Hearing that the gates were closed, those who were about to flee immediately panicked.

"Your Majesty, the villain was just faint and was babbling nonsense."

"Spare your life, Your Majesty, the villain will never dare to do it again."

"Your Majesty, I beg you, spare me!"

Luckily, it's not noon.

Otherwise, these soldiers may not be able to kneel.

The floor is made of bluestone slabs, and the temperature at noon is enough to bake the eggs.

"Alas!"

Li Mao shook her head and sighed secretly.

You can't kill to kill.

Although the soldiers kept saying that they wanted to rebel, they did not take action.

Li Mao is not a faint gentleman who has been convicted for his words.

The emperor gave them moldy food, and he couldn't make them complain?

"Get up, I'm not a faint king, how can I kill someone because you are shouting a few words?"

Those people were relieved to hear that they didn't have to die.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, long live long live long live."

"I won't dare to talk nonsense again!"

Li Mao waited for them to get up before continuing: "However, after all, you have committed the crime of slandering the imperial court, and you can't just let it go so easily. ”

"If I don't punish you, how will I govern the world in the future?"

"Death is forbidden, but living is inescapable! Sun Laiwang, what should be done to slander the court? ”

When everyone heard this, they would still be punished, and their faces were all bitter.

But knowing that he would not be executed, he did not panic.

"I don't know!"

Sun Laiwang held back for a long time, and still honestly said that he didn't know.

Li Mao rubbed her forehead helplessly.

I secretly thought to myself that I must bring a Wenchen when I go out in the future.

lest there be something to inquire about and no one to ask.

Forget it, just teach them a lesson!

Li Mao thought for a moment, and finally decided to punish it a little, just mean it.

"Those who have just slandered the court will all go to the military judge to receive twenty military sticks later."

"If someone cheats and can't slip and is discovered, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Everyone is welcome to report to each other, and if it is verified, they can be promoted to the next level."

When the people heard that there were only twenty sticks, they immediately rejoiced.

They are all rough-skinned and thick-skinned men, and they can't hurt anything at all with twenty military sticks.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

They all answered together.

This sentence sounded like they were convinced.

Gather the morale of the army a little.

Li Mao is going to deal with the most important things.

That's about military rations.

Feeding the soldiers moldy food is simply digging the lifeblood of the imperial court.

Li Mao would never let go of those moths in the army.

"Next, I will find out the problem of military rations for you."

"This kind of food that pigs and dogs don't like to eat, I see you actually eating it, I feel really uncomfortable!"

"Sun Laiwang, as a member of the army, do you know what the grain is all about?"

When Li Mao spoke to the soldiers, her voice was still gentle.

When his eyes turned to Sun Laiwang, it suddenly turned into a loud shout.

Li Mao had already discovered that he was abnormal.

From the very beginning of his attention to moldy food, Sun Laiwang began to be distracted.

To say that he has no problem, Li Mao will not believe anything he says.

Under the gaze of four or five hundred people.

Under the loud rebuke of the emperor.

Sun Laiwang felt that his whole body seemed to be frozen, and it was difficult to even open his mouth to speak.

When the soldiers saw his strange appearance, they thought that he had something unspeakable, and urged him one after another.

"General Sun, say it quickly!"

"Who the hell changed our food?"

"Master Sun, what are you afraid of? With Your Majesty in charge of you, who else in the world can trouble you? ”

"Yes, as long as you say it, Your Majesty will definitely execute that person, are you still afraid that ghosts will trouble you?"

At this time.

Fine beads of sweat had already appeared on Sun Laiwang's forehead.

Seeing the impatient look on the soldier's face, he knew that today was probably the time to die.

"Humph!"

Li Mao looked at his dying-alive look, and was even more convinced of his previous judgment.

"Did you embezzle military rations and exchange good grain for moldy grain?"

The sun is about to set, and the night is coming.

Li Mao didn't delay anymore and began to ask directly.

Sun Laiwang felt the murderous intent in the emperor's tone, and he couldn't hold back any longer.

Bang.

He fell to his knees at once.

"Your Majesty, I have been blinded by lard, and I really shouldn't embezzle military rations."

"Please, spare me a cheap life! In the future, I will fight bravely to kill the enemy to repay Your Majesty's kindness for not killing. ”

After Sun Laiwang finished speaking, he kept kowtowing, wanting to ask for forgiveness.

Li Mao looked at him coldly, and his heart was full of killing intent.

"Spare you? You have to ask the soldiers of Tongguan if they agree! ”

"First of all, you ask those who eat moldy rice grain every day, do you agree?"

"Soldiers, do you agree to spare this thief?"

Sun Laiwang hurriedly turned his head to the soldiers present, his eyes full of hope.

He was in a panic and didn't understand the emperor's meaning at all.

I thought that as long as someone interceded, he would be able to leave a life.

"Brothers, help me, my grandson Laiwang will definitely be a cow and a horse in the future."

After Sun Laiwang finished speaking, he began to kowtow to the soldiers.

But what the soldier said next made Sun Laiwang's heart completely fall to the bottom.

"Kill him!"

"Your Majesty, you must not spare him a dog's life."

"He actually gave us moldy grain and killed it directly, and he took advantage of it."

"That's right! You can't kill him directly, you have to cut him with a thousand knives. ”

"And punish him for the Nine Clans!"

"You can also pour moldy grain into his stomach and put him to death."

It's so ruthless!

Li Mao touched her nose.

I didn't expect these soldiers to give him an idea.

Seeing that Sun Laiwang was about to be stunned, Li Mao hurriedly kicked him to keep him awake.

"Did you hear that? You won't survive today! ”

"Under the wrath of the people, you must die if you don't die!"

"However, you can also choose how to die!"

"If you confess all your accomplices, then I will call the shots and leave you a whole corpse."

"If you still dare to resist and refuse to confess, then I will use all the torture in history on you."

Sun Laiwang is not a person who would rather die than give in.

When he heard that he was going to die, he immediately went limp and collapsed to the ground.

Thinking about the impending torture, he still used the last bit of strength to speak.

"In the entire Tongguan, except for the chief general Wang Zhengjian, all other officials at all levels are involved."

"From the officers of the team upwards, there is no one who has not received a profit from the sale of grain."

"The grain exchanged for is sold by major families in Huayin County, and almost every family participates."

At this time, Tongguan, civil affairs were under the jurisdiction of Huayin County.

The general military rations were also supplied through Huayin County.

Sun Laiwang knew that he was going to die, so he shook out all the people involved in the matter.

There was also a defiant expression on his face.

It means to say, "Isn't your emperor awesome?" With so many people, I think you dare to kill them? ”