Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 43 Long Live the Emperor Taizu Gao
Nanjing.

Temple of Confucius.

There were so many people, it felt like a temple fair.

"Thousands of years of education, destroyed in an instant."

Squeezed in the crowd, Liu Zongzhou, the master of Confucianism in Jiangnan, could be said to be sighing softly.

The reason why he said this was simple.

Because the place in front of Lingxing Gate of Confucian Temple is now the execution ground.

In the square between Lingxing Gate and Tianxia Wenshufang, a total of one hundred execution pillars were erected, forming a spectacular square formation.

And tied to each execution pillar was a person being tortured to death, headed by our Great Qing Dynasty General Ying Wang Ajige, including his son Fu Lehe, and a bunch of our Great Qing Dynasty Beile, Beizi, Zhenguogong and the like, screaming in agony as they were tortured, but this was not the most terrifying thing...

Lingchi!
Who hasn't seen it?
The horrifying thing is that this was the seventh time they had been tortured.

Although it is indeed unbelievable that lingchi can be repeated up to seven times, no one with a rich imagination would have thought that lingchi could be repeated before. But now the elites of our Qing Dynasty headed by Ajige are indeed suffering from lingchi repeatedly, and seven times is not the end for them. In fact, they were sentenced to lingchi twenty-six times by Emperor Taizu Gao. This number was determined based on the Battle of Sarhu. From the Battle of Sarhu to this year, it has been twenty-six years.

So they had to torture him twenty-six times.

Then, when they were almost tortured to death every day, Emperor Taizu Gao would come in person and revive all of them who were already very broken.

The next day, the torture continued.

In fact, most of the princes and nobles in my Qing Dynasty have gone crazy.

They have indeed made up their minds to die, after all, that's what losers are like, but the problem is that they can't die now.

Every day, they were hacked to pieces by the executioners' blades. By dusk, the demon would fly over, suck them into the Fang Tian Hua Ji, then resurrect with full health and fling them out. Soldiers had been waiting for them, quickly pinning them down and tying them to the racks for more. This was already the seventh time, and it wasn't even the seventh day. Ling Chi required 3,600 cuts, so they had to make the full count. It had actually been almost a month. It was truly incredible that they hadn't gone mad under these circumstances.

But the problem is that the demon can revive people with full health, so even if they go crazy, they will wake up, and then continue to be stabbed until they can no longer bear it and go crazy again...

Fulehe has gone crazy five times.

During this period, all local officials who came to Beijing to pay homage to Emperor Taizu Gao had to come here to watch the execution.

This is the Temple of Literature.

Even though Panchi was living water, which was actually the Qinhuai River, it had turned into a pool of blood.

However, choosing this place as the execution ground was not because of Yang Feng's bad taste, but because it was really the most suitable place for the people to watch. It was not easy to find such a place in Nanjing City. Carrying out the execution here would accommodate the people to the greatest extent. After all, even if there was no room to stand on the ground, they could stand on the Qinhuai River or even on the city wall.

As soon as Liu Zongzhou finished speaking, cheers rang out from all around him, and then the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in front of the Confucian Temple turned the cheers into a tsunami...

"Long live the Emperor Taizu Gao!"

They fell to their knees while shouting.

Huang Zongxi and the others around Liu Zongzhou quickly knelt down, but Liu Zongzhou remained standing, his gaze fixed on the sky. A figure wearing a twelve-chaptered robe and a twelve-tasseled crown was descending, wielding a Fang Tian Hua Ji (a halberd with a dagger-like shape). Huang Zongxi quickly pulled his teacher back. Liu Zongzhou stood there arrogantly, but several other disciples also hurried to pull him back. Finally, he knelt helplessly, and then, along with the others, kowtowed to the figure.

The figure fell.

As the executioner kowtowed, he walked straight towards Ajige.

"My Lord God, please let me go!"

The very broken Ajige cried and begged, and was obviously incontinent. He had completely lost his former invincible style, and he was shaking the moment he saw this figure.

"I am an Arhat who has descended to the mortal world. Today I will slay this evildoer!"

His son was howling beside him.

This spirit has obviously collapsed again.

"The Great Demon Suppressor General, right?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Then he poked Ajige with his Fang Tian Hua Ji, and the latter was sucked in directly, but then he threw him out.

Ajige, who had been revived with full health, flung himself forward instantly. Before he could even get up, four two-meter-tall giants who had been waiting for him pounced on him. Ajige, who had gained experience after resurrection, predicted their landing points and rolled to the side to avoid them. Then he jumped up, but he also fell forward in an instant...

"You're quite clever, you bastard!"

A soldier holding a big stick behind him said with a smile.

Then this guy proudly held up the stick to show off his successful ambush, which immediately attracted cheers from the people around him.

The strong men had already pinned Ajige down. The latter was howling like mad under the strong men's weight and struggling with all his might, but it was of no avail. He was howling in grief and anger on the ground, stretching out his hands to dig into the cracks in the paving stones, leaving traces of blood as the strong men dragged him. Then he was dragged back to the execution pillar, lifted up by his arms, and nailed to it with nails.

Amid the cheers of the people, Emperor Taizu Gao continued to revive the broken princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty one by one.

Soon everything was done.

