Great Tang Southern Emperor

Li Zhen asked again: "And then? Did any of you get hurt? What did you do next? Did you take revenge?"

"Our people didn't suffer any losses or injuries. As for what's next..." Pei Xingjian's face became very ugly: "The subordinates followed their traces to their lair..."

"and then?"

Pei Xingjian's expression became even uglier: "Then we discovered that their lair is actually a city."

"City? Are you sure it's a city?" Li Zhen suddenly stood up. Having a city means having civilization. It seems that I will stay here for a while. I must evaluate the situation of this indigenous civilization. If it is true If there is a threat, it can only be ordered to be strangled.

"Of course it is a city. Not only do they have high walls, but they are also built of stones, which are extremely strong." Pei Xingjian confirmed: "According to our measurements, their city walls have a circumference of two or three miles. Small."

"No." Luo Zhe suddenly interjected, "If you want to carve stone, you need at least iron tools, but according to the equipment of the group of natives who met us, let alone iron tools, they don't even have many stone tools."

"It's not important, you should continue to talk." Li Zhen interrupted Luo Zhe's question. Iron tools may not be necessary for stone carving. If the quantity required is not large, stone carving can also be used.

"The subordinates sent people to their city, and found..." Pei Xingjian's face became more and more ugly.

"What did you find?"

"It turns out...it turns out that the whole city is...unexpectedly...not a single living person." Pei Xingjian's voice was dry and intermittent, and the situation in the city made him feel unacceptable.

Li Zhen was calm: "What do you mean? There are no living people in the city, which means that everyone in the city is dead? Is it a plague? Or something else?"

"If it's all plague, then that's fine." Pei Xingjian said: "The subordinates have already made this psychological preparation. The problem is that among all the dead, only a relatively small part died of the plague, and more than [-]% died of the plague. Another way to die."

"Oh? How to die?" Li Zhen became more interested. Now that Pei Xingjian said so, the way these people died was not simple, at least not by massacre. Villages, those aboriginal villages that are usually for the people and bandits in times of chaos, were often massacred by Pei Xingjian and the others.If all the dead in the city were slaughtered, then Pei Xingjian's expression shouldn't be like this.

"Fire."

Li Zhen was taken aback: "Fire?"

"They were all burned to death." Pei Xingjian's face was so gloomy that water dripped out: "I really can't figure out what mistakes those people have made to be punished like this. There are nearly 2000 people in [-]%, so no one resists?"

"How do you know they were burned alive and not burned after they died?"

Pei Xingjian asked back: "Dare to ask Your Highness, burn the corpses, and tie them to the stake?"

"I see."

Li Zhen finally understood why Pei Xingjian's face was so ugly.

Among all the punishments, the fire torture should be regarded as cruel, because it is equivalent to burning people alive, which is much crueler than punishments such as hanging and beheading.

Moreover, more than [-]% of the people in the city were burned to death at one time. This is even more cruel. What happened here?

Who were the people who were burned to death?

Li Zhen had no way of knowing.

He didn't want to know either, he just wanted to know what happened next.

Pei Xingjian continued: "According to Master Shiratori's guess, he believed that these people who were burned to death were the first to be infected with the plague. Because in fact, even in the pre-Qin period, there was no suitable treatment for the plague, and we were infected with the plague. They will all be burned by fire, because only in this way can the spread of the plague be stopped."

"This explanation is also correct. We did do this a long time ago." Li Zhen nodded and said, Shiratori's guess is valid, maybe things are really as he said, and it is not necessarily true.

"As for the people who were not burned to death later, they should have no strength to burn, so they could only lie on the ground and wait to die. Only the indigenous team may not have been infected because they went out hunting or for other reasons. When they came back, they found the situation in the city. Then he escaped and wanted to leave here by boat to go to other places, but we ran into him as soon as we got to the edge of the jungle."

"In this case, why is your face so ugly?"

"Your Highness, please listen to your subordinates." When Pei Xingjian mentioned this, his face became gloomy again: "The problem is that when the natives who were driven away by us entered the city, they actually carried out brutal and inhumane actions against the infected people who had not yet died. The act of dismembering the corpses, dismembering all the corpses, and then cutting off their heads and taking them away... is really hateful."

"So you're talking about this." Li Zhen didn't care, "Maybe it's their custom."

"That's not the case at all. The reason why they cut off the head was actually to surrender to another tribe. This head is a certificate of surrender." Pei Xingjian said loudly: "We followed their footsteps and saw them and other tribes with our own eyes. A group of natives met, and then they all knelt down and offered their heads with their own hands..."

