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Chapter 396 The vicious King of Han

A prince came to Lingnan. He was the emperor's biological son, not an exiled king of the opposite sex. This surprised the people of Lingnan.

Lingnan has been a place of exile since ancient times. People who come to Lingnan have committed serious crimes or angered the emperor, but no good people will come to Lingnan.Besides, no prince, the emperor’s biological son, has ever come to Lingnan.

This King of Han is the first prince to come to Lingnan, which is really strange!
The people in Lingnan felt that although the King of Han was the emperor's biological son, he was said to be not favored, so he was disliked by the emperor and rushed to Lingnan.

The King of Han was really pitiful. The dignified prince had not committed a serious crime or done anything wrong, but he was ruthlessly exiled to Lingnan by the emperor.

The Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty was really cruel. As the saying goes, a tiger cannot eat its young if it is poisoned. The emperor was even crueler than the tigers in the mountains of Lingnan. He actually exiled his own son to Lingnan to die.

Before Zhao Yao arrived in Lingnan, various rumors about him spread in various states in Lingnan.Both the people and officials in Lingnan are very curious about Zhao Yao, the prince who came to Lingnan to die.

As for why Zhao Yao was not favored by the emperor, people in Lingnan speculated that Zhao Yao's mother and concubine were not favored, so the emperor hated his youngest son.It is said that Zhao Yao was ugly and disgusted by the emperor.It was also said that Zhao Yao's birth was unknown, which was why the emperor hated him.There are various theories, but I don’t know who took the lead in saying that Zhao Yao is an ominous person who will bring disaster to the people around him.When he comes to Lingnan, he will definitely bring great disaster to Lingnan.

The people of Lingnan were already living a very miserable life. If another ominous prince came and made their lives even more miserable, then they would never let the King of Han come to Lingnan.

Many people ran to the Yamen and begged local officials to help them report to the court and prevent the King of Han from coming to Lingnan to kill them.

Lingnan officials were very satisfied with the result, but just when they were complacent.Businessmen from other places told the people in Lingnan that the King of Han was not an ominous person as rumored. On the contrary, the King of Han was auspicious. He had done many good things and allowed people in many places to have enough food and live a good life.

They told the people in Lingnan that the King of Han made new paper, printing, curved shaft plows, new textile machines and other things that benefited the people at a very young age.The most important thing is that the rice they are growing now was all handed over by the King of Han to Annan, Siam and other countries.

The imperial court had long promoted the good things such as the curved shaft plow and new textile looms made by the Han Dynasty to various places without asking for people's money, and Lingnan was no exception.It's just that the officials in Lingnan are evil-minded and corrupt, and they don't give these good things to the people for free use.If people want to use it, they have to pay a high fee.

Naturally, the people in Lingnan did not know these things, and they were suspicious of the words of foreign businessmen.The officials in Lingnan told them not to believe the words of the foreign merchants, and also slandered the foreign merchants as belonging to the King of Han and deliberately came to confuse them.

Compared with the words of foreign businessmen, the people of Lingnan certainly believed in the words of officials, even if these officials had always treated them harshly.

The imperial court soon learned that Lingnan officials had deceived their superiors and sent an imperial envoy to deal with the matter.

The imperial envoy first went to Taichuan Prefecture to investigate, and sure enough he found that officials had concealed the fact that the imperial court promoted Quyuan plows and new textile machines for free and rented them to the people at high prices.The officials of Taichuan Mansion were purged from top to bottom. Apart from these things, these officials dared to slander the tenth prince. The emperor directly ordered the imperial envoy to punish those officials on the spot.

Just a few months before Zhao Yao came to Lingnan, the ground at Caishikou in Taichuan Prefecture was dyed red with blood.This is the first time since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty that matters in Lingnan have been strictly controlled.

The people in Lingnan learned that everything the foreign businessmen had said was true, and they were very dissatisfied with the officials in Lingnan. They had been deceived and bullied by the officials for so long.

The imperial envoy told the people in Lingnan that the emperor asked the tenth prince to come to Lingnan, firstly because he valued the tenth prince, and secondly because the emperor wanted the tenth prince to benefit Lingnan.

The people who had heard the rumors originally opposed Zhao Yao's coming to Lingnan, but since the officials of Taichuan Prefecture were beheaded, they have been eagerly waiting for Zhao Yao's arrival every day.

After the officials of Taichuan Mansion were purged by the imperial court, word began to spread in Lingnan about what Zhao Yao had done for the imperial court and the people over the years.In teahouses in various states in Lingnan, storytellers talked vividly about Zhao Yao, and as he talked about it, Zhao Yao, the tenth prince, soon turned into a powerful figure with three heads and six arms.

