Qiming 1158

Chapter 1167 Let them not be forgotten
In response to the trial of the century, when Su Yonglin held a joint meeting of the three companies, he only made one request.

"The damage caused by the Zhao Song royal family to the people of the world will not end with just one generation of atonement. Killing them all will be cheap for them. My opinion is from the two brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi to Zhao Tan. , according to their kinship, they have passed down the throne for eight generations in total.

Therefore, at the moment, this group of sons and daughters of the royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasty have to pay the same price. From the beginning of them, counting down to eight generations, they all have to do hard labor, the hardest and most tiring hard labor, to serve the country and the people. If it can be passed down to eight generations, then by the time of the ninth generation, the body of freedom will be restored. "

The officials of the Third Division had no opinion on Su Yonglin's opinion, because according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for officials who committed crimes and those who committed the most heinous crimes was quite severe.

It’s not enough to be severely punished for yourself, but also to bring disaster to your descendants. Two or three generations of people suffer even less. Moreover, even if there is an amnesty, this criminal group is definitely not within the scope of the amnesty. This law is an iron law, no matter what. Changes are not allowed.

Two or three generations can basically take away a large number of families and cut off their inheritance, not to mention the strict criminalization of eight consecutive generations.

This can almost take away the entire Zhao Song royal family in one wave, making them in fact cut off their inheritance.

But no one thought it was wrong to do so.

Otherwise, the thousands of beings who were killed by the rupture of the Sanyi Huihe and the Yellow River would probably have troubled them in their sleep.

Their own sins, they need to bear by themselves.

Clear up to the end, never forgive.

There are a large number of children of the Zhao and Song royal families. By mid-November, when they basically arrived, the number had exceeded 3000.

On November 25th, a collective public trial meeting was held in Zhongdu. The children of the Zhao Song royal family were sentenced according to their official position, property, type of work, and whether they had criminal records.

Those with lesser guilt were assigned to labor reformation workshops in the mainland to participate in labor reformation, and used labor to atone for their sins.

Those with heavier culpability were incorporated into the newly established hard labor system. They belonged to the first batch of criminals who rushed up to do dirty work and dangerous work. They were a new group of people set up by Su Yonglin. They were all corrupt officials, major criminals and criminals. their descendants.

They will be assigned to the border states of the Ming Dynasty to participate in various hard labors such as city wall construction, road construction and water conservancy maintenance. Wherever there is hard labor, they will be recruited to work in the first place, and then the hired migrant workers and recruited troops will be recruited. .

From now on, they will be far away from wealth, honor and glory, away from their so-called noble blood, and become prisoners under the order. Their footprints will travel all over the land of the Ming Dynasty, contributing their labor to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the happy life of the people, until they die. .

Those with heavier culpability, the sons and daughters of the Zhao and Song clan who committed crimes such as abusing the people and scrutinizing human life will be publicly executed. After a public trial, they will be publicly executed, not in Zhongdu, but in the Huangfan District of the year, when the Song rulers committed crimes. A public trial was held where the sin was committed, and then he was hanged on the spot.

As the first offender, Zhao Tan and his co-conspirator Yu Yunwen were sentenced to death for the crime of conspiring to destroy the Yellow River dam. The two were locked in a prison car and taken to Huazhou, where the waters are the most violent and the most dangerous in the lower Yellow River.

They were arranged for a public trial in the slippery state and then hanged outright.

After being hanged, the bodies of the two were burned, and then their bones were smashed and ashes were thrown into the water of the Yellow River.

It is worth mentioning that before he was hanged, Zhao Chan looked at the people in the Central Plains who were furious and furious on and off the stage, and the rope that tied his neck tightly, collapsed, and then cried, crying like a mess. , the dignity that has been forcibly insisted on collapsed at this moment.

Yu Yunwen's expression was sluggish from beginning to end, his eyes were dull, and he didn't say a word. He only sighed when Zhao Tan collapsed because of fear and finally burst into tears.

After being executed, Zhao Tan and Yu Yunwen's plot to destroy the Yellow River dam was erected in the form of an inscription on the side of the Yellow River dam in Huazhou. For what crime was the emperor hanged here.

All places where the Zhao and Song clans were executed in a centralized manner have been erected as a biography as usual, and the reasons for what they committed and why they were executed were written down as an eternal memorial.

Thousands of souls who have been unjustly died cannot be resurrected, and what future generations can do is to keep them from being forgotten.

The family tree of emperors and generals does not commemorate them, people should commemorate them in their own way, which is the brilliance of humanism.

During the entire trial process, only one of the sons of the Zhao Song royal family received a slightly more lenient trial.

This is the family branch of the late Zongzheng Qing Zhao Shi of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The reason why this group of people received special treatment is because Zhao Shi made a political mistake by standing up for Yue Fei's injustice in Yue Fei's injustice case, and using the lives of a family of [-] to vouch for Yue Fei.

For this reason, Zhao Shi’s family was politically attacked by Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, and the entire family was moved to Fuzhou to live. He himself finally died in depression. division.

Because of this past incident, the three divisions are open to this branch of the royal family and deal with it leniently.

Su Yonglin ordered his family to guard the tomb for Yue Fei on behalf of the Zhao Song royal family, and served as a staff member in the soon-to-be-built General Yue Memorial Temple, passing on the duty of guarding the tomb and the memorial temple from generation to generation, as the Zhao Song royal family's insignificant compensation to Yue Fei.

The grand trial took more than a month to complete the sentence. During this period, the people of Zhongdu came to wave after wave to witness the trial of the century against the Zhao Song royal family. The trial of the royal family is a front page headline in Zhongdu City.

And those clan children who were brought to the public trial in Huangfan District also caused a sensation among the local people.

The crowd watching their trial was three floors and three floors outside. The crowd was crowded and dark, and it was full of people at a glance.

The local revival organization took the opportunity to carry out a wave of political history lectures, to publicize to the public what mistakes these sons and daughters of the Zhao Song clan did, what evil they did, and why they were publicly tried and hanged in public.

This wave of propaganda worked very well.

Anyway, these villains were fortunate enough to enjoy the baptism of throwing weapons such as rotten eggs and rotten vegetables before they were hanged, and they also exuded an unbearable stench at the last moment of their lives.

After the grand trial, the fate of the other sons of the Zhao Song clan has been determined, and there is nothing else to do, just wait for the punishment.

Except for Zhao Gou.

As the most politically significant political offender, Su Yonglin's treatment of Zhao Gou is different from his treatment of others.

(End of this chapter)