After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 56 Princess Shura
However, more difficult problems lie ahead.

When Li Lingyue rushed to the city, she saw not only the refugees looting, but also the people in the city.

"Strange, how come there are so many people? It was just a few women and children just now!" He Shan muttered suspiciously.

Li Lingyue glanced around and found a hundred and ten people appearing from nowhere, beating, smashing, looting and burning frantically.

As long as one person takes the lead, the others will follow.

Among the looting crowd, there were young and strong men, old women and children, and even officials and yamen servants. The principle of "the law does not blame the public" was vividly reflected in these people.

Li Lingyue carefully discovered that the people who were beaten, smashed, looted and burned were either small vendors doing business on the street, or ordinary residents along the street.

And the really rich big merchants survived the disaster because they closed their doors and went out of business.

Even if Li Lingyue was beaten to death, he would not believe that those profiteers have the ability to foretell.

If you use your brain a little bit, you will know that if it is really for looting, those big merchants are the best targets. If you really want to rob, how can the wooden door of the merchant be able to withstand the crazy crowd.

But the problem is that those people just let the big merchants not grab them, but specifically targeted the small merchants and civilians who didn't have money.

Many of those so-called 'common people' have fat heads, big ears, thin skin and tender flesh, and they don't look like ordinary people at first glance.

Obviously, this is an organized and premeditated riot.

Li Lingyue speculated that the mastermind behind the action probably wanted to give himself a bad reputation by creating a big commotion, forcing Li Zhi to come forward and call a stop, so that he could dispel the idea of ​​"meddling his own business".

"Princess, Beizhi just received the news that the same riots happened in the other three cities!"

He Shan notified Li Lingyue of the news from the Forbidden Army in time.

Seeing that the situation was on the verge of getting out of control, Li Lingyue made a decisive decision and ordered He Shan:

"Uncle, pass down the order to punish the culprits first, and then punish the accomplices. Those officials who participated in the government will be killed on the spot, and their heads will be hung on the city gate for public display!"

"Yes! Princess!!"

He Shan, who received the order, jumped on his horse, pulled out the saber from his waist, and rushed forward with a large number of forbidden troops, surrounding all the rioting mobs.

He Shan stood on the horse and shouted at the panicked crowd with a thick voice:
"The eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty is here, and you should kneel down and surrender quickly, but if there is resistance, I will kill you without mercy!"

"Roar! Roar! Roar!" The guards let out a tidy roar, beating the blade rhythmically, gradually shrinking the encirclement.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. We just grabbed a bite to eat. According to Tang's law, death is not a crime!" An old man stood in the crowd and fanned the flames with a loud voice.

He Shan sneered, and threw the knife in his hand at the old man. The sharp knife was as fast as lightning, and it pierced into the old man's lungs with a 'poof', directly giving him a chill.

He Shan's killing was decisive, instantly deterring hundreds of thugs, but soon, someone in the crowd started to stir up again.

"Dog officials don't care about human lives, let's fight them!"

"Yes! Fight them!"

Under the instigation of people with good intentions, the situation got out of control again, and the crazy crowd rushed forward, ready to attack the encirclement of the imperial army.

"All officers and soldiers listen to the order!" He Shan raised his fist high, and the imperial army roared again.

"Kill me!" He Shan yelled, and swung his fist down, the endless killing was officially staged.

At the same time, after receiving the letter, the imperial guards in the other three cities also carried out a brutal siege.

In less than an hour, a premeditated riot was quickly suppressed by Li Lingyue.

With lingering fears in her heart, she was glad that she brought the imperial army out. If it hadn't been for the accidental encounter, the consequences would have been disastrous.

After the killing was over, the corpses on the street were transported out of the city, the blood on the ground was cleaned, and everything was restored to its original state.

He Shan walked up to Li Lingyue, cupped his fists and said:

"Princess, I have already confessed that someone paid a lot of money to hire them to cause disturbances in the city. To prevent the news from leaking, these people were recruited from outside, not the people of the city!"

Li Lingyue nodded, "Have you asked who is the mastermind behind it?"

"If you can't ask, they are all young people. When the chaos was just quelled, they were all put to death!"

"I hate playing enough!" Li Lingyue muttered, and after a little thought, she said to He Shan:
"Being able to sneak hundreds of people into the city without anyone noticing, the mastermind behind the scenes has already been revealed! The most urgent task right now is to appease the refugees first, and then settle accounts with them when they are free!"

