Song Mingyue

Chapter 223 Slash!
Luoyang Mansion, prison.

Du Gongcai was reclined on the straw, hiccupping, found a small bamboo stick from somewhere, and was picking his teeth leisurely, looking contented.

"Du Gongcai, are you satisfied with today's food and drink?"

Du Gong was startled when there was a shout from outside the number room. Seeing that it was a few guards in brocade clothes, he hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Satisfied, satisfied!"

A Jin Yiwei snorted and said, "The Bazhen Chicken from Zuichun Tower, the Crispy Bone Fish from Taibaiju, and the ten-year-old Zhuyeqing from Chen Family Winery, the Imperial Envoy asked me to make a special trip to order them, which is naturally good. "

When Du Gongcai heard this, his expression became more respectful: "The imperial envoy is so kind and virtuous. He has taken such care of sinners like us. Even if Du is dead, he is willing."

The leader, Jin Yiwei, smiled happily: "In that case, let Master Du go on his way!"

The flattering smile on Du Gongcai's face froze instantly, and his mouth was wide enough to stuff an egg in.

It took a long time for Duke Du to react.It's not that he didn't expect this day to come. In addition to the huge amount of corruption, he also committed the crime of rebellion and assassination of an imperial envoy. Zhao Hao, who has the right to kill first, can't let him go.

That's why Du Gong quickly recovered his expression and laughed loudly: "Very well, I have been waiting for this day for a long time!"

While laughing, he stood up from the straw and walked straight to the fence door. Jin Yiwei unlocked the door of the number room, and Du Gongcai stepped out of the door calmly, shouting loudly: "Everyone, Du Mou is going to take a step first!"

The officials were eating, resting, and chatting through the fence. When they heard his loud shout, they all stood up immediately, lying on the fence door of the number room, and looked at Du Gongcai.

Duke Du clasped his fists towards the surroundings, and laughed loudly: "If you have the heart, remember your colleagues, and burn some incense paper for Du on this day next year!"

Suddenly there was a sigh in the prison.

Du Gongcai's head was beheaded, and everyone had already understood it.Corruption of ink is nothing more than that, the point is the crime of rebellion, which can be punished completely, not to mention that he was not born in the imperial examination, he can't be regarded as a scholar-bureaucrat, so it's strange if he doesn't die.

So although everyone was a little bit sad about the death of a rabbit, they didn't react too much violently, they just expressed their sorrow genuinely or falsely.

"Master Du, go all the way!"

"Master Du... woo woo woo..."

"Master Du, let's go..."

Amidst the mournful voices, Zhang Yue, the prosecutor, also stood up, walked to the gate of the fence, and called out "Lord Du", and then Duke Du stepped forward immediately, and the two clasped their hands through the fence.

"Master Du, let's go!"

"Lord Xiantai, this old man is going to take a step first, take care!"

Just as the two were saying goodbye, Jin Yiwei at the side finally got impatient, pushed Du Gongcai away, and said angrily: "Why don't you go first, no one needs to see anyone off, we all have to go on the road together today!"

"What?" Zhang Yue stared at Jin Yiwei with wide eyes.

The Jin Yiwei didn't return him, but pushed Duke Du to go out, and after a while, dozens of Jin Yiwei rushed in. The leader of the Jinyi Guard held a bunch of keys in his hand, and shouted loudly: "The first four ranks and above are the masters. Take it out."

After finishing speaking, he walked to the front and unlocked Zhang Yue's fence door with a click, and then went forward to open the door of Cangsi Yang Yu's number room.

The two Jin Yiwei pushed open the door and dragged Zhang Yue out. Zhang Yue just woke up like a dream, and hissed, "What are you waiting for?"

That Jin Yiwei said coldly: "I've eaten all the beheaded wine, what are you asking? Today, Commander-in-Chief will personally send you off to the road!"

Zhang Yue opened his mouth in horror, and suddenly became mad, and slammed his head at the Jinyiwei: "Are you crazy, this official is the first-class Jinshi and No. 9 in the fourth year of Chongning, not even the current official Dare to kill this official, Zhao Hao dares to touch a hair on this official?"

The Jin Yiwei turned sideways, Zhang Yue hit the ground, fell to the ground, and was picked up from the ground by the shoulders of the two Jin Yiwei: "Stop talking nonsense, I will send you to the prison car now!"

Zhang Yue was like a madman in an instant, his eyes were red and his hair was loose. While struggling desperately, he roared hysterically: "Taizu's oath on the tablet is not to kill scholar-bureaucrats. I haven't killed a scholar-bureaucrat in 150 years. Distant family members, how dare you kill me? How dare you kill me?"

