Chapter 71 Bronze Kneeling Statue
On that day, Zhao Huan had just finished breakfast and came to the prison in Yanjing with great enthusiasm. Two retaliatory criminals named by the emperors were imprisoned here. It was Guo Yaoshi and Dong Cai who surrendered to Wanyan Zongwang when the Jin army went south.
According to the agreement between the two countries, Wanyan Zongwang must keep Guo Yaoshi and Dong Cai. The emperor's order was difficult, so Wanyan Zongwang could only do it.
Yaoshi Guo knelt on the ground and shouted: "God is lucky! I have difficulties in surrendering to the Jin thief!"
Zhao Huan was sitting on the chair for a while, and the people next to him poured tea for him. Zhao Huan was drinking tea casually: "What's the point?"
"I actually want to invade the Jin army and collect information about the Jin thief!"
"In this way, are you a loyal minister?"
"The emperor has no different intentions towards the emperor. The emperor vows to the heavens, otherwise the heavens will be struck by lightning!"
Zhao Huan smiled on his face. Guo Yaoshi was overjoyed when he saw this. He didn't understand the emperor.
The imperial city guard next to him knew that when the emperor smiled like this, it meant that this person would definitely die miserably.
"Where are you? You are also a loyal minister?" Zhao Huan looked at Dong Cai, who looked anxious and eager to speak.
Dong Cai nodded quickly, then kowtowed hard, and his head was bleeding: "Son of the emperor, Weichen is also trying to find out the news about the Jin thief!"
Looking at the two dog traitors who were lying with their eyes open, Zhao Huan almost spit out the breakfast this morning.
"In this way, I wrongly accuse you two!"
"The emperor forgives his crime! I am willing to risk my life to do a detailed job!"
Damn! Zhao Huan was really running in his heart with ten thousand grass and mud horses. He was too lazy to interrogate. He waved his hand and smiled at the Imperial City Secretariat on the side, saying, "You can do whatever you want."
Immediately, four imperial guards came up, two of them stood up, and tied Dong Cai and Guo Yaoshi to wooden stakes.
"God of the Lord! Give me your life! We are loyal ministers..."
Zhao Huan didn't care what they called and sat aside to drink tea.
On one side, a guard of the Imperial City held a dagger and reached in front of Guo Yaoshi's mouth. Guo Yaoshi quickly gritted his teeth, and another guard of the Imperial City reached out to pull his chin down, revealing his tongue.
The Imperial City Guard skillfully pulled out the tongue of Yaoshi Guo, then gently cut off Yaoshi Guo's tongue with a dagger, and his mouth was filled with blood. Yaoshi Guo screamed strangely, but he could not speak clearly.
The Imperial City Guard quickly fed an ice cube into his mouth to prevent his blood vessel from swelling and bleeding too much.
Dong Cai on the side was so scared that he screamed like a pig.
Dong Cai closed his mouth tightly, as if he wanted to bite his teeth, but it was useless in front of the imperial guards' methods. After his chin was pulled down, his tongue was added with pliers, and the sharp dagger fell down. His tongue was also cut off, and his mouth was quickly filled with ice.
The two tongues were thrown out and fed to the dog.
Next was torture, and he stabbed ten fingernails with thin bamboo sticks, which made them scream desperately.
Then they chopped off their limbs, sprinkled them with chili water on the wound, then applied salt and wrapped them in white cloth. As a result, they were already in pain to death.
Zhao Huan said: "Don't kill me. I will cast the two of them into bronze statues and kneel in front of the monument in Tailiao to apologize to the dead soldiers!"
Xie Dahai said: "Don't worry, the emperor, they will never die so simply."
"Okay, is the bronze statue ready?"
“It can be completed at noon today.”
It was soon noon, and the streets of Yanjing today are very lively.
The common people living in Yanjing had never seen the Emperor of Song before. In their hearts, Song was a prosperous country, but it seemed to have little to do with them. Until now, when the Emperor of Song came to Yanjing in person, they truly felt the identity of their Chinese people. This feeling was extremely down-to-earth, just as if the person who had been on a long journey finally returned home.
Now, I heard that His Majesty the Emperor was going to deal with mortals on Central Street today, so they rushed there. After a while, many people surrounded.
People find it strange, why are there two bronze statues kneeling there on Central Street?
Soon, two prison vans drove towards this side, containing two people whose limbs were cut off. Their tongues were also pulled out and they were transported to Central Street in a mess. They were twisted out by the emperor's personal army like a little chicken.
People felt that they were pitiful and had committed such a punishment for any crime.
After the Imperial City Guard finished reading the emperor's imperial edict, people realized that these two guys were Guo Yaoshi and Dong Cai, who led the way for the Jin army to lead the way in this war.
Now countless people started to curse them, and they didn't feel pitiful, and they wanted to swallow them alive.
The Imperial City Guard lifted the two of them up, carefully put them into the bronze statue, closed the bronze statue, and then transported the red iron water, scolded the people around him and retreated a little further, and poured the iron water in full view of everyone.
There was only a brief scream inside, and there was no movement.
Soon, someone pushed a cart to transport the bronze statue away, went south from the Imperial City Guard, and escorted to the monument on the Tailiao Plain, allowing the two to kneel there forever.
After this, the people in Yanjing City had topics of conversation after dinner, but more people also understood in their hearts that they should not be traitors, nor should they let them go!
After dealing with Guo Yaoshi and Dong Cai, Zhao Huan summoned his father-in-law Han Lixian.
Before meeting this son-in-law, Han Li first heard a lot of rumors about the new emperor who had just succeeded to the throne. He was completely convinced by the emperor that he could defeat the Jin army.
He thought Zhao Huan must be the kind of king who looked very cold-faced, but after seeing him, he found that the emperor looked gentle and gentle, but there was a strong look between his eyebrows.
"I'm so happy to see the Holy Emperor!"
"Honeyone is free from gifts."
Zhao Huan's bellowsman made Han Lixian feel very happy: "Thank you, the emperor."
"As these days, I have worked hard for Zhou Xuan."
"Everyone is sharing the worries of the emperor."
"I promised the father-in-law that he would hand over the iron ore in Yanjing to the father-in-law for mining. I will not break my promise. In the future, the iron ore in Yanjing will belong to the father-in-law!"
Han Li was excited first and then kneeled on the ground.
"The holy emperor's kindness is the only way to repay the mercy of death!"
"Come on, please get up quickly." Zhao Huan helped Han Li up first. After all, Han Li made great contributions this time, so the emperor naturally treated him very well. "At least the father-in-law must agree to my request."
"Everything is followed by the leader of the Holy Emperor."
"Okay, I don't allow you to sell iron ore to the Song Dynasty."
The emperor's tone was very plain, but Han Lixian, who was good at it in the officialdom, heard the murderous intention in this simplicity. He was not trying to kill him now, but that as long as he dared to do whatever he wanted, the emperor would not be polite to him, even if he was Han's biological father!
Chapter completed!