The next day, a stage made of logs was set up outside the east gate of Zhangxian County, and the armor of the three hundred Ming troops was distinct, arranged in front of the stage.Just after the hour, the stage was already full of people from Zhangxian County.They heard from the people who had gone to the county government to get their own women that General Wang was going to publicly try the bearded bandits here, and they basically rushed here.These bandits grabbed grain and arrested people, harmed women, and harmed the people of Zhangxian County.They rushed here to see with their own eyes this newcomer, General Wang of the Ming army, to kill all these bandits and avenge them.Seeing that the people were almost there, Wang Shuo came to the stage in a silver helmet and silver armor, with his whole body draped.He was tall, and he stood in the middle of the stage, majestic, and he really looked like a general, and the audience was silent for a while."
Fellows," he shouted.At that time, there was no electricity, of course, there would be no microphones, and if you wanted to make a tin horn, you couldn't find a white tin tin sheet.Fortunately, there was a lot of rice paper in the county government, and he asked the soldiers to boil a pot of paste with white flour, soaked the rice paper in water, mixed it with paste, and pasted a cardboard shell horn.Put this cardboard shell horn to his mouth as a megaphone, so that everyone who comes can hear him speak, and he has to shout loudly.The conditions of this era are limited, so we can only make do with it.At that moment, Wang Shuo held a self-made cardboard shell horn and shouted loudly to the people: "My name is Wang Shuo, and I am a stable thousand households in the Ming Dynasty."
Yesterday, I led my men to exterminate a group of bandits here.This group of bandits is all evil, cruel to the extreme, their leader, that bearded man, has been killed by me on the battlefield, but the crimes committed by this group of bandits in Zhangxian County were not committed by the bandit leader alone, today, I will arrest these bandits here, administer justice to everyone, and let everyone decide for themselves what kind of punishment these bandits should receive."
Four sturdy soldiers, two escorted one, and escorted the two bandits to the stage.Seeing the two bandit leaders being escorted to the stage, the audience suddenly became chaotic and cried endlessly.Wang Shuo took a lot of effort to quiet the audience, and he shouted: "Please come to the stage, tell me and tell you what crimes these two bandits have committed, so that I can administer justice for everyone and let these two bastards know that they deserve it" Many people squeezed forward with hatred in their eyes, and the soldiers raised their spears to maintain order.Finally, a man in his forties came up to the stage, grabbed a bandit leader and tore and bit him, and it took a long time for the soldier to pull him away.The man couldn't cry for a long time before he spoke: "My family of six, two daughters, a son, and a sixty-year-old lady.When this brute entered the city last month, he brought people to my house, ruined my two daughters and my daughter-in-law, and killed them all, and my mother went to beg him, and if he was ruined, he was ruined, and he gave them a life, and this brute raised his knife and cut my old lady in half."
It took great effort for the soldiers to wake up the man and persuade him to take aside a temporary rest.Before the man could go down, an old man walked up to the stage tremblingly, and knelt down in front of Wang Shuo.Wang Shuo hurriedly helped the old man up.The old man pointed to a bandit leader and said, "My son went out to sell salt and didn't come back, so we old couple and daughter-in-law dragged our two little grandsons."
These brutes rummaged through the door, and before leaving, they killed my daughter-in-law and wife, and the daughter-in-law hid me and my two little grandsons in the firewood stack between the stoves, so that they were lucky enough to pick up a life."
Wang Shuo saw that the emotions of the people were aroused, so he no longer let the people come to power, but directly dragged the two bandit leaders down and let the people beat them to death and pull them down.He watched from the stage, thinking about his next step.The two bandit leaders were instantly punched and kicked by the angry people, and they were beaten without human appearance, and some people took stones and sticks.Wang Shuo saw that this was not good, the stones and sticks had no eyes, and then let the people hurt each other, and besides, everyone squeezed to the bandits, and the scene quickly became chaotic.He hurriedly asked the soldiers to get the two bandit leaders back, whether they were dead or alive, in front of the people, beheaded them for public display.After the execution of the two bandit leaders, the people let out a bad breath, and then some people said that there were not only the two of them, but also the evildoers.Wang Shuo ordered his soldiers to take the three thousand bandits who had been captured in groups of ten, and bring them from the place where they were imprisoned in the city, and let the people identify them.Those who are recognized as having killed people and abused women will be reorganized after receiving military discipline education.Of these 3,000 people, there are not many bandits who really do evil, and most of them are ordinary people who have been forcibly captured by bandits.Every time a group of people came over, some of the people who had been plagued by bandits came and identified them.The bandits they recognized were confronted and confronted, and after confirming that they had done something bad, they were executed on the spot.It was not until the afternoon that more than 200 bandits were killed, and the anger of the people gradually calmed down.Wang Shuo stood on the stage and asked loudly: "Fellow villagers, you tell me, have you avenged your revenge?"
The audience was emotional, and replied loudly: "Report, report" He asked again: "Do you still want to be bullied by bandits like this" The people in the audience shouted loudly: "I don't want to, I don't want to" Wang Shuo was satisfied.It seems that the criticism conference has had an effect.He said loudly: "But let me tell you, maybe some of you have already heard that Li Zicheng's soldiers have entered Gongchang Mansion.I fought against the enemy in Fuqiang, and fought with the thief army all the way to this place.Along the way, what I have seen is even worse than what you have encountered, not only are the intruders like these bandits, killing people and setting fires, robbing food, and ruining women, but they also eat people and spoil women, and then cut off their flesh and make it into jerky for military rations.This is what I and my soldiers have seen with our own eyes, and if you don't believe me, you can ask me. ”The people in the audience panicked when they heard this, and the buzz rang out
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