Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 432, head rolling

At Caishikou in the capital city, a row of prisoners knelt down on the ground. Beside the prisoners, the executioner, who was wearing red clothes, a red scarf, and holding a ghost-headed sword, was quietly waiting.

"That person is Li Gao, the commander-in-chief of the South Route Army, the one who killed the good and pretended to be meritorious, he was so bold that he killed thousands of people in a small town in one night, it is not an exaggeration , he should be sentenced to Ling Chi, it is really cheap for him to be cut with a knife."

"That's right, such a dog official should be killed. Unfortunately, I thought he was a hero and could kill a tartar. I didn't expect such a person to be killed!"

"Putting the three clans is considered cheap for him, and it is His Majesty's kindness, otherwise the nine clans should be punished."

"..."

Before the noon market arrived, countless spectators had gathered here at Caishikou. Since Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, capital punishment was rarely used, and few people were beheaded at Caishikou.

Even in the last official warehouse theft case, except for a very few leaders, most of the people implicated were not sentenced to death, and they were basically exiled for three thousand miles. generosity and kindness.

But this time, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to kill people, not one or two, but batch after batch, and the first one was Li Gao.

As the commander-in-chief of the South Route Army, Li Gao's crimes of embezzlement of military pay, reselling of military supplies, private use of domestic slaves and many other crimes are enough to kill people.

People pretending to be Tartars slaughtered thousands of people in a small town overnight, and then disguised these thousands of people as Tartars to defraud huge rewards.

Killing the good and taking the merits, and killing thousands of people, this crime is too serious, enough to punish the nine clans, but Emperor Hongzhi didn't have too much involvement here, he just ordered the three clans to be punished.

At this time, Li Gao's family consisted of dozens of people, all of them were wearing prison clothes and their hair was disheveled. The women were crying constantly, while the men's faces were ashen and their eyes were lifeless.

Especially Li Gao, who was conferred the title of uncle not long ago and got a promotion, he can be described as a prosperous man, but who knew that in the blink of an eye, he would become a prisoner without being happy for a few days, and he would also be punished by the three clans.

Life is like a play, and the situation changes, but nothing more.

"Dog officer~"

I don't know who threw a rotten egg at Li Gao. Immediately, the melon-eating crowd watching around began to express their inner dissatisfaction with the things in their hands.

Rotten eggs, stones, rotten vegetables, rotten radishes, stinky salted fish, etc. All kinds of things kept calling Li Gao, making him extremely embarrassed, but he didn't hide.

Now that he was able to finish it with a single knife, he felt very lucky. With his crime, even betraying Ling Chi was nothing more than a crime.

On the other side, on the supervisory platform, Li Dongyang and Zhang Mao were responsible for the supervisory execution. At this time, both of them were expressionless, and they did not intend to stop the angry crowd from throwing things to vent.

Li Gao really deserves to die, ten thousand times of death is not enough, being thrown something, and then a quick knife, it is considered cheap for him.

"When the time comes~"

"cut!"

Soon, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Dongyang dropped the token coldly.

The executioners picked up a bowl of wine one after another, took a sip, and sprayed it on the ghost knife. Then they pulled off the brand on the prisoner's back, raised the knife and dropped it, dozens of people fell to the ground, and blood flowed from the scene.

"Good~"

"Good kill."

The people who ate melon immediately applauded one after another, which was really satisfying.

The next day, it was still here at Caishikou.

Again there were dozens of people, this time it was Liu Yu's family from the Eastern Route Army, Liu Yu also committed a lot of crimes, besides not committing crimes, he also set up a private horse market, a private slave market, collusion between officials and businessmen , the imperial court strictly forbids the sale of goods to the grasslands.

Any one of them is enough to make other people's heads fall, and all the crimes added up, Emperor Hongzhi directly gave him a punishment of the three clans.

On the third day, it was still here at Caishikou. This time there were more people. There were hundreds of people.

These people were charged with embezzlement and bribery, withholding military pay, embezzling public funds and many other crimes. They were all sentenced to death by Emperor Hongzhi and executed together.

Hundreds of people, hundreds of heads fell to the ground, and the entire Caishikou was filled with a strong smell of blood. The soil under the Caishikou guillotine turned red and black, and too much, too much blood had seeped into it.

