As night fell, Wang Baoyu and others conspired to launch a riot. In the darkness, a group of people rushed to the guarded stairs.
A group of desperadoes, who would be willing to dig here day and night? Days and nights are okay, but days and days are really difficult.
In order to escape from this dark life, when the prisoners on death row saw someone attacking the guards, they immediately took advantage of the chaos and started to coax them together.
The Suez Canal was first divided into sections and excavated together. The soil in the middle of each section was not dug out at the beginning. This formed canal pits one after another. The number of people in each pit was different, led by slave owners or death row prisoners.
Managers allocate it themselves.
What Zhu Zhanchen wanted was to dig as quickly as possible. The more you dug, the more rewards you would get as soon as possible, so slave owners with many slaves under their command built many canal pits.
At this time, the riot was only in the canal pit of death row, with more than a thousand people.
The death row prisoners rushed to the ground, and gunshots rang out. The soldiers of the Ming army began to fight back, and gradually many Ming troops surrounded them. In fact, the Ming army had already had a response plan for this situation.
It seemed dangerous, but amidst the gunshots and grenades of the Ming army soldiers, only a small group of early rioters broke out of the encirclement, while all the others behind were forced back.
No one wanted to be shot, and most of these death row prisoners were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they were quickly suppressed and returned to the canal pit.
As for the small groups that escaped, some even wanted to sneak into the city, but it was too difficult to tell the difference between the prisoners on death row wearing handcuffs and shackles, so it was nothing more than wishful thinking.
When Xiaosheng arrived at the scene, it was basically completely calmed down.
Looking at the dark crowd in the canal pit under the starry night, Xiaosheng's eyes were full of contempt and anger: "Where are the managers, where are the managers?!"
Xiaosheng's furious voice made the manager of the canal pit tremble with fear. He hurriedly knelt down in front of Xiaosheng and cried out: "Eunuch Zhuang, Eunuch Zhuang, I am innocent. It is all caused by these guys who don't know the heights of heaven and earth."
When they came out, I led people to resist immediately."
This was a manager sent from the Japanese nobles, and most of the people in the canal pit were death row prisoners from Japan.
Xiaosheng did not rush to deal with him, but said to the people around him: "Let's count how many casualties our army suffered in this riot."
"yes."
There are many corpses of death row prisoners on the ground around here, as well as injured and dead Ming soldiers.
The administrator felt the anger and viciousness in Xiaosheng and immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Eunuch Zhuang, our family will compensate for all losses."
"How can I compensate for my life?" Xiaosheng's cold tone frightened him.
"Eunuch Zhuang, please spare your life, please spare your life. I am willing to pay 100 taels of silver for every Ming Dynasty soldier who dies."
Xiaosheng had no expression on his face and ignored his plea for mercy. This was the first time something like this had happened. There were only two ways to deal with it. First offenders would be punished lightly, and others would be killed as a warning to others.
Under normal circumstances, a first-time offender should be punished lightly. After all, the unrest among death row inmates is an uncontrollable factor. Is it all the manager's fault? Human nature dictates that it is not his fault alone.
But now is not a normal situation. The canal is being built now, and the people used are slaves or extremely vicious death row prisoners. If you treat them kindly, will they thank you for your kindness?
"Which family are you from?"
The kneeling man said in not very standard Chinese: "I am from the Mitsui Consortium. Our Mitsui Consortium will compensate for all losses. I also ask Eunuch Zhuang to spare his life. His Highness the Sea King is a kind His Highness and will not be too open-minded."
Killing."
He was almost crying, but his plea for mercy seemed not to reach Xiaosheng's ears.
Xiaosheng waited until the statistical results came over and looked at the names of the Ming army soldiers on the paper. He saw that more than a dozen people died and more than fifty were injured.
"A compensation of 500 taels of silver will be paid to each Ming army soldier who died in the riot. The injured will be compensated 100-500 taels of silver according to the severity of their injuries. Is there any problem?"
Such a huge amount of compensation made the administrator look embarrassed, but when he saw Xiaosheng's eyes full of evil, he immediately surrendered: "Yes, yes, Eunuch Zhuang is right."
The soldiers around him asked: "What should Eunuch Zhuang do with these death row prisoners?"
Beside them were roughly estimated to be more than thirty death row prisoners, all of whom were tied up with large strips of flowers. These were the people who had surrendered and been arrested before being killed after rushing up.
Xiaosheng looked at these people. Now they were all tied and kneeling on the ground, like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
"Throw it away." Xiaosheng's tone was cold.
