Skinning alive is really a technical job, Zhu Youlang searched all over the Jinyiwei before he found an old man who mastered the technique.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen abolished Jinyiwei, and many Jinyiwei lost their jobs, and some talents were scattered among the people.

When Emperor Yongli set up the Jinyiwei, in fact, many of the candidates for the Jinyiwei came from the local area, and of course, there were also a very small number of the original Jinyiwei old men.

Wu Keyuan is such a veteran of Jinyiwei.

He was only sixteen years old when he first joined Jinyiwei, and now he is in his fifties.

It stands to reason that this age should take a back seat and retire for the rest of the day.

But Wu Keyuan still wanted to give full play to his spare heat and do something for the imperial court, so he always insisted on doing things in Jinyiwei.

I never thought that it was time for him to show his talent.

Wu Keyuan worked in Beizhen Fusi back then, and the edict prison was the place where he worked most often.

As the most eerie and terrifying place in the whole Ming Dynasty, the edict of Fusi in Beizhen is often easy to enter and difficult to get out.

Even if a very small number of people can get out alive, they will have to lose at least a layer of skin to give the literary network

Wu Keyuan followed his master to interrogate prisoners here, and he knew about all kinds of torture.

Among them, peeling is of great interest to him.

Peeling is further divided into live and dead skinning.

Dead flake is the first decapitation of a prisoner and then skinning, and raw flaying is the skinning of a human prisoner while he is still alive.

The latter peels off a more complete skin and is smoother when used to make a scarecrow.

Otherwise, you have to stitch the scalp, which is really cumbersome.

It is only because of the extreme pain of the prisoner during the raw fraying that it is often the most heinous criminal who is sentenced to this punishment by decree of the Son of Heaven.

Wu Keyuan has experienced life, and there are only a few people.

I never thought that after more than 30 years, he would have the opportunity to reproduce his craft.

And the person who wants to be skinned alive is not someone else, it is Hong Chengchou, the No. 1 traitor in Tianzi!

Hong Chengchou's guy can be said to have interpreted the word traitor to the extreme.

At most, others attacked the city and plundered the land for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Hong Chengchou was good, not only leading the troops to fight but also analyzing various situations for the Qing court, and making suggestions for fear of provoking civil uprisings in various places and letting the rivers and mountains fly away.

Under Hong Chengchou's strategy, the Qing army did win many battles, and there were basically few uprisings in the areas under its rule, except for the southeast coast and the southwest Tusi gathering place.

If there was no Emperor Yongli, the Son of Heaven, who stepped forward to turn the tide, it was indeed only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty fell.

Ping Chongqing, take Huguang, and go straight down to Jiangxi.

How many people can have this courage in ancient and modern times?

It was this desperate blow that made the landing net woven by Hong Chengchou useless, and he was finally defeated and captured.

Wu Keyuan was excited and couldn't wait to cut Hong Chengchou with a thousand knives.

After all, this old thief has done too many things for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is acting for the tiger.

Naturally, the execution of Hong Chengchou could not be too cheap for him, and the punishment given by His Majesty the Emperor was to skin him alive.

This made Wu Keyuan close his mouth excitedly.

That's what he's good at.

He immediately assured the Son of Heaven that he would complete this mission.

At noon on the day of Hong Chengchou's execution, many onlookers gathered in Huixian Street, the most prosperous street in Nanchang City.

After they learned that the Great Tomorrow was going to decide Hong Chengchou here, they all came to see the excitement.

After all, in their impression, Hong Chengchou was a very powerful figure, and the two princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were polite to him.

What would it be like for such a person to be put to death? They really wanted to see it.

Wu Keyuan came to the execution ground early.

It's a platform that has just been erected.

In the middle of the high platform was a wooden bed, and Hong Chengchou had been stripped naked and tied to the bed.

Wu Keyuan glanced at it and found that the old thief was full of wrinkles, but his body was very fair.

Presumably, the old thief is pampered and pays great attention to maintenance.

Wu Keyuan walked up to Hong Chengchou and snorted: "Old thief Hong, you can't think that you have today, right?" ”

Hong Chengchou's mouth was gagged, and he could only make a whining sound.

"Kill him, kill this dog thief!"

"The dog that does things for the Tartars must not die well!"

"The fox is fake and the tiger is mighty, for the tiger, I bah!"

The people cursed loudly.

Wu Keyuan was not affected too much, as a Jinyiwei, he had long been unsurprised by this kind of scene, the only difference was that he was executed publicly this time instead of in Jinyiwei's edict.

On the execution platform, Emperor Yongli, the Son of Heaven, looked at the sky, and when he saw that the hour had come, he commanded in a deep voice: "Let's execute." ”

Wu Keyuan hurriedly clenched his fists with both hands to receive the order.

He unhurriedly opened the small box he was carrying, and took out a sharp dagger from it.

The dagger is specially treated to cut through the skin with minimal incisions, keeping the skin as intact as possible.

In this way, there will be no large cracks of skin when you make a scarecrow in the future.

Wu Keyuan walked to Hong Chengchou's side and squatted down, he made a few strokes on Hong Chengchou's neck, and then cut a small incision.

"Woo..."

Hong Chengchou let out a low whimper, like a child crying.

This is obviously extremely painful, but isn't creating pain exactly what Wu Keyuan wants to do? He won't think about Hong Chengchou's feelings.

Wu Keyuan held the dagger in his hand and slashed down along the small incision, and the skin on Hong Chengchou's back was cut in an instant like rice paper.

Bright red flesh burst out of its body in an instant, like a moth coming out of a cocoon.

"Woooooo

Hong Chengchou's screams were obviously louder, his whole body began to tremble, and his feet and hands were struggling violently even though they were tied.

Wu Keyuan was not affected by anything, and the knife directly cut into Hong Chengchou's tail vertebrae before stopping.

"Whew!"

Wu Keyuan put the knife aside and wiped the sweat on his head.

I haven't peeled the skin for a long time, and this craft is a lot unfamiliar, but fortunately, there are no big mistakes in this first knife.

Peeling is different from Ling Chi, Ling Chi can cut many knives, but peeling requires the whole skin to be peeled off with the least number of knives.

Wu Keyuan's first knife is the foundation, and after the foundation is laid, it will be a lot smoother.

The most important thing is that his confidence has increased a lot, and Wu Keyuan rested for a while before starting to move the knife again.

He made four incisions on each of Hong Chengchou's arms and legs, and then gently tore them to the sides, just like he tore on the knife on his back.

Hong Chengchou twitched in pain, Wu Keyuan wanted to deliberately exert himself if he didn't want to ensure that the whole skin would not burst.

"Turn him over."

The skin on the back has been completely cut, and the next thing is the front.

The Ming soldiers untied Hong Chengchou's rope, carefully turned it over and tied it on his back again.

At this moment, Wu Keyuan had already flipped the cut leather on his back to the sides, and then ripped his strength towards his chest.

"Woooooo

Hong Chengchou wailed in pain, and blood flowed all over the ground.

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