Vegetable market entrance.

The autumn breeze is bleak.

Rows of prisoners fell to their knees, shouting and cursing with all their might.

"The surname Su, you can't die well!"

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged, the minister has just eaten a few times with the surnamed Cui......"

"Su Mingyuan misled the country, and he should punish the nine clans!"

"Dog Emperor, this official is waiting for you below, waiting for you......"

"Zhao Lao Liu, you tyrant, faint monarch, God has no eyes, why don't you fall thunder and kill this dog emperor!"

The wronged prisoner is not a big crime, there are still clansmen alive outside, and the prisoners who scolded the Dog Emperor, the death of the nine clans completely tore their faces.

What bullshit is for the ministers, but it is just to coax the people.

In front of the execution ground.

Su Mingyuan sat in the position of the supervisor and beheader, his eyes were deep and his face was cold.

Let the prisoners curse and curse. I don't see any anger, no matter which law you look at, the officials below are more than enough to punish the nine clans.

Since the killing is justified, why care about anything else.

The officials on the left and right bowed down and waited, not daring to sit or straighten their waists in front of Su Mingyuan, for fear of letting this cool official target him and at least sentence him to exile.

From fraud cases to party cases, more than 60,000 people have died so far.

It seems that it can't compare to a heavy snowfall in the capital, but the snow disaster killed all grass people, cattle and horses, and now it is a famous official who is dead.

The family that has been inherited for thousands of years has destroyed the lineage of the four clans, and the remaining side branches have changed their surnames.

It's noon.

The official next to him cautiously reminded: "My lord, the time has come." ”

"Execution!"

Su Mingyuan bowed slightly, just thinking about the new evidence last night, the Cui family side branch official confessed that the previous head of the Cui family was greedy for money from the river embankment, causing tens of thousands of people to die in the flood.

The Cui family is up and down, and their lives are not enough!

Order.

The executioner slashed at the prisoner's neck with a large knife, and with a click, his head did not hit the ground, half cut off and half connected.

The prisoner was not dead, and looked at the executioner in disbelief.

"Hahaha......"

The people saw a lot of blood splattered, and now they saw that their necks were stiff, and they immediately burst out laughing.

"Sorry, it's cutting too much these days."

The executioner moved his sore shoulders and quickly made up for it, ending the prisoner's suffering.

The other scolding prisoners who were scolding Zhenghuan were so frightened when they saw this situation that they couldn't help but wet their crotches, and those who could calmly accept death were a minority after all.

It's a pity that they don't have the authority they used to have, otherwise they will be appointed to participate in the executioner!

The execution ground was crowded with ordinary people, craned their necks to watch the excitement, but few people applauded loudly.

It's not that I don't hate being an official, it's true that I've been tired in recent days, and it's not uncommon to see my head cut off every day.

Li Ping'an was mixed in the crowd, and he didn't watch the executioner cut off his head, but looked at Su Mingyuan from a distance.

"In just a few years, a person's temperament has changed so much, the fault is that his appearance has not changed, and he almost can't recognize the same person!"

Su Mingyuan was a little cynical back then, but he was more upright, a little clumsy in his words and deeds, but he could make people close to him.

Now it's not angry and mighty, sharp as a knife!

"It's a pity, it's a pity, there's no chance to drink together again."

Li Ping'an shook his head helplessly, drilled through the crowd, and quickly left the vegetable market.

I found a clean ground and wiped the blood stains on the soles of my shoes, because I cut my head too much and too often, the blood at the entrance of the vegetable market did not dry up and coagulated into a thick layer of red scabs.

Li Ping'an did not push a cart to collect the body, and the new governor Yin Xiao followed Cao Cao, and all policies followed his predecessor.

The corpses in each city are strictly forbidden to be collected and buried indiscriminately.

The predecessor Lu Fuyin was a capable minister, greedy and greedy, at least he did practical things, but unfortunately the fault was surnamed Lu, and he just cut off his head a few days ago.

There are many similar officials, such as Prime Minister Zhou Cheng, who gave a gift of wine and barely left a whole corpse.

For example, Heluo Patrol is known as a virtuous person according to Zheng Yushi, has dealt with many unjust cases, and also cut off his head.

