"The problem was, those people he recruited after they gave him gifts barely knew how to do their jobs."
"Those who knew how to work but hadn't given gifts were saddled with more and more work."
"His subordinates were seething with complaints. Tang Baolun turned the entire Ministry of Justice into a foul miasma."
"When His Majesty saw the list of his crimes, he was so furious that he smashed his cup on the spot and issued an edict sentencing him to be cut in half at the waist. Even the crown prince's personal plea for mercy did no good."
Hearing this, Su Fei understood.
He stood up and straightened the front of his Flying Fish Robe.
"Understood. Gather twenty of our brothers and come with me to the execution ground to have a look. They're a second-rank minister and commanders of the Japanese pirates, after all. It'll probably be quite a spectacle, with plenty of spectators."
"As you command."
Zhang Lie immediately acknowledged the order and turned to arrange the men.
Su Fei picked up the saber on his desk and hung it at his waist, pondering.
Tang Baolun had taken bribes and perverted the law after gaining power, while Hojo Ogi and Takeda Nobuo had invaded Great Xuan and slaughtered its people. Today's sentence of being cut in half at the waist was no less than they deserved.
Soon, Su Fei led twenty Imperial Guards on horseback toward the South Market Execution Ground.
Before they arrived, they could already see from afar that people crowded around the execution ground. Voices roared like boiling water, and quite a few people held rotten vegetable leaves and eggs.
Judging by the scene, these people clearly hadn't come to treat them to a nice "last meal."
Su Fei and the Imperial Guards