After what Li Lingyue said, He Shan immediately thought of two people, Liu Cheng, governor of Fuzhou, and Wang Hailong, governor of Fuzhou.

"His grandma's! It must have been done by Liu Cheng and Wang Hailong, these bastards!" He Shan cursed and said to Li Lingyue, "Princess, why don't we act first, so that they don't keep getting in the way!"

Li Lingyue glanced at He Shan approvingly: "Uncle, you have become smarter!"

"Hey!" He Shan touched his head with a silly smile, "Following the princess, my brain is much more enlightened!"

While speaking, a forbidden soldier ran over and told:

"Princess Qi, my lord! All the refugees who entered the city and looted have been captured, how to deal with it, please tell me!"

"No hurry, take this princess over there to have a look first!".

"Yes!"

Not long after, Li Lingyue and He Shan came back to the south of the city, and when they were about to pass through the city gate, two imperial guards stepped forward to hold umbrellas for them.

Li Lingyue was curious, how could she hold an umbrella on such a sunny day!
He Shan saw Li Lingyue's doubts, and explained:

"According to the princess' wishes, the humble officials hang the heads of those officials and yamen servants at the gate of the city to show the public. They are probably dripping blood. If they get on it, it will be too bad luck!"

Li Lingyue looked up, and as He Shan said, above the gate of the city was ticking!Tick!' The blood rained down, and the bluestone slabs on the ground were stained red.

Li Lingyue endured the nausea and walked out of the city. Looking back, she saw that there were indeed dozens of fresh heads hanging on the city tower. Each head had a rivet inserted into it, and was then strung together with hemp rope and hung on the flagpole. When the strong wind blew, the heads collided with each other, like a string of blood-red bells, making a muffled sound of "poof".

When the refugees outside the city saw the princess coming, they felt even more awed, and they all knelt down and bowed down.

Looking at the trembling figures, Li Lingyue knew that the scene in the city had shocked these refugees.

Before she could approach, a group of refugees came towards her crying, including men and women, shouting "Princess, forgive me" to Li Lingyue.

A small commander of the imperial guards explained beside him: "Princess, those who beg you for mercy are all the family members of the prisoner!"

Li Lingyue nodded, and walked straight to the place where the refugees were detained. At a glance, there were as many as three to four hundred people, half of them were elderly women and children, and the other half were male migrant workers.

Most of the people here couldn't help being tempted after seeing the riots in the city, so they joined in and looted as soon as their brains got hot.

Ordinarily, they were only being used by others to follow them blindly. The decapitation has indeed passed, but if they are let go, there is no guarantee that there will be no greater riots in the future.

If you want to solve the problem once and for all, you must use iron fists. If Li Lingyue can't bear it, you must be a villain again.

"Uncle! Let the executioner prepare, all grown men will be beheaded for public display!!"

After the words were finished, He Shan waved his hand, and the imperial army was divided into groups of ten, and the male refugees were put on the execution platform one by one.

The difference from yesterday was that at today's scene, the refugees queuing up just watched all this quietly, and the atmosphere was a bit frighteningly depressed.

Li Lingyue's ears were filled with the cries of family members, begging for mercy, and angry cursing.

She sighed, walked onto the high platform, scanned the thousands of refugees, and said loudly:
"I am the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty. I let you enter the city today. I wanted to find a way of life for everyone. However, after some people entered the city, they were greedy for profit and did evil. This princess gave them a chance to live, but they wanted to seek their own death. Since they ignore the law and ignore the imperial power, don't blame this princess for being cold-blooded and heartless!"

Speaking of this, Li Lingyue suddenly raised her voice: "Where is the imperial inspector!"

He Shan strode forward, knelt down on one knee, and said loudly, "Humble job!"

"After the execution is over, the heads will be hung on the four cities, and anyone who dares to collect the corpses will be beheaded together!"

"Follow your orders!"

Li Lingyue looked at the people in line again, and continued: "After you enter the city, you need to keep your law and order. Qiu has committed no crimes, but anyone who commits crimes and acts recklessly will be punished without mercy!"

After the words fell, the refugees knelt down and shouted: "The princess is a thousand years old!"

When Li Lingyue finished his training and came down to the audience, He Shan asked softly, "Princess, what should we do with those women and children?"

