Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"Your Highness, I have now placed all these newly arrived Buddhist convicts here, dividing them into several cells, with alarm bells and two sets of gates, one inside and one outside..."

Hequ County.

Hou Qianya earnestly explained to Li Chengqian the prison for convicts in Hequ County, which had been rebuilt and reinforced over the past half month.

Looking at the layout of the prison, which was similar to that of later generations, with cells separated by partitions and equipped with iron bars, I saw that the layout was similar to that of prisons in later generations.

Li Chengqian nodded in satisfaction.

Not only were there inner and outer layers, but the outer layer was the garrison of the Bingzhou New Army, with soldiers specifically responsible for guarding it every day.

Inside the prison, there were also prison guards patrolling.

Li Chengqian nodded in satisfaction.

"I am not worried about the prison here falling into disarray. What I am curious about now is... Qianya, how do you plan to manage these prisoners? You know, these bald monks are all worthless. We have killed batch after batch, but it is not certain that the new batch will behave."

Hear the words.

Hou Qianya, who volunteered to take charge of managing the prisons for convicts along the river in Hequ County, smiled slightly.

They led Li Chengqian to a prison cell.

There were ten people locked up in the prison.

At this moment, separated by the fence, under the cold gaze of several Bingzhou New Army soldiers behind Li Chengqian, if these men did anything wrong, their muskets could instantly riddle them with bullets.

"Your Highness, please look. I have divided these people into groups of ten. From now on, we will assign them the daily workload. If even one person fails to meet the target, the entire prison will be fasted for one day."

"If the target is not met on the second day, continue fasting."

"Those who fail to meet the standard within three days will all be executed."

Fang Yi'ai, who was standing beside him, swallowed hard, not daring to look at Hou Qianya at that moment.

I just feel that the so-called female demon nickname in Chang'an is actually a bit too elegant when applied to her.

however.

Upon hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded in satisfaction.

"That's right, that's how it should be. They're just death row inmates anyway. The fact that they're still alive is already a huge blessing. They'll trade their lives for it. There will always be plenty of worthless people in this world!"

Upon receiving Li Chengqian's praise, Hou Qianya couldn't help but smile.

Suddenly, he took a bag off his waist from behind.

"In addition to these, I have also devised other measures for dealing with those convicts who dare to talk back or resist the overseers... Your Highness, please take a look."

Li Chengqian looked down at the contents of the other person's bag.

Slightly raised an eyebrow: "Go pieces?"

Hou Qianya's spirited and strikingly beautiful face revealed a smile.

Take the Go stones out of your pocket.

There are ten in total, nine white and one black.

"Your Highness, if any criminals commit the crimes I just mentioned, the entire group will draw chess pieces from this bag. The nine who draw the white piece will have the criminal who draws the black piece beaten to death with wooden sticks..."

"hiss!!!"

Fang Yi'ai gasped, noticing Hou Qianya's cold glance, and immediately shuddered.

"Huh? This awful place has so many mosquitoes... *smack*"

Li Chengqian ignored the man's reaction, but instead picked up a chess piece with a puzzled look in his eyes as he looked at Hou Qianya.

"Your Highness, if you feel it's inappropriate, you can change it... This humble general just feels that this will have a stronger deterrent effect on these convicts, making them work obediently..."

Li Chengqian chuckled softly and shook his head.

"Why are you so nervous? I didn't say anything... I'm just curious, how did you come up with these methods? Did someone tell you anything?"

After hearing Hou Qianya mention this punishment, Li Chengqian...

The first thing that came to mind was a form of punishment that I had heard about in my previous life, which was said to have been used in the military during the ancient Roman period.

Eleven-draw kill rule!

It's also a black and white stone. The person who draws it alone, regardless of whether the other person is cowardly on the battlefield, will have to accept being surrounded and killed by the other nine people.

The nine people who killed their companions will be demoted to even lower ranks.

Extremely cruel.

However, the effect was surprisingly good. Even the most cowardly soldiers, knowing they couldn't win, would charge forward like madmen at that point...

Hou Qianya shook her head: "These are all things that I came up with myself."

Li Chengqian's gaze towards the other party clearly showed even greater appreciation.

"Alright, in that case, your military post at Yanmen Pass will be officially transferred to my Bingzhou New Army, where you will serve as the chief prisoner of the convicts along the Yellow River water conservancy project, assisting in the completion of the Yellow River water conservancy project..."

Li Chengqian was giving Hou Qianya some instructions.

As they walked out of the prison, a fast horse suddenly came galloping up.

"Your Highness, General Jing Junhong has sent an urgent letter from Yangcheng Palace, saying it is a message from Lord Changsun via carrier pigeon!"

Li Chengqian frowned.

They were so anxious that they couldn't wait for me to return to Taiyuan Prefecture, and instead sent someone directly...

It seems they've found something.

Li Chengqian took the letter, and Hou Qianya, Fang Yi'ai, and the others quickly turned their heads to the side, their backs to Li Chengqian, and stared at their surroundings.

The letter paper was very thin.

However, the content above is explosive enough.

Even Li Chengqian himself couldn't help but shrink his pupils when he saw what was written in the letter.

He couldn't help but let out a soft "Eh."

"Tsk tsk tsk... This really made me laugh..."

Li Chengqian sneered and shook his head.

He read the contents of the letter several times, and he read the confession of Wei Ting in it very carefully.

"Your Highness, has something happened?"

Hearing the noise, Hou Qianya turned around and saw Li Chengqian had finished reading the letter. She couldn't help but ask with some concern.

Hear the words.

Li Chengqian chuckled and waved his hand.

"It's alright, it's just that there are some self-important fools who think they can manipulate the world with a few unorthodox methods, trying to make me believe that the head I cut off and used as a football was a fake!"

"Ha! Do you think I don't know whether that head is real or not?"

He shook his head, initially thinking that there was some incredibly powerful figure attempting to secretly overthrow the world.

I never expected it to start strong but end so weakly.

Somewhat disheartened, he returned to the carriage and instructed the caravan to return to Taiyuan Prefecture.

Hou Qianya and the others were left behind, looking completely bewildered.

On top of the carriage.

Li Chengqian sipped the tea that Qian Yingying had brewed for him, making a smacking sound as he drank.

"Uncle, oh uncle, there are still people saying you're not dead, haha..."

"If you really are not dead, how happy I would be... I am now the Crown Prince, but what does it feel like to kill the Crown Prince... I am really curious."

Li Chengqian looked at his hand, which he didn't know how many people he had killed, and muttered to himself.

The carriage wheels whirred and turned.

In Chang'an, Li Shimin was looking at a skeleton that had indeed been shot in the chest by an arrow, and he was filled with self-doubt. Could it be that the person he killed back then was not Crown Prince Li Jiancheng?

Is there really someone in the world who looks exactly like my elder brother, has the same voice, and is even so similar that I dare to send him to the palace to meet the Emperor?

Meanwhile, in the middle of the night, a caravan of carriages was traveling from Yanmen County to Taiyuan Prefecture.

As Li Chengqian was holding a candle and looking at a report on the construction of Chishui City and Qinghai City, a voice suddenly rang in his mind.

[Ding! You have completed 1500 years of your first civilization simulation. You are rewarded with five draws for civilization-related products.]

【Do you want to draw now? 】