The Jinyi Guard and Yongwei Battalion copied inside and outside Suzhou City all night, and after checking, this time the harvest was great.

A total of more than 2 million taels of silver, 300,000 acres of land, more than 72,000 stones of rice chestnuts, more than 28,000 stones of miscellaneous grains, 9,060 stones of flour, more than 5,000 horses of silk, more than 3,000 stones of raw silk, more than 500 collars of satin clothes and furs, and more than 1,000 pieces of antique calligraphy and painting utensils.

These belongings are enough for the Yongwei Battalion to consume for a year, but Zhu Cihong did not have a trace of excitement, he even felt sad, a small state city can copy so many things, but imagine the entire Fengyang Mansion, Nanzhili, and even the entire Ming Dynasty, how terrible these moths that gradually eat away at the Ming Dynasty should be.

Poor households pay grain to bankruptcy, but there are no sacks of grain in the official warehouses in the state cities, and those officials would rather the grain rot in their own warehouses than take out half of the grain to share for the country.

On the second day, notices were posted throughout the state city detailing the crimes of various officials below the state level.

One of the literate elders shook his head in front of the notice and read: "Suzhou is the hometown of Empress Xiaoci Gao, the people are simple, and there are more than 50 officials in Ranzhou City, who are up and down, contact left and right, are greedy and can't, they are traitors on the outside, they deceive the court, and commit a mortal crime!" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince patrols Jiangnan on behalf of the sky, and shameless and corrupt officials will not tolerate this...... The general public is now informed that they will go to the Land Temple to watch the punishment before tomorrow, and do not bring children! ”

Suzhou is the hometown of the original wife of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Ma, the people of Suzhou are proud of this, and everyone cheers when they learn that the imperial court is going to execute corrupt officials, but they don't know why they are not allowed to take children.......

People began to publicize the contents of the notices, and asked relatives and friends to go to the Land Temple tomorrow to watch the execution, and see how the imperial court dealt with these corrupt officials.

On the third day, at a quarter past noon, only the sound of horses' hooves and wheels was heard on the streets, and dozens of offending officials were escorted by the Jinyi guards to the land temple next to the state office.

In the escort procession, Yang Qili rode on a high-headed war horse, dressed in military uniform, looking very spirited, and sometimes whipped a few slow-walking criminal officials with a horsewhip, and every time he whipped, he would arouse the applause of the surrounding people.

In the crowd of ordinary people, a few green skins pushed aside the crowded crowd and stretched out their heads to look at these officials who were shackled, and their hearts were very happy, they usually pretended to be grandsons in front of these officials.

One of the green skins was curious: "Why do you want to come to the Land Temple to watch the punishment?" Didn't they all use to be in the West Market? ”

An old man in the crowd laughed and said: "You still need to read more books when you are young, and the torture performed in the land temple is called skinning, which is a rule set by Emperor Taizu of this dynasty!" ”

The green skin nodded again and again: "Oh, no wonder I heard my father say that this land temple is also called the Leather Farm Temple, it turns out that this is still a skinning execution ground!" ”

As a common man under the rule of Fengyang Mansion, everyone knows that Emperor Taizu was born poor, understands the suffering of the common people, and hates corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

This punishment of skinning and grass is even more cruel than the death of Ling Chi with a thousand cuts, that is, the corrupt officials are skinned alive, and then filled with messy grass in human skins, and finally stitched up and hung inside and outside the official offices at all levels to "show the public", so that the officials who commute to work every day are frightened and dare not bend the law for bribes.

Some of the people around were shocked, the crown prince is different, he will play this as soon as he comes, there is really a legacy of Taizu, no wonder children are not allowed.......

Looking at the corrupt officials in dozens of prisoner cars, the eyes of the people radiated a light of expectation, and a fat green skin in the crowd suddenly saw Yang Qili riding a horse, he looked curiously, and said to himself: "Why does this domineering military master look so familiar.......

