Great Tang Southern Emperor

"What exactly do you want? I beg you, don't kill me, okay?" Jieli really wanted to kneel down, and the wailing of the 1000 people before was still vivid in his memory, begging: "What should I pay to beg you?" Let them go? Tell me."

"Ah, I remembered. Speaking of which, you really have a way to save them." Li Zhen suddenly slapped his forehead, as if just remembering, staring into Xieli's eyes and said: "You are the sweat of the Turks, you are the grassland Your Majesty, if you use your life to offset theirs, would you be willing?"

"This..." Jieli hesitated immediately, he really hesitated, he was not acting, he really couldn't tell whether Li Zhen was telling the truth or joking, so he hesitated, not knowing how to answer.

"You only have three breaths, and one breath has already passed." Li Zhen pinched her fingers to count the time: "It's the second breath, and the third breath is coming soon, and your time is running out."

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Jieli, not only on the side of the Tang Dynasty, but also on the side of the Turkic soldiers. Everyone knew that Xieli's decision determined the life and death of these captives. If they benefit from death, they will live. At present, there is no third way.

At this time, their hearts are undoubtedly the most complicated. To ensure that they will not die, the prerequisite is that Xieli must die.

There is no doubt that no one wants to die, so they all have the same idea, which is to let Xieli choose his own death.But if Xieli really chose to die by himself, then he would have saved these captives with his own life, and Xieli would become a hero.

But they will become betrayers—betrayers who have betrayed their own beliefs. This is something that people are not ashamed of, and they themselves cannot accept it.

So now everyone wants Xieli to die, but also doesn't want to become a traitor, and their hearts are quite complicated.

"It's the last breath, have you thought about it yet?" Li Zhen pressed her step by step: "If they live, they have to die. If you die, then they will live. If you don't choose, I will assume that you want to live. By the time"

"Wait a minute" Jie Li hastily interrupted Li Zhen, as if she had made up her mind: "I choose"

"What's the choice?"

"I choose" Xie Li's eyes fluctuate, sometimes fierce, sometimes soft, sometimes strong, sometimes cowardly, obviously he still hasn't made up his mind.

Xieli's decision was delayed, but the captives who had been waiting for a long time were suffering. All their minds fluctuated with Xieli's voice. Under such circumstances, almost no one spoke, and the atmosphere on the scene was almost suppressed Squeeze the last trace of air out of the chest, making people suffocate.

Li Zhen didn't care about these things: "It's time, it seems that you can't make a choice, hehe, so you Jieli is also a coward, I thought you could be so brave, that's all, since you can't sit down and make a decision, then this book Your Highness will help you decide, Ben Yin."

"Understood." As soon as Benyin waved his hand, some soldiers pushed the prisoner down the big pit, and the scene suddenly wailed, and some even yelled at the old man.

"What are they cursing?" Li Zhen couldn't understand Turkic, so she could only ask the interpreter.

The interpreter gave Li Zhen a bitter look, and said, "It's all curse words, it's better not to know, Your Highness."

"Calling people?" Li Zhen became more interested: "Who are you scolding? Xieli or me?"

"There are, but in general, I still scold him a little more."

"That's good." Li Zhen pointed at Jie Li's uncertain face, and laughed loudly: "Judging from his expression, he should be scolding him a little more."

"However, your performance is good, and I'm barely satisfied."

"What on earth are you trying to do?" Xie Li suddenly broke out, his voice was so loud that it almost drowned out the wailing at the scene: "Didn't you say you would let them go?"

"This sentence cannot be translated." Li Zhen hurriedly stopped the translator who wanted to translate at the same time.

"Yes." The translator quickly shut up, and he probably understood Li Zhen's intentions vaguely.

At this time, the five thousand captives had been pushed into three big pits, and seeing that they were about to fill up the soil, the smile on the corner of Li Zhen's mouth became more and more obvious, but in Jieli's view, it was cruel: "What have you experienced? Aren't you a prince of the Tang Dynasty? Didn't you experience the teachings of Confucianism since childhood? Why didn't you become that kind of person?"

"Hearing what you said, why do I feel so upset?" Li Zhen said with a look of displeasure, "I'm from Tang Dynasty, so I should be cowardly, I should repay my bad with virtue, and I should slap my face to make myself fat? Where did you draw the conclusion? Is this what Confucianism should look like in your eyes? After hearing what you said, I am unhappy, very unhappy, and I want to kill people when I am unhappy. Only the dead can make me It’s not fun to forget. So Jieli, the extra dead people are all your fault. I have to be happy today."

"No..." Jieli let out a desperate roar, like a lone wolf howling at the moon, with a sad and lonely voice, which made the sad listener cry.

"Yes." Benyin hurriedly stopped the people who filled the soil, and asked them to pick out another [-] captives to be buried alive together.

Chapter 171

Chapter 97 Everyone Pleads For Mercy

"No, wait a minute, Your Highness." Finally someone couldn't stand it anymore, Xu Maogong stood up and pleaded: "Your Highness, wanton killing will not bring peace, it will only bring deeper hatred. You said this yourself Did you forget? They didn’t do anything wrong, and they were very honest and obedient after they became prisoners. I believe that with a little training, they will definitely become good citizens of my Tang Dynasty. Why do you want to kill for your own selfishness? ? Please, Your Highness, be merciful and spare these innocent lives."

