At the entrance of the vegetable market in the capital, a row of prisoners knelt on the ground, and beside the prisoners, the executioner wearing red clothes and red scarves on his head and holding a ghost-headed knife was waiting quietly.

"That person is Li Gao, the commander of the Southern Route Army, the one who killed the good and risked the merits, he was so bold, he actually killed thousands of people in a small town overnight, and it is not too much to cut a thousand knives, he should be sentenced to Ling Chi, and he is really cheap to be killed with one knife."

"But it's not, such a dog official should be killed, I thought he was a hero and could kill Tartars, but I didn't expect it to be such a person, he should be killed!"

"The three clans are cheap to him, and His Majesty is merciful, otherwise he should be punished by the nine clans."

“……”

Before the lunch market, there have been countless people gathered here to watch the excitement, Emperor Hongzhi has rarely used capital punishment since he ascended the throne, and few people have been beheaded here.

Even in the last case of the theft of the official warehouse, except for a very small number of people who were the leaders, most of the people who were implicated were not sentenced to death, and they were basically exiled for 3,000 miles or something, which can be regarded as Emperor Hongzhi's very generous and benevolent.

But this time, Emperor Hongzhi moved to kill people and wanted to kill people, and not to kill one or two, but to kill one or two batches, and it was this Li Gao who started first.

As the commander of the Southern Route Army, Li Gao's crimes of deducting military salaries, reselling military supplies, and privately using domestic slaves were enough to kill people, and what was even more serious was that he also killed good people and risked their merits.

Disguised as Tartars, they slaughtered thousands of people in a small town overnight, and then disguised those thousands as Tartars to defraud them of huge rewards.

Killing good and risking merit, and killing thousands of people, this crime is too serious, enough to punish the nine clans, but Emperor Hongzhi did not implicate too widely, but only ordered the three clans to be punished.

At this time, there were dozens of people from the three clans of Li Gao's family, all of whom were wearing prison clothes and hair disheveled, the women were constantly crying, and the men were all as dead as ashes, and their eyes were blank.

Especially Li Gao, who was just made an uncle not long ago, and was promoted, can be described as soaring, but who knew that in the blink of an eye, he was not happy for a few days, and he immediately became a prisoner, and he was going to be punished by the three clans.

Life is like a play, and the situation changes, but that's it.

"Dog Officer~"

I don't know who threw a rotten egg at Li Gao, and suddenly the people watching the melon eating around began to express their dissatisfaction with the things in their hands.

Rotten eggs, stones, rotten vegetables, rotten radish, stinky salted fish, etc., all kinds of things kept beckoning Li Gao's body, making him extremely embarrassed, but he didn't hide.

Now that he can finish it with a refreshing knife, he feels lucky, with his crime, even if he betrays Ling Chi, it is nothing more than that.

On the other side, on the beheading platform, the people in charge of the beheading were Li Dongyang and Zhang Mao, both of whom were expressionless at this time, and they did not mean to stop the angry melon-eating crowd from throwing things to vent.

Li Gao really deserves to die, dying 10,000 times is not enough, being thrown something, and then a refreshing knife is cheap for him.

"When the time comes~"

"Slash!"

Soon, three o'clock in the afternoon arrived, and Li Dongyang coldly threw down the token.

The executioners picked up a bowl of wine, poured a sip, sprayed it on the ghost head knife, and then pulled off the sign on the prisoner's back, and the knife fell down, and dozens of people fell to the ground, and blood flowed on the scene.

"Good~"

"Good kill."

The people who ate melons immediately applauded, which was really happy.

The next day, it was also the entrance of the vegetable market.

There are also dozens of people, this time it is the East Route Army Liu Yu's family of three clans, Liu Yu's crimes are also very many, in addition to not killing good and risking merits, he also set up a private horse market, a private slave market, collusion between officials and businessmen, and the sale of goods to the grassland is strictly prohibited by the imperial court.

Any one is enough to make his head fall to the ground, and all the crimes are added together, and Emperor Hongzhi directly gave him a Zhu Sanclan.

On the third day, it was still here at the entrance of the vegetable market, and this time there were more people, there were hundreds of people, including the servants of the household department, the general soldiers of the border army, and the officials responsible for supervising the manufacture of ordnance in the household department.

These people were charged with embezzlement and bribery, military salaries, embezzlement of public funds, and many other crimes, all of which were sentenced to death by Emperor Hongzhi and executed with a piece.