He struggled and shook frantically with all his strength, while the two Jinyi guards clasped his shoulders with all their strength, only heard a chirping sound, the robe on his shoulders was torn due to his violent struggle, Zhang Yue leaned forward, Almost lost control.The Jin Yiwei on the left was furious, and hit him hard on the back of the head with his palm as a knife. Zhang Yue fainted immediately, and his body slowly collapsed. Two Jin Yiwei dragged him to the door like a dead dog.

At this time, all the prisoners in the prison finally knew what had happened, and each of them became mad, screaming, shouting, crying, some raised their shackles and smashed the fence desperately, some Headbutted hysterically.

In an instant, the entire prison was full of screams of panic and despair, as if the end of the world was approaching.

Du Gong, who had already reached the gate of the prison, heard the movement behind him. The corners of his mouth twitched, he turned around, and strode forward. Yang Yu, who followed closely behind, even laughed a few times, as if he was very happy.

The few of them are not only the chief villains, but also unscrupulous scholar-bureaucrats, who have long been prepared to die. Now they see so many people accompanying them, and these people have been talking about Taizu's vow not to kill scholar-bureaucrats for days, which makes them very disgusted , at this moment, there is an inexplicable joy in my heart, and even the matter of going to the west soon does not seem to be so painful.

No matter whether the prisoners scolded, yelled, or struggled fiercely, it was of no avail after all. All the Jin Yiwei opened the door of the No. [-] room one by one, and then forced them out one by one, and sent them to the prison car that had been waiting outside.

……

The imperial envoy wants to personally kill the evil officials before all the people. The news has already spread throughout the streets and alleys of Luoyang City.

In the suburbs, an old man rolled up his trouser legs and was about to plant wheat in the field. The drought had just passed and it rained a few times.

"Old man! Old man!" Just as he got off the ground, he heard the old woman's anxious and excited call, and looked up to see the old woman running towards him in a panic.

"What? Our big yellow horse has cubs?" The old man couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw her posture.

"What are you going to do? It's still too early. I heard from the people in the city that the imperial envoys are going to supervise and kill those evil officials outside the city. Everyone went to the city to see it. Let's go together?"

"What's the point of beheading? I thought Rhubarb had given birth to a cub. ... What? Cut off the evil official? Wait for me, I'll wash my feet and put on my shoes."

……

In the west of the city, Lao Zhang carried a load of sesame seed cakes, and shouted loudly: "Seed sesame seed cakes, Lao Zhang sesame seed cakes, freshly baked, hot sesame seed cakes!"

A person from the opposite side ran up in a panic and bumped into him, almost knocking him over with the burden of sesame seed cakes.

Lao Zhang was furious, grabbed the man's skirt and was about to scold him, but found that it was Lao Li, his neighbor, and couldn't help grinning: "Lao Li, your family knew about your affair with Widow Wang, right? Run like this?"

The man named Lao Li shook off his hand angrily, and said angrily: "What are you talking about? I'm going to watch the imperial envoy behead evil officials outside the city. Seed cakes, everyone in the city has gone to Ximen Zhanjiaotai. Who are you selling sesame seed cakes to? If you want to sell them, you have to go there. Someone else's head is gone."

"What?!...Wait, I'll go with you!"

……

In Luoyang City, from the entrance of the prison to the rape platform outside the west gate, people lined up on both sides, leaving only a passage in the middle, which was more than ten miles long.

Knock da da~
Several Jinyiweis came galloping on their horses, shouting loudly while running.

"The imperial envoys have ordered that during the current famine period, it is not allowed to throw eggs, tofu, green vegetables and other vegetables and grains at corrupt officials, nor bricks, stones, soil and other hard objects, so as not to accidentally injure the accompanying officials. , remember!"

The shouts went all the way forward, followed by another wave, and continued to run and shout. After a commotion among the crowd, some people threw down bricks and stones one after another, and some people threw eggs and other objects in their hands. In the bag.

After a while, there was a sound of horseshoes and wheels rolling in the distance.When everyone looked up, they saw two rows of white battalion soldiers in bright armor escorting a row of prison cars in the middle slowly passing through the aisle among the crowd.The leader was Du Gongcai's prison cart, and there were two Jinyi guards standing on both sides of the prison cart, and an executioner holding a shining sword stood directly behind.

In an instant, the crowd became a sensation.

"kill him!"

"kill him!"

"Evil thief, give back my son's life!"

……

Wave after wave of roars, curses, and cries surged together, and the huge sound wave shook half of Luoyang City.

