Chapter 135 Killing Zheng Yun
Zheng Yun frantically shouted to Liu, "Sir, I am innocent! You have to make the decision for me!"
Liu was frightened, fearing that the King of Li would use this incident to drag him into the chaos of the Yan nobles, so he quickly said to Gu Changxiao: "This humble official was deceived by this man! Quick, cut off his tongue, and see if he dares to talk nonsense again!"
Zheng Yun then realized that even if the officials from Chang'an were timid, they were still a hundred times more ruthless than the officials from Yan! Even if Li Heng was unwilling to cooperate with him later, he did not want to kill him. Before, he had used the power of the Zheng family to humiliate Li Heng many times.
Look at this Imperial Envoy Liu. He was well fed and well fed, and provided with real money. But when the truth was revealed, he immediately distanced himself from the matter and was the first one to want to kill himself.
Zheng Yun quickly thought of another person and shouted to Liu, "Huo Tiqi, where is Huo Tiqi? My lord, please ask him. Everything I say is true. Is this Li Wang really fake?"
Liu the Imperial Envoy slapped his thigh anxiously: "Quick, slap him in the mouth!"
Then he said to Gu Changxiao: "Huo Tiqi is missing. I was really deceived by this person!"
Gu Changxiao pulled his shoulders and made him face Jin Sui: "You should report this to the King of Li."
Jin Sui walked up to the stage and asked Imperial Envoy Liu loudly, "What is the purpose of your visit, sir?"
Imperial Envoy Liu said hurriedly, "I came to ask the prince for a cure for the plague."
Jin Sui asked sternly, "Zheng Yun keeps saying that I am a fake. My Lord, tell them who I am in front of the Prince of Yanzhou and the soldiers of the border town."
Imperial Envoy Liu did not dare to look at Chang Xiao, and saluted directly with a hoarse voice: "Greetings to His Majesty the Prince of Li!"
Jin Sui said to Zheng Yun who was unwilling to give up, "Now the Imperial Envoy has personally sent you, the leader of the bandits, to the border town. What else do you have to say?"
Imperial Envoy Liu: ...I am not! I didn't! I was simply deceived!
Zheng Yun believed that Liu Qinchai was also involved in the conspiracy, including Huo Tiqi. This matter was a trap for him from the beginning. He turned his head and looked at Liu Qinchai with a fierce look in his eyes. He said in a hateful and poisonous tone: "Even if Zheng Yun dies, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!"
Imperial Envoy Liu understood what Li Heng said. The Prince of Li was a stubborn person and once you got involved with him, you would never be able to escape.
This fake King Li was determined to drag him down! Even if Zheng Yun died, once the news spread, the Yan nobles would be saddened and believe that he was one of the murderers.
Alas, it is absolutely impossible to come to Yan from now on.
Jin Sui ordered Han Xing to escort all the bandits to the stage and said to the thousands of people watching: "Fellow villagers from the border towns, distinguished guests from Yanzhou, please take a look. Zheng Yun from the Zheng family is the leader of the bandits."
"He secretly sent bandits to kill the people of my border town, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil! Today, I will enforce justice on behalf of heaven and use the blood of these evil bandits to sacrifice for the people of my border town who died in vain!"
"Remember, when you have a knife in your hand, if you point it at the weak, you are a coward! Only when you point the knife at the enemies outside the Great Wall, at the evildoers who are causing trouble, can you be truly powerful!"
Zheng Yun wanted to win the sympathy of the sons of the noble families and shouted:
"I only killed some refugees, not the people in the border town. The King of Li is just killing people with borrowed knives, intending to shake the foundation of the Yandi nobles. Don't be fooled by him!"
Jin Sui turned around suddenly, drew the sword from Han Xing's waist, and before anyone could react, he used all his strength to chop off Zheng Yun's head with one blow.
At that moment, thousands of people in the audience fell silent, including Gu Changxiao who was shocked.
I never expected that Taoist Xiao Ji would be so decisive in killing! As a doctor, Jin Sui was certainly not afraid of corpses. She stepped forward and lifted up Zheng Yun's hair, holding the bloody head high, and said sternly:
"In the sixteen states of Yan, anyone who has shed Han blood, speaks Han language, and follows Han customs is Han citizen!"
"All Han people are the subjects of my Lord Yan Qing!"
"Whether they are good citizens or refugees, this king has the responsibility to protect them all!"
"Zheng Yun is a son of a noble family, but he doesn't care about being loyal to the emperor and loving the country, nor does he care about making a difference. Instead, he secretly raises bandits and horse thieves, harming the people of Daxia."
"Today, I will use his blood as a sacrifice to my people who died in vain!"
After she finished speaking, she looked at Han Xing, who understood what she meant. Hei Hu, Cheng Yu and other soldiers raised their knives and beheaded all the bandits and horse thieves.
Suddenly, heads were rolling on the stage and blood was flowing like pillars. It should have been a very scary and weird scene, but the people below the stage didn't feel that way.
