When he returned to the gate of his house, he saw dozens of Daxia soldiers guarding the door.

Liu Mo held back his emotions and walked to his home, and those soldiers immediately stepped forward to interrogate.

"Who's in charge here?" Liu Mo asked them.

The leading officer, a man in his mid-forties, with a long face and a well-trimmed beard that had begun to turn gray, soon appeared. Wearing bright silver armor, a red cloak on his shoulders, and a touch of red tassels on the front of the helmet with a water-mill chain.

"You are Liu Mo, Lord Liu?" He asked.

"Exactly!" Liu Mo replied, "Do you know me?" ”

"General Ben is Zhu Min's brother, Lu Sheng!" The officer said in a loud voice.

"Lu Sheng?" Isn't it one of the few armies I've paid for?

"Haha, I didn't expect you and me to meet on such an occasion." Lu Sheng said as he took off his helmet, "Here, General Ben has thanked Lord Liu for all the soldiers. ”

"Brother Zhu and I are sworn brothers, brothers' brothers, and brothers!" Liu Mo said, "General Lu's business is naturally also my Liu Mo's business. ”

Pull the relationship first, and get along well in the future!

"Well said! It's a pity that the first time we met, General Ben had to... Oh, what a shame! Lu Sheng said, "But Lord Liu, please rest assured, General Ben will definitely not embarrass your father-in-law." ”

He only said that the old man? didn't say Gong Xiaorou!

"General Lu, what do you mean?" The soldiers on the side had solemn faces! "Miss Gong..."

"General Ben learned that Miss Gong had already married into Lord Liu's mansion, so she had nothing to do with the Salt Gang, and the eldest prince wanted us to arrest the Salt Gang thieves, not anything else!" Lu Sheng said sharply.

This was deliberately said to me, Liu Mo thought to himself, return me a favor! "Thank you, General Lu, but I don't know my old man?" He asked, lowering his voice.

"The edict cannot be violated," Lu Sheng sighed, "Lu can only assure you that he will not embarrass the old man of the palace..."

Liu Mo frowned, the first time we met, I couldn't force him to disobey the order of the eldest prince. "Thank you, General Lou."

"You're welcome, if nothing else, General Ben will take people away first!"

As he spoke, he glanced at his subordinates, and in less than a moment, several soldiers walked out of the house with the palace chief Yi.

"What are you doing?" Gong Xiaorou roared with a crying voice, "What crime did my father commit? Why are you arresting him? ”

Although she didn't know what was going on, it was the soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty who came to arrest people, and Gong Xiaorou naturally knew how serious the matter was.

Gong Changyi seemed to have guessed such a day, and he comforted his daughter unusually calmly, "Xiaorou, don't worry, follow Mo'er well, and in the days to come, don't play with the eldest lady's temper."

The other brothers of the Salt Gang... It's up to you, Mo'er! ”

Liu Mo's heart is like a knife, I can't help them! They won't be able to escape, he thought to himself!

"No, don't!" Gong Xiaorou cried and shouted, "Husband, save my father, don't let them take him away!" ”

Seeing this, Liu Mo was so angry in his heart, but he was so powerless.

He could only watch Lu Sheng take Gong Changyi away, and heard Gong Xiaorou's heart-rending cry.

~~~

On an early morning when the north wind was blowing, an army of three hundred cavalry and nearly a thousand infantry arrived at Banyan City.

The tip of the soldier's spear blinked in a pale gaze. A soldier walked at the front of the line, beating a drum bigger than the others, "Knock, knock, knock", striking a slow, heavy marching rhythm.

These soldiers were obviously from the northern part of the Great Xia Dynasty, and they were all tall and large, with fierce expressions and murderous looks on their faces.

Liu Mo knew that this was the direct subordinate army of the Great Prince.

"How many people arrived before?" When the commander of this army, Gao Qi, and his generals passed through the outer city wall of Rongcheng, Liu Mo asked Zhao Da.

"About a thousand."

"A total of close to two thousand troops!" Liu Mo was bitter, "The only good news is that I don't need to spend money to raise these people. ”

Fear hurts more than a sword, this is a sentence that Liu Mo learned on Earth. And he now feels fear like a moldy steamed bun, like a blister growing on his toe after a long journey.

He thought he had already tasted fear, but the arrival of these two thousand troops was a reversal of his cognition, and it turned out that the evil of the wicked could reach such a level.

Gao Qi came to Rongcheng for seven days, and every day someone died.

The Rongcheng Salt Gang had been arrested the next day, and thousands of gangs were so much so that the Rongcheng County Government could not accept them.

Of course, this is not difficult for Galway.

They enclosed a plot of land west of Rongcheng, drove out all the local residents, and then spent two days converting all the houses into temporary prisons.

One of the warehouses used to store grain was converted into an interrogation room.

Every morning, after breakfast, Gao Qi entered the warehouse and selected a prisoner at random for interrogation.

The prisoners never dared to look up at him, perhaps thinking that if they didn't pay attention to him, he wouldn't notice them...... But it didn't work, he picked whoever he liked. There is nowhere to hide, no tricks to play with, no way to be spared.

Those who are not selected must watch the whole interrogation on the sidelines to understand the fate of joining the Salt Gang as a thief.

The interrogation was carried out by a soldier surnamed Wei. This person is ordinary-looking, dark-skinned, and always has a weird smile on his face.

"The surnamed Wei has a way to teach the salt gang to scream and scream, and the feces and urine flow together!" That's what everyone is saying about the interrogation soldier.

Why interrogation?

Very simply, according to Gao Qi, the salt gang should exterminate the nine clans for the crime of anti-thief.

In addition to the "rebellious" Salt Gang, their fathers, brothers, wives and children, and even friends should be arrested and awaiting their fate.

And because the Salt Gang members are all over Great Xia, Gao Qi is worried that there will be fish that will slip through the net, so he forces the arrested Salt Gang members to confess all the suspicious characters, and they are bound to be caught in one net.

Throughout the interrogation, Gao Qi would stand by and watch and listen until the victim died.

The question is the same question: Does the Salt Gang secretly hide "dirty silver", and what other Salt Gang thieves are in Rongcheng? Did you get the news and sneak away? How many people are there?

There is also the most critical question, whether there is collusion with people in the government, especially the salt transportation department!

After a few days of questioning, they found some "dirty silver" and asked for a little news about other "anti-thieves".

In the end, however, none of the Salt Gang survived the interrogation. Regardless of men, women, or children, they stay up until dusk at most. That's right, in the eyes of Gao Qi, the child is also a thief!

At night, their bodies are piled up on top of the pyre and burned!

The Great Xia Dynasty, like the ancient times of the earth, paid attention to entering the earth for peace, and Gao Qi believed that these thieves were not worthy of burial treatment, and it was already the greatest mercy to throw them into mass graves.

Seeing what Gao Qi and his subordinates were doing, Liu Mo thought of a sentence on the earth, "Hell is empty, and the devil is in the world!" ”