Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on Wang Yangming, and Wang Yangming said solemnly: "Your Majesty, you must never make this decree."
Zhu Houzhao did not speak, knowing that Wang Yangming would definitely have something to say next.
As expected, Wang Yangming's eyes flashed and he said: "Actually, the officials are not trying to make His Majesty bear the name of a tyrant."
Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "Then what do they want to do?"
"The Champion, their target is actually the Champion!"
Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, but then he came to his senses and said with a look of surprise in his eyes: "I understand, they want to make Li Qing bear the crime of murder. They want to destroy Li Qing."
The reputation."
As an emperor, Zhu Houzhao was naturally not stupid. He knew that no matter what the reason was, if Li Huan really ordered to kill nearly ten thousand people at once, then regardless of whether these people deserved to die, it would definitely stir up the world.
Maybe some people know the inside story and know that officials like Xu Lin and their families should all die, but how many people in the world know the inside story.
I'm afraid that what more people will hear is that Li Huan killed nearly ten thousand people at once. Then you can guess that Li Huan's reputation will definitely be very bad, and he will even be regarded as a murderous demon behind his back.
Not surprising either.
After thinking about this, Zhu Houzhao said immediately: "How can I let Li Qing bear such a bad reputation? Li Qing went to investigate the case according to my order, so I can't just sit back and watch Li Qing bear the bad reputation. This bad reputation is caused by me."
Come and carry it."
Wang Yangming looked at the determination in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, and naturally knew that Zhu Houzhao was not just saying it, but really wanted to bear this bad reputation for Li Huan, and he couldn't help feeling a little warm in his heart.
As a minister, he naturally hoped that the emperor he was loyal to would be responsible and be able to take care of his ministers at critical moments. Seeing the emperor's love and care for Li Huan, Wang Yangming was naturally very moved in his heart.
While taking a long breath, Wang Yangming shook his head slightly and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, if I am not mistaken, Mr. Li may have expected that there would be some crimes when he ordered people to send the evidence of these people's crimes to the capital.
With such a result, Mr. Li may have used his power as an imperial envoy to order the execution of Xu Lin and other prisoners."
"What!"
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but exclaimed, and then there was silence.
If it were anyone else, Zhu Houzhao didn't believe that the other party had such courage. After all, it was a major case involving the lives and deaths of nearly ten thousand people.
Even as an imperial envoy, he has the power of life and death given to him, but the other party may also leave the decision-making power to the court.
But if it was Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao did not doubt Wang Yangming's judgment. Based on his understanding of Li Huan, Li Huan took the initiative to consider for him, the emperor, and it was not impossible to bear the notoriety of killing people.
"I……"
Yangzhou Prefecture
Just as Wang Yangming expected, Li Huan was very aware of the dirty deeds of the people in the court, and this major case, which could be said to be one of the few in a century, would definitely be taken advantage of by these courtiers.
At that time, these courtiers will either sit back and watch the emperor issue decrees, or they will play tricks and let a large number of criminals go.
Naturally, this was something he did not want to see, so Li Huan did not hesitate. After interrogating all the criminals, he ordered them to be interrogated and executed.
This day is the day of Ming Zhengdian punishment.
Li Huan was about to put a number of criminals to death. Such big news spread throughout the city of Yangzhou in one day. It can be said that no one knew about it.
The execution place Li Huan chose was not within Yangzhou City, but outside Yangzhou City.
Yangzhou City was prosperous because of the killing of nearly 10,000 people involved in the case. On the one hand, Li Huan could not find such a large execution ground in Yangzhou City. On the other hand, Li Huan did not want to ruin Yangzhou City by killing nearly 10,000 people at once.
soaring.
If so many people were really killed in the city, then countless people in Yangzhou City might be in panic because of him.
On the contrary, it is more suitable to place it outside the city. It is more open outside the city. No matter how many people there are, there is no need to worry about lack of space.
And it can accommodate enough people to come and watch.
After all, if countless people gather in the city to watch and cause a little trouble, a large number of people may be killed or injured.
Under Li Huan's order, Pang Hui, the commander of the guards, mobilized two thousand soldiers and horses to build an execution ground outside Yangzhou City, and arranged for these guards soldiers to form a guard.
