Chapter 43

On May 15th, it was sunny and breezy.

A stand was set up on a flat dam at the entrance of the east market in Licheng early on. There were a few chairs on the stand, and on the only table there were some things like command arrows used in the yamen.

There was a large space under the stage, which was guarded by hundreds of armed guards, separating the stand and the open space from the crowd.

In addition to hundreds of guards, more than 500 Licheng garrison soldiers were allowed to serve in the city today, mainly to maintain law and order in the East Market area.

Dozens of prison vans were parked along the road in the southwest direction of the East Market, and there were several prisoners in each prison van.

These criminals looked dumb, with obvious injuries all over their bodies, and most of them sat lifelessly in the car like dead people. A few had sad faces, not knowing whether it was regret or resentment, and even pain or tears streaming down their faces.

Since the morning, many ordinary people have come to the East Market, curious and honest to stay in the marked area, they know that hundreds of people will be executed here at noon today, and most of these people are officials.

Watching the excitement made most people forget the terrifying scene of beheading. Besides, killing so many people at one time is a new thing that has never happened in a century for the people of Licheng.

In addition to the people watching the excitement, there are actually many people who come from other cities in the crowd. These people are not watching the excitement but to witness the tragic death of their enemies. The ultimate catharsis.

All the survivors of the Lin family came, and they picked up stones and threw them at Zhang Kui's family in the prison car like crazy, and they didn't let Li Bing and others go. In the end, the soldiers in custody were worried that the prisoner would be crushed to death and delay the punishment later, so he came forward to stop it.

"Don't smash it, just make sense. Later, these principal culprits will either be Ling Chi or be cut in five pieces. The way of death is not worse than you stoned to death? Don't help!"

When the soldiers said this, these out-of-control talents calmed down. Thinking about it, wouldn't killing these beasts help them escape in advance? How can there be such a cheap thing!

So there was no commotion outside the prison car, and everyone in the car was waiting for the people in the car to be punished.

time flies.

According to the rules of the old Jing dynasty, public executions belonged to advertising the world, and they had to be upright and upright. Therefore, the time of execution was also particular. Generally, it was chosen at the time of the day when the yang energy was the most prosperous: noon.

At the beginning of noon now, Tang Qingyuan led the two trial hundred households and the remaining five generals from the General Banner Zhongxing Pengyue, Jiang Cheng, the Qianhu officer of the Qianhu Office of Fengri City, who came to supervise the execution, surrounded the stands.

The stand was not big enough to accommodate so many people. Except for the two hundred households brought by Jiang Cheng, the only one who could stand on stage to supervise the beheading in Licheng was Tang Qingyuan.

It wasn't that Tang Qingyuan was deliberately promoting Shen Hao's status, but that the supervision and execution were generally in the charge of the specific investigators, from the beginning to the end, how shameless it was to steal the limelight from his subordinates just for the sake of superficiality?

Shen Hao is full of energy today, he even removed the bandages on his shoulders and legs, changed into a brand new black robe of the General Banner, and also loosened a beautiful bun, which is very in line with the aesthetics of this world, it is completely the same face A resolute and heroic hero.

Under the sunlight at noon, an aura of uprightness emerged spontaneously from Shen Hao, and spread to the audience in an instant, making the common people who watched the excitement and the victims who came to witness the tragic death of their enemy calm down, watching with burning eyes. The chief banner officer standing in front of the table on the stage.

"I am ordered to execute two hundred and thirty-four criminals including Li Longcheng, Li Bing, Zhang Kui, and Zhang Hu. In order to rectify the law and uphold justice, the evil deeds committed by the criminals are made public. The first criminals Li Bing, Li Longcheng intends to assassinate the imperial court official."

Shen Hao used zhenqi to amplify the voice, announcing the crimes of these death row prisoners word by word, and the sound spread out and resounded throughout the East Market, ensuring that all the onlookers could hear clearly.

This is also a rule, let everyone know that the law is ruthless and cruel, and if you dare to commit crimes, you must be prepared to be severely punished by the law.

Deterrence is also an important effect of public execution.

After reading a large part of the crime, there was no sound below. Everyone was frightened by the actions of these death row prisoners, and immediately reacted with a burst of impotent rage. Fortunately, there are good officials like Shen Zongqi in this world. Otherwise, wouldn't the morals of the world be completely upside down?

"Kill them! Kill them!"

What is agitation? Now Shen Hao saw it.

Standing on the high platform, Shen Hao had a clear view of the audience. He could feel the anger and murderous intent of these ordinary people. When they gathered together, he, a monk at the sixth level of qi refining, felt a chill down his spine for a moment. .

"According to the law, the principal offenders Li Longcheng, Li Bing and others are now executed Ling Chi;

Then Shen Hao took out the Lingjian on the table, and with a thought, he asked Tang Qingyuan and Jiang Cheng, who were sitting upright behind him, to give Lingjian a "best red", so that the two bigwigs could also participate in this bloody performance.

This was something that Shen Hao thought of temporarily, and seeing Jiang Cheng and Tang Qingyuan's approving eyes, he knew that these two people should be very useful.

Holding the batch of red arrows obtained after flattering, Shen Hao threw it down the stage in a grand manner, and said loudly: "The accomplice first, then the principal offender, each proves that he is upright and executes the sentence one by one!"

There were more than 200 people, most of them were people from the former Jiazi Banner who was affected by Chiyu, and most of them were beheaded.

Ten people at a time, after verifying their bodies, the executioner shouted a chant, raised their knives together and cut them down together.

Swish Swish Swish neatly, the ten heads fell on the ground into the bamboo baskets that had been placed beforehand, so as to prevent them from rolling around and making it difficult to clean up.

The smell of blood began to disperse from the first wave, and quickly vomited the onlookers standing in the front. Human blood is much more stinky than animal blood.

Then there are those felons who have been cut in half. This group is relatively troublesome. After being cut in half, they will cry in pain for a long time before they die completely. During this period, the punishment did not stagnate, you just howled on the side, and continued to chop here.

When it was broken, most of the onlookers were induced to vomit.

In the end, the main culprit, Ling Chi, and the former victims crowded forward like crazy, all of them staring like knives, laughing and crying bitterly, and some even called out the names of their dead relatives and said that they would get their revenge.

The execution lasted from noon to Shenchu, a full hour and a half.

The stinky blood covered a large area, and because of the sunny day, a lot of it dried up and turned dark red, which made people dizzy.

The brave ones saw the end, and some timid ones fled early.

The people in the stands also left after the execution of the last principal offender, and the rest was to wait for those who hadn't died after being cut in half to die. At the same time, the attendants began to clean up the venue. The corpses were sent to the mass grave, and the ground had to be cleaned up quickly.

In this way, a mighty bloody performance came to an end.

However, Shen Hao still couldn't go home to rest, he was stopped by Tang Qingyuan, saying that Jiang Qianhu had something to talk to him.