Daqin: The poorest prime minister, the first emperor begged me for corruption

Chapter 74 Cut into pieces by a thousand cuts

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The old man didn't say anything, but the Jin Yiwei general took the initiative and said: "This man is originally from Xinzheng, his name is Ye, and his surname is Gongsun. When the Qin Dynasty destroyed Han Dynasty, his family moved to Nanyang County to avoid disaster."

Qin Mo suddenly nodded. After saying this, he understood everything. He was indeed an old noble.

In this pre-Qin era, it was impossible for ordinary people in Guizhou to have both a surname and a surname.

Surnames are given by ancestors, and surnames are of various kinds. Honorable people often use fiefs, official titles, and inheritance as surnames to show their identity.

For example, Ying Zheng, whose ancestor's surname was Ying, was enfeoffed in Zhaocheng by Emperor Zhou, so he took Zhao as his surname, and his surname was Zhao.

Back then, Qin and Zhao were all crazy, but in fact, the kings of the two countries were all from the same clan as the Zhao family. In terms of seniority, it was unclear who would be called the uncle...

As for the old man in front of us, Ji's surname is Gongsun. If we break it down and interpret it, it means that his ancestor's surname was Ji. He was originally from the lineage of the Emperor of Zhou. The Emperor of Zhou divided his brothers into feudal princes. The king of Korea also had the surname of Ji.

The surname Gongsun indicates that he or his ancestors should be the grandsons of a certain generation of Korean monarchs, and later they took Gongsun as their surname to express themselves.

Because the sons of princes are called Gongzi, and the grandsons of princes are called Gongsun!

"Although I belong to the old clan and moved to Nanyang to avoid chaos, I just want to be at peace. I am willing to serve as the head of Guizhou under the rule of King Qin, and I have never been short of labor, taxes, money and food."

"So, Qin Jun still can't tolerate me?"

"Since you can't tolerate me, why did Qin Jun make me serve as a slave and pay taxes on me? Isn't it unfaithful and unrighteous!"

Gongsunye saw that everyone in the hall had different expressions, but he took the risk and scolded Ying Zheng, who was sitting at the top, with tears in his eyes.

All the officials were furious: "How dare you slander the king?!"

Ying Zheng's face was solemn, he waved his hand to suppress Bai Guan and said: "What he said is reasonable and not considered slander."

Then, he looked at Gongsun Ye and said indifferently: "I will issue an edict later. If the old tribes of the Six Kingdoms do not violate the law and discipline, the county officials must not treat them harshly."

Gongsun Ye froze for a moment, his face froze with anger, but tears fell from his eyes, and he fell to the ground and cried bitterly again: "Your Majesty... Why didn't you issue the edict earlier... How could my poor descendants deserve it..."

Qin Mo frowned and looked at the brocade-clad generals with questioning eyes.

The hundred generals in brocade clothes immediately clasped their hands and said, "Although this man moved to Nanyang, he is very good at business, so his family business is prosperous."

"The governor and lieutenant of Nanyang County were all covetous of his family's home and land, so they took advantage of his family's autumn harvest and hired people to harvest the crops to punish him for intending to gather a crowd to rebel."

"After the matter was reported to the court, the court also issued instructions to allow the arrest and investigation!"

As soon as these words came out, Ying Zheng Shen Ning's face turned completely dark. No wonder Gongsun Ye dared to stab the king in front of him.

Matters related to rebellion definitely require his personal approval.

But he, the emperor, was sitting deep in the palace and had no idea why. With just a stroke of a red pen, he had unjustly killed Gongsun Yeman and his family!

Ying Zheng looked coldly at Feng Jie and Li Si among the officials, and cursed: "You still haven't come out to apologize!"

"I am guilty..."

"I am guilty..."

The two people quickly got up and left the table, fearful of asking for forgiveness.

These two people, a prosecutor general who oversees the world, and a Supreme Court justice. If files related to rebellion can appear on Ying Zheng's desk, they must be sorted and verified in advance.

But now that their grievances are before their eyes, they have failed in their duties!

