It’s the ninth day of July and the sun is shining brightly.
In the early morning of that day, a notice had been posted at the city gate of Guangzhou, saying that Bai Gui would be beheaded at the execution ground outside the east gate. After the notice was posted, the news spread throughout Guangzhou, and people in the streets and alleys knew about it. First of all, countless people gathered at the execution ground early and surrounded the execution ground in circles.
When Bai Gui was the governor of Guangdong, he did all kinds of bad things and caused a lot of complaints. Now that Bai Gui was dragged out and beheaded, the people clapped their hands and applauded. In addition, the people wanted to see why Li Zhen made such a big fuss. positive.
Everyone has the desire to watch the excitement.
"Have you heard that at three quarters today, that old guy Bai Gui will be beheaded?"
"Hey, the news has spread all over the place."
"Bai Gui oppresses the people, exploits businessmen, accepts bribes, and even feeds thugs. The most detestable thing is that Bai Gui is already in his fifties and sixties. He has been ground into a needle from an iron pestle, but he still dominates more than 20 people. The concubines in the house, and all of them are beautiful people, sons of bitches. I have lived for more than thirty years without even touching a woman, but this guy has snatched so many women and hidden them. Alas, Bai Gui was taken away by Li Zhen Defeated, I don’t know what more than twenty beauties will do.”
"Hahaha... People like you deserve to be single. How can a man only think about women? He has to have his own abilities. If he only knows how to revolve around women, he has no future."
"Everyone, I heard that Li Zhen is a good official. When Li Zhen was serving as Shanghai Daotai and Jiangguang Customs Supervisor in Shanghai, his officials governed the Qingming Dynasty, and the people all gave thumbs up and praised him. What is even more admirable is Li Zhen. After leaving Shanghai, all the people in Shanghai came out to see him off, it was a spectacular scene."
"Hearing with ears is false, seeing with eyes is believing. Let's talk about it after seeing Admiral Li."
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There was already a lot of discussion around the execution ground. The people were whispering, and their eyes were filled with the fire of gossip. Whether it was Bai Gui's matter or Li Zhen's matter, they were all exposed by the people.
"Here we come, Bai Gui is being escorted here."
Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted first.
In an instant, the people's eyes were all focused on Bai Gui's position. Under the spotlight, Bai Gui's face was burning. His chin was removed and he could not speak. His hands and feet were chained. He was a man waiting to die. In the past, Bai Gui walked with great dignity among the people, and the people wherever he passed gave way, not even daring to look at him.
Today, the people Bai Gui encountered also gave way one after another, but they looked at him with gloating.
"Beat Bai Gui to death. Beat Bai Gui, this dog official, to death."
A loud roar rang out from the crowd.
"call out,."
A whistling sound was heard in the air, and an egg flew out across the sky, hitting Bai Gui squarely between the eyebrows. The egg shell cracked, and the yolk and egg white flowed out, flowing down the nose, making Bai Gui's face His mouth was sticky, and soon after, cabbage, eggs, cucumbers, etc. flew out, flying around as the carriage moved.
In the prison van, Bai Gui was like a beggar standing in a garbage dump.
Embarrassed.
Li Zhen looked at Bai Gui's face and saw only two words.
However, Bai Gui felt that life was worse than death.
After a while, Bai Gui was escorted to the execution ground and knelt on the ground. Bai Gui lowered his head, his hands were tied behind his back, his expression was downcast, and he lost the slightest bit of his former majesty. Li Zhen then walked onto the execution ground, closely following Li Zhen. There was a group of soldiers behind, standing around the execution ground to protect Li Zhen.
Li Zhen looked at the people in circles around the execution ground and nodded with satisfaction.
The number of people is enough.
The atmosphere is enough.
Judging from the situation where the people just threw rotten eggs, rotten cabbage, etc. on Bai Gui, the people hated Bai Gui to the core. Li Zhen used Bai Gui as a gimmick, which was enough to create a shocking effect and sow hope. Seed.
"Folks, Bai Gui was beheaded today. Do you know why he was beheaded?"
Li Zhen stood on the high platform of the execution ground and asked loudly.
"Haha, Admiral Li, isn't this simple? It's just a matter of becoming a king and losing a bandit. Bai Gui was defeated by you and became a bandit, so he was killed." A loud voice came from below, and the speaker was a young man. The beggar is in ragged clothes and his big feet stand out, but he has an extraordinary temperament.
This person is clearly the shameless Wang Xiaoyang.
On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, Wang Xiaoyang left Huaibi Tower and returned to the Beggar Gang. After discussing with the elders in the gang, he decided on a strategy of not interfering with Li Zhen. He tried not to provoke Li Zhen and even agreed with Li Zhen on some things. way of doing.
Li Zhen laughed and said: "What you mentioned is only one of the reasons, and it is the smallest reason."
"snort."
The corners of Wang Xiaoyang's mouth curled up, with a hint of disdain on his face.
The smallest reason is to lie to ghosts.
After all, Wang Xiaoyang came from a scholarly family. He was familiar with the art of war and was full of wisdom. He also read the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" thoroughly and figured out the emperor's mind. Although he became an elder of the Beggar Clan due to his downfall, it was due to his family's downfall. , knowledge and vision are still there, in Wang Xiaoyang's view, the fight between Li Zhen and Bai Gui is just a fight between two tigers, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
"Admiral Li, if you have any reasons, just tell us directly and we will listen."
Below, people were booing again.
Immediately afterwards, the people in circles around the execution ground roared. Most of them were watching a show, but a small number of people really wanted to hear what Li Zhen was thinking.
"Quiet, quiet."
Li Zhen yelled twice, and the place below gradually became quiet.
Bai Gui looked at Li Zhen next to him, his heart was as cold as ice. He heard Li Zhen say yesterday that he would make his life worse than death. Now that Li Zhen had entered the topic, his heart had sunk to the bottom. It was extremely heavy. Li Zhen said Pointing at Bai Gui, he shouted: "We want to kill Bai Gui because Bai Gui is a traitor."
"Oh, it's so boring."
Below, a series of sighs sounded, dissatisfied with Li Zhen's explanation.
Wang Xiaoyang even curled his lips, saying in his heart that Li Zhen just found another excuse, which was quite funny.
When Li Zhen saw this, a touch of sadness arose in his heart.
It is really disappointing that a big traitor like Bai Gui appears but no one pays attention to it. However, Li Zhen feels the great responsibility on his shoulders because he wants to awaken some like-minded people.
Li Zhen did not lose heart and continued: "We, the Chinese Empire, Emperors of Qin and Han, Emperors of Tang and Song Dynasties, all of them suppressed the barbarians and subdued the nations. To this day, the small England and France only have With more than 4,000 soldiers, the dignified governor of Guangdong, Bai Gui, can be reduced to a puppet, and Bai Gui is willing to be a lackey. Isn't it a tragedy?"
"We are a great dynasty. When will it be our turn to bully such a small country?"
"A Baigui appeared in Guangzhou. In the future, will there be a second Baigui and a third Baigui... By then, all the officials in China will have become their puppets, and our people will still have a foothold. Land?"
Li Zhen stood on the execution ground, raising his arms and shouting.
Wang Xiaoyang stood under the execution ground, thoughtful, his expression slightly moved.