I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 225 Show everyone a roll of heads

After Li Heng roughly checked the list, he threw it to Ma Yong.

"General, the envoy from Wu is still waiting." Lu Zhi reminded.

"Let him wait."

"The general is really going to turn against Wu?" Lu Zhi asked doubtfully.

Objectively speaking, now is definitely not the time to be at odds with Wu.

Not only is it not, but it is also time to take this opportunity to deepen the relationship with Wu.

But Lu Zhi couldn't understand Li Heng's operation.

"Now is not the time to meet the Wu envoy. After the things at hand are settled, we can meet him, and we will go to Jiangzhou to meet him."

"Why go to Jiangzhou to meet?"

"Let the Wu envoy see what we are doing in Jiangzhou."

Lu Zhi was even more confused.

What are we doing in Jiangzhou?

We are training the navy in Jiangzhou, and we are going to take advantage of Sun Quan's attention and shoot him!

Do we need to tell the Wu envoy about this in advance?

Seeing Lu Zhi's confusion, Li Heng added: "We are vigorously building Jiangzhou to expand trade with Wu and deepen the friendship between the two sides. This should be seen by Wu's envoys with their own eyes."

"Oh."

"I'm going to bed."

"Oh."

This time, I slept until the afternoon.

When Li Heng woke up from dizziness, Ma Yong was waiting outside.

"General..."

"How long have you been waiting?"

"Not long."

Li Heng saw Ma Yong with two big dark circles under his eyes and a tired face, and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"not yet."

"Prepare one for Ma Yushi."

Li Heng sat there, eating and reading the interrogation documents sent by Ma Yong.

"Have you all confessed?"

"They all confessed, a total of 637 people." Ma Yong said with a mouth full of oil, "I just don't know what to do next?"

“Are there enough executioners in Chengdu?”

"Ok?"

"I asked if there are enough executioners in Chengdu?"

"It should be enough."

Li Heng asked again: "Do these 637 people have students, do they have friends, do they have any objections to this matter?"

Ma Yong was a little confused when asked, and replied: "There should be some, and we are still investigating."

"As long as there are some, arrest them all."

"There is no room in the jail now."

Li Heng sipped the soup and said with a smile: "Kill all those who have been convicted first, so you can pretend to be fine?"

Ma Yong: "The general is wise! But..."

"But what?"

"But I have a doubt."

"explain."

"Does the Prime Minister know that we are going to kill so many people?"

"The Prime Minister doesn't know."

"Then why don't you first..."

Li Heng said: "Don't tell the Prime Minister first."

"I'm afraid..."

"how?"

"Would the Prime Minister support the general in killing so many people?"

Li Heng put down his chopsticks and burped with satisfaction. He stood up and walked to the map, pointing to Pixian County, Jiangyuan, Pixian County, Guangdu and other places, as well as Wenshan County, Zitong County, Fuling County, and Jianwei County. and many other counties.

"Of course the Prime Minister doesn't support me killing so many people, so I can't report it to the Prime Minister first."

"Since the Prime Minister disapproves and the general has killed so many people, what if the Prime Minister..."

"The Prime Minister does not agree, but the Prime Minister will not object, do you understand?"

Ma Yong was startled.

"We don't have to prepare everything before we start taking action. We can never convince the Prime Minister, but if we can give him a satisfactory result, he will acquiesce."

"What the Prime Minister wants is the Northern Expedition. He knows how to weigh the pros and cons better than you and I."

"understood!"

"Go ahead and empty the prison. If there are not enough executioners, use them from the army."

"today?"

"Just for today, remember to complete all the procedures. No killing is allowed without procedures. I don't like not doing things according to rules and regulations."

"Here."

In the afternoon, Li Heng went back to sleep.

But Chengdu's "Jingshi Daily" has already sold out.

Today in Chengdu, we will only discuss a few relatively simple issues:

1. How did Wang You and others channel the Wei thieves with the intention of conspiring to rebel?

2. How did Chang Xu and others deliberately prepare to kill the king?

3. Who is whose friend or relative?

4. Regarding the lack of executioners, we temporarily asked the farmer next door to help. How much does a head cost?

As for the spectacular scene of groups of people being transported out of Dali's prisons and escorted to the execution ground, countless people watched.

Those who used to be aloof and aloof are now standing in the prison car, with their hands and feet shackled, their hair unkempt, and their last dignity is gone.

This brings out the bestiality in a large group of people.

A considerable number of the onlookers roared: "Well done! These people deserve to die!" As for where and why these people deserved to die, "Jingshi Daily" made it clear.

As for whether what the Capital Daily said was true, of course it was true!

The Capital Daily said it was time to die, so it was time to die.

As dusk approached, the city of Chengdu looked a bit desolate under the setting sun, with buildings and figures stretched out.

On the execution ground outside the city, more than three hundred heads had fallen.

The blood flowing from the neck of the headless corpse gathered on the newly emerged lawn.

