Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1116

[Chapter 1105 End of the song]

the execution ground.

After the notice of the execution of the traitor was posted, the place was already overcrowded, and every sight was filled with black heads.

“Your Majesty, are you really going to execute Luo Hong?”

Niu Ben’s eyes were full of regret in the monitoring station on one side of the execution ground. This was a room specially set up to observe the execution process.

Outside the room, Luo Quan was carrying the two men on his back like execution soldiers, and the expression on his face could not be seen.

Xiao Ming sighed and said, “General Niu, if a soldier in your army makes the same mistake as Luo Hong, what will you do?”

“Of course it will be a decisive blow!” Niu Ben said, “The army is afraid of the corruption of discipline. If Unfair treatment is extremely harmful to the army. “

“What if this person is the person you trust most?”

“In the army, there is only military law, and there is no distinction between family and friends!” Niu Ben said loudly.

“This is it. The military has military law, and the state has national law. If the military breaks the law and does not deal with it seriously, military law will be corrupted. If those who violate national law cannot be dealt with impartially, the national law will be corrupted. Today Luo Hong can be outside the law. Be merciful. In the future, other people can be merciful outside the law, so what’s the use of this national law?”

Niu Ben sighed slightly, and said: “The emperor taught me that it was the old minister who was confused, and Luo Hong was guilty of such treason. If mercy is granted outside the law, the laws of the empire will lose the trust of the people. If the people no longer trust the law, they will no longer trust the court. From then on, the country and the people will no longer be of one heart and one mind.”

“That’s right. This is the reason why I want to kill Luo Hong. If the person on the execution ground were replaced by my son, I would still kill him. The laws of the country are like the road of natural movement. The road collapses, the mountains collapse and the earth splits, the stars fall, and all things Annihilation, laws collapsed, people’s minds confused, mountains and rivers shattered, the country will be ruined, I would rather lose all the land gained through conquest than see the laws of the empire trampled on. “

Niu Ben looked at Xiao Ming’s cold expression. Nodding slowly, he understood that the emperor in front of him was no joke.

The era in which the nobles of the Great Yu Kingdom could trample on the law arbitrarily seems to be coming to an end. From now on, everyone from the king to the common people must live under the constraints of the law.

A burst of noise suddenly sounded while the two were talking. Niu Ben looked out the window, and soldiers escorted Cao Kun and his son and the remnants of the merchant council to the execution ground.

“Traitor!”

“Traitor!”

“…”

Angry roars broke out from the crowd, and stones were thrown at Cao Kun and his son like rain.

There were two gallows on the execution ground. Cao Kun and Cao Zhengtong were taken below respectively, while the others were brought in front of a long white wall.

The execution soldiers stood in a long row, waiting for the order to be shot.

“Dog thieves!” Niu Ben looked at the two of them and gritted his teeth. After this period of interrogation, they obtained a little information.

With their help, both Britain and France made great progress in basic sciences such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and geography.

Although the students they brought did not master advanced technology, they had a firm and comprehensive grasp of the knowledge they learned in daily life.

The West is now in the stage of exploration in science, and what they have brought is enough to complete the Western scientific system.

Although even without these traitors, with the popularization of imperial education, this knowledge will be spread out sooner or later along with trade, but their active betrayal of the country is still considered treason. After all, the West, which now has mastered basic science, only needs to digest this knowledge. It was enough to cause him a lot of trouble.

“Your Majesty, all the prisoners are here, shall we carry out the execution?” the executioner asked Xiao Ming for instructions.

“Execution!”

Xiao Ming gave the order decisively. The bronze statues of Cao Kun and Cao Zhengtong’s confession have been cast. After the execution of the two men, the two bronze statues will be transported to the gate of Qingzhou City and will be knelt down for generations to come. Scorned by the world at the city gate.

Under the gallows, Cao Kun and Cao Zhengtong were shaking as if they were suffering from dysentery. In front of them was a looped hemp rope.

