In front of the Ming Building of Xiaoling Fangcheng.

A team of Tianwu soldiers and Jinyi guards escorted all the Nanjing nobles who forced the palace, the merchants who boycotted the city, the tax resistance soldiers, the leaders of the workers who killed the tax supervisors, and the corrupt officials who colluded with the gentry.

On the square in front of the Ming Tower, Jin Yiwei carried up the legendary torture instruments one by one, and the thousands of officials around him were shocked, and they all realized what Zhu Cihong wanted to do next.

Zhu Cihong glanced at the thousands of prisoners who didn't know what to do, he walked up to Qian Qianyi, looked up and down, and said, "Qian Qianyi, do you like water?" ”

Qian Qianyi didn't know why Zhu Cihong asked this, and thought that he was letting himself analyze the mountains and rivers around Xiaoling, so he hurriedly replied: "The gate of heaven interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the blue water flows eastward to this time. ”

He continued: "As the saying goes, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no friends, and the sinners like water very much. ”

Qian Qianyi first praised the scenery of Xiaoling, and then quoted scriptures, compared himself to a dirty thing, and euphemistically asked Zhu Cihong to forgive him through the evaluation of water, and he couldn't blindly kill, so that the king was in an isolated position.

Zhu Cihong couldn't hear what he meant, he snorted coldly: "There are so many, since you like it, then let's die here!" ”

He instructed Jinyi Wei: "Hang him up and serve him with water torture!" ”

Zhu Cihong will never let go of Qian Qianyi, in history, when the Qing army came to Nanjing, Liu Ru persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the water with him to martyrdom, Qian Qianyi was speechless, and finally went down to the pool to try the water, saying: "The water is too cold, can't go down", Liu Ru is "trying to sink into the pond water", but was dragged back by Qian Qianyi.

Within a few days, Qian Qianyi led his ministers to open the city in the pouring rain to welcome Duoduo, the commander of the Qing army, and he didn't think the rain was too cold.

It is the first month of the year, and the outdoor temperature in Nanjing is a few degrees below zero, coupled with the cold wave brought by the Xiaoice River period, which is much colder than in later generations.

When Qian Qianyi heard that the prince was going to torture himself with water, he hurriedly prostrate on the ground, crying with tears in his eyes and begging for mercy: "Your Highness spare your life!" The sinner knows that he is wrong! ”

Several of the executioners grabbed Qian Qianyi's hair, dragged him to a large water tank, tied his legs and hung him upside down on a wooden frame.

"Your Highness ..... Rao"

Before Qian Qianyi finished shouting a sentence, he was let go of the rope by Jinyiwei and plunged into the water tank, and suddenly his hands were scribbled, his feet were thrown indiscriminately, and the water loss bubbles in the water tank rolled over and over again.

It took about twenty seconds for the executing Jinyi Wei to pull the rope high, and Qian Qianyi was suspended in the air, his face was red and white, and he coughed repeatedly.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he plunged into the tank again, this time for a longer time, as long as thirty seconds.

After repeating this a few times, Qian Qianyi gradually lost consciousness after stomodic struggle, and after experiencing unbearable pain, he was not as noisy as before.

Jinyiwei's waterboarding was very efficient, and the water also put special chili powder for Dezhuang hot pot, and 80 percent of the people who enjoyed Jinyiwei's watertorture would open their mouths and give in, saying everything that the interrogator wanted to know, and Li Dahai, who assassinated Zhu Dadian, said everything in this enjoyment.

It didn't take long for Qian Qianyi to move, and it was cold.

Next, Jin Yiwei stripped the skin of hundreds of corrupt officials who colluded with businessmen, which is Jinyiwei's best criminal law, and it is also Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite criminal law.

The brocade guards who were in charge of the punishment were very neat when they were peeling, and they looked like they were enjoying themselves, as if they were processing works of art, and they were frightened when they looked at the officials around them, and their legs and feet became unfavorable.

This is just the appetizer of the blood food sent by the ancestors of the filial piety tomb, and the next scene makes these officials watching the execution even more frightened.

Five brocade-clothed guards came on horseback, dragging long chains behind them, and cracked Zhang Pu, the founder of the Restoration Society.

Che Split is the legendary five horses split the corpse, the operation is very simple, Jin Yiwei put Zhang Pu's head and limbs on a rope, and the five horses galloped in five directions, tearing him into six pieces.

Compared with Zhang Pu's happy five-horse corpse, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was not so lucky, he was beheaded.

There is a famous brocade guard with a thick waist and fat waist, holding a sharp ghost-headed knife, and slashed Xiong Mingyu's body from the middle, which is very bloody and bloody.

Xiong Mingyu did not die all at once after being beheaded, he still retained his sober mind, he howled and crawled on the ground with his elbows, and wrote a scarlet word "miserable" on the ground with blood on his hand before he died, the scene was extremely scary.

The punishment in front of the Ming Tower is divided into several pieces to carry out together, in addition to the above, there are also live burial, stick punishment, broken vertebrae, lead filling, whipping, lighting the sky lantern, the most eye-catching of which is the "cannon branding" in the center of the square.

This kind of ancient criminal law is rare, it is said to have been created by the king of Shang, and Zhu Cihong asked Jinyiwei to try it out to deal with the main figures of the arrested anti-tax scholars.

Copper pillars smeared with vegetable oil were erected in the square, and charcoal fires had been lit under each copper pillar, and they had burned red, and a team of brocade guards performed their duties, and stripped the prisoners' shoes and tied them to the copper pillars.

The sound of Zizi continued to sound, accompanied by bursts of white smoke, and the tortured soldiers distorted their faces and shouted in pain, and the sound continued to echo in the sky above the Ming Tower.