Someone was the first to shout: "Good kill!"
Then all the people shouted: "Well done, Prince!"
Finally, the nobles who were originally shaken by Zheng Yun's words, led by Yan Shiyi who was the first to shout, shouted: "Good kill!"
Jin Sui raised her hand to signal everyone to be quiet. Now she was no longer serious, but smiled:
"Today is the opening day of my Border Town Polo Tournament. I will use the blood of these thieves to cheer up the warriors!"
"A true warrior should shed his sweat on the court and bleed on the battlefield! Instead of bullying the weak and oppressing his compatriots!"
The cheers from the audience became louder, and some even felt that the prince was too merciful to them by killing these thieves so quickly and efficiently.
Jin Sui knew that although Zheng Yun deserved to die, no one had ever killed the acting patriarch of a noble family so directly.
She also didn't want to offend the nobles in Yan. It would be troublesome if they united and prevented the border town from developing.
So she said in public: "Even though Zheng Yun deserves death, the dead are the most important. Send his body back to the Zheng family."
"By the way, Patriarch Zheng was ill some time ago, please send a portion of my medicine to him."
She said this to the children of the nobles present, saying that I only killed Zheng Yun, and did not implicate the Zheng family, and I have a very good relationship with the head of the Zheng family.
So you don't have to worry at all, the King of Li is using a knife to kill people and wants to fight against the nobles. And the King of Li does not commit collective crimes. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. He will not exterminate a clan because of one person's crime.
Soon, Han Xing and his men took the body away and cleaned up the scene.
Cheng Yu handed over a big red box, and Jin Sui opened it and showed it to everyone. It contained three trophies, made of pure gold, pure silver, and fine iron:
“This is the trophy that the king prepared for the top three in the polo match. Welcome all warriors to participate in the Border Town Polo Match!
For honor, for victory, for the sweat shed on the training ground, everyone goes all out! "
The excitement at the scene suddenly became louder. The children of the noble families did not value gold and silver, but winning a trophy in such a grand game was more exciting than winning the Yanzhou Treasure Competition.
After all, the treasure race is just a game played by their small circle, while the border town ball game has so many people paying attention to it.
Jinsui gave them another piece of news: "This year, my border town will compile a history book for the game. The first polo game and Cuju game, all participating teams will be recorded in the history books."
"All the players in the top three will go down in history!"
Leaving your name in history is more valuable than just a page in the family tree!
If the elders used to regard playing polo as a pastime for noblemen, they would even call it unlearned.
Now they will definitely give their full support and spend more money on the polo team! After all, if it can be recorded in history, even if it is the history of the border town ball game built by Li Wangxiu, they will flock to it!
When the news that Zheng Yun was killed by King Li himself reached Yanzhou City, Li Heng was so scared that he fell down on his chair, sweating profusely.
At the same time, he secretly felt lucky that he did not get involved this time. Even if Imperial Envoy Liu personally invited him, he would have declined on the pretext of illness.
It's not that he didn't suspect that the King of Li was fake. He just fought with him too many times and was sure that an imperial envoy and Zheng Yun alone would not be able to do anything to him, no matter whether the King of Li was real or fake.
Fortunately, I made the right bet this time!
But he estimated that even if he did not participate, the King of Li would not be grateful to him, and at most would not blame him.
Alas, no matter how reluctant I am, I have to board the ship of King Li. Even if I can't please him, at least I have to do something to make King Li happy and stop holding him accountable for his past mistakes.
By the way, build a road. I promised the King of Li to build a road from Yanzhou to the border town. He has been putting it off. I will start tomorrow! I must build the road wide and flat to satisfy the King of Li! When Zheng Yun's body was sent to the Zheng family, Zheng Pengpeng was only happy and did not blame the King of Li at all.
If the defeat of the Zheng family was caused by him letting Chen Yunniang be buried alive, then Zheng Yun was the one who dragged the Zheng family into an irreversible disaster! The first preliminaries were between the Tuntian Camp and the Yanzhou Army, which was specially arranged by Jinsui.
In order to let the Yanzhou teams see the capabilities of the Border Town team, she did not allow the stronger Black Feather Camp team to compete in order to give them a little shock tomorrow.
This is to facilitate the sale of ball game equipment in the future. The Black Feather Team led by Han Xing is completely a "sales" team.
In order to participate in the first Border Town Tournament, Captain Liu rushed back from the East China Sea Base. Of course, he did not come here to gamble or train the farming team. He had never played polo before.
He was here to sell salt! This opportunity was so rare that almost all the people near the border town came, and many vendors also came to set up stalls.
But without a salt permit, selling salt directly was illegal, and the imperial envoy was still there, and Jinsui didn't want to be caught by him.
Captain Liu thought of an idea. Since we couldn't sell salt directly, we could sell pickles, salted fish, and kelp, a specialty of the border town. The dried kelp was covered with a layer of white salt. We could take it home, cut a little and throw it into the food. It would taste salty and fresh.