"yes."
"Throw them one by one, towards the crowd." Xiaosheng added again.
Two soldiers lifted up a prisoner on death row. The prisoner on death row struggled desperately and kept begging for mercy. His whole body was twisting like a maggot.
The soldier threw it into the canal pit with all his strength.
The death row prisoners in the canal pit looked up at the stars. They didn't know what was happening above, but because of today's rush, they knew that what awaited them next would be more severe whippings and stricter discipline. I'm afraid
The workload has doubled from what it is now.
While imagining the hard life in the future, those death row inmates who had not cleared their cards were filled with hatred, while watching a figure being thrown down from above.
Paji
In the darkness, a figure fell to the ground, accompanied by a wailing sound, and his body kept squirming on the ground. Fortunately, he didn't fall headfirst. It was okay, but maybe this should be called bad luck. In the huge pain, no one rescued him.
, it just prolongs the period of death, deepens the painful experience, and lengthens the duration of the pain.
Everyone understood that this was the Ming army trying to scare the monkeys, and soon another one was thrown away.
One after another, figures fell down, and those below tried to avoid being hit. Those who were lucky fell to the ground and died, while those who were unlucky were like a puddle of mud, wailing in the pit.
Finally Wang Baoyu was pulled in front of Xiaosheng, and the soldier said: "Eunuch Zhuang, many prisoners on death row have confessed that this man instigated them."
Xiaosheng looked at the man and recognized him, the great pirate king Baoyu.
Xiaosheng participated in the Zhoushan naval battle with Zhu Zhanzhen back then. He was still young at the time and saw the ferocity and viciousness of these big pirates who were evil, and he still remembers it vividly.
What impressed him even more was the fierce resistance of women in the Zhoushan naval battle and their deaths at sea. After that stop, the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense strategy completely changed, and coastal residents were no longer bullied by Japanese pirates.
He still remembered the look in his prince's eyes as he looked at the blood-stained sea, a look of mourning for the country and the people.
Yamamoto Rokuji was captured at that time, but Wang Baoyu ran away. When he saw him today, although his face was stained with blood, Xiaosheng recognized him at a glance. It was the big pirate Wang Baoyu.
"Long time no see, Wang Baoyu."
The great pirate who was so glorious back then was now kneeling in front of him, haggard, ugly, and dirty. This was his true face.
Wang Baoyu obviously didn't know who Xiaosheng was, nor did he know that Xiaosheng had participated in the Zhoushan naval battle. He just knelt in front of Xiaosheng and begged for mercy and said: "This father-in-law, this father-in-law, I still have a lot of treasures at sea, and I didn't even teach him."
To the Japanese, if you spare my life, I will make you cows and horses, and take you to find my treasures. I will give them all to you, give them all to you."
Xiaosheng looked at his begging face, and in front of his eyes he felt like he saw the soldiers from Zhoushan Guard Station crying at the top of their lungs: "I want to live!!"
In a trance, I thought it was the determined faces of the Zhoushan women who committed suicide in exchange for the soldiers rushing to kill them without any scruples.
After so many years, it turns out that the anger and hatred have never receded, and today I can avenge them.
Xiaosheng looked at him coldly, as if there were thousands of troops standing behind him, and said softly: "Wang Baoyu."
Wang Baoyu looked at him blankly and kicked him in the face with one foot. Without any more words, Xiaosheng kicked him down.
Wang Baoyu fell in disbelief, and the feeling of weightlessness in his body made him know that he was dead this time.
In Xiaosheng's eyes, the falling Wang Baoyu seemed to have become Chen Baiyue, who committed suicide and threw herself into the sea, also falling towards death.
Chen Baiyue's words: "Your Highness is the one who killed me." The words are still in my ears.
Xiaosheng heard the sound of Wang Baoyu falling to the ground, and said softly: "The one who killed you is Zhuang Sheng, fellow villagers of Zhoushan, all thieves are dead, the country is safe, rest in peace."
After dealing with all the prisoners on death row who had committed crimes, Xiaosheng looked at the administrator again and said, "Do you have parents or children at home?"
The administrator was stunned. He didn't know why the student asked him this question. Suddenly he thought of the worst outcome.
"Eunuch Zhuang, whatever we compensate, we will compensate. We can also add more money, more money." The amount of compensation had just been negotiated, and he didn't know why Xiaosheng was still looking for trouble with him.