Qin Mo took a few steps forward and bowed: "Your Majesty, the cause of this matter is the national policy. Otherwise, Li Tingwei and Dr. Feng would never have been careless."

Ying Zheng glared at the two of them angrily and said indifferently: "Both of them will be fined one year's salary. If there is any negligence, the two crimes will be punished simultaneously!"

The two of them bowed again to receive their punishment and then retreated in shame.

Ying Zheng turned to look at the hundred generals of the Jinyi Guards and asked: "How many suffering masters are there outside the hall?"

The hundred generals of Jin Yiwei replied: "No more than a hundred people, there are all common people from the old clan."

Ying Zheng nodded in embarrassment: "These are just the living ones. There are many more who have been silenced. I don't need to meet them one by one..."

As he spoke, he looked at Qin Mo and took out a tiger charm from his sleeve: "Ai Qing will take five hundred soldiers and go to Nanyang County immediately to capture the county magistrate and the officials. I will be there later."

Zhao Gao took the tiger talisman with both hands and presented it to Qin Mo.

"Here!"

Qin Mo received the tiger talisman, picked up Gongsun Ye who was still crying, called the hundred generals of the royal guards, and quickly left the government hall.

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Nanyang County was established in Wanxian County. When Qin Mo led 500 imperial cavalry and arrived, it was already noon the next day.

"Gentleman, look quickly, that is the city wall of Wancheng."

Yu Ji put away her telescope, pointed at the vaguely visible city wall in the distance, and said to Qin Mo.

The girl is from Chu, and Nanyang County is from Chu, so she is quite familiar with it!

Qin Mo looked at the Wancheng city wall in the distance, and asked the Hundred Generals of the Jinyi Guards who were one horse behind: "General Baijiang, the officials of Nanyang County, etc., do you know about the Jinyi Guards' investigation?"

The generals clasped their hands and replied: "We don't act in a ostentatious manner. We are just like the common people, running all walks of life."

"The previous general Gongsun Ye was brought out of the county prison. It was also an edict from His Majesty. He only said that he would be taken to Xianyang and executed to shock the old clans in the world!"

Qin Mo nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, do you know where the Nanyang County soldiers are stationed?"

"Three miles east of the city."

"Guide the way."

"Here!"

The generals probably understood what Qin Mo was planning and quickly stepped forward to lead the way.

The Qin Dynasty set up counties and counties, and was well versed in the art of checks and balances. In addition to the county governors and magistrates in charge of civil affairs, the county censors also had the responsibility of supervision, and the county captains were in charge of the military affairs of the entire county.

The three parties do not belong to each other and do not interfere with each other.

However, according to the evidence obtained by Jinyiwei, the county lieutenant in charge of the county's garrison has long been in cahoots with the county guard.

Qin Mo led these five hundred cavalry to raid the county officials and captured them easily.

But if the county lieutenant gets the news and tricks the county soldiers into resisting the law, then the trouble will be big.

It should be noted that now that the world has been settled, the soldiers and garrison troops in each county are all old Qin troops who have been fighting for a long time. If these old soldiers start to make trouble, the destructive power will be astonishing!

On the contrary, to capture the thieves, capture the king first. The king of Nanyang County is not a county official, but a garrison soldier from the county.

As long as they are controlled, the Nanyang County officials will conspire collectively and there will be no big trouble!

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Half an hour later, more than 500 cavalry arrived outside the county soldiers' camp.

When the soldiers on duty saw this group of men and horses from a distance, they had already closed the camp gate. When more than 500 horsemen approached the camp gate, the walls of the camp were already filled with soldiers.

They are all swords unsheathed, arrows cocked, and halberds and spears standing everywhere!

"Which one is Laijun?"

"The general comes forward to answer and show your seal or ribbon, otherwise you will be punished by the rebels!"

Fierce shouts came from the camp wall.

Qin Mo urged the white horse on his crotch to come forward, raised the tiger talisman high and said: "According to your majesty's order, come to take over the county soldiers."

