Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 550
The deep palace gate was slowly opened with the creaking sound. The newly repaired brass nails on the gate were shining brightly. More than a hundred civil and military officials came out of the palace gate in twos and threes, talking gossip. Umbrella went up to meet them as early as possible, welcomed his adults into the carriage, and left one by one.

These are the ministers of the court of the Song Dynasty, responsible for all affairs and people's livelihood in this country. Wang Chao is going to be executed in the vegetable market today. Except for some lieutenant generals who have a good relationship with him, few people are willing to see it in person. So as not to cause some misunderstandings and unnecessary troubles to the young King Xiangfu.Of course, they will know the progress of the matter as soon as possible, so the servants who should be sent should still be sent.

The court meeting has ended. In today's court meeting, apart from various preparations for the Southern Tang's military mobilization, all kinds of things, large and small, were discussed, but no one mentioned that Wang Chao was going to be executed today.

After heavy snow covered this ancient city with a layer of silver, the snow gradually became smaller. By the time Wang Chao was escorted to Caishikou in the east of the city, the snow had almost stopped.At this time, the people of Kaifeng City who learned from nowhere that someone was going to behead someone in the vegetable market gradually came from all directions.

What's more, Caishikou was originally a busy market, and people from south to north passed by here.As long as the point of the knife does not fall on him, no matter in ancient times or later generations, the common people always have an unusual interest in watching the excitement, especially the one who beheaded today is a general of the forbidden army of the imperial court.In the past two days, I don't know who spread the news. The general story has already spread vigorously among the people in Kaifeng, which makes all the people in Kaifeng more interested.

From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms for nearly a hundred years of troubled times, the armies of all countries, like bandits and robbers, burned, killed, looted, raped and raped their sons in order to rob military food, to vent their animal desires, and to plunder wealth. No less than real robber bandits.Even after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the army of the Song Dynasty was relatively strict in governing the army, but in the hearts of the people, the image of the army was still too scary, and there was still a market for saying that the soldiers and bandits were a family, and the army had always had a very bad reputation among the people.Therefore, after learning that a general in the army was beheaded today, almost all the people were not only full of strong interest, but most of them felt inexplicably excited.

Especially knowing that this military general actually broke into the imperial palace and harem privately when His Majesty summoned him, in an attempt to plot against the concubine of His Majesty the Emperor who was wise, powerful and benevolent in the Song Dynasty. , There was a wave of anger from the heart.They want to watch how this villain is beheaded.

It’s not that no one thought of the Xiangfu County King because of the Huaxia Weifu, such as Cao Bin, Cao Wei and Wang Chao who were silently seeing off Wang Chao in a corner of the carriage, or brought some Huaxia Weifu masters to the opposite side Li Junhao in the tea house.For example, Shui'er and Kou Zhun who came to see Uncle Wang off.

But these people never thought that there was any connection between Ye Chen, the sublime and omnipotent king of Xiangfu County, and this villainous general.They are just some ordinary people in the city.They were unaware of the entanglements among the great men who ruled the land of the country.

Countless people poured into the entrance of the vegetable market, tense, indifferent, excited, surrounded by countless complex emotions, surrounded the small ground law field, and the officials in charge of maintaining order in the surrounding Kaifeng city government forcibly surrounded this place. Thousands of people stopped outside the border to ensure the silence of the execution ground.

The people of the Song Kingdom cannot be blamed, because they are used to it, they are used to knowing what they can know, giving up what they can't know, enjoying what they can enjoy, and being angry at what is allowed to be angry.His majesty the emperor wanted to kill a general, no matter whether the general really deserved it or not.But they have been educated that if the king wants to die, the minister will naturally have a reason to die, and he deserves death, and he will die

The dense crowd is like a sea.Rippling at the entrance of the vegetable market, this place has been vacated, and an extremely simple wooden platform is set up. This is the so-called law field.Surrounded by vast crowds, this practice field looks like a pitiful lonely boat.It seems that it may sink in the sea of ​​people at any time.

Wang Chao was escorted out of the prison cart and pushed to the front of the wooden platform, and onto the beheading platform set up separately.Wang Chao raised his head and squinted his eyes to look into the distance. After the heavy snow in the morning, except for the densely packed human heads, his eyes saw a silvery white.Looking to the north, Wang Chao could see the towering and majestic imperial city gate in the distance. Wang Chao sighed softly. At this time, life and death were imminent. Under the deep resentment, he still worried more about Qiniang's safety in his heart.

After finally seeing the general who was about to be executed today, and seeing the villains that people have been talking about for the most heinous crimes in the past few days, the people in the capital at the front sighed in satisfaction, and immediately fell silent.

The supervisor of the beheading officer was personally presided over by Yuan Chongjun, the second-rank official of Dali Temple. Seeing that noon was approaching, Yuan Chongjun lifted the vermilion pen from the tin pen holder and ticked the beheading board.Throwing down: "The time has come, cut!"

