Outside Xuejun City.

Within ten days, the news had already spread.

When the execution day came, everyone in the surrounding counties, villages, pavilions, and villages who could be present rushed to the execution place. For a time, people with different accents merged into an endless flow of people.

It's great to have discussions flying around.

The execution ground was located at the bottom of a flat valley not far from the county town.

Crowds of people watching the execution spread from both sides of the hillside to the valley bottom. However, in the innermost area, there were Qin soldiers wearing armor and holding spears and spears to guard them. People were strictly prohibited from entering the execution ground.

The execution time has not yet come.

The crowd around him also looked at the execution ground.

It was not that they had never seen government executions in the past, but the execution ground at this time was different from what they had seen before. There were no execution racks and wooden stakes, and there were no shirtless executioners in red. Instead, there were thousands of people in the valley surrounded by a large cavalry team.

The soldiers were digging pits, and there were rows of pits connected to each other. The damp new soil exuded a turbid smell, which made people feel terrified.

Someone in the crowd whispered:

"This Shangshu Ling is still a decent man. After killing people, he still buries these people on the spot. It's just that he dug so many holes. I don't know how many people will be executed this time. Will this place become a mass grave in the future?"

Someone said:

"There are many executions this time."

"A distant relative of mine said there were at least a thousand people here this time."

"This official was assassinated last time in Lu County. He almost died. He narrowly escaped death. How could this high official not take revenge? I'm afraid these people will all die miserably."

Someone else said:

"I heard that it was Confucian scholars who were executed?"

"Didn't these Confucian scholars say they were invited by the emperor?"

"Why would you still commit such a big thing?"

Some people around shook their heads and said:

"have no idea."

"These people are doomed anyway."

"..."

There was a constant sound of strings all around.

Among the crowd, some nobles who were good friends with Confucianism were all pale at this time, clenching their teeth and saying nothing.

As for the peasants in Guizhou who were wearing burlap clothes, they all looked like they were watching the excitement. They had no feelings for Confucian scholars and had basically no contact with them on weekdays. Moreover, they did not like those Confucian scholars with their nostrils turned up to the sky. At this time, they even

I am happy to see Confucian scholars fail.

People were talking around, and the voices gradually became quieter.

Noon.

A large group of Confucian scholars with disheveled clothes and withered faces were escorted into the valley.

On the earthen platform in the center of the execution ground, two rows of trumpets sounded in unison. Yang Wuchang, who was in charge of the punishment in the corner of the platform, shouted: "The official Qin Shangshu, the official in charge of execution, has arrived----!"

With everyone looking eagerly, Qin Luoheng walked to the stage.

Follow closely behind.

Later.

Gu recited a sentence of execution.

Solid Road:

"Edict of the Emperor of Qin----"

"The four hundred and sixty-seven Confucian scholars of the Chakong sect ignored the benefits of the Qin Dynasty's new policy and did not think about the country's kindness. They criticized the new policy based on the past and the present, spread rumors, ran private schools, slandered the emperor, and connected with the old nobles of the six countries to conspire.

To restore the old system of three dynasties, those who repeatedly violate the law will not be punished! In order to prohibit the evil trend of using literature to disrupt the law, to prohibit the success of the restoration conspiracy, and to prohibit the harmful practice of private learning, all Confucian criminals who violate the law will be punished by being trapped and killed.

"

"The autumn of the thirty-second year of Emperor Qin's reign!"

Finished.

Gu Geng shouted loudly.

However, Qin Luoheng did not directly order the killing.

Instead, he walked down from the high platform to the kneeling Confucian scholar, and finally stood in front of a dark, thin, unkempt man with a haggard face. The Confucian scholar in front of him was half-blind, and he knelt straight on the ground, shaped like a wooden sculpture.

Qin Luoheng looked at it for a moment and seemed to recognize the person in front of him.

He walked up to this person and said calmly:

"Do you remember who I am?"

Shusuntong raised his head, gritted his teeth and said, "I can't forget Qin Luoheng!"

Qin Luoheng waved his hand, and a soldier immediately brought a bowl of cold water. However, Shusun Tong didn't say a word, he just opened his mouth and waited for the soldier to feed the water into his mouth.

The soldiers looked around at Qin Luoheng, who nodded.

After finishing the bowl of water, Shusun Tong seemed to be much more energetic, and he still expressed his filial piety: "Okay, I am willing to die."

Qin Luoheng said: "Shu Sun Tong, you and I have both served in the Doctoral Academy, and we can be regarded as colleagues. Now that you know you are going to die, let me ask you a few words. If you want to tell the truth, tell the truth. If you don't want to, tell the truth.

How about not saying anything at all?"

Shusun Tong took a deep look at Qin Luoheng.

He said in a deep voice:

"Only a bowl of kindness."

Qin Luoheng asked: "Where are Kong Yu and Kong Xiang?"

When Qin Luoheng heard about these two people, Shusun Tong immediately looked angry and cursed: "These two old thieves deceived us and let us stay in Lu County to die. They themselves escaped in advance. If they could

When I see these two people again, I will definitely skin these two thieves alive, eat their flesh alive, sleep on their skin, drink their blood, cramp their tendons, and let them completely break their bones and spread their ashes."

"Why do you hate these two brothers so much?" Qin Luoheng asked.

Shusun Tong snorted coldly:

"Our current miserable situation as a Confucian school is all thanks to them."

"I and other Confucian scholars didn't know anything about the private school before. It was the two brothers Kong Kun who contacted the nobles of the six countries in private to start it. They only told us about it when they couldn't hide it later, and they also told us about it.

He said that as long as we drag it on, Confucianism will replace Legalism."

"This thief Kong Yu is too greedy."

"You don't know where they are going?" Qin Luoheng frowned.

Shusuntong sneered and said:

"How could they tell us if they were running for their lives?"

"If they let us leave in advance, how could we be caught by you?"

Qin Luoheng frowned slightly and did not continue to ask more questions on this topic. He had already heard that Shusun Tong and others were scolded before and were still helping Confucius people count money. He asked: "Your eyes

How were you injured?"

Shusuntong said sadly:

"If you don't choose a road in a hurry, can you be safe? It's okay not to say these things!"

Qin Luoheng said: "The Qin Dynasty has lived up to you, so why are you determined to break with the Qin court? You are even willing to die for it!"

Shusun passage:

"Ha ha."

"The Qin Dynasty lived up to Confucianism? What a joke."

"Have I, a Confucian, really been taken seriously by the Qin court in the past few years since I entered the Qin Dynasty?"

"Haven't you experienced this in the Doctor's Palace?"

"After banning the discussion of politics in the Doctoral Academy, we Confucian scholars have lost the basis of our survival. Qin and Confucianism despise each other, while Legalism and Confucianism do not tolerate each other. Even if our Confucianism does not oppose Qin, sooner or later, we will be cannibalized by your Qin Dynasty and Legalism

After all, Da Qin has never been the same as Confucianism!"

"and......"

"Great Qin is destined to perish!!!"

Hearing Shusun Tong's nonsense, Yang Wu suddenly drew his long sword.

Qin Luoheng stopped Yang Wu.

He looked at Shu Sun Tong and said calmly: "Everyone in the world knows that Confucian ideals are inconsistent with the Qin government. Now that the Qin Dynasty is powerful, Confucianism has a sense of crisis. It is understandable, but you say that the Qin Dynasty is going to die? I don't understand it.
To be continued...