Chapter 224 The History of Song Dynasty can be revised! Because Murong Fu maintained military discipline very well, the people dared to come and watch the order at the scene was also maintained by Murong Fu's soldiers. Although it was a little noisy, it wasn't chaotic. The ministers were also brought here. They didn't know what to do, but their instinctive feeling was that nothing good was going to happen. "Bring it here!" Murong Fu gave the order. One after another, brand new guillotines were pushed onto the stage. What Tokyo lacks the least is skilled craftsmen. Many of them served the royal family, but now they have all been massacred by Murong Fu. No one values craftsmen more than Murong Fu, and no one understands the role of craftsmen better than Murong Fu. He incorporated these craftsmen into the Tiangongtang and gave them generous treatment. As soon as Murong Fu threw the design drawings of the guillotine, the craftsmen quickly built ten guillotines, which was enough for Murong Fu to use. After all, the guillotine designed by Louis XVI was very easy to use and had a high efficiency in killing people. Not only did Louis XVI himself give it a good review, but Robespierre and others also enjoyed using it, and the citizens of Paris unanimously gave it a thumbs up. Murong Fu believed that the dignitaries of the Song Dynasty would also give it five-star reviews, and the citizens of Tokyo would also give it a thumbs up.
"This is?" Although the ministers had never seen this kind of guillotine, they could guess that it was a torture instrument for chopping off heads. The semicircle at the bottom was just big enough for a person to put his neck in. "Bring everyone up!" Murong Fu didn't waste any words and waved his hand. I saw the imperial guards escorting a group of people dressed in gorgeous clothes onto the stage. "This is the Prince of Guangping." "Prince of Anhua." "This is the Duke of Wei." "Ah, what is this for?" All the officials were shocked. Because the people that Murong Fu brought to the stage this time were all members of the Zhao Song royal family, relatives by marriage, and nobles, there were actually more than a hundred of them. These people are the top dignitaries of the Song Dynasty. Although they are not domineering in their daily lives, they are still high and mighty. They are considered the top people of the Song Dynasty. Now, they are all like bereaved families, like eggplants hit by frost, crying and begging for mercy, tears and snot streaming down their faces, without any of their usual decency. The people also watched with wide eyes, vaguely aware of what was going to happen next. "I've often heard that the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people. Unfortunately, from ancient times to the present, this has been an unrealistic fantasy of the people. From what I've seen, many of the powerful and wealthy families in Tokyo are lawless, but they always manage to escape the punishment of the king's law. Why? Because the king's law is the law of the royal family, the law of his Zhao family! How can such a law punish his relatives and friends of the Zhao family?" Murong Fu used his internal strength and his voice was transmitted steadily to everyone's ears. "I sorted out the archives of the Imperial City Bureau and some information from Guifan Tower, and sent people to investigate. I found that many lawless and powerful people have not been punished." "I, Murong Fu, raised an army to punish the criminals and enforce justice on behalf of Heaven! In the past, no one cared about these people, but now that I am here, I will take care of them! I will hand over the power from the Purple Palace to your hands!" "I, Murong Fu, came to Tokyo to do only three things: fairness, fairness, and damn fairness!" Regardless of whether Murong Fu was sincere or not, the words were beautifully said, and the people of Tokyo were shocked and shouted: "Long live King Yan!" The faces of the ministers changed drastically, but intimidated by the people's shouts and Murong Fu's majesty, no one dared to sing a different tune.
But they all felt that Murong Fu was courting disaster. Since ancient times, those who ruled a country had to be Confucianists in appearance and legalists in spirit. Confucianism is about brainwashing the people, and law is about efficiently exploiting the people. The Song Dynasty implemented this point very well. The country should share the world with the scholars and officials, rather than with the common people. Murong Fu actually wants to pursue fairness, which is very difficult to deal with. Ministers such as Fan Chunren could not hold back their expressions at this moment. "Bring Prince Guangping Zhao Yunhuai!" Murong Fu said. The chubby and round Zhao Yunhuai was pushed forward and pressed in front of Murong Fu. This Zhao Yunhuai is more like a descendant of Taizong. He is plump and white with a round face, and even looks a little honest. "King Yan, please spare my life, King Yan, please spare my life. I am willing to offer all my property. Please spare my life! I don't want to die." Zhao Yunhuai cried. He was so frightened that he was shaking and even wet his pants. The people of Tokyo all recognized Zhao Yunhuai. They knew that the Prince of Guangping was usually lawless and committed many evil things, but no one dared to provoke him. Even his servants in Kaifeng did not dare to punish him. Now that Prince Guangping was so frightened, the people began to laugh and curse, and their awe of the Zhao clan was greatly reduced. "Zhao Yunhuai, you colluded with Guifanlou and kidnapped the good girls Lin Zhener, Wang Hui, and Liu Fangfang. You tortured these girls to death and buried them in your back garden! Bring their bodies up!" Murong Fu said. At Murong Fu's command, someone immediately brought in the corpses of more than a dozen young girls, all of which were dug out from the back garden of Prince Guangping's Mansion. Looking at these piles of bones, the people's anger was ignited. "Beast!" "brute!!!" "Beast among beasts!!!" Murong Fu called the victims' families to identify the corpses. Fortunately, there were clothes and accessories around the corpses, so they were barely recognized by their families. The families of these victims cried bitterly and cursed Zhao Yunhuai, while the people felt deeply sympathetic and filled with righteous indignation, and demanded that Zhao Yunhuai be executed. Afterwards, Murong Fu announced Zhao Yunhuai's crimes one by one and brought all his accomplices, his family members, servants, wives and concubines to the stage. "Kill him!" said Murong Fu. Zhao Yunhuai and others behaved extremely badly, but they were no match for Murong Fu's iron fist and were sent to the guillotine by the strong imperial guards. Whoosh! Ten guillotines, start! Ten great heads fell just like that. "Hang these heads on the city gate for public display." Murong Fu said. Below the stage, the people cheered loudly. "Master Qingtian!"