Agitated, someone held up bricks, stones, and even kitchen knives and rushed towards the prison car to attack the prisoner in the car, but was blocked back by the white stiles on both sides.

While guarding the prison cart, all the white battalion soldiers shouted loudly to stop the agitated people.

On the prison car, the prisoners headed by Zhang Yue had been struggling and shouting all the time, but now they all fell silent when they saw such momentum, and looked at the crowd that was so excited that they were almost out of control, and lowered their heads one after another. , stop clamoring.

Even though it was guarded by white stiles, the prison car was still moving very slowly. From time to time, excited people rushed out from the front, trying to attack the prison car.As a last resort, Jin Yiwei, who opened the way in front, had no choice but to drive the people away with his horsewhip high in the air, shouting loudly, "Get out of the way, don't miss the time", and the speed of the march increased.

……

The outskirts of the west gate of Luoyang City.

A two-story earthen platform more than three or four meters high stands upright, surrounded by solemn Jinyiwei; directly in front of it hangs two huge long couplets, one meter wide and four or five meters long.The one on the left reads "Sorrow for the people who died of natural disasters and man-made disasters", and the one on the right reads "Punish evil officials to do justice for the heavens"; a large flag is flying in the center of the earthen platform, and three big characters are fluttering in the wind - Zhanjiantai There are three tables and chairs under the stage, and a pot of arrows is placed on the table in the middle, which is the seat of the supervisor.

The prison van finally left the city gate and arrived near the rape platform.The guards in Jinyi invited more than a hundred prisoners wearing shackles and anklets from the car, and divided them into two rows, one row facing south and facing north, the other row facing north and facing south, and the two rows stood back to back, waiting for the supervisor to be executed. Come for surgery.

All the people in the city also followed, and surrounded the rape beheading platform tightly.

"The imperial envoy is here!"

There was an immediate commotion in the direction of the city gate, countless pairs of eyes looked over, and the crowd surged.

I saw Zhao Hao, Xiang Neng, Wu Song and Fang Baihua galloping forward surrounded by a group of Jin Yiwei, everyone gave way one after another, Zhao Hao and others got off their horses, and under the guard of Jin Yiwei, they strode towards the sword. On the platform, sit on the chair in the middle, and Xiang Neng sits beside Zhao Hao.

The sun in the sky was gradually approaching the mid-heaven, a Jin Yiwei hurried up and said something in Zhao Hao's ear, Zhao Hao nodded, picked up a command arrow and handed it to the Jin Yiwei.

I saw the Jin Yiwei rushing down the stage with an arrow in his hand, galloped his horse forward, and shouted loudly: "The order of the imperial envoy is passed on, and the criminals are in place, and they are verified!"

Immediately, the Jinyi guards standing behind the criminals responded in unison: "Report to the imperial envoy, one hundred and nine death row prisoners, all of them have been verified to be upright, waiting for execution!"

At this moment, another Jin Yiwei came on a galloping horse, went straight to the stage, got off the horse and hurried onto the stage, galloping to Zhao Hao's side.

"My lord, Taifu Yang Jian led dozens of relatives from the capital flying horse to pass the decree. He has been pretended to be a bandit by the Qianlong camp and trapped him in the mountain road fifty miles away. He can't make it before three quarters noon. coming……"

Zhao Hao nodded, with a faint smile in his eyes.

After a while, Xiang Neng looked at the sky and said in a low voice, "My lord, it's almost [-]:[-] noon."

Zhao Haoteng got up, and just when he raised his head, he saw several horses galloping towards him in the distance.The first rider whipped his horse into the air, held a roll of golden things in his hand, and yelled something at the Jin Yiwei who blocked him along the way, causing those Jin Yiwei to avoid him one after another.

Zhao Hao took a closer look, and couldn't help but his face changed drastically.

The person who came was none other than Jin Chongyue!
In a blink of an eye, Jin Chongyue was whipping his horse like flying, and he was already three or four hundred steps away. When he saw Zhao Hao from afar, he tried his best and roared: "The imperial decree has arrived, keep people under the knife..."

Although Jin Chongyue's voice was not loud, many people on and off the stage could hear it clearly, including Zhang Yue, who was waiting to be killed.

In an instant, Zhang Yue's face, which was originally pale, was instantly flushed, and he was so excited that he almost jumped up.

Hahaha~
Zhang Yue laughed wildly and triumphantly, the feeling that he was about to escape from death made him uncontrollably excited, and all fear and despair were swept away.

At this moment, Zhao Hao's majestic roar came from the high platform.

"Boom!"

"Execution!"

"cut!"

(End of this chapter)