On January 3, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, at the beginning of the new year, the capital ushered in a lively scene, the former governor of Xuanda, Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department, will be beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market today.

In this world where entertainment is extremely expensive, beheading is obviously an extremely entertaining viewing project, so the capital is full of people early in the morning.

You must know that it was not an ordinary person who was killed today, but Lu Xiangsheng, a man with great prestige in Daming.

The Criminal Department was also fully prepared at this time, and before dawn, someone brought Lu Xiangsheng a severed head rice, which was a bowl of rice with a big piece of fat inserted in it.

Soon the meal was handed to the prison, but it was taken by the prison guard at the door.

"We'll just send it in."

Hearing this, the officials of the Ministry of Officials did not say anything, and soon the meal was brought in by the prison head, who came to the prison gate, knocked on the fence and said, "Eat." ”

"Ahh~"

The people in the prison gestured to the cell head, and the cell head smiled and said: "I know, I'll send you on the road today, okay, don't talk when your tongue is gone, it sounds weird." ”

The cell boss said impatiently, he was taking people's money, of course he knew that the cat was tired of it, but it didn't matter, as long as he asked this 'Lu Xiangsheng' to shut his mouth and go on the road with peace of mind.

"Hurry up and eat, if you don't eat again, I'll take it."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng in the prison screamed twice in despair, but his voice couldn't be heard at all, and in the end, Lu Xiangsheng, who had no choice, could only eat the last bowl of rice.

He was desperate, and even wanted to cry without tears, but he couldn't shout injustice, he couldn't tell what happened to him, all of this was thanks to the damn Lantian County, and today he actually wanted to cut off his head instead of others, he didn't even deserve to leave his name, today he died in a nest, who can know his real name, Tian Da Niu!

Tian Daniu was very desperate, and in extreme despair, he broke his index finger and wrote under the dry grass: I am not Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng is not dead!

"Hurry up."

The cell boss shouted, and Tian Daniu slowly covered his handwriting with weeds, so as not to let this group of dog officials who colluded with Lantian see it.

After covering everything, Tian Daniu's eyes flowed with tears, thinking that Tian Daniu had not suffered this sin since he was born, and when he was a child, his family saw that he was thin and small, so he couldn't bear to let himself do rough work and sent him to a private school to study.

But the book is stinky and long, who can read it, at the age of nine, he recited a bullshit article, and he didn't memorize it, and the damn old gang dish actually wanted to beat his own hand, and he beat the old gang dish half to death in a fit of anger, and since then all the people in the township who read have refused to teach themselves.

Don't teach to pull, just like you can practice martial arts, don't look at yourself small, but the strength is not small, just learn the martial arts, practice martial arts, and follow the family to farm, but the work is tired and dirty, boring, and finally choose to choose, or rob others to make money quickly, eat meat, drink a lot of wine, and kill whoever is not pleasing to the eye.

So he got entangled in the local 'heroes', set up a mountain in Luliang, became his own king, being the king of the mountain is comfortable, no one dares to ask him for money for dinner, he can marry the bride every month, the bride can't remember the name of the bride, the bride's parents are a little ignorant, they just slaughtered with a knife, and the province affects their mood.

In this way, I have been the king of the mountain in Luliang for two years, and the locals cheer and poison the scorpion, which shows that I am a poisonous person, and whoever provokes me will definitely be unlucky.

It's a pity that these good days have passed for two years, and then I kicked myself to the iron plate, provoking this group of bastards in Lantian, this group of bastards didn't say anything about my cottage, and raised themselves in captivity, saying that they would kill them when they were fattened, but I didn't expect them to replace Lu Xiangsheng with themselves, he was unwilling, he was not Lu Xiangsheng, he was just an ordinary bandit, and he was Tian Daniu.

He wanted to cry out for injustice, but the people in the upstream and downstream were all bought by them, and he couldn't say it if he was justified, and the most terrible thing was that they also cut off their tongues, so that they couldn't speak at all.

They are devils, a group of real devils, and Tian Daniu feels so wronged.

But no matter how wronged he is, no one will care about him.

After a meal of severed heads, Tian Da Niu was tied up by the cell head, and the cell head grabbed Tian Da Niu and stuffed a rag into Tian Da Niu's mouth and said: "It's time to go on the road, don't talk, I will give you a good time." ”

After saying that, he tied it up and put it into the prisoner car, which set off from the prison of the criminal department and walked through the long street, when the streets were full of people, and the people looked at Lu Xiangsheng in the prison car.

didn't make any sound, Lu Xiangsheng is a good official, but the emperor wants to kill them, and the fart people are just people born under the roots of the imperial city, the last time the long street applauded, the head of the yamen has made a stern warning, who dares to applaud this time, let people report it, wait for prison food, as for the reason.