"Yan Wang is wise!" "Well done for killing him! This is a great help to Tokyo!" Murong Fu remained unmoved and continued to call out names. Every time he called out a person's name, he announced the charge, produced evidence, and then executed him. Murong Fu spared no one, including royal family members, relatives by marriage, nobles, and children of ministers. Originally, the Imperial City Bureau collected this information in order for the emperor to catch these people and punish them at a critical moment. However, now it has become evidence for Murong Fu to execute them. Soon, more than one hundred dignitaries in Tokyo were executed. The air was filled with the smell of blood, and the city walls were covered with various heads. The people were in a great frenzy. Also, because Murong Fu always produced solid evidence of guilt and showed mercy to those powerful people who had not committed any crime, everyone felt that he was fair and there was nothing wrong with him. Only the high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty looked pale. They knew all these dignitaries and had good personal relations with some of them. But unexpectedly, the powerful people were brutally killed by Murong Fu just because they harmed a few civilians. All their property and land were confiscated. Murong Fu was really cruel. However, all the ministers had been planted with life and death talismans, and Murong Fu was killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, so they could only criticize in their hearts. Murong Fu said: "I killed those who were truly lawless, oppressing the people, and killing people. I didn't touch those who had not broken the law. For example, many of Shenzong's sons were young and had not committed any illegal acts, so they were not implicated." "Fairness means not letting a bad person go, and not wrongly accusing a good person." "The next criminal to be judged has a special identity, so don't be afraid." "Someone, bring Emperor Zhao Xu up!" Although everyone saw more than a hundred dignitaries being beheaded and the blood flowing like a river, which was an eye-opener, they were still shocked when they heard Murong Fu's words "bring up Emperor Zhao Xu". The officials were in an uproar. The people were dismayed. There was no more cheering in the audience, only deathly silence. This is the emperor! Is it really necessary that the emperor should be punished the same as the common people if he breaks the law? Everyone found it incredible and unbelievable. But no matter whether they believed it or not, Murong Fu did it. The only difference was that it was no longer the Imperial Guards who escorted Zhao Xu, because they did not have the courage to do so. Instead, it was the Dragon Elephant Cavalry under Murong Fu who completed the task. Two tall dragon-elephant cavalrymen, wearing fully armored armor that was impenetrable, "lifted" the haggard-looking Zhao Xu and brought him onto the stage. Zhao Xu looked at the corpses all over the stage, his face pale, and said quietly: "Is this 'the inner treasury burned to ashes, and the streets were trampled with bones of nobles'? Murong Fu, you are indeed a figure like Huang Chao, the world will be in chaos because of you!" "Only Tianjie trampled on the bones of nobles, and I am much more civilized than Huang Chao. It was all a public trial, and the evidence is solid!" Murong Fu said indifferently, "Zhao Xu, you are guilty of murdering your grandmother!" Zhao Xu lowered his head and said nothing. He really did it. But he did it for the Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, the people and ministers would not understand his difficulties. They would only think that he was unfilial and a beast who killed his own family. "Bring the body of Empress Dowager Gao, invite famous doctors from Tokyo to perform an autopsy, bring the Song court's poison files, and bring the eunuchs Liang Shicheng and Liu Sangou as witnesses." Murong Fu issued orders one after another. The ministers could no longer endure it. The trial of the emperor had already horrified them, and now the corpse of the Empress Dowager was brought up for an autopsy. This was too damaging to the dignity of the court. "Your Highness Prince of Yan, Duke of Protector of the Country, let's stop here!" Fan Chunren rushed forward and knelt in front of Murong Fu, "We can't investigate any further! We can't! Let's at least give the Zhao Song Dynasty some dignity!" Ministers such as Su Che also came forward and knelt down to beg. These old people were all in tears. They had already guessed in their hearts that Zhao Xu had most likely done it, but they could not make a final conclusion. Once the final verdict is reached and recorded in history books, the legitimacy of the Zhao Song Dynasty will suffer a severe blow, and these old ministers of Yuanyou will become a laughing stock. Murong Fu investigated the crimes of so many powerful people and