Beiyang new warlord

With a loud crash, the heavy mahogany table was overturned abruptly, and the grumpy Lu Daqi shouted with anger still remaining: "The goddamned waste should be dispatched to Yunnan for exile!"

Frowning tightly, Gao Hongtu, who was sitting on an armchair beside him, patted the table when he heard his anger, "Now is not the time to talk about expelling the army. The turmoil, the most urgent thing is to completely solve the harm of the Fushe Party, and we must act decisively!"

Gao Hongtu's withered right hand, which was full of wrinkles, made a murderous downward cutting movement. This movement saw Qian Qianyi, who was opposite him, with a few blood vessels bulging in his temple uncomfortably. Full of hesitation, Old Man Qian shook his head in embarrassment.

"As for how to deal with it, it's up to you to think about it in the long run. After all, many of the people in Fushe were once Donglin's disciples, but they were just instigated by Zhang Pu and went astray. Besides, this Hangzhou Luoning is really... .”

Old bureaucratic, these old-fashioned words, just listen to the second half. How can Gao Hongtu not hear it? Qian Qianyi is still afraid of the Northern Dynasty and Mao Jue. After all, the relationship between Luo Ning and the romantic son of the Northern Emperor The ambiguous rumors are raging, the old guy is still leaving a way out for himself!

"Cutting the grass does not remove the roots, and the spring breeze blows and regenerates! Before Zhang Pu's disaster strikes back, he must cut off his henchmen! Now is not the time to be soft-hearted, what does Mr. Jiang think?"

Turning his head, Gao Hongtu questioned Jiang Riguang again, but the latter did not disappoint him. The firm supporter of Confucius ritual music nodded his head simply.

"Should kill!"

The two big bosses set the tone, and the remaining few ministers followed suit and nodded. Seeing this, the old cunning Qian Qianyi would naturally not be the target of public criticism, but he was still cunning. left a tail.

"This is the end of the matter, Qian obeys the wishes of the gentlemen!"

A group of bad old men who deserve to be buried are either hiding their selfish righteousness, or drifting along with nothing to do with themselves. The fate of a woman and a group of people is determined just like that!

All opinions were unified, full of murderous intent, more than a dozen riders galloped out of the palace again, holding the imperial decree made of bright yellow silk, and headed for the Jinyiwei prison in Stone City in a dusty manner.

At this time, Luo Ning had just been released from the large-character shackle rack, and was locked in a dark prison with no light at all. Before she could recover from the great despair, The door of the big prison was slammed open again, and several torches came into her sight, and as she narrowed her eyes with difficulty to look around, some heavy objects had already been thrown at her feet.

"Prisoner Luo Ning, as a family of poets and scholars, you have colluded with the northern barbarians and attempted to rebel. The crime deserves to be circumcised, but His Majesty is merciful, pity you for being a woman, and you are extrajudicially merciful. I sentence you to beheading! Beheaded! !"

The heavy things are a few bundles of rough hemp rope and a heavy beheading card. The red letters on the beheading of the traitor Fu Luoning are particularly eye-catching. Although he knows in his heart that Donglin uses her identity to rectify Fushe , as the culprit, murder!She must die!After being kidnapped and sent here by Luo Zhen, it was impossible for her to be alive, but she never expected to come here so soon!

Looking at the scarlet cut characters still made this petite Jiangnan woman dizzy in her brain, she couldn't help but staggered back a few steps, leaning against the wall, her body trembling uncontrollably.

"If I had known today, why bother! The prisoner quickly knelt down! This will tie your clothes!"

Jin Yiwei has been serving for a long time, and has already wiped out most of the normal human emotions. Several Nanzhen Fusi feudal princes with torches are mercilessly humming and want to come over, looking at their gloomy flying fish robes, once again Taking a step back in fear, Luo Ning suddenly screamed sharply.

"and many more!"

Seeing several people stop their steps cruelly, two lines of tears flowed down their cheeks slowly, biting his lip and taking a deep breath, Luo Ning took a deep breath, and then his expression suddenly became resolute .

"Don't work your hands, I will do it myself!"

Under the obscene gazes of several Jin Yiwei, Luo Ning gently untied the tattered Luo skirt belt with trembling hands, and immediately threw it heavily on the ground. In the light of the fire, a slender figure followed the shaking of the torch. Shaked up.

