Although Li Huan gave an order before, the Jin Yiwei directly slaughtered dozens of scholars who rushed to the front, but after Li Huan ordered them to stop, these frightened scholars still had some hope in their hearts.
Hope of survival.
After all, judging from Li Huan's actions, if he really wanted to kill them all, he would definitely not let Jin Yiwei stop temporarily.
But who would have thought that Jin Yiwei would stop, but Li Huan would take action himself.
Of course, like Qian Fang and Yang Gang, all of them were armed with bright sharp blades, so it was not unjust to be killed by Li Huan.
It's just that Jiang Jing is a weak scholar with no strength in his hands. He doesn't have a sharp knife in his hand, and he didn't participate in the wave of attacks on the government office just now. No matter what, he shouldn't be targeted by Li Huan.
However, Li Huan did not hesitate and killed Jiang Jing cleanly. How could this not make those who were lucky enough not to panic.
When Li Huan stopped next to a scholar again, the scholar was trembling all over. Suddenly his eyes opened and he fainted.
Li Huan frowned when he saw this. This man had no breath. Unexpectedly, he was already frightened to death before he opened his mouth.
"With this kind of character, even if you are a real high school scholar in the future, you won't be able to take on big things."
While speaking, Li Huan looked at everyone. These people were originally looking at Li Huan, but when they saw Li Huan looking at them, they looked away one by one. They lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Li Huan at all.
I was afraid that I would be targeted by Li Huan.
Just when everyone was feeling uneasy and wondering how Li Huan would deal with them, Li Huan's cold voice suddenly came out: "Listen carefully, anyone who has been raped by Li this time will
Anyone who is related by blood or clan to the officials in prison must come forward for me!"
As soon as Li Huan said these words, many of the remaining scholars let out a sigh of relief, but some of them changed their expressions drastically.
After a few breaths passed, no one came out.
Li Huan didn't react at all, he just looked at it calmly.
As time passed by, the atmosphere gradually became serious. No one was a fool. Li Huan suddenly asked those people to stand up and made it clear that they had bad intentions.
If he stood up, he might be beheaded by Li Huan on the spot.
Under such circumstances, it would be strange if someone dared to stand up. Besides, everyone is lucky. What if Li Huan just deceived them? Even if he was eventually found out, it would be worse than standing up immediately on his own initiative.
If you are killed, you will be stronger.
And all around, there were a group of guards in brocade uniforms covered in blood, holding embroidered spring knives and looking at these people with ferocious expressions. They were so horrified that their calves went weak, and no one dared to move a step.
Li Huan looked at the group of people with great interest. Seeing these people with pale faces and drooped heads, looking like quails, Li Huan was filled with disdain. If someone really took the initiative to stand up, he might think highly of them.
At first glance, but unfortunately looking at it now, these people are all cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
"Don't any of you dare to stand up? Or maybe you want to drag everyone to be buried with you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, many people's expressions suddenly changed.
Suddenly, a middle-aged scribe suddenly pushed his companion out and said, "He Wang, you are from the He family. If you don't step out quickly, you are trying to drag everyone down!"
He Wang, who was pushed out, staggered immediately, his face became extremely ugly, he stared at the middle-aged scribe and shouted: "Song Zheng, you and I have been close friends for many years, you..."
Song Zheng's eyes were red and he stared at He Wang fiercely: "You also know that we have been close friends for many years, so why did you drag me to die? Don't you know that besieging the imperial envoy is a capital crime? Since you are unkind, then don't
Blame me for being unjust..."
Not only this case, it seemed that Song Zheng kicked off the process by pushing He Wang out, but in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen scholars who were blood relatives of the imprisoned officials were pushed out.
It was originally a bit of a fluke. After all, as long as someone who was not familiar with them identified them, it was really difficult to judge their identities based on Li Huan and those Jin Yiwei alone.
But now they are being identified by their close friends who are most familiar with them. Even if they want to quibble, they can't quibble.
Without Li Huan's orders, more than a dozen Jinyi guards immediately stepped forward and captured these people.
Chen Yao glanced at the dozen people and said, "Sir, how should we deal with these people?"
Li Huan just glanced at Chen Yao lightly. Chen Yao's heart trembled when Li Huan looked at him, and he immediately lowered his head. At the same time, with murderous intent flashing in his eyes, he turned around and shouted at the Jinyi guards: "Kill!"
