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

Chapter 343 The emperor's rights, the death of the transgressor
Under the dark night sky, more than half of Wuzhou City was lit up with fire.

The sound of tumult filled my ears.

Riding on a tall horse, Li Xuan walked slowly on the long street under the protection of a group of Qianniu guards and Kuaiji government soldiers.

From time to time, screams could be heard, followed by the clash of weapons.

……

A loud "squeak" sound of the door opening suddenly came from the left.

Li Xuan turned her head subconsciously, and saw an ox cart coming out of the square gate first.

Under the flickering firelight, a bloody corpse lay alone on it, with a bloody hole the size of a fist opening in its chest.

Fang Yunxiu, Fang Yunxiu, the master of Wuzhou Hall of Tianyin Sect.

A prison cart followed closely behind, carrying two corpses nearly riddled with crossbow bolts.

Two months ago, the assassin who assassinated the assassin Wang Fang Lin lost his palm and lost his life.

After that, five carts piled up with corpses.

The blood kept dripping, drop by drop.

It seems that it is inexplicably permeable.

There are more than a dozen people behind, howling non-stop, pulled out from behind the gate by the ropes and swords.

There were adults, old people, children, and women and girls. Dozens of them were pulled out together by a long rope.

Li Xuan watched the group of people being dragged away calmly without saying a word.

At this time, Yan Tao couldn't help but leaned forward: "My lord, I wonder if we can forgive them, those children are innocent."

"This king also wants to be lenient, but there is nothing to do with the law." Li Xuan turned around, patted Yan Tao on the shoulder, and said seriously: "This is the last time this king will tell you, you have to understand, They are the family members of those rebels, which also means that their whole family is devout believers of Tianyin Sect, and if the Tianyin Sect riots, their whole family will turn into thugs and take people's lives."

Li Xuan's eyes skipped over those children, and finally landed on Yan Tao again, and then said very coldly: "Once you go to the battlefield, if you still have this mentality, then don't blame me for beheading you, so as not to be shaken." Military spirit."

"I don't dare to be an official." Yan Tao immediately shuddered, and quickly bowed to apologize.

Li Xuan waved his hand, looked at the team on one side, and said calmly: "Go, take those two killers and Fang Yunxiu's weapon."

"Here!" Although Yan Tao didn't know what Li Xuan wanted to do, he immediately agreed and walked to the other side.

"My lord!" A voice sounded behind Li Xuan.

Li Xuan turned around, and saw Du Bixing standing aside with the school inspector Cao Canjun and Xu Jian, clasping their hands.

"How's the situation?" Li Xuan looked past the two of them, and landed directly on the square door behind them.

Du Bixing immediately cupped his hands and said: "Returning to the lord, now we have passed the four squares of Changxing, Virtue, Shunxing and Anxing, a total of 21 Tianyin sect disciples have been recognized, and their parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, and uncles have all passed away Imprisoned, the door of the house is sealed, the neighbors are cut off, and the rumors have been released, but..."

"Just what, to be honest?" Li Xuan frowned slightly.

"My lord, I wonder if we can screen his uncles and brothers, and those who are willing to blaspheme the Goddess Tianyin and sever ties with the Tianyin Sect will be lessened?" Du Bixing glanced over hundreds of people, and then said cautiously: "Can you let it set an example for others?"

Li Xuan leaned forward and looked at Du Bixing: "Mr. Du, you are now the procurator Cao Canjun, you come and tell me, is such a reduction of crime allowed in the Tang law?"

"Reporting to my lord, there is no such regulation in the laws of the Tang Dynasty, but my lord has the right to do so as the leader of Wuzhou..."

"You say yes, that's the king's authority." Li Xuan took a deep look at Du Bixing.

Du Bixing came to his senses immediately, cupped his hands and said: "This official has exceeded the rules."

"You're not breaking the rules, you just didn't think carefully." Li Xuan turned around, pointed to the people on the other side who were being pulled forward by Wuzhou conscripts, and said coldly: "The uncles and brothers you said If you want to be lenient, then the elderly and children will also have to reduce their crimes, have you ever thought about whether this king will immediately behead them for public display if they don't want to."

At the end of Li Xuan's speech, she was already gnashing her teeth.

He stared at Du Bixing, and said: "Now these are only the relatives of the assassins tonight, so how many Tianyin believers in the entire Wuzhou are unwilling to give up their beliefs, will the king want to kill them all?" Kill? Have you considered, how many people does this king have to kill to quell the dispute?"

Li Xuan has always been relentless in killing people, but when he can not kill people, he will try his best not to kill people.

Just like when he was in Dongyang, Li Xuan mostly chose to kill people.

Even at Caishikou, Li Xuan used death row prisoners as substitutes.

"Now that the Tianyin Sect's rebellion is approaching, once it is determined to be a rebel, it is impossible to hold back. At this time, if this method is used, once it is identified, it will die for a while without repentance. Is it true that this city will be filled with at least thousands of people? , all beheaded immediately for public display?" Li Xuan looked at Du Bixing and couldn't help shaking her head in disappointment.

However, Du Bixing said very calmly: "My lord, if you deeply believe in the Tianyin Sect, no matter what the lord does, they will eventually want to fight against the Tianyin Sect. It is better to start now, at least lock them up." , wait until after the fact to distinguish one by one, and."

After a short pause, Du Bixing looked at Li Xuan, and said in a solemn tone: "My lord, although there are many followers of the Tianyin Sect in Wuzhou today, I believe that there are more people who are not with him."

