A few days later, on the south bank of the Wei River, not far from the long bridge, the tidal flats.

A drizzle of rain was falling in the early afternoon, dispelling the dullness of the summer days in Guanzhong.

Chen Guoting, Wei Qing Zhang Wen, Secretary of the Criminal Department, Shen Yi, and the Left Governor of the Inspectorate, Yushi Zhou Bai, attended the three legal officials, and at the same time, Lang Zhong ordered Jiang Wei to accompany the prisoner.

Shen Yi's withdrawal from the army also means that the left guard and right guard of Jianxin were reorganized into Tian Xin's pro-army five guards.

The new round and the last round of military system in Beifu is being reorganized in an orderly manner, except for the pro-army five guards, the rest of the soldiers have accepted the number change, the army is changed to a division, the guard is changed to a brigade, and the regiment and battalion system remains unchanged.

For the time being, only the Eighth Division of Guanlong and the Fourth Division of the Southeast, and the soldiers of Luoyang Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture belong to Sizhou and Gyeonggi in the administrative planning of the new dynasty, so the Eighth Division of Guanlong includes these areas; The four southeastern divisions include the Jiangdong, Lingnan and Nanyang regions, and one of them is the Nanyang Naval Division reorganized from the Henghai Navy.

The armies of the four Kanto prefectures still need to be sorted out gradually, and in the future, the four prefectures of Kanto will implement a conscription system.

At this moment, under the oilcloth umbrella, Shen Yi looked at the death row prisoners who were escorted to be beheaded, and was touched in her heart, and sighed in a low voice: "Since entering the Guanzhong, 100 people have been beheaded for the first time this year. ”

Zhang Wen also sighed in a low voice when he heard this, there are not many death row prisoners executed for crimes in Guan Long, and the main prisoners were tried and sent by Liu Yan, the captain of the Han Dynasty, both the spies who were connected with the Wei State, and the children of the old courtiers who participated in the theft of the divine soldiers.

Zhang Wen is not very murderous, and he also feels that the pressure of the prison is a little too great at this moment.

Since the formation of the Beifu army, there has been no large-scale killing of prisoners, and the only time Zhang Liao's headquarters was severely punished was only to carry out eleven killings.

Later, when local governments were governed or military laws were enforced in the army, most of the common crimes were mainly sentenced to long-term hard labor, and the death penalty and corporal punishment were not advocated.

However, Zhou Bai did not think that there was a problem, and it was the lax and lenient punishment in Beifu in the past that fueled the arrogance of the opponents.

Killing has never been the goal, and now so many executions in one go are just to warn the world and prevent more people from making mistakes.

On the tidal flats of the riverbank, there are no other tools for execution except for a row of wooden frames that fix the execution...... If there is, there is a group of executioners elected by the army.

Except for the backlog of death row inmates in Guan Long, who were hanged, the rest of the death row inmates who participated in the theft of the divine soldiers were all beheaded...... This kind of beheading, which is close to 100 people, has not been seen by officials and civilians in Guanzhong for three years.

Not only did the officials brave the rain to come to watch the execution, but the law, medical, and military scientists of Nanshan College were also collectively organized, and they were also arranged to observe at close range in the front row to exercise their courage.

The same is the death penalty, hanging and beheading are obviously two kinds of treatment.

On the contrary, the death row inmates queuing up on the gallows have a sense of superiority, and out of the last humanity and because of the abundance of supplies, these death row inmates are now being poured alcohol.

Sima Wen was dressed in short clothes, standing in the team with a numb expression, and wanted to shout a few loud and heroic words for himself, but his vocal cords were hoarse and he couldn't shout.

As the drums sounded, the two sergeants who escorted Sima Wen stepped forward to accept the pouring of wine.

Sima Wen could barely use his hands, and he drank carefully with a bamboo tube in both hands, cherishing this last time very much.

Not far from him, Xiang Tiao also took a small sip of the slightly bitter and spicy steamer wine, which was already on an empty stomach, and the hot wine entered his throat, and he immediately became bold, recalling his life, and grinning.

Xiang Tiao looked around, exchanged glances with other old courtiers, gradually stabilized his mood, and the spirits hit his mind, all of them were dizzy, wanting to do something, but not knowing what to do.

