People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 293 The so-called killing gods is just punishing the heart
"Go!" One by one, the blood-stained figures were tied up with ropes, pulled, pushed, and led, and walked up to the execution platform in a state of embarrassment.

Liu Dao was crowded in the crowd, with a beard all over his face, no one could recognize him.

He stared at the congregation walking on the execution platform, and the anger in his heart was almost satisfied.

These people, he was the one who arranged to send them back to his home one by one.

Even the earliest, he personally selected these people and sent them to the mountains to receive training for several years.

But now, Liu Dao wanted to watch these subordinates be beheaded on the spot, but he couldn't do anything.

He can't.

Raising his head, he saw that on the execution platform in front of him, Dongyang County Prime Minister Gu Tan, Dongyang County Wei Kangyao and others were all standing there, whispering to each other as if they were waiting for noon to come.

Withdrawing his gaze, Liu Dao looked around.

Now, in the face of this killing, almost one-third of the people in Dongyang have come here.

It was packed inside and out.

Among them, nearly half of them are followers of Goddess Tianyin.

In fact, in Dongyang County, the followers of Tianyin Goddess do not have much advantage in the number of residents in the entire county.

After all, this is the county seat, and those who can live in the county seat will not have a bad family background.

Only those low-level people who are really miserable, but they are the easiest to become believers of Tianyin Goddess.

Although less than half of them are here now, it is almost the total number of all Tianyin believers in Dongyang.

As long as he can completely arouse the anger in the hearts of the people, Liu Dao can use this anger to completely flatten the entire Dongyang.

Liu Dao's eyes flicked over the faces of many people. He has actually seen quite a few of these people.

It's just a pity that almost none of them knew him in turn.

This is not surprising, Liu Dao never showed his true face when the congregation gathered in the past.

It is to prevent everyone in the government from following the clues and catching him.

Similarly, he didn't want any of his disciples to be arrested by the government and tortured because they knew his identity.

Therefore, it is not easy for Liu Dao to gather the congregants in front of him and lead them to the high platform to save people.

But it's not too difficult, there is a unified method of communication in the religion, as long as they pass hand formulas, they can confirm each other.

Liu Dao looked around behind him. More than a dozen guards were protecting him, carefully separating him from the others.

Entering the city today, knowing that the risk is very high, how could Liu Dao let his father enter the city alone? How could he not bring enough guards.

Under a whole set of code words, Liu Dao has silently conveyed the order.

Half of the surrounding guards immediately dispersed to contact the others, and then waited for the opportunity to kill them on the execution platform in one fell swoop.

At this moment, a carriage covered with felt cloth was quickly pulled in by the county government from the side of the vegetable market.

Before they got close, everyone could already smell a bloody smell.

Before the carriage came to a complete stop and the felt was lifted, a bloody arm slipped out of the felt.

Everyone who saw this scene was stunned, and then immediately fell silent.

The corpses under the felt were undoubtedly the elites of the Tianyin Sect who were massacred by officers and soldiers last night.

And their parents and brothers.

Not everyone will choose to succumb to the butcher's knife.

Although Li Xuan's method last night did work in some places, in some places, he encountered resolute and crazy resistance, and the final result was bloody killings.

One after another, the corpses were lifted from the carriage, revealing the bloody faces underneath.

All these people were placed on the execution platform like this, and at the same time they were pulled there, and there were guys with their heads hanging down, disheveled and unable to see their faces clearly.

"Silence!" A majestic voice suddenly sounded from the high platform ahead.

Then, a burly figure walked out with a blank expression on his face.

Wei Kangyao of Dongyang County.

Wearing a light blue official robe, Kang Yao held a white list in his right hand and walked to the center of the high platform with a solemn expression.

Behind them are a group of criminals who are covered with black cloth and are about to be beheaded. In front of them is a pile of bloody corpses lying flat on the ground.

Under the high platform further ahead, nearly a thousand Dongyang residents were looking at Kang Yao and the corpse on the ground with complicated expressions.

Last night, the officials in Dongyang County searched almost one by one.

As long as the criminals on the list were arrested immediately, they were handcuffed and fettered in an instant.

That's all right, when the family members of the prisoner came to obstruct, they immediately handcuffed the family members of the prisoner.

If there are not many family members of the prisoner, and all of them have been handcuffed, then the officials will arrest the soldiers and leave immediately.

But if there are many family members of the prisoner, and they only intercede, but are not handcuffed, at this time, the officials and the police will take out all the portraits, sculptures, and stone carvings of Goddess Tianyin that they found earlier.

If the family members of the criminals are willing to insult these Tianyin Goddess statues, then their crimes of sitting together will be reduced by one level.

If they were unwilling to insult these Tianyin Goddess statues, those who spoke fiercely and even couldn't help but beg for mercy would be directly arrested; those who spoke softly and only begged for mercy, they would just temporarily lock them up at home and wait for subsequent disposal.

So don't look at the number of Tianyin believers who came here today, but this is actually the sum of the number of Tianyin believers in the entire Dongyang County.

The others were basically locked up if they could be locked up, and if they weren't locked up, they were all killed.

These are the ones on the ground.

How could their neighbors in the same square not know what happened.

Looking at the complex expressions on the faces of the audience, Kang Yao said with a cold face: "Today, there are Tianyin believers who are causing trouble in Dongyang. On the order of Wuzhou don't drive, Dongyang county magistrate, all the arrested Tianyin believers will be beheaded. Kill the followers of Tianyin Cult, and expose all their corpses for three days."

