Chapter 27: Blind the Lord

Xue Chongxun regarded the Huazhou Prefecture Office as the headquarters of the central army. The biggest thing at the moment was to place tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers who had put down their weapons outside the city.

He had already considered this matter well, but he decided to summon Yin Ci and several deputy generals to the signing room to discuss secretly.

When Yin Ci and others came in, he asked directly: What do you think should be dealt with by surrendered soldiers outside the city?

Because the leader of the Shence Army Yin Ci was present, the other deputy generals did not dare to make any suggestions and turned to look at Yin Ci.

Yin Ci did not speak immediately. He seemed to be thinking about something. After a while of silence, he clasped his fists and said: These people are plotting against His Majesty with weapons. According to the law, they should be executed and implicated in their clan.But there are too many people, so I thought that I would not have to pursue their tribe's people by killing them.

Kill them all?Xue Chongxun observed Yin Ci quietly, how could he kill tens of thousands of people?

Yin Ci said without changing his expression: Drive them into the Simen City, close the inner and outer gates, and you can kill them with guns, artillery and arrows.

At this time, a deputy general finally couldn't help it and said with a pale face: Most of them are just farmers, and they are all from poor families. How can the general suggest killing them all? How can he do it?

Xue Chongxun looked at the deputy general with great interest when he heard the sound. He happened to know this person. The general from the Flying Tiger Regiment was named Gong Yecheng.

Yin Ci said coldly: They oppose the emperor.

After hearing this, Gong Yecheng couldn't find any words to argue, because the first rule in the Shence Army's military law was to be loyal to the emperor only, and anyone who opposed the emperor would be killed without mercy.

However, Gong Yecheng was obviously dissatisfied. This massacre was indeed too cruel.

You... Gong Yecheng pointed angrily at the Confucian general in front of you whom you usually respect very much.

Unexpectedly, Yin Ci asked for an order again: Deputy General Gong Yecheng is indifferent to military laws and asked the emperor to allow the general to immediately remove his military power and convict.

As long as you do nothing wrong, you will be innocent of anything you say.

Xue Chongxun instead pleaded with Gong Yecheng and asked him kindly, "I forgive you for being innocent first, and you can say whatever you think, what do you think should be dealt with, why?"

Gong Yecheng held his neck thickly, and he clasped his fists with a willing expression: Go back to Your Majesty, the rebels have already put down their weapons, there is no need to kill so many people.There is nothing wrong with those who participate in planning rebellions, being officials and leading soldiers, executing them according to the law; but most of them are just people who are incited and imprisoned, and they put down their weapons and are His Majesty's people!Isn’t Your Majesty the Great Wall just to protect the people from robbery from barbarian cavalry?Even if the people do something wrong at once, Your Majesty is the king and father of the whole world, why don’t you forgive them mercies?Besides, Hebei is short of people in order to build the Great Wall. Isn’t it just a people?

Yin Ci shouted: Gongyecheng, you don’t know yet that they are not people, they are traitors if they pick up weapons!

No, Gong Yecheng makes sense.

Xue Chongxun nodded seriously. I want to issue an order to massacre them in person. Wouldn’t it be unkind?I decided to adopt Gong Yecheng's advice and send troops to escort the prisoners to Youzhou as strong men.However, those military generals and officials who once surrendered to Cui Qigao to help the evildoer should not be spared easily. After you go down, you call Yu Wenxiao and I want to tell him to do this.

The generals took the tribute and said retreat. As soon as they left the state yard, several generals scolded Gong Yecheng: What do you treat you on weekdays? He actually contradicted the general in front of the emperor, and he was ungrateful!

Yin Ci signaled everyone to stop and said softly: I can't say those words, but Gong Yecheng can say them.He did nothing wrong, so there is no need to worry about it.

After a while, Yu Wenxiao was summoned to the prefecture yard to meet Xue Chongxun and was ordered to deal with the affairs of war criminals: military generals above the team and officials below the pseudo-government of Huazhou were executed on the spot, but the family members would not investigate.

Because the emperor was in the army, these criminals did not even need to be tried, and they could be executed directly under the order.

When Yuwen Xiao heard about this, he couldn't help but say: Did the Zhou Ji family let go?I just met the brothers in the inner factory hiding in Huazhou and got the news that Zhou Ji's daughter Zhou Yun was not forcibly occupied by the thief leader Cui Qigao. When Cui Qigao occupied Huazhou, she was married to a Ming media!The governor Zhou Ji was too cunning and abominable. He not only defected to the rebels, but also lied that he was forced to do nothing, which was a deception of the emperor!

Because of the extremely bad impact of Cui Ri's family being killed, Xue Chongxun was cautious in using too barbaric means such as implicating relatives. At this time, he asked casually: Have you obtained the evidence?

Yuwen Xiaodao: If Cui Qigao’s wife Zhou Yun was arrested, tortured and interrogated, anything could be tried.

He thought that the little girl should be young and beautiful shortly after marrying Cui Qigao. Why should she be too embarrassed to rush to quit her when she is old? She should give it to the emperor for quitting. So Yuwen Xiao asked carefully: I have arrested her, Your Majesty asks himself what's going on?

Xue Chongxun said: Well, if Zhou Ji was so brave that he deceived me in person, I would have destroyed him and completely eradicated this disaster.

Yuwen Xiao was secretly happy when he saw that he catered to Xue Chongxun.

