Until now, Han Laosan, Liu Dogzi and Zhang Tiedan three people realised the seriousness of the matter, did not expect to sneak out of the camp to sleep with two women fell a beheaded consequences, so more than kowtowed repeatedly, begged bitterly, prayed to spare their lives.
Kneeling like garlic, knocking the blood are flowing out, pleading sound tearing heart and lungs ……
Really is the hearer sad, see the tears ……
The generals of the Zhejian army at the scene of the public trial, the villagers of Zhuangjia Village and the nearby villages, all of them are now looking at Zhu Pingan, wanting to see how Zhu Pingan will deal with them.
“Seeing that they really admitted their mistakes, I think the Grand Master might spare them this time hey ……”
“Ch, this public trial is just for us to see, blocking our mouths, sort of give the Zhuangjia Village a statement, see, later the Grand Master will say ‘know the wrong can change, there is nothing better’, ‘put down the butcher’s cleaver, stand on the ground to become a Buddha’ and so on the words, and then spare them, this is the set up ah……”
“They are all soldiers under the Grand Master, and they will follow the Grand Master to fight in the future, and they are still useful to the Grand Master, but what do we common people count for, we are insignificant, and we are of no use to the Grand, who cares about our deaths and lives.”
The common people talked privately, and many felt that Zhu Pingan might be high handed and spare Han Laosan’s life.
“I don’t think so, Your Excellency is not a person who bends the law, I heard that when Your Excellency was a magistrate in Jingnan, he used to enforce the law impartially, and was known as Zhu Qingtian from near and far.”
There were also people who had a different opinion.
However, not many people agreed with this opinion, and there were only a handful of people in a village. In ten miles and eight villages combined, there were less than a hundred, and most held the first opinion.
Under the spotlight, facing the bitter pleas of Han Laosan and the other three, Zhu Pingan firmly shook his head.
Han Laosan, Liu Gouzi and Zhang TieDan immediately turned ashen and kowtowed and begged even harder.
Knock knock knock ……The kowtowing sound was like the beating of drums, and the pleading sound was like a cuckoo sobbing blood.
“My lord, I Han Laosan was originally a mountain bandit who robbed a house, thankful to the lord for inviting him, followed the lord of the fortress to abandon his darkness and recruited as a Zhejun, the day before yesterday the Japanese soldiers besieged the city of Yingtian, I followed my lord and rushed towards the Japanese, I didn’t blink my eyes, my lord ordered us to make a midnight raid on the Japanese quarters, and I didn’t say half a word against it, and we wu all worked together and killed two of the Japanese!One of them was killed by my own hand, and I even got a knife in my chest for it!I, Han Laosan, have shed blood and made meritorious achievements for Your Excellency, for the Great Ming, and for the people, I beg Your Excellency to spare my life, and I will definitely clean up my heart, go to the mountain of swords and the sea of fire, to honour my sins and make meritorious achievements!”
After kowtowing seven or eight times in a row, Han Laosan ripped off his clothes, revealing the wounds on his chest, and stalked his neck.
“Me too, I, Liu Dogzi, faced the Japanese invaders breaking out from the room, did not retreat half a step, we wu killed two Japanese invaders, I am also a credit, I beg your honour to forgive me for my crimes, spare me this time, I will never dare to do so again. In the future, I will definitely fight bravely to kill the Japanese, and die fighting without retreating, I beg your lordship to spare me this time ……”
Liu Dogzi also followed and begged for mercy.
Zhang TieDan was crying with tears in his eyes and snot in his nose, “My lord, I also rushed towards the Japanese invaders the night before yesterday without any hesitation, although I was kicked away by the Japanese invaders, but it was precisely because I rushed up to the Japanese invaders and blocked them for a while that I didn’t let the Japanese invaders get away, and we Wu killed two Japanese invaders, so I have also made a merit, my lord, I beg your lordship to forgive me, I am still small, I haven’t yetmarried my daughter-in-law yet.”
Han Laosan and the other three couldn’t stop begging for mercy, and in order to get a lighter sentence, they couldn’t stop telling their merits.
Hearing the three people tell of their merits, the people under the stage couldn’t help but murmur.
“I didn’t realise that they had killed a Japanese pirate the day before yesterday, this is a meritorious deed, it’s not impossible to get a punishment for their merits.”
“Killing two Japanese invaders and raping two women, one merit, one fault, if we compare the merits and faults, we feel that the merits are still greater, so it’s not impossible to spare their lives. In the future, let them wear their sins and make meritorious achievements, go to fight with the Japanese invaders, killing one more Japanese invader is all earned ……”
“Can’t be like this, merit is merit, fault is fault ……”
The people under the stage were talking a lot, compared to before, the voices that favoured a lighter sentence were much louder.
In the face of another round of pleading from Han Lao San’s trio, Zhu Ping An remained resolute and shook his head again.