On this day, countless people who got the news came from all directions. As soon as it got light, countless people gathered around the execution place. There were dark crowds everywhere. If it were not for the fact that the guards and horses had not been arranged in advance to guard the execution place.
, maybe these countless people have already rushed into the execution ground.
There was a sound of horse hoofbeats, and they saw a group of elite cavalry leading on the official road. This elite cavalry was leading the way. Behind these cavalry were the imperial guards wearing imperial envoy honors, and Li Huan, the imperial envoy, was naturally
in it.
Behind him were a group of criminals who were to be executed today, driven and escorted by local guards and Jinyi Guards.
Except for the leading group of more than a hundred criminals, who were imprisoned in prison cars one after another, the rest were strung together with chains.
There were nearly ten thousand criminals in a row, and it was so dark that it was almost impossible to see the end.
That is to say, Li Huan deployed a large number of troops to maintain order. Otherwise, simply escorting so many criminals would be a problem.
A group of people headed by Xu Lin were imprisoned in a prison van. Except for a few who were able to remain somewhat calm, most of them started wailing desperately and begging for mercy, crying all the way after hearing the news that they were about to go to the execution ground.
The relatives who were implicated were also wailing incessantly. These people were all close relatives of the criminals such as Xu Lin. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, none of them were unfair at all.
Perhaps a very small number of these people have not committed any crime themselves, nor have they done any evil, but these people have also enjoyed the many benefits that people like Xu Lin have gained from breaking the law.
Many criminals cry out that they are unjustly accused, but are these people really unjustly accused?
On weekdays, they were well-dressed and well-fed, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, traveling with carriages and horses like dragons, and traveling with servants like clouds. Everything was not a tribute to the people, and the cost of food and clothing was stained with the blood of countless innocent people.
Countless people gathered near the execution ground saw Li Huan's imperial envoy's honor guard from a distance. Someone shouted, and countless people's eyes immediately turned to where Li Huan's imperial envoy's honor guard was.
I don’t know how many people looked at where Li Huan was curiously. Although Li Huan came to Yangzhou Mansion for a very short time, the things Li Huan did were very big. In a short period of time, he became famous throughout Yangzhou Mansion.
It can be said that no one knows it.
It is true that Yangzhou Prefecture is prosperous, but under this prosperity it is full of cunning and evil people. I don’t know how many people have been bullied by the powerful officials of Yangzhou Prefecture.
Many small and small families have provoked these powerful men. In the least case, they were injured, and in the worst case, their families were destroyed.
Nowadays, these powerful men who have caused trouble to the local area have been taken down one by one by Li Huan. Even many powerful men and servants who usually bully others have also been taken down. Secretly, I don’t know how many people who have been bullied by these people have been taken down.
Cheers and cheers.
Many people subconsciously approached Li Huan's direction. If it weren't for the Jinyi guards and the local guardsmen working hard to maintain order, the crowd would probably have rushed up to cause trouble.
When Li Huan climbed up to the high execution platform, the turbulent people all around calmed down a little.
Li Huan stood on the high platform and looked around. He saw people all around him. Based on Li Huan's experience, he estimated that there were probably no less than tens of thousands of people around.
Pang Hui also followed Li Huan. Looking at the countless people surrounded by darkness, he could not help but see beads of sweat on his forehead.
Even though he was mentally prepared to a certain extent, his heart still jumped when he saw so many people gathering around.
"Sir, there won't be any trouble."
You must know that the order below is maintained by the soldiers and horses of the local guard station. If there is any trouble,
If so, he will definitely be questioned by Li Huan by then.
Seeing the fate of the prefectural officials who had hardly paid attention to him in the past, Pang Hui felt a sense of fear in his heart.
Fortunately, he was not bewitched by Xu Lin and others and got involved in the affairs of Xu Lin and others. If he was really involved, it is impossible to say that he would be among the people who were stabbed on the execution ground today.
one.
After listening to Pang Hui's words, Li Huan just glanced at Pang Hui and said, "Rather than be afraid of any accidents here, why not send people to maintain order."
Upon hearing this, Pang Hui quickly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, bowed to Li Huan and said hurriedly: "I will go and make arrangements now."