The grass is cut without eradicating the root, but the spring wind blows and grows again. Since the killing calamity has already begun, killing one is killing, and killing a hundred is killing. Now killing more than a dozen people will make no difference.
"Spare my life!"
"Uuuuuu, my surname is not Yang, my real surname is Dou. I just want to take advantage of the Yang family's power. Don't kill me..."
Some of them shouted injustice, some yelled and cursed, and some cursed Li Huan for a good death. It can be said that there were different reactions.
Just as the Xiuchun knife cut through the void, blood spattered, and the big heads rolled to the ground one by one, and many even rolled to the feet of those scholars.
Seeing that their companions who were standing with them a moment ago were separated from each other in the blink of an eye, the impact almost made everyone faint.
With a faint glance at the remaining more than a hundred people, Li Huan flicked his long sleeves, turned around and walked step by step towards the gate of the government office, stepping on the blood on the ground.
As Li Huan got farther and farther away from them, these scholars, who were almost suffocating with fear, finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief. They really felt that at that moment, they were so far away from the gate of hell.
In the near future, life or death is only a matter of Li Huan's thoughts.
The moment Li Huan stepped into the government office, Li Huan paused and said: "Put everyone in prison and wait for their fate."
Almost all those who should be killed have been killed. Even if there are more people to kill, they will not kill nearly a hundred people at once like just now.
After all, we can't really kill all these people. There are still some who really don't deserve to die.
The most important thing is that if he really wants to kill these people, he is afraid that he will not be able to survive today, and the entire Fuzhou Prefecture will fall into chaos, and even he will not be able to stabilize the situation in Fuzhou.
However, just by sending these scholars to prison, with these scholars in hand, he is equivalent to holding the fate of a large part of the gentry in Fuzhou.
You must know that in this era, if you can support a scholar and rely on fame, even if it is a so-called poor family, it is not comparable to the family of ordinary people.
At least it is the home of a small landowner with a small reputation in the local area. A scholar or even a child may live in a village or a town, which means that he has an extremely noble status, is aloof and has great influence.
After Wang Yangming listened to Li Huan's order, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really worried that Li Huan would kill all the scholars regardless.
Now that he saw that Li Huan only killed the scholars who were related to those officials, and only imprisoned the rest of the scholars, Wang Yangming felt relieved. This shows that Li Huan did not go on a killing spree without hesitation.
After glancing at Wang Yangming, Li Huan exhaled and said, "Mr. Yangming, you don't think Li is too murderous, do you?"
Wang Yangming couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he heard this, and secretly complained in his heart, "You don't think you are murderous enough?" He slaughtered nearly a hundred scholars in public as soon as he opened his mouth. Such a big case, killing so many scholars at once, is probably too big.
This only happened during the reign of Emperor Hongwu.
Over the past hundred years, leaving aside the Hongwu dynasty, Jin Yiwei has been killing people again, and Li Huan was definitely the first one during the Zhengde period.
Wang Yangming dares to say that no matter what happens in the future, Li Huan will still be the emperor today. This pair of monarchs and ministers will definitely leave a mark in the history books because of today's events. Regardless of whether this is praise or slander, Li Huan can also be regarded as
It has left a name in history and made a name for future generations.
He slightly arched his hands towards Li Huan and said: "Master Li is indeed a bit murderous, but this is not a bad thing. As long as you can stick to your heart and not kill innocent people indiscriminately, it doesn't matter if you are more murderous or not?"
"
Li Huan laughed loudly when he heard this and said, "Mr. Yangming still knows me!"
While speaking, Li Huan said to Chen Yao: "Chen Yao, take my order and go out of the city to mobilize the guardsmen and horses into the city."
Dong Huan, the commander of the guard, had already mobilized troops and horses to block the four gates according to Li Huan's order last night, and no one was allowed to enter or exit. Until now, the city gates are still blocked.
However, the soldiers and horses of the guard station only blocked the four gates, and the large group of troops did not enter the city. After all, once the soldiers and horses entered the city, if the soldiers of the guard station were undisciplined and disturbed the people, that would not be what Li Huan wanted to see.
However, Li Huan's Jinyi Guards are obviously not enough now. What he wants to do next will obviously require a large number of manpower, so Li Huan has to consider mobilizing the guards' troops into the city.