executed them. This was almost the same as the behavior of tyrants like Dong Zhuo, Huang Chao, and Zhu Wen. If the emperor was tried openly and executed according to law, there would be no record of such an event even if one looked through all the history books. The Song Dynasty was the only dynasty that enjoyed peace and prosperity, but its capital was captured by 500 people, which was extremely shameful. And now, it is about to become the first dynasty to have its emperor tried and executed. What would have happened if the Song Dynasty was recorded in history books? Do these ministers have any glory? "Take them all down!" Murong Fu said, "Don't let them interfere with the judicial process!" "Yes!" At that moment, a group of Dragon-Elephant Iron Cavalrymen speared all the ministers and controlled them. Murong Fu wanted more than twenty famous doctors from the capital to be present. These famous doctors were helpless and could only open the golden nanmu coffin with trepidation to perform an autopsy on Empress Dowager Gao, whose body had already rotted and smelled. They did not dare to lie and each of them said that poison was found in the test. Empress Dowager Gao did die of poisoning. Murong Fu took out the internal files of the Song Dynasty royal family and said, "The poison that Empress Dowager Gao was poisoned with is called Qianji Poison, which is a poison commonly used by the emperors of the Song Dynasty. Emperor Taizong used this poison to kill Li Yu, the last ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty." "Now our emperor, in order to seize real power, used this poison to kill the Empress Dowager Gao. He has executed all those who knew about it. Unfortunately, the eunuch Liu Sangou hid in the palace canal and escaped for the time being. His most trusted eunuch Liang Shicheng has told me all his crimes." At this moment, the eunuch Liu Sangou and Liang Shicheng began to describe the scene of that night together. The description is vivid and colorful, with rich details. When the common people heard such palace secrets, it was like the people of the Qing Dynasty seeing Yongzheng's "Records of Awakening to the Great Righteousness". The common people didn't care whether it was righteous or not, but they did get the pleasure of getting a glimpse into the internal strife and private life of the royal family. Everyone knows that when the Empress Dowager suddenly passed away, Murong Fu did not enter the city, so this could not be a frame-up. But the people were unexpectedly silent. The emperor's identity was too special. Normally, killing the grandmother was a serious crime, but this man was the emperor. The people looked at each other, not knowing what to do. "Zhao Xu, do you have anything to say?" Murong Fu said.
"If I had known earlier, I should have drunk that cup of poisoned wine." Zhao Xu said, "I... I have nothing to say." "Come here, Zhao Xu has committed the heinous crime of murdering his grandmother and severely violated filial piety, so he must be executed!" Murong Fu gave the order. Two Dragon-Elephant Iron Cavalrymen dragged the powerless Zhao Xu to the guillotine. The ministers cried and wailed, but it was of no avail. The people were silent, staring at Zhao Xu's figure. For some reason, they all became nervous. In this tense silence, in this silent anxiety, Zhao Xu's neck was pressed into the round hole of the guillotine. Murong Fu stepped forward personally and pressed the switch button. The sword flashed. Zhao Xu's head fell steadily to the ground. "Hang it on the city gate." Murong Fu said. At first, there was deathly silence in the audience. The emperor was executed so easily? Then, everyone's eyes fell on Murong Fu. Anyone who can execute the emperor has more power than the emperor. "Long live the King of Yan, long live the King of Yan, long live the King of Yan!!!" This is the cry of the people. The people were shouting this slogan frantically. They didn’t know why, but after shouting it, they felt more at ease. "We will always be loyal to the Duke of Protector of the Country and follow him till death. Long live the Duke of Protector of the Country!!!" This was the cry of the imperial guards. "The Ming Zun has come to the world, and the holy fire is blazing! He will save the people and bring peace to the world! The world is dark and the emperor is incompetent. Fortunately, Murong is here to wield the sword and slay the dragon!" This is the cry of the Ming Cult disciples. They seemed to understand the profound meaning behind this latest popular slogan of the Ming Cult. Their leader, Murong Fu, the incarnation of the great Mingzun, really slayed the dragon! As Zhao Xu's head was hung up, the Song Dynasty's accumulated power over the past hundred years began to disintegrate in Tokyo City. Watching this scene, Murong Fu smiled and said to Murong Yan beside him: "I think we can revise the history of the Song Dynasty." (End of this chapter)