Chapter 79 Judgment Time
When the final moment of judgment arrives, the market trip is almost over.
In fact, not only the villages where the "contract" was signed, but also the surrounding villages that belonged to other tax collectors' areas, many people came to watch the fun.
After all, such a lively gathering is not common, and the story of a tax collector losing his head is something they have never heard of in their past lives.
For these oppressed people, cutting off the heads of tax collectors is like a holiday. It is worth putting down their work and walking a few miles, ten miles, or even twenty miles. Come and see the excitement.
As the time approached, nearly all the people participating in the public trial arrived.
In the open space in front of the high platform of Shaiguchang, a platform had already been set up. Ahmed, his eldest son, and some other soldiers were pushed up.
Some of those soldiers were private soldiers of the Ahmed family. In the past, when Ahmed bullied men and women, they also committed murders.
As for the others, they were the soldiers who had followed Eric and massacred the town of Alhadi. These soldiers not only obeyed orders and participated in the massacre, but also robbed, raped, and took human lives in private.
These people, after prosecution by the family of the deceased and investigation and evidence collection, had already determined that they would be sentenced to death.
Most of these people were frightened and extremely scared, but they didn't have anything blocked in their mouths.
Only Ahmed was twisting and twisting, resisting the escort from behind, and a piece of cloth was stuffed in his mouth, making him unable to speak.
Compared with others, Ahmed seems to be particularly resistant to death and has unspeakable grievances.
Even his son standing next to him showed a rather bold feeling of willing to die generously.
Except for these two guys who were unwilling to bow their heads, the soldiers on the side were all paralyzed as mud.
Let them raise their weapons and aim at the unarmed people. Each of these guys is more energetic than the other, but when the reincarnation of good and evil brings good rewards, that is to beg grandpa to sue grandma, and they want to live no matter what.
Originally, they still had illusions. After all, they had been digging for two months. They thought they would be able to live their lives like this.
In fact, before they were put on this stage, they all felt lucky, feeling that they were just accompanying the tax collector and his son.
But when they saw some familiar faces in the audience, and felt the pressure of wordless silence, many people on the stage knew something was wrong.
And when Simon's attendants circled an open space in front of the high platform and let the families of the victims walk to the high platform, many of these people were even more ugly, and all their strength was exhausted.
Garris personally presided over this trial. Although the charges and punishments of many people have already been determined, if you want to use sinners as burnt offerings, you will definitely need more people to participate.
The first step is, of course, the victim’s complaint.
Perhaps the Franks cannot understand Arabic and the Arabs cannot understand Frank, but the simplest feelings are common.
When those old events were uncovered, all the people present felt sad. These victims or their families are a reflection of their miserable lives.
A lord like Leonard is aloof and out of reach in daily life. The farmers may beautify it based on their simple feelings.
But tax collectors like Ahmed live among them, devouring beasts and corrupt officials.
In a world where eating or being eaten, there has never been a scene like this that allows nearby farmers to vent the anger that has been pent up in their hearts for a long time.
When the successive identifications were over, Garris loudly announced to the people present, first in Frankish and then in Arabic. Make sure that everyone present can hear his words clearly and understand that the sufferings suffered by each other are not differentiated by language or race.
"Everyone! Death, bloodshed, strife, swords, oppression, famine, hardship, and whippings, all this comes because of sinners. Because of them, there have been great floods in this world, and then there will be more judgments."
"Evil people like Ahmed, when they plunder your wealth, have they ever distinguished the difference between each other's words? They are like greedy devils, tirelessly plundering all wealth."
"You need to know that everything that comes from the earth will return to the earth; everything that comes from the water will return to the sea. All bribes and ill-gotten gains will be lost."
"The wealth of the unjust is like a stream that must dry up, and like a thunder in the rain that will disappear as soon as it blows."
"Those who are rich and unkind will suddenly perish just when they are happy, because there is no other fate for the wicked!"
"What do you think?"
When Garris told the fate of the sinner, countless people in the audience expressed their expectations.
"Kill him!"
"Burn them!"
"Hang!"
"Hang!"
"Behead!"
The embankment that blocked the flood collapsed. When thousands of people became emotional, anger spread throughout the world.
And like Zeid, the witness on the side, when he looked at Gairis on the stage to mobilize people's emotions, he suddenly returned to the scene he saw in his dream.
Someone leads an army, sweeps away everything in the world, and hunts down kings with swords and bows.
But is this person in front of me the savior Mahdi, or the antichrist Dajjal?
After all, the order of the earth has long since collapsed, so someone needs to stand up and rebuild it? Or is it because of the arrival of humans that the sacred order on earth will collapse? !
Zaid couldn't help but panic when he thought of the doomsday prophecies made by Garris.
Could it be that in a few decades, the city of Baghdad will really be destroyed? Will the Wisdom Palace also be set on fire?
Even though Zaid, as a Shiite Muslim, did not recognize the pseudo-caliphate in Baghdad, he was still shocked by the tragic future in which tens of millions of people drowned in a sea of blood.
If you want to know the accuracy of the prediction made by Garris, it should be enough to wait until next year.
After all, Gehrys also made another prediction, that the holy city of Jerusalem, which had been lost for 87 years, would soon return to the embrace of the Muslim world.
But, is that really a good thing? Should we be grateful?
If it is proven that Garris does have the ability to predict the future, wouldn't it mean that there is really a [Great Flood] brewing?
Doesn’t it mean that when the Islamic world washes away its old shame, recaptures the holy city, and returns to its glorious age, it will not be long before it faces the real [Doomsday]?
The glorious golden law of Islam must be shattered! No one is king in this borderland of the Arabian Peninsula!
Second update, I will continue to rub the rest of the article to see how much I can get out today
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