Chapter 126, Execution
"Marinus Flanagan is guilty of murder, subversion, enslavement, and imprisonment... In the name of the Emperor, he is sentenced to death!"
"Jesse Dutra, guilty of murder and fraud... In the name of the Emperor, sentenced to death!"
"Lloyd Yukik, guilty of..."
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Many people, wearing clothes that were originally exquisite but had become dirty due to detention and interrogation, were tied up and kneeling on the ground.
They looked at Lambert, who was sitting in the judgement seat and having his charges read out, but they made no silent rebuttal.
They couldn't speak either, as their tongues had all been cut off to prevent them from speaking nonsense on such an important occasion.
They just need to show up here and face their own destiny.
In fact, they were not the first group. In front of them, there was another platform below the high platform of the trial, which was stained with blood.
Just now, after the verdict was announced, they were dragged to the platform below in batches of ten. Then, the back of one person's head was facing a gun. As the supervising officer gave an order, gunshots rang out at the same time, and the kneeling people immediately fell forward, and blood splattered all over the ground.
Immediately, someone came up and dragged the bodies away. When the crimes of the next group of people were read out, the workers brought buckets of water to pour on the execution platform, and then quickly mopped it with a mop.
This definitely couldn't be cleaned up all at once. When the next group of people were dragged over, the ground was still wet and the smell of blood hit our noses.
Being scared to the point of peeing your pants, twisting and turning to try to resist... these are all common operations, but they are meaningless.
Then there were more orders, more gunshots, and the next group of people were sentenced...
It would take more than twenty batches of prisoners prepared by Lambert to kill them all.
During this period, nearly two thousand people were arrested in the political terror that enveloped the inner city of Fuxing.
Of course, not all of these people would be brought here to be executed. On the one hand, not everyone had been sentenced to death. On the other hand, sentencing and executing two thousand people one by one would take too much time.
About 200 of them, just for the sake of showing respect. We can deal with the remaining 400 to 500 death row prisoners later.
Among the prisoners, some were released because they had no real problems, about 500 of them. The remaining thousand or so were all sentenced to hard labor and were to work in the mine at the site of the old abandoned Dongshe.
These people, in the wasteland environment, are quite delicate and tender, and probably have never done too much physical labor. After working in the dark mine for five years, I wonder how many of them will be able to come out alive at the end of their sentence.
Further down from the execution platform is the Execution Viewing Square.
This place is located in the square in front of the Alliance Parliament Hall. It is quite large and can easily accommodate 20,000 people.
Now, about half of the people are standing here, that is, about 10,000 people.
These people watching the execution were basically the top 10% of the inner city residents in terms of social status.
They were 'invited' to watch the trial, and they were very moved when they received the invitation.
As expected, the scene happening at this moment made their scalps tingle.
Among those executed were many people they knew and were familiar with.
In the past, these were their leaders, their superiors, and their bosses.
Whenever we meet someone, we probably have to bow our heads and greet them politely, hoping that they will give us a little extra so that we can have a good meal; or that if they give us a little help, perhaps we will have greater opportunities in our future life.
But now, these people who were once high and mighty were being executed in front of them in batches like dead dogs.
People were silent as they watched the execution.
Governor, this is serious.
This made many of them recall the second generation governor six years ago...
No, it's even more outrageous than the second generation governor.
The second-generation governor at that time had to rely on the administrative and military power of the alliance to implement his reign of terror and impose heavy taxes. Although that era caused terrible disasters, since administrative measures had to be implemented by the alliance system, many of them were originally within this system, and they themselves were the ones who implemented the terror.
Many times, terror never falls upon one's own head.
But the new governor is not like that. He has built up his own power out of thin air, and that power carries out his will. The new governor really doesn't need them.
More than 2,000 people were arrested, and 200 were being shot one by one on the platform, which was easier than killing pigs. This meant that the ruling class under the alliance system and the leaders of almost all interest groups were swept away.
Isn't this enough to reflect the Governor's determination and ruthlessness?
Now, they have truly felt that things have really changed in Renaissance City, the Alliance, and even the entire Angry Owl Star.
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Gu Hang was on the highest platform, looking down at everything silently.
The blood on the execution platform and the silent and frightened people below did not change his expression at all.
He is indeed destroying the existing order, and his goal is to clean up the house and make it easier for him to rebuild the order he wants.
His approach to people in the inner city is different from that to people in the outer city.
The people in the outer city are poor, destitute, and hungry, so we should use gentle means, show kindness, give them hope, and establish prestige. Let them have enough food and clothing, let them live and work in peace, and they will naturally become our strength.
The people in the inner city live a good life. If you want to bribe them with more benefits, the cost performance is too low. So you should use decisive means to implant terror into their minds so that they dare not become an obstacle to you.
Gu Hang would definitely not allow these inner city people to become vampires again. Not only that, he also wanted the inner city people to bleed heavily, otherwise who would pay for the resources to buy off the outer city people?
Unlike what he had imagined, after clearing out the powerful people in the city, Gu Hang did not gain much practical value.
Money is meaningless. The so-called Union Coin is a currency issued by the Union government and not widely circulated. To Gu Hang, those things are like waste paper.
He hasn't completely abolished the use of Alliance Coin yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Gu Hang doesn't have the patience to develop any financial industry here.
Can the financial industry help pay taxes? Can I use Alliance Coin to negotiate with the imperial tax officials?
Obviously not.
Money is just a means of regulating the economy.
The devastating storm caused by the original Angry Owl Sect helped Gu Hang a lot to some extent. When the people in the outer city were almost penniless, Gu Hang realized that he didn't need to maintain the original financial system of Fuxing City.
The most important thing he got from those so-called powerful people was the industries they originally controlled.
Next, Gu Hang will largely abolish and not recognize the use of the Alliance Coin, which will directly make all the people in the inner city penniless. Under this decision, all the wealth they have accumulated in the past will become waste paper piled up at home.
They did not end up with nothing, after all, they still had their own houses and some material savings, which was much better off than the people from the outsiders who had to start from scratch.
But the past life will never come back.
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