"Just now, I asked those citizens, and they said the shouting old man was an old General who fought alongside the Founding Emperor. Now that the Founding Emperor has passed away and the New Emperor has ascended, he fabricated grave charges against the old General. These crimes implicated nine generations, so all these people have been brought here for execution as a public spectacle."
Upon hearing this, Little Taotie was incredulous: "Is such a thing possible? Did the Founding Emperor have only this one bad son? Was there no other son to inherit the throne? Why choose him?"
Feng Qi: "Isn't the priority now to save these people?"
Because there were too many people being brought for execution, and with limited executioners, they carried out the beheadings in batches. The first to lose his head was that old General, followed by his wife and children, then his siblings, all direct relatives, and then the extended family...
