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

Chapter 294
"The so-called killing the gods is just killing the heart."

Li Xuan stood at the window, turned her head slightly, looked at Liu Ji, and asked indifferently: "Lieutenant Liu, how many people do you think will abandon their beliefs in order to survive."

"There will be no one." Liu Ji replied coldly, but his eyes were fixed on the Caishikou in the distance.

Clenching his fists, his face was gloomy.

Kang Yao stood there, with the commotion crowd below, and the Tianyin believers who were about to be beheaded on the side. Except for Xu San who had begged for mercy, everyone else had their heads down, their long hair hanging down, and they couldn't see their faces.

Li Xuan's eyes fell on Liu Ji's cuff, and he said calmly: "The dagger on the captain's sleeve can't do anything to this king, even if it is painted with heartbroken grass."

In an instant, Liu Ji tightly clenched his cuffs.

He slowly raised his head, and looked at Li Xuan with disbelief.

At this time, Li Xuan had already looked in the direction of Caishikou again.

Although he didn't say a word, even though he was close at hand, Liu Ji didn't dare to move at all.

……

"Wait, there are still people who are willing to repent..." Kang Yao lowered his head, looking at the Tianyin believers who bowed their heads beside him.

But at this moment, no one looked up, and no one responded.

The common people below were inexplicably relieved, especially nearly half of them were Tianyin believers.

"I'll ask you a second time, but is there anyone willing to repent?" Kang Yao's voice suddenly became cold, with his hands behind his back, his expression cold.

At this moment, the executioner behind those prisoners took a step forward at the same time, and stood behind them, holding a big knife in his hand, but fixed his eyes on the back of the prisoners' necks, with a murderous look.

As time passed, the entire Caishikou gradually became quiet.

The common people below, at this time, also inexplicably lost their voices.

The entire Caishikou became more and more silent. At this moment, Kang Yao's voice sounded again: "I will ask you again for the third time and the last time. Among you, is there anyone who is willing to repent?"

Kang Yao's voice echoed throughout the Caishi entrance, and for no reason, everyone's hearts tugged.

Liu Dao looked coldly at the death row prisoners on the ground, his eyes swept over Kang Yao, and finally turned his head to the back, raised his left hand slightly, and a series of instructions had been sent out during gestures.

The family guards behind him quickly dispersed and stood in different positions.

If you observe carefully, you can immediately find that these people have faintly surrounded the entire high platform, and as long as they move, they can immediately kill the high platform.

Kang Yao didn't seem to see all this at all, his attention was still on those Tianyin sect gangsters, watching them say coldly: "Since no one is willing, then the executioner, behead!"

Just when Kang Yao gave the order to behead, Liu Dao was also ready for his subordinates to beg for help, and he slowly raised his hand.

The executioner behind took a step forward and stood beside the condemned prisoner. He raised the beheading knife in his hand, but slowly.

At this moment, almost everyone's eyes were on these executioners.

The icy light of the knife slowly flashed past the eyes of a death row prisoner, as if the icy light of the knife directly shot into his heart.

Almost instantly, everyone saw that the death row inmate suddenly trembled inexplicably.

Under the horrified eyes of everyone, a trembling voice said: "I...I...I am willing!"

Saying a word, it was as if all the strength in his body was drained, and the death row prisoner lay on the ground all of a sudden, his whole body trembling.

Liu Dao below clenched his fist tightly for a moment.

He couldn't believe that there were still people who abandoned their faith at the last moment.

As if opening a Pandora's box, another death row prisoner who was next to him also shuddered violently, and his whole body directly knocked his head on the ground: "Little man, please forgive me."

At this time, even the other death row prisoners looked at the begging for mercy of those before them in disbelief.

However, something that surprised everyone happened. The No.3 death row prisoner next to him lowered his head at the same time: "Little man, please forgive me!"

"There are villains."

"There are villains..."

A series of begging voices sounded throughout the Caishi entrance, one after another, as if they had been rehearsed in advance.

Liu Dao below suddenly thought about some inappropriate things before, and a vague idea appeared in his mind.

Then, Kang Yao didn't give him time at all: "I am generous, so I won't pursue you for the crime of delaying the delay. You should know how to do it. Come and help them up."

The executioners behind the death row prisoners retracted their right hands, and they retracted the beheading knife in mid-air between their right arms, and then used their left hands to help the death row prisoners one by one to the tablet.

Needless to say the rest, under the horrified eyes of everyone at Caishikou, these death row prisoners all urinated on the portraits and tablets of Goddess Tianyin.

The Tianyin believers below had already clenched their fists tightly, and the atmosphere at the entrance of the vegetable market was very oppressive, as if there was only one spark that could detonate it immediately.

Many believers looked at their altar master, and Liu Dao's guards focused their eyes on him.