Zhu Cihong looked at the torture scene on the square with a cold eye, and even thought of innovation from the cannon branding, this thing can be completely transformed into a smaller one, made into an iron, and the effect of ironing clothes should be very good!

Of all the criminal laws today, lighting a sky lantern is the most cruel, and Zhu Cihong used him on the leaders of the workers who killed the tax supervisors.

Zhu Cihong always thought that lighting the sky lantern was a high-end lantern at the Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival, until Li Tingbiao took the list of various criminal laws and introduced it, and he didn't know that this thing was also called a little human oil wax, which was an extremely cruel punishment.

He watched with great interest how the sky lantern was lit, and saw a team of brocade guards first strip a few prisoners naked, wrap them in numbness, and then put them into the oil tank to soak for a while, and finally tied the prisoners' heads and feet to a high wooden pole, lit them from their feet, and lit them like "lighting lamps".

Not only that, but Jin Yiwei also soaked the burlap cloth with oil, wrapped the head, burned off the part and then poured it out, and ignited it again.

According to Li Tingbiao, Dong Zhuo during the Three Kingdoms period was the first person to be lit a sky lantern, compared to Dong Zhuo, who was only lit after Dong Zhuo's death, these leaders of the workers who killed the tax supervisors were not so lucky, and they were directly lived.

Such a cruel criminal law made thousands of officials who came to worship Xiaoling frightened, and many people had vomited, although many people were angry in their hearts, but they always dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, for fear that they would also be hung up to worship the sky.

Zhu Cihong's style of handling things is difficult for officials to accept, and his audacity is even more incomprehensible, and it is unheard of for thousands of years to execute so many people in front of Xiaoling with so many cruel tortures in one day!

Is he the devil? He is the most ruthless tyrant in history!

However, many people know in their hearts that the troubled times should be used to re-enforce the law, the crown prince seems to be rough, but his heart is as careful as a hair, before worshipping the filial piety, he has ordered the Nanjing Criminal Department to interrogate the arrested people, collected a large amount of criminal evidence, and no one can find fault.

Perhaps the prince wanted to use torture to deter the world, implement centralized autocracy, and implement a new policy.

But this wrist is too tough, at the age of fourteen, he is so hard-hearted, will he become an emperor in the future? Will the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty be like the Hongwu Dynasty in the future, and officials must write suicide notes before going to court?

Accustomed to the gentle emperor of Tianqi and Chongzhen, many officials were scared in their hearts, especially looking at Zhu Cihong's sweeping eyes, they all subconsciously lowered their heads and retreated.

Zhu Cihong glanced around the crowd, locked his eyes on Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, and other nobles, and said coldly: "This palace is merciful, just hang them!" ”

The nobles waiting to be punished include Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Longping, Li Zushu, the Marquis of Linhuai, Sun Weicheng, the Marquis of Huaining, Tang Guozuo, the Marquis of Lingbi, Liu Zuochang, the Marquis of Anyuan, Xu Hongjue, the Marquis of Yongchang, Deng Wenyu, the Marquis of Dingyuan, Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng, Liu Kongzhao, and the Bo of Xiangcheng, Chang Yingjun.

Historically, these Nanjing nobles were basically in the Qing army when the city of Nanjing, sitting on hundreds of thousands of Ming troops surrendered without a fight, and took the initiative to open the city to welcome the Tartars into the city, they were the sinners of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people.

At this time, Xu Hongji and the others were already scared to pee, Xu Hongji and Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu faced the north of Shenlie Mountain and cried loudly: "The ancestors appeared to save me!" ”

Xu Hongji is the descendant of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and Li Zushu is Li Wenzhong, the king of Qiyang, and their ancestors are buried in the north of Shenlie Mountain, accompanying Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now the descendants of Taizu are going to break the grace of more than 200 years and hang them in front of the filial piety tomb, they can only ask the ancestors for help, hoping that the ancestors will bless themselves, or send down heavenly thunder to kill this dog prince!

Zhu Cihong said coldly: "A group of shameless things, if your ancestors knew what you had done, they would have to climb out and personally slash you scum who insulted your ancestors!" ”

Ignoring the wailing of more than a dozen nobles, Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "Execution!" ”

This time it was the guards of the Brave Guard Battalion who came in order, each holding a stiff bow and putting it around the necks of each noble.

The ancestors of these nobles are heroes who have made great achievements for the Ming Dynasty to open up the territory and expand the territory, and Zhu Cihong respects them, so he hangs their unworthy descendants with the traditional bow and arrow in the Ming army, which is worthy of them.

Zhu Cihong personally held a hard bow to execute, he put the bowstring on the neck of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, stood behind him, turned the bowstring forward, rotated the hard bow in circles, and gritted his teeth and said: "Duke Wei, this palace will personally send you to see the ancestor of the Xu family!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Hongji struggled desperately, but was pressed tightly by the two guards, and as Zhu Cihong's bowstring became tighter and tighter, Xu Hongji's breath became weaker and weaker, and finally his eyes widened and he finally lost his breath.

Zhu Cihong threw the hard bow aside, clapped his hands, and said, "It's all buried!" ”

Zhu Cihong's behavior made all the officials not react at once, and they looked at the crazy prince blankly, and their hearts were even more afraid.

Even the nobles who relied on the royal family were killed, what else could they, the foreign ministers, do? Then Wei Guogong's family also produced a Queen Xu (Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's wife), and the crown prince even had a trace of the blood of the Xu family, so he personally executed his relatives?

The whole ceremony lasted until noon, and the civil and military officials of Nanzhili who participated in the worship witnessed a series of tortures by Zhu Cihong to deal with opponents.......