Outside the Lu Family Ancestral Temple in Fanyang.

Spring in Youzhou has just arrived. Originally, farmers should have been farming in the fields, but today many of thousands of villagers nearby have come to Lu's ancestral homes.

Today they are going to criticize the Lu family of Fanyang.

Xu Jingzong sat on a temporary high platform, looking at the bustling people below with a sad face. He felt a headache when he thought of the task given to him by Li Chengqian.

He knew that when he did this, the gentry in the world would beat everyone, and maybe he would be infamous for thousands of years...

"Sir Shangshu!"

When Xu Jingzong heard the sound, he turned around and saw the official behind him, and quietly pointed to the sky, reminding him that the time was up.

Xu Jingzong looked up and looked down. He saw that the people who came to participate in the criticism had formed dozens of venues in the surrounding open space. There were hundreds of people in each venue, and there were a new arrangement of theaters in the middle of the venue.

The content of these dramas is about how the gentry bullies the people, and they are compiled based on the real situation reflected by the people who reclaimed wasteland in Tianjin.

Although the performance is simple, it is already very new for the people living at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty. The people who come are soon attracted by these performances.

The content of the play is about the deeds of the gentry bullying men and dominating women.

The people here have been bullied by the gentry for hundreds of years, and people's hearts have long been numb and they cannot raise any ideas of resistance at all.

But today, the common people watched the simple performances of several men and women in the audience, and they all drew out all the sad things in their hearts. They watched one by one while wiping their tears, and developed a deep hatred for the gentry who oppressed them.

...

Xu Jingzong looked at the performance of the people and knew that in this matter, he could only follow Li Chengqian's arrangement and walk all the way to the dark.

Xu Jingzong sighed and said helplessly: "Then start criticizing!"

The clerk standing below immediately ran to various venues and informed the people who presided over the venue to start formal criticism.

Acting is just an appetizer, telling the common people what is right and what is wrong.

Formal criticism is a group of very representative parties carefully selected from countless cases of bullying by the gentry, telling people in public about their bullying process, that is, the process of the gentry's crime.

In a venue closer to the high platform, an old woman with white hair pulled out a pretty girl. The girl looked like she was thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a black scorched old jacket on the upper body and a torn red silk skirt on the lower body. This is obviously a person with a story.

Because the girl was tortured and mentally ill, the old woman told everyone about her victimization.

"We were originally a family outside the big fort in the west of the city..."

As the old woman told her, people gradually learned about her childbirth. The girl was named Liu Ya, and the old woman was Liu Ya's mother. Their family was a direct tenant farmer of the Lu family in Fanyang, and had been a cattle and horse for the Lu family in Fanyang for several generations.

Two years ago, when Liu Ya was twelve years old, a young man from the fort fell in love with Liu Ya, so he rewarded their family with two taels of silver and brought Liu Ya into the fort.

Such things are very normal at this time. Liu Ya's family felt that Liu Ya was attracted by the young master in the fort because they burned the incense and had good luck.

The young man was named Lu He, who was already thirty-seven or eight years old at that time. When he took Liu Ya away, he was not at home because his wife took the children to visit Li's family in Zhaojun.

Two months later, Lu He's wife Li returned from Zhao County with a pair of fourteen or fifteen-year-old children. When Li saw Liu Ya, he beat her up and then locked Liu Ya in the woodshed to starve her to death.

Lu He was very afraid of it and dared not speak out about it.

Because Li has always been aware of Lu He's fun, the servants at home are all detestable old women. Not only does Lu He not have freedom, but even her fifteen-year-old son Lu Yuan is hungry and thirsty.

Seeing that Liu Ya looked cute, Lu Yuan had bad thoughts. At night, taking advantage of her family's surprise, he sneaked into the wood floor and did something indescribable with Liu Ya, and secretly released Liu Ya.

Liu Ya ran back home with her wounded body. Lu He didn't know about Lu Yuan and secretly asked someone to transfer Liu Ya's family to another place to live, so he did not get hurt by Li's evil hands.

Liu Ya's family knew that this was impossible to reason with the Lu family, and Lu He was also considerate of his old love and helped them move the place. So he swallowed the bitter fruit, thinking that he would calm down in the future. In two years, Liu Ya grew up and found her a honest person to marry her.

Not long after, Lu He often went out to Liu Ya's house to find Liu Ya and did something indescribable with Liu Ya.

Liu Ya's family didn't dare to do anything to Lu He, so they could only continue to endure it, and even thought that if Liu Ya could get pregnant in a few years, she would give Lu He a son and half a daughter. Lu He had to find a way to take care of their family.

Thinking of this, Liu Ya's family accepted the reality and still had some hope in their hearts.

But in the end, things went against their wishes. Not long after, Lu He's son Lu Yuan also found Liu Ya's family and forced Liu Ya to do something indescribable with him.

At this point, all the fantasies of the Liu Ya family were shattered. Watching Lu He and his son come and go in and out of Liu Ya's house, Liu Ya's family's hearts also sank to the bottom, and Liu Ya's spirit became increasingly wrong.

Later, Lu Yuan became even more aggressive and brought his friends to Liu Ya's house to do some indescribable things with Liu Ya.