The lieutenant on the camp wall was stunned, then he looked at Qin Mo with squinted eyes for a moment, and said happily: "But Qin Mo, General Qin, has a soapy forehead."

This time Qin Mo was stunned. He suppressed the irritability in his heart and shouted: "Open the camp gate quickly and hand over the military power."

"Here~!"

Zao Kang responded excitedly, ordered the soldiers to put away their bows, swords, spears and halberds, went to open the camp gate in person, and led a group of generals to greet him: "General, it's been a long time."

The soldiers on the camp wall also shouted: "Welcome the general!!!"

Qin Mo led five hundred cavalry and came straight to Zao and said bluntly: "Where is the tiger talisman?"

Seeing him like this, Zao and the other generals felt a sense of fear in their hearts. They quickly took out the personal tiger talisman and handed it to Qin Mo with both hands, saying, "Since the battle of conquering Qi, we haven't seen the general for a long time.

The general is still as elegant as ever..."

Snapped--

Qin Mo took the tiger talisman with one hand, but already swung down the riding whip with the other hand, and slapped it firmly on Zao's shoulder.

Zao was wearing iron armor, so the whip could not hurt him, but the angry look on Qin Mo's face really frightened him so much that he was stunned and didn't know how to react.

The generals behind him were even more speechless, wondering why Qin Mo was so angry.

Qin Mo led the army in the war and was very strict in running the army. However, when his generals and soldiers made mistakes, they were always punished by military judges.

This is the first time in history that they personally beat their subordinates, at least in their minds, this is the first time!

Bang bang bang——

Qin Mo didn't seem to be relieved after being whipped, so he whipped Zao several more times.

Finally, he jumped off his white horse, rushed into a group of generals, and slapped them all over their faces until he broke the whip.

No one among Zao and other generals dared to hide. Although he was whipped, he did not look angry. Instead, his expressions became more and more miserable!

Only the soldiers on the camp wall were stunned and didn't understand what was happening.

Choking——

Zao suddenly pulled out his sword, put it on his neck and said sadly: "General, I have let the pork fool me. I hope the general can speak kindly and don't let your Majesty sit with my family members."

Qin Mo took a deep breath, but he couldn't bring himself to regain his energy. He felt as if his whole body had been drained. He staggered back a few steps and leaned on the white horse. He said in a hateful voice: "Your crime is enough to cut off the city in half and make the three clans even sit on the throne."

Lifelong hard labor!"

"Hard labor? It's good to be alive..."

Zao murmured and immediately pulled the hilt of the sword sharply.

puff--

thump--

Blood spattered all over Qin Mo's body, and his body fell to the ground.

When all the generals looked at Zao's body, their faces were ashen. They each drew their swords and killed themselves. In an instant, the ground was covered with blood and corpses.

Qin Mo didn't stop him at all, but looked at the two people alone in the field and said, "Have you ever interfered?"

"If you are involved, please end yourself as soon as possible!"

Qin Mo was the most lenient he could do by giving them the opportunity to draw their swords and kill themselves.

If Ying Zheng is put in charge of the matter, it will truly be a case of abandoning the city in half.

Cutting in the waist is not as simple as cutting it into two pieces with a guillotine, but the wounds on the waist and abdomen must be blocked with wooden boards to prevent the intestines from flowing out.

The prisoner couldn't die for a while, but he was in pain and couldn't bear to live. The cruelty was outrageous!

"The two of us are military judges and are not very gregarious, but we don't know why they want to kill themselves." The only two remaining generals said with a bitter smile.

Qin Mo nodded and said: "Very good, remember to say the same thing when you meet His Majesty, otherwise you will be punished if you hide and do not report."

The second general did not feel happy about the aftermath of the disaster, but bowed his hands bitterly and said, "We really don't know."

Qin Mo nodded and said no more, holding on to the horse's back and trying to stand up straight, but he couldn't find the strength for a moment. Instead, he felt that the world was spinning, and he slumped in the blood, with tears finally falling from his eyes: "I had known that this day would happen."

,Why bother in the first place!”

