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Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on Wang Yangming, and Wang Yangming said solemnly, "Your Majesty, you must never do this."

Zhu Houzhao didn't speak, he knew that Wang Yangming must have something to say next.

Sure enough, Wang Yangming's eyes sparkled and he said: "Actually, the officials are not trying to let His Majesty bear the name of a tyrant."

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "Then what are they trying to do?"

"Champion, their goal is actually the champion!"

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback for a moment, and then he came to his senses, and said with a look of surprise in his eyes: "I understand, they want Li Qing to be charged with murder, they want to destroy Li Qing 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 one time, then no matter whether these people deserved to die or not, they would definitely stir up the world.

Maybe some people know the inside story, and know that officials like Xu Lin and their family members deserve to 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 one time, then they can guess without even thinking about it, Li Huan's reputation will definitely be very bad, and even be regarded as a murderous demon behind his back Not surprising.

After thinking about this, Zhu Houzhao immediately said: "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 up to me. to bear."

Looking at the firmness in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, Wang Yangming naturally knew that Zhu Houzhao was not talking about it, but that he really wanted to bear this bad name for Li Huan, so he couldn't help feeling a little warm in his heart.

As a subject, I naturally hope that the emperor whom I am loyal to will take responsibility and be able to take care of the matter for the subject at critical moments. Now seeing the emperor's love for Li Huan, Wang Yangming is naturally very moved in his heart.

While heaving a sigh of relief, Wang Yangming shook his head slightly at Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Majesty, if I'm not mistaken, when Master Li ordered people to send the criminal evidence of these people to the capital, I'm afraid he had already expected With such a result, Mr. Li may have used the power and responsibility of the imperial envoy to order Xu Lin and other criminals to be beheaded at this moment."

"what!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but exclaimed, followed by a moment of silence.

If it was someone else, Zhu Houzhao did not believe that the other party had such courage. After all, it was a major case involving nearly ten thousand lives and deaths.

Even as an imperial envoy, he has the power of life and death bestowed by him, but the other party may also hand over the decision-making power to the imperial court.

But if it was Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao did not doubt Wang Yangming's judgment. Based on his understanding of Li Huan, it is not impossible for Li Huan to take the initiative to consider for him, the emperor, and bear the notoriety of murder.

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Yangzhou Prefecture

Just as Wang Yangming expected, Li Huan was very aware of the filthiness of the people above the court, and this major case that could be counted in the past century would definitely be used by these courtiers.

At that time, these courtiers will either sit and watch the emperor make an order, or they will play tricks and let a considerable number of criminals go.

Naturally, this was something he didn't want to see, so Li Huan didn't hesitate. After interrogating all the criminals, he ordered them to be executed.

This day is the day of Ming Zheng's punishment.

Li Huan was about to punish all the criminals, such a big news spread throughout the huge city of Yangzhou in a day, it can be said that everyone knew about it.

The execution ground chosen by Li Huan was not in Yangzhou City, but outside Yangzhou City.

Killing nearly [-] people involved in the case at one time, Yangzhou City is prosperous. One is that Li Huan can't find such a large execution ground in Yangzhou City, and the other is that Li Huan doesn't want to kill Yangzhou City because of killing nearly [-] people. soaring.

If so many people were really killed in the city, countless people in Yangzhou City might be panicked by that time.

On the contrary, it is more appropriate to place it outside the city, which is more open, no matter how many people there are, there is no need to worry about not having a place,
There is also the ability to accommodate enough people who come to watch.

After all, if countless people gather to watch in the city, and a little disturbance occurs, it may cause a large number of civilian casualties.

Under Li Huan's order, Pang Hui, the commander of the guard, mobilized a full 2000 soldiers and horses to build a execution ground outside Yangzhou City, and arranged for these guard soldiers to form guards.

Countless people who got the news came from all directions on this day. As soon as the sky brightened, countless people gathered around the execution ground, and there were dark crowds everywhere. , Maybe these countless people have rushed into the execution ground.

