The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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The whole city of Yangzhou was already a sensation, without the government issuing a notice, the common people already knew about the execution of the criminals in Yangzhou by the emperor's brigadier.high-speed update

Since then, the common people have spontaneously gathered on both sides of the street from the Fuya prison to Caishikou in Nancheng. People were very happy, and they took out the new clothes at the bottom of the box and changed into them. Some people bought hanging whips and cast them along the street. They covered their ears and laughed, as if the New Year came early.

The entire Yangzhou Xiang army was mobilized. Thousands of soldiers stood along the street at five steps, one post at ten steps, and one sentry post. Special personnel even used lime powder to draw white lines on both sides of the street, beat gongs to announce discipline, and warned the people to act as prison cars passed by. It is not allowed to exceed the warning range of the white line by one step, otherwise what will happen.

180 cavalry soldiers took the responsibility of escorting the prisoners. Although dozens of cavalry soldiers had to ride the inferior horses temporarily bought by Su Jin to make up for the number, it did not affect the tall and mighty image of the horse troops at all; Next, the prisoner, together with Feng Jingyao and 52 death row prisoners under his command, were escorted into the prison van and began to parade through the streets.

A yamen gate of the convoy went south to the main road, and the people on both sides exploded. Rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, mud balls, and even stinky dog ​​feces were thrown on the prison car. The density was no less than that of Japanese bombing pearls. Hong Kong; none of the 52 prison vehicles was spared, and the people in the vehicles were almost submerged by sundries.

The soldiers of the horse army were originally guarding on both sides with bright armor, so they were inevitably caught in this situation.

Su Jin, Ouyang Xiu and Song Xiang rode at the end of the team. Seeing that the people were so excited, they felt a little inappropriate. If this continues, these people will be crushed to death before they reach the execution ground.

Ouyang Xiu looked at Su Jin and said, "Special Envoy Su has a high prestige among the people of Yangzhou, please go and persuade him."

Song Xiang said: "I am afraid that persuasion will not work, so I ordered the Xiang soldiers to arrest the worst quarrel, and use a whip to teach them a lesson, and it will naturally stop."

Su Jin and Ouyang Xiu looked at Song Xiang with contempt in their eyes, Ouyang Xiu sighed: "Prefect Song, today is a day when the common people feel proud. I am really surprised that you can make such a suggestion."

Song Xiang hurriedly shut up, it's better to be clumsy than to show ugliness, too many words will make mistakes, and after a few days of hard thinking and meditation, he learned a lesson, so he couldn't help but speak again, it's really cheap.

Su Jin smiled and said, "I'll try it."

After finishing speaking, he urged his horse forward, rushed past the prison cart, and said loudly: "Everyone, stop first, and listen to what I, Su Jin, have to say."

The people smashed up, and a piece of mud hit Su Jin's nose impartially, and blood flowed out; someone shouted: "That's Su Qingtian, who the hell doesn't have eyes, why did you throw it on him? It's just outrageous."

"Whoever smashed it, get out!" Someone yelled.

A frail young man whispered cautiously: "Yes... the little one missed."

"Fuck you, you must belong to Feng Jingyao's group, and you took the opportunity to make trouble..." Several big men waved their fists and greeted the young man, who quickly squatted down with his head in his hands.

"Stop!" Su Jin hurriedly shouted loudly.

With such an effort, the blood in the nose flowed faster, and hurriedly took out the mandarin duck silk handkerchief embroidered by Huanniang for herself to wipe, and after thinking about it, she stuffed it into her pocket again, feeling a bit reluctant; After cleaning it with a snort, he clasped his hands and said, "Everyone! I know you hate these scumbags deeply, and I understand your feelings; but beheading criminals is a major official business, if you accidentally smash these criminals to death, The imperial court will definitely blame you and others, and I, Ouyang Zhongcheng, and Song Zhifu will all be punished; moreover, they will all be beheaded, and this last section of the road will let them walk safely and die. Xiao Xiao, no matter how bad their deeds are, they have paid for their crimes with their lives, why don't we be a little more tolerant?"

The common people felt that what Su Jin said made sense, they were going to have their heads cut off, why should they be so recalcitrant, some people hurriedly threw away the things they were about to throw out.

Seeing that there were still people holding rotten eggs in the mud, Su Jin cupped his hands again and said: "Today, the emperor valued me and ordered Ouyang Zhongcheng and I to be executed. You can see that I, Su Jin, have done something practical for the people of Yangzhou." For the sake of it, how about giving me a face and letting me finish this errand properly? To tell you the truth, I haven't been home to see my mother for half a year. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, I just want to focus on this last Is it too much to ask for an errand to go home and spend time with the old mother? If you really feel that you still don’t feel relieved, then you can throw it at me, whatever you want to relieve your anger, I have no complaints.”

Someone in the crowd was actually tearful by Su Jin's words.

