When everyone heard Chu Xuanchen's words, they knew that in addition to rehabilitating those ministers, he also wanted to continue to reuse them and let them become officials in the court, or be promoted to officials.
This can be regarded as the best comfort to those ministers and their descendants.
The courtiers were all moved by Chu Xuanchen's actions.
He did not forget those who had been loyal to the late emperor and supported him. He vindicated everyone, overturned the verdict, regained their reputation, and allowed them to come back to serve as officials.
It can be seen from this that he attaches great importance to feelings and friendship, and is a wise man worth following.
This vindication not only restored the innocence of the ministers who had been wronged, but also gained Chu Xuanchen a lot of public support.
As the saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. A vindication case showed everyone that Chu Xuanchen was the true sage and sage, and everyone was willing to follow him.
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Three days later, it will be the day when Chu Yao and other rebels will be executed.
Early in the morning, people came to the street and surrounded the street.
Everyone wants to see with their own eyes the fate of the Hunjun, as well as the fate of those treacherous ministers who followed the Hunjun in embezzling and accepting bribes, forming cliques for personal gain, and seeking to usurp the throne.
"It's coming, it's coming, have you seen it? The prison car escorting Hunjun is here!"
Just as everyone was looking up, on the east side of the street, there were more than a dozen prison vans slowly approaching.
Everyone hurried over and saw many prisoners in the prison cars, heading towards the vegetable market.
Among them, the prison car at the front contained Chu Yao.
At this time, Chu Yao had messy hair, sunken eye sockets, and a haggard look. He was wearing a white-gray prison uniform and looked very embarrassed.
There was a big word "prison" written on the prison car, and his identity was also written on the front of the prison car: Chu Yao, a traitor who wanted to usurp the throne.
Behind him was King Chu Lingxuan of Yan, and other ministers who followed him in the rebellion.
Seeing the prison van approaching, the people hurriedly walked over and threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Chu Yao.
Everyone threw them and cursed, "Hunjun, you finally have this day?"
You, a tyrant who brings disaster to the country and the people, you deserve to die, you really deserve to die."
"Yes, this foolish king deserves to die. He dared to poison the late emperor and the late empress, and even attempted to usurp the throne. He should have his muscles whipped, his skin peeled off, and he should be sent to the eighteenth level of hell."
"Yes, this tyrant who abandoned the people and framed Taifu Han's family should be executed immediately."
"Come, let's crush him to death, crush him to death!"
As the people said this, they picked up the stones and mud on the ground and threw them at Chu Yao.
After a while, Chu Yao was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. His head and body were covered with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten egg liquid. Looking at him with a gray face, there was no trace of the majesty of an emperor.
Then, amid the scoldings of the crowd, Chu Yao and other prisoners were paraded through the streets.
After being paraded through the streets, they were taken to the market to prepare for execution.
At noon, the executioners had already prepared their knives. They were gearing up, with hatred in their eyes, ready to chop off Chu Yao's head.
When Chu Yao and other prisoners were escorted to the execution platform, the prison officer began to read out their charges.
The first thing the supervisor read was Chu Yao's crime.
Chu Yao had a total of 180 crimes, and several baskets of paper were used to record them. It was simply too numerous to write down.
When the people heard about his crimes, they hated him even more.
Seeing the angry people in the audience, Chu Yao suddenly raised his eyes and stared at them hatefully.
He shouted: "Shut up, you unruly people, shut up! I am the emperor, and he, Chu Xuanchen, is the usurper, you must not be rude to me!"
When the common people heard his words, they laughed sarcastically.
"You are the emperor?
You are simply a traitor, you snatched this throne through dishonest means, and you are not worthy of being the emperor at all."
Chu Yao immediately glared at everyone and cursed, "You are so outrageous, you unruly people, you are the traitors.
I am the emperor, this world belongs to me, all of you must surrender to me, kneel down and beg for mercy!"
"Hahaha, listen, this traitor has fallen into this situation and is still dreaming about his childhood dream."
"We tell you that we support the new emperor, His Highness Prince Li.
He is smart, broad-minded, benevolent and kind. He also cares about the world and shows compassion to the people. He is also our God of War.
He is the emperor we support and the person we should follow."
"As for you, a tyrant, you only oppress the people, indulge in drinking and sex, and indulge in pleasure. Who do you think you are?
Are you worthy of leading the people of Chu?"
Hearing the people's curses, Chu Yao raised his neck in anger and shouted: "No, I am not a tyrant, I am your emperor, and all of you unruly people should die.
If I were still the emperor, I would definitely cut you into pieces and prevent you from reincarnation forever."
When the people heard this, they were all very angry.
They stepped forward, pointed at Chu Yao and said, "You tyrant, you should be quartered by five horses, and you will never be reincarnated.
It’s already come to this time, but this foolish king is still so cruel, imprisoning and beheading officials, execute him quickly, kill him quickly, kill him.”
"Yes, kill this tyrant, avenge the late emperor, and relieve the hatred of the people."