Chapter 172 Public Trial
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"The eldest son brought back a girl from Zuichun Tower and was attracted by Zhang Liao. He recognized the girl as his sister and married Zhang Liao as his wife. The girl yesterday..."
Chen Gong talked endlessly for more than a minute before he finished the passage, and then said: "Duke Cao, what Tao Shang and Zhengyuan did is indeed a matter of anger and death. However, more than 100 Tao family members are innocent of the monks in the temple, and the response of the heavy implicated words is too great."
Cao Cao was silent, holding the teacup and frowned and thought bitterly.
Cao Ang doesn't care when he is visiting brothels. As a man, who doesn't have any hobbies?
He even applauded the girl as his favorite sister and married Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao was the number one general under Lu Bu. After he was taken over, Lu Bu's old subordinates surrendered halfway.
Cao Ang did much more than he expected in this regard. As soon as the Battle of Nanyang Lake ended, he appointed Zhang Liao as the commander of the Black Robe Army, allowing Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong to exchange positions.
This move touched him a lot. If I exchanged Zhang Xiu and Yu Jin for the Battle of Wancheng at the beginning of the year, maybe there would be nothing to do next.
Now she reluctantly gave up and married her beloved girl to her subordinates to win people's hearts?
It’s not a shame that I am Cao Mengde’s son, he is like a person who does big things.
As for the pottery merchant and Zhengyuan, it was purely his own fault. Not to mention Cao Ang, he wanted to destroy their entire family.
Seeing that Cao Cao was not very interested, Chen Gong became anxious and said, "Duke Cao, the eldest son made more than 50 billion yuan with the so-called stocks, and he has offended the Xuzhou family. If the pottery merchant had something else, the Xuzhou family and the imperial court will be incompatible."
"On the contrary, the Tao merchant is not dead. In view of this incident, the Xuzhou family is embarrassed to ask for the 50 billion more, and the money will completely fall into Cao Gong's hands."
"With this huge sum of money, it is not easy to conquer the hearts of the people of Xuzhou with Cao Gong's prestige and means, provided that the eldest son does not make trouble."
The last sentence finally touched Cao Cao.
That more than 50 billion was too hot, and Cao Cao never knew how to deal with it. After Chen Gong reminded him, he realized that this was a good opportunity.
Although the pottery merchant is abominable, it looks much cute if he is tied to 50 billion: "Set out and hurry to Xia Pi overnight."
Poor Cao Cao and Chen Gong have to hurry up before they recovered.
He galloped overnight until the end of Chen and Ji and Chu in the morning.
At this moment, Xia Pi City was closed down, and the city was full of sentries as if facing a great enemy.
"What's going on? The Tao family has rebelled?" Cao Cao asked uncertainly. After asking, he found that there was a black-robed military flag floating on the top of the city.
He felt relieved and said, "Zhongkang, go over and ask."
Xu Chu came to the city by horse, looked up and shouted, "I am Xu Chu, the tiger-in-law under Cao Gong's command, and the generals on the city came out to answer."
Not long after, a head appeared on the city and smiled at the bottom, "Uncle Xu, why are you here?"
Xu Chu was happy when he saw this and said, "Zhongquan, it turns out that it is your boy. The lord and your father are here. Open the door quickly."
"Wait a minute." Xiahou Ba responded and ran down the city.
Not long after, the suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate was opened wide. Xiahou Ba rushed out of the city gate and rushed straight to Cao Cao: "I have met the lord, Uncle Meng De, why are you here?"
Cao Cao said angrily: "Are you guys still worried that the city gate is closed, but what happened?"
"It's not a big deal." Xiahou Ba said: "Zi Hui brother built a high platform in the city and wanted to publicly kill evil monks from the Tao Shang family and the Futu Temple. The people went to watch it. They were afraid of chaos, so they closed the city gate."
"Is it public to be executed today?" Chen Gong was shocked and looked at Cao Cao and said, "Duke Cao, it will be too late if you don't stop it."
"Take me over." Cao Cao said!
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There is a schoolyard in the west of Xia Pi City that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. It was originally the place where Tao Qian's army was organized, but today it has become the burial place of the Tao family.
A huge platform about half a meter high, nearly a hundred feet long and wide, is built in the center of the schoolyard, which is enough to accommodate thousands of people.
On the high platform, dozens of Tao family members and hundreds of monks from the Futu Temple were tied up in various ways.
Under the high platform, the black-robed soldiers were wearing armor and holding Modao, standing neatly in several rows.
Outside the black-robed army, there were black people, men, women, old and young, and at a glance, tens of thousands.
The surrounding roofs were also filled with people, and the high platform was surrounded in the middle of the crowd.
People are all following herds, and there were no entertainment measures in ancient times. How could I miss this kind of excitement that is rare in a thousand years?
In the distance, a team of black-robed soldiers forced a pedestrian passage half a foot wide from the crowd. Cao Ang wore armor and an iron helmet, holding a sword in his hand, and walked along the passage along the high platform in military uniform.
Everyone was calm and stared at the young, indifferent New Governor wherever they passed along.
Under the deliberate spread of the Jinyiwei, most of the people in the city knew about the Futu Temple and the purpose of this high platform, and were full of expectations for what was about to happen.
Cao Ang walked very slowly, so slow that everyone along the way could see the solemn expression on his face clearly.
Finally, I reached the end, stepped onto the platform along the steps, and looked at the prisoners kneeling in front of me, and a hint of mockery appeared on the corner of my mouth.
After a day and two nights, the Jinyiwei finally reviewed all the monks and Tao family members in the temple, and escorted all the 724 people who had committed crimes to the high platform.
As for those who have not committed any crime, they will be kept in a closed position and then put them home after they are finished here.
"Cao Ang, if you want to kill, you will kill. Why do you want us to be humiliated in public?" Tao Shang was tied up by a rope as thick as his arm, and immediately struggled and roared when he saw Cao Ang.
The Tao merchants were not angry. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the punishment was not up to the doctor. This statement after Shang Yang's reform was a bit invalid, but it was only for the Qin State. After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, this golden rule was picked up again. The literati and officials committed crimes and were basically executed secretly. Few people are now watching and executed publicly by hundreds of thousands of people.
To put it bluntly, the literati and officials are all shameless.
What made the Tao merchant even more unacceptable was that their family had been operating in Xuzhou for many years, and hundreds of thousands of people watching were his fellow villagers, how could he feel?
So he hated Cao Ang, and even more hated the dead Lu Bu.
Isn’t that waste known as the most powerful general in the world? Why can’t even beat Cao Ang and put such a killing god into Xuzhou?
Cao Ang ignored his clamor, turned around to face the people, and shouted with great enthusiasm: "The elders and villagers of Xuzhou are here, Cao Ang, thanks to the emperor's love, and temporarily takes over the position of governor of Xuzhou."
"I guess everyone has heard that something tragic and horrifying scandal happened in the Futu Temple the night before yesterday."
"Futu Temple, a Buddhist holy place, and the presidency in the temple is a recognized monk in Xuzhou. However, I didn't expect that such a great sin was hidden under the light."
"Just on the eve of the past, Master Zhengyuan, the master of your mind, and Tao's head, tricked six female pilgrims who burned incense into the temple and brutally killed them in front of the Buddha. Such behaviors were indignant by the gods."
Cao Ang sucked his feet and his voice was heard far away. When the black-robed soldiers roared, most of the people heard it.
Chapter completed!