There was a sound of horseshoes, and there was a group of elite cavalry leading the way above the official road. This elite cavalry cleared the way ahead. Behind these cavalry were Jinyiwei, who was in honor of imperial envoys. Li Huan, an imperial envoy, was naturally in it.

Behind him were the criminals who were to be executed today, driven and escorted by the soldiers of the local guards and the Jinyi Guards.

Except for more than a hundred of these criminals who were headed by prison cars, the rest of them were chained into a string.

Nearly [-] criminals continue to commit crimes, and the blackness is almost endless.

That is to say, Li Huan mobilized a large number of people to maintain order, otherwise, escorting so many criminals would be a problem.

A group of people headed by Xu Lin were imprisoned in the prison car. Except for a very few people who were able to maintain a little calm, most of them began to desperately wailed and begged for mercy after learning the news that they were about to go to the execution ground.

And those relatives who were implicated were also crying endlessly. These people were all close relatives of the criminals like Xu Lin, and according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, there was no wrongdoing for any of them.

Perhaps a very small number of these people did not break the law themselves, nor did they do evil, but these people also enjoyed the many benefits that people like Xu Lin obtained from breaking the law.

Many criminals cried out for being wronged, but were these people really wronged?
On weekdays, they live in rich clothes and fine food, eat delicacies from mountains and seas, travel like dragons in chariots and horses, and walk like clouds of servants, which is not the fat of the people, and the cost of eating and clothing has been contaminated with the blood of many innocent people.

Countless people gathered near the execution ground saw Li Huan's imperial guard of honor from a distance, and whoever shouted, countless people turned their attention to Li Huan's imperial guard of honor.

I don't know how many people looked at Li Huan 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, the whole Yangzhou Mansion was famous. It can be said that no one knows and no one knows.

It is true that Yangzhou Mansion is prosperous, but under this prosperity, it is full of flies and dogs. I don't know how many people are bullied by officials and powerful people in Yangzhou Mansion.

Many small families and small households provoked these tyrants, the mild ones were injured, and the serious ones were ruined.

Now these tyrants who have caused disasters to the place have been taken down one by one by Li Huan, and even many servants of the tyrants who usually bully others have also been taken down together. Secretly, I don’t know how many people who have been bullied by these people are Cheers and applause.

Many people subconsciously approached Li Huan's direction. If it weren't for the soldiers and horses of Jinyiwei and local guards trying to maintain order, the crowd might rush up and cause trouble.

When Li Huan climbed onto the high platform for supervision and execution, the turbulent people all around calmed down a little.

Standing on the high platform, Li Huan looked around and saw that there were dense crowds of people all around. Based on Li Huan's experience, there were no less than tens of thousands of people around.

Pang Hui also followed Li Huan, looking at the countless people surrounded by darkness, fine beads of sweat could not help oozing from his forehead.

Even if he had a certain amount of psychological preparation, but when he really saw so many people gathered around, his heart still hung up.

"My lord, nothing will happen."

You must know that the order below is maintained by the soldiers and horses of the local guards. If something goes wrong
In other words, he will definitely be questioned by Li Huan at that time.

Looking at the fate of the prefect's officials who hardly regarded him in the past, Pang Hui felt a wave of fear in his heart.

Fortunately, he was not bewitched by Xu Lin and others, and participated in the affairs of Xu Lin and others. If he really got involved in it, he might be one of the people who went to the execution ground today and got stabbed. one.

After hearing Pang Hui's words, Li Huan just glanced at Pang Hui lightly and said, "Rather than worrying about any accidents here, why don't we send more people to maintain order."

Hearing this, Pang Hui quickly wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, bowed to Li Huan and hurriedly said, "I'll make arrangements now, my subordinate."

Li Huan nodded slightly. He was also worried about some troubles. If there were any troubles, if there were too many people and people would be crowded and stampede causing casualties, how would he feel?

