I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 161 Even I am a rumormonger, how will Liu Che respond?
"This……"

Upon hearing this order, Huo Guang, Sima Qian and a group of local officials were shocked and looked suspicious.

How could the prince let Immortal Xu go so easily?

Don’t say anything else.

Just the dozens of fanatical believers who attempted to assassinate the prince just now, should be treated as treason, right?
Even if this matter was not directly ordered by Immortal Xu, he still cannot escape blame as those people are his followers. At the very least, they should be beheaded!

After all, in a system where imperial power is supreme, there is no distinction between principal offender and accomplice in the crime of treason. As long as someone is involved, the entire family will be executed.

Huo Guang and others were particularly puzzled. They knew that this was definitely not Liu Ju's style...

Just as I was thinking about it.

They had already heard Immortal Xu's cries for mercy, which were even more frightened than before:
"Your Highness, Your Highness! I know I was wrong, please forgive me, I beg you to put me in jail, or even behead me. I just beg you not to hand me over to these lunatics, they are all crazy!"

"..."

However, Liu Ju turned a deaf ear to his pleas.

The Qimen warriors who were escorting Xu Shenxian remained indifferent and forcibly dragged him, who had already wet his pants, into the crowd.

He walked in this way until he reached the group of believers, then lifted him up and threw him onto the ground among dozens of believers whose throats had been slit but who still died with their eyes open.

After a while.

The hundreds of fanatical believers who were still alive gradually surrounded him, and the remaining less fanatical believers also slowly surrounded him, surrounding Immortal Xu in layers.

"Xu Shenxian, are you really deceiving me?"

"I don't believe it, prove it to me."

"All gods should be like the prince, who can survive even if he is sawed in two..."

"If he won't give us proof, then we can help him prove it, right?"

"Xu Shenxian, are you real or fake? Stop lying to us."

"..."

The moment those fanatical believers approached Immortal Xu, the same fanaticism appeared on their faces as that of the middle-aged woman at the beginning. They stared at Immortal Xu with bloodshot eyes.

Some people even smiled with distorted faces, their smiles were both flattering and expectant.

Any normal person would feel creepy when seeing their smiles.

"You...you don't come over here."

Xu Shenxian collapsed on the ground, trembling, moving backwards.

However, the corpses with their eyes open and the sticky blood on the ground became an obstacle, making it even more difficult for him to move as he was already weak and powerless.

Moreover, he was already surrounded by people, where could he retreat to?
at last.

Xu Shenxian’s back hit a “wall”.

That is the leg of a believer.

He raised his head with a trembling hand, and immediately saw a distorted smiling face looking down at him. That smiling face was mixed with a complexity and madness that could not be accurately described in words.

“Let me go, you guys… ah!”

Along with a scream, Xu Shenxian felt a chill and heat on his face, a stream of heat flowed down his cheeks, and then he felt a piercing pain.

"Xu Shenxian, are you real or fake?"

someone asked.

"Really, I really mean it!"

Immortal Xu was so frightened that he shouted immediately.

He knew that these crazy believers had lost their minds at this moment. If he still claimed that he was fake, he would end up dead without a burial place.

"puff!"

The pain in his shoulder became even more excruciating, and another person asked:

"If you are real, why did you admit that you were fake just now? Are you real or fake?"

"Fake, I am fake!"

"His!"

"I don't believe it. You must be real. Otherwise, what on earth did I believe in?"

"Okay, okay, if you say I'm real, then I'm real!"

"Shh!"

"If you are real, why don't you take us to Wonderland?"

"It's not the right time yet, it's not the right time yet..."

"Then you are fake, but you can't be fake, you have to be real!"

"..."

Surrounded by that group of fanatical believers, outsiders had no way of knowing what was happening to Immortal Xu.

All that could be heard was his screams and pleas for mercy, which started out as shouts of fear and gradually became weaker until there was no sound at all.

"Gulu!"

Many people felt a chill in their hearts, shivering unconsciously and swallowing their saliva.

At this moment, the most frightened people were naturally the group of alchemists and wizards.

The matter of Immortal Xu has come to a temporary end here.

But the matter of Crown Prince Liu Ju had just begun, and they still could not escape the fate of being sacrificed to the sea.

at the same time.

A group of soldiers have quietly surrounded the group of believers.

Liu Ju had already ordered Chen Tao, the governor of Donglai, to give an order: "Whoever kills someone must pay with his life, and the immortal Xu must confiscate their property." He did not intend to get rid of all these believers. After this incident, a large number of believers should have sobered up a little, or at least completely lost their faith.

However, those believers who attacked the Immortal Xu, even if they did not fall into madness, would definitely become a destabilizing factor.

At least in the Han Dynasty, there was no law that could forgive the mentally ill if they injured or killed someone. At least Liu Ju thought there was nothing wrong with treating them in this way, as it would prevent them from harming others again.

What's more, believers who are so sincere to Xu Shenxian are like cadres of pyramid schemes, and they have certainly helped the evildoers.

