Qing Yuan, who had been following Ma Zheng, had a frown on his face. He looked back at Zhoushan City which had disappeared from his sight, and his face became even more annoyed.
When Ma Zheng first returned to his yard, Qingyuan thought Ma Zheng was a good person who would not cause trouble to others until he was about to die.
As a result, before he could finish his admiration for Ma Zheng, he saw Ma Zheng coming out again with a bag on his back. After asking him carefully, he found out that Ma Zheng wanted to see his father before he died.
Qing Yuan didn't want to go with him at first, but Ma Zheng said, "You can come with me. I know the young master wants you to see him die with your own eyes."
"It's the same if you send a pigeon to send a message or ask your father to come over." Qing Yuan was a little helpless, but still wanted to persuade Ma Zheng.
After all, he had just been recognized by his master and was finally able to continue to serve his master. He really didn't want to stay away.
He also wanted to keep an eye on the two new male favorites beside his master, to prevent them from stabbing his master in the back and putting him in danger.
"Time is running out, and I don't want to waste time talking to you. If you want to follow me, then follow me. If you don't want to, then just report back to me, young master." After saying this, Ma Zheng walked past Qing Yuan, went to the stable to take the horse and left.
Qing Yuan was speechless. He cursed softly but followed obediently. After all, he couldn't beat Ma Zheng at all. Even though Ma Zheng was poisoned now, it would take some time for the poison to take effect.
He had no confidence to wait until that time, so he could only find someone to report to his master, and then hurriedly led his horse out.
As for Xu Tianze, who ordered Ma Zheng to be executed, he had already arrived at the military camp with Xichen and Jiang Ti, followed by several of Long Muse's secret guards.
"Master, why do I feel that these people are looking at us in a strange way?" Jiang Ti stood behind Xu Tianze, his voice a little timid.
It wasn't that he wasn't trying hard enough. It was mainly because he had followed his master into the military camp, and everyone had been looking at them with strange eyes. Now that he was standing on this high platform, the feeling was even more pronounced.
The most important thing was that his master took him and Xichen to stand directly on the high platform, looking at the silent soldiers below. They were obviously in a higher position, but there was always a feeling that they were inferior.
"Three, two, one, down." Xu Tianze raised the corner of his mouth and counted the beats slowly.
At first everyone was a little confused, but as Xu Tianze finished counting the beats, the soldiers below, who had just looked like they wanted to kill Xu Tianze and others, fell to the ground and wailed.
If it was just one or two people, it would be fine, but all the soldiers were lying on the ground wailing, and coupled with Xu Tianze's action of counting the beats just now, everyone instantly understood what was going on.
At the beginning, these men could still hold on, but they saw that Xu Tianze had no intention of taking care of them, and they had waited for so long but no military doctor came.
All the soldiers could not hold on any longer and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xu Tianze. When all the soldiers' foreheads were covered in blood, Xu Tianze nodded to the secret guards following behind him.
The secret guards then went down, took out the antidote they had prepared long ago, and detoxified the soldiers one by one. The soldiers who had recovered lay on the ground in a disgraceful manner, looking like they had survived a disaster.
"Get up, everyone. This is just a relief, not a real antidote." Xu Tianze looked down at the soldiers lying on the ground, his eyes without a trace of warmth.
"If you can't get up within ten breaths, the antidote won't be so easy to get next time." Seeing that the soldiers lying on the ground were motionless, Xu Tianze said this indifferently and asked Xichen to start counting down.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven." Seeing that the soldiers still hadn't gotten up from the ground, Xichen said with a malicious smile, "Three, two, one."
“Wow—”
The soldiers who wanted to lie on the ground and rest for a few more breaths ignored the pain in their bodies and hurriedly began to stand up. They did not expect Xichen to count like this, and they were so flustered.
There were quite a few problems. You pulled me, and I kicked you. After three breaths, not all the soldiers stood up.
“Ah~”
"Sir, sir, medicine, antidote."
After ten breaths, the soldiers who had not yet stood up lay on the ground and continued to waile, begging Xu Tianze for the antidote.
Those soldiers who had already stood up looked at their comrades on the ground with horror. When they looked at Xu Tianze in disbelief, they quickly lowered their heads, for fear of looking at Xu Tianze.
For Xu Tianze, if he wanted to manage better in the future, he naturally had to set up rules from the beginning, so Xu Tianze ignored the wailing of those lying on the ground.
Xichen understood this logic, and Jiang Ti also understood this logic, but Jiang Ti was Long Musi's subordinate after all. Even though he was given to Xu Tianze by Long Musi, his heart was still on Long Musi's side.
Seeing his own prince's soldiers twisting and wailing on the ground, even those who were standing were shaking constantly, looking terrified.
Jiang Ti felt a little bit reluctant and was even a little dissatisfied with Xu Tianze. Soldiers who were frightened and tortured like this would be hard to fight against the enemy on the battlefield in the future, and it would be difficult to even let them work for their own prince.
"Master, the soldiers are demoralized and the military is unstable. Who will dare to serve the prince in the future?" Jiang Ti couldn't stand it any more and started to condemn him. "This isn't the way the prince asked you to reorganize the barracks."
"Oh? Are you teaching me how to do things?" Xu Tianze no longer paid attention to what was happening below the stage, but turned to look at the male favorite who was sent over.
"I dare not, but the master acts like this..."
“Pah.”
Jiang Ti covered his face and looked at Xu Tianze in disbelief. After all, he was given the throne by the prince. How could Xu Tianze have the courage to imprison him?
Hitting him would be like slapping the prince in the face. Doesn't Xu Tianze want to survive in Jiangnan?
"You keep calling me master, but you don't act as if I were your master at all. Could it be that Long Muse sent you here so that you can tell me what to do?" Xu Tianze had an unhappy look on his face and slapped Jiang Ti in the face again.
"You're just a male concubine. I haven't even given you any respect, yet you're so arrogant. If I get respect one day, won't I have to call you master?" Xu Tianze said as he kicked Jiang Ti to the ground.
Jiang Ti seemed to have just remembered his current status. He quickly climbed up and knelt on the ground to kowtow to Xu Tianze: "I dare not, I know I am wrong, please calm down, Master."
"Master, those people have fainted from the pain." Xu Tianze wanted to say something when he heard Xichen reminding him.
When he turned around, he found that those who were lying down had fainted, and those who were standing wanted to look up but didn't dare to, and looked timid.
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