Qian Song

Chapter 49 Public Trial (Read More!)
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Just when Li Cun was personally condolences to the makers and craftsmen of fire and gunpowder who had suffered a major disaster, someone came to report that Zhao Ting had been arrested.

in fact--

Zhao Ting was not captured by the generals of the Huben Army, but when he fled to a family to take refuge, he was captured by a few men from that family, and then turned over to the government office.

It is said that at that time, Zhao Ting wanted to give that family [-] coins, ten times the reward issued by the Huben Army, but the family didn't want it, but resolutely turned him over to the Huben Army.

The reason why that family is like this is because Zhao Ting is a close confidant of Zhu Yu, the number one corrupt official here in the southeast, and one of the executors of Hua Shigang, and that family is one of the victims of Hua Shigang. Of course, it is also because of that family People didn't believe Zhao Ting's promise, and even feared that Zhao Ting, who is famous for revenge, would avenge his kindness in the future.

After Li Cun heard the news, he immediately ordered Kang Jian to do his best to treat and resettle the firework and gunpowder craftsmen and craftsmen. Gunpowder is made of hands and craftsmen.

After explaining all this, Li Cun returned to Hangzhou government office.

On the way, Li Cun thought of a hundred ways to torture Zhao Ting.

Some people cut Zhao Ting into pieces.

There are people who have Zhao Ting skinned and tendons stripped.

Some castrated Zhao Ting first, and then let Zhao Ting ride a wooden donkey.

Someone cut off Zhao Ting's limbs and put them in a jar.

There were also those who rewarded Zhao Ting's wives, daughters, daughter-in-law, and even his mother to the worst man in the Huben army.

and many more……

This shows how much Li Cun hates Zhao Ting.

But the moment before entering the government office, Li Cun suddenly paused, and then said to himself: "Although I want to be an emperor with a murderous heart and a rich man with a black heart, I must not become a tyrannical person. There is no benefit other than venting anger, um...I have to make good use of Zhao Ting to get more benefits."

Thinking of this, Li Cun stepped into the government office, and then Li Cun did not ask Zhao Ting to bring him up, but instead asked someone to directly set up a public trial platform at the entrance of the government office.

At the same time, Li Cun sent people to call the people of Hangzhou City to come and watch in front of the government office.

——Li Cun prepares to put Zhao Ting on public trial.

When almost [-] to [-] people gathered in the square in front of the government office, Li Cun saw that it was getting late, so he asked someone to push the disheveled Zhao Ting to the public trial stand, and then walked up himself.

Li Cun picked up a loudspeaker temporarily pasted by a papermaker, and said loudly:
"Xiao Ke, Li Cun, was added as General Huben. There have been many disturbances in the past two days, and you have been frightened. Li Cun is very sorry. Li Cun hereby assures you that within three days, our Huben army will make everyone live a stable life and trade fairly. .”

In fact, Li Cun originally wanted to give some money and food to the people in Hangzhou to buy a good for the people in Hangzhou.

But Li Cun thought again, although he had a lot of money and food, but these were the key things that might affect the success of his uprising in the future, so they should not be wasted easily.

Furthermore, except for the area in the northwest corner, other areas in Hangzhou City have not suffered much damage. People in these areas should not be too short of money and food. Therefore, as long as Hangzhou City can operate normally, it should be There is no problem.

The point is, some people may not cherish the things that are given for free, and may even think that this is what Li Cun should give them.

Why not, wait until the city of Hangzhou is stable, and start a work-for-relief, that would be better.

"Yesterday, Li Cun was responsible for the fire and gunpowder fire. If Li Cun hadn't led his men to attack Hangzhou City, this would not have happened. However, Zhao Song was brutal and dark, not to mention excessive expropriation, and he promoted Hua Shi Gang. Call me People in the southeast lost their way of life, so Li Cuncai had no choice but to lead an uprising to fight for a little life for the common people in the southeast, and fire and gunpowder caused a big fire, which is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster!"

Speaking of this, Li Cun pointed to Zhao Ting: "This is the man, Zhao Ting, the prefect of Hangzhou in Zhao Song Dynasty, who ordered people to set fire to the firework and gunpowder factory. He also wanted to burn the food we depend on for survival. I stop."

Li Cun pointed to the people Zhao Ting sent to burn the granary and armory: "They are all witnesses."

