Chapter 261: Heavenly Change
Liu Jingxuan turned around and pointed to the weeping children in the audience, there were two or three hundred people, and said loudly: "They are just children who have never been weakly crowned or matched, and their childlike innocence is not lost, but they will be killed tragically." His Majesty is the true son of the dragon, with the world in mind, wise and open-minded, and his great achievements can be called the emperor of the ages. In the past, Yao Shun was in Kyushu, and Endebu was in the four seas. Today, His Majesty is also wise, no less than the ancient Yao Shun. Yangzhou has experienced a long period of military turmoil, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by the Qing army. Inevitably, there are no hateful people among them. After many years, Yangzhou finally has the scene of today's leveling. Your Majesty is now angry for a while, and he is going to kill on a large scale, which will not cool the hearts of the people of Yangzhou. Once Your Majesty is discouraged, he will surely regret and blame himself for today's events, and he will be worried. The guilty minister doesn't want His Majesty to kill lightly because of the guilty minister's fault, and I hope Your Majesty will be merciful!"
As soon as Liu Jingxuan's voice fell, nearly a thousand prisoners in the audience who were waiting to be beheaded kowtowed, and shouted: "Your Majesty is gracious! Your Majesty is gracious!"
Even the people who were watching the excitement around knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty is gracious! Your Majesty is gracious!"
For a while, inside and outside the law field, the cry shook the sky. Kangxi found that the situation was a little out of control.
Kangxi looked Liu Jingxuan up and down, and said coldly: "Liu Jingxuan, I have already said that these people are all anti-thieves of the imperial court. If he doesn't kill him, he will definitely bring disaster to Yangzhou one day. Can you afford it?"
Liu Jingxuan's face was solemn: "The minister is willing to use the head of the item to guarantee that Yangzhou will never have another banditry." ”
"You come to vouch?" Kangxi twisted his beard and snorted coldly.
Liu Jingxuan kowtowed his head heavily: "The minister is willing to guarantee." If Your Majesty releases these people today, millions of soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou and even Jiangsu Province will be grateful, and Your Majesty's wisdom and kindness will surely spread throughout our Qing Dynasty. He will serve the people and die to your majesty as a soldier. ”
Kangxi raised his eyebrows, and suddenly said, "Liu Jingxuan, you don't have to wear a high hat for me." You keep saying that you are a criminal minister, presumably this Yangzhou rebellion, as the prefect of Yangzhou, you also know that you are guilty of it. Why don't you do this, since you guarantee that these people are not thieves, how about I behead you here today, and then release these people?"
Liu Jingxuan's face did not change at all, and he shouted at Kangxi: "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness!
Kangxi stared at Liu Jingxuan and said in a deep voice: "Liu Jingxuan, as the prefect of Yangzhou, dereliction of duty and abolition of the public, caused thieves to swarm and cause trouble in Yangzhou. Today and tomorrow, the canonical punishment will be carried out in order to correct the law of the country. Pull it down and cut it off for me!"
The two guards beside Kangxi set up Liu Jingxuan and pulled him to the edge of the stage. One of the guards raised his hand and took the steel knife from the palm of the executioner's hand, which looked like a wooden carved clay sculpture, and waited for the cannon to go off.
There were four people not far from the audience, and their hearts tightened almost at the same time. They are Xiao Rang, Nangong Huangyun, Zhuge Qinglin, and Princess Chunyu.
Xiao Rang's hands trembled slightly, and his palms were full of sweat. But he stood still, unmoved. He didn't know what the look was on his face, and his eyes almost narrowed.
Nangong Xuanyun had already walked to the edge of the stage at this time, and his right hand had already grasped Mo Yuan's hilt. He gritted his steel teeth, and he had already made up his mind that as long as the letter cannon sounded, he would immediately jump on the stage and save Liu Jingxuan. As for Kangxi and the others, Nangong Xuanyun planned to simply solve it together, so as to save the trouble.
Zhuge Qinglin stood in the crowd outside the hair field, and her heart was extremely conflicted. Zhuge Qinglin is indifferent by nature and has never cared about the life and death of others. She felt that people's hearts were sinister, the world was cold, and the world was not as warm as people said. But since he met Liu Jingxuan, Zhuge Qinglin's heart has a trace of softness. She found it so blissful to be cared for and cared for. She had defeated Shangguan Yunying in front of everyone, but that honor did not bring her the slightest happiness. On the contrary, when he was teaching at Jingxian Academy, Zhuge Qinglin felt that it was the happiest time in his life. The empty and bright eyes, the immature and crisp words, contain indescribable warmth.
I don't know when, Liu Jingxuan's blue-gray robe lingered in her eyes, even in her dreams. She once suspected that Liu Jing's declaration was exaggerated and that he was selling his reputation. But today, Liu Jingxuan went to death alone in front of tens of thousands of Yangzhou people, and he was so happy that this was too great for Zhuge Qinglin's shock. She had never seen such a person, but such a person was about to die.
Zhuge Qinglin subconsciously took a few steps forward, and suddenly a hand beside her grabbed her. That's Zhuge Yue. I saw Zhuge Yue looking at Zhuge Qinglin with tears on his face, and shook his head vigorously.
Chun Yu is sitting on the drunken immortal building outside the Dharma field today. She came to the Drunken Immortal Building early today, sat down against a table by the window, and sipped tea in a leisurely manner. Liu Jingxuan's every move, she watched it in her eyes. The cries of nearly a thousand anti-thieves did not move the pure princess in the slightest, in her heart, the anti-thieves were going to eradicate Wu Jing, which was basically the same as Kangxi's thoughts. But Liu Jingxuan's actions shocked her a lot. Like Zhuge Qinglin, she didn't believe that there were such stupid people in this world. At the beginning, on the edge of the Jiajiang River outside the east city of Yangzhou, Liu Jingxuan was not afraid of life and death, and stood on the embankment with tens of thousands of people day and night, never escaping half a step. Today, Liu Jingxuan actually went to die for the sake of others, what is this for? (Could it be that Buddha Shakyamuni or Allah Allah brainwashed Liu Jingxuan?)
Suddenly, a strong wind blew in the sky, flying sand and rocks, and charming eyes. Kangxi and the accompanying officials each blindfolded their sleeves. The wind became stronger and stronger, and the officials, soldiers, and people guarding the Dharma Field began to stand unsteadily, staggering. After a while, almost all of the people fell to the ground, not daring to get up. The wind was howling and raging, and with a "click", the bucket standing on the side of the Dharma field suddenly broke. Frightened, the prisoners who were kneeling on the ground scattered and fled.
After another moment, a dark cloud drifted to the east, boundless and shoreless, and the air was dark and gloomy. Dark clouds obscured the sun, and the earth suddenly fell into darkness. Immediately afterward, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, and thunder rumbled across the earth. A few more silver snakes shuttled and jumped in and out of the rolling black clouds, and the thunder roared and was deafening. There was a loud "gala-la-la" sound, and hailstones the size of duck eggs fell from the sky, smashing people into scattered flights.
Seeing that something was wrong, Sibeile Yinzhen hurriedly walked in front of Kangxi and said loudly: "Huang Ama, go quickly!"
Kangxi was a little frightened at this time, and Murong Jielie on the side couldn't help but say, picked up Kangxi and walked towards the Drunken Immortal Building on the side of the law field.