I promise

Chapter 452
No time, two quarters.

The audience of Yuhuatai was full of people.

Chen Ning sat on the prison bench with a solemn expression, and on the seat in the middle on the left was the imperial envoy who had just vomited up his breakfast and was forcibly dragged onto the execution platform with a pale face—the empress dowager. Changqing Su Hongyu.

A total of 32 inmates knelt in four rows on the stage, eight in a row, lined up one by one, almost occupying the entire length of Yuhuatai.

The prisoners were tightly bound, and there were shackles with their names and crimes written on their chests.The executioners stood in a row behind the prisoners with their arms bare and swords gleaming on their shoulders.Just waiting for the supervisor to give an order, he raised his sword and sent these people to the underworld.

The prisoners struggled in vain, shouting their injustices loudly, their voices drowned in the tide of cursing from the audience.

Angry people threw eggs, stones, and rotten vegetables and leaves on the stage. Still unrepentant, they tried to break through the siege of officers and soldiers and rushed to the stage.

The scene was chaotic.

"Lord Su," Chen Ning leaned forward and reminded in a low voice: "The people are full of grievances, you should follow the people's will and act for the sky. The time has come."

Su Hongyu's hands trembled, looking at the fire lottery with the word "cut" written in the eye-catching sign tube, he couldn't stretch out his hand for a long time.

"Master Chen, this is against the rules. What if..."

If the Dongchuang incident happened, and if the imperial court held them accountable, wouldn't the reputation of the Su family be destroyed in one fell swoop?That's 63 lives.

Chen Ning's face turned cold, and his tone was unusually blunt: "Do extraordinary things in extraordinary times. The sage books Mr. Su read only tell you to follow the rules, but have you ever taught you to respond to danger in order to protect yourself?
These people are heinous murderers, and the holy emperor personally approved them, and they decided to be executed in the fall of this year.For them, it is just the difference between living a few months longer and living a few months less.

It's different for you and me.

If this matter can't be done, and the hat on my head can't be kept, how can you get rid of it, my lord?Why don't you go home and wash your neck, just wait for the next imperial envoy to arrive, and hand over the head of this necklace to the court. "

The mastermind behind this incident is quite sophisticated.A group of people were selected in advance to be placed in the crowd. They were all people with outstanding behavior and considerable prestige and influence in the neighborhood.

Naturally, these selected people have shortcomings, such as love of money, love of sex, love of collecting and other various hobbies, so that people can make money in their pockets.

As early as three days before the incident, these people began to operate secretly, spreading some just-right remarks, sowing the seeds of suspicion and uneasiness without arousing the vigilance of the government.The accuracy of the measure, the fine grasp of the human heart, and careful consideration, it is simply creepy.

So this civil unrest seems to be a sudden outbreak in a short period of time, but it is actually a premeditated detonation after a long period of brewing and fermentation.

With such thorough planning, the people involved will definitely not be caught.

Of course, Chen Ning's busy work is not all fruitless.At least none of the treasurer and staff of the Shangwen Bookstore who helped to print and distribute the false imperial decree escaped.

It's not that Chen Ning is able to do things well, but that the other party intentionally left this group of people to him.

As for why the other party did this, after Chen Ning was invited by the shopkeeper of Shangwen Bookstore to discuss in the secret room, he fully understood.

The shopkeeper only told Chen Ning that Shangwen Publishing House was owned by the emperor's uncle—Xiang Shang, brother-in-law of De Wang Liu Yu.

Chen Ning is a person who has rolled in the black and muddy pond in Jiankang, how could he not understand the way of it.With Liu Yu's arrogant and domineering virtue, is there any reason for the bookstore opened by his brother-in-law to act in such a low-key and secretive way?I'm afraid it's a hideout for hiding criminal evidence or money laundering.

Immediately, Chen Ning took people out of Shangwen Bookstore.Secretly, he appointed his own soldiers to kidnap the shopkeeper and a few cronies who obviously knew about it.

Then he told the overjoyed Su Hongyu that the person who issued the false imperial decree had been found, but because he had some personal grievances with the boss of the Shangwen Bookstore, in order to avoid the suspicion of personal revenge, he asked Su Hongyu to bring someone to inspect it himself.

A total of 18 people were involved in the case of Shangwen Publishing Co., and the remaining 14 were prisoners proposed by Chen Ning from the prison. As for whether they were death row prisoners, Su Hongyu didn't know how to do it, so it all depended on Chen Ning's mouth.

As long as these 32 people were beheaded today, Su Hongyu would be in Chen Ning's hands.

And with King De's temperament of revenge, the Su family may not be able to stop from now on.Jiankang City was quite lively again.

Chen Ning sincerely admires the person behind the arrangement.

He knew very well that he was also a pawn in this person's calculation.But even so, he willingly pushed for it.

That man wanted chaos in the government, and he wanted the Su family to fall and Fang Rong to rise again.

All return to the same journey, a comrade-in-arms.

Su Hongyu was a talented man, but he was not a capable minister. Facing the angry crowd and Chen Ning who was approaching him every step of the way, he was at a loss.

"Master Chen, it's too hasty at this time, I'd better write a letter to ask the Holy One, please make a decision..."

Speaking of which, he himself lacked confidence.No matter how close Jiankang is, it will take at least one day to go back and forth, and this has to be the case that the memorial is delivered to the emperor in time and the emperor approves it immediately.If we followed the usual practice, discussing with the court first, several opposing factions jumped out to quarrel with each other, and the discussion was fruitless, and then discussed after a few days... and so on, dragging on for more than ten days It's all possible.

But looking at the excited situation of this group of people, let alone ten days, even one day, I'm afraid they won't be able to bear it.

Unexpectedly, Chen Ning did not refute this time, and nodded lightly: "Since Mr. Su insists, we have no choice but to do so."

Su Hongyu suddenly felt like he was about to swallow the breath he exhaled, choked in his throat, and his chest swelled.In fact, when he said this, he just hoped that Chen Ning's attitude would be tougher, so that even if he had to take responsibility, he would have room to shirk.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Chen Ning suddenly softened.

Su Hongyu looked at the dark crowd of people's heads under the stands, and he really didn't have the courage to go forward, so he turned to look at Chen Ning: "Master Chen..."

Chen Ning sneered in his heart, shook his sleeves and got up, walked to the Yuhua Terrace, and shouted loudly: "Quiet, everyone, please listen to me—"

The crowd was still restless, but the noise was much lower.

Although the people were disappointed with the government, their fear still existed.

Chen Ning cleared his throat, with a serious face and an arrogant expression, and said: "After reviewing the files by the subordinate officials, it was found that there were 32 criminals. To overthrow the foundation of the Great Southern Dynasty—”

As he spoke, he solemnly faced the southeast, clasped his fists into the distance, and said: "It's about the country, and I have to invite the current sage—"

(End of this chapter)