The air at Caishikou seemed to be completely frozen, no one spoke, not even a word.

At this time, Kang Yao turned around, looked at Gu Tan on the high platform, and said in a deep voice: "Report to the county magistrate, there are 17 people who have committed crimes today, and today they are ordered to behead them as a public example, as a warning to others."

"Yes!" Gu Tan looked at Kang Yao calmly and nodded slightly.

"County Chancellor," a figure stood up from the other side, looked at Gu Tan and cupped his hands and said, "Reporting to County Chancellor, according to the Yonghui Law, criminals have the right to appeal once, even criminals who conspire against each other have the right to appeal once." .”

The one who spoke was Xi Ying, a soldier who joined the army, and now he is inspecting the post of Cao Cao in Dongyang.

"Yun!" Gu Tan nodded lightly.

Liu Dao under the high platform frowned slightly watching this scene.

He is not an ordinary person who doesn't understand anything. The court kills people under normal circumstances with caution. The state and county law officers have repeatedly reviewed, approved by the Ministry of Punishment, reviewed by Dali Temple, and approved by the emperor. These are all procedures that should exist.

At the beginning, Liu Dao thought the same as what Li Xuan said.

Tianyin Sect's followers rebelled against each other, and everything was naturally dealt with according to the wartime situation, using murder to deter everyone.

But now looking at the actions that he and Gu Tan are going to direct and act on their own, Liu Dao feels more and more wrong.

"Bah!" The hair of the prisoner on the far left was pulled up, revealing a fierce face with a beard.

Xu San, Xu San in the east of the city.

Not only did Liu Dao know Xu San, but many people at the scene actually knew Xu San.

"Xu Qi, 27 years old, male, third grade, lives in No. [-] Courtyard, Kunshan Lane, Dongji Nianfang, Dongyang City. He was interrogated on suspicion of being a Tianyin traitor. The portrait of the Goddess of Tianyin, the stone carvings, etc., were passed through the Wuzhou Biejia, and the Dongyang county magistrate judged, and the decision was made, so I have something to defend."

"Reborn in the cloudy sky, only wish for light."

Xu San raised his head, looked at everyone with a solemn expression, gritted his teeth and said: "Xu San does things brightly, one is one, and two is two, if you want to kill, kill or cut, don't talk nonsense."

"Do you have any unfulfilled wish?" Kang Yao asked in a formal manner.

"Wish?" Xu San couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "I don't know, my old lady."

Kang Yao looked at Xu San with some pity, shook his head, and said in a cold voice: "According to the law: even sitting, eighty sticks, three thousand miles, thinking of his old age, ten sticks, three hundred miles..."

"Don't say it's three hundred miles, even if it's thirty miles, I will die." Hearing that the old lady was about to be rode ten times and flowed three hundred miles, Xu San immediately became anxious, and tried to struggle to crawl towards Kang Yao. : "My lord, can I let the villain be punished instead of my mother, and then execute the villain, my lord, please..."

"Now that you know you have to be a filial piety, why did you go to provoke the Tianyin Sect?" Kang Yao gave Xu San a hard look, and said coldly, "It's too late!"

"It's late, it's late!" Xu San was stunned suddenly, his face was numb, and two lines of cold water flowed down his face involuntarily.

Suddenly Xu San tried hard to turn around, but was tightly restrained by the handcuffs and shackles. He could only move vigorously, and at the same time, he slammed his head against the stone slab and begged for mercy: "My lord, please, my little one!" Death is not a pity, but I can't let my old lady down, my lord, please..."

Xu San has been wailing there for a quarter of an hour, and a pile of blood was knocked out on his forehead, which was extremely miserable.

Kang Yao just raised his hand and stopped Xu San: "There is no way, it's because of your filial piety, over there."

Kang Yao pointed to the stone sculptures and portraits of the Tianyin Goddess over there, and said coldly: "If you want to save your old lady, and if you want everyone in your family to be free from the crime of sitting together, you have to get rid of the apostasy." The severance of ties..."

"Small man, small man..." With a difficult choice, Xu San's face turned blue and white, and he turned his head to look at the people in the audience. Many of them were Tianyin believers, but at this time, there were no People say half a word for him,
Finally, Xu San fell to the ground powerlessly, and said pleadingly, "For my mother, I am willing."

There was a small uproar in the crowd for a while, but the voice quickly became low.

Although many Tianyin Sect members knew that what Xu San did was wrong, they did not criticize him too severely.

Filial piety is one of the world's avenues.

But Liu Dao in the crowd felt more and more wrong.

"Come on, help him." Kang Yao waved his hand, and immediately a soldier came over and helped Xu San to the pile of statues.

Kang Yao looked at Xu San with a half-smile, and then said something in a low voice, Xu San's face changed drastically in an instant.

Everyone saw the change in Xu San's face, but they didn't know what Kang Yao said. In the next moment, Xu San was suddenly unshackled, and then...then he untied his belt ...

"Wow..." Xu San actually urinated directly on the Tianyin Goddess in front of nearly a thousand people at Caishikou.

For a moment, everyone was stunned, and their eyes subconsciously turned to Kang Yao who was standing on the side.

Seeing this scene, Kang Yao showed a sneer on his face, then walked to the side of the other prisoners, and asked in a cold voice: "I ask, wait, but there are still people who are willing to repent..."

(End of this chapter)