Hundreds of people, hundreds of heads fell to the ground, and the entire Caishikou was filled with a strong smell of blood, and the soil under the guillotine at the Caishikou was red and black, and there was too much, too much blood seeping into it.

On the fourth day, more people were executed on this day, in the thousands.

Most of the executed people were merchants, and some of them only resold military supplies, and the crimes were relatively minor, so Emperor Hongzhi only executed and raided his home.

Some merchants, such as the Jin merchants who were found out this time, not only did some of these Jin merchants resell military supplies, but also colluded with the border army to sell ironware, salt, tea, grain, etc., which were strictly prohibited by the imperial court to the steppe tartars.

What's even more odious is that there are some people among these Jin merchants who collaborate with the enemy and commit treason, spy on and betray the military information to the steppe Tartars, and report to the steppe Tartars.

Of course, not only this time, in the past, when the Tartars went south, these Jin merchants also made a fortune.

While giving news to the Tartars, they did business with the Tartars, and the gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings that the Tartars had looted were basically in their hands, in exchange for food, iron tools, intelligence, and so on.

It can be said that in the past, the Tartars were able to go south repeatedly, and a very important reason for each success was because these Jin merchants collaborated with the enemy and treason, and were full of the Tartars' inner lines, and even sometimes directly helped the Tartars bribe the border army, open the country and defense line for the Tartars, and let the Tartars come in and loot on a large scale.

When these things were found out, Emperor Hongzhi was furious, and directly sentenced these collaborators to treason with the Jin merchants to destroy the nine clans, several Jin merchant families, and all of a sudden the entire family of hundreds of people were arrested, and all of them were guillotined at this moment.

Thousands of heads fell to the ground, and the entire vegetable market was full of blood, and the strong smell of blood lasted for a long time, so that even the people who ate melons were afraid to come over to see the excitement, and there were too many people who were killed.

However, this is not the end of the matter, and the anger of Emperor Hongji has not yet been extinguished.

The entire government and the opposition, at this time, all the ministers were silent, everyone was afraid of being killed, no one thought that the good old man Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man who could forgive even his mortal enemy, would go on a killing spree.

In just a few days, thousands of people have landed on the ground, and half of the officials of the household department and the military department have been killed, plus Zhou Jing, the secretary of the household department, and Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, have also been locked up in the prison, so there is no way for the household department and the military department to operate normally.

If many officials were placed in the past, at most they would be exiled to Yunguang, and even as long as someone spoke for you, they could take the initiative to retire and return to their hometown to enjoy a happy old age.

But this time it's different, the murderous Emperor Hongzhi, as long as he is implicated in this case, the lightest is the head of the landing, if it is not good, it will be a raid, and the most serious thing is to destroy the three clans.

Above the court, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian also tried to advise Emperor Hongzhi, but even Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, was reprimanded by Emperor Hongzhi, because Liu Yu is Liu Jian's hometown, after the investigation of the factory guard, this Liu Yu and Liu Jian are very important, and they have not given Liu Jian gifts before, and Liu Yu can be the trilateral general system is still highly recommended by Liu Jian.

From here alone, it can be seen how widely the case is implicated, and even Liu Jian, the first assistant to the cabinet, has been implicated.

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Hongzhi saw that Liu Jian was his teacher and had assisted him for many years, and that he would not have much to do with this case, it would have been impossible for Emperor Hongzhi to even get rid of Liu Jian.

The ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China are not clean, at least they are about the same as Liu Jian, and Xiao Jing, who accepted the officials below, is an unspoken rule that everyone in the officialdom has tacitly accepted.

It's okay in normal times, but at this time, everyone is in danger, and no one dares to provoke Emperor Hongzhi at this time, but not everyone is like Liu Jian, they are Liu Jian's teachers, and Emperor Hongzhi will still be in love.

There were a few unknown imperial historians who admonished Emperor Hongzhi, thinking that Emperor Hongzhi had killed too heavily and hurt Tianhe, and even felt that Emperor Hongzhi would listen to them as before, and scolded Emperor Hongzhi fiercely.

Emperor Hongzhi fulfilled them very decisively, and asked the factory guards to investigate casually, and easily found a few crimes, and sent them to the guillotine at the entrance of the vegetable market.

Since then, no one has dared to say half a word, everyone is afraid, for fear of implicating themselves, no one dares to come out to admonish, can only watch people's heads rolling, constantly frightened.