“Merits are merits, faults are faults, reward and punishment are distinct, merit does not offset faults!Your merit belongs to the day before yesterday, and this official has already rewarded you: today, you have left the barracks without permission, trespassed on the people’s homes, raped the people’s women, and committed an unforgivable capital offence, which is punishable by decapitation according to the military discipline of our Zhejian army, and by hanging according to the Laws of the Great Ming!If pardoned, how to face the two victims of Zhuangjia Village, how to face the majority of the folks, how to educate the more than 800 law-abiding generals of the Zhejiang Army? You are to be executed today because you are to blame!There is no reason to spare your lives!”Zhu Pingan said slowly with an expressionless face.
“Where are the men, escort Han Laosan, Liu Dogzi and Zhang TieDan down to the stage, behead them and show them to the public, so as to make it clear that they are typical!”
After speaking, Zhu Pingan waved his hand towards the stage and ordered.
“My lord spare your life, spare your life!”Han Laosan and the other three kowtowed and begged for mercy even harder, blood flowing from their foreheads.
“Ah? How dare you insist on killing them?!”The crowd of commoners opened their mouths wide in shock.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Pingan did not show any favouritism at all!
Unbelievable!
Too unexpected! Too shocked!
“My lord!”Ruofeng couldn’t hold back any longer, Han Laosan and Zhang TieDan were his bandits, so he couldn’t just sit back and watch them being executed, so he jumped out from the crowd, jumped onto the high platform, knelt on the ground and said, “My lord, Han Laosan and the others committed a capital offence, and they should be punished in accordance with the military discipline of our army, however, my lord, they have made merits and shed blood, and the current Japanese problem is getting more and more serious, so it’s the right time to use them. Kill them, will lose three kill Japanese power, please adults suspend the execution, tell them to go to the battlefield, wear the crime to kill Japanese invaders, to redeem the crime, so that the last drop of blood on their body flow in the battlefield to kill Japanese, please adults ……”
“I beg Your Excellency to let them go to the battlefield and kill the Japanese to atone for their sins, until the last drop of blood flows from their bodies on the battlefield ……”
Zhang Hu also jumped onto the high platform and followed Ruo Feng to plead on behalf of Liu Dogzi and the others, as Liu Dogzi was a member of their cottage.
Han Laosan and the three of them also desperately shouted, “Please lord, if we have to die, we are willing to die on the battlefield against the enemy Japanese invaders, we will definitely be the first to fight and rush to the forefront, we are willing to shed the last drop of blood inside our body on the battlefield of killing the Japanese in order to redeem our sins, I beg you lord for mercy.”
Zhu Pingan was unmoved, shook his head vigorously, and seriously and seriously said, “The things of the world are not difficult to legislate, but difficult to implement the law. Everyone is equal before the military disciplinary law, there must be compliance with the law, law enforcement must be strict, lawbreaking must be investigated, there are no exceptions to the implementation of the military disciplinary law, no dark doors, no windows! All Zhejiang army generals, you should take Han Laosan, Liu Dogzi and Zhang TieDan as a lesson from the past, and strictly abide by the military discipline law in the future, don’t test the bottom line of the military discipline law with your own body and life!”
“Come on people, escort them down, behead them and show them to the public, Ming Zheng typical!”After speaking, Zhu Pingan waved his hand again.
Seeing this scene, the Zhuang Family Village Old Lizheng could not help himself, coughed and spoke, “My lord, Xiu’er and the two of them were spoiled by them, if two of them are willing to take the responsibility, marry Xiu’er and the two of them, and treat Xiu’er and the two of them well from now on, we can withdraw our plea, and spare one of them.”
Upon hearing this, the two victims, including Xiu’er, on the stage, changed their colours greatly, and their tears welled up in a wow.
Making up their minds, if that was the case, they would crash and die on the spot.
“These kinds of words, Zhuang Lao Lizheng should not say them again! If according to your words, after raping the women of the people, even fall a mother-in-law, this is not rewarding bad people and encouraging the rape of the women of the people? In that case, wouldn’t rape be frequent? Outrageous!!!”Zhu Pingan did not hesitate to stop and reject Zhuang Lao Lizheng.
“Whoever dares to persuade again, as in this case!!!”After Zhu Pingan’s words, with a chilling face, he drew his sword and swung it, cutting down the corner of the table!
The scene of the public trial was suddenly quiet.
“Escort them down, behead them and show them to the public, Ming Zheng typical!”Zhu Pingan said with an expressionless face.
At once, Liu Mu came up with soldiers from the Supervision Battalion and escorted the three Han Lao San who were crying and struggling.
Soon, the three screams came to an abrupt end!
The villagers panicked and covered the children’s eyes ……
“The Zhejiang Army, with its strict military discipline, no favouritism, no abuse of the law, and impartiality, is truly breathtaking!”
“Lord Zhu, strict military rule, admirable ……”
“This is what a soldier of the sons and daughters is ……”
The crowd was shocked and overwhelmed with emotion, looking at Zhu Pingan and the Zhejiang army with respect in their eyes.