Ten minutes later, the two oxen pulled the heavy prison cart and galloped out of Yingtian City again.

.........

At dawn the next day, the Bell and Drum Tower, the scene of the chaotic escort parade.

Unexpectedly, the people of Yingtian, who have always been obedient, would come away so suddenly. During the frenzied scuffle, the sound of heavy footsteps resounded suddenly on the street, and a large number of reinforcements from the forbidden army rushed out with swords and spears. Up to now, Donglin has been completely lost, not even the last piece of fig leaf is needed. The guards in front directly drew their knives and slashed at the citizens of Yingtian who were in the riot. With the sound of cracking bodies, a dozen people fell down In the pool of blood, the bright red blood finally woke up these hot-brained citizens, and it was unknown who was the first to turn around and run away. Amidst the terrified cries, the Bell and Drum Tower, which was originally in chaos and tens of thousands of people, disappeared, leaving only There is a mess of shoe garbage and nosebleeds and teeth.

More than 400 prisoners escaped, and only 100 were left. The officer in charge of the escort wanted to cry, but seeing that the instigator of all these things, Huang Zongxi, was still standing here so proudly, the leader of the Forbidden Army viciously stepped forward and shoved him. .

"The thieves join the army! Let's go!"

Escorting the remaining members of Fushe, under the protection of a large number of swords and shields, the escorting team continued to move forward.

But to Huang Zongxi's surprise, what was waiting for them was not the big prison in Stone City, but directly turned back to Caishikou, where the execution stage had already been set up there, surrounded by heavily armed Nanjing Forbidden Army, and on the execution ground, A woman who had been stripped down to her underwear and tied up was also knelt there early, waiting for them.

Luo Ning!

"This is not in line with the Law of the Ming Dynasty!"

"The sky is speechless, killing Zhongliang in vain!"

"You must not die!"

This scene made those Fushe children who either didn't run away, or stayed behind as scholars immediately understand the fate they are about to face. They don't need any interrogation by the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple, and they don't have any chance to plead in court. They are directly detained. For what crime, he was directly abandoned at the intersection of the city.

Seems like a familiar sight!

Roared full of shock and anger, no matter those who stayed voluntarily or those who didn't run away, they were all unwilling and roared angrily, but the answer to them was a heavy knife handle, all the big men in Donglin He didn't come, and only Zhao Longen, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment who had a half-way relationship with Donglin, was here. Seeing the roar of the crowd, he, a prison officer, was trembling with fright like a plague chicken. He was so energetic , and then pointed at Luo Ning and growled.

"You are rehabilitating the society, forming a clique for private interests, colluding with this Northern Ming temptress, Luo Ning, the former bandit leader of the East India Company, intending to rebel, His Majesty was furious, and ordered you and other rebellious officials and thieves to be beheaded..., beheaded and killed... ., Hugh..., Hugh is so noisy! Come here, execute immediately!"

There were too many people to kill this time. Amidst his angry roar, Huang Zongxi and a group of Fushe leaders were pushed to the execution ground first, with heavy shackles on their hands. In their eyes, the trembling Yingtian citizens left Watching from afar, but not daring to come over, with a submissive look.Being pushed onto the execution platform, looking at everything, Huang Zongxi, the orphan of Donglin, couldn't help but screamed up to the sky.

"There is no excuse for committing a crime! It is unreasonable and lawless! To scare the people by killing! Father, were you blind back then and joined this group of beasts?"

However, after laughing wildly twice, Huang Zongxi's laughter stopped again, and his expression suddenly fell on the opposite side of the vegetable market entrance. The top of the bare pillar was dark red and dark, it was the hanging of the head after the execution. The dark blood stain on the wooden pole should be the blood stain left over from the hanging head after Ma Shiying was beheaded last time.

Seeing that, a self-deprecating expression appeared on Huang Zongxi's face again, he was staggered back by the executioner, and hearing the angry scolding of his colleagues, he suddenly shook his head again in a mocking way.

"My death is not wronged! Didn't we kill Master Ma Shiying and Ma in such a self-righteous way back then? The law of heaven is reincarnation, and my death is not wronged!"

He didn't resist any more, and knelt heavily on the ground, but Huang Zongxi suddenly turned his head, laughed and shouted behind him: "Master Zhao! I beg you, after Huang's death, please help Huang to use it." Covered in black linen, Huang has no face to face Master Ma and the ancestors, and please help Huang, ask Qian Gong, Gao Gong and the others, will they have the face to face their father and ancestors after Jiuquan?"

