"The ministers obey the holy commandments."

Feng Shuangli's heart was already happy, so naturally there would be no objection.

His Majesty the Emperor was able to deal with him like this, which was already a great grace of the emperor.

"Well, so be it. I am also tired, so you can retreat first. ”

"The sinner is gone!"

Seeing this, Feng Shuangli hurriedly saluted, for fear that His Majesty the Emperor would return to take back his fate.

Although you don't have any jokes, I'm afraid of what happens.

In case His Majesty the Emperor changes his mind temporarily, who will he go to reason?

Feng Shuangli left the Qianqing Palace and went straight out of the palace and returned to the Jinyi Guard Yamen.

Now all he has to do is wait.

According to the general process, the emperor will take down the post, and the brocade guard will take the staff according to the post.

I have also heard of Feng Shuangli, the court staff.

To put it bluntly, the court staff is to hit the board, and the beating is the buttocks and legs.

Although Feng Shuangli has never been beaten by the board, he has been beaten many times.

Zhang Xianzhong was very strict in governing the army, and Sun Kewang was similar later. Feng Shuangli was beaten several times because he couldn't lead the troops.

In his opinion, this is all trivial, nothing more than some skin trauma, and it will be fine after a while of recuperation.

But Wang Henian reminded him that he must not be careless.

Fifty boards is not too much, and it is really not too little to say less.

A person like Feng Shuangli who practices martial arts and leads soldiers naturally has better body bones than ordinary people, but it is also a court staff.

Civil officials can be killed by the cane of the court, and even if they do not die, they are crippled by the cane.

Although it is impossible for Feng Shuangli to be killed, it is still possible that he will be lame or have sore legs and feet on a cloudy and rainy day.

Feng Shuangli didn't listen to it, but he was really startled when he heard it.

This court staff is so bluffing? Worse than a military stick?

Wang Henian saw that he really didn't know, so he explained it to him carefully.

The so-called court staff was first invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the court staff at that time was not very perfect, and it was more the product of Lao Zhu's whims.

Anyway, Emperor Taizu is a character who is not the same, and he said that whoever he wants to blame with the cane will immediately beat him down.

Because there are no detailed regulations, there are often cases where people are directly caned to death.

Later, the mechanism of the court staff was gradually perfected, and the wooden sticks used for the staff also had standards.

Compared with the water and fire sticks of ordinary yamen torture, the board of the court staff is thicker, longer and heavier.

This is obviously intended to have a better deterrent effect.

After all, those who can be sceptered by the court are not ordinary people, either outspoken and offending officials, or high-ranking and powerful ministers.

In order to maintain the imperial power, the Son of Heaven would often order the Jinyi Guard to take down the rod and reprimand those officials who offended their faces.

In order to prevent the Hongwu court staff from beating people to death again, the later emperors made many regulations and improvements to the court staff.

First and foremost is the protection of officials' bodies.

Previously, the staff would be wrapped in a thick layer of felt on the official's body, so that the staff would act as a cushion.

Although the fight still hurts, there will be no serious internal injuries.

Of course, this is also relative, if the emperor wants to die alone, then the brocade guards can use some ingenuity when executing.

No matter how bad it is, if you hit it directly on the spine, you can be smashed half to death.

These executioners have undergone professional training to ensure that the results of the executions meet the expectations of the Son of Heaven.

They usually practice with a piece of paper wrapped in a piece of tofu, which can ensure that the paper is intact when the cane goes down, but the tofu is rotten.

In addition, there is another saying when Jinyiwei is executed, that is, if the eunuch who is in prison shouts and beats, it means something, and he goes through the motions perfunctorily. The emperor only wanted to punish him lightly. That's the best outcome.

If the eunuch shouted to beat him, he would usually spread his feet outward, which meant that he would be beaten hard, but not to his life.

If it's with your feet together, shout and hit with your heart. That's the end of it, and that means beating people to death.

The brocade guards will also understand that they will work harder during the execution, and it is difficult for the courtiers who are generally reprimanded by the rod to survive.

Moreover, since the Zhengde Dynasty, the great eunuch Liu Jin took the emperor to remove the felt room wrapped in the ministers, and stripped off his pants for execution, and the situation of beating people to death still happened from time to time. In the large-scale court staff of Zhengde, Jiajing, and Wanli dynasties, there are records of dead people. There are a few people, and dozens of people at most.

Feng Shuangli broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.

He didn't expect that there would be so many doorways for the court staff, which was really very different from the ordinary board and military stick.

Of course, Wang Henian also comforted him that since His Majesty the Emperor also gave him the punishment of degrading him to the rank and taking away his salary, it meant that it was impossible to kill and maim him. Otherwise, do you need to go around such a big circle?

Feng Shuangli thought about it carefully, but he was really apprehensive in his heart.

"May I ask the envoy of the king, which father-in-law will be the prisoner at that time?"

"It's hard to say, we didn't know beforehand. However, this commander will order someone to find Langzhong in advance, and wait until the court staff is over to treat your injuries. ”

Feng Shuangli sighed, hugged his fists and said, "Then thank you." ”

Not long after the two finished chatting, the post was sent to the Jinyi Health Office.

Feng Shuangli couldn't help but smile bitterly, this efficiency is really high.

Along with the post came the prison eunuchs.

This eunuch is none other than Han Miao, the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and seal.

This really surprised Wang Henian.

Generally, the prison eunuch should let the celebrant eunuch Bingbi eunuch serve at most. It is indeed the first time that a palm print eunuch has been appointed.

What surprised Wang Henian even more was that Han Miao brought the sage's edict, and the court staff could be carried out in the Jinyi Guard's yamen, without special taking it to the noon gate.

Of course, this is to save Feng Shuangli's dignity, after all, if the execution is carried out at the noon gate, the officials who enter and leave the palace can see it, and Feng Shuangli will also lose face. But in the Jinyi Guard's yamen, it was completely different, except for the Jinyi Guard who was executed and the eunuch who was imprisoned, no one saw it.

As for Feng Shuangli, he was so moved that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to the north to express his gratitude to the Son of Heaven.

"Let's start sooner, and our family should go back to our lives as soon as possible."

Since Han Miao had spoken, a group of Jinyi Guard captains stepped forward and began to prepare.

Feng Shuangli also came to the execution area very cooperatively and lay down.

Wang Henian walked to his side, cleared his throat and said, "Although Your Majesty said that he would be executed in the Jinyi Guard's yamen, he had no other instructions, so this shirt and pants still had to be removed. Bear with me. ”

Feng Shuangli's ears turned red when he heard this, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Please start." ”

A brocade-clothed guard captain stepped forward to lift the hem of Feng Shuangli's robe, ripped off his middle pants, and shouted, "Shelving sticks!" ”

Feng Shuangli only felt a chill in his lower body, and subconsciously closed his eyes.

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