Yes, Boss Zhu, the creative master of performance art, wants Li You to pile firewood and burn himself...
Under the swing, Li You was even a fool to know the purpose of the officers and soldiers asking him to pile firewood.
But he didn't dare not to do it. Even if he moved slightly slowly, he would be beaten mercilessly.
Although he had whipped many people, he never knew that being whipped was so painful. It hurt so much that people had no time to think and could only act under the command of the whip involuntarily.
While he was stacking firewood with runny noses and tears, Li You suddenly saw his uncle's carriage coming out of Hongwu Gate. He immediately felt like he had seen a savior. He dropped the firewood and rushed to the audience, shouting regardless of the whip.
"Uncle, save me, I don't want to die!"
"Don't stop." Li Shanchang ordered the coachman cruelly and closed the window, but he could not completely cut off Li You's desperate cry.
Watching his uncle's carriage going further and further away, Li You was stunned. Then he was punched and kicked by two frustrated officers and soldiers, and dragged back to continue carrying firewood...
"Get out of here quickly." Li Shanchang's heart was broken. Survivors like them in troubled times cherish their relatives very much. It's really terrible to see your nephew being executed in a fancy way and unable to save him.
But what God loves to do most is to rub salt into the wound. Not far away, the Korean carriage suddenly moved slowly, and it became noisy outside the carriage.
He opened the car window and saw the crowds of people outside.
Everyone was rushing towards Daming Gate, only his carriage was going in the wrong direction...
"Come on, hurry up, you can't miss the emperor's banquet of thousands of chickens!"
"Hmm, I must eat the emperor's chicken. I heard there is a good show to watch?"
"Have you heard? The emperor is going to roast a living person, and the one he is roasting is the nephew of the Korean prince."
"Haha, there must be a limit to nonsense."
Li Shanchang burst into painful tears. Every word from those people was like a knife inserted into his chest, leaving his heart full of holes...
"Sir, you are so cruel..." Elder Li Shan burst into tears. Suddenly his throat felt sweet and he spit out a mouthful of old blood.
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The surging crowd passed Li Shanchang's carriage and quickly filled up the empty seats in front of Hongwu Gate.
There were cooks carrying burdens, handing out whole chickens that had been marinated in advance and had wooden sticks stuck in their butts.
The people, who had been hungry for a long time, couldn't wait to light the charcoal basin and roast the chicken with sticks.
After a while, the entire Hongwu Gate was filled with the aroma of roast chicken, which made people want to eat. The people chatted happily while roasting chicken, just like a large barbecue party.
Li You on the stage only felt that they were noisy.
He is filled with regret now. If he had known this would be the case, he would have given Shen Liu Niang a happy death.
Alas, who could have imagined that the plot would develop like this?
I am roasting chicken wings at home, drinking wine, and happily watching the live roast.
In the blink of an eye, there were tens of thousands of people roasting chickens, watching themselves perform and roasting themselves...
There are probably no more ups and downs in life than this, right?
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When the people had almost eaten and Li You had finished moving the firewood, an official read out the imperial edict loudly.
In the imperial edict, Li You was cited for more than a dozen crimes including robbing people's property, forcing people into slavery, building buildings beyond regulations, planning to intercept and kill the masters controlled by Beijing, executing slaves at will, embezzling Zhongdu project funds, etc., and finally announced that he would be hanged upside down and whipped. Punished at the stake!
The people were stunned as they watched the official tie up Li You's feet with a thick rope, then throw the other end of the rope over the swing frame, and then several officials worked together to hang the nephew of the Korean prince head down.
Then, the executioner, whose head was wrapped in red cloth and whose upper body was bare, rounded the cowhide whip soaked in salt water and whipped Li You!
The sound of the whip penetrating into flesh, accompanied by Li You's heart-rending scream, resounded throughout the Hongwu Gate.
"I'm going to do it for real..."
"Is he really Mr. Li Er's son?"
"Then there is still a lie? He hangs around Zhongdu City all day long, and I think he's pretty good at it." The people were talking about it while eating chicken wings.
"Oh my God, he is the most beloved nephew of the Korean father-in-law. He is no different from his son..."
"Yes, it seems that Mr. Korea is going to be in trouble..."
"The Korean prince can no longer protect his nephew. It seems that the good days of our nobles are coming to an end..."
Three brothers, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di, dressed in casual clothes, as well as Zhang Hu and Shen Liuniang, who was disguised as men, were also mixing in the audience, grilling chicken wings and listening to the discussions of the crowd around them.
Shen Liu Niang insisted on coming today. No matter what, she had to see with her own eyes that the devil who had brought her countless nightmares was burned to death in order to feel at ease.
The three of them, Zhu Feng, had nothing to do, so they followed to watch the fun. As for the fifth and sixth elders... one never wanted to waste time on boring things, and the other didn't dare to watch... so he didn't come.
The three brothers watched it with gusto, and even the grilled half-cooked chicken wings felt much more delicious.
However, Shen Liu Niang suddenly realized after resolving her hatred. It turned out that those terrible devils were just using power to bully others. What is truly terrifying is the power itself, not the people. Once they lose the protection of power, everyone will be like themselves and become slaughtered. Lamb, and it may even be worse than myself.
By the time the caning was over, Li You had been whipped to the point where not even a single piece of skin was left on his body.
The executioner poured vegetable oil on the woodpile, then threw the torch in. The raging fire burst into flames and swallowed Li You instantly.
Li You howled and struggled, and soon he was on fire. His screams became less and less like human voices, and his appearance became even more terrifying.
Although ordinary people have come from troubled times and are used to seeing various forms of death, they have never seen such a scene.
Many people returned all the roast chicken they had eaten to Boss Zhu...
Zhang Hu was vomiting profusely and even vomited all the imperial meal he had eaten in the morning.
Even Brother Zhu Di felt nauseated and felt like he wouldn't be able to eat roast chicken for a while.
On the other hand, Shen Liuniang was enjoying Li You's carbonization process and eating it with even more gusto than before.
"This girl is so perverted," the brothers commented unanimously.
"It was the right thing for Lao Liu not to come, otherwise he would definitely have to pee on the bed again tonight..." said the third brother.
The second brother and the fourth brother nodded together, not sure whether they agreed that the sixth child was right not to come, or that he knew how to urinate on the bed.
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The effect of Boss Zhu's trick on roasting a living person was immediately established.
In the afternoon of that day, some common people took the courage to come to the patrol yamen to complain.
Someone started, and more and more people followed.
After dark, there was still an endless stream of people at the yamen gate, and there was a long queue of people who came to complain.
The night is so courageous!
Han Yi saw the complaint and sent an order. The yamen will not be closed tonight and the cases will be accepted all night long!
After hearing the report, Boss Zhu was both happy and sad. He said to the prince:
"Sure enough, the common people have a lot of grievances, but they are blocked and cannot be vented."
"Now that my father has executed Li You, he has removed the big stone from the hearts of the people." The prince said softly.
"Well, blocking is always better than blocking. Let them complain to their heart's content." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and asked:
"Send a thousand feathered forest guards to guard Han Yike's door, so that no one will get his wrong ideas again."
"Yes, Father." The prince nodded, and that was exactly what he meant.
Those lawless guys are capable of anything.
ps. Second update, please give me a monthly pass~~~
