public display.

Ouyang Yu was not annoyed and sneered and said: "It's all good, I originally only planned to punish the leader and the first to hit someone, since you don't want to admit it, then I will punish all the people as the initiators, and all the soldiers listen to the order and raise their guns!"

The soldier in charge of escorting the captured men stood behind the captured men and raised their rifles.

"Bullets loaded!"

The soldiers pulled the bolts of their guns and there was a dense click on the threshing floor.

The villagers immediately became agitated when they saw this posture, crying and shouting and begging Ouyang Yu not to kill the captured men, and some of the captured men were also scared, and many of them turned their eyes to the middle-aged strong man.

"Aim!"

The soldiers pointed their guns at the captured men.

"Stop, it's me, it's me who takes the lead in resisting taxes!" The middle-aged strong man who had been lowering his head and trembling slightly suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly: "Please let them go, my lord, they are all encouraged by me to resist taxes, if you want to kill, just kill me!"

"Bring him here. ”

The middle-aged man was brought to his knees in front of Ouyang Yu, and Ouyang Yu asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Hassan and I am the chief of the village of Caen. ”

"Tell me all the people who beat people, and I will let them go. ”

Hassan hesitated for a moment and said, "There are not many people who do it, and there are only three of them." ”

"Well, I take your word for it, who are the other two?"

"Randy and Matthew. ”

"Point it out to me. ”

Under Hassan's guidance, two young men named Randy and Matthew were also brought to kneel in front of Ouyang Yu.

"Good, let the others go. ”

Ouyang Yu's soldiers untied the ropes from more than 200 other people, and also let go of the other villagers, and the scene of the freed men gathering with their families was very touching, with a few exceptions, the sentence was the families of Hassan, Randy, and Matthew.

"Are they your family?" Ouyang Yu pointed to three women and two children not far away.

The three of them looked back and nodded.

"Bring them here, and if you have anything to say, give you five minutes. ”

The families of the three brought them over, Hassan's wife and daughter, Randy's sister, and Matthew's wife and son, and the three families cried as they spoke.

Five minutes passed quickly, and under Ouyang Yu's order, the three Hassan were taken away, and Ouyang Yu also returned to Alsace Town with the army on the same day, and the three Hassan and the tax collector were locked up in the town's dungeon.

As soon as the sun rose the next day, Ouyang Yu called for someone to inform the other four villages to send people to participate in tomorrow's trial.

On the third day, the town square of Alsace Town was crowded with crowds, Ouyang Yu sat on a high platform with a mustache and a military uniform, and on either side of her sat Mayor Bradley, Sheriff Zolf, and other officials.

The officer in charge of the trial stood on the edge of the high platform and said loudly, "Quiet, quiet, now the trial begins, take the first defendant, Eugene Harry!" Eugene Harry is the name of the tax collector.

Eugene Harry was led to the platform by two soldiers with his arms between his arms, and the judge read his charges aloud with a piece of paper, and after reading them, he asked Eugene Harry: "Defendant, do you have any objections to your charges in the indictment?"

Eugene Harry shook his head, indicating that he had nothing to say.

"So what does this mean that you have no objection to your crime and are willing to plead guilty?"

Eugene Harry nodded.

The inquisitor took the indictment and took out the legal code, and said loudly again: "Defendant Eugene Harry, for your own personal gain, you have embezzled the name of the lord and levied a high tax on the village of Caen by 50 percent in excess of the standard tax, and after receiving the tax you plan to escape, the crime is extremely heinous, and the danger to society is extremely dangerous, and the defendant is sentenced to be hanged and the body is displayed to the public for one month in accordance with the laws of the principality!"

"Take it down!"

Eugene Harry was taken to the gallows by two soldiers, and the executioner, Eugene Harry, was tightened by a noose around his neck and hung a bag of sand from his feet.

"Execution!"

"Boom!"

The table under Eugene Harry's feet opened to both sides, and his body fell downward under the action of gravity, Eugene Harry was very unlucky, his neck was not twisted off when he fell, this is the most comfortable way to die, otherwise he would die of pain due to slow suffocation, Eugene Harry, who was deprived of oxygen, struggled hard like a salted fish out of water, but his struggle did not last long, and after a few minutes Eugene Harry's body was straight and straight with the rope swinging on the gallows.

The civilians in the audience who participated in the trial let out earth-shattering cheers, shouting good kills, and it seems that Eugene Harry usually blackmailed the civilians.

"Take the second, third, and fourth defendants!"

Hassan, Randy, and Matthew were also carried up to the platform by the soldiers, and in the crowd below, the families of the three and many of the villagers of Caen Village mixed in with the crowd looking at them with sad faces.

"Hassan, Randy, and Matthew, who collided with the lord three days ago, were disrespectful to the lord, and each of them was given ten lashes according to the laws of the principality, and the three defendants, do you have any objections?"

Hassan and the others were stunned when they heard their charges, because the biggest crime was not even a tax resistance, the judge only said that the three of them were disrespectful, and the three of them were already mentally prepared to be hanged, but they didn't expect that they could escape from death, which made them overjoyed, who would want to die if they didn't die.

"Do you have any objections to the three defendants?" Seeing that the three of them did not respond, the judge asked again in displeasure.

"No objection!" replied in unison.

"If there is no objection, then let's carry it out. ”

The three Hassan were pushed off the platform and tied to three pillars, and the soldiers who carried them out of their backs tore off their clothes and picked up long whips to await orders.

"One!"

"Smack!"

The whip hit the backs of the three people, and immediately showed a bloody mark, and the three of them were tough guys gritting their teeth and holding out without screaming.

"Two!"

"Smack!"

There was one more blood mark on the back of the trio.

"Three!"

"Smack!"

A few minutes later, when the execution ended, the three Hassan were sweating profusely, and the soldiers freed them, and their families and the villagers of Caen immediately rushed over.

Ouyang Yu whispered something in the ear of the captain of the guard, and left the high platform after glancing at the three of Hassan.