The people in Lingnan were increasingly looking forward to Zhao Yao's arrival, but the officials in Lingnan did not want the King of Han to come to Lingnan.

The fate of the officials of Taichuan Prefecture did not scare them. On the contrary, it made them more determined to get rid of the King of Han.These people were used to showing off their power in Lingnan. They felt that they were the masters of Lingnan. How could they allow the King of Han to step on their heads?Besides, when the King of Han comes, their wealth will be cut off.

Cutting off someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.Officials in Lingnan naturally regarded Zhao Yao, who parachuted into Lingnan, as an enemy of blood and must be killed.

When the officials of the Marsh Mansion learned that Zhao Yao wanted to keep the palace in their place, of course they were unwilling.When the Han Dynasty's palace was being built, they tried every means to obstruct and destroy it, which led Zhao Yao to Marsh Mansion. His palace had not yet been built.

Zhao Yao has been in Marsh Mansion for ten days.During these ten days, Zhao Yao was very busy because he did a lot of things.In the first two days after he arrived at Marsh Mansion, he just let the workers continue to build his palace and did nothing else.

Seeing that he was not doing anything, the officials of the Marsh Mansion thought that he had no courage and thought that he was useless, so they planned to bully him again. However, on the third day, the King of Han began to show off his power.

On the third day after Zhao Yao arrived, he began to liquidate the officials of Marsh Mansion.

Before he came to Marsh Mansion, he asked Zheng Qian to investigate and collect evidence of the crimes of Marsh Mansion officials.

Witnesses and physical evidence gathered together, but the officials of Marsh Mansion not only refused to admit it, but also shouted at Zhao Yao.

After Zhao Yao pronounced their crimes, the next day, which was the fourth day after he arrived in Marsh Mansion, he personally supervised the execution of all the officials of Marsh Mansion and their families.

All the officials in the Marsh Mansion were guilty, and no one was innocent.Not only that, their family members also did all kinds of evil things in Marsh Mansion.According to the laws of the Zhou Dynasty, all of them were beheaded.

Zhao Yao knew that the Marsh Mansion was clamoring against him because he thought he would not hold the law accountable.It's a pity that the officials of the Marsh Mansion don't understand Zhao Yao's temperament, and it doesn't work here for Zhao Yao not to blame the public.

There were hundreds of officials and their families in the Marsh Mansion, and they would definitely not be able to cut them all in one day.Zhao Yao beheaded one or two hundred people every day, from morning to night, and in front of the people of the entire Marsh Mansion.

Of course, the old, weak, women and children in the families of these officials were not beheaded, but their fate was also very tragic.The elderly, women and children were all exiled to Qiongzhou Prefecture, not far from Lingnan.

In addition to Lingnan, the place of exile, the Great Zhou Dynasty also had Qiongzhou and Dianzhou.These two places are even more remote and wild than Lingnan.Exiled to Lingnan, there are three levels of possibility of survival, but exiled to Qiongzhou and Dianzhou, there is only one level of hope of survival.

It took three consecutive days of beheading to deal with all the officials of the Marsh Mansion, his family, slaves and accomplices.The people of Marsh Mansion did not expect the King of Han to be so ruthless.They had seen the King of Han arrive at the Marsh Mansion before and did nothing, allowing the officials to bully them. They thought that the King of Han was timid and afraid of getting into trouble, but they did not expect that the King of Han went on a killing spree.

During the execution, Zhao Yao asked his men to announce everyone's crime.The people were furious when they heard this. Before the executioner beheaded them, they picked up stones, vegetables, or other objects and threw them at the officials kneeling on the execution platform.

Although the people thought King Han was cruel, they thought he did the right thing.They felt very relieved when they saw those dog officials who ate people without spitting out their bones being beheaded.

Officials from other state capitals did not expect that the King of Han would be so cruel and kill all the officials from Shuma Prefecture, leaving no one alive!They were frightened by Zhao Yao's methods and cruelty. For a moment, they cowered and did not dare to be as unscrupulous as before.

After killing the officials of Marsh Mansion, Zhao Yao began to send people to attack several tribes in Marsh Mansion.The chieftains of these tribes colluded with officials and did many unscrupulous things.Also, many people in these tribes have done a lot to humiliate and kill people, and none of these people will be spared.