As soon as Li Cun's words fell, the clever one among the people Zhao Ting sent to burn the granary and armory warehouse immediately admitted loudly: "The villain is Zhao Zhong, the servant of Zhao Xianggong's family. The villain swears to the Tianmeng that it is Zhao Zhong." The Xianggong ordered the villain to wait to burn the granary, armor warehouse and gunpowder, and begged the general to spare the villain's life, and the villain is willing to follow the general to revolt!"

With Zhao Zhong taking the lead, the servants Zhao Ting sent to burn the granary and the military warehouse immediately scrambled to testify against Zhao Ting.

It can be seen that where there is a master, there are servants. Like Zhao Ting, Zhao Ting's cronies are all people who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Li Cun asked Zhao Ting, "What do you have to say?"

It's not that Zhao Ting doesn't know that even if he begs Li Cun for mercy now, he may be doomed. He should be stubborn to the end, so that he can gain a good reputation in the end and be a blessing to future generations.

But Zhao Ting was really afraid of death.

Moreover, Zhao Ting listened to the people who fled back from Jiande, Tonglu, Xincheng, and Fuyang, saying that as long as he surrendered to Li Cun, he would not only save his life, but also possibly keep his official position.

So, after hesitating again and again, Zhao Ting still couldn't harden himself. He said: "It was the official who made people set fire to the gunpowder, and it was also the official who made people burn the granary and armor warehouse. However, I have done my duty faithfully. It is intentional to oppose the general, and I hope that the general will learn from him and spare my life."

Hearing Zhao Ting's confession, Li Cun squeezed out a few words: "Your fate is fate, so the fate of the people of Hangzhou is not fate?"

After finishing speaking, Li Cun no longer looked at Zhao Ting, but looked at the general public in the audience, and said: "Zhao Ting set fire to thousands of people and killed thousands of people. He should have died, but he said that he was dedicated to the public. I am not Hangzhou." I don't know what he is doing on a daily basis, and I dare not jump to conclusions about his life or death. You are all locals, and you should know that he is a selfless person, or that he is a man of unselfishness. Therefore, it is a crime that Zhao Ting should be killed. If you don't die, it's up to you to decide!"

After Li Cun finished speaking, there was still silence below.

——Although many people hated Zhao Ting to the bone, they could not do it for a while if they personally sentenced Zhao Ting to death!

Seeing this, Li Cun, who has a good grasp of people's hearts, said leisurely: "If you think Zhao Ting should not die, I will let him go. To catch him because of the past, let alone kill him because of the past, everyone should think clearly, and the opportunity will never come again."

Hearing what Li Cun said, those whose relatives died in the fire, and those whose families were ruined by Hua Shigang, couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Kill him!"

Someone took the lead, and someone immediately followed and shouted: "Kill this corrupt official!"

Someone shouted: "Ling Chi! Ling Chi! Ling Chi..."

Then, "Pull the skin and cramps!", "Five horses divide the body!", "Pull the nine clans!", they shouted everything.

In the end, almost everyone wanted to kill Zhao Ting, and they were all the ones who made Zhao Ting die.

Seeing this, Li Cun turned to Zhao Ting and said, "It's not me, Li Cun, who wants to kill you, it's really the public opinion that wants to kill you."

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhao Ting repeatedly kowtowed to Li Cun and begged for mercy: "I beg the general to spare the villain's life, and the villain is willing to serve the general like a dog!"

Li Cun shook his head.

——Li Cun is not rejecting Zhao Ting, but looking down on Zhao Ting. At this time, he still wants to live, but dare not die decently. Only for this point, Zhao Ting is not worth it at all Li Cun gave him an amnesty.

Li Cun no longer looked at Zhao Ting as a dead man, but said to the people below: "Who is willing to come to the stage to execute?"

Li Cun thought that the people below would wait and see for a while before someone came up, and he even had to find someone to chop off Zhao Ting's head in the end.

I don't want to, as soon as Li Cun's words fell, a black and short stocky man responded loudly: "Come here, villain!"

After saying that, the man left the crowd, jumped, grasped and turned over forcefully, and climbed onto a high platform more than ten feet high.

When Li Cun saw it, he knew that this man had kung fu.