Chen Jiao's son Liu Qian also gritted his teeth and drank a bamboo tube of liquor, shaking his head and tears couldn't stop flowing, and some death row prisoners around him made all kinds of strange noises in great panic.

Yuan Ao, the third son of Yuan Juan, was sentenced to death for adultery, and at this moment he was already sitting cross-legged on the slippery tidal flats, humming his hometown songs with his eyes closed.

I don't know who started it, and began to sing, singing Yuefu poems at the top of his voice: "Sad songs can be used as weeping, and distant looks can be angelica."

I miss my hometown and am depressed.

If you want to return home, there is no one to cross the river.

The mind cannot be spoken, and the wheel of the intestine turns.

……”

In the sad song over and over again, the twelve condemned prisoners who were first tortured on the wooden frame were wrapped in coarse cloth and tied around their necks, struggling and swaying in the rain and singing, and soon swayed in an orderly manner.

The two government soldiers also stepped forward in an orderly manner, he lay on the bloody muddy ground, stretched out his head to rest on the wooden stake, and sang a sad song that changed the tone in his mouth.

The executing sergeant raised the sword and slashed it down, the broad-bladed sword slashed firmly in the stake, Sima Wen's neck rolled down gently, and the hot blood gushing out from the broken neck rushed on the sword, and the blood splashed red on the trouser legs, coat and muddy ground around the executioner.

Liu Qian, who was following Sima Wen, raised his hand to wipe away the blood splashed on his face, and the rain washed his face, revealing a pale, bluish face.

He stepped forward in an orderly manner, and saw Sima Wen's sluggish head facing up, and the blood and mud stained on the bridge of his nose were gradually washed away by the rain.

Liu Qian had heard the news of Liaodong, and thought that 8,000 men, women, and weak families in the city and suburbs were surrounded and slaughtered by the Hu soldiers of the Six Towns...... How desperate should it be to watch your loved ones being killed one after another?

Thinking about it slowly in his head, he was overwhelmed, his head rested on the stake, thinking of his childhood and adolescence, and when he closed his eyes, he seemed to see the rich and noble life of the Great Wei ruling the world, and his own Shiqing Shilu and the Great Wei shared weal and woe.

Then I felt a little dizzy, as if I had fallen from a horse, and then there was no more.

The rainwater washed the blood stains on the surface of the muddy mud of the tidal flats, gathered and trickled, spread towards the Weishui, gradually dyed the river surface on the south bank of the Weishui, and spread down for four or five miles before it faded and disappeared.

Jiang Wei, who led the soldiers to supervise the beheading, squinted his eyes and sighed to Hu Ji beside him: "I only hope for this once in my life." ”

Hu Ji was an assistant seconded to him temporarily, and he hit it off at first sight, and he also felt that the scene was tragic at the moment.

If the new dynasty is established, there is only such a little killing, then naturally everything is good, but I am afraid that hatred will accumulate...... The more this kind of thing is killed, the stronger the rebellion it inspires, and the more brutal the killing becomes.

Therefore, we must not enter a vicious circle, but must complete the integration of people's hearts at the beginning and achieve the unity of consciousness and public opinion.

Hu Ji nodded, and when he saw that the last group of ten people had finished their execution, he got up: "May it be as the public said, and the servant will leave." ”

Jiang Wei turned around and saw Hu Ji leave, Hu Ji walked out of the canopy and put on a hat, and joined his subordinates to pull the ox cart to collect the body.

has already undergone beheading and torture, there is no need to abandon the city, expose the corpse and humiliate again.

Hu Ji's task was to collect the bodies, cremate them separately and send them back to his family.

After Guan Long's death row prisoner sentenced to hanging, after being examined and sentenced, the family members picked up the body after the three law officials and Jiang Wei, the prison officer, signed together.

If no one claims it, it will be cremated and buried in Nanshan.

Sima Wen's body was dragged away and cremated with his mother Zhang Wenhua, and Sima Zhi sent people back to Wen County for burial.

Zhang Wenhua is a female dependant after all, and she hanged herself in private.

As for Sima Wen's head, it had to go through a series of professional treatments, and then sent to Hedong, and Cao Zhen and Zhao Yan were sent to Sima Yi.