Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 153 Execution
From Pan Mei's point of view, Zhao Dezhao's question was obviously flawed, so he was very worried that once he said the word "unbearable", Zhao Dezhao would take advantage of the situation and do appalling deeds.

In view of Zhao Dezhao's decisive execution since the expedition, Pan Mei had to think of a very bad possibility. Is this His Highness planning to find a reason to kill all the surrenders?
If Zhao Dezhao really did such a shocking thing, it would definitely cause an uproar in the court after it was reported back to Tokyo. Became a backer!
Thinking of this, Pan Mei shrugged her shoulders, and replied rather vaguely: "Your Highness, I didn't think this matter was a great government policy, it's not that I didn't think a warrior could put his beak on it..."

After he said the words, he immediately felt that being so perfunctory seemed too cunning. He hesitated and said, "Wei Jiang just feels that we need to be extra cautious when it comes to executions."

Zhao Dezhao laughed twice, and patted Pan Mei on the shoulder: "You can rest assured, is this king easy to kill? The dispatch of three thousand soldiers and horses is just to strengthen the momentum, not for wanton slaughter."

Only then did Pan Mei breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that this His Highness is not totally ignorant or unreasonable.

Zhao Dezhao took out a small stack of written documents from his arms and handed them over, smilingly said: "I will leave this matter to the general, so that the general can use this opportunity to make a name for himself!"

Pan Mei took the stack of documents and unfolded them, her eyelids twitched. What kind of document is this? It is clearly a statement of guilt, and it does not belong to a certain person, but to many people!

Holding it in his hand, he flipped through it roughly, and found that there were six or seven names on almost every piece of paper. There might be hundreds of people in this small stack of paper?The most terrible thing is that no matter what kind of crimes are indicated on the list of guilty people, each person's name has a cross drawn with a Chinese ink pen. Where does beauty not understand its meaning?
At this time, Zhao Dezhao's voice sounded in Pan Mei's ears, his tone cold and firm.

"Everyone in the government and the public knows that there are "three redundant" harms in my Song Dynasty: redundant officials, redundant expenses, and redundant soldiers, especially the harm of redundant officials, which is far-reaching and far-reaching, causing disasters everywhere!"

"Early before I dispatched troops this time, I decided to wipe out the moths in the Southern Han Dynasty. When they were officials in the Southern Han Dynasty, they comfortably ate their salaries and exploited the people, and did the business of fighting dogs and dogs. When they surrendered to our Great Song Dynasty , They can comfortably eat their salaries and exploit the people, and continue to do their business, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world? It’s better to use the power of victory to do it once and for all!"

"There are a total of 130 people on this list, all of whom are greedy moths and treacherous swindlers in the Southern Han court. Fang Zhengqi is a fleeing general from the Southern Han Dynasty, and he is familiar with every name in the Southern Han court. After careful deliberation, it was decided that the crimes under the names of these people are only omissions, and there is no wrongdoing!"

After hearing this, Pan Mei couldn't help being astonished. Only then did he realize that Zhao Dezhao's thinking was so far-reaching, and that he had made up his mind a long time ago. Obviously, it didn't look like he could be persuaded.

He really couldn't understand why His Royal Highness would rather take the risk of causing an uproar in the court, but also cut off so many Southern Han surrenders in one fell swoop, even if it was not a massacre, leaving no one behind, That was enough to be regarded as a massacre, and the turmoil caused by the news back to Tokyo would not be too small.

But Zhao Dezhao couldn't tolerate Pan Mei's hesitation anymore. He raised the whip in his hand, pointed to the group of Southern Han officials and dignitaries in the square in front of the imperial palace, and said with a smile: "General Pan, such a beautiful thing that benefits the country and the people, I will leave it to you, and you can read the list to them right now!"

After a while.

"I, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, have crossed thousands of miles of dangers in order to relieve the people's rebellion and defeat Jie and Zhou. In accordance with the decree of the prince, all traitors must be punished!"

"Wu Zhengqing! Greedy, brutal and cruel to the people, carve the people!"

"Jiang Junyan! Flattery matters, corrupt politics!"

"Niu Qisheng! Violent and heartless, disregarding human life!"

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Pan Mei's loud voice echoed in the square in front of the Nanhan Imperial Palace. Every time he uttered a name, soldiers from the Song Army rushed into the crowd and dragged out a Southern Han minister who had collapsed to the ground like mud. On top of a makeshift wooden platform.Naturally, the soldiers of the Song Army didn't know who these Southern Han ministers were. They just saw that one of the crowd collapsed on the spot after Pan Mei's roll call, and they stepped forward to drag them without any delay.

Not every minister of the Southern Han Dynasty who was named bowed his head to prosecute his crimes. From time to time, some people fought hard, screaming and shouting for grievances, but apart from being punched and kicked, it would not have any impact.

It took only a short time before and after, and the high platform used for execution was already full of well-dressed scholars. Because the number of people exceeded the expected number, the high platform could not be crowded at all, so that the remaining dozens of sinners had to kneel under the platform and wait for the execution. The scene was murderous. Teng Teng, a team of bare-chested executioners with ghost-headed swords in their hands was waiting in front of the stage. Anyone who looked at the formation could guess that this was about to kill someone.

Almost all of the more than [-] Southern Han vassals were pale, and many of them could not stand firmly; needless to say, those who were named were paralyzed on the spot. They were not called by name, but they knew that it would be inevitable, so they cried on the spot in fright; among them, a few treacherous people pretended to faint and become unconscious on the spot, some knelt down and begged for mercy, and kowtowed to bleed...all of these, It's useless.

Zhao Dezhao's mind was like a stone, and he watched the miserable scene in front of him coldly, without any emotion of pity.

Different from Pan Mei's thought, Zhao Dezhao thought much more far-reaching.

If we do not take advantage of the opportunity of the Great Song Dynasty to pacify Lingnan and kill a large number of high-ranking dignitaries, we will not be able to reorganize the class structure and interest pattern in Lingnan area, and the class conflicts in Lingnan area will not be alleviated. The over-concentration of land caused by the rapid land annexation process cannot be relieved, and the consequences of excessive land concentration in the hands of a very small number of big landlords can be proved by the blood and tears in the history books.

Especially as far as the current Song Dynasty is concerned, although the leniency policy implemented in a certain area won a short-term stable situation, it also condoned land annexation and intensified the contradiction between a very small number of landlords and the majority of farmers, which indirectly led to various conflicts. Heinous consequences.

A direct consequence is that a large-scale peasant uprising is unavoidable. This time point is within 20 years or within ten years!
Zhao Dezhao is very sure about this point in his heart, which is a fact with profound historical lessons.

(End of this chapter)