Chapter 387: The Iron-Blooded Pit Kills and Shocks the Restoration!
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.
I am willing to listen to its teachings.”
Shusun Tong looked blankly at the Cang Cang Valley.
He said coldly and slowly:
"The death of Qin Zheng was caused by Ying Zheng's disregard for the law of heaven!"
"Ying Zheng, as the emperor, wasted resources, wasted people's resources, and built palaces indiscriminately. Although I am blind, I still vaguely remember the eight hundred miles of Qinzhong, with towers and palaces stretching all the way. I don't know how many families were destroyed to build these towers and palaces.
, and I don’t know how many people died unexpectedly, and the crimes involved are too numerous to describe.”
"Qin's government is based on cruelty."
"There are widowers among the people, mournful women in the palace, murders without calculation, mountains of bones like bones, and ocher clothes blocking the roads. Now they are blocking the mouths of the world, destroying the road to literature, burning the classics of three generations, digging up the tombs of sages, and building the Great Wall.
Cutting off the dragon veins of China, building roads and destroying the fertile fields of our people's residences, these unethical countries, unruly kings, and unruly government, even if they perish ten times, will not be able to level the grievances of the world."
"How can it be natural if the Qin Dynasty is not destroyed?!"
Qin Luoheng shook his head.
He said in a deep voice:
"Perhaps what you said is true."
"But what does it matter?"
"Who cares?"
"You said that Qin is a country without principles. If Qin is really without principles, how can it be able to rule the world? Let the wars in the world cease? Let all the people rest and recuperate?"
"If your majesty is really an unruly king, how can you be honored as an emperor and be respected by all people?"
"If Qin's government is really unethical, how can it eliminate border troubles? How can it allow the Chinese race to survive forever? What Qin has implemented over the years to build roads, dig rivers and defenses, and expand territories, every word, and every weight and measure, are any of them true?
Is it wrong?"
"If it hadn't been for the Qin Dynasty, the world would have been in chaos for who knows how many years, and I don't know how many people would have died in the war."
"You can ask the people around you whether they want to continue to live in war or in today's peaceful world. Maybe there is still a lot of darkness under the rule of Da Qin, but no matter how much darkness there is, it is far less dim than the darkness of troubled times. Troubled times
Among them, human life is like a piece of grass, and surviving is a luxury, but under the rule of Da Qin, they can at least survive."
"in addition."
"No matter what the imperial court does, it will not be the reason why your Confucianism breaks the law."
"If the world is in chaos, the people at the bottom will suffer in the end."
Qin Luoheng's voice was not loud, but when it fell into the ears of the people around him, it seemed to be deafening.
Qin Luoheng continued:
"I wanted to talk to you to see if you had realized your mistake, but it turned out that I was wrong. You didn't realize your mistake, and you even fell into the wrong path."
"I can tell you clearly."
"The Qin Dynasty will not perish."
"At least it won't die in the next few decades."
"And just relying on a few hundred Confucian scholars, dozens of doctors, tens of thousands of nobles, and even tens of thousands of people with disloyal intentions to overthrow the Qin Dynasty is completely idiotic and unrealistic."
"You don't understand why the imperial court would punish you."
"I'll tell you."
"By the way, tell the people all over the world."
"What does Confucianism look like now?"
"I can make you give up on Confucianism completely, and let the people around you who still have any thoughts about Confucianism see the true face of your Confucianism. Confucianism is nothing but a hypocritical school of thought."
"The Qin Dynasty established the six kingdoms and established a unified empire. It did not create feudal feudal lords but instead implemented the system of prefectures and counties."
"This is not for the selfish interests of the royal family, but actually because the prosperity of China comes from the world."
"What's the reason?"
"Many people are afraid that they know what's going on."
"The great war lasted for hundreds of years, and the world fought for hundreds of years, with countless people killed and injured. This dark age was ended by the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty did not want to let the world become like this again, so even if you Confucianists do everything
Despite the advice, the imperial court remained unmoved and never considered enfeoffment."
"The Qin Dynasty does not want to let the world continue to fight without end, and let all the people in the world become mountains of bones."
"When the Qin Dynasty was founded, it aimed to revolutionize the world. Therefore, His Majesty named Kong Yu, the first Confucian scholar, as Wentong Jun, making him the first among hundreds of schools in the world. He hoped that it would prosper and the New Deal civilization would be prosperous. Many Confucian scholars and Confucian scholars also
Being awarded the title of doctor, the imperial court placed high hopes on Confucianism and hoped that its political integrity would help China become stronger."
"How do you Confucians do it?"
"Without thinking about the changes of the times, and not thinking about the people's livelihood and contentment, they only thought about the old theory of restoration and restoration. They clamored for the vassal system in the court and colluded with the remnants of the six countries in the wild. They neither served the public nor abided by the law. Confucius, the first Confucian scholar, led
Confucian disciples abandoned their official positions and fled, even forcing their entire family to flee their hometowns, and it became even more serious after that."
"Blatant disobedience of the law."
"Private schools were widely established in local areas with the intention of resisting the imperial court."
"The intention is to confuse people's hearts and achieve their own ulterior motives."
"In Confucianism, the moral principles of ruler and minister have all been destroyed. How can such corrupt people stand in heaven and earth again?"
"During the imperial court, all the Confucian scholars did not want to repent. They gathered together to criticize the country's affairs based on the past and the present. In the end, they were hated by the imperial court. In the end, when trouble occurred in Xianyang, they fled the country together, almost causing a catastrophe in the world, and even attracted the attention of the world.
The people are panicked.”
"Such Confucianism has no law, no heaven, no king, and no country. It only regards the private thoughts of one family as the highest priority. How can it talk about propriety, justice, integrity, and shame to the people? How can it face the people of the world?"
"That's why."
"The evil deeds of Confucianism have long been exhausted."
"That's why the imperial court decided not to execute Confucian criminals with regular punishment, but to trap and kill Confucian scholars."
"I know that many of you are dissatisfied, and that many people around you are sympathetic to Confucianism and think that the court's punishment of Confucianism is too harsh. But I am telling you that today's Confucianism is no longer Confucius.
The Confucianists of that time were boastful, did not travel around the world, did not read hundreds of schools of thought, did not understand the hearts of the people, were narrow-minded and pedantic, and did not have any of the heroic spirit of the past when discussing country and politics."
"Such Confucianism is not worthy of respect."
"Indeed."
"Confucian private education has indeed benefited many people."
"But have you really studied the knowledge of Confucianism? Confucianism did say that there is no distinction between education and distinction for a period of time, but that was the period when Confucius and the sage Confucius lived. As for later, Confucianism has never been like this again, and it is even more so today. Although Confucianism
Private schools are widely established in local areas, but they are not facing the people at the bottom, but the so-called scholar class."
"So the academic reputation of Confucianism is only among the scholar class."
"As for ordinary people, it's just fantasy."
"Furthermore, as you have seen, most of today's Confucian scholars are basically industrious, do not distinguish between grains, and do not like to work. Such people have always been hated by the people of Qin and are regarded as ruffians and lazy men. But you may not know that this
This is the scholarly person that Confucianism now respects."
"This is so ridiculous!!!"
"If the world were to be governed by these people, would you be willing?"
Qin Luoheng finished his words.
He looked around calmly. Wherever he looked, the people around him lowered their heads, as if they were thinking about the question raised by Qin Luoheng.