The people who attacked several tribes were all trained by Zhao Yao more than ten years ago. Later, they were severely trained by He Lianfang, and then they were sent to other places to work.Over the years, they have become the sharpest knife in Zhao Yao's hand.

Not to mention a few tribes, they are not afraid even when facing well-trained soldiers.

Furthermore, before taking action against these tribes, they had already investigated the affairs of these tribes inside and out.Within a few days, they captured these tribes and captured the chieftains alive.

Just after killing the officials of Marsh Mansion, Zhao Yao started to chop off the heads of the chieftains again.

These chieftains and their families were completely uprooted, just like the officials.Those who did evil things were not spared.

Excluding the first two days after arriving, Zhao Yao was busy chopping people's heads for the remaining eight days.In the past few days, the entire Swamp Mansion has been filled with a strong smell of blood.

The people of Marsh Mansion hated the chieftains of these tribes and their lackeys.They were bullied by the officials and the chieftains. They had long been full of resentment, but they were no match for the dog officials and chieftains, so they could only endure it.Now, the King of Han came and killed them all directly, which was very satisfying.

The people who have lived in Marsh Mansion for a lifetime or decades have been deeply exploited by these people. Now they finally no longer need to be persecuted by these thieves.Many people cried loudly on the spot. They were not crying for these thieves, but for themselves and their relatives who were killed by them.

The people of Marsh Mansion are full of gratitude to Zhao Yao, because Zhao Yao got rid of the two mountains that had been oppressing them and avenged them.

After Zhao Yao dealt with these people in accordance with the law, he told the people of Marsh Mansion that they would not be persecuted again in the future.They will be able to live peacefully in the future without having to worry about their lives and the lives of their families all the time.Of course, they can't break the law.If they violated Zhou's laws, he would not let them go.

After seeing Zhao Yao's methods, how could the people of Marsh Mansion dare to break the law.

After dealing with the cancer in Marsh Mansion, Zhao Yao will start construction.

In Marsh Mansion, only the officials and chieftains had magnificent homes, while the homes of ordinary people were in tatters.Not only that, most of the roads in Marsh Mansion are full of potholes and very difficult to walk.

A great man said it well, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads.

Zhao Yao decided to repair the road in Marsh Mansion first.As for the docks in Marsh Mansion, there is no need to build them for the time being. Previously, in order to facilitate smuggling with people from Annan, Luzon and other countries, those officials forced the people to build docks.

The pier of Marsh Mansion is large and spacious, and Zhao Yao does not need to expand it for the time being.

Zhao Yao's people were not enough to build roads, so Zhao Yao asked the people to build roads.Of course, we don’t want the people to build roads in vain.Although according to regulations, the people of Marsh Mansion have to do corvee work, when Zhao Yao first came to Marsh Mansion, he asked the people to do corvee work to build roads. The people would definitely complain, thinking that Zhao Yao was the same as those dog officials before, so Zhao Yao decided to give the people benefit.

First, give people wages.Although the salary is not much, food is included.Second, exempt the people from some taxes and corvees.Third, rewards will be given to the people.If the people build roads very well, Zhao Yao will help them build houses.

The properties copied from the previous officials and chieftains shocked He Lianfang and all of them for 100 years.Zhao Yao had long expected that these people had a lot of property, so he was not too surprised.

The money given to the people to build roads and the money to build houses for the people are naturally paid with the confiscated money.Zhao Yao did not intend to keep this money for himself.First, he is not short of money.two is.This money was originally obtained by oppressing the people in the village, and was also obtained by smuggling.Since this money is "taken" from the people, then it should be returned to the people.

The people of Marsh Mansion couldn't believe that the King of Han wanted to pay them and build houses for them. This... They never got money for doing things for the government, but got a lot of whippings.Not to mention the government building a house for them, this is simply... They must be dreaming, how could such a good thing happen.

The people did not believe that Zhao Yao would be so kind. They felt that there must be a bigger conspiracy behind the King of Han's actions.

Zhao Yao was not surprised by the people's doubts.He told the people that he had found a lot of money from those people, but he would not use the money himself.However, he will use the money for business and to benefit the people.

Before building the road, Zhao Yao first paid one month's wages to those who signed up.

Seeing that the King of Han had really distributed money, the people of Shuma Mansion enthusiastically signed up to build the road.

He Lianfang, Zheng Qian and others admired Zhao Yao's strategy of "taking it from the people and using it for the people". It not only allowed the people to actively build roads, but also won over the people's hearts.

During his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang killed many officials, totaling tens of thousands.

Zhao Yao, like the emperor, did not accept the rule of not blaming the public.

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