The man bowed down to Li Cunyi, with tears in his eyes, he said: "The villain, Qi Fang, has a sworn feud with Zhao Ting, I beg the general to help you, tell the villain to kill the enemy with his own hands."

Qi Fang?

In "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", there is a villain named Qi Fang, who is capricious and dies at the hands of Niu Gao.

Of course, a novel is a novel after all, and should not be taken as real.

Historically, there was also a Qi Fang in this period.

This Qi Fang was born as a thief.

Later, he led the crowd to invest in Du Chong for health.

After Du Chong's rebellion and investment in gold, his subordinates scattered, and Qi Fang rallied scattered soldiers to loot everywhere. The court was very troubled.

Zhao Gou ordered Zhang Jun to lead the army to attack. Qi Fang met Yue Fei who was just emerging at that time.

There is a saying, "If you want a high-ranking official, you will be recruited" comes from this.

After being recruited by the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, Qi Fang's performance can't be said to be very good.

Later, in order to beg for peace with the Jin people, Zhao Gou cut off the military power of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Liu Guangshi and other generals, and Zhang Jun also surrendered his military power sensiblely.

As a result, in the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the downstream defense, the Jiangzhou Military Region was established, and Qi Fang was appointed as the general manager of the horse infantry capital on the Liangzhe East Road, becoming the sole commander.

When Wan Yanliang invaded the south, Qi Fang was relatively active. He once sent a general Zhang Bao to recover Jiangzhou, which was captured by the Jin soldiers.

After the failure of the Longxing Northern Expedition, Qi Fang was re-entrusted with important tasks. First, he was sent to guard Haozhou, and then he succeeded the idiot Liu Bao as the chief of Zhenjiang, and his military rank was also promoted to Jiedushi.

After that, there was no battle between Song and Jin, and Qi Fang committed the old problem of being greedy for money again. He exploited soldiers, falsely reported the amount of troops, and made friends with internal officials. He went to live in Xinzhou, and the two eunuchs who had something to do with him were also severely punished by Xiaozong.

Looking at Qi Fang in history, although he can't be regarded as a first-class general, and his character is at most half or half, he is at least an officer who has mixed up to the "commander" level.

Therefore, Li Cun still has expectations for Qi Fang, hoping that he is really that Qi Fang in history.

But Li Cun did not express his true thoughts, but directly stretched out his hand, signaling Qi Fang to deal with Zhao Ting at will.

Qi Fang was very courageous, he bowed to Li Cun again, and said: "I beg the general to reward the villain with a bowl of wine."

Li Cun waved lightly, and Zhang Goudan went to find a jar of wine.

Qi Fang came to Zhao Ting with the wine jar, and said bitterly: "You guys, it's all right to force the master's boat to transport the flower stone for nothing, but the master's luck is not good, the boat was capsized by the wind, and the flower stone was lost. Fishing for those flowers and stones, the two of the master's family drowned in the river, and when they returned, they were only three days late, and you were going to kill the whole family of the master, so that the master had to take the whole family to fall into the weeds overnight, and polluted his innocence. What?!"

How could Zhao Ting remember such a trivial matter, but when he saw Qi Fang's blood red eyes, he knew that Qi Fang would definitely not let him die, so he backed away in fright.

But Qi Fang caught Zhao Ting back immediately, then tied Zhao Ting to a stand beside him, took off Zhao Ting's clothes, and then pulled out a sharp knife from his waist to cut Zhao Ting one by one.

Qi Fang stabbed Zhao Ting, and also indulged in drinking along with Zhao Ting's miserable screams.

This scene made Li Cun, a person from later generations, really unable to accept it.

Therefore, after seeing Qi Fang's plan, Li Cun silently went back to the government office to rest.

Later, Kong Lianzi reported to Li Cun, and when the wine was gone, Qi Fang cut open Zhao Ting's chest, took out his heart and liver, and took him away.

Hearing that Kong Lianzi said that Qi Fang had left, for some reason, Li Cun felt relieved while regretting.

Li Cun laughed at himself: "I still can't get out of the thinking of future generations!"

Afterwards, Li Cun went out and announced that the public trial of high-ranking officials, gentry and nobles in Hangzhou will continue tomorrow. If the public finds them guilty, their heads will be beheaded and their homes will be ransacked. If the public thinks they are innocent, they will be released on the spot. public trial...

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(End of this chapter)