Li Xuan looked at Du Bixing, who was still insisting, and said softly: "Mr. Du, do you think this king has no other way to distinguish people's hearts besides the method of distinguishing Tianyin Sect?"

Du Bixing's face changed slightly, he cupped his hands and said: "My lord, my servant..."

Li Xuan waved his hand and interrupted Du Bixing: "Mr. Du, now I'm waiting in Zhoucheng, but it's different when I'm waiting in Dongyang...

At that time, when I first arrived in Wuzhou, the situation was unfamiliar and there were many dangers. It is understandable to be aggressive, but the state city is not good. Now the state city has been roughly under our control.

Even those Tianyin believers will have enough time to slowly train them in the future, why use such radical methods..."

"My lord means that my lord is already sure that the Tianyin Sect will not counterattack the state city?" Du Bixing didn't care about the dissatisfaction in Li Xuan's words at all, and directly grasped the information revealed in his words.

"It's just an idea." Li Xuan's expression relaxed, he looked at Du Bixing and said, "Mr. I'll wait for the method we discussed before, this kind of discrimination is first used to scare people, if there is no other way, that's the only way to go."

"If there are only Tianyin believers left in the state city in twos and threes, there is no need to do this, they will perish." Du Bixing lifted his face and said to Li Xuan, "I will wait for the good news from the prince."

Li Xuan waved his hands and said: "Although the technique of discrimination is not feasible, if it is only to let him cut off the connection with Tianyin Sect, I will try to tell His Majesty. If His Majesty descends on Long En, it is naturally feasible. If His Majesty... "

"It turns out that there are too many people in Wuzhou." Du Bixing understood completely now.

Mitigating one class.

This is the reason why Li Xuan is unwilling to make a distinction in Zhoucheng.

To make the believers of Tianyin Sect to give up their faith, it is not enough to just oppress them with swords and guns, there must be something to induce them to give up.

Here, reducing the crime by one class and avoiding the death penalty is the core content.

But Zhoucheng is different from Dongyang.

The population of Zhoucheng is several times that of Dongyang. In Dongyang, even if Li Xuan exonerates some people, he can go there in this way, but Wuzhou can't, there are too many people.

If he did the same thing in Wuzhou, he would inevitably be accused of buying people's hearts in the future with evil intentions.

If it were some great sage, then naturally he could risk his life to save those ordinary people regardless of everything in himself, but Li Xuan couldn't.

He is too selfish.

……

A black leather pouch containing five daggers was casually hung on the side of the brown horse, and Li Xuan wobbled back to his residence with Qian Niuwei.

The side door opened immediately.

Li Xuan rode in first, Xiong Yan stood aside with his hands tied, followed by Bai Lao and his subordinates.

"Close the door and lock it!" Xiong Yan ordered in a low voice, and then quickly chased after Li Xuan and Qian Niuwei.

"Report to the lord, the meal is ready." Xiong Yan stepped forward and grabbed the rope, leading the horse forward slowly.

Li Xuan nodded, turned to look at Qiu Zhenmu on the other side, and said: "Brother Qiu, let's take the brothers to have a drink or two, Xiao Wang will not go there, there are still many things to deal with tomorrow... Xiong Yan, get someone to prepare for the king to take a bath."

"Here!" Xiong Yan grabbed the horse, Li Xuan got off the horse, and walked straight into the main hall regardless of the people behind.

"My lord." Yu Ze and Wang Bo were already waiting in the hall.

Yu Ze put an open book and a title deed on one side.

Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "Tell me, figure out how many acres there are for granting land."

"Returning to the prince, there was only about five thousand acres of wasteland, but the Yang family sent three thousand acres of fertile land before, plus the land of the Tianyin believers who were killed and arrested today, probably less than two thousand acres. In total, there are tens of thousands of acres of fields distributed in different places, with different grades of good and bad."

"Thank you Uncle Yu and Han for joining the army." Li Xuan nodded gently, and said softly, "Now, this is the most important thing."

Li Xuan put one hand on the field book.

Yu Ze can always keep up with Li Xuan's thinking a lot, and complete it without compromise, but Du Bixing is a little bit behind.

Perhaps it could be said that he was the emperor himself, and being by Li Xuan's side was nothing more than helping Li Xuan complete his mission.

He has his own goals and practices.

"But my lord, the 250 mu is not enough!" Yu Ze said worriedly: "Although it is not like in Gaozu's time, when every Ding was granted [-] Mu of Yongye Field and [-] Mu of Kou-divided Field, at least every Ding needs to be awarded Yongye Farmland." [-] mu of industrial land and [-] mu of sub-divided land, our land is only enough for [-] people now."

"This time we don't grant oral distribution of land, only Yongye Tian." Li Xuan looked at Yu Ze, and said seriously: "Yongye Tian is the people's own land. Yes, there is not much difference."

"This grant of land is only enough for 500 people, and it's almost a long way away." The worry on Yu Ze's face was still heavy.

"In today's Wuzhou, the summer harvest is just around the corner, and the officials are short of manpower. They can grant [-] mu of land every day. After a month of this, I think we should have enough land to grant in our hands." Li Xuan's face A cold color flashed on the face.

"Would you like to release more tomorrow, and release [-] mu directly?" Yu Ze cautiously suggested.

"No, let's put a thousand acres directly, and then talk about it after arousing people's hearts." Li Xuan said lightly: "According to our previous method of dividing people..."

"Subordinates understand!" Yu Ze breathed a long sigh of relief, everything finally came to a head.

Li Xuan turned to look at Wang Bo, cupped his hands and said, "By the way, Mr. Zi'an, I need to trouble you to write a letter..."

(End of this chapter)