What Xu Maogong said was so sincere that even Jieli cast a grateful look, and after listening to the content translated by the interpreter, the prisoners were even more grateful, and some even knelt down and shouted They couldn't understand the words, but judging from their expressions, they seemed to be either thanking or begging.

Unfortunately, although what Xu Maogong said was reasonable, Li Zhen was not moved at all: "But the chief executive may not know yet, there is a second half of my sentence: 'Reckless killing does not bring peace, it only brings peace. Bring deeper hatred, unless you can kill all the enemies'. There are only a few million Turkic people in total. I am now the governor of the Turkic capital, and I have tens of thousands of elite soldiers. As long as I am willing, I will wash the grassland with blood Nothing too difficult."

"You still want to wash the grassland with blood?" Xieli was even more frightened.

"What happened to the bloodbath grassland?" Li Zhen gave him a strange look: "It's just a few million lives, I haven't taken it to heart yet."

"You are not afraid, you are not afraid, are you not afraid of being spurned by the world? As far as I know, in the eyes of you Tang people, killing is too heavy, and you will be accused by thousands of people. You are the prince of the Tang Dynasty. Even Emperor Li Shimin can't protect you, right?" Jieli was completely frightened, and he could tell that Li Zhen's expression didn't change a bit when he said this, that is to say, he was serious. He didn't take this little human life to heart.

"Cut, as long as you can save the Great Tang from the troubles of the North, do you still think I am a rarity for the position of a mere prince?" Speaking of this, Li Zhen looked indifferent: "Don't talk about a title, even if you want me Fate doesn’t mean you can’t give it up.”

"You..." Xie Li didn't expect Li Zhen to have such a great spirit of sacrifice, and was stunned for a moment, speechless—nonsense, people are not even afraid of death, what can you do?

Not only him, but everyone was shocked by Li Zhen. No one thought that such a four-year-old child would have such great perseverance and wisdom. The spirit was shocked.

"Ben Yin, why don't you do anything?" Li Zhen turned her head and asked, ignoring Jie Li.

"Yes."

"Wait a minute." Li Jing couldn't sit still: "Your Highness, please listen to the old minister."

"It's okay for the chief executive to just say it, but it's better to hurry up." Li Zhen narrowed her eyes and yawned: "I have to go back to sleep after I deal with this matter."

"Yes." Li Jing was also in a hurry. He stood up purely to stop Li Zhen, but he hadn't figured out the specific reason for persuasion. But looking at Li Zhen's eyes, if he couldn't tell the reason, I'm afraid the consequences would be even worse. serious.

"Let me say it." Li Daozong didn't have a good one, and quickly took out something from his sleeve: "The emperor has an order, and the eighth son of the emperor will accept the order."

"My son is here." Li Zhen bowed quickly, judging from the decorations, this was a decree, so there was no need to kneel down to greet her.

"Fengtian Chengyun said: The eighth son of the emperor is extremely intelligent, and he is astute in checking things. It should be negotiated with the generals under his command and the deputy governor should be given the right to make decisions on the fly, but the governor has the right to reject it if he does anything wrong."

Hearing this decree, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that His Royal Highness did not have the final say on the Turkic Capital Protectorate. The Emperor had long guarded against His Highness messing around and put a mother-in-law on his head. Although the central decree has no power Big, but it's always the emperor's intention. If you think about your highness's benevolence and filial piety, you shouldn't be disrespectful.

"I accept the order." Li Zhen seemed unwilling to accept the order, and pretended to take a look at it as a verification, and then said in doubt: "Uncle, I don't understand, this order is for the two deputy governors. How could it fall into the hands of the uncle?"

"This, this is for sure." Li Daozong said nonsense in a serious manner: "After all, this is the central decree, and the decree is in conflict with the imperial decree. Therefore, when the emperor gave the imperial decree to his ministers, he said that this decree is a last resort. Do not take it out when it is time, as it would be inappropriate to give it to the two chief mates, so I gave it to the minister."

"So that's the case, I understand." Li Zhen said dejectedly: "So, the two deputy chief guards disagree with my actions today?"

"Of course I don't agree." Li Jing and Xu Maogong said in unison.

Xu Maogong said: "Your Highness, you did go too far today. If you killed them secretly, I would not say anything, but if you kill them in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, it is really unjustifiable. I know you have a great ambition to sacrifice everything as a Tang Dynasty, but if you really slaughter them all, or even wipe the entire Turkic from the grassland, it seems to be beneficial to my Tang Dynasty, but in fact, my Datang will be on the cusp of the storm , in the surrounding countries, who else would dare to surrender to my Great Tang? It will do all kinds of harm to the future of my Great Tang, but not any benefit."

"So, today's matter, I will not agree, not only the minister will not agree, but the tens of thousands of soldiers will never agree." Li Jing even knelt down and said: "Please take back your highness and spare these innocent people." human life?"

"Your Highness, please take it back."

"Your Highness, please take it back."

"Your Highness, please take it back."

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The soldiers of the three armies shouted in unison, and for a while the situation was turbulent, and the sound shook the nine heavens.