A green skin next to him poked him and whispered, "Sixth brother, that military master was a fortune teller in the tavern that day......."

Fat Qingpi was stunned for a moment, then his forehead was faintly sweating, and finally muttered again and again: "Gone eyes, gone eyes......."

Yang Qili inadvertently caught a glimpse of this fat green skin, he just chuckled and ignored them when he rode by, pretending not to be too obvious, then the effect would not work.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoners with their hands tied upside down and strips of cloth tied to their mouths were already in place one after another, kneeling in several rows in front of the temple, and there were several deep pits dug on the spot in front of the land temple.......

Dozens of brocade guards stood behind the prisoners with swords, while the sergeants of the Yongwei battalion surrounded the execution ground with fire guns.

Li Tingbiao, under the banner of the king's order, threw out a fire sign order, and said coldly: "Three o'clock in the afternoon has arrived, and the punishment of skinning will be carried out!" ”

After three soul chasing cannons, the brocade guards beside each prisoner pulled out a shiny embroidered spring knife, cut the skin on the prisoner's spine into half, and slowly separated the skin and muscles with the knife, tearing it apart like a butterfly spreading its wings.

For a while, there was a wail in the entire execution ground, which was unbearable, if it weren't for these criminal officials being gagged in advance, I am afraid that the screams would have scared a few timid people to death.

"I'll go, flayed alive......" Someone in the crowd trembled slightly.

Peeling is a technical job, and there are really not many people who can do this kind of craft, but fortunately, with Li Tingbiao's brocade guard, the people of Suzhou can have a lot of knowledge.

Because some officials such as Zhizhou are too fat, there is still a pile of fat between the skin and muscles, which is difficult to separate, and it is very troublesome to peel the skin.

"My lord, this guy is too fat to peel!" A young brocade guard was very distressed.

Li Tingbiao didn't care, and said lightly: "There is no criminal law that we Jinyiwei can't use, black oil!" ”

After a while, the black asphalt began to cool and solidify, and then Jinyiwei continued to beat it with a hammer, only to see that the asphalt and the human skin began to fall off together, and finally formed a complete human skin.

Such a cruel criminal law made the people around them frightened, and many people were afraid that they would not be able to sleep tonight, especially a few obese criminal officials, who were even more frightened and fainted, although they fainted, but the punishment still had to continue!

Li Tingbiao nodded secretly, and said in his heart that the method that Wei Zhongxian came up with was quite effective.

After half an hour of tossing, dozens of complete human skins have been made, and the brocade guards carefully stuffed grass into them, and then carefully sewed them up, as if they were a work of art.

In accordance with Zhu Cihong's request, Li Tingbiao ordered that some of these leather bags be hung in the land temple, and the various instruments used for torture were also listed as honor guards in the temple to warn officials, and the other part was hung on both sides of the public seats of the official yamen to warn the incumbent officials to work hard.

These placements were all made by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Cihong also paid tribute to the legendary emperor, and went to Fengyang and Nanjing in the future, Zhu Cihong planned to kill another batch to send blood food to the Taizu Emperor.

Zhu Cihong's methods of cutting corruption in Suzhou this time were extremely ruthless, and the officialdom of the entire Suzhou was almost swept away, shocking Fengyang Mansion and even the entire Nanzhili.

The reputation of stealing the prince and beheading the king of Hades is also spreading among the people, but no one knows that these dozens of human skins in Suzhou are just appetizers.

In the next few years, the Ming officialdom will usher in a more violent bloody storm, and this greedy prince will also receive a chilling title: Blood Dragon!

When leaving Suzhou, Zhu Cihong appointed a nine-grade official as the acting governor of Suzhou, because apart from him, only he was the highest grade in the entire Suzhou City, and the rest of the people who ate imperial grain did not have the grade......

Outside the city of Suzhou, this Jiupin official was still shaking his legs after sending off the guard of honor, and his back was already soaked with sweat.........