The previously mutilated princes and nobles of our Qing Dynasty were nailed back on, waiting for the execution to continue tomorrow.

Then he walked in front of Liu Zongzhou and the others as they trembled. "That old fellow, I remember you didn't want to kneel just now. Can you explain your reason to me?

Or is it that as a scholar, you don't even know the etiquette of meeting the emperor?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, I, the former Left Censor-in-Chief Liu Zongzhou, pay my respects to the Emperor Taizu Gao."

Liu Zongzhou suppressed his fear and crawled forward on his knees.

"Former Left Censor-in-Chief, then it's not that you don't know etiquette. Do you have another explanation? If you can't give a reason that satisfies me, then the extermination of your entire clan is inevitable. Don't say you are too old to be punished. The Ming Dynasty laws were set by me, and I can change them for you. If I say to exterminate your entire clan, then I must exterminate your entire clan."

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, I am old and dim-witted. I was momentarily distracted when I saw the Emperor's presence. I beg the Emperor to forgive me."

Liu Zongzhou said as he lay on the ground, trembling.

"Ah, old age can explain this. Although it's not your fault that you're old, it's your fault that you still refuse to behave yourself at such an old age. As far as I know, you said I was a monster in Hangzhou? Don't quibble, this is the confession of Prince Lu and Ma Shiying."

Yang Feng said.

Prince Lu was so frightened that he rushed to the court to meet his ancestor...

He is not stupid. The Qing army is finished. Can he still count on the wise men of Jiangnan to resist Emperor Taizu Gao?
Ma Shiying also followed him into the court to apologize, but Yang Feng did not make things difficult for Ma Shiying. After all, Ma Shiying had always said that he did not know whether Taizu was real or not and needed to confirm it first. Although it took him a long time to confirm, it could also be explained that the matter was of great importance and he did not dare to be hasty. He had to confirm it again and again. After learning that Taizu Gaohuangdi had completely wiped out the Qing demons, he immediately confirmed it and then hurried into the court to apologize.

In the end, he was sentenced to death by the Taizu Gao Emperor because he, as the chief minister, failed to persuade Hongguang to defend Nanjing, but instead abandoned the Xiaoling Mausoleum with him and fled...

Not making things difficult for him just means that he was not tortured several times, not that he was not killed.

Hongguang was shot, let alone him. Gao Hongtu and others were spared and reinstated because they did not flee Nanjing and did not surrender to the Qing army. They were just unable to do anything in the chaos, but they did not abandon the Xiaoling Mausoleum and did not abandon their duties.

But Ma Shiying escaped.

So he was shot and Hongguang's mother was ordered to commit suicide.

As for Prince Lu, who was also ordered to commit suicide, it was not because he abandoned the Xiaoling Mausoleum or it was not his turn to defend Nanjing. Instead, as a vassal king, he had to die in battle in his fiefdom if he encountered an enemy attack.

If you don't die in your fiefdom, you are guilty.

This is the special thing about Zhu Yuanzhang's vassal kings. First, the vassal kings cannot leave their fiefdoms without the court's permission. No matter what the situation is, even if the enemy has already entered the vassal city, they cannot leave and must fight. Second, if local military and political officials flee before the vassal kings leave, it is called losing the fiefdom. Killing one person is a kindness of the emperor, but killing the whole family is reasonable and legal. Therefore, the vassal kings cannot leave. If the vassal kings do not leave, no matter what the reason, if the military and political officials dare to leave and cause trouble for the vassal kings, their whole family will be killed. There is no reason to be exempted.

Of course, Prince Lu did not get permission from the court. He abandoned the city and fled. At that time, Li Zicheng's army was already heading towards the capital, and Chongzhen had no time to issue an edict to him.

"I am old and confused, and I listened to rumors."

Liu Zongzhou said tremblingly.

"That is to say, this seems to be considered as a great rebellion, right?"

Yang Feng sneered.

Liu Zongzhou lay there in silence.

"Shoot him!"

Yang Feng said.

A eunuch gunman immediately stepped forward.

One of Liu Zongzhou's disciples behind him wanted to move forward, but was stopped by Huang Zongxi. They lay there obediently, watching the eunuch gunman put the muzzle of his gun against Liu Zongzhou's head and then pulled the trigger.

As the gunshots rang out, Liu Daru's body fell to the ground.

"I know many people are saying that I am a fake, that I am not the Taizu Gao Emperor, that I am a monster, but today I still want to say that I am the Taizu Gao Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. You can doubt me, after all, even if you doubt me in your heart, I can't find any evidence against you. But if I find any evidence against you, I will definitely kill your entire family. As for Liu Zongzhou, considering that he is old and confused, I will not kill his entire family. After all, he is over 80 years old, and it is normal for him to be confused. But those who are not old and confused, you'd better think about your entire family's heads."

Yang Feng shouted.

Huang Zongxi and others lay on the ground trembling with fear.

"Then I'll ask you again, do you think I'm the Taizu Gaohuangdi? Speak out bravely!"

Yang Feng shouted immediately.

"Long live the Emperor Taizu Gao!"

Huang Zongxi was the first to shout.

then……

"Long live the Emperor Taizu Gao!"

The other Confucian scholars all shouted "Long live the emperor!"

(Happy Spring Festival)
(End of this chapter)