What do you mean by applauding, Lu Xiangsheng is the death penalty approved by the emperor, you applaud openly, do you question the emperor, or question the princes of the imperial court, if you do this, the people above will be unhappy.

So the only thing people can do today is not to throw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Lu Xiangsheng, the whole street is very quiet, and only occasionally the laughter of children can be heard.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng in the prisoner car had his hands and feet locked, and his head was exposed, with strips of cloth stuffed in his mouth, and his hair was scattered to cover his facial features, but from the faintly exposed face, it could be seen that it was Lu Xiangsheng himself.

Soon Lu Xiangsheng was overwhelmed by the vegetable market, today's supervisor is the official Shangshu, Lao Shangshu is in his fifties this year, he is very sleek, he does not belong to any party in the DPRK, he is a neutral person, so he has no bad feelings towards Lu Xiangsheng, and of course he has no good feelings, after all, this is a person who does not go along with them, and he has no good impression of him.

We are all greedy, but you are noble?

The prisoners were brought and knelt on the torture platform, at this time, there were a sea of people below, there were forces from all sides, and those adults in the court who had enmity with Lu Xiangsheng wanted to come over to see the tragic situation of the enemy's head falling to the ground, but because of their identity, it was inconvenient to come, so they sent a trustworthy old servant to keep an eye on it and bring a letter to themselves.

And only one person in the crowd had the loudest voice, shouting at the top of his voice: "Brother Jiandou, it's me who is incompetent, I can't save my brother, Brother Jiandou~"

The man shouted at the top of his voice, weeping like rain, and crying could not survive, but fortunately there were disciplined soldiers to guard him, otherwise he would have rushed to the ring.

"Hey, Master Lu, who is that, crying so sadly, your friend?"

At this time, on the top of a restaurant next to the execution ground, there were two people sitting by the window, a young man with a smile like a flower, and an old man with a gray beard and wrinkles on his face, who looked like he was sixty or seventy years old.

This old man is Lu Xiangsheng, today Lu Xiangsheng wants to cut off his head, he has to come to see it, so Li Deming can only ask the master of the secret spy department in Lantian Jingcheng to use makeup technology to put a fake beard on Lu Xiangsheng, draw fake wrinkles, and change his appearance to see how he was beheaded.

Lu Xiangsheng leaned against the window at this time and looked at the man who was crying very sadly: "That's Shi Kefa, I am a Jinshi in the same year, two years younger than me, and I am a real gentleman." ”

Li Deming said: "Indeed, with Lord Lu's current crime, everyone is afraid to avoid it, so he Shi Kefa ran to tell each other, not avoiding difficulties and dangers, it can be seen that his gentlemanly style, but unfortunately he also offended people." ”

Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said, "It's affecting him." ”

Li Deming took a sip of the famous thyme incense in the capital at this time, and shook his head, since he was used to drinking the sweet potato roast in Lantian, the so-called good wine was tasteless in Li Deming's mouth.

Putting down the wine glass, Li Deming looked outside and said: "According to our intelligence, your Lu Xiangsheng's death is absolutely earth-shattering, do you know, the people below are not only your enemies in the court, but also the spies of the Rogue faction in the capital, and the spies of the Tatar faction in the capital, they are all waiting for your head to land, and then go back to report the news to their master." ”

"Rogues and Tartars?"

Lu Xiangsheng frowned when he heard this, and Li Deming smiled: "Yes, how about it, Lord Lu, your death is not small." ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said, "Well, yes, I didn't expect Lu's death to be so thrilling." ”

Li Deming smiled when he heard this: "Okay, let's be happy, the Tartars have completely withdrawn from Daming yesterday, and they are walking at Xifeng Pass, and Dolgon has joined Fan Wencheng who stayed there, and he left in a hurry, and there are many things left in the pass." ”

Lu Xiangsheng sighed when he heard this: "Hey, it's a pity that I, Lu, have no ability, and I couldn't save the people who were swept away by Jiannu." ”

Li Deming said: "Don't be in a hurry to sigh, I haven't said the good news to you, Jiannu retreated at Xifengkou, what I don't know is that our Lantian army is also ambushed at Xifengkou, leading the general Li Dingguo to lead the iron cavalry to carry out a sneak attack while Jiannu is ignoring the end, and a successful blow not only hit Jiannu hard, but also took advantage of the chaos to snatch back more than 30,000 Han people, at present, these Han people are on the route of the plug, ready to be transported to Lantian. ”

"Okay."