Then the vegetables stored in the military farm were pickled. Because the price was low, some people who wanted to stock up on winter vegetables came to buy them, especially the refugees, who had never encountered such a good thing!
What they sell here is not just pickled vegetables, but their life-saving vegetables! Not eating salt for a long time can kill people.
Even the stewards brought by the sons of noble families who participated in the competition were bought in large quantities.
The preliminaries have already started in a lively manner on this side of the stadium, and the trade zone over there is crowded with people.
In the inn area not far away, Yan Jiu walked into the room from the second-floor corridor, his eyes full of admiration. He saw clearly the scene where King Li chopped Zheng Yun.
Of course, he also saw clearly the subtle interactions between the imperial envoy, Gu Changxiao and Jin Sui on the stage.
Others either didn't care, or didn't think about it at all, but Yan Jiu, who was extremely intelligent, figured out a lot of things through this "drama".
"The real and fake King of Brutality, how interesting!"
The steward beside him didn't hear clearly, so he asked with a smile: "What did the master say?"
Yan Jiu chuckled, "I mean, our Prince Li is really amazing! He mixed a bloody murder case into a lively ball game, which not only did not cause panic, but also made the border town famous and shocked the nobles at the same time."
"To intimidate the nobles? Isn't that an exaggeration? Although Zheng Yun was indeed from a noble family, the King of Li only killed him and didn't even touch the Zheng family. Those nobles didn't take it seriously at all."
Yan Jiu glanced at him and said, "I'm afraid all the nobles in Yan have the same idea as you, but they don't know that the King of Li has other intentions."
The manager thought for a long time, still not understanding: "What's the other meaning?"
Yan Jiu asked him directly: "If refugees bump into the sons of the noble families, will the sons of the noble families kill the refugees without any care?"
In the past, the lives of refugees were worthless. There were even some cruel and vicious sons of noble families who, when they went hunting in the mountains and failed to catch any prey, actually put up hunting flags on the refugees and took pleasure in hunting them.
But after what happened today, whoever in the sixteen states of Yan wants to kill refugees and civilians will remember King Li’s words.
The purpose of the King of Li's move was not to kill Zheng Yun to intimidate the nobles, but to completely make decisions for the refugees and civilians! No matter who you are, whether you are a noble from Yan, a Tartar from the northern border, or a bandit or a bandit, if you dare to kill my people, be prepared to face the King of Li's butcher knife!
The sons of the aristocratic families were so focused on the polo match that they didn't pay any attention to the reactions of the people outside.
He saw it all clearly here: many people cried and knelt down to kowtow to King Li.
Especially those refugees who were trembling in the corner, their expressions were like orphans who had lived for many years finding their relatives, or like displaced travelers returning home.
It could no longer be described as simple happiness; it was as if the soul had been reforged within the numb body, and the waist that had been bent for decades had been straightened up again as if it had been reborn.
From now on, they will no longer call themselves homeless refugees, but rather - the people of Border Town! The people of the King of Li! By beheading Zheng Yun in public, Border Town will have a better reputation among the people than Chang'an. Border Town will become a pilgrimage city for refugees!
And in this world, there are refugees not only in Yandi! There are more than 100,000 refugees in the mountains and across the country. There are countless refugees hiding. What if all these people come to the border town? Yan Jiu tapped the table lightly with his long fingers and drank a cup of cold tea.
The great and powerful King Li is truly unrivaled in the world! The steward was greatly shocked. This was something he had never thought about. He only thought about King Li's attitude towards the nobles in this matter. It turned out that King Li was making such a big move! He was about to say something when he saw his master drinking cold tea, so he hurried to make new tea.
Seeing the master staring blankly at the scenery outside the window, he murmured softly, "You are willing to serve under him, are you willing to serve under me, Yan Jiu?"
I can give you more than Jun Yanqing!
The steward didn't understand what his master meant and didn't dare to ask any more questions. When he heard that the game had already started, he hurriedly arranged for people to keep an eye on it and to report any situation with the Eleventh Young Master in a timely manner.
I have to arrange for someone to look for Miss Yan. I wonder if she went to watch the Eleventh Young Master's competition, or went somewhere else to block the King of Li? Among the three masters in my family, serving the head of the family is the least troublesome.
Jin Sui and Gu Chang Xiao were unaware that Yan Jiu had already seen the truth from this drama.
The two of them were receiving the imperial envoy. Jin Sui deliberately played the sympathetic role and took the imperial envoy to the thatched hut where they lived.
He said in a cold voice: "The border town was burned down when we fought the Tartars before, and the new town is still under construction. Currently, we can only live in a shabby room like this, which is not as good as the residence arranged by Zheng Yun. My lord, please don't despise your precious body."
Imperial Envoy Liu was trembling with fear, deeply regretting that he had believed what Huo Zian and Zheng Yun said.
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