Chapter 456: The belated rain cannot save the withered crops
"Seriously." Li Si nodded solemnly.
"What if I join the army?" Ge asked.
"Shall the leader join the army alone, or will he join the army with his subordinates?" Li Si asked.
"What's the explanation?" Ge asked.
"There is no explanation for the moment, but it will be easy for the leader to join the army alone, and I am willing to guarantee the leader. If he joins the army with his subordinates, it will be very difficult. There is no such precedent in Zhao State. I need to ask the king for details before I can give the leader an answer.
"
Li Si did not fool Ge, but answered seriously.
If he could convince the Onozawa water pirates to defect to Zhao, it would be a great achievement for him, and it would be the most valuable military achievement.
You can get nearly 3,000 water bandits to surrender with just one mouthful, which is much more respectable than an army destroying 3,000 bandits.
"I understand. I also ask the special envoy to help me ask the State of Zhao. If I lead nearly three thousand water bandits in Ohnoze to defect to the State of Zhao, what reward can be given to me? If there are brothers who want to join the army, can they join the army? If there are brothers who want to farm, can they join the army?
Land, can we divide the land? As long as the conditions are acceptable to me, I will give these more than 100 kilograms to Zhao Guo from now on." Ge said, patting his chest.
"Please wait a few more days, chief. I will write a letter back to Handan right away." Li Si said with his hands raised, a faint smile on his lips. He did not expect that catching the human trafficker would lead to unexpected gains.
"Thank you to the special envoy. Now Ge will retire first. If any news comes, the special envoy will just send someone to call my name on the shore. In less than two quarters of an hour, Ge will definitely show up." Ge said with fists in his hands, and the water bandits on the boat shook the oars.
, disappearing into the dense reeds.
"Chief, do we really want to surrender to Zhao?" When the boat rowed a certain distance, his subordinates couldn't help but ask.
"Do you want to be a bandit all your life?" Ge asked.
"I don't want to, but... who knows whether Zhao Guo can keep his word. My former brothers took refuge in Zhao Guo. I heard that they were all sent to a place called Hetao. They are thousands of miles away from us, and there is no news.
"I don't know if the land was actually given to me and exempted from taxes, or if it died outside," the subordinate said.
This is also what they are most worried about. Not to mention that it is as good as Zhao Guo's propaganda, and it can make children read and write. Even if it is just a piece of land that can be cultivated and the tax is not so heavy, so that they will not starve to death, they are willing.
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But they didn't even know where the river was, and they couldn't see it in person. They might as well stay in Onozawa, where they could at least plant some rice and fish, and they wouldn't starve to death.
"I also have this doubt, so I want to send a few people to Zhao to inquire, not to mention going to the Hetao, at least to understand what kind of person King Zhao is. He can't deceive us and then kill him. Although I am a bandit,
I also cherish my life very much." Ge said.
"That's exactly what it should be." His subordinates nodded repeatedly.
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On the other side, Li Si led officers and soldiers to escort more than 30 water thieves out of Onozawa.
By the time Li Si returned to Linhe County, it was already early June.
He left Handan at the end of February, thinking that he would be able to go back after finishing the loan issue. Unexpectedly, he encountered this kind of thing halfway, and it took more than two months to investigate.
"Prepare the files. I want to interrogate all the traffickers again. In addition, inform the whole county that in ten days, the traffickers will be interrogated and executed in the open space outside the south of the city. Everyone can go and watch." Li Si said...
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Ten days later, there was a sea of people outside the south of Linhe County. In addition to the people of Zhao, there were also people and officials from Qi, Wei, and Wei to witness this moment.
They were both impatient and worried that Zhao State would not dare to behead all the traffickers due to secular pressure, but chose to arrest the big ones and let go of the small ones.
They did not worry for too long. Soon, Li Si led the officers and soldiers to drag up more than a thousand traffickers. Without prison cars, Linhe County could not build so many prison cars at one time, and there was no need to transfer them from other places.
In this way, the prisoner, with heavy shackles on his feet and handcuffs on his hands, was dragged to the execution ground while being beaten and scolded by the officers and soldiers.
The execution ground suddenly erupted with shouts of killing, everyone raised their right hands high and shouted various
The slogans are all about executing human traffickers.
The officers and soldiers of Zhao State tried their best to maintain order.
The traffickers knelt on the ground and looked around in despair. Some were so frightened that they became incontinent. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for Zhao's forgiveness, but it was doomed to be in vain.
"If I had known this, why bother? Today, I, Li Si, will clear and purify the world!" Li Si did not waste time. After all the dealers and the soldiers who were brought as executioners were in place, he raised his right hand high, and then violently went to
Next wave.
"cut!"
With a wave of Li Si's palm, more than a thousand people were chopped down, more than a thousand streams of blood spurted out like lava, and the air was instantly filled with the strong smell of blood.
The execution ground, which was originally bustling with people, fell silent for an instant. Everyone subconsciously took a few steps back, with a look of horror on their faces.
Even though they had already expected it and wanted to personally kill the traffickers, after all, more than a thousand people were killed. It was the first time for most of them to see such a scene. How could they calm down?
Wait.
"What a ruthless man!" A Wei official muttered when he saw this scene.
Everyone knows that these people should be killed, but not everyone can make this decision.
Making this decision means that you may suffer a lifetime of infamy.
Otherwise, Wei would not have been able to hand people over to Li Si so easily.
"From now on, Li Si will have a place in the world." Fan Zuo stood on the steps behind and said slowly.
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"Justice has finally come!"
"Li Qingtian, Li Qingtian is here!"
"The common people thank Zhao Guo and thank Li Qingtian. From now on, Li Qingtian will be my benefactor."
"In the past, so many officials were idiots and useless. Only Li Qingtian was a good official. No matter what others say, I, Sangou, will only recognize Li Qingtian from now on."
"Girl, have you seen it? Your enemy has been killed and you can finally rest in peace."
After a while, the people came to their senses and knelt on the ground and shouted.
In the distance, a group of women knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times. When they raised their heads, their faces were already covered with tears.
Li Si watched this scene silently. He didn't know why, after killing so many traffickers, he couldn't feel the slightest happiness.
"Sir, you have upheld justice and avenged so many people. Why are you still not happy?" the aide asked.
Li Si did not answer, and just looked at the execution ground. Some brave ones had already rushed up, snatched the trafficker's meat, tore it off with their mouths, and then threw it aside. Some even swallowed it directly.
The so-called wish to eat its flesh and drink its blood is nothing more than that.
The soldiers watched this scene silently, and no one stepped forward to stop them.
After a long time, Li Si turned around and walked towards the city.
"The delayed rain cannot save the withered crops. What is the justice of delayed justice? These things could not have happened, but it happened because of the incompetence of Zhao State. It was Zhao State that felt sorry for them, and