Ming Dynasty: A mere unruly commoner is rebelling against the heaven?

Chapter 103: Skinned and Strawed, Lingchi Death, Immediate Execution! (Part )
At the Caishikou execution ground, Fei Ju, a doctor from the Ministry of Justice, had already received the news and was ready for the execution.

The three executioners from the Ministry of Justice were on standby, and the one leading them was Xie Xiaoyan, who had executed the Zhou brothers.

This person is an expert at the lingchi technique and is the perfect candidate to carry out the death penalty by lingchi.

In addition, Liu Zong, an acquaintance of both of them, had been kneeling at the execution ground waiting for a long time.

When Zhang Hai and Wang Yuan arrived at the execution ground, Fei Ju immediately threw down the token.

"Liu Zong, beat him to death!"

"Wang Yuan, behead him!"

The executioner in charge of the execution will start the execution immediately after receiving the execution order.

Xie Xiaoyan stripped Wang Yuan of his clothes, tied him to a wooden stake, and then strangled Wang Yuan's body with a fine fishing net.

"My life, Xie Xiaoyan, is truly worth it. I have tortured three earls to death alone, hahahaha."

Xie Xiaoyan laughed loudly while carrying out the execution excitedly.

On the other side, the executioner in charge of executing Zhang Hai could not contain his excitement, and his hands were shaking with excitement.

The punishment of skinning and stuffing with straw has been rarely used since the Hongwu period.

By the first year of the Hongzhi reign, there were not many executioners skilled in this craft.

The executioner was named Han Baoniu. He was taken in as an apprentice by an executioner from the Ministry of Justice since he was a child and the officer passed on all his lifelong execution skills to him.

As the saying goes, love what you do. Han Baoniu has been exposed to punishments since he was a child, and gradually he fell in love with the tortures recorded in ancient books.

He was well versed in such processes as washing, weighing, gutting, skinning, cooking, beheading, cutting off feet, sawing, breaking vertebrae, and pouring lead on etc.

But what fascinated him most was the torture of skinning and stuffing straw.

Unfortunately, because no one had been subjected to this punishment for a long time, the skill of this torture was gradually lost.

Han Baoniu did have some talent. He learned this craft by relying on the descriptions in books and practicing privately when slaughtering pigs and sheep.

But what made him sad was that even though he had learned this skill that was on the verge of being lost, he had no place to use it.

And today, he can finally put an end to this regret with his own hands.

Han Baoniu tied Zhang Hai to the rack, held a sharp knife in his hand, and executed Zhang Hai according to the method he had figured out.

For a while, Wang Yuan and Zhang Hai's screams were heard continuously.

“Ahhhhh!!! Kill me! Kill me now!!!”

"I can't stand it anymore!!! Please kill me! Kill me!!!"

“Ahhhhhhhh!!! It hurts!! It hurts!!!”

"..."

Compared with Zhang Hai and Wang Yuan who kept screaming, Liu Zong, who only screamed a few times, was extremely happy.

His punishment was beating to death. After being beaten with a few sticks, Liu Zong could still hum twice at the beginning, but after that he exhaled more than inhaled.

After only a dozen blows, Liu Zong was already dead.

Zhang Hai and Wang Yuan, who were being tortured, were extremely envious of the dead Liu Zong.

How they wished that the person lying on the ground being beaten to death was themselves!
……

While Zhang Hai and Wang Yuan were being tortured, the guards from the Western Factory were already on their way to search their house.

Wang Yuan's property had already been searched, but this time all the people from the three clans of the Wang brothers were taken to the execution ground for execution.

By the time the Western Factory's soldiers discovered Liu Zong's wife, children and elders, they had already been killed by Wang Yuan.

This time, the Western Factory's main purpose was to raid Zhang Hai's home, and Zhang Hai's home was located in the capital.

The Western Factory was extremely skilled in confiscating property. They would first arrest people, then check the finances and put the money into the inner treasury.

After going through the whole process, another third-rank official was wiped out.

Zhang Hai's wife, children and the elderly, the young women were sent to the Jiaofangsi, the rest of the elderly were demoted to slaves, and the men were demoted to military service and sent to border towns to guard the border.

When there are many wars on the border, there is a great need for some descendants of criminals to serve as cannon fodder.

At the execution ground, people from the three clans of the Wang family had been brought in.

In front of Wang Yuan, they were beheaded one by one.

Wang Yuan was terrified and extremely sad!
The Jinghai Wang family, which had been rampant for more than 20 years, was completely wiped out on this day!

The most horrifying thing about lingchi and skinning and stuffing straw is that they both take a long time to execute.

It would take two or three days to complete the torture, and during this period, the clerks from the Ministry of Justice would feed the person being tortured rice porridge to prevent him from starving to death.

The next day, Zhang Hai's skin was completely removed and he finally died.

On the third day, Wang Yuan, who had been stabbed 3,600 times, finally died.

On the fourth day, a scarecrow made of Zhang Hai's skin appeared at the gate of Shuntian Prefecture Yamen.

Use this scarecrow to warn all officials in the capital city not to be corrupt and commit crimes again!

……

Turpan Basin.

Xu Chang led an army of 130,000 and marched towards Gaochang City with firm steps.