Chapter 856

Chapter 2 The Means of Killing Without Blood

"Then what choice did you make?" Li Zhen paused, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart: "Did you continue to do it?"

"Of course." Pei Xingjian said loudly, "The combined number of them is only 500 people. We just charged and killed them all."

"Oops..." Luo Zhe exclaimed: "In this way, I'm afraid you will be attacked by another tribe."

"We thought so too, so we rushed back after we attacked them. And..." Pei Xingjian took out a bamboo tube from his bosom: "Your Highness, we found that the other party's civilization is much higher than ours , you see, they can use simple tools, and more importantly, they already have the simplest bronze utensils..."

"What?" Li Zhen exclaimed: "Is there really a civilization?"

"More importantly, their medical skills are quite developed." Pei Xingjian opened the bamboo tube and poured out a black 'ball' from it: "According to Dr. Shiratori's inspection, this is a very mature technique of using herbs , is not alchemy, but it also concentrates all the essence of the herbal medicine into the pill, but the shelf life is not long, and the main disease of this kind of pill is the kind of plague we contracted, which is why the tribe dared to accept us The cause of the enemy."

"Excellent, it seems that we really have to stay here for a while longer." Li Zhen made a decision.

"Your Highness, do we really want to use massacres to destroy this civilization?" Pei Xingjian asked suddenly: "In this way, what is the difference between us and the barbarians who invaded our Tang Dynasty in the past?"

"Shut up." Luo Zhe quickly interrupted him, winked and said loudly: "Is this what you should say? What is the purpose of His Royal Highness? Bring the Great Tang to its peak, and Nanyang is our successor." The garden absolutely does not allow any threat to exist, even if such a threat is only a slight possibility, it is absolutely not allowed to exist."

"Okay, don't cover up for him. I'm not the kind of person who can't listen to different opinions." Li Zhen stopped Luo Zhe. Of course, he could see Luo Zhe's careful thinking, but he didn't say anything. .

Looking at Pei Xingjian again, he said: "As for the destruction of civilization you mentioned... If the Tang Dynasty wants to progress, it must sweep away all enemies. As opponents on the road to the Tang Dynasty's conquest, they have only two fates. One is to surrender and be defeated by the Tang Dynasty." Eclectic, the other is perishing, and has since disappeared into the tide of history.

And through the head incident, you should be able to see that this civilization belongs to the barbaric category. They regard cruelty and the law of the jungle as their basic survival principles. If such a civilization cannot be conquered, then the only way is to destroy them. "

"..."

Seeing that Pei Xingjian remained silent, Li Zhen continued: "Do you think this palace is someone who likes to kill? Of course not, why doesn't this palace want the world to be harmonious? Why doesn't this palace want everyone to have clothes to wear and food to eat? But Civilization wants great harmony in the world, and we are willing, but some people prefer to be kings and hegemons, and they don't care what you say about great harmony in the world.

For their own rights, they are absolutely unwilling to surrender to us. Even if they are forced to surrender due to the general situation, they will definitely rebel in the future-you are familiar with military books and history. It is clear.So for the future of Datang, we must completely wipe it out in the bud. "

"That's right, Pei Shouyue, you've been with His Highness for such a long time, don't you understand such a simple truth?" Luo Zhe also advised from the side. In his opinion, Pei Xingjian's behavior is simply inexplicable. If it is unfavorable to Datang, why not nip the danger in the bud, but wait until the matter is irreversible before making a decision?

He is the future governor of Borneo, and his policies have already been determined. Pei Xingjian's remarks at this time are not only denying Li Zhen, but also vetoing Luo Zhe's future policies, and even vetoing everything Luo Zhe has done. It was decided that if their two positions became the two prime ministers of Datang, based on this alone, they might set off a storm of factionalism.

Pei Xingjian quickly waved his hand: "No, no, Your Highness, Brother Luo, you all misunderstood me, I did not deny His Highness's policy, what I mean is, isn't it a bit too barbaric to just rely on massacres? Can we be gentler?" Methods?"

"A gentler way?"

"A gentler way?"

Li Zhen and Luo Zhe asked in unison, but the difference was that Luo Zhe asked rhetorically, while Li Zhen was thoughtful.

Luo Zhe looked at Pei Xingjian in disbelief: "What are you kidding? Be gentle? How are you going to make me be gentle? Serve them all as if they were ancestors, and then use gentleness to destroy their fighting spirit?"

"I didn't say that, and I didn't say that I wouldn't kill them." Pei Xingjian felt that he had died wronged, and then looked at the thoughtful Li Zhen, and hurriedly said, "His Royal Highness, please comment. Such a person?"

"Do not……"

"look……"