The lawn had been softened by soaking. The executioner walked on the lawn with a chipped knife, cautiously, fearing to slip.

Specialized people picked up those heads and hung them on the city walls.

On the wall of the city wall, there were long and vertical blood stains.

Those heads looked forward with empty eyes, their mouths slightly opened, and their faces still retained the resentment and ferocity they had before death.

Not far away, a new batch of prisoners being escorted over were already lining up and kneeling.

Some were crying, some were yelling, and some were looking around.

Or someone looks up to the sky and laughs wildly.

There were some people watching around, some carrying rice and some holding bread.

At some point, there was some movement in the city.

A group of people gathered together and smashed up a restaurant.

It is said that this restaurant is called "Wei's Restaurant", and the owner is believed to be a mastermind of the Wei State and an accomplice of Wang You and others.

The boss was dragged to the street and beaten to death in full view of the public, and his daughter was stripped clean.

Fortunately, a patrolling guard arrived and stopped these people's "just judgment."

It is said that these people were arrested, but the jails in Dali were full, and the jails in Chengdu County were also full.

So these people were labeled as rebels, stripped of their clothes, thrown to the execution ground and beheaded.

After dark, rumors began to spread that there were many Wei Guo secrets in the city.

Some loyal people who "loved the Han Dynasty" had no hesitation to stand up in this time of national crisis. They seriously reprimanded some Shu people on the street for their shameless behavior of being willing to be Wei spies.

Then, he rushed in and captured all the "Wei Guoxinzuo".

In their eyes, the craftsmen's begging for mercy is an even worse and despicable act.

During the trial, they used hammers and axes to smash the heads of the craftsmen, and then in the name of the big men, they confiscated all the wealth that the craftsmen had hardly obtained to make the country rich.

However, someone came to the Yamen again to report that they had not kept their promises. They clearly promised to give them one-third, but they ended up getting one-tenth.

As a result, there was another group of kneeling people outside the city.

As for the beheading in the execution ground, few people seem to be able to tell exactly when the beheading took place.

In short, all night long, the torches outside were brightly lit, and the top of the city was already full, so they simply piled up under the city wall.

Not only did the executioners' hands become numb from chopping, but their pockets also became numb.

By the next day, no one was walking alone, or even in twos or threes, on the streets of Chengdu.

People travel in groups.

A large number of troops began to appear in the streets and alleys. Anyone who saw someone maliciously breaking down the door was thrown into the Chengdu County Government Prison.

Chengdu County Magistrate Chen received more than 100 robberies in just one morning.

More than 300 people were imprisoned.

Thirty people were forced into a cell that could hold up to five people.

So much so that at noon, in order to maintain security in the cell, troops armed with crossbows also appeared in the cell.

By the afternoon, the purge in Chengdu had spread to surrounding counties.

Pidu, Xindu, and Guangdu all received relevant and precise news.

This undoubtedly caused unprecedented shock.

Pidu formed a national defense army to attack Li Heng on the same day. They responded to the call and declared that Li Heng was a national traitor.

On the first day of March, two armies from Xindu and Pidu to attack Li Heng met ten miles north of Chengdu.

There are as many as 30,000 people, spread out on the plain, looking so dark that there is no end in sight.

The news reached the ears of Wu envoy Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu was so excited that he began to write a letter to Sun Quan: The Kingdom of Shu has been in civil strife, and it is time to advance westward again!

The news reached the General's Mansion, but Li Heng was still fishing.

Everyone in the General's Mansion was nervous, but Li Heng not only wasn't nervous, but wanted to laugh.

It will definitely not be enough to kill the nobles in Pi County, Jiangyuan, and now Chengdu.

He was deeply afraid that the local nobles would delay the matter and wait for the letters to be sent to Zhuge Liang before Zhuge Liang intervened.

Now they are delivered to your door in Pixian County and Xindu.

This really saves him a lot of time in expanding the cleaning.

Improved efficiency!

He immediately asked Fu Qian to take the group of imperial guards who had bloodbathed Jiangyuan to the north of the city to fight.

At first, people were worried that Fu Qian Bingshao was no match.

As a result, at noon on the second day of March, the so-called Patriot Army was defeated by Fu Qian and collapsed.

So people from Dali began to enter Pixian County and Xindu to arrest people.

At this time, local public opinion was still very sharp in criticizing the general.

Countless memorials were sent to the capital like snowflakes and piled in front of Liu Chan.

Until the afternoon of the second day of March, Taichang Du Qiong publicly issued a memorial and reprimanded some shameless people for causing trouble in the imperial court.

He also vigorously praised the general's wisdom and martial prowess.

At this time, public opinion in the capital began to reverse.

On the third day of March, the number of memorials supporting the general increased significantly.

And they are all a group of powerful local nobles.

On the fifth day of March, positive public opinion has begun to counterattack offensive public opinion.

On the sixth day of March, the news finally reached Wuzhangyuan in Guanzhong and was placed in front of Zhuge Liang's desk.

(End of this chapter)