Winter moon twenty-three, Xiangyang.

The sky was overcast and heavily clouded, completely obscuring the sun.

In the gust of cold wind, all kinds of flags scattered throughout the four cities were hunting and fluttering, but the soldiers guarding the side of the flags straightened their waists one by one, as if the spears in their hands were also the same as the spears in their hands.

Especially in the center of the city, on the largest cross street, the soldiers under the banner of Dayue are even more energetic, and it seems that all the muscle strength of the whole body has been mobilized.

Just because on a newly erected high platform on this cross street, the reverence of all the soldiers exists like a mountain and a sea, and His Majesty the Emperor is standing upright, announcing a decision and a will to everyone.

"The Dayue Imperial Court, for more than 200 years, has lost its virtue, resulting in the loss of the capital, the world is in turmoil, the people are displaced, and there is chaos everywhere......

"However, thanks to the blessing of my ancestors, my Dayue dragon vein has not ended, and there is a sign of revival today. However, he encountered rebel ministers and thieves such as Guo Yan of Liangzhou, who ignored the court for many years and did not think of reciprocating, but even set up another pseudo-emperor, intending to shake the country's foundation and cause chaos in the world. Such a thief and traitor deserve death, and the court should raise a large army to ask for it......

"There are also Jinling Gu and Xiangyang Huang...... and other rebellious thieves, intending to disturb the morale of our army and instigate rebellion, which is really a crime that cannot be punished.

"But I finally understood that the saint has the way of mercy and forgiveness, and he does not intend to kill more, so this time I only punish the first evil, behead his head, and set out with a sacrificial flag to comfort heaven and earth, and ...... with my ancestors and ancestors."

What Sun Ning is now reading aloud in his hand is not only a document for mobilizing for the war, but also a verdict for all rebellious and unscrupulous people, and at the same time, a declaration of war that can be passed on to the territory of Liangzhou.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians around them clearly understood the words of the article read by the emperor, and those who had not read the book also understood the meaning of it by relying on the explanations of the knowledgeable people around them.

This made everyone excited for a while, and finally their eyes fell on the prisoner who was tied up along the street next to him, and the executioner was standing behind him.

More than 300 Xiangyang rebels led by the Huang clan will be finally liquidated today.

And this is already the number of death row prisoners that was determined after Sun Ning opened the net.

People like Huang Zuqiang, who have been plotting and plotting the change in Xiangyang, will naturally be unable to escape death, and some other officials or big households who are also secretly making trouble in Xiangyang City and intending to cut off the food supply will also be killed.

However, the family members who are extremely close to these prisoners, except for their sons-in-law, can avoid death, but what awaits them will be sent to the army, and when the time comes, they will go out with the army and use their own actions to make amends for their mistakes.

If they can make a contribution to the next crusade against Liangzhou and survive the war, they can be pardoned and become free civilians. Of course, all their identity and wealth were completely confiscated long after they were convicted.

There are only two groups of people who are exceptional, one is the Huang family as the mastermind, but not only a few people in charge such as Huang Zuqiang have been convicted of death, but even his teenage grandson has also been tied up, waiting to be beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon today!

It can be said that after this round of torture, the Xiangyang Huang family, a big family that has been entrenched here for hundreds of years, will be completely erased. What was left behind were just some women, or more distant side branches.

Another group of exceptions is the soldiers in the Xiangyang Army who committed the crime of rebellion.

For them, Sun Ning did not directly condemn and behead, but allowed them to atone for their sins with merit. And what they have to do is very simple, in the next marching process, they will all be incorporated into the first army.

Every time they conquered a city, they would rush to the front line until they completely took Liangzhou, and if they were still alive, they could be exonerated and their families and dependents could be restored to civilian status.

As for the war dead, they can be judged based on their previous merits.

The government posted this series of methods for dealing with relevant criminals in Xiangfan and Xiangfan as early as a few days ago, and even sent people to pass them to all parts of Huguang.

It was precisely because they knew that there would be a big punishment today, so not only the people in the city came to watch, but even the people outside the two cities of Xiangfan also entered the city early to see what was going on.

And what surprised everyone even more was that they could still see His Majesty the Emperor so closely and hear Chrysostom's words. This is enough to make more than 100,000 people remember it for a lifetime.

When Sun Ning finished reading this thing with the Absolute Xiao Gong Technique, so that the people in the whole city understood the meaning of the imperial court, he looked left and right, knowing that the time had not yet come, so he said: "Ladies and gentlemen of Xiangyang, it is now an eventful season, and the world is turbulent.

"The death of these people today is only to pay for their mistakes, not that I or the court are really good to kill!"

As he spoke, the hour finally came to three o'clock in the afternoon, the time of the day when the yang energy was at its peak.

Sun Ning did not delay any longer, and immediately ordered: "Execution!" ”

When the steel knives are raised and swung, the heads are separated from the body.

No matter what the previous identity of these prisoners was, with this severed head, there is only one name left, corpse!

Under the liquidation of the imperial court, no one can escape punishment!

At the same time, in Jinling City, thousands of people also fell to the ground.

Compared with Xiangyang, there are more people who are making trouble here, and their status is higher, so there are naturally more people who will be implicated under strict investigation.

Maybe some people in the court are a little unbearable to deal with this, but since this is the intention of His Majesty the Emperor, everyone can only obey it.

After Shen Zhou heard the bursts of drums in the public hall of the political affairs hall, although he was not at the scene, he could guess what a tragic scene it was, which made his heart gloomy: "Your Majesty is still too cruel to do this......

"I think Your Majesty did it just right." Guo Chong also came here today to be his companion.

"How?"

"After all, there are many stupid people in this world who are afraid of power and do not have virtue, and maybe leaving some people's lives can make some of them grateful to Dade, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be people who despise the prestige of the court. With this wind, what will the imperial court use to suppress the world in the future? ”

Guo Chong said: "So Your Majesty killed them, in addition to punishing them, but also to prevent any more rebellion in the future, which can be regarded as saving people."

"What's more, the vast majority of the criminals executed this time deserve their crimes, but killing them is enough to deter all parts of Jiangnan and open up the situation for the next government affairs of the imperial court.

"Of course, these are not the most important things at the moment, the real key lies in the battle on the front line, I don't know if Your Majesty will be able to completely defeat the Liangzhou army in one fell swoop if you send troops with a big victory this time!"

Some people died, but not completely......