The situation was temporarily settled down.

Li Guangli, as Liu Ju's mouthpiece, spoke loudly again:
"The Crown Prince has issued an order: This matter has been exposed, and the ceremony will continue!"

"The sea sacrifice will be held as usual at 1:05 pm. Thank you all for bathing and changing your clothes. The Han people will remember your contributions, and the people of Qi will also remember your contributions!"

"!!!"

Hearing this, the already frightened alchemists and wizards trembled even more.

They naturally didn't want to die, but Liu Ju clearly had no intention of letting them go...

at last.

An alchemist who couldn't bear the pressure ran out from the crowd, knelt down in front of Liu Ju and begged for mercy:

"Your Highness, please forgive me. I will never dare to do that again!"

"I don't know the way of gods, nor do I understand the magic of immortals. Everything I said before was fabricated. If Your Highness uses me to sacrifice to the sea, I am afraid that you will deceive the heavens and ruin the whole thing!"

Alchemists and wizards are all speculators. For their own interests, they will speculate as soon as they see an opportunity.

The same is true for this alchemist.

He saw a chance to survive in Liu Ju's final treatment of Xu Shenxian:
As long as he admits that he is not proficient in the ways of the gods and does not understand magic, Liu Ju will not use him to sacrifice to the sea!
As for the fact that he submitted documents to deceive Liu Ju, it is possible that he was not sentenced to death.

As for deceiving the people, he was not as big as Xu Shenxian, and he did not have such fanatical and numerous followers. At most, he just did some minor fights in the countryside, and he certainly would not die as tragically as Xu Shenxian.

As soon as these words came out.

This immediately alerted the other alchemists and wizards, and they reacted instantly, rushing forward one after another and kneeling down:

"Your Highness, please forgive me. I, a commoner, feel the same way!"

"I am not a Shintoist, and I don't understand the magic. I will never again make up stories, and I am even more dissatisfied with deceiving the villagers!"

"It's the same for me, Your Highness, please have mercy on me..."

“So are the common people…”

For a moment, what was supposed to be a unique "book burning and prescription drowning" ceremony turned into a meeting of alchemists and wizards confessing their mistakes one after another.

Naturally, there are also some people who think that the law should not be used to punish everyone.

But how could they know?

Even this loophole that they thought they had to seize was actually deliberately left for them by Liu Ju.

Liu Ju knew better than anyone that using these people to fill the sea would not give any inspiration to Liu Che and the people. At most, it would bring temporary deterrence to the group of alchemists and wizards.

And when there are enough benefits in front of them, more alchemists and wizards will appear, and their descendants will be endless.

But if they were asked to admit in public that they are liars and reveal their cheating methods in public, the educational significance would be quite different.

Since then, this "Sea Sacrifice" ceremony has taken a gorgeous turn and has unknowingly become a unique anti-fraud science conference!

See this lively scene.

The corners of Liu Ju's mouth slightly curled up...

……

Next, Liu Ju was "extremely furious".

This group of alchemists and wizards were terrified and could only allow Liu Ju to control them.

One by one, they revealed their methods of deception in front of tens of thousands of people at the scene. The clerks recorded their confessions word by word and made these alchemists and wizards sign their names personally.

According to Liu Ju's plan.

These confessions will include their names and places of origin. In addition to being displayed in Donglai County, they will also be copied and sent to various counties in Qi for display.

Finally, it must be nailed to their own door, and no one is allowed to remove or destroy it without permission, otherwise it will be a serious crime.

Such a down-to-earth way of publicity will surely gain a good response among the people.

Even so.

These alchemists and wizards can escape the death penalty, but they cannot escape the punishment of living punishment.

Liu Ju would also give these speculative scammers a "tattooing punishment".

The so-called tattooing punishment is to tattoo the words "rumormonger" on the face. In this way, even if these people move to another place, they will never be able to do their old job again, and no one will believe them anymore.

This can also bring enough deterrence to the alchemists and wizards outside Qi!

As things developed to this point, Liu Ju's "deification" plan was nearing completion.

It is said to be a "God-creating" plan, but this plan actually consists of two steps from the beginning. The first step is to "create God" and the last step is to "destroy God".

This last step is Liu Ju’s real “killer move” against his cheap father, Emperor Liu Che!
He never thought of getting along with Liu Che as a "god", but only wanted to attack Liu Che's beliefs.

So that this cheap father can do less things that are costly and meaningless, and be less foolishly deceived by outsiders.

After all, the ones who ultimately pay for this are... the country and the people!

"The news of my becoming an immortal must have spread back to Chang'an a long time ago. I wonder what Liu Che thinks about it. He must be very surprised, right?"

"If the news of my burning of books and drowning of alchemists gets back to Chang'an today, I'm afraid Liu Che won't be surprised anymore. He will have to re-examine the alchemists and wizards around him, right?"

"So……"

"If Liu Che finds out now that even my immortality that deceived the world is just a scam, how will he respond?"

(End of this chapter)