Chapter 439 Execution of the Dog Emperor
"yes."
Catching the porcelain bottle, Yuan Shu pried open the dog emperor's mouth and fed him a few pills. After a while, all the bleeding wounds on his body stopped bleeding. Everyone once again clearly realized how terrifying the effect of Shen Xiangwan's medicine was.
"Yuan Shu, take the guards and search the palace again to see if there are any fish that have escaped the net."
"yes."
Yuan Shu bowed and retreated. Wei Chengyi glanced indifferently at the concubines and the princes and princesses: "Lock them up and execute them together in three days!"
"yes."
“No, don’t…”
"King Weiyang, please spare our lives, please spare us..."
"I don't want to die, no..."
Qingying waved his hand, and the soldiers who remained outside rushed in. Even though they knew it was impossible, they couldn't help crying and begging for mercy when facing death. But Wei Chengyi had no intention of being soft-hearted. If he was the one who failed today, they would only be more ruthless than him. The change of dynasties was inevitably accompanied by bloodshed. They enjoyed the honor bestowed upon them by the Li royal family, but they must also bear the price of the dynasty's demise.
"There should still be quite a few royal relatives outside the palace."
The Li royal family has continued for decades and has long since flourished. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of relatives in the imperial city alone, not to mention the vassal kings scattered outside.
"All the royal relatives and large families outside the palace have been controlled. No one can escape. Leave the rest to Qingying and the others. Shall we return to the palace?"
Reaching out and holding her hand, Wei Chengyi turned around with her. He really didn't want to stay in the place where the emperor stayed all year round.
"good."
Nodding, Shen Xiangwan took a step forward. Seeing this, Chu Liang and others followed him. No one paid any attention to the cries of begging for mercy. This was reality, and reality was often bloody and cruel.
The palace was still the same as when they left that day. There was a seal on the gate and the inside was in a mess due to the house search. Wei Chengyi and his wife had someone clean up the place simply and moved in. As for the palace, none of them planned to live there. Next, all the royal family members were arrested. Wei Chengyi and his wife personally led people to filter out the major families and the eunuchs and maids in the palace.
Someone among the guards had already awakened the ability to read minds, and his level had risen to a very high level. As long as he was willing, the voices of everyone within a few hundred meters would be conveyed to him with his body as the center. Wei Chengyi would not casually wipe out any of the major families that had not taken innocent lives. Anyone who oppressed the people and committed all kinds of evil would not be able to escape. They wanted to take this opportunity to completely eliminate all the parasites.
Shen Xiangwan was in charge of sorting out the eunuchs and maids in the palace. There were quite a few of them, more than 10,000 in number. The people below had cleared out the list in advance, and the few princes and princesses who had sneaked in were pulled out. Then Shen Xiangwan asked the guards who had awakened their mind-reading abilities to investigate them one by one. Anyone who harbored evil intentions and had innocent lives on their hands would be killed or expelled. In the end, there were only more than 5,000 people left.
Even so, Shen Xiangwan still felt that there were too many of them, so she decided to send out those palace maids who were of marriageable age and willing to leave the palace. As for the eunuchs, many of them would suffer discrimination and find it difficult to survive after leaving. For those who were willing to leave, Shen Xiangwan let them take the money they had saved and leave, while those who were unwilling to leave stayed in the palace and continued to serve.
“Kill them!”
“Kill them!”
"Dog Emperor, die!"
"It's all your fault, you all deserve to die!"
Three days later, a huge procession of prison vans drove towards the downtown area of the imperial city. The common people who had been freed and could come and go but were temporarily unable to leave the city were crowded into the van. They had been oppressed for too long. All kinds of stones and rotten eggs were constantly thrown into the prison van. The emperor, the royal family, and the people from the major families who had committed crimes were all beaten to a bloody mess.
“Kill them!”
“Kill them!”
At the execution ground in the downtown area, the people were excited and the shouts of killing were earth-shaking. The first to be taken to the execution platform were the dog emperor and his concubines and children. The rest of the royal family members and members of major families were temporarily detained under the platform to watch closely. In order to maintain order, Wei Chengyi specially dispatched 3,000 soldiers.
"Your Majesty, the princess is here!"
A deep and rich singing suddenly sounded, clearly hitting the eardrums of everyone present. The scene gradually quieted down, and the crowd made way for Wei Chengyi and his wife, Chu Liang, Liang Yuting and others stepped forward. They all had expressionless faces and solemn expressions, and soon walked to the execution site and sat down.
"The deposed Emperor Li Lüqin was incompetent and cruel, unworthy of being a ruler. He has murdered countless loyal officials and has shown no regard for the lives of the people. He has left the people of the world in dire straits, causing countless suffering and bringing chaos to the country. I now sentence him to death by a thousand cuts. His wives, concubines, and children will all be beheaded in public to rectify the world and bring justice to the people of the world."
"good!"
Receiving Wei Chengyi's hint, Yan Junling handed a scroll to Qingying. The latter unfolded it and recited loudly. His voice, mixed with his strong internal strength, was clearly transmitted to every corner of the execution ground. The people all cheered loudly. Although they were in the imperial city and did not have the same hardship as the people in Binzhou, they had had enough of the oppression of the royal family and those officials, and had long been wishing someone could punish them.
"Execution!"
They had arrived on time, so Wei Chengyi took out a token and threw it out.
"No, spare us..."
"Mother, I'm scared, Mother..."
“Woo woo woo…”
In an instant, everyone on the execution platform burst into tears, and the emperor, curled up on the ground, could not help trembling. At this moment, he was afraid, he was really afraid, but the executioners did not care whether they were afraid or not. They took out the big knives used for beheading, and the emperor was stripped naked in just a few strokes, and a fishing net was wrapped tightly around him.
“Ahh…”
As the executioner raised his knife and slashed, heads rolled to the ground. Those who were crying and shouting in the previous second had their heads torn from their bodies in the next. Screams echoed in every corner of the execution ground. The royal relatives and people from major families who were watching closely from the audience were shaking like sieves. Some of the less courageous ones even wet their pants or fainted on the spot.
“Hmm…Hmm…”
The well-trained soldiers dragged the bodies away, but the execution was not over yet. On the high platform in the center, the emperor, wrapped in a fishing net, could not speak, but kept shaking his head with tears, because the executioner was cutting the flesh from his body with a knife. After a while, a pile of bloody flesh accumulated on the ground.
Wei Chengyi and others on the execution platform all looked on expressionlessly. They had endured for several years, and today they finally got their revenge.
In order to save time, other people were also dragged to the execution platform one after another. On that day, dozens of executioners themselves did not know how many people they had killed. The ground of the execution ground was covered with a thick layer of blood. It was not until dusk that the executioner stabbed the dog emperor's heart with a knife, killing him. At that time, he had almost become a bloody skeleton.
[End of this chapter]
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