On the fourth day, more people were executed on this day, with a total of thousands of people.

Most of the people executed in this batch were businessmen. Some businessmen only resold military supplies, and their crimes were relatively minor. Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi was only sentenced to death and ransacked his home.

Some merchants, such as the Shanxi merchants who were detected this time, not only resold military supplies, but also colluded with the frontier army to sell ironware, salt, tea, grain, etc., which were strictly prohibited by the imperial court, to the grasslands.

What's even more detestable is that some of these Shanxi merchants colluded with the enemy and treasoned the country, spied on and sold military information to the grassland Tartars, and tipped off the grassland Tartars.

Of course, it wasn't just this time. In the past, when the Tartars went south, these Shanxi merchants made a lot of money.

While informing the Tartars, they did business with the Tartars. The gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc. that the Tartars robbed were basically in their hands, in exchange for food, ironware, intelligence, etc. in their hands.

It can be said that in the past, the Tartars were able to go south many times, and each time they were successful, a very important reason was that these Shanxi merchants were collaborating with the enemy and treason, full of the Tartars' insiders, and sometimes even directly helped the Tartars to bribe the frontier soldiers, and gave the Tatars Zizi opened the country's gates and defense lines, and let the Tartars in to loot wantonly.

When these things were found out, Emperor Hongzhi was furious, and directly sentenced these Shanxi merchants to exterminate the nine clans for collaborating with the enemy and treason. Several large families of Shanxi merchants were arrested. Guillotine.

Thousands of heads fell to the ground, and blood flowed like a river at Caishikou. The strong smell of blood lingered for a long time, so that even the people who ate melons were afraid to come to watch the excitement. Too many people were killed.

However, this is not over yet, and Emperor Hongzhi's anger has not been extinguished.

The entire government and the opposition, at this time all the ministers were silent like cicadas, and everyone was afraid of being killed. No one thought that the good old Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man who could even forgive his own mortal enemy, would go on a killing spree.

In just a few days, thousands of heads have fallen, and half of the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War have been killed. In addition, Shangshu Zhou Jing of the Ministry of Accounting and Ma Wensheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, were also imprisoned in the prison. , so neither the Ministry of Households nor the Ministry of War can operate normally.

If many officials were placed in the past, at most they would be exiled to Yunguang, and even as long as someone speaks for you, they can retire on their own initiative and go back to their hometown to enjoy a happy old age.

But this time it was different. Emperor Hongzhi who was murderous, as long as he was implicated in the case, his head would fall to the ground at the least, or his home would be ransacked, or even the three clans would be exterminated.

Above the court, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian also tried to remonstrate with Emperor Hongzhi, but even Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was reprimanded by Emperor Hongzhi, because Liu Yu was a fellow of Liu Jian. After the investigation of the factory guard, This Liu Yu and Liu Jian are very important, and they have given Liu Jian a lot of gifts before, and Liu Jian strongly recommended Liu Yu's ability to be a trilateral leader.

From here alone, it can be seen how extensively the case has been implicated, even Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, has been implicated.

If it hadn't been for the fact that Emperor Hongzhi thought that Liu Jian was his teacher and had assisted him for many years, and had nothing to do with the case, Emperor Hongzhi might have even killed Liu Jian.

The ministers of the court and the central government all have unclean buttocks, at least similar to Liu Jian, accepting Xiao Jing from the officials below, this is an unspoken rule that everyone in the officialdom tacitly agrees to.

It's fine in normal times, but at this time, everyone is in danger, and no one dares to provoke Emperor Hongzhi at this time. Not everyone is like Liu Jian, they are all Liu Jian's teachers, and Emperor Hongzhi still reads Affection.

A few ignorant censors advised Emperor Hongzhi, thinking that Emperor Hongzhi killed too much and hurt the peace of heaven. They even thought that Emperor Hongzhi would listen to them as before, and scolded Emperor Hongzhi severely. .

Emperor Hongzhi resolutely allowed them to do so, and asked the factory guards to conduct a random search, and found several crimes easily, and sent them to the guillotine at Caishikou.

From then on, no one dared to say a word, everyone was worried, for fear of being involved in themselves, no one dared to speak out, and could only watch the heads rolling, constantly worried and frightened.

　Well, to establish prestige, the next step is to directly regain military power.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)