Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 40
Chapter 53
Hearing Li Chengqian's words, Xie Hua's face turned pale, his eyes frightened and uneasy.

"Xie Hua, you are so brave, killing people, humiliating wives and daughters, you should be punished according to crime!"

As Li Chengqian spoke, he shouted: "Come here, take him to the governor and take him to the busy city at three o'clock tomorrow to be executed!"

Two guards rushed over, grabbed Xie Hua's hands, and were about to drag him down.

"I'm wronged, Commander-in-Chief, I'm wronged!" Xie Hua yelled.

Li Chengqian waved his hand, motioned the two guards to let him go, and then said expressionlessly: "You have committed all kinds of bad things, how dare you call for innocence?"

Xie Hua knelt on the ground, snot and tears profusely.

Seeing that Li Chengqian really wanted to kill him, Xie Hua could no longer care about anything else. He kowtowed three times and said with a mournful face: "Captain, those things were not done by me."

"Oh?" Li Chengqian narrowed his eyes, "You didn't do it? Someone saw you rush in with someone."

"Impossible!" Xie Hua suddenly retorted loudly, and when he and Li Chengqian made eye contact, he slowly lowered his head.

Li Chengqian snorted coldly, "You still want to quibble now?"

"Governor Governor..." Xie Hua raised his head and said anxiously: "Don't care about my business, although I sent a group of people to trouble the Wu family that day, but I didn't go there, how could I insult Miss Wu's family?"

"Really?" Li Chengqian stood up and stared at him with stern eyes, "Let me have a guess."

"In June, you took a fancy to the Wu family's [-] acres of fertile land, so you started to think about it. But at that time, the Wu family clamored to file a complaint with the Qianzhou Governor's Office. You had no choice but to give up, but you still harbored resentment in your heart. mind."

"So in July, you found dozens of people and asked them to pretend to be strongmen, rush into Wu's house, and wipe out the whole family of Wu's house, is that right?"

"... "

Xie Hua lowered his head and didn't speak, but from his demeanor and demeanor, it can be seen that what Li Chengqian said is pretty much the same.

The courtroom suddenly fell silent, and everyone stared at Xie Hua with different eyes.

Everyone's expressions are very complicated, some are gloating, some are compassionate, but there is no anger.

Except Li Chengqian!
He stared at Xie Hua with a murderous look, wishing to tear him apart, but when he saw the expressions of the officials, he felt a little sad in his heart.

Because the Wu family is a landlord and a businessman. In this era of strict hierarchy of scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen are lowly, and their status is only a little higher than those of slaves.

This abnormal chain of contempt is not limited to such poor places, but also exists in the extremely tolerant metropolis of Chang'an.

Even... the chain of contempt in Chang'an City was the most serious in the entire Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of Zhenguan, Li Shimin once asked Fang Xuanling to announce to the world that even if the businessmen were outstanding, they must not be given official positions, and they could not be allowed to "stand shoulder to shoulder with the virtuous gentleman, sit and eat together".

This latter order was even written into the Tang Code, so in the Tang Dynasty, it was everyone's responsibility to despise merchants...

Even if a businessman dies unexpectedly, the local government will not accept such a case.

Of the 64 members of the Wu family, 48 are family members, while the remaining [-] are maidservants and other lowly people.

The family members of businessmen are also businessmen and have little status.

As for maids and other lowly people, they have no human rights at all.

It was such a combination that even if 64 people were killed, no one would feel angry.

This is a sickness, although it is very unreasonable, but as long as the sickness can be accepted by the world, then it is the truth.

Gradually, Li Chengqian calmed down.

Yes, it's just 64 humble lives. Bringing this matter to the Governor's Mansion is indeed overkill.

Doesn’t this taint everyone’s ears?
Li Chengqian suddenly felt a little tired, so he sat down wearily and waved his hands, "Xie Hua, hiring a murderer to kill someone is an unforgivable crime, and he will be executed in the downtown area tomorrow!"

At the end, he added, "I will do it myself, everyone, please step back!"

Once the order is given, it must be carried out.

The guards roughly pulled Xie Hua down, regardless of his screams and struggles.

As for the remaining seven people... They originally lived near the Wu family, and that night they witnessed the strongman breaking into the Wu family and slaughtering the Wu family.

Li Chengqian brought them here because he wanted them to be witnesses, but he didn't expect that Xie Hua was so spineless. He only frightened him a little, and Xie Hua did everything.

...

With an order from the Governor's Office, the matter was finally settled.

And the fact that Li Chengqian wanted to personally kill Xie Hua spread throughout Qianzhou!
Soon, it was getting dark.

The streets were empty, and there were only twos and threes of ordinary people returning home.

As for the gate of the Governor's Mansion, except for the two guards on duty, the rest of the people were off duty and went back to their homes to look for their mothers.

But at this moment, three people came to the door of the Governor's Mansion.

The yawning guard immediately waved away.

"The Metropolitan Government's Mansion is closed today, come back tomorrow if you have something to do!"

The leader snorted coldly: "Can you blind your dog eyes and see clearly who I am?"

When the guard heard this, he cheered up and took a closer look. He suddenly laughed and said, "It turns out they are the three governors!"

These three people are the three brothers of the Xie family.

When they learned that Xie Hua would be beheaded tomorrow, Xie Yuanshen and the others could not sit still and immediately set off to Qianzhou to intercede with Li Chengqian.

And before coming to Qianzhou, the Xie family mobilized all the regiments in Yingzhou, Zangzhou, Shizhou, and Wuzhou at the same time, a total of 800 people, at the gate of Qianzhou city, preparing to put pressure on Li Chengqian.

However, what they did not expect was that from the moment the three Xie family members entered the city, there was a group of guards in the east of Qianzhou City, heading out of the city in the dark.

At the same time, a group of guards also ran down from the mountain on Jiufeng Mountain.

...

At the gate of the Governor's Mansion.

Xie Yuanshen and the others were too lazy to talk nonsense with those young men, and after identifying themselves, they walked directly inside.

However, two guards suddenly stopped in front of the three of them, and said expressionlessly: "My lords, the Governor has an order that no one is allowed to enter the Governor's Mansion during the curfew!"

"presumptuous!"

Xie Yuan stared at him angrily, "When I came to the Governor's Mansion, I came and left whenever I wanted. You guys, how dare you stop me?"

Xie Yuanshen had suppressed a lot of evil anger. Seeing that the two young guards dared to block his way, his anger suddenly burst out.

Snapped!
A loud slap was slapped across the face, and the guard was slapped with all kinds of meat and vegetables, and his ears were buzzing.

Immediately, Xie Yuanshen's majesty continued, and he slapped another guard with his backhand, knocking the other guard unconscious.

"Hmph, trash!"

Xie Yuanshen snorted coldly and led Xie Longyu and Xie Chengjian to the Governor's Mansion.

The two guards covered their faces and followed closely behind them, trying to stop them, but the slaps were painful to the bone.

But let them in like this, how will the governor explain it?

From the gate of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to the front hall, you still need to pass through a small courtyard.

Boom boom boom!
Before Xie Yuanshen and the others arrived at the front hall, two teams of guards in black armor suddenly ran out from the corridors on the left and right.

The two teams of guards quickly surrounded Xie Yuanshen and the three of them, and then stared at them murderously.

Xie Yuanshen and the others paled as they immediately recognized the hundreds of guards who had "scared" them at the gate of the Governor's Mansion a few days ago.

The only difference is that the murderous aura among these guards seems to be even stronger today...

(End of this chapter)