Watching Pang Hui leave in a hurry, Chen Ke whispered to Li Huan: "My lord, do you want to escort the criminal into the scene?"

Li Huan looked up at the sky, nodded slightly and said, "Order people to escort all the criminals into the scene."

Chen Ke took a deep breath, and immediately gave the order in a deep voice.

Soon one after another prison vans slowly entered the execution ground, and then Jin Yiwei's men pushed them out of the prison vans one by one, pushing and shoving these people to the execution ground.

The execution ground was as big as a football field, and it didn't seem crowded even if hundreds of people came up at once.

And the first wave of people who were taken to the execution ground was a group of Yangzhou government officials headed by Xu Lin and the local tyrants of Yangzhou government who were on the evil side.

Hundreds of people were escorted up, and they all fell to their knees.

Behind these people stood a big man holding a ghost-headed sword, each of them was filled with an extremely strong evil spirit.

The executioners in Yangzhou City simply couldn't gather more than a hundred people, so Li Huan directly selected more than a hundred people from the cavalry team to serve as today's executioners.

For these cavalry soldiers who survived the killing on the battlefield, killing people is not difficult for them.

After all, not everyone can do the job of an executioner. Most people really don't have the guts to kill with a knife, not to mention killing nearly ten thousand criminals at once.

Even ordinary executioners might 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 there by Jin Yiwei, and he saw Xu Lin with red eyes, cursing loudly at Li Huan.

"Female traitor, Li Huan, you bastard, you must die!"

Li Huan turned a deaf ear and just looked at Xu Lin indifferently.

The one who was pushed down beside Xu Lin was Xu Wei. Compared with Xu Lin cursing Li Huan, Xu Wei cried and begged Li Huan to hope that Li Huan could spare his life because he cooperated in confessing a lot of crimes committed by local tyrants.

It's a pity that Xu Wei's pleading didn't make Li Huan spare his life, instead it caused many captured tyrants to yell at Xu Wei.

Many people struggled and wished they could pounce on Xu Wei and strangle him to death.

Many of them asked themselves that even though they said they had done all kinds of evil, many of the crimes they committed were only known to a very few people, but Jin Yiwei knew it all.

They didn't know what was going on before, but after hearing what Xu Wei said, they still didn't understand what was going on.

Xu Wei confessed their feelings to them.

Thinking that dozens of hundreds of their family members could not escape death today, all because of Xu Wei, while these people hated Li Huan, they hated Xu Wei even more.

If it wasn't for the Jin Yiwei behind them holding them down firmly, these people would have torn Xu Wei alive right now.

Li Huan was sitting on the seat of the prison officer, surrounded by banners and banners, which was his imperial envoy's guard of honor. He saw Li Huan nodded slightly to an official standing not far away.

Even if that Li Huandang stepped forward, he shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Everyone listen carefully, today the imperial envoy is here to behead Xu Lin."

Wait for a group of criminals to rectify the laws and regulations of the country. "

Immediately, the official loudly announced the crimes committed by Xu Lin and others to the public. Whenever an official's crimes were announced to the public, there would always be cheers and curses from the surrounding crowd. Voice.

When the official read about the crimes committed by some tyrants, the curses from the surrounding people became more intense, which shows how ruthlessly the people of Yangzhou Prefecture were oppressed by these tyrants.

Even many people whose relatives were murdered rushed towards the execution ground emotionally. Fortunately, the commander Pang Hui had been prepared, sent people to suppress it and continued it, and finally there was no trouble.

Even so, Pang Hui was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and was afraid for a while.

It took a long time to simply announce the crimes of these people to the public, and the official who was in charge of reading the evidence of these people's crimes was hoarse, so he retreated towards Li Huan Yili.

For a moment, everyone's gazes turned to Li Huan who was sitting upright on the high platform, and at this moment Li Huan got up slowly with a token in his hand.

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