Listening to Li Deming's words, Lu Xiangsheng patted the table excitedly, causing great dissatisfaction among the people around him, this old man is sick, right?

Lu Xiangsheng also found out that he was wrong, and lowered his voice and said, "Happy, happy." ”

Li Deming said: "Yes, I also feel very happy. ”

Lu Xiangsheng raised his glass and said, "Come, if nothing else, just for this matter, the old man will have a toast with you." ”

Li Deming happily clinked glasses with Lu Xiangsheng, followed by Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Lord Lu, the car is ready, let's have a meal today and leave the capital, all the joints along the road have been opened, we can go to Lantian unimpeded, I don't know if Lord Lu still has anything to carry?" We're so prepared. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "No need, I, Lu Mou, came naked, and I should go alone, without anything, and when that Lu Xiangsheng's head falls to the ground, I will not be called Lu Xiangsheng from now on." ”

"Ah, don't want a name too? What does Lord Lu want to call? ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said, "Call me a fox." ”

"Raccoon?"

Li Deming was stunned for a moment and said: "The dragon gave birth to nine sons, seven sons are fierce, resembling a Menghu, he is a good lawsuit in his life, also known as the charter, and he is always decorated at the prison gate, symbolizing justice and fairness, and is the patron saint of the people's law. ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said: "That's right, from yesterday to this morning, I didn't sleep, but checked your Lantian law, I have to say that you have refined a lot of things on the basis of the Daming law, but it is still not enough, Lu still has some research on the law, and when he arrives in Lantian, he wants to do a work on the law, in addition, Lu will ask for the law like Li Chaosheng when he arrives in Lantian, Lantian is no longer a county and a government, and its law should continue to be improved until it is completely in line with the current situation." ”

"In addition, Lantian now has tens of thousands of officials, such a huge official system, among which there are no fish that have slipped through the net, I should play the role of Lantian and catch these stinky fish and rotten shrimps, and never allow Lantian's laws to be as corrupt and filthy as Daming."

Li Deming said: "Justice is righteous, and I respect the public." ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Deming and said with a smile: "Don't put a high hat on me, Lu only recognizes the law in his eyes, if one day, you also break the law, then I'm sorry, Lu will handle it impartially and will not tolerate it." ”

Li Deming said: "It should be so, it should be so." ”

Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly and looked at Li Deming and said, "You're not afraid?" ”

Li Deming laughed and said: "Don't be afraid, Li Mou is at the end of my line, sit up straight, why be afraid?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said, "Okay, if this is true, the old man will give you a drink." ”

The two took a sip of wine again, and the next moment they saw the sound of drums outside, and the next moment they saw Lao Shangshu stand up and throw the bamboo sticks on the table to the ground and said, "Chop." ”

The next moment, the executioner dressed in red took a mouthful of wine and sprayed it on the big knife, and with the sound of the drum, the next moment a watermelon-sized human head was cut off.

Blood splattered out, and the executioner stepped forward a few steps at this time, raised Lu Xiangsheng's head and said, "Kill." ”

Immediately after throwing all the baskets, Lu Fu, the old housekeeper of the Lu family who had been arranged a long time ago, cried and pounced: "Master! ”

The screams shook the sky, followed by a few black-clothed family members, very skillfully wrapped Lu Xiangsheng's body, Lu Fu went down with the basket, although Lu Xiangsheng angered Long Yan and was killed by Chongzhen, but he was still very admired by Chongzhen, so he did not issue any order for the violent corpse for seven days, and after the person was killed, he could be taken away.

Lu Xiangsheng's body was taken away, but the news of Lu Xiangsheng's killing was still transmitted as quickly as possible, the first to know the news was the adults who arranged for the old servants to come to see the situation, Lu Xiangsheng is a terrible opponent, Lu Xiangsheng is alive, they have to be scared, if they die, they can naturally rest assured.

The news first reached Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang was writing in the house at this time, but after writing for a long time, his heart was not quiet, and the writing was ugly, and at this moment the servants in Yang Sichang's house ran back: "Master, the master killed, killed, Lu Xiangsheng killed!" ”