He walked out of the state yard very quickly, and based on the emperor's oral order, he just found a team and went straight to Zhou Ji's mansion. According to information, Cui Qigao occupied Huazhou and occupied the mansion of the governor Zhou Ji. Then his wife should also be in the Zhou Mansion, and the woman was the daughter of the Zhou family.

The team that was called by Yuwen Xiao was the general of the Musket regiment, with fifty people under his command. He followed Yuwen Xiao and ordered the troops to encircle Zhou's mansion separately and block the exit in front.

Yuwen Xiao ordered: If anyone wants to run away, no matter who he is, let’s kill him.

As soon as he finished speaking, a door opened the door and wanted to say something, but the soldier who had just put on gunpowder was distracted and went out of fire. With a bang, the other soldiers raised the crest rope and shot the slave without saying a word. The man was instantly beaten into a sieve and fell to the door with blood. Then the woman screamed in horror from the mansion.

Seeing this, Yu Wenxiao said: Come in with me and arrest people.

At this time, Yuwen Xiao was full of light and his mood to do bad things made him very excited, as if he had returned to his youth.

He turned around and said to the general: Zhou Ji has such a big mansion, so he must be a corrupt official who is rich. The brothers will catch people and see whatever they like. Just take them, and they will be slashed with one stone if they don’t like it.

The general said: If the superiors didn’t let him rob, how could we dare to Ah?It is not cost-effective to lose your brain for such a thing, so we should do a serious matter to arrest people. Who do you think will tie up the company and hand in the future?

The crowd broke in with weapons but did not see anyone. Yu Wenxiao said with rich experience: Hide in the house.

They picked up a door casually and kicked it open. Sure enough, there were three people inside, two maids and an old man. They knelt down and were so scared that they looked pale.

Where is Zhou Ji's daughter Zhou Yun?

Yuwen Xiao asked a maid.

The maid stared at her frightened eyes and shook her head and couldn't speak. Yuwen Xiao drew out her sword and stabbed her in the chest, causing blood all over the floor.

Yuwen Xiao asked another maid again, and the old man hurriedly said: Jun Ye, please spare me, Caomin knows!

Cui Qigao fought against the Shence Army outside the city. After being defeated, he didn't even dare to enter the city and disappeared. His civil servants and military generals from Huazhou had no chance to follow him. Even Zhou Ji himself surrendered at the city gate, and his family was in the mansion.

Sure enough, Yu Wenxiao found the girl. When she was arrested, she was sitting in front of the dressing table in the bedroom. When she saw a group of soldiers breaking in, she thought it was a rioter who wanted to discuss the sword, so she took out a short sword and wanted to commit suicide.

Yuwen Xiao hurriedly shouted: Wait, you have something to say!My wife, don’t look for a shortcoming. If you die, there will be no evidence of death. Hundreds of people in this mansion will have to go down to accompany you.

Don't come here!

After hearing this, the little girl was a little confused, but she was still holding a short sword in her hand.

This girl is really good-looking, with her tender skin and concave flesh. No wonder Cui Qigao, who dreams of an emperor, married her without caring about Zhou Ji as an official of the Jin Dynasty.

When Yuwen Xiao saw a soldier next to her holding a gunpowder gun, he cursed: Put it down, are you afraid that she will come to kill you with a sword?

Then he pretended to be righteous and took out a waist sign from his sleeve: Are you Zhou Yun, the daughter of the governor of Zhou?I am the Inner Factory Order and the imperial court ordered an official to take you to see the emperor with the order.Your father Zhou Ji said that your family was forced to surrender to the enemy. The emperor wanted to ask clearly so as not to harm the innocent. You have to explain clearly for your father, were you occupied by Cui Qigao?

The little girl nodded suspiciously, probably to admit her identity.She glanced at Yuwen Xiao's waist card and saw that he was indeed wearing an official robe, and he was already trusting him eight points... Her father was also an official.

Put down your weapons and you will be able to save these hundreds of people!

Yuwen Xiao said kindly, don’t worry, I promise to treat you with courtesy and invite you to meet the saint.In front of so many people, I keep my word.You hurry out and find a carriage.

Zhou Yun finally threw the short sword down. Yu Wen Xiao really did not let someone tie her up, but just begged her to go out by herself.

When I walked to the gate, I suddenly saw a slave lying in a pool of blood at the gate. The scene was very terrifying.

Yuwen Xiao explained: This guy wanted to punch our soldiers and brothers, so he was beaten to death.

Zhou Yun was speechless, but she could no longer resist at this time.

Yuwen Xiao took her to the prefecture yamen, but the soldiers surrounding the Zhou Mansion did not retreat, and they were asked to see the people inside ready to arrest and punish them at any time. However, to kill so many people, of course, it would take the emperor's approval.

When they escorted Zhou Yun into the signing room, Xue Chongxun was still wearing a suit of armor, but the helmet had been taken down and put on the case.

Two soldiers came in and knelt on their heads quickly. Yu Wenxiao clasped his fists and said: Master, this person is Zhou Yun, the wife of the rebel Cui Qigao.

Zhou Yun remembered what Yuwen Xiao said at first, and hurriedly defended: I was stolen by him, and my father had no choice.

Yuwen Xiaodao: I have the job I have given up as soon as possible.

After saying that, he gave a wink at the guard next to him. Everyone knew how to leave the signing room, but Sanniang was still sitting motionless in the corner.

Xue Chongxun had already guessed Yu Wenxiao's thoughts at this time. Does the emperor need to come in person when interrogating the prisoner?He glanced at Sanniang, but she was about to leave.