But at this time, Liu Dao was still hesitating. He already smelled something wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

Without waiting for any reaction from them, Kang Yao walked directly to the center of the high platform, unfolded a yellow list in his hand, and began to read it loudly.

"Under the sky, the emperor's grace is mighty. Today, there are rebels from the Tianyin Sect who want to conspire to cause chaos and disrupt the country's design. Now I am following the order of Wuzhou Biejia, the king of Nanchang County, the inspector Zuo Qianniu Wei Zhonglang: Dongyang County, From now on, we will do our best to track down the Tianyin traitors, and no portraits, stone carvings, wood carvings, etc. of the Tianyin Goddess should be kept in the homes of the people. Anyone who has them will be punished for treason.

I am beheaded regardless of head and slaves; his father and sons over 16 years old are strangled; wives and concubines and sons under 15 years old, as well as mother, daughter, son's wives and concubines, grandsons, grandfathers, brothers and sisters are all enlisted as servants; Qu, slaves, property, and houses are all without officials; uncles, uncles, and nephews, whether they live together or not, are all three thousand miles away. "

Kang Yao's voice was unusually cold, but it reached everyone's ears very clearly.

Everyone looked at Kang Yao in disbelief. Some people almost burned Kang Yao to death with the anger and hatred in their eyes.

For many years, Tianyin Goddess has been spread in Muzhou, Wuzhou, Quzhou, Kuozhou, Taizhou, Yuezhou, Hangzhou and other places.

Slogans such as "Reborn in Tianyin, only wishing for light", "Goddess of Tianyin, the hometown of Tianzuo", "Pity me the world, and ascend to the kingdom of God forever" are widely spread in the southeast, which shows that the teachings are widely popular.

Now these people, at least more than [-]% of them often worship Tianyin Goddess on weekdays.

There are countless people who pay respects to them from time to time, and almost all of them are worshiped by relatives and friends at home.

Just now, the government used life and death to force those condemned prisoners to give up their beliefs and desecrate the statue of Tianyin Goddess, which has already had an extremely violent impact on everyone's body and mind.

Their anger towards the government and those traitors has long been intense to the extreme.

Now as long as someone takes the lead, they will immediately rush to the high platform and tear Kang Yao and others to pieces.

Just when the anger was about to be ignited, Kang Yao suddenly said: "The execution is over today, and everyone returns to their homes, but when those who come to watch the execution today, when they leave, as long as the Tianyin Saintess at the entrance of the alley If you spit on the image, from now on, no one will pursue you for treachery, but if you don't, it may be difficult for you to leave today."

Hearing Kang Yao's words, everyone subconsciously looked towards the alleys on both sides, and suddenly saw that several black-clothed police officers had pasted the portrait of Goddess Tianyin on the alleys.

Sensing everyone's gaze, the black-clothed police officers sneered disdainfully, and then spit directly on the portrait of Goddess Tianyin.

Watching the dirty saliva flow down, the anger in some people's hearts was completely ignited in an instant: "Kill these dogs..."

With a sound of "嗖", the long arrow shot straight down from mid-air, and then ruthlessly penetrated into the throat of the person who opened the mouth, his words were completely blocked back.

Before the people at Caishikou could react, at this time, more long arrows were shot down in the air, and in a blink of an eye they were nailed fiercely on the foreheads of many tall and strong men present. In an instant, 30 people Blood spurted out, and then slowly fell to the ground without making any sound.

Seeing the blood slowly flowing under their feet, the ordinary people who were rushing in anger trembled all over their bodies, as if their spine had been broken, and lowered their heads, staring at the blood below.

On the high platform, more than a dozen archers kept drawing their bows and arrows, and rushed out from both sides of the high platform at the same time, their hands were like thunderbolts, and they shot continuously. Dozens of people fell to the ground completely, bleeding profusely, and there was no more sound.

Liu Dao lowered his head, clenched his fist tightly, and dared not move.

He had a feeling that at this moment, there were countless archers staring at him.

As long as he made a slight move, countless long arrows would pierce it directly.

Those who fell on the ground now were either the family guards he brought in, or the altar masters of various squares in the city, and now they all fell to the ground.

Even with one or two exceptions, they are all the most loyal believers in the religion.

These people are all dead now, Liu Dao now fully understands.

Today, this is a killing round against them, using the rebellion of the death row prisoners on the high platform to identify the loyal Tianyin believers among them, and then shooting them to death in one fell swoop.

Perhaps it was because he had already guessed something before, so Liu Dao's reaction was not violent, so he was not targeted... right?

At this moment, Kang Yao's voice sounded again: "Now, everyone, line up and go home from the alley. You all know what to do, right?"

Hearing Kang Yao's words, Liu Dao fell into ice-cold all over his body.

(End of this chapter)