Listening to Huang Zongxi laughing and questioning, the dignified Minister of the Ministry of Punishment was also dumbfounded and speechless for a while.

It's just that the disturbing noises around him and the grievances between Fushe and Donglin were all deaf to Luo Ning. He was tied up into a ball with his hands behind his back, and tried his best to protect his delicate body with a small underwear , staring blankly at the basket full of hay in front of her, her mind was blank.

Recalling the past, she was really a failure in this life. Before his death, her father asked her to do two things, take good care of her younger brother and take good care of the Luo family. Now she has failed, and the Luo family has nothing to do with her anymore. Zhen, she can't control it anymore!

In this life, it seems that he has never loved, hated, or spoken out, so he must be very disappointed in himself!A few months ago in Hangzhou, facing aggressive questioning and pressure from the board of directors, what frightened her the most was the disappointed expression of Mao Jue, who knew all this and trusted her so much in her mind.

If she died today, would he feel relieved?Or maybe..., maybe feel sad?Will he remember himself?Or in the blink of an eye, did he forget himself in the shadow of the three thousand beauties in the harem?

The sun was already hanging high above his head, and behind him, the cutting card stuck in the rope was pulled out abruptly. Hearing the executioner's mouthful of wine sprayed on the knife behind him, Luo Ning was still nervous in front of death. She tightly twisted the little hands tied behind her back into fists, but in the trembling, she still couldn't help raising her head slightly, and looked towards the front.

It's a pity that none of the two most important men in her life are here to send her off for the last time!In the yamen, holding the brand new official seal, Luo Zhen wiped it with his sleeve in ecstasy. On the edge of the Jiujiang Ferry, Mao Jue, who was commanding the army to cross the river, looked thoughtfully towards the sky.

The next moment, with the sound of piercing through the air, the beheading sword was slashed down viciously, and with the puffing sound, following the heads of those Fushe celebrities, Luo Ning, a small Jiangnan woman, her small and exquisite head also flew up Getting up, with the last doubt, he twirled and fell into the basket covered with hay in front of him. The petite body sprayed out a gorgeous red color, as if to show off his last brilliance, but while shaking, he was still powerless. He fell heavily in the dust.

A generation of beauties, the fragrance disappears and the jade dies.

Chapter 848. Broken Dreams

The scale of this coup was far larger than the one that killed Ma Shiying. The execution ground at Caishikou killed 130 talented young men who were well-known in the south of the Yangtze River in one day. I don't know how many people there are, and the search and arrest in Nanjing City has not stopped, and the killing is still going on.

From a quantitative point of view, more than one-third of the active Jiangnan literary world has been killed!What is even more ironic is that Gu Nie, the grandson of Gu Xiancheng, the former founder of Donglin, and Huang Zongxi, the orphan of the Seven Gentlemen of Donglin, were also killed in this coup.

The original intention of Donglin was good. In the late Ming Dynasty when Yangming's philosophy of mind was abused, they tried to reorganize the literary world with self-disciplined Neo Confucianism and resist Wei Zhongxian's tyranny. But when those enemies were eliminated one by one, they became the last After the victors, the Donglin Party, as the spokesman for the interests of the big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, has also degenerated to the same level as the Eunuch Party they despised before, stubborn and conservative!There is no lower limit!In order to protect the vested interests at hand, they can do anything, and the cruelty is heinous!

All the laws of heaven that Neo-Confucians followed were abandoned by Donglin who was in power. Donglin is no longer the same Donglin as before!

But after this coup, the most alarming and angry person was a foreigner with red hair and red nose.

At the Caishikou Execution Ground at dusk, flocks of crows were still flying all over the sky, making desolate and unpleasant hissing noises. During the search and arrest last night, many family members of Fushe officials were hacked to death, and those who survived were also terrified and hid , no one dared to come to collect the corpse. The decapitated corpse of the once romantic celebrity was thrown on the ground in such a mess, attracting flies all over the sky, and the bloody head was hung on the pole like a lantern, cruelly declaring the east. The authority of Lin Dangzheng was blown by the wind, and drops of scarlet dripped down continuously, and the strong smell made people feel nauseous.