Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1151, the end of the traitor
On the border of Hong Kong, more than a hundred people are constantly fleeing for their lives. These people are all local aborigines in Hong Kong. Because they participated in the conspiracy of riots, they were chased and suppressed by the Ming army after the incident, and they fled desperately.

"Quick, quick!"

"The border of Cornwall is ahead, as long as you escape, you will be fine."

John shouted loudly to the people behind him, and at the same time tried his best to run away, because he had faintly heard the sound of horseshoes, and was chasing him from far to near.

He was originally a native of Hong Kong, and his life was very hard in the past, but after Hong Kong became a colony of Ming Dynasty, his life became easier. Relying on his hard work, his family can not only have enough food and wear warm clothes, but also It is also planned to tear down the original bad house and build a new one.

However, until recently, he was bewitched by others, thinking that all the life he is living now is given by God, not by the Ming people. On the contrary, the Ming people are heretics and heretics. As the people of God, they should Overthrow the rule of the Ming people and drive all these Ming people out of Cornwall.

So he participated in plotting a riot, preparing to riot with others, killing those Ming people, driving them out, and welcoming the return of Henry VII.

It's just that the incident was reported before it even started. A traitor betrayed them and told the Ming people everything about them. As a result, they were brutally chased and killed by the Ming people.

Originally there were hundreds of people plotting a riot, but after fleeing for their lives, there were only a dozen of them left.

"Quick! Quick!"

John ran desperately for his life, and soon he saw the boundary marker. He was overjoyed and fled desperately.

"Haha~haha~"

"At last I am back in the arms of the great King of England!"

After successfully escaping from Cornwall, John couldn't help shouting excitedly.

The dozens of people who escaped with him also had smiles on their faces, and then quickly continued to flee to prevent the Ming army from crossing the border to chase them down.

Out of Cornwall, into Devon.

Tired and hungry, John and his party came directly to a small town in Devon, explained everything to the town officials, hoping to get their help and provide them with food and a place to rest.

"Oh!"

"Is this something people eat?"

"We risk our lives for the great England, and they give us horse bread."

The town officials readily agreed to their request and provided them with food and accommodation, but when the dark, hard horse bread was brought to their table.

John and the others couldn't help but explode the pot immediately.

Horse bread, none of them had horse bread for a long time.

Since Cornwall became Ming’s Hong Kong, they began to eat soft bread, rice, corn and sweet potatoes from Ming, and many people have even become accustomed to eating food from Ming people. , like noodles, steamed buns, rice noodles and so on.

As long as they work for Ming merchants and commercial companies, they will have a meal at noon. Pork stewed vermicelli is the best for many people. As for horse bread, they have already forgotten what it tastes like.

Here in Hong Kong, even horses eat better than this, livestock don’t go for horse bread, even in major stores, you can’t find horse bread to buy, the worst food is sweet potato Yes, but even sweet potatoes are a hundred times more delicious than this horse bread.

Having already been fed up by Daming's food support, after more than two years, they were served with horse bread again. The dozen or so people who escaped from Hong Kong were all fried.

"Come here~ come here!"

"We worked so hard for the king, is this how you treat us?"

John looked at the town officials, holding the hard horse bread in their hands, with eyes as wide as a bull's.

I thought that after escaping to Devonshire, I could at least be regarded as a warrior. Henry VII should treat himself well, and it is nothing more than to seal himself as a nobleman.

But everything was shattered, and what they were given to eat turned out to be horse bread. In Hong Kong, even feeding horses is disgusted with this kind of food.

"Do you like to eat or not!"

"Here, there is only horse bread, and you only deserve to eat horse bread."

The town officials looked at them and said coldly.

A group of lowly poor people without a shred of identity and status, and only worthy of horse bread.

"you!"

Looking at the town official in front of them, John and the others clenched their fists tightly, wanting to punch them hard, but finally put down their fists powerlessly.

After getting the other party to leave, one by one looked at the hard horse bread in their hands, and couldn't put it down anyway, and didn't know how to eat it.

"If I knew today, why did I do it in the past!"

John's bowels were turning green.

He thought of his wife and children, they were still on the Hong Kong side, and he didn't know if they would be implicated by him. He thought of the good life in Hong Kong.

Drink a bowl of porridge every morning, and go to work happily. At noon, I eat a lot at the business of Daming people. One person has to eat ten steamed buns and five bowls of porridge. If you encounter pork stewed noodles, one person has to eat five bowl.

After you are full, take a good nap, and you will be very energetic when you are working in the afternoon. When you get off work in the evening, you can buy a sea fish, and occasionally buy some mutton or beef. When you get home, the family enjoys it happily. dinner.

He started the house he was about to build.

It is a beautiful house like that of the Daming people. The floor is paved with cement. It is very clean. When it is hot in summer, someone can directly put it on the ground.

The walls are whitewashed with lime, which looks very nice, and then the glass windows are installed to let the sunlight shine in...

