HCB Chapter 295 One word: Death
Chapter 295 One word: Death
Chapter 295 One word: Death
As soon as Wang Wenzhou finished speaking, more than a dozen people immediately started fighting.
Wang Wenzhou pointed at them and yelled, "Did I say it started? Are you all pig-brains?! Anyone who disobeys orders, execute them all! Men, shoot them all!"
The Imperial Guard archers quickly drew their bows and nocked arrows, and in an instant, the dozen or so men were riddled with arrows.
Wang Wenzhou shouted, "Listen up, all of you! I'm saying this for the last time. Listen carefully to what I'm saying. Anyone who disobeys will be punished with one word: death!"
This time, the prisoners present truly remembered: they must obey Lord Wang's orders, or they would die. Lord Wang was truly a killing machine, killing people at the drop of a hat.
Wang Wenzhou commanded, "Light the incense."
The Imperial Guards beside him quickly lit incense.
Wang Wenzhou said, "Begin!"
The male prisoners immediately started fighting. Some of them were from the same place and knew how to cooperate. In no time, the scene became chaotic, filled with screams and shouts of killing.
Wang Ying frowned, looked at Wang Wenzhou, and asked in confusion, "Wang Wenzhou, you want to use them? But why are you making them fight each other?"
Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, if you promise to let me bite you, I'll tell you."
"Hmph!" Wang Ying snorted coldly, and said irritably, "Although they are death row inmates, what you're doing to them is really going too far!"
Wang Wenzhou pinched Wang Ying and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, it's no use trying to provoke me. I'll only talk if you promise to bite."
"Sigh..." Wang Ying sighed. These past few days, being with Wang Wenzhou, this madman, had made her feel like she was going crazy. Wang Wenzhou always acted irrationally. For example, right now she wasn't wearing any underwear, and this madman Wang Wenzhou wouldn't let her wear any, and she couldn't do anything about it.
However, Wang Ying felt strangely that although she was always being bullied by Wang Wenzhou during the few days she spent with him, she had a strange feeling in her heart, as if she liked being bullied by Wang Wenzhou.
The scene was so bloody that Chen Yuanyuan and Sun Rurui couldn't bear to watch and quickly turned their heads away.
Gao Guilan, on the contrary, watched the crowd fight to the death with great excitement, occasionally pointing and commenting, "This person is highly skilled in martial arts, that person is so powerful, he can take on three people at once."
Wang Ying was genuinely curious as to why Wang Wenzhou did this. Although Wang Wenzhou's actions seemed erratic, she knew that everything he did had a deeper meaning.
Wang Ying said softly, "Okay, I promise you, but tell me why you're doing this?"
Zhu Youjian's imperial concubine finally gave the young master a bite, and Wang Wenzhou was very happy. He kissed Wang Ying and explained, "Of course I want to use these death row inmates. But the premise is that they must be completely obedient to me. Even if I tell them to die, they must die without hesitation."
Wang Ying asked doubtfully, "If you give them a chance to live, why wouldn't they obey your orders?"
Wang Wenzhou laughed and said, "I really want them to die! I'm not just saying that! These people are all death row inmates who have committed capital crimes. Except for a few unlucky ones, the rest are all unruly people. How could they obediently listen to me? I only want to leave a terrible impression on their minds. If they don't obey my orders, they will not only die, but they will die a terrible death!"
Wang Wenzhou continued, "Although my methods are ruthless and bloody, it's the quickest way to scare them. As for agreeing to let them sleep with female prisoners, it's just to comfort them. Men only have three great loves: money, power, and sleeping with women."
Wang Ying frowned and whispered a curse: "Shameless!"
Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "Good medicine tastes bitter, and reality is often disgusting. Sleeping with women is a man's most basic need. Only when a man's most basic need is satisfied will he be willing to die without hesitation."
“Of course,” Wang Wenzhou continued, “female prisoners are also useful. They will use their bodies to sleep with the Tartars. Then they will kill the Tartars in their sleep, or poison them, or use tricks. In short, they will risk their lives to kill.”
"Why?" Wang Ying suddenly felt that Wang Wenzhou was terrifying.
Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "As you know, recently Brother Zhu and I have been trying to negotiate peace with the Tartars. We are doing this to force the Tartars to ask us for peace talks. These people are all death row inmates. Since they are going to die anyway, they still have the opportunity to become heroes of the Ming Dynasty. This is a good thing for them."
"Heh!" Wang Ying sneered, "Wang Wenzhou, you're shameless! So many people died, and you call that a good deed?"
Wang Wenzhou shook his head with a bitter smile and said helplessly, "The success of one general is built on the bones of ten thousand. How can war be without death? If one day the Tartars invade our Great Ming, do you know that they will not only rape our Ming girls, but also slaughter our Ming men? Even the entire population of a city may be wiped out by the Tartars."
Wang Ying suddenly fell silent. She had read history books and knew that massacres of cities during national wars were indeed a frequent occurrence in history.
While the two were chatting, an incense stick burned out.
Wang Wenzhou shouted, "Stop! Whoever it is, stop now, shoot them immediately!"
Many of the death row inmates are murderers and robbers; these people are brave, fierce, and bloodthirsty. When they start fighting, they simply cannot control themselves.
Wang Wenzhou had given the order, but more than twenty men were still fighting. In an instant, they were shot dead by the archers of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
The scene suddenly became quiet.
Wang Wenzhou shouted, "Whoever successfully kills their opponent, immediately drag the corpse forward!"
Soon, about five hundred people, carrying, hugging, or dragging the body out of the crowd.
Wang Wenzhou nodded and said with a smile, "Congratulations, you can go sleep with the girls now. First, you are not allowed to fight. Second, you are not allowed to steal the girls that others have been assigned. Third, line up and guards will distribute the girls to you."
The victors among these prisoners quickly lined up and, under the arrangement of the Imperial Guards, waited to be assigned girls to sleep with.
Wang Wenzhou said to the female prisoners, "If you don't want men to sleep with you, you can choose to die now. Of course, as I just said, as long as you obey my orders, I will give you a chance to live. Making men sleep with you is also one of your training subjects. In a few days, after you have completed your training, you will go to carry out missions."
Wang Wenzhou did not hide anything and said sincerely, "Of course, the mission is very dangerous, and you will almost certainly die. But after you die, you will not die as criminals, but as heroes of the Ming Dynasty. After your death, the Ming Dynasty Anti-Traitor Fund will give your family a pension of one hundred taels of silver."
No one knew what the "Anti-Traitor Fund" was. But no one dared to ask, because Lord Wang had said that if he didn't ask, whoever did would die.
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Wang Wenzhou explained, "The Anti-Traitor Fund is a sum of money that I and some insightful people in the Ming Dynasty pooled together. Currently, the fund has one million taels of silver, and all of this money will be used to reward heroes who die for the Ming Dynasty. Even death row inmates are heroes of the Ming Dynasty as long as they die for it!"