Chen Yao was about to leave after receiving the order, but Li Huan stopped Chen Yao and said: "Take dozens of brothers and try to restrain the military discipline of the guards. If anyone takes the opportunity to rob and disturb the people after entering the city, they will be killed without mercy."
Chen Yao immediately took the order and left.
Those scholars who felt that they had escaped from the gate of hell did not need the guards in imperial robes to come forward to catch them. They were all very honest and lined up in a neat line, watched by several captains in imperial robes. They took the initiative to move towards the government prison.
And go.
The rich smell of blood hit his face, and Li Huan said to the pale and dazed Magistrate Huang Wenzheng beside him: "Prefect Huang, I have something to trouble you about."
Huang Wenzheng shuddered, thinking that Li Huan had killed so many scholars with such indifference, and that Li Huan looked like a god of murder. He said in an extremely respectful and honest manner: "Just ask me if you have anything, sir. I'll be the official."
Go through fire and water, no matter what."
Li Huan pointed to the corpses in front of the government office and said: "Prefect Huang, please immediately order the officers to restrain these corpses, and at the same time, give me the identities of all these people, including their names, place of origin, and whether they have any
What’s the problem?”
Upon hearing this, Huang Wenzheng subconsciously looked at the corpses not far away, and happened to see a dead face staring straight at him.
Huang Wenzheng felt a chill in his heart, but in the face of Li Huan's instructions, Huang Wenzheng dared not hesitate at all. He said firmly: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely handle this matter!"
Upon hearing this, Li Huan reached out and patted Huang Wenzheng on the shoulder, with a smile on his face and said: "Okay, Mr. Huang is loyal to the country, and he is worthy of being a wise minister of the Ming Dynasty."
Huang Wenzheng was almost frightened out of his wits when he was slapped by Li Huan's big hand. But he saw with his own eyes that Li Huan's big hand slapped Jiang Jing on the head, and with such a light stroke, Jiang Jing's orifices bled to death.
Huang Wenzheng was obviously frightened out of his psychological shadow, and Li Huan's every move was magnified many times by him.
Seeing Li Huan's figure gradually walking into the government office, Huang Wenzheng breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he shouted at the stunned servants: "A bunch of wastes, what are you doing in a daze? They didn't hear the imperial envoy."
Is that your order? Why don't you go and call someone to collect the body?"
The people watching from a distance secretly breathed a sigh of relief when Li Huan walked into the government office. In fact, Li Huan's presence was like an invisible deterrent, making them afraid that Li Huan would start killing again the next moment.
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"It scared me to death. I almost thought he was going to kill everyone!"
A man was leaning against a big tree, standing with difficulty, and said with a pale face.
Immediately, someone gasped and said: "I almost suffocated to death. Looking at that Li Huan, I didn't dare to take a breath. If I suffocated to death, I'm afraid it would be too miserable."
Others couldn't help but look at that man. Some people were so arrogant that even after watching a massacre, they were still in the mood to joke: "You are a bit miserable, but no matter how miserable you are, you can have those talented men and noble men."
Is it miserable? They were chopped into pieces one by one."
"In the past, I only heard that the Jin Yiwei were fierce and ferocious, killing people without batting an eye. I didn't really believe it. This time I saw those Jin Yiwei killing people, and I finally believed it. They were real Jin Yiwei! With the knife in hand, they killed people like killing chickens.
Wow, it’s too scary!”
"Don't you think the most scary thing is Li Huan's imperial envoy? How old is he? He kills people without blinking an eye. Those masters and scholars are really looking for death. Why don't they just enjoy their happiness?
If you insist on causing trouble for the imperial envoy, you may even risk your own life!"
In the middle of this crowd, two figures stood there silently, and their ears were filled with the discussions of these people.
One of the two was an old man, about forty years old, his face looked a bit stiff and not very harmonious, while the one next to him was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with sharp eyes, and he was not someone to be trifled with at first glance.
At this time, the middle-aged man whispered to the old man: "Master... Sir, there are many people here, should we..."
The old man's voice was low, he raised his head and glanced at the middle-aged man lightly and said, "Miao Tong, what do you think of Li Huan?"
After hearing this, Miao Tong, the young man, pondered for a moment and said, "Sir, from what I can tell, Li Huan has a ruthless and decisive nature. He never hesitates when it's time to kill. He is a difficult person to deal with."