As long as their heads are stuffed in, the planks under their feet will be opened.

“I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…” Cao Zhengtong muttered, but the soldiers waiting for his execution put a rope around his neck.

Cao Kun was speechless and allowed the angry people to throw things at him.

“I don’t want to die… uh…”

Cao Zhengtong’s mumbling quickly turned into the sound of his throat being strangled and struggling. At this time, their feet were suspended in the air. After struggling for a while, the two of them quickly stopped moving.

At the same time, a neat burst of gunfire rang out, and the remnants of the Merchant Council came to the end.

There was a sudden burst of applause in the execution ground. After the death of these rebellious people, the people were very excited.

The bodies of Cao Kun and his son were dragged down, and then another group of people were brought up. This was the rebellion led by Ge Yi and Luo Hong.

Seeing Luo Hong, Luo Quan’s body moved. He carried a rifle and came to the execution position with other execution soldiers.

Niu Ben sighed again. He couldn’t bear to look and turned his eyes away. Luo Xin’s eyes were slightly red. He had accepted this fact, but even so, the one who was about to die was still his brother.

“Luo Hong, you are so confused. Even if you die on the battlefield, it is better than dying here.”

At the execution ground, Luo Quan stood behind Luo Hong, looking like he hated iron.

“Father, there is no need to say anymore. It was me who made the Luo family embarrassed. I’m sorry for the Luo family, I’m sorry for the emperor, and I’m even more sorry for the brothers who followed me through life and death. It was me who led them into the gate of hell.” Luo Hong looked directly at the people in front of him. Bai Qiang, after thinking about it all night, he figured out a lot of things.

Ups and downs in officialdom are commonplace, but he was too obsessed with his status.

“A misstep will lead to eternal hatred. It is my father’s mistake. I should have let you come to Qingzhou in the first place. In this way, you will be the commander of the Southwest Army. Luo Xin has a gentle personality and will not be as impulsive as you. “Luo Quan’s hand holding the gun was trembling. Luo Hong was his son. Shooting his son personally was a difficult and unavoidable decision for him.

“Father, this is not your fault. I am just unwilling to admit that I am not as good as Luo Xin. Watching him rise to the top step by step, I, the eldest brother, am not as good as me in every aspect. I am really unbalanced in my heart. Now that I think about it, I was really wrong. The emperor did not let me. It was right for me to become the commander of the military region. Let’s take action. The child will come back to repay his father’s kindness in the next life. “

After he finished speaking, gunshots rang out, and Ge Yi and a group of nobles who were plotting to rebel fell in a pool of blood.

Luo Quan picked up the gun, and while trembling, he pulled the trigger. The gunshot rang out, and Luo Hong’s body slowly fell.

Xiao Ming closed his eyes at the moment of the shooting. Now he finally understood Zhuge Liang’s mood when he killed Ma Su with tears.

Slowly walking out of the room, Xiao Ming said to Luo Xin: “Luo Hong has outstanding military exploits and is the pillar of the empire. I am determined to posthumously make him the commander of the empire.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!” Luo Xin bowed in gratitude.

Looking at the sun peeking out from the dark clouds in the eastern sky, Xiao Ming walked out of the execution ground step by step under the protection of the guards.

The rebellion that affected the entire empire was over. He believed that this shock would definitely make many people in the country see clearly the fact that it was absolutely impossible to subvert the empire during his reign.

In this way, the empire will be peaceful, and he will have more time to lay out the foundation of the empire.

PS: I will update tonight and will make up for it tomorrow. After my child had blood in his stool the day before yesterday, he had a low fever yesterday and today that has been causing trouble. I asked the doctor and said it was a side effect of the vaccine. This made Snail feel very anxious, but luckily he had a fever today. It’s gone, and I haven’t seen any blood in my stool. The delayed update has been made up in the past few days.

(End of chapter)