Li Zhi looked at Qian Qianyi and said: "If the gentry of the world continue to rely on tax evasion to obtain wealth, and continue to rely on clinging to this country to suck blood to survive, even if they kill all the gentry in the world, I will not stop!" ”

Qian Qianyi heard Li Zhi's murderous words, and opened his mouth wide in surprise. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info According to Qian Qianyi's understanding, he never thought that a person would dare to stand alone on the opposite side of the gentry in the world, and make enemies of the gentry class who controlled the Ming Dynasty with his own strength.

Qian Qianyi was about to say a lot of words, and even hoped to save his own life through words. As long as Li Zhi has the idea of easing relations with the gentry and has a trace of peaceful coexistence, he Qian Qianyi will have a role. But hearing Li Zhi's decisive words, Qian Qianyi knew that it was useless to say anything.

If you continue to talk about it, it will only anger Li Zhi, in case Li Zhi doesn't give himself a simple one, it will be terrible.

Qian Qianyi's body shook and stopped talking.

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Tomorrow, I will be escorted to the suburban execution ground with other Nanjing death row prisoners and beheaded." ”

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On 23 March, the execution ground in the western suburbs of Nanjing was crowded with people.

It rained heavily this morning. By noon, the clouds were still very dense, and there was a drizzle in the four fields. The whole of Nanjing was wet, as if it had been soaked in the Yangtze River before it was fished up.

The dirt roads in the suburbs are in poor condition under the infiltration of rainwater. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the finances were tight, and even the health of the capital was a mess and there was no money to clean it, so the plague broke out in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. Road construction, which was a costly infrastructure construction, was almost completely abandoned by local magistrates, even in the supposedly wealthy Jiangnan.

At this time, the dirt road in the rain is basically invisible, and the dirt road is full of waterholes. The muddy water was as deep as the soles of the feet, and underneath was the mud that had been soaked and softened. If you don't pay attention to stepping on it, your whole foot will turn into a big ball of mud.

However, even in such weather, the people of Nanjing still flocked to the execution ground in the western suburbs to watch the killing of civil officials and gentry by the Duke of Tianjin.

Qian Qianyi, Zhang Shenyan and several others are too famous in Jiangnan.

Although Qian Qianyi was cut down as early as the early years of Chongzhen because of the imperial examination fraud case, the Donglin Party was not a collection of real humble gentlemen. A notorious embezzler like Zhou Yanru can be the boss of the Donglin Party, and Qian Qianyi, a fraudster in the field, has been the leader of the Donglin Party for more than ten years by relying on his personal influence. Even after Wen Tiren once again listed evidence to confirm Qian Qianyi's fraud, which led to Qian Qianyi being ordered to return to his hometown by the Son of Heaven, Qian Qianyi was still the leader of the Jiangnan scholars.

After Qian Qianyi, Zhang Shenyan and others came forward to prepare for the Jiangbei Army for the southern scholars, the fame of these Jiangnan literati leaders became even more famous. Many Jiangnan gentry pinned all their hopes for their tax-free privileges on Qian, Zhang and a few others.

If the south of Chongzhen's nineteenth year has parted ways with Zhu Youzhen, the Son of Heaven, and gradually has his own will and actions, then the people who control the direction of the south are Qian Qianyi, Zhang Shenyan and a few others.

However, such a southern leader was to be beheaded by Li Zhi.

Not only the people of Nanjing, but also the lively people of the entire Nanzhili came.

Li Zhi's generals had previously attacked the prefectures and counties of Nanzhili separately, arrested the gentry who sponsored the Jiangbei Army, and beheaded the hostile gentry in various places, which can be said to have killed people and bloodshed. And today in Nanjing, Li Zhi is going to behead the leader of the southern scholars, such a big event, the good deeds everywhere will naturally not let go.

In front of the high execution ground stood tens of thousands of gentry and common people, all standing in the drizzle. In front of the heavily armed Tiger Army soldiers, no one dared to make a noise, and everyone quietly looked at the more than 100 death row prisoners kneeling on the stage, even if they spoke as quietly as possible.

Qian Qianyi knelt at the front of all the prisoners, his cloak was scattered, and a chopping mark was inserted on his back. His hair was untied, wet from the rain and sticking to his scalp, looking very embarrassed. He fell to his knees and searched the crowd for his sons, but saw none.

Qian Qianyi suddenly saw a call, "Muzhi! ”

Qian Qianyi followed the voice and saw Liu Rushi holding her daughter in the crowd. Liu Ru has a whip mark on his face, which was whipped by Jiang Chong that day.

Qian Qianyi looked at the woman who had accompanied him in the last few years, this famous prostitute in Jiangnan, smiled bitterly, and nodded towards Liu.

Liu Ru had already been raided by Zhong Feng at this time, and all the goods in the Qianyun Building were stolen by Zhong Feng. Liu Ru doesn't know what to live on in the future. Seeing her husband nod at her, tears the size of a bean flowed from her eyes, over the whip mark to her chin, and fell into the muddy dirt with the drizzle.

Li Zhi and the others sat on the viewing platform on the north side of the execution ground, looked at the sky, and waved their hands.

"It's noon!"

Zhang Shenyan, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly turned his direction and kowtowed desperately to Li Zhi.

"Grandpa Guo spared me! Grandpa Guo! ”

"Grandpa Guo spared me, and I will recruit the second general of the Jiangbei Army for Grandpa Guo, so that Grandpa Guo will no longer have to worry about the future!"

The executing soldier held down the excited Zhang Shenyan and pressed him from the new to the edge of the execution platform. Zhang Shenyan only felt a chill all over his body, and cried out.

The big knife cut a curve in the air and slashed into Zhang Shenyan's neck, and Zhang Shenyan's head flew out.

Qian Qianyi's face turned pale as he watched Zhang Shenyan turn into a headless corpse, and his body trembled. However, those executioners seemed to be deliberately torturing Qian Qianyi, but they didn't go up to kill this Jiangnan leader. The executioners killed more than 100 death row prisoners on the execution platform, killing them until the blood flowed on the execution platform before finally walking towards Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he couldn't control his urine and peed his pants.

"Qian Qianyi, you can regret that you colluded with Tatar Qing and stabbed us from behind."

Qian Qianyi's whole body trembled, but he couldn't speak.

An executioner snorted coldly, pressed Qian Qianyi's head, and made Qian Qianyi's face face the audience. Another executioner touched the spine of the back of Qian Qianyi's neck, found the space between the bones, and determined the location of the knife.

The faces of the readers in the audience were pale, and they were all like mourners. Watching the lively people are not as pathetic as the readers, some people want to squeeze to the front to see this scene carefully, but which one of the people in front is willing to retreat? In the drizzle, the crowd surging slightly like a tide.

The executioner raised his broadsword and swung it down in the air.

With a single slash, Qian Qianyi's head slammed into the torture table in the rain, splashing a pillar of blood several feet high.