Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 149
Facing Zhou Yaqian's crying and begging, Zhou Shu didn't have any special feelings, but felt that people are indeed fickle animals.

She didn't want to embarrass this second sister. The latter did ridicule her before, but that was nothing.She doesn't care much about such things, and she has some feelings for this half-sister, so she is slightly better than strangers.Not even as good as some friendly strangers she met in Taiyuan.

Love is a luxury in the royal family, even if the royal family is the richest person in the world, it is almost impossible to buy it.

Zhou Shu said: "You don't have to be afraid, if you're fine after the investigation, you can leave."

"Leave..." a noble concubine asked cautiously, "Seventh Princess, leave...where are you going?"

"After a while, you can apply for arable land from the Yamen...or apply for a job in the Guarantee Yamen."

"Guarantee Yamen?"

Everyone didn't understand the meaning of this word, and Zhou Shu didn't know that there were many new yamen under Su Yuan's rule until he stayed in Taiyuan for a while.

One of them is the security yamen, whose duty is to help some special groups find jobs, such as the disabled, the elderly, or those who are physically weak and unable to work on the land.

When Zhou Shu first knew about this yamen, he was very strange, not knowing how it works.After inquiring carefully, I found out that this yamen has cooperative relations with many merchants.If the merchants help provide some jobs, then the yamen can give the merchants a certain tax discount.

In essence, Su Yuan, the King of Beian, still paid for some subsidy work.

After understanding clearly, Zhou Shu respected Su Yuan even more.A person who can do this kind of thing is at least a kind-hearted and dedicated person.This has nothing to do with status, but with character.

As narrow-minded as his father, even though he was the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had a lot of gold and silver treasures, and he was never willing to use them to subsidize some civil projects.

In the past when there was a flood in Xuzhou, the Ministry of Household Affairs could not allocate money to repair the embankment, so it would have been better to transfer some money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Emperor Qingxiang didn't say a word at all.

In the end, only half of the embankment was repaired, and when the tide came, several villages were washed away, causing tens of thousands of deaths and injuries.

Zhou Shu had heard about these things, and it was because of this comparison that the more she understood Su Yuan, the more she had a distinct liking for him.

After Zhou Shu finished speaking, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It sounds like they are required to work like ordinary people to make ends meet. This is indeed a bit embarrassing for them, but it is better than being sent to some brothels.When I really got there, I was in pain.

If Zhou Shu knew what they were thinking, he would definitely say that he was too worried.According to her living experience in Taiyuan, Su Yuan did not allow that kind of brothel to exist. All brothels in Taiyuan were closed and replaced by "Qinglou".

There may be prostitutes in the brothel, but there are only prostitutes in the Qinglou. Even if there are employees and customers who like each other, they have to go outside to talk at other times, and hooking up in the workplace is not allowed.

Zhou Shu believes that the capital city will soon be like Taiyuan, where all the filthy places will be cleaned up.She wouldn't believe it if other people said they did it.But Su Yuan said that if he did this, he would definitely succeed. Who told him to have an army with extremely strong combat effectiveness and only obey him.

In this kind of matter, he wants to speak out, and there is really no way for others to stop him.

At this time, most people understood Zhou Shu's meaning, but some people couldn't accept it.

A noble concubine said dissatisfied: "Are we going to do those dirty jobs too? The King of Bei'an will definitely rebuild the palace, so we can't go back then?"

A look of disgust flashed in Zhou Shu's eyes when he heard this, and she said lightly: "Su Yuan said that he would not rebuild the palace, besides, the emperor is dead, who are you going to be the imperial concubine for?"

"..."

The imperial concubine dared not speak out, and she only dared to keep her anger in her heart. She really wanted to say, "The emperor is your father! It's too rebellious for you to say that!", but she could only think about it, and she must never say it dare.

The others were also silent, and Zhou Shu's eyes fell on one of them.

"Concubine Yu Gui, please come with me."

"Me?" Concubine Yugui's face turned pale when her name was called out.

There was only panic left on her pretty face, and until now, she still couldn't believe that everything she and Fu Chengyang planned was in vain.

Their son Zhou Chong is now missing, and the crown prince Qingxiang passed to Zhou Cheng before his death.As for Fu Chengyang... until now, his life and death are unknown. Before he left, he said that he had faked his death, but now, is there any point in fake death?The capital has fallen...

She was still thinking about when Fu Chengyang would come to save her from leaving, but now she was called out by Zhou Shu's name, and she was extremely disturbed, not knowing why.She is not familiar with Zhou Shu. She only knows that her son Zhou Chong is about the same age as Zhou Shu, and they were playmates for a few days when they were young, but she doesn't know anything else.

Concubine Yu followed Zhou Shu to No. [-] Courtyard. Zhou Shu looked at her and said, "I want to ask you something, you'd better tell the truth, because someone will definitely come to you later."

