When the captured newspaper boss heard what Zhong Feng said, he knelt down on the ground and shouted loudly: "Can't burn it, can't burn it! This was originally the most famous literary agency in Shandong. In order to run a newspaper in this courtyard, no matter what,
You know how much favors were spent!”
Zhong Feng saw that this Juren was about to die and still didn't know what to say or what not to say. He thought it was a bit funny and laughed.
Zhong Feng laughed for a while, grabbed the candidate's sleeves, and lifted him up.
"what's your name?"
"Qian Xuedu."
"Qian Xuedu, you slander people every day and slander the Duke of Jin in the newspaper. The people of Shandong have been deceived by you into doubting them. How courageous are you? Do you know how many times I can kill you?"
Qian Xue hesitated and looked at Zhong Feng, and it took him a long time to say: "A gentleman never sins with his words!"
A gentleman does not sin with his words. This is a favorite saying of civil servants and scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. Relying on this sentence, the civil servants and gentry of the Ming Dynasty dared to spread rumors, slander and abuse. The officials pointed at the emperor's nose and scolded them.
This incident was not the first time in the Chongzhen Dynasty.
In the eyes of these literati, it is okay to criticize the emperor, but what does it mean to slander Li Zhi?
Anger welled up in Zhong Feng's heart, and he sneered and said: "Bitch, you are so bold as to incite the people to slander the Duke, I will punish your three tribes!"
Zhong Feng waved his hand at the secret guard flag beside him and said: "Catch the father, brother and son of this shameless man and interrogate and kill them together tomorrow!"
Zhong Feng's personal guards all knew that Zhong Feng liked to kill people. Seeing that Zhong Feng immediately condemned the Qian Xuedu clan to death, several of the personal guards looked at each other.
Hearing Zhong Feng's words of killing everyone, Qian Xue was frightened. His face turned pale, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Great General"
However, the soldiers of Huben Division did not give him a chance to beg for mercy and dragged him outside.
The Three Kings Daily newspaper office was a place where Shandong gentry gathered to slander Li Zhi. It had a good reputation. Zhong Feng was not prepared to leave the building. With a wave of his hand, soldiers rushed into the yard and lit fires everywhere, and soon the entire newspaper office was burned.
.
Amidst the crackling sound of wood burning, the whole yard was ablaze. If the yard had not been built very carefully, leaving a two-meter-wide gap between the outer wall of the yard and the surrounding buildings, the fire would have spread to the side.
Other buildings spread past.
After the incident, the Three Kings Daily newspaper that slandered Li Zhi for inciting the people no longer exists.
Zhong Feng clapped his hands and turned to see the soldiers arresting people. It took a day, with the help of secret guards, 5,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division went out to arrest, 146 Three Kings Daily
All the people who ran the newspaper were captured. Together with them, more than 70 gentry who were hiding the people who ran the newspaper were arrested. The soldiers locked up all these weeping literati and gentry in the compound of "Shandong Daily".
After Huben Division entered the city, none of the officials, yamen servants, policemen, and archers from various yamen in Jinan dared to take to the streets. They all hid in the yamen and did not dare to move. The entire city was temporarily in a state of anarchy. Zhong Feng had finished arresting him.
The queen asked the soldiers to carry rifles on their backs and patrol the city in squad units, maintaining order while promoting tomorrow's beheading:
"Three Kings Daily slandered the Duke of Jin for inciting the people, and he committed a heinous crime. More than a hundred of the traitors will be executed at the Caishikou execution ground in the north of the city at noon tomorrow. Enthusiastic people can go and witness it!"
"The traitor of "Three Kings Daily" will be killed at Caishikou in the north of the city tomorrow at noon. People should go and watch!"