Li Huan nodded slightly. He was also worried that something would happen. If something happened, and there would be too many people, crowding, stampeding, and casualties, how would he feel at ease?
Watching Pang Hui leave in a hurry, Chen Ke whispered to Li Huan: "Sir, would you like to escort the criminal in?"
Li Huan raised his head and looked at the sky, nodded slightly and said, "Let's order someone to escort all the criminals into the scene."
Chen Ke took a deep breath and immediately issued the order in a deep voice.
Soon, we saw prison cars slowly entering the execution ground one after another, and then the Jinyiwei people pulled them out of the prison cars one by one, pushing and pushing these people to the execution ground.
The execution ground was as big as a football field, and even if there were hundreds of people pressing down on it at once, it would not look crowded.
The first wave of people to be taken to the execution ground were a group of Yangzhou Prefecture officials headed by Xu Lin and the evil local tycoons of Yangzhou Prefecture.
Fully hundreds of people were escorted forward and fell to their knees in a dark mass.
Behind these people stood a famous man holding a sword with a ghost head, and each of them was filled with a strong evil aura.
There were simply no more than a hundred executioners in Yangzhou City, so Li Huan directly transferred more than a hundred people from the cavalry to serve as today's executioners.
For these cavalry soldiers who survived the battlefield killings, killing was not a difficult task for them.
After all, not everyone can do the job of executioner. Most people really don't have the courage to kill people with a knife, not to mention that today we still have to kill nearly 10,000 criminals at once.
Even ordinary executioners may not be able to bear it, and even Li Huan was worried about whether these cavalry soldiers could persist to the end.
At this time, Xu Lin was forced to kneel down by Jin Yiwei. Xu Lin's eyes were red and he was cursing loudly at Li Huan.
"Female thief, Li Huan, you bitch thief, you are going to die a good death!"
Li Huan turned a deaf ear and just looked at Xu Lin indifferently.
The one who was pinned down next to Xu Lin was Xu Wei. Instead of Xu Lin cursing Li Huan, Xu Wei cried and begged Li Huan, hoping that Li Huan would spare his life if he cooperated in confessing a large number of local powerful crimes.
It's a pity that Xu Wei's pleading did not make Li Huan open his mouth to spare his life, but instead caused many captured powerful men to yell at Xu Wei.
Many people struggled and wanted to pounce on Xu Wei and strangle him to death.
Many of them asked themselves that although they had committed many evil deeds, only a few people knew about the many crimes they had committed. However, it turned out that Jin Yiwei knew everything about them.
They didn't know what was going on before, but now after hearing what Xu Wei said, they still didn't understand what was going on.
Xu Wei confessed their feelings to them.
When they thought that dozens or hundreds of their families would die today, all because of Xu Wei, while these people hated Li Huan, they also hated Xu Wei even more.
If the Jin Yiwei behind them hadn't held them down tightly, they wouldn't have torn Xu Wei alive by now.
Li Huan was sitting on the officer's seat, with flags and ceremonial guards surrounding him. He saw Li Huan slightly nodding towards an official standing not far away.
That Li Huandang even stepped forward and shouted loudly to everyone around him: "Everyone, listen up, today the imperial envoy is here to execute Xu Lin."
Wait for all the criminals to be punished according to the laws of the country."
Then the official loudly announced to the public the crimes committed by Xu Lin and others. Whenever an official's crime was announced to the public, there would always be cheers and curses from the crowd of people watching.
Voice.
When the official read about the crimes committed by some powerful people, the curses from the people around him became louder, which shows how cruelly the people of Yangzhou Prefecture were oppressed by these powerful people.
Many people who had relatives killed at home were so excited that they rushed towards the execution ground. Fortunately, the commander Pang Hui was prepared and quickly sent people to suppress and continued the suppression. Finally, no trouble was caused.
Even so, Pang Hui was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat and felt frightened for a while.
Simply announcing the crimes of these people to the public took a stick of incense. The official who was responsible for reading out the evidence of these people's crimes became hoarse before bowing to Li Huan and bowing out.
For a moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Li Huan, who was sitting there on the high platform. At this time, Li Huan slowly stood up with a token in his hand.
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