After all, Wang Chao is a military general from the fifth rank, and in the eyes of ordinary people, he is also a high-ranking figure. At this time, when people heard the word "cut", the crowd couldn't help but burst into commotion.Suddenly, a weeping voice called out: "Ah Lang!"

Wang Chao was startled, and followed the sound to look into the crowd, only to see Qiniang, dressed in white, stopped by soldiers with guns.Struggling to squeeze in.Wang Chao's lips trembled for a while. Seeing that Qiniang was fine, he couldn't help being ecstatic. His voice, which had been unable to make a sound these days, had returned to normal at some point. Wang Chao instinctively said in a trembling voice: "Qiniang"

At this moment, his tears also fell, and after staring at him for a long time, he closed his eyes and shouted loudly: "Qiniang, go back, don't watch me behead you. Qiniang, I'm sorry for you, I can't accompany you Forever. I'm sorry for you"

Qiniang cried: "Ah Lang, you are not sorry to me, you are a good husband in Qiniang's heart!"

Seeing that Qiniang was being blocked outside, the people nearby shouted loudly: "Let them meet their husbands and wives, my lord, let them meet their husbands and wives!"

Yuan Chongjun saw the turmoil in the crowd, and hurriedly shouted: "Behead! Behead immediately! Behead them all!"

The executioner was dressed in red, came up on the stage with his chest bare and his shoulder carrying a ghost-headed sword, walked up to them, knelt down on one knee, and politely said: "The little one salutes the general, please return to heaven!"

I have never been to the northwest, so I don’t know how cold the northwest wind is. It was not until I passed Chang’an Jingzhao Mansion that the cold wind changed, and the knife-like chill was missing.

Ye Chen was sitting in a black carriage surrounded by thousands of cavalry, feeling drowsy with the ups and downs of the carriage. This sleep was a fake sleep. He just closed his eyes, let go of his mind, and let his body and ordinary Taiyi Zhenqi, which is completely different from the cultivation of internal strength and true qi in the world, secretly warms and flows in the great cycle of the body.

The Taiyi Sutra Dharma-door is transported in the Great Zhou, gentle and pure, negative yang, positive anode yin, extreme yang and extreme yin attributes exist at the same time, running through the meridians in the body, strengthening his body, hammering his state of mind, Warming his dantian.

Before Qian Yuechan's death, Ye Chen firmly remembered the content of his comprehension about the half-step innate realm. He returned to Beijing all the way to the northwest. While continuing to hone his own cultivation, he also tried to comprehend Touching the half-step congenital realm mentioned by Qian Yuechan may be due to the exhaustion of the journey, or maybe Ye Chen's understanding is not enough, and the realm is not enough, so along the way, Ye Chen did not make much progress, the only thing that improved was his internal strength The comprehension of true energy and arrow path.

Every day and every moment he does not practice hard, Ye Chen never misses any opportunity and time to practice.He can have today's strength, in addition to a few big opportunities, there is also this reason.

A gust of wind blew into the curtain of the carriage, causing Ye Chen to narrow his eyes slightly. For some reason, his heart trembled a little, and he felt a chill, as if someone in the world that he cared about was about to leave forever.

What will happen?He squinted his eyes and looked at the drowsy mountains outside.Slowly dissipating the accumulation of true energy in the body, and drawing back the mind from the surroundings, there are ghost doctors, Shui'er and Kou Zhun in Kaifeng City's house, and Li Junhao, Bai Canghai, Xu Fangyi and the entire Huaxia Weifu are watching outside. , even if His Majesty the Emperor wants to harm the mansion, he has the strength to resist, not to mention Ye Chen absolutely does not believe that Zhao Kuangyin will harm him at this time.

Could it be that something happened between Beibei Yu'er and Qingyan in Khitan?If something really happened, Xiao Xiuming, the envoy of Beifu, should have sent a letter long ago.

But why is there such an ominous feeling?

Ye Chen frowned slightly. When he left the northwest, in order to prevent Ye Chen from ambush on the road, in addition to the [-] black horses surrounding his carriage, there were also [-] people who had secretly sneaked to the northwest. The elites of the Huaxia Guard also turned from the dark to the bright, and together with four hundred black cavalry, they made up a thousand elite cavalry to escort Ye Chen all the way.

In addition, there are nearly a thousand spies dispatched by Hu Sanguang, who spread out in all directions wherever Ye Chen went. Anyone who wants to harm Ye Chen or has problems will be discovered as long as they approach Ye Chen within a hundred miles. , not to mention the high-altitude Shanghai Dongqing all the way condescending, overlooking the surrounding fields.With such a lineup, even if the Holy Church has the ability to recruit [-] troops to encircle from all directions, Ye Chen can lead people out of the encirclement before they complete the encirclement.

However, what surprised Ye Chen was that nearly a thousand spies hadn't found any problems during the journey from Gyeongju to now. Yufeng didn't even make a move after suffering such a big loss in the northwest this time. .

(End of this chapter)