"The amount of compensation will be fully compensated by your consortium." The young man waved his hand, and two soldiers grabbed him and threw him into the canal pit with painful wails.
Xiaosheng wants to kill chickens to scare monkeys, not only death row workers but also managers to show other managers, so that they will be more concerned and prevent more situations like this from happening.
The soldiers thought that this was the end of the matter, but what Xiaosheng said next was much cooler than the cold wind at night.
"It's a bit cold tonight, let's light a fire and let everyone warm up."
The soldiers were puzzled: "Eunuch Zhuang, please go back to your house in the city first and let the wind blow in the wild."
"Click here."
"Ah?" Everyone was confused about what he meant.
Xiaosheng pointed to the canal pit in front of him and said, "Set a big fire and light it up inside."
Everyone gasped. There were nearly a thousand people in this big pit. Lighting a fire meant burning all the people inside.
"Didn't you hear that?"
"Listen...I heard it." The soldiers were more afraid of Xiaosheng, he wanted to trap and kill so many people.
The soldiers took advantage of the night to transport firewood and other combustion-supporting materials, and discussed while transporting them.
"You said Mr. Zhuang usually looks kind and amicable, but why is he so cruel today? There are thousands of people here."
"Why are you so cruel? Wouldn't it be better to burn this bunch of rubbish and save some food? These people are all on death row and their crimes are extremely heinous."
"That's what I said, but it's a little scary to think about killing so many people at once. You saw the look in Eunuch Zhuang's eyes just now, it was too scary. Now that I think about it, I'm very scared."
Several people were discussing quietly.
"His Royal Highness Neptune seems to be very kind-hearted. He never makes things difficult for others. I have never even seen him curse anyone. Eunuch Zhuang is very cruel."
"Keep your voice down, what if someone hears you?"
Slowly piles of firewood were brought over, and Xiaosheng ordered them to pour them into the canal pit.
The people in the pit thought that it would be over after Xiaosheng killed those people, but they didn't expect that wood kept falling down, and gradually they seemed to understand something.
Everyone's eyes were full of fear. Everyone has the instinct to survive. They didn't want to be burned alive like this, so some people kept trying to rush out, but the stairs leading to the top of the pit had long been demolished.
The biggest fear is not death, but the hopeless feeling of knowing you are going to die but being powerless.
The prisoners on death row began to climb the pit, but they could not climb out of this pit. Even if they climbed up a few steps on top of the human wall, they would be killed mercilessly by the Ming army, but they would die prematurely.
Before the flames burned, there were endless cries that spread far and wide at night.
In other canal pits, it is not clear what is going on here until the flames start burning.
Flames rose from the canal pit, followed by the howls of the condemned prisoners.
Xiaosheng looked indifferently at the death row prisoners in the pit who were avoiding the flames. Some were still burned by the flames. He kept running and trying to get rid of the flames on his body, but there were raging fires in all directions, and there was nowhere to escape.
At this time, Xiaosheng seemed to understand some of Yao Guangxiao's words back then. What was the reason why Yao Guangxiao did not let Zhu Zhanyi interrogate the prisoners himself? It was for Zhu Zhanyi's reputation.
Who is Zhu Zhanzhen? He is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and a person standing in the sun. We must try our best to avoid any stain on his identity. Even if this matter is correct, we must avoid it as long as it is true to the facts.
Because he should always be right, the embodiment of justice and morality, and the kind and gentle King of the Sea.
He can't interrogate prisoners privately, he can't kill in the street, he can't trap and kill prisoners, but someone has to help him do these things, just like Yao Guangxiao helped Zhu Di back then.
Did Zhu Di himself want to be the emperor, or was Yao Guangxiao plotting to make Zhu Di the emperor?
That night, the workers and managers of several surrounding canal pits all heard the wailing here, as well as the flames soaring into the sky, and the fear would be deeply buried in their hearts.
Fear is the best respect.
Xiaosheng turned around and said: "When the flames stop, send people down to clean up. I don't want any survivors, and then quickly arrange for people to continue digging. No one or any factor can delay the progress of canal excavation."
From this day on, no workers or administrators dared to think otherwise. Everyone was afraid of Xiaosheng's ruthless methods to a certain extent, and there were far fewer people cheating and cheating.
…
At the same time, Zhu Zhanzhen and his fleet had already ambush in the Ingeland Strait, and they were waiting for Ingeland's army on the planned route.
White mist rose from the endless sea, and amidst everyone's astonishment, several steam warships sailed over.