The publicity lasted all afternoon and all night, and when it was time for the execution at noon the next day, people outside the execution site at the vegetable market in the north of the city were crowded with people watching the excitement. The Duke of Tianjin, Li Zhi, had been scolded by the "Three Kings Daily" for more than half a month, and the people thought that
These literati can scold them like this for the rest of their lives. I didn't expect that the Duke of Jin came to Jinan to kill people, killing hundreds of people at a time. This is a huge excitement, and you can't help but watch it.
Zhong Feng stood on the execution platform, in front of more than 200 death row inmates, and facing the dark crowd of onlookers, he took out that day's "Shandong Daily". "Shandong Daily" did something for the murderer of "Three Kings Daily" that day.
A special issue lists the shameless writings of Sanwang Daily, which deserve death. Although Zhong Feng has learned to read and read over the years, he is still not good at making impassioned speeches. He simply plans to read from the commentator's article in "Shandong Daily"
once.
Zhong Feng waved his hands to the people, and ten riflemen walked to the front of the execution ground and fired into the air. The people knew that the killings were about to start, so they became quiet.
Zhong Feng nodded and read loudly to the newspaper:
"People of Shandong! In these years! The Duke of Jin has fought in the north and south, worked hard to save the country, and devoted himself to the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty. Without the Duke of Jin, I don’t know how broken this country would be, and I don’t know how many people would be killed by the Tatars.
I don’t know how many people will be killed by the bandits.”
"However, there are some scoundrels, because the Duke of Jin does not allow them to evade taxes or oppress the common people, so they regard the Duke of Jin who saved the country as an enemy. Three Kings Daily is the forerunner of these villains! The traitors of Three Kings Daily
, has no bottom line and no sense of shame, slanders and slanders the Duke of Jin, and incites the people to oppose the Duke of Jin."
"The people of the world benefited from the government-run courts of the State of Jin and the taxation of flat fields. The people of the world benefited in the end when the Duke of Jin fought in the south and the north. The people of the world benefited in the end. The traitors who slandered the Duke of Jin are enemies of the people.
The evil cannot be forgiven!"
After Zhong Feng finished reading, he waved his hand. Some veterans of the Huben Division who were arranged among the crowd of people raised the newspapers in their hands, read aloud, and repeated the article that Zhong Feng read, so that all the tens of thousands of people present could read it.
Hear the reason for this execution.
After reading the newspaper, Zhong Feng waved his hand again and shouted: "The time has come for execution!"
Qian Xuedu, the leader of the newspaper, and his father, brother, and son were first taken to the front of the execution ground. The whole clan burst into tears and kowtowed to Zhong Feng desperately to beg for their lives. At this time, Qian Xuedu finally
Knowing that he had caused a big disaster, he spread out in a ball on the ground, peed on his pants, and had no strength to speak.
But no matter what these people said, it was too late. The soldiers of the Tiger Division stepped on their shoulders, pointed their rifles at the back of their heads, and pressed the triggers.
The propellant of nitrocellulose did not produce white smoke when it exploded. The people only heard more than a dozen gunshots. Qian Xuedu and his family fell forward without saying a word, and they all fell on the execution ground.
Seeing this bloody scene, the condemned prisoners behind them all turned pale.
A tall scholar wearing a scholar's square scarf glared at Zhong Feng and shouted: "Thief Li destroyed the ancestral system and became an enemy of the scholars in the world. He will die a good death! You are helping the evil, and the scholars in the world will not let you go!"
The scholar knelt on the ground and moved a few steps forward, still cursing, but the executioner's soldier became impatient. The soldier pushed him to the ground and shot him in the left chest.
The scholar let out a heartbreaking scream, his whole body twitched violently several times, and died in a pool of blood.
Zhong Feng sneered and waved his hand again.
Two hundred soldiers walked onto the execution ground, aimed their rifles at the backs of the heads of more than two hundred condemned prisoners.
Blood flowers and mist spurted out like fountains, dyeing the execution soldiers all red. Amidst the gunshots like exploding beans, more than two hundred gentlemen and gentry didn't even utter a scream, and they just plopped to the ground.