"What, what do you say?"

"Back then, Fu Chengyang joined forces with your younger brother Gongsun Kuo and Prince Beirong to kill Su Tufeng and his wife, did you know?"

As soon as Zhou Shu saw Concubine Yugui just now, he knew that Su Yuan would be arrested later.Because Su Yuan had told her about the past about her parents.If Concubine Yu Gui had something to do with this matter, then Su Yuan would naturally not let it go.

Concubine Yu Gui shook her head when she heard about this, "I don't know." She said in a panic, "I know about this...but it wasn't my idea, it has nothing to do with me..."

"……you are lying."

"What? I didn't!"

Concubine Yu hurriedly defended herself, but she was obviously not very good at disguising, her wandering eyes and flustered tone revealed that what she said was a lie.

Zhou Shu knew now that other people might be able to escape, but Concubine Yugui could never think about it.Not only herself, but if the entire Gongsun family hadn't escaped with that boat, they probably wouldn't be able to survive anymore.

……

In the evening, the Bei'an army pressed some court officials to the central long street.

All of them looked ashen, as if they had foreseen that they would not be able to survive this test.But compared with Lu Guang, they are lucky.

The dignified Minister of the Ministry of War was actually subjected to such inhuman torture. They all felt extremely painful just watching, not to mention Lu Guang, who was the one who suffered.Therefore, when the torture was over, Lu Guang, who was thrown back into the cell, directly chose to slam his head against the wall to death.

Others also want to seek death, but they can't show the courage after all, and deep down in their hearts, they still have an unrealistic fantasy.There may be a way out of the fantasy, and even fantasy that when they are executed, there will be the "robbing the execution ground" situation in the romance novel.

But all that was impossible. After the group of people were taken to the long street, they saw ordinary people all around them.Most of these ordinary people were working. When they found out that a group of court officials had been tied up and escorted, they all stopped their work and stared at them.

The fire in the inner city of the capital was related to many of them.Even if they were not the ones who set the fire themselves, they were the ones who ordered the soldiers under them to set the fire.

Because of them, tens of thousands of people were burned to death. This hatred made the people working at the moment want to rush forward and beat these wolves to death.

Su Yuan was also on the scene at this time, and he ordered the soldiers: "Evacuate the common people."

The soldiers immediately separated the surrounding people and made way for them.The bound court officials stood alone in the middle of the long street, not knowing what they were doing.Behead?This is not a prison...

Some of them chanted: "We have something to say!"

It's a pity that no one paid attention to it, and the only response was the sound of horseshoes approaching from a distance.

Hooves...?
Rumble rumble rumble...

At the end of the long street, hundreds of Bei'an Army cavalry galloped on horseback. The street was cleared of irrelevant people, and the common people stood on both sides, witnessing the situation.

This was Su Yuan's order. He told the common people in the afternoon to let them see with their own eyes how he would deal with those heinous court officials.

Now is the time for the reveal.

Hundreds of cavalry rumbled forward, and the faces of the court officials who were tied up in the middle of the long street showed terrified expressions, and some of them were distorted.They realized what was about to happen, that Su Yuan traitor actually wanted them to be trampled to death in front of the common people in the capital!
"No, stop now!"

"You can't do that!!"

Begging for mercy and cursing were heard endlessly, but no one paid any attention to it, and Su Yuan just watched indifferently from the crowd.

The cavalry approached, and under the powerful charge, the center of the long street immediately exploded with blood.Immediately afterwards there was the sound of "咔咚咚", which was the sound of bones breaking and breaking.

The common people stared wide-eyed, seeing the tragic situation of those once invincible guys under the horse's hooves, they only felt extremely happy in their hearts!They all waved and applauded.

Tianjie has trampled all the bones of the public, but Su Yuan feels that it is not enough, this is only a part, and the other part should have fallen to this end but escaped by boat.This made him very dissatisfied, and he also made up his mind that sooner or later they would all taste the feeling of being trampled and broken by a horse's hoof.

The imperial court officials in the center of the long street have long been silent. It only takes a few hundred cavalrymen to go back and forth, and it is enough for all of them to return to Jiuquan.What's more, the cavalry raced back and forth for three rounds, no matter how hard the bones were, they would be crushed.

After the cavalry left, many people looked at the mess with tears in their eyes.

Naturally, they were not crying for these dead court officials, but for those relatives and friends who died in the fire.On the one hand, they were mourning them, and on the other hand, the hatred that they thought could not be repaid was released at this moment, which made them feel refreshed and relieved.

In this way, the burden in my heart will gradually be unloaded, and I will start a new life...

　Remarks:
　　1. Found a big bug in the article, it took a lot of time to fix it...

　　
　
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