After more than a year of such a life, Liu Ya's mother discovered that Liu Ya was pregnant. If only one person came to Liu Ya's house to do something indescribable with Liu Ya, it might be a good thing for their family.

But now Liu Ya's family dare not expect any of the Lu family's father and son to accept this matter. Liu Ya's family can only try their best to ask someone to tell Liu Ya to marry him, and want to find someone to take over as soon as possible.

Soon, they found someone who was willing to marry Liu Ya. This man was named Chen Si, an old man in his forties. He was so poor that he didn't even have money to marry. Liu Ya's family had to pay the dowry.

Chen Si did not dislike Liu Ya's willingness to take over, which was the best result. But who knew that Lu Yuan was very angry when he heard that Liu Ya was going to get married. He felt that their father and son spent a lot of money on Liu Ya over the past year, but now they have become Liu Ya's dowry, and the two of them are too much of a loss.

Lu Yuan, who was angry, went home to tell his mother Li about these things. When Li heard about it, he was furious and first taught Lu He a lesson at home. Lu Yuan and his son were scolded.

Then he sent someone to Liu Ya's house and said that Liu Ya was pregnant before marriage, and was lewd and shameless, which ruined their family's Feng Shui. Not only did he tie Liu Ya's body to a stone sinking pond, but he also drove Liu Ya's family out of the Lu family.

Fortunately, the Lu family also felt embarrassed and sent someone to deal with Shentang at night. Liu Ya's mother has been familiar with water since she was a child, so she rescued Liu Ya while Shentang was not carrying a dive on her back.

From then on, Liu Ya's family began a wandering life like a savage. During the wandering months, five people died for various reasons.

It was not until Li Chengqian came to Youzhou to receive refugees that Liu Ya's second brother fled to Youzhou with the remaining five people in their family, and their family was taken care of in Youzhou.

Not only did they eat a bite, no one could bully them at will, but the doctor also treated Liu Ya and her family. Therefore, Liu Ya's family was very grateful to Li Chengqian. He heard that Li Chengqian asked the people to expose the evil deeds of the gentry, and their family was the first person to stand up.

After listening to Liu Yaniang's story, the people around him reacted numbly at first. Apart from a few people with bad tempers in the crowd, they gritted their teeth and scolded Lu. More people just sighed, obviously they were not surprised by such things.

"Everything"

Three rapid gongs shifted the attention of people in the venue from Liuya and his daughter to the officials who presided over the venue.

Seeing that the venue was quiet, the official stepped forward and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has an order: Lu He, Lu Yuan and his son have lost their morals and are completely inhumane, and they are sentenced to beheading and show them to the public!"

After that, some officers and soldiers tied up Lu He, Lu Yuan and his son, pulled up. The two soldiers raised their bright steel knives and slashed at the necks of Lu He and Lu Yuan and his son.

The father and son were bleeding more than ten feet away, and the two human heads rolled out very far.

The people at the venue were frightened to see it. After a while, someone reacted and said loudly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince really dares to punish the sins of the gentry!"

"Buzz--"

Immediately afterwards, the entire venue exploded, and all the people began to talk excitedly. Several people complained to the officials who presided over the venue on the spot.

Soon the victims of other venues also ended their complaints, and the officials in charge all tried to kill the criminals.

The people who were beheaded today were all Lu's children who participated in the rebellion. Some of them were arrested by Li Chengqian, and some were tied up by other members of the Lu family and sent to Youzhou.

These people should have been punished for rebellion. According to the past dynasties, the rebels were only punished by the master plot and accomplices, so as not to cause the illusion that everyone in the world had rebelled.

However, Li Chengqian was unwilling to let them go so easily, so he made great efforts to find out the crimes of these people who harmed the countryside.

The meaning of killing them now is completely different. He has become a presidency of justice. Not only can he win the hearts of the people now, but he can attack the unrebelled gentry, but it is also good in history books.

This can be said to be a three-killing victory, but it is too difficult to do it. If not done well, more people will rebel, and cause trouble, which will be undesirable by the rulers of all generations.

Li Chengqian dares to do this now, of course, because he is not afraid of the remaining people continuing to rebel.

One reason is that some of their chiefs were still waiting for Li Chengqian to summon him in Youzhou, but they could not get together for a while. In addition, Li Chengqian had already placed nearly 500,000 people without possession in Tianjin, and the reputation of the crown prince had already spread throughout the prefectures of Hebei Road.

Under this circumstance, the gentry of Hebei Province were no longer able to launch another rebellion that could threaten Li Chengqian.

Outside the Lu family's ancestral temple, Xu Jingzong watched the people in the audience be enthusiastic. No matter whether they had been bullied by the Lu family or not, they could not help but curse at the people of the Lu family in Fanyang.

The gentry of the Lu family in Fanyang for hundreds of years seems to be going to be over!

Xu Jingzong sighed and saw thousands of people rushing towards the high platform where he was. When Xu Jingzong saw it, he thought that the people were coming to him. If his legs were not weak and weak, he would jump up and run away.

"The Lu family has been unkind in all generations and smashed their ancestral temple!"

"Smash--"

The people shouted and rushed forward, and ran to the high platform where Xu Jingzong was located, like a torrent, divided into two strands, bypassing the high platform where Xu Jingzong was located, and rushed into the Lu family's ancestral temple behind.
Chapter completed!