Yu Ji quickly jumped off the horse and stepped forward to help him.

The hundred generals of the Jinyi Guards also dismounted and joined forces with Yu Ji to lift Qin Mo up.

Qin Mo took a deep breath, looked at the two generals with tearful eyes and said: "Beat the drums and order the troops!"

"Here."

The two generals received the order in a low voice and surrounded him into the camp, followed by five hundred knights.

Dong dong dong——

After a slight tilt, the roar of war drums rang out in the camp, and the bewildered soldiers descended from the camp wall one after another to assemble in the school field.

After the three drums were completed, more than 6,000 garrison soldiers lined up in order, but the vigor of the old Qin army was nowhere to be seen, and some were just in panic.

Qin Mo ascended to the commander's platform, glanced at the familiar faces one by one, and said loudly: "Among you, there are many veterans who have followed me in battles for many years. You should know what I hate the most."

"Soldiers are used to protect the people, not to prey on them!"

"Whoever is involved in Zao's affairs should stand up for himself. If he doesn't have the courage to kill himself, let Pao Ze do it for him. He can still end up dead happily."

"Otherwise, Your Majesty will come in person to investigate and eliminate the evil, and you will be punished by being cut in half, which is worse than death!"

The six thousand garrison soldiers looked at each other, and a few people walked out sparsely. Judging by the style of their armor and buns, they were all officers.

Qin Mo waved his hands silently, and several officers bowed their hands and thanked him. Some of them committed suicide or stabbed themselves in the chest. In an instant, the ground was covered with blood and corpses.

The huge campus fell into deathly silence!

There may be people in the army who are lucky, or maybe there are not, but Qin Mo is too lazy to urge him any more, and he has lost his temper. He just said loudly: "Those people colluded with the county officials and oppressed the people of Nanyang. They really deserved their crimes. The rest of them deserved it." Don’t think too much.”

As he spoke, he took out the tiger talisman and held it high in his hand: "By your Majesty's order, all officials of Nanjun County are arrested."

"Order, the army will set off immediately and block all the gates of Wancheng. Not a single fly will be allowed to fly out before His Majesty arrives!"

"I'm going here to avenge Zao and the others. If it weren't for the instigation of those people, who in the military camp would think about the dog dog in the fly camp? Please don't let anyone go."

The last sentence is the key point. The six thousand soldiers who were dejected suddenly raised their swords and spears: "Here!!!"

As Qin Mo said, if there were no other people to instigate them, how could these Qin soldiers, who were fighting in the camp all day long, think about those things that are just like flies and dogs?

Those county officials should die!

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Qin Mo led nearly 7,000 soldiers and horses and marched to Wancheng three miles away. When he arrived, without saying a word, he took over the city defense and closed all the city gates.

Then he went straight to the county office, where officials of all sizes were tied up one by one. If anyone resisted, they would be whipped, and then the First Emperor's edict would be read out.

If you still resist, you will be killed on the spot!

"Prime Minister Qin, I am a minister of two thousand stones, how can I humiliate you like this?"

The governor of the county, Sima Hui, was tied into rice dumplings by the soldiers and led in front of Qin Mo, still shouting angrily.

Qin Mo looked at his fat body and said solemnly: "When you left Xianyang to take office, you were still a lean man. Now, after only two years, you are as fat as a pig. It seems that you really eat a lot of oil and water."

"I thought of a kind of criminal method, which is to wrap the whole body with a fishing net, then insert a knife through the mesh, and cut off the fat piece by piece, a total of 3,600 knives."

"When His Majesty arrives, he will be able to shave off the oil and water for you!"

Sima Hui was so frightened that he urinated and excreted, and begged: "I have never offended Prime Minister Qin, why do you hate me so much... Please give Prime Minister Qin some pleasure..."

Qin Mo raised his foot and kicked him to the ground, and said ferociously: "How many innocent people have been killed by these common people."

"You even dragged a bunch of good men into your dirty situation."

"I can't vent the hatred in my heart without cutting you into pieces!"

(End of chapter)