"It's not easy for Su Qingtian. He has done so many good things for the people of Yangzhou. It can be said that Su Qingtian saved the lives of more than half of the people in Yangzhou City. If we don't let Su Qingtian stop, are we still human?" Someone lost something in his hand.

"Yeah, we can't screw up Su Qingtian's errand, let the benefactor be punished, stop smashing things, let's scold him instead, scold anyone who has hatred in their hearts, anyway, these bastards have ears."

"Yes, yes, it's okay to scold their ancestors for eight generations, Su Qingtian, is it okay to scold people?"

Su Jin smiled and said, "Go ahead and scold in a tricky way, and the scolding should be more exciting."

The common people laughed and passed on the latest strategy to each other. They all became gentlemen from villains, and they only talked but didn't do anything.

Su Jin waved his hand, the prison car team continued to move forward, and he rode his horse back to the rear of the car. Ouyang Xiu pointed his thumb and said: "Good eloquence, move it with emotion and understand it with reason."

Su Jin smiled and said: "Your Excellency's praise is just to stain your ears. It's not nice to be insulted by the market."

Ouyang Xiu said: "It's good to vent your anger by cursing, these people have committed too many crimes, and there should be today."

Under the guidance of the new strategy, wherever the prison car went, the curses were loud, and the slang words in the market were naturally unbearable, but there were so many tricks, and Su Jin, a time traveler, did not find it filthy, but found it novel.

Although the scolding was loud, order was in order, and no one littered. The horsemen also regained their majestic momentum, raised their heads and rode their horses, rolling past guarding the prison carts.

Feng Jingyao on the prison car was smiling all over his face, he didn't look like he was going to die, this person was completely crazy; but at this moment, he was luckier to be crazy than not crazy, and look at the other people, all of them were full of mottled faces, and some of them were even shitting I couldn't help it; some of them really wanted to yell out what Su Jin and Ouyang Xiu had concealed, and some wanted to bluntly yell, 'Another hero after 18 years! Scenes like ', some even wanted to cry loudly and beg their mother for mercy, but unfortunately before getting in the car, he stuffed walnuts in his mouth, don't even talk at this moment, he can't even move his tongue a few times, it's all numb felt it.

All the way was bustling, the people followed the prison car, yelled and ran, traffic jams would occur from time to time, and the prison car stopped several times, and finally arrived at Caishikou of Nanmen at a quarter of noon.

The wooden platform has already been set up, and three tables are placed on the side of the wooden platform, which is the position of Ouyang Xiu, Song Xiang, and Su Jin. On the platform facing the table, there are six wooden pillars. Guillotine for beheading.

Since there were too many prisoners, it was impossible to put all of them on stage, so there were only six seats on the stage, which were reserved for Feng Jingyao and other main criminals, and the rest of them all knelt under the stage, and behind each stood a man holding a big knife. the executioner.

All the soldiers formed a large circle along the side of the stage, dancing wildly with bright knives, keeping the crowded people out of the circle. The Nanmen Caishi entrance is not a big place, but at this moment, there are 8 or [-] people surrounded densely. The trees and walls of the surrounding houses were all covered with people, and the heads and eyes of people were all black as far as the eye could see.

Ouyang Xiu took a seat behind the case in the middle, Su Jin and Song Xiang sat down on either side, and Ouyang Xiu picked up the token on the case and held it in his hand, saying: "The executioner is in place!"

The six big men with red cloth heads who were waiting under the stage strode up the wooden ladder and climbed onto the stage; each of them held a rusty thick-backed broadsword in their arms.

The six lined up and saluted Ouyang Xiu and Su Jin. Ouyang Xiu shouted: "Sharpen your knives with wine, everyone has worked hard today."

The six said in unison: "Don't worry, adults, my six brothers are not bad at craftsmanship."

Su Jin almost laughed out loud. It turned out that these six people were six brothers, and the six brothers were all executioners.

Ouyang Xiu shouted loudly: "Left and right! Bring prisoners Feng Jingyao, Guo Pinchao, Shen Dezhang, Zhou Zhe, Hou Shanrong... onto the stage!"

The soldiers of the horse army shouted and agreed, and in groups of two, they dragged the six people whose names had been called onto the stage like dead dogs, and tied them to the six pillars.

More than a dozen jars of spirits were also brought onto the stage. Each of the six executioners took a big bowl and filled it up. He took a big gulp and sprayed it on the blade, and brought the rest to the six prisoners and said, : "Drink it! It's less painful to go on the road drunk."

Except for Feng Jingyao, the other five people couldn't drink any more. They looked at Su Jin and Ouyang Xiu with vicious eyes, wanted to scold but couldn't, and made strange noises in the room.

"Please ask the prefect of Song Dynasty to verify the identity of the prisoners one by one, and execute the sentence immediately at [-]:[-] noon."

Su Jin said to Ouyang Xiu: "Lord Zhongcheng, please order, the sooner you understand, the sooner you will finish."

Ouyang Xiu said: "It's not yet three quarters in the afternoon, and the execution is unknown. We'd better wait for a while."

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