Li Lingyue thought for a while and said: "Forget it, my lord cut off a finger as a punishment, the children will not be held accountable, let them go!"

He Shan opened his mouth when he heard the words, hesitant to speak.

"What? Is there something wrong?" Li Lingyue asked.

"The princess is kind, of course it's true, it's just that I just heard from my subordinates that there are murders happening here!"

He Shan pointed to a few women in shackles in the distance:

"Have you seen the princess? Those vile women in chains just moved into the people's house, and when they saw that the other party's family was rich, they immediately became malicious and killed the entire family. Return to justice!"

"And this thing!" Li Lingyue's expression darkened.

"It's absolutely true. After those wicked women murdered and looted all their belongings, when they went out, they bumped into Li Zheng who placed them, and that's how they were exposed!"

Li Lingyue was furious when she heard this, how could a person be so vicious, he took him in with good intentions, not only did he not know how to be grateful, but he even wanted to kill him for money.

Li Lingyue walked quickly in front of those vicious women, regardless of her princess demeanor, she raised her hand and slapped her a few times.

"Why do you want to slaughter people's families!! Say it!!"

One of the middle-aged women spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and replied indifferently:

"Why should they live a good life in the city, and we have to suffer from hunger and suffering, anyway, we don't have much money to live, so we might as well kill some of them!"

"So, you are not afraid of death?" Li Lingyue gritted her teeth and sneered.

Another elderly woman said disdainfully: "There is nothing to be afraid of death, the old woman is already tired of living!"

"Good! Good! Good!" Li Lingyue trembled with anger, said three good words, turned around and ordered to He Shan behind him:

"Give these poisonous women to this princess!"

The corner of He Shan's mouth twitched, and he asked uncertainly, "Princess, are you talking about Ling Chi?"

"Yes!" Li Lingyue said decisively: "Order, suspend the entry of refugees into the city, and bring all the refugees who have already entered the city here, and make the evil deeds of these vicious women public, so that everyone can open their eyes and see. The fate of the common people is to cut them into pieces and put them to death! Since they are not afraid of death, this princess will tell them not to live or die!"

He Shan shuddered, and wanted to persuade her, but seeing that Li Lingyue had made up her mind, and knew that the princess was really angry, she had no choice but to lead the imperial army to carry out the order.

In the afternoon of that day, the people inside and outside the city watched the frightening execution of Ling Chi for the first time in their lives.

The executioner held a boning knife and cut off the flesh from the wicked woman one by one. The cruel scene made Li Lingyue's stomach churn, and she vomited more than ten times in a row. , Ye is holding on, witnessing the entire execution process.

The heinous poisonous woman, under the executioner's razor, turned from a body into a pile of rotten flesh,
However, Li Lingyue originally thought of 'convincing people with virtue', but in the end, she became 'convincing people by killing'. After this incident, she gained another name in the hearts of the people-Princess Shura.

At dusk, the gates of Yanzhou City were closed again, and the execution platform outside the city was empty. A few wild dogs gnawed on the bloody bones, and the air was filled with a vomitous smell of blood. Doomed not to eat tonight.

Li Lingyue couldn't remember how she got back to the camp. When she woke up the next day, the sun was already high.

After a simple wash, He Shan has been waiting outside for a long time.

He Shan brought a good news and a bad news.

The good news is that after yesterday's killing, the merchants in Yanzhou City have completely given up.

Early in the morning, all the shops were open for business, and prices finally returned to normal. Those businesses that lacked shopkeepers also began to hire refugees with business experience. Everything is developing in a good direction.

The bad news is that Wang Hailong, governor of Yanzhou, actually hanged himself at home.

Before he died, he left a letter of apology written by himself, saying that he was fatuous and incompetent, that he had owed the grace of God, and was ashamed of the people, so he had no face to live in the world anymore.

Once Wang Hailong died, it meant that the clue to trace him was broken. He Shan, who did not give up, went to find Wang Hailong's friends again, but they all disappeared mysteriously without exception.

Li Lingyue had to admire the opponent's trick of "abandoning the car to protect the handsome" was played beautifully. Once the governor died, all the blame could be thrown on him, and there was no proof of death.

The two discussed in the account for a long time, and Li Lingyue finally decided to start the investigation from Liu Cheng, the governor of Fuzhou.

(End of this chapter)