However, all of this has become a fantasy. He is now a fugitive and will never return to Hong Kong. In Devon, he is still the lowest lowly poor person who can only eat horse bread.

……

On the other side, here is the huge open space at the wharf in Hong Kong's harbor area. With the propaganda of the Governor's Office, the residents of Hong Kong soon knew what happened here during this period.

At the same time, everyone knew that on this day, those turbulent elements who intended to riot in Hong Kong would be executed here, so a large number of people gathered here on their own initiative.

The crowd didn't wait too long, and Jiang Liang, who was dressed in crimson, came here, looking coldly at everyone present.

"Hong Kong belongs to the Ming Empire. Everyone abides by the laws of the Ming Empire. They must not betray the emperor, and must not disturb the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong!"

"However, during this period of time, some people are not satisfied with the current good life, and they have betrayed the great emperor and Hong Kong. They have colluded with foreign enemies and intend to disrupt the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong."

"In this regard, the governor is here today to formally sentence these traitors who participated in the conspiracy!"

Jiang Liang's voice was very loud. After he finished speaking, an interpreter immediately translated his words into English.

Most people here still don't understand Daming dialect, so translation is also a must.

"Take the prisoner!"

Soon, with an order, the Ming army escorted a personal prisoner to the scene.

"Prisoner Bill, the former priest of the Hong Kong Cathedral, as a clergyman, tried to interfere in secular government affairs, incited riots, and betrayed Ming Dynasty. He should be executed according to reason!"

"Prisoner Peresley, the former Viscount of Falmouth, as a nobleman, doesn't want to make progress, secretly supports the riot, instigates, plans the riot, betrays Daming, he should be executed!"

"..."

"Prisoner Taylor, a Hong Kong resident, participated in the plot to riot and betrayed Daming, he should be executed according to reason!"

As Jiang Liang read out the names one by one, everyone had the same ending, a decisive decision.

Immediately, everyone couldn't help opening their mouths wide, and some even started crying, because there were their relatives and friends inside.

Now that they heard that they were going to be sentenced to death, some people were even more excited and wanted to rush forward, but when they saw the gleaming bayonets on the Ming army muskets, they all stopped in their tracks, not daring to make any changes.

Daming people are really too ruthless!
This time, hundreds of people were sentenced to death.

There are clergymen who instigate riots, those sent by Henry VII, the down-and-out local nobles, and ordinary people whose ignorance has been incited.

In the eyes of many people, some people deserve to die, they have nothing to say, but why can't these ignorant ordinary people let them go once?

"Master Governor, they are all bewitched and ignorant, can't we really let them go once?"

Someone begged for mercy.

"cannot!"

"Because betraying Daming is a death penalty!"

Jiang Liang said indifferently, then took out the token on the table and ordered coldly: "Execution!"

Following Jiang Liang's order, the heads of the first batch of more than [-] people who were tried were blown away with bright lights of knives.

"death penalty!"

"death penalty!"

"Execution!"

Batch after batch of prisoners were pressed up, and without exception, they were all sentenced to death.

Blood stained the seawater next to it red, and the headless corpses were pushed aside, like a hill, and the heads were pushed together, hideous and frightening, making everyone present shiver uncontrollably.

Too bad!
Killing all the arrested people at once, everyone was deeply shocked by the scene in front of them, and firmly remembered everything.

"My name is Tom!"

"I used to be a fisherman, risking my life to go fishing every day, and most of the time I got very little, but even so, I still had to pay half of the fish to the local nobles, and I also had to pay one-tenth of the harvest to church."

"So my family is very poor. I don't even have enough to eat every day. I eat the worst and hardest horse bread. When it comes to Christmas, I can't even prepare a decent gift for my children. .”

"But since we became the subjects of the Great Heavenly Son, everything has changed."

"I don't have to risk my life to go fishing at sea. I can easily find a good job. As long as I work hard every day, I can earn two taels of silver every month, which is enough to feed my family. I have enough food, warm clothes, and I have saved money to build a new house, which is beautiful and clean."

"My family eats flour as white as snow and as fine as powder. We can also eat meat every now and then, and go to a tavern for a glass of wine. We don't need to pay high taxes anymore, and we don't need to pay a tenth of our own money to the church. income."

"I am very satisfied with my current life. It is the Son of Heaven who gave me everything now, allowing me to live a decent life."

"We must be grateful, grateful for the kindness and gift of the Son of Heaven, and keep this firmly in our hearts."

"Henry VII gave us a life of eating horse bread, wearing tattered linen clothes, and living in a dilapidated house like a pigsty. The life given to us by the Son of Heaven is a life full of food and clothing, with hope, dignity, and future. life."

"Long live the Son of Heaven!"

At the end, when it was time to complain, people who had been arranged for a long time went forward to tell about the life they lived in the past, and then compared it with the life they are living now, and told everyone with the simplest, direct, and sharp comparison. Tomorrow's people are the happiest.

(End of this chapter)