Chapter 368: Traitors Must Be Shot

Wei Guoyong is a typical farmer's son. He is 20 years old this year. After joining the army, he became a platoon leader of the Royal Third Division because of his outstanding performance in training. He has dozens of soldiers under him.

Before he joined the army, his family arranged several marriages for him, but they all fell through because his family was too poor and the women despised him. After becoming a platoon leader, his military pay and benefits have been greatly improved, and his family's living environment has also improved a lot. Many people came to propose marriage, including the families that he despised before.

Perhaps Wei Guoyong started to get a little arrogant after becoming a platoon leader. He looked down on the girls in the village and wanted to marry a gentle, virtuous, well-educated and well-mannered young lady to tell those who despised him at the beginning that he, Wei Guoyong, has a promising future.

You ignored me at the beginning, but today I will make you unable to reach him.

For this ambition, he usually trained hard, his performance became better and better, and he got more and more rewards. However, after he had some money in his pocket, he began to be restless.

Because of his excellent training results, he often received rewards such as silver, and had a day or two of vacation. In the previous vacations, he bought some things to go home to visit his parents and brothers and sisters, and then began to go to the tavern alone to drink and enjoy.

Perhaps it was a destined fate. Once when he went out for a drink, Wei Guoyong saw a few gangsters molesting a young and pretty official lady Luo Qiaoling on the street. He took action and beat the gangsters away, and also won the favor of Miss Luo.

Luo Qiaoling is beautiful and gentle. She is the fairy who does not eat incense in Wei Guoyong's mind. Her every frown and smile hooked his soul away.

The subsequent two unexpected encounters made Wei Guoyong more and more convinced that Luo Qiaoling was the wife assigned to him by God.

After the two unexpected encounters, the two began to date, and then they rolled in the sheets uncontrollably, and then they were caught in bed by Luo Qiaoling's father Luo Renjie.

Under Luo Renjie's coercion and inducement, Wei Guoyong became Luo Renjie's running dog, and of course, he also became the prospective son-in-law of the Luo family. What was missing was just a wedding ceremony.

The Luo family was also a famous aristocratic family in the capital. Wei Guoyong became the prospective son-in-law of the Luo family, and he had a lot of money in his pocket to squander.

According to Luo Renjie's instructions, Wei Guoyong often invited several comrades in the army who were easy to talk to to drink, and slowly won them over. After being served by several young and beautiful dancers from the Luo family, these comrades, like Wei Guoyong, became the running dogs of the Luo family.

Like winning over and bribing officers and soldiers of the new army like Wei Guoyong, it happened every day. If it weren't for the recent preparations for war, the time was tight, the training was strict and busy, and the soldiers were forbidden to go out, I don't know how many officers and soldiers would fall into the trap.

This kind of buying people's hearts was originally very secretive, but as more officers and soldiers were bought, the secret was inevitably leaked.

When Jinyiwei Commander Tian Boguang received the secret report, he shivered with fear and his face turned pale. He did not dare to hesitate and immediately went to the palace to report to the emperor.

Looking at the list of up to 27 people in his hand, Zhu Youjian's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. This list was only a small part of the people he knew about. There were probably more people who had not yet been exposed.

"Keep close surveillance on me." He gritted his teeth and ordered. All the officers and soldiers on the list were from poor families. He gave them such good treatment, which greatly improved the living conditions of their families, but these people still couldn't resist the temptation and betrayed him. They should be killed!

In order to cast a long line to catch big fish, he could only endure it temporarily and wait until the time was right to close the net. However, he was very unhappy if he didn't chop off some people's heads. He was very unhappy.

It was necessary to kill one person to deter some people, and to warn all officers and soldiers that betrayal meant death, and it was not just as simple as losing their heads. Their families were also implicated, cursed by neighbors, and carried a lifetime of infamy.

"Your Majesty, I think we can secretly arrest a few of them." Song Xiance, one of the three imperial military advisers, stroked his beard and offered a suggestion.

Just make up a fake mission, send people out, and then secretly arrest and interrogate them. When the evidence is solid, close the net, publicly try and execute them, the warning and deterrence effect is great.

Since the emperor held that public trial, Song Xiance, Wu Buwei, and Gu Junming, the three imperial military advisers, all felt that this public trial was a powerful tool to win people's hearts and must be used.

"Then let's go with the Luo family, the Luo family is rich."

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