Emperor Jianwu is too lazy to act, and he has made it clear that he used the fraud case to kill the officials of the family, so it doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong now, what is the most important surname.

Looking back at the execution ground, Li Ping'an was thoughtful.

"The speed of cutting off the head has accelerated significantly these days, and it seems that Your Majesty's time is running out!"

Leaving the entrance of the vegetable market, I came to the champion building.

Li Ping'an glanced at the couplet at the door, and it was changed again, written by Xinke Jinshi.

After the fraud case was discovered, all those who won the list were deprived of their fame, and the poor scholars were selected from the unsuccessful examination papers, and 50 new scholars were supplemented.

Among them, there are two Jinshi, who often study in the Zhuangyuan Building.

There is a champion inscription in front, and there is Jinshi Mobao in the back, and the champion building is getting stronger and stronger.

"Cui Shopkeeper ......"

Li Ping'an entered the door to say hello, but the shopkeeper Cui coughed a few times and interrupted him.

"Don't scream, a few days ago, there was news in our clan that the genealogy was fake, we should have been surnamed Wu, and we have already gone to the yamen to change it!"

"Congratulations to Shopkeeper Wu for recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors."

Li Ping'an bowed his hand and said goodbye, without any intention of looking down on the shopkeeper Wu.

Fortunately, the implicated family does not have the surname Li, otherwise Li Ping'an would have gone to the yamen to change his surname for the sake of safety.

I bought a few volumes of the Taoist Sutra and returned to the mortuary.

It was full of the corpses of the families of the convicts, all of whom looked hideous and did not blink an eye.

Li Ping'an had just sat down when Shi San's voice came from outside.

"Peace comes to pick up the mat!"

The shuttle bus was full of corpses, more than a dozen on top of each other, all the way from the prison bumpy, some of the corpses had already exposed half of their bodies.

Li Ping'an picked up two bodies casually, the size was about the same, and his right hand sank two or three times.

"Whose body is this?"

"I recognize ......"

Shi San wiped the blood on the corpse's face, and said after carefully identifying the appearance.

"This guy is not ordinary, Ping An may have heard of it, Boxing Town Heluo Li Daxia, and later became a five-grade garrison, suspected of colluding with the Zheng family to embezzle military salaries."

"Yes, of course I did."

Li Ping'an almost said that he was an acquaintance.

The officialdom is really more dangerous than the rivers and lakes, Li Daxia has been robbing the people for many years, and he was arrested after only two years of greed for silver.

Shi San said: "This guy's bones are very hard, he has broken a few whips, cut a few fingers, and pulled out all his teeth, and he still doesn't admit his guilt." ”

Li Ping'an asked knowingly: "Then what should I do?" ”

"Suicide in fear of sin!"

……

October.

The wind is biting.

Dozens of people knelt outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, waiting for news from the hall.

At the top of the line are the twelve princes, from right to left, according to their age.

followed by the prince of the clan and the prince of the county, followed by Prime Minister Cai Cheng, the six Shangshu, and the generals in the army.

The left and right are full of forbidden troops, all of them are stubborn and stubborn.

The commander of the forbidden army stood on the left side of the entrance of the hall, his eyes swept over everyone, daring to make any abnormal moves, and he could cut it first and then play without asking for instructions.

On the right is the Duke of Chu, who is the most relaxed in the audience, holding his hands and playing Hache, looking like he hasn't woken up.

Creak.

The door of the hall opened, and Gonggong Kang whispered a few words.

Duke Chu's eyes were slightly condensed, quite surprised, and bowed to the fourth prince Zhao Yu: "Your Majesty has issued an order, and the four highnesses will enter the palace to meet you." ”

"Yes."

Zhao Yu agreed in a deep voice, not daring to have the slightest joy on his face, and before the dust settled, he must not get carried away.

Perhaps a look that caused his father to dislike him, he missed the throne.

The second prince and the third prince knelt steadily, and they also didn't dare to have any different colors, and the heads of the people killed by Emperor Jianwu in the past half a year were rolling, including their Taishan and uncle.

Now he only wants to live, and he does not dare to covet the throne.