The climate in spring is changeable, sometimes warm and sometimes cold. This season is easy to get sick, and it is even more a nightmare for the people in exile.
The situation of the "Chu refugees" who were escorted by the army and forced to march continuously every day is even more difficult than that of ordinary refugees. They have no food and medicine, and they can't get enough rest at all. After a small number of deaths, as a large number Infected people appear, and a large number of deaths are inevitable.
From the beginning when the order to forcibly expel all Chu people in Yangshan County was issued, this was destined to be a cruel massacre.
In a sense, using this method to kill these ordinary people is more cruel than the direct massacre of the city in the brutal strangulation.
This cruel order came from the Changling Palace, from the hands of Queen Zheng Xiu.
In the deep and secluded Changling Palace, in the long corridor outside the queen's study, there are many officials kneeling densely.
These officials all came to ask the queen to take back her orders. In their view, no matter in any dynasty in history, too brutal rule would only lead to early destruction.
Even if it is some means against the enemy, the reputation of brutality will also make the people of this dynasty feel insecure.
It's just that these officials know Queen Zheng Xiu too well and know that words cannot impress her, so they just use the method of silent hunger strike to remonstrate.
Zheng Xiuan sat in front of the desk.
The door of her study was closed, and she couldn't directly see the expressions of these officials, but her powerful perception allowed her to clearly know the status of each official kneeling outside.
There was a hint of sarcasm on her perfect face that shone almost like porcelain light.
The indifference and sarcasm are not because she doesn't care about these people's opinions at all, or feel that these people are dispensable, or too humble, but because these people can't figure out what she wants at all, and they don't understand that some things are originally Her little trick.
Starting from the Minshan Sword Club, in the eyes of outsiders, she seems to have encountered too many failures, and lost the halo of never failing, but everything is going according to her will.
As long as the final goal can be achieved, the process is not important.
Just like two chess players playing chess, one player seems to have lost a lot of pieces in advance, but the overall situation has been arranged.
After killing those three family members and completely controlling Jiaodong County, she began to really settle down.
This driving away the Chu people in Yangshan County was another shot she made, and she started a real counterattack.
The order was originally intended to be withdrawn, but when to withdraw it was an ingenuity, and at the right time, it could be transformed into a lore killing move.
The most important thing is the human heart.
Everyone has feelings.
Isn't any killing ultimately an emotional killing
The use of soldiers is the bottom, and the heart is the top.
The officials outside the study had been kneeling for a day and a night, and some elderly officials were already close to their physical limits. For her, stepping out at this time could not only get the results they wanted, but also get their gratitude, and at the same time make them feel better. They felt more awe, knowing that enough would have to be paid for her consent. In the future, if this kind of thing happens again, it will need at least this.
She stood up, the trace of sarcasm on her face completely disappeared, walked through the Lingquan expressionlessly, and pushed open the door of the study.
"I can take it back, but I have one request."
Without any extra words, she looked at the officials kneeling on the ground, and said calmly but with a powerful majesty.
All the officials raised their heads.
She went on to say: "Help me spread the word throughout Changling... If I don't want to exile those Chu people in Yangshan County, I must have a Chu person with enough weight to exchange. In other words, if I want to save those Chu people life, at least the life of a sufficient number of Chu people must be exchanged."
These officials felt a little happy at the first moment, but in the next moment, they felt chills because of the coldness contained in her words. Many people were originally close to the limit, and their bodies were even colder than frost at this moment.
"What if there are not enough people from Chu to stand up?"
One of the leading officials couldn't help but asked in a trembling voice.
"That's the Chu people's own business."
Zheng Xiu shook his head and looked at the official who spoke out, "If even the Chu people themselves can sit and watch, then what do we Qin people worry about?"
The official froze for a moment, speechless.
"Can you stop those Chu people first?" an official asked after taking a deep breath and looking at Zheng Xiu.
He knew that there might not be enough Chu people hiding near Changling, but the current situation is that every day that passes, a large number of people in that exile team will die.
"That's something Chu people also need to consider." Zheng Xiu said lightly: "If you stand up one day later, more people will die, so I hope that those who can exchange their lives for these people's lives will not hesitate."
Hearing her words, many officials kneeling here couldn't help becoming angry again, but they had nothing to say.
Because this in itself is her most used method.
Many years ago, she used this method more than once.
Shameless, but effective.
This decree spread quickly.
No one doubted the truth of her will.
Because that's her promise to all these officials, unless she can lose all of them.
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When such a decree spread throughout Changling, the practitioners on all the turrets of Changling raised their vigilance, for fear of missing any details.
Even if they are doomed to die, that kind of Chu people who have enough weight may do crazy things.
However, they didn't have time to see the Chu people walking out of a certain alley.
This man came from the depths of the palace.
In the depths of the palace, there are several ditches leading to the nearest river outside the palace.
The source of the ditch stream is several square wells.
There are a lot of clothes and beddings that need to be washed beside the square well.
When such a decree was spread here through word of mouth, a very old court lady let go of the dirty laundry she was washing and slowly stood up.
No one noticed her abnormality.
Knowing that she walked out of the gate of this courtyard and walked in a direction that she would never go in normal times, some people suddenly woke up.
When she drank several times in a row, but she was still unknown, those who called her, including some practitioners in the palace who happened to bump into her along the way, began to realize that she might have something to do with the queen's will.
The shrill siren sounded in the palace.
The clothes on this court lady were very dirty, exuding an indescribable unpleasant smell, her hair was also very messy, and her eyes were bright at this moment, giving the impression that they were only forty years old, but her face was at least full. Fifty years old.
After the warning was useless, a flying sword finally appeared in front of her walking, turning into a cold flame, biting her heart.
The maid smiled slightly.
She simply combed her hair.
During the "leisure" of haircut, she clamped the flying sword between her fingers, and then brushed it out like a hair that had been cut out of her head.
With just a seemingly inadvertent movement, the flying sword pierced through the hearts of several guards along the way, and then beheaded the master of the flying sword.
"Since you have come to obey your orders, why bother to kill people? Aren't you afraid that I will make excuses again?"
The moment the head fell to the ground with hot blood, a cold and majestic voice sounded at the end of the road in front of the maid.
This is the voice of Queen Zheng Xiu.
"If I don't kill people, how can I let you know that I have enough weight?" The maid raised her head, looked at Zheng Xiu, who was coming to the extreme, and laughed, "It's you who came to talk to me in a hurry, lest I die too fast?"