On the third day of the Lunar New Year this year, the emperor spent the third day of the year.

It was not until the sun was about to set that the emperor left the Academy of Sciences.

After returning to the palace, Zhao Huan received an exciting news that the Imperial City Guard captured the rebel general Cao Sheng in the northwest!

Cao Sheng was on his way to the capital.

Ten days later, Zhao Huan had breakfast and rushed to the heavenly prison.

Before he could enter, there were screams of pig-killing screams inside.

Cao Sheng was tied to the iron pillar, and a guard of the Imperial City was pouring boiling water on the iron pillar, which made Cao Sheng's whole body twitch violently.

Zhao Huan signaled to stop first after entering.

The Imperial City Guard brought a chair to the emperor, and Zhao Huan sat down and said, "Cao Sheng, tell me where Li Wen is. As long as you say it, I will let you go immediately."

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... I don't know the crime, but I don't know the crime. Please spare me for your sake of the crime's past me..."

Zhao Huan said sincerely: "I said that as long as you tell me where Li Wen is, I will definitely let you go. No joke."

The bullshit Jun has no joke!

"Your Majesty, I don't know..."

"Don't know?"

Zhao Huan's smile on his face calmed down. He said to Xie Dahai: "Prepare more ginseng, cut the flesh slowly, and then add salt after cutting. After a while, cut it again. He will not be allowed to die. He must be able to cut the flesh every day."

"Abide by the order!"

Hearing the emperor's words, Cao Sheng was so scared that he shouted in despair: "Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!"

"Tell me where Li Wen is?"

"Your Majesty, Li Wenzheng has fled to the Western Regions, and I don't know where he is now."

"You really don't know?"

"The criminals really don't know!"

Zhao Huan smiled strangely at Cao Sheng, who begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, as long as you release the guilty minister, the guilty minister is willing to betray His Majesty!"

"Let you go?" Zhao Huan smiled a little hideously, "Let you go, who will release more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the northwest who were killed by you?"

"Do you still remember those people who knelt down to you and begged for mercy and let go of their people and the soldiers of the Song Dynasty? Have you let them go?"

Cao Sheng's face was full of pain.

Zhao Huan waved to Xie Dahai: "Do it, I don't want him to live for a moment in this world!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty spares..."

With Zhao Huan's order, the Imperial City Guard began to untire Cao Sheng.

His back was already burned by the hot iron pillars, so that his flesh was ripe, stuck to it and pulled down.

The Imperial City Guard pushed a bronze statue over. The bronze statue was exactly what Cao Sheng looked like, but he was kneeling.

Cao Sheng cried and begged for mercy, wanting to struggle, but was tied up in various ways. He had no strength anymore, so he could only feel himself being put into the bronze man kneeling statue.

The bronze statue was not sent away immediately. The imperial guards began to pour boiling water on it. The temperature of the bronze statue was getting higher and higher, and the temperature inside was getting higher and higher, and Cao Sheng screamed like a pig slaughtering sound.

Cao Sheng couldn't move inside, and he felt the air around him burning his skin.

This feeling is a thousand times more uncomfortable than death.

After almost the splashing, the Imperial City Guards stopped pouring it and began to inject cold water into it, and then cleared the cold water out.

Now, Cao Sheng felt much more comfortable.

When the temperature returns to normal, boiling water begins to pour again.

This went on and over again, tortured Cao Sheng until he was about to collapse.

The emperor's voice suddenly came from outside: "Cao Sheng, I decided not to kill you!"

When Cao Sheng, who was half-dreaming and half awake, he immediately felt enlightened: "Thank you for not killing your Majesty!"

"Don't rush to thank me for it first. I just want to add something to it. As long as you don't die, I will let you go!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, what are you put?"

"You will know right away. As long as you can survive, I will let you go!"

A glimmer of hope for survival arose in Cao Sheng's heart.

The lid on the bronze statue was opened, and Cao Sheng looked up with difficulty, but he couldn't see what it was.

Until a sticky, terrifying heat-emitting liquid flowed down from above.

At that moment, Cao Sheng's mind was blank.

It's burned molten iron!

The iron water hit Cao Sheng's head like a waterfall, directly pressing his head to collapse, and then quickly flowed throughout his body, flooding him.

There was no movement inside, and Zhao Huan shouted a few words: "Cao Sheng, if you are still alive now, come out, I will spare you the death penalty."

After hearing that there was no movement inside, Zhao Huan felt so happy.

"Send the bronze statue to the gate of the Martyrs' Temple!"

"Abide by the order!"

In the evening, the bronze statue of the man kneeling was transported to the Martyrs' Temple.

Cao Sheng's kneeling statue was kneeling at the Martyrs' Temple, and he was kneeling down to worship the soldiers of the Song Dynasty who were killed by him.

The incident was reported by the Dasong Di Daily News and the Tokyo Express the next day, and the newspapers were quickly stolen.

Countless people ran to the Martyrs' Temple to curse Cao Sheng, and cursed Cao Sheng's ancestors all over the eighteen generations.

More than 100,000 soldiers of the Song Dynasty died at his hands, and another 100,000 soldiers were hostile to their own people due to his rebellion and died.

Cao Sheng was listed by historians as one of the largest traitors.

Zhao Huan, who returned to the palace, called Xie Dahai over and asked him to transfer people to the northwest and penetrate into the Western Regions to find Li Wenzheng.

At the same time, the emperor also used the Qilin Guard and began to frequently move in the northwest border area to look for clues about Li Wenzheng.

Li Wenzheng didn't get rid of it for a day, and Zhao Huan felt uncomfortable one day.

If Cao Sheng had not lie, he would now know where Li Wenzheng was going, at least he had a direction.

At this time, it is time to communicate with the Western Regions.

Whether it is secretly or openly, we should communicate.

Zhao Huan was thinking about who to send to the Western Regions when he suddenly received a letter from the Jin Kingdom.

It turned out to be written by Wanyan Zongpan to him. The letter mentioned that Wanyan Zongpan was about to go to the Song Dynasty to meet the emperor in Tokyo.

I heard that the Song people like Cuju and polo, Wanyan Zongpan said in his letter that he would lead a team to challenge the Song Dynasty by Cuju or polo.

Of course, to put it nicely, this is a friendly match.

It represents the deep friendship between Song and Jin.

The actual purpose, Wanyan Zongpan also said, was to negotiate the trade between the two parties.

In the past year, due to the conflict between Song and Jin in the Battle of Song and Xia, the conflict between Song and Jin affected the border trade between the two sides. This friction not only did not weaken, but instead became more and more intense, which had seriously affected both sides.

He said that, but Zhao Huan believed that Wanyan Zongpan had another purpose in coming to Tokyo City.

As for the specific purpose, Zhao Huan is unknown.

Maybe it was because of knowing one's enemies, or maybe it was because it was about knowing what the Song Dynasty traded with Japan and Goryeo.

February is the season for apricot blossoms. Tokyo has already seen the shadow of spring, and the willow trees by the river have begun to sprout new buds.

The temperature also began to warm up slowly.

A team of Jurchens headed from the north and south. Their arrival attracted the attention of everyone in Tokyo City.

ps: The author has been drinking today, only two chapters... I am no longer awake now
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