"Governor Xu, this place is still 300 miles away from Gaochang City. Gaochang City has been fortified and cleared of the countryside. There is nothing around."

Xu Chang gave the order with a cold face: "Understood, continue marching for another 100 miles."

"Yes!" The scout took the order and left. The Ming expeditionary army continued to advance towards Gaochang City!
Ever since Ahama Khan massacred the entire Ming people in Hami Wei, the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Turpan Khanate has become irreconcilable.

Moreover, Xu Chang had already received two orders from Zhu Youtang from Ma Jinzhong.

First, the Ming Dynasty would not accept any peace talks and would only accept the head of the Mongol Khan.

Second, all males in the Turpan Khanate who are taller than the table will be beheaded!

Special note: The table is turned upside down on the ground.

With Zhu Youtang's order, Xu Chang became more confident in completely destroying the Turpan Khanate!
Gaochang City was originally the home of the Uighurs, but after Genghis Khan established the Mongol Khanate, the Gaochang Uighurs took the initiative to surrender to the Mongol Khanate.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Turpan became the territory of the Mongols, and its main ethnic group changed from Uighurs to Mongols.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate had been deeply rooted in Gaochang for many years. Ever since Ahmad Khan led his troops to split from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and established the Turpan Khanate, Gaochang City was used as its headquarters.

Gaochang is Ahama Khan’s last bottom line, he must defend it at the risk of his life!

Since Ahama Khan led his troops back to Gaochang City seven days ago, he has been sending people to inquire about the location of the Ming army.

I hope the Ming army can change its mind and withdraw from the grassland.

But to his disappointment, every time the scouts brought back news, it was that the Ming army was approaching Gaochang City by dozens of miles...

Ahema Khan is almost driven crazy!
They were the only ones who attacked the cities of the Ming Dynasty. How could the Ming Dynasty attack their cities? !
It’s not that the Ming army didn’t have the strength to attack Mongolian cities.

But these Mongolian Khanates had no concept of cities before.

They are a nomadic people who live wherever there is water and grass, and they don't build cities at all.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to attack the city, it must have a city to attack.

However, the nomadic situation of the Turpan Khanate changed under the influence of Yunus Khan.

Because Yunusi Khan himself is an out-and-out urban person.

He loves city life very much and has settled in many cities.

After his father Waisi Khan died, Yunusi Khan and his younger brother Yesenbuhua competed for the throne.

Yesenbuhua adhered to the traditional nomadic tradition and received support from the Dugrat tribe.

Yunus had close relations with the Timurid Empire and was inclined to move the political center westward to areas with developed agricultural civilization.

Thus, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate split for the first time, and Yunus Khan established a settled Turpan Khanate.

Later, Yunus Khan defeated Yesenbuhua's son and reunified the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

After Yunusi Khan's death, Ahmad Khan and his brother Mahamu Khan started fighting for the throne again.

Finally, Mahamu inherited the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and established its capital in Aksu.

Ahmad Khan once again split from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and established the Turpan Khanate with Gaochang as its capital.

And this must have resulted in, although life was much more comfortable than in the nomadic period, it also brought about catastrophic disasters.

For example, right now, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops are approaching. Before, they would have packed up their tents and driven away their cattle and sheep.

But now, all the food, drink and daily necessities of the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaochang City are in Gaochang City.

He can't run away, he must defend Gaochang City to the death!

"Great Khan, I just received news that the Ming army is less than 300 miles away from Gaochang. In three or four days at most, the Ming army will arrive in Gaochang!"

Yalan ran into the king's tent, sweating profusely and looking very anxious.

None of the people from the Turpan Khanate who occupied Hami Wei at that time had expected that the Ming Dynasty would pursue them relentlessly this time.

Even though they had returned to Turpan, the Ming army still did not let them go.

Ahemahan was in a state of confusion and shook his head repeatedly: "How could this happen? How could this happen?"

Yalan asked, "Great Khan, what should we do?"

"Do you want to fight or make peace?"

Ahema Khan rubbed his temple painfully, thought for a while, and said through gritted teeth: "Whether it is war or peace, we must be fully prepared!"

"You are to go to the city right now and gather all the tribesmen. All males over the age of fourteen must prepare their war horses and scimitars and be ready to go into battle at any time."

"At the same time, women who were not able to fight were asked to slaughter cattle and sheep to make military rations."

"Have someone write another letter and send it as quickly as possible to the generals of the Ming army."

"The letter said that as long as the Ming army withdrew, I, Ahem Khan, would surrender to the Ming and send 10,000 cattle and sheep to show my sincerity."

"And from then on, the Turpan Khanate was willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty and pay tribute to it every year."

Ahama's face was gloomy and he almost gritted his teeth as he uttered these words.

In their view, being a vassal of the Ming court and paying tribute every year was the biggest compromise.

Even Yalan was in a heavy mood: "Has the Khan been too tolerant?"

"It doesn't matter. The Ming court values ​​face the most. I will give him this face."

Ahama Khan's face was gloomy: "The Ming Dynasty will definitely not be able to maintain such a large expeditionary army for long."

"Once the Ming army withdraws, we will settle all our old and new grudges together!"

"Great Khan is wise, I will do it right away!"

Yalan touched his chest and bowed, then walked out of the royal tent to carry out Ahama Khan's order.

(End of this chapter)