But then Miao Tong looked at the old man with some admiration and said: "But he is a little younger after all. He is not your opponent at all. In the end, he was not deceived by you."
The old man just snorted coldly, looked at the direction where Li Huan's figure disappeared with a cold gaze, and said slowly: "I said, all this is just the beginning."
After saying that, the old man turned around and left. Upon seeing this, Miao Tong quickly followed up, following closely behind the old man while keeping an eye on the movements around him.
Suddenly, Miao Tong whispered to the old man: "Master, you seem to have gone in the wrong direction. If we want to go back, we should go in another direction!"
The old man kept walking, as if he had not heard Miao Tong's words, and continued to move forward.
Above the restaurant, Zhao Ming, Qian Li, He Huai and others had a bad feeling in their hearts when those clan members were identified by a group of scholars.
Especially when Li Huan ordered those tribesmen to be killed on the spot without hesitation, it made Qian Li and others heartbroken.
These scholars are the real treasures of their family, they are the foundation of their foundation and the guarantee that the family can prosper.
Precisely because they are a family of officials, no one knows better than them that if a family wants to prosper, they must have someone serving as an official in the court, and there must be family members who are educated to make their family famous.
If only the pillar of the family collapses, as long as other members of the family are not involved, then with the seeds of reading supported by these families, it may not be impossible to make a comeback in the future and return to the ranks of official families.
But now, in less than half a day, the family's decades of hard work were easily cut off by Li Huan.
Adding up all the families, there are dozens of scholars and candidates, and among them there may not be future Jinshi masters. This loss can be said to be huge.
"God damn Li Huan, he must die a good death!"
"I want to contact my best friend, and I want to make his killing of intellectuals spread all over the world, and he will be despised by scholars all over the world."
Qian Li's eyes were red, his fists were clenched, and he exuded a murderous intention to keep strangers away. He heard the roar of people, saying that he was not going to write a letter to his old friends in the court to impeach Li Huan.
, that is, to contact his close friends in the scholarly community in order to ruin Li Huan's reputation.
For some reason, Qian Li felt inexplicably disdainful towards everyone when he thought of the scene where Li Huan personally committed the murder.
Li Huan was decisive in killing people and would kill people at every turn, but they only thought about how to impeach and discredit the other party. What trouble could this cause to Li Huan?
Suddenly, Qian Li thought of Cai Wenlai, who was also decisive in killing people and frequently killed people. In the past, Qian Li had looked down on Cai Wen who frequently killed people and used some dishonorable means.
However, now Qian Li discovered that some of Cai Wen's methods may not be on the table, but if they are used to deal with his enemies, those methods cannot be more effective.
Just like Li Huan, isn't it like Cai Wen who directly kills people to eliminate his opponents?
Cai Wen relies on ruthless means to kill people like hemp and shock everyone around him. He covers the sky with one hand and weaves a large network of relationships.
Li Huan, on the other hand, relied on his decisive character to kill when he needed to, thus directly defeating their plan.
Originally, hundreds of scholars besieged the government office, which would have been an unsolvable problem in ordinary times. However, when they encountered a vicious man like Li Huan who was very similar to Cai Wen, no matter how many tricks they tried, they could not defeat Li Huan.
Butcher knife.
In his ears, the rest of the people were still clamoring for ways to ruin Li Huan's reputation. Qian Li suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "That's enough, a bunch of courageous people. If we really do what you say, I'm afraid it won't happen yet."
By the time you smear Li Huan, Li Huan will have confiscated our homes and exterminated our clan, and our corpses will be cold by now!"
Qian Li shouted so loudly that everyone was immediately silenced, and all the faces looked at Qian Li.
Qian Huai's face was full of fear and he said in a trembling voice: "Qian Li, what are you talking about, about confiscating the family and exterminating the clan..."
The others also looked at Qian Li with fear.
Qian Li said with great disdain: "Qian really doesn't know whether you are really stupid or just pretending to be stupid. Don't forget the name under which Li Huan sent all of you to prison."
Zhao Ming subconsciously said: "Of course he was imprisoned in the name of Mr. Cai Wencai's associates!"
Qian Li sneered and said, "Then what crime did Mr. Cai Wencai commit?"
Zhao Mingdao: "Sent people to besiege the imperial envoy's residence and assassinate the imperial envoy..."
Gradually, Zhao Ming could no longer speak, because he had realized something at this moment, his face suddenly turned extremely pale, and his whole body could not help but tremble.
"Conspiracy... Conspiracy is a major crime. It seems that it will punish the nine tribes!"
The rest of the people also reacted, and they were no better than Zhao Minglai.
Qian Li stood up, glanced at the crowd coldly and said: "Now you understand, everyone here, once Li Huan proves the charges against you, what is waiting for me is to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan, and behead the men."
, the marriage of women, the separation of wives and children, the destruction of families, and there is no trace of our existence in the world since then..."
Everyone was frightened by the future experience described by Qian Li, and the room was silent for a while.
At this moment, the sound of applause sounded at the door of the wing, and the applause was like thunder, startling everyone including Qian Li.
They were discussing here that if the people who came were Li Huan's people, they would be killed in one fell swoop.
A familiar voice suddenly sounded: "Originally, I thought you people were all idiots, but I didn't expect there to be such a sensible person among you."
Everyone looked towards the door of the box. They only saw two figures standing at the door. The leader was an old man. The figure of the old man gave them a very familiar feeling, but when they looked at it,
His face is unknown.
As for the person behind the old man who was obviously a bodyguard, he was naturally ignored by them.
Qian Li frowned and looked at the old man. The sense of familiarity made Qian Li rack his brains to think about who the other man was.
Taking a deep breath, Qian Li stared at the old man and said, "Who is your honor? Isn't it too rude to come to you uninvited like you?"
The old man seemed not to notice the gazes of everyone, and slowly walked into the box under the gaze of everyone.
Then he sat down in front of the table, reached for a glass of untouched water and drank it down, then raised his head and glanced at Qian Li and said: "I remember you, you are Qian Zhong's fourth brother, Qian The family’s real think tank, please give Qian Li advice for Qian Zhong!”
The more Qian Li looked at the old man, the more he felt familiar. He frowned and said, "Who are you?"
The other party seems to know him very well, but he does not know the identity of the other party. This feeling of information asymmetry makes Zhizhu, who has always been in control of everything, feel very uncomfortable with the money and gifts in his hands.
The old man glanced at Qian Li lightly, then glanced at the rest of the crowd and said: "You guys, if I'm not mistaken, after you made such a fuss, Li Huan has probably sent people out of the city to mobilize soldiers and horses into the city. What are you still doing?" We don’t even have an idea of what to do here. I’m afraid that within a short time, all of your residences will be surrounded by guardsmen and horses..."
"What!"
With an exclamation, everyone's expressions changed drastically after hearing the old man's words.
Although Qian Li had previously said that once Li Huan was found guilty of Qian Zhong and others' crimes, he would definitely not let them go, but what the old man meant was that Li Huan was already planning to attack each of their families. Yes.
Confiscation of homes and annihilation of clans, confiscation of homes and annihilation of clans, this is a real disaster, far from being as simple as one or a few people being imprisoned or killed.
With a crash, everyone suddenly stood up and didn't care about anything else. They didn't even have the mood to care about who the old man was. They just stood up and left.
They had to rush back to the mansion, otherwise they would all be dead when Li Huan mobilized his troops to enter the city.
On the contrary, Qian Li seemed extremely calm at this moment. When those people stood up and prepared to leave, he suddenly shouted loudly: "If you don't want to come up with a way, are you going to go back and wait to die?"
After saying this, Qian Li's eyes fell firmly on the old man who was sitting there with a very calm look.
Everyone in the entire box was standing, except for the old man who was sitting there steadily. Especially his aloof and powerful demeanor made people feel like they saw a familiar figure for a moment.
Qian Li's roar made everyone stop and slowly turned around to look at Qian Li. When they noticed that Qian Li was staring straight at the old man sitting there, everyone's eyes changed. They all looked at the old man.
The old man drank a glass of water and wine again, slowly put the glass down, clapped his hands and praised: "As expected of Qian Zhong's think tank, he can see the priorities, at least he is much better than these idiots."
That is to say, everyone is so anxious at this moment that they have long been confused. Otherwise, if it were in the past, if someone dared to call them idiots again and again, they would probably have come forward to let them know that they should not speak nonsense. of.
Qian Li ignored the old man's praise, took a deep breath, bowed slightly, and closed the distance a little bit